Unlikely conversations, #548 in a series...

Elsa Lanchester and Ruth McDevitt


Kim Novak and Vampira


Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin


Dolly Parton and Henry Kissinger


Joan Collins and Liz Taylor

...wouldn't you just love to have been a fly on the wall?

I think today should be...

... a "Say Something Hat" day...


Carol Channing (born 31st January 1921)


"La Tebaldi" (1st February 1922 – 19th December 2004)


Elaine Stritch (2nd February 1925 – 17th July 2014)


Ida Lupino (4th February 1918 – 3rd August 1995)


Charlotte Rampling OBE (born 5th February 1946)


Zsa Zsa Gabor (6th February 1917 – 18th December 2016)


Dame Edith Evans (8th February 1888 - 14th October 1976)


Carmen Miranda (9th February 1909 – 5th August 1955)


Leontyne Price (born 10th February 1927)


Marie Lloyd (12th February 1870 – 7th October 1922)


Kim Novak (born 13th February 1933)


Stockard Channing (born 13th February 1944)


Gale Sondergaard (15th February 1899 – 14th August 1985)

...don't you?!

By way of a tribute to all "our kind of ladies" whose birthday celebrations we have missed in the tumult of moving house and being away in Spain. A thousand apologies.

Don`t listen to her, just look

"The head of publicity of the Hollywood studio where I was first under contract told me: You`re a piece of meat, that`s all. It wasn`t very nice but I had to take it. When I made my first screen test, the director explained to everyone: Don`t listen to her, just look."

"I don't feel that I was a Hollywood-created star."

"If you're wanting glamorous or really beautiful or really sexy, well then, I wasn't really the one, but I could do all of that. You could just get really lost in that kind of image."

"Besides, I never really liked my knees."

Kim Novak (born 13th February 1933).

She's crazy, but fabulous.