Ramón Novarro – Style Icon
Born: February 6, 1899 Durango, Mexico Died: October 30, 1968 (aged 69) North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, U.S. Navarro was born José Ramón Gil Samaniego on February 6, 1899 in Durango, Mexico...
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I think I first saw photographs of this house years ago in an Architectural Digest at the antique store where I worked. I fell in love with it and it’s story. Designed by Lloyd Wright (that’s Frank...
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Silent film sex symbol, brilliant real estate investor (Samuel-Novarro House in the Los Feliz Hills), grisly Halloween murder victim: I have been fascinated by him for years. Today is his 114th...
View ArticleSamuel-Novarro House – Not So Secret Obsession
I first saw photographs of this house years ago in the April 1994 Architectural Digest at the antique store where I worked. I fell in love with it and it’s story. I am pretty sure that is when I...
View ArticleRear View Mirror – My Week in Review
Agatha Christie died on this day in 1976. Jack London was born on this day in 1876. This week Judy Protas, an ad firm copywriter who penned “You don’t have to be Jewish to love Levy’s Real Jewish Rye”...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Ramón Novarro
Today is the 115th birthday of silent movie idol Ramon Novarro. I first discovered him back in the early 90s through an article in Architectural Digest about his Lloyd Wright house on Los Feliz....
View ArticleRear View Mirror – My Week in Review
It started snowing last night and by the time my coworkers and I left the restaurant, there was enough stuck to the city streets to watch people do ridiculously reckless things with their cars on...
View ArticleSamuel-Novarro House – Not So Secret Obsession
I first saw photographs of this house years ago in the April 1994 Architectural Digest at the antique store where I worked. I fell in love with it and it’s story. I am pretty sure that is when I...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Greta Garbo
Today is the 109th birthday of Greta Garbo. NAME: Greta Garbo OCCUPATION: Actress, Pin-up BIRTH DATE: September 18, 1905 DEATH DATE: April 15, 1990 EDUCATION: Royal Dramatic Theater PLACE OF BIRTH:...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Ramón Novarro
Today is the 116th birthday of silent movie idol Ramon Novarro. I first discovered him back in the early 90s through an article in Architectural Digest about his Lloyd Wright house on Los Feliz....
View ArticleRear View Mirror – My Week In Review
Over the last few weeks, I have redesigned Rick’s art website at RicardoDuque.com. Take a look at it, subscribe (click on the +Follow tab in the lower right hand corner) and get emails when a new...
View ArticleHappy 120th Birthday Rudolph Valentino
Today is the 120th birthday of silent film star Rudolph Valentino. His rise to stardom and untimely death is incredible and tragic and compelling. He falls into the timeframe of Hollywood that I find...
View ArticleHappy 112th Birthday Bob Hope
Today is the 112th birthday of an entertainer whose list of honors is almost as long as his list of films: Bob Hope. In his one hundred years of life, he received four Oscars, an Emmy, a Golden Glove,...
View ArticleHappy 110th Birthday Greta Garbo
Today is the 110th birthday of the actress Greta Garbo. If you haven’t seen Anna Karenina lately (or ever), please do yourself a favor and watch it. I just read a recount of a dinner party with...
View ArticleHappy 102nd Birthday Hedy Lamarr
Today is the 102nd birthday of achingly beautiful actress, brilliant scientist, author and compulsive shoplifter Hedy Lamarr. She was married six times and slept with Hitler (so says a biographer)....
View ArticleSamuel-Novarro House – Not So Secret Obsession
I first saw photographs of this house years ago in the April 1994 Architectural Digest at the antique store where I worked. I fell in love with it and it’s story. I am pretty sure that is when I...
View ArticleHappy 117th Birthday Ramón Novarro
Today is the 117th birthday of silent movie idol Ramon Novarro. I first discovered him back in the early 90s through an article in Architectural Digest about his Lloyd Wright house on Los Feliz....
View ArticleHappy 121st Birthday Rudolph Valentino
Today is the 121st birthday of silent film star Rudolph Valentino. His rise to stardom and untimely death is as incredible as it is tragic and compelling. He falls into the timeframe of Hollywood...
View ArticleHappy 120th Birthday Frank Capra
Today is the 120th birthday of the man who directed unarguably some of the classic of classic films from the golden age of Hollywood: Frank Capra. With a Capra film, you are guaranteed to be...
View ArticleHappy 113th Birthday Bob Hope
Today is the 113th birthday of an entertainer whose list of honors is almost as long as his list of films: Bob Hope. In his one hundred years of life, he received four Oscars, an Emmy, a Golden Glove,...
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