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Profiles of, and insights from, stylish, smart and sassy women. Biographical information, stories, anecdotes and more.

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Ivy Baer Sherman: Vintage Magazine Queen

“I’m a true believer that every step we take in life is an essential part of the overall journey.”  I don’t swoon over just any dame.  Maybe Barbara Stanwyck or

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Fleur Cowles: The Queen of FLAIR

There are a lot of magazines, past and present.  But there has never been a magazine like FLAIR.  No magazine has ever been more aptly named than FLAIR, Fleur

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Franceska Mann Took Off Her Clothes To Take Out A Nazi

Most dame stories are essentially happy stories.  This one is not.  This story talks about one of the worst, most cruel and heartbreaking periods in human history.  But this

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Why Aren’t You and I Gertrude Lawrence?

Growing up, I was under the impression there were glamorous actresses who could do what they want, buy what they want, seduce whom they want.  They began sentences by

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Dorothy Lamour’s “Jungle Princess” Rocked My World

Be honest, what part of the phrase “Jungle Princess” do you not like? When I was in 4thgrade, I chanced upon a movie where a young girl and tiger cub

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Barbara Nichols Wasn’t a Bosomy Bimbo

Barbara Nichols was THE go-to woman when you wanted an actress whose very casting spoke volumes about the character. Why use exposition or the script to communicate that a

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I Want Thelma Ritter To Be My BFF

If there’s some kind of cafeteria in heaven, I want to sit next to Thelma Ritter. She’ll give me the low-down, tell me who’s full of it, and, the

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Barbara La Marr: Too Beautiful, With a Pretty Crazy Life

When a woman is tagged “too beautiful”, my first instinct isn’t one of pity.  So normally Barbara La Marr’s soubriquet – “The Girl Who Was Too Beautiful” – would

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Valerie Harper

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Valerie Harper, Rhoda and Me

I cried when Valerie Harper died.  It felt like losing a mother, a sister, a mentor, a friend.  I met her just once – I had an on-air gig

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Paulette Goddard Collected Jewels AND Geniuses

Paulette Goddard had this whole dame thing down pat. Wrapping a genius around her little finger, becoming a major movie star, marrying a millionaire — it all came as

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