The most beautiful man God ever created.

The Judy Garland Experience

"Judy and I were like brother and sister". 

Mickey Rooney gives Judy Garland a brotherly kiss after she is awarded her Academy Award in 1940.

Perfect creation!!!  🌴 ☀️ 🌸

💜Anne Bancroft💜

💚Vivien Leigh💚

Art Nouveau Portrait of a Lady, Signed ‘’Tajetti,’’ framed in Kansas City by Emery, Bird, Thayer, ca. 1895.

Subject: ‘’Cindy.’’

About the artist: "Virgilio Tojetti (1851 - 1901) was active/lived in New York, California. Virgilio Tojetti is known for Genre, landscape, mural. Painter, muralist. Born in Rome, Italy on March 15, 1849, the son of Domenico Tojetti. Virgilio was a pupil of his father and later studied in Paris with Gérome and Bouguereau." "Painter, muralist. Born in Rome, Italy on March 15, 1849, the son of Domenico Tojetti. Virgilio was a pupil of his father and later studied in Paris with Gérome and Bouguereau. He was a resident of San Francisco from 1871 until about 1883 when he moved to NYC where he painted murals in the Savoy Hotel, Hoffman House and others. He became popular in the East as a painter of genre scenes and frescoes. Tojetti died in NYC on March 26, 1901."

About the framer Emery, Bird, Thayer: Kansas City store that originated in the 1860s under an earlier name to outfit explorers on the Oregon Trail. "The store assumed its final name in the 1890s from the investors W. E. Emery, Joseph Taylor Bird. Sr. and William B. Thayer. In the 1890s it opened a new building occupying a full block along East 11th Street from Walnut to Grand, designed by the architectural firm of Van Brunt & Howe. It soon became the prime attraction on the city's main retail thoroughfare, popularly known as "Petticoat Lane," and became famed for its Tea Room." It was registered on the National Register of Historic Places but demolished in the 1970s.

Portrait framed in Kansas City, we speculated whether it was painted on some trip East in New York. Portrait appears to be watercolor and goache on paper with ornate gold leaf wooden frame. [x] 

Timothy Mineau

·   Feb 18 · 

In 1933, 22 year old Lucille Ball signed her first contract with a Studio. She was to play a harem girl in Eddie Cantor's daring musical "Roman Scandals". Thinking she 'was on her way" she brought her mother, brother and grandfather out to California and bought this home at 1344 N. Ogden in Hollywood. They would all somehow squeeze into the tiny two bedroom one bath. Her grandfather held his Communist meetings here. (A fact that came back to haunt her during the McCarthy Hearings) The home has been renovated but still has its California bungalow look inside and out. It is on the market for 1.75 million.

Traci Hines

· Feb 27 · 

My mom texted me this today.

My grandma & grandpa (on my dad’s side). Happy Birthday Grandma, miss you every day! Grandma Evelyn was a talented big band singer, a painter & self-taught pianist. She was a songwriter too! She was humble and quirky and glamorous, and a beautiful (box-dyed) redhead all the years I knew her. She slept in late and always made us the drippy pancakes I loved. I always wanted to be like her when I grew up. Sometimes I wonder if I feel more like me with red hair because of her! (I’m not a natural ginger either) 

One of the first songs I ever wrote was for her. She  was the best. I know I’ll see her again someday.

Black Wall Street USA

Sheila Guyse was an actress, and singer during the 1940s and 1950s. She was born Etta Drucille Guyse, on July 14, 1925, in Forest, Mississippi. Her parents, Wilbert Vincent Guyse and Ethel Williams, separated and divorced shortly after she was born. Guyse was raised by her paternal grandparents, Charity and Fred Guyse, and attended the Scott County Vocational School in Mississippi where she developed an interest in singing. In 1945, Guyse moved to New York to pursue her dreams, and stayed with her father and stepmother in Manhattan.

Guyse got her first job at a dime store in 125th street, across the street from the Apollo Theater, She wanted a $25 dress, so she entered her first talent show, at the Apollo, and won first place, and $25. She then began performing in amateur shows, and was cast as the female lead in a Broadway production of “Memphis Bound” (1945), opposite Bill “Bojangles” Robinson. She made her nightclub debut at Club Zombie in Detroit, where she caught the eye of Shelby Irving Miller, a druggist clerk and tailor. The two married on March 18, 1946, in Hamilton, Indiana, and moved to Indianapolis.

After the marriage Guyse continued her acting career and had a role in Boy! What A Girl! (1947), Sepia Cinderella (1947), and Miracle in Harlem (1948) all independent all-black films. Miller and Guyse had a daughter, Sheila Crystal Miller but divorced after just two years. In 1949, she starred in the Broadway production “Lost in The Stars,” and in 1950, Guyse starred in the film, Harlem Follies of 1949, and was featured on the covers and pages of several publications including Ebony, Jet, Our World, and Hue magazines.

While working on the Broadway production of Finian’s Rainbow, Guyse met dancer Kenneth Davis, and the two married. The couple lived in the Bronx, New York, and were featured on the cover of the February 1952 Jet magazine, followed with an article entitled “Negro Women with White Husbands.” Throughout her career, Guyse was troubled with a series of medical issues that caused lapses of time of employment. In 1953, Guyse was diagnosed with stomach ulcers, and was once found by her daughter, collapsed on a bedroom floor, bleeding from the mouth. She had surgery in the mid 1950s, but continued to have health issues. She divorced Davis in 1954.

Guyse had a natural talent, and had been compared to stars like Dorothy Dandridge and Lena Horne, due to her sultry voice and slender figure. She starred in the 1957 television adaptation of the play, Green Pastures, and was nominated for an Emmy for her role. She released her only album, This Is Sheila, in 1958, and later that year she married sanitation worker Joseph Jackson.

After retiring from show business in 1959, Guyse had two children with Jackson, Deidre Jean and Michael, and the couple moved to Mississippi in the 1980s, and then to Hawaii in 2007. They remained married until Jackson’s death in 2012. Guyse died at the age of 88, from complications of Alzheimer’s disease on December 28, 2014, in Honolulu, Hawaii, and her ashes were scattered across Waikiki Beach.

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Plaque Painted LOVELY LADY Velvet Case, 1868.

The velvet case shows wear mostly on the edges, the case hinge is not original. Lots of writing inside case; April 18, 1868, a couple of names, maybe artist & women; hard to make out. Selling as found from area estate. [x]

Friends Of Judy

· Mar 12 · 

Wishing the happiest of birthdays to Liza Minnelli who turns 77 today!

#lizaminnelli

#judygarland

‘’Madonna della Rosa’’ by Raphael, ca. 1518 - 1520.

Mom's Finest Collections

· Feb 28  · 

Meron tayo.

💙Lucille Ball💙

Mom's Finest Collections

· Mar 5  · 

Rare Royal Albert Cameo peach.

Art Nouveau

ANTIQUE OLD MASTER OVAL OIL PAINTING ON BOARD, "Romantic Gallant Scene", ca. 19th century. 

 Antique maybe French painting from the late 19th century. Work oil on board depicting a gallant Rococo scene of good pictorial quality. Beautifully sized and pleasantly furnished picture decorated with a finely carved wooden and plaster frame, chiseled and gilded in the front decoration (see photo). Painted in the style of François Boucher. [x]