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Barbara Stanwyck In Lady of Burlesque
Barbara Stanwyck - Lady of Burlesque 1942 There was a shorter, more obvious title for this, but I went the more verbose version to spare everyone the indignity. This is a beautiful publicity shot from...
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More Awful White Fox
Irene Dunne, ''The Awful Truth'' 1937 It’s clever title week! Sometimes relevancy has to take one for the team. That being said, this is quite the nice still shot of that most “well known” of furs from...
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More Dietrich, More Fur
Marlene Dietrich in White Fox Trim Getting more search traffic to this blog with terms related to Marlene Dietrich… Wonder why? Oh, right, the wonderful ease it is to find her draped in the largest,...
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Jane Russell in White Fox
We return with another hot geo-political topic: should Panama be the 51st state? Morton Kondracke, your thoughts? Oh, wait, the cover, riiiight! Sorry, majored in government in college, and...
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Joan Crawford in Fur You Can’t Watch
Joan Crawford - Letty Lynton - 1932 Posted a smaller version of a different shot from the same promo set in the past, but this one is worthy of its own post. Not only do we get to see the full extent...
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Veronica Lake in White Fox
Veronica Lake in A Very Long White Fox Boa I’m partial to Veronica Lake, but she’s yet another example of someone whose most notable years on film occurred in an era where fur fashion simply wasn’t all...
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The Manton Crystal Fox
Barbara Stanwyck - The Mad Miss Manton, 1938 Sure, you’ve seen it before, but it’s a really nice shot of one of the most “famous” furs in silver screen history. This is the fur with top billing in a...
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Lili Damita in Fur from The Match King
Lili Damita from the Match King Here’s another from last week’s Flickr stream-of-the-week. A rarer gem, the fur from the 1932 film The Match King. I included it in an “omnibus” update, because it was...
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Marilyn Monroe in Fox
Marilyn in the best thing you can get out of the 1950s… a large fox stole. This is from 1953′s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, a film with a least one decent fox in it. I have a really old, very bad set of...
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Mae West in White Fox
Mae West in White Fox This one is kind of “famous,” in so far as I recall seeing it quite a bit. For good reason, a classic photo of a classic star in a classic fur. Mae West had a knack for wearing...
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