Yes, I know I’ve slacked my butt off when it comes to updated VG, but I’m giving myself a swift kick in the backside to finally post, so I thought I’d write up a mini review of one of my all-time favorite films – Gosford Park. Gosford Park is star-studded, if you happen to agree with me that Stephen Fry,… (more…)
As some of you may know I work switchboard for a radio show that features a vintage lifestyle themed show on Wednesdays called the Vintage Lifestyle Hour and recently they started playing new “old” music, meaning old fashioned musical acts, during their breaks and one of the albums currently on their playlist is Gelber & Manning‘s new album Moonlight Picnic.… (more…)
I’ve started watching a mini series from Masterpiece on PBS that I had been told about with no small amount of raving about how amazing it is, and that mini series is called South Riding. Here’s what PBS says about it: A lively heroine arrives in Depression-era Yorkshire to shake up education at a school for girls, sparking conflict with… (more…)
I’ve just finished watching the film I’d sneaked on Netflix, and got a good dose of the fabulous Cate Blanchett as the title character in 2001s Charlotte Gray. The film is an adaptation of a book by the same name by Sebastian Faulks, part of a trilogy of books by the author, and is rumored to have been at least… (more…)
One of my all-time favorite films is one I’d never seen until this month – a film from 1939 called Midnight, starring the incomparable, hilarious Claudette Colbert and the dashing, handsome and talented Don Ameche as a broke necessity-induced con woman and a love sick cabbie who’s affection leads him on a wild goose chase to find her. This is… (more…)
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Welcome, Chickadee's, to Victory Girl: The Life and Times of a Modern Patriotute. I'm your Ghost Host, a 30 year old vintage lady who walks the line between jazz baby and khaki wacky.
I'm new to this whole vintage thing, but I'm a big fan of homework and that's all I've been doing for the past three years - homework. Everything from silent films to vintage books, old and new interviews, tutorials on the web and plain old common sense. Once I know anything at all I'll be posting my own tips, tricks and tutorials, but for now this is just my mad, mad life in 1941.
