And So Are They

To paraphrase another Jerry Herman show, look at the old gals now, fellas!

Hello, Kitty!

L-R: Ann Miller, June Allyson, Dolores Gray, Joan Collins, Ann Sheridan and Joan Blondell in The Opposite Sex (1956, MGM)

If only they had started a whispering campaign to get Helen Rose removed from the film.

Three Little Wiggies

Make Your Own Kind of Music

Sing your own special song.

Dance Your Shoes Off

It's Miller as Mame time!

Double Exposure

Ann Miller

Marilyn Monroe

It's Saturday Night

You should be dancing.

Sketchy Broads

Ann-Margret

Ginger Rogers

Connie Stevens

Ann Miller

Collect Them All

It's Miller Time

All day, every day, here at SSUWAT.

Lustre-Creme

For that radiant, immobile look.

Happy Sunday, Darlings!

We hope that you're sharing the weekend with fabulous friends!

Connie-Connie-Connie-Chameleon

In the 1930's, Constance Bennett was renowned as a fashion plate even more than she was as a movie star ("I'm a lot more sartorial than thespian," she acknowledged. "They come to see me and go out humming the costumes."). Interestingly, for all her East Coast pedigree, the New York-born and bred Bennett seemed to look southward for her fashion inspiration. To wit: her sleek, polished look of the 1930's was a Hollywoodized magnification of the ultra-chic style of such socialites as the Kentucky-born Mrs. Harrison Williams, later Mona, Countess of Bismarck.


By the 1950's, Connie's screen career had declined, but she found great success in the touring company of Auntie Mame, the fabulous stage play based on Patrick Dennis' novel, and a precursor to the musical. She was the perfect embodiment of brittle, theatrical glamour, and her look seemed to mirror that of Alabama's infamous daughter, Tallulah Bankhead.



As related by our dear friend Poseidon3 over at his utterly fascinating, fabulous blog, Poseidon's Underworld, Bennett made her simultaneous big screen comeback and swan song in Ross Hunter's plush remake of Madame X (1966). In preparation for her return before the cameras, Bennett once again completely transformed herself - this time, apparently taking a page from the Texas handbook of Miss Ann Miller.

And if you're gonna go, you may as well go like Annie!

Hairpiece to Heaven

The premiere of Madame X (1966): a slightly-soused Lana Turner (wearing a gown of her own design), Elke Sommer, Ann Miller, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Maureen O'Hara and Marie Wilson, all trying to out-do (no pun intended) one another in the bouffant wars, while Anne Francis is surprisingly soignee in understated chinchilla and Lizabeth Scott does the sleek lesbian bit and shows off a dangerously chic pageboy. We want to live in this video.

It Had Better Be Tonight

Fast forward to 4:00 for Full Frontal Fabulosity, courtesy of Miss Ann Miller. Natch.

When Annie Got Her Groove Back

Ann Miller, down on Funky Street!

Legends of the Fall

The most recent "legends" used in Blackglama's world-famous campaign were Naomi Campbell and Elizabeth Hurley. Is it just us, or are they not exactly making legends the way they used to?