Hooray for Hollywood: Kitty Carlisle in “Murder at the Vanities,” 1934

Paramount Pictures

The 1934 “Pre-Code” film Murder at the Vanities was based on the hit Broadway musical by Victor Young and featured Kitty Carlisle, Jack Oakie and Duke Ellington and His Orchestra.  Enjoy this musical number starring Miss Carlisle as she sings, Where Do They Come From (and Where Do They Go).

Recommended Reading: Hollywood at Home

The "Great Garbo's" perfect Living Room

In 2005, Architectural Digest assembled a stunning, full-color book of the magnificent homes of the Hollywood elite. Mixing stars of the past and present, we are allowed a peek into both the ostentatious and the unusual.


This thoroughly interesting book, edited by Paige Rense and with a foreward by Gerald Clarke, takes us through the gates of the homes of Candice Bergen, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, Cher, George Cukor, Cecil B. “I’m ready for my close-up” DeMille, Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, Great Garbo, Judy Garland, Cary Grant and Randolph Scott, Jean Harlow, Katherine Hepburn, Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan, Frank Sinatra, Steven Spielberg, John Travolta and Kelly Preston, Jack L. Warner, Orson Welles, and many more.

With gorgeous color plates and beautifully written articles, this big book makes for enjoyable reading and gives us a chance to see how and where the people both behind and in front of the cameras live.