Schwab’s Drug Store in Hollywood, 1938.
A young blonde sweater girl with smeared mascara looks up from a pile of twisted straws on the counter in front of her, waves to the soda jerk:
“Another chocolate malted, please.”
“Now Miss Turner, you know that’s your third.”
Meanwhile, in Beverley Hills, Paulette Goddard has locked herself in the bedroom and Charlie Chaplin is pounding on the door.
“I’ll never come out again,” she wails.
Lana and Paulette are not alone. Everyone from Kate Hepburn and Tallulah Bankhead to Susan Hayward is miffed that you got the role of Scarlett O’Hara instead of them.
Mr. Selznick took one look at you in this dress and that was that. Although it probably didn’t hurt that you also happened to be Vivien Leigh, too.
Movie Star Dress (No. 2358), exact reproduction of an original found in an L.A. vintage shop. Low-calf cut of silk crêpe de Chine with slit at front hem. Lightly padded cap sleeves, pleats and gathers down bodice from shoulders. Self belt with self-covered buckle.
Frankly, my dear, I do give a damn.
Sizes: 2 through 16. Color: Unambiguous Red.
