Of Blackglama and William Desmond Taylor (no relation)

blather / random picture / shout-out

Out of extreme curiosity, can anyone tell me why hundreds of people all over Canada would have been looking for the Barbara Stanwyck Blackglama advertisement last Saturday?

Update: An answer! From Anonymous in comments:

A CBC radio show called the Age of Persuasion (an EXCELLENT show) mentioned that ad in a episode about Luxury Advertising.

http://www.cbc.ca/ageofpersuasion/episode/2011/01/15/season-5-luxury-advertising-full/

I’m glad I know. I got several hundred hits on this page, all from google.ca, but that wasn’t the weirdest part: No one downloaded the picture or hotlinked to it, and several people spelled “Blackglama” wrong. One person searched for “black llama.” Ha!

I hope someone can solve this mystery for me. Now that I know, I can say with certainty that what was going on in Canada on Saturday was a hell of a lot more fun than what was going in Kansas on Saturday.

Anyway, the main reason I wanted to post was to tell you about the most amazing thing I just saw on The Daily Mirror: William Desmond Taylor’s tuxedo jacket from 1911, still in the Paramount costume wardrobe and looking terrific.

Here’s Willie in a tux. No, I have no idea if it’s the same tux or not.


Update, January 20: It happened again! This time I got hundreds of hits for “Mae West’s interesting request for a glass of wine in the 1933 movie ‘I’m No Angel.'” Guess this is for a trivia contest? The answer was “off the vine,” unless I’m reading the keyword analysis wrong.

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  2. KING OF JAZZ

    What I wouldn’t give to browse around that living wardrobe museum. It’s like stumbling across a cache of lost films. Hmmm…have they checked the pockets?!

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