Joan Crawford’s Bisquick Cheese Straws

Joan Crawford’s Bisquick Cheese Straws

What would you say if I told you that I have made my OWN Bisquick?  I found a recipe on the internet and decided that as we can't get it in the UK (and our supermarkets don't seem to have anything approaching its genius) I decided to rustle up my very own stash...

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Claudette Colbert Cake

Claudette Colbert Cake

Ooh, I had an outfit a bit like that on Second Life.  Been so long since I went there though I'll have forgotten how to do everything I'm sure.  I did enjoy meditating by the fountains with doves flying around though.  Oh and I did like my little...

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Sonja Henie’s Scandinavian Cookies

Sonja Henie’s Scandinavian Cookies

I'm feeling a bit like that today Sonja!  Not sure if it is the weather (beautiful hot sunny day here in London), my new "Friends of the Zoo" membership (Tuesday is Zooday from now on) or just general joyfulness for no apparent reason.  I'm not going to...

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Anna May Wong’s Tea Cakes

Anna May Wong’s Tea Cakes

A momentous day today for Renee who after 7 years working for the Archive is now off to another job, still within the company but not where I can hear her cracking up with laughter about something almost every day.  She's been behind my right shoulder for about a...

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Marion Davies’ Meadow Cheese Cake

Marion Davies’ Meadow Cheese Cake

Had a fantastic time last night at the Wind-Up.  It's Walthamstow Arts Trail week and Mo had made an incredible outfit from 78rpm record covers - cardboard ones making the body of the dress and train and folded paper one making frilly decorations and a fabulous...

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Joan Crawford’s Charcoal Broiled Steak

Joan Crawford’s Charcoal Broiled Steak

This is my favourite Joan Crawford "look" and if I had the guts I'd have my hair like this.  I'd wear the same kind of trashy outfits she wears in "Rain" too, she looked superb even though she was playing a woman of ill repute.  Her full-on lips caused quite...

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Joan Crawford’s Charcoal Broiled Steak

Joan Crawford’s Charcoal Broiled Steak

Joan's steak was a big success with Charley.  He said something along the lines of "enormo-cheese!" when it came out of the oven which in Charley speak is a compliment to the chef.  It really was a delicious hunk of cheesy mustardy meat, I could eat another...

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Errol Flynn’s Baked Fish Havannaise

Errol Flynn’s Baked Fish Havannaise

Aw Errol - you were such a softy really.  Are you on a BOAT with that cat?! I'm recovering from a late night DJing job at probably the nicest wedding we have ever played at.  The bride was so HAPPY.  I've been to so many weddings lately where the bride...

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Joan Crawford’s Almond Soup

Joan Crawford’s Almond Soup

I am only going to forgive Joan for her Almond Soup because she is wearing such a nice hat.  What can I say about it without being rude?  It was not to my taste is probably the best way of putting it. Still, Gary C is in town tonight and I'll be serving this...

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Oliver Hardy’s Spaghetti

Oliver Hardy’s Spaghetti

I've had an excellent response to this month's newsletter from the Artist Formerly Known as Gene.  If any lady out there is thinking of having a Joan Crawford style dinner party, he has offered his services as the "bearded artist" she suggests inviting as the...

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Carole Lombard’s Barbecued Spare Ribs

Carole Lombard’s Barbecued Spare Ribs

I am not normally a jealous person but when a new test cook in the USA sent me a photo of the stove on which she cooks I went BRIGHT GREEN with envy.  A 1936 “Magic Chef” cooker that is a joy to behold.  Check out the picture on the Flickr page – Magic Chef. Rebecca...

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Shirley Temple’s Pecan Squares

Shirley Temple’s Pecan Squares

Anyone who has read The Celestine Prophecy knows that coincidences can be meaningful.  Well, I've had a whole heap of them this evening.  Yesterday I felt that, almost a year after splitting with Sidney. I was ready to get back in the fray.  So I took the plunge and...

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Jimmy Stewart’s Chicken Pie

Jimmy Stewart’s Chicken Pie

Well it took me almost all day to make Jimmy's pie but it was worth it.   Utterly delicious.  I managed to break one of my favourite plates, cover the kitchen in home made chicken stock and smash a pyrex dish (which I thought was impossible) in the process but the...

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Dorothy Lamour’s Strawberry Ice Cream

Dorothy Lamour’s Strawberry Ice Cream

I am returned from the wilds of Essex where my niece Lucy got hitched to the lovely Helen.  There was no "best man" for me to get myself into trouble with which was just as well.  I seem to remember giving a rendition of "I Love Rock and Roll" on the karaoke at some...

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Lupe Velez’s Tamale Pie

Lupe Velez’s Tamale Pie

Did anyone get today's Independent or Daily Telegraph?  FABULOUS picture of the Shellac Sisters at the Vintage at Goodwood Festival - but would you believe it, I was in the LOO so am not in the picture!  I don't mind at all, I always look too goofy in photos and it...

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Irene Dunne’s Shrimps and Rice

Irene Dunne’s Shrimps and Rice

It's a shame that the top of Irene's head has been chopped off by my computer, her hairdo is ace.  If I had the guts,  I'd have mine cut like this so I could rock Irene's look at the Vintage at Goodwood Festival next weekend.  I've just been out and about in Camden...

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Anna May Wong’s Chinese Almond Duck

Anna May Wong’s Chinese Almond Duck

Had another bash at Anna's duck dish last night as Daryl (we must get him a film star name) came round for dinner.  The duck was definitely not as nice as when I made it for Edmund and I tried to work out why.  Was it because I'd used a different type of mushroom? ...

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Anna May Wong’s Tea Cakes

Anna May Wong’s Tea Cakes

I've got a day off work today and it is bliss.  I've got a batch of tea cakes in the oven and I'm still not dressed at 11am.  I'm sure that Anna May would have worn something a little more slinky than a muu muu in the kitchen but there is a certain pleasure in cooking...

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Marion Davies’ Meadow Cheesecake

Marion Davies’ Meadow Cheesecake

Well, Marion's cheesecake was the biggest hit yet with my work colleagues.  Marie pronounced it to be "Possibly the BEST CAKE IN THE WORLD!" and Edward G said, "great, really great, REALLY great" between mouthfuls.  It was still warm from the oven as I had...

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Marion Davies’ Cheesecake

Marion Davies’ Cheesecake

It is taking me a long time to get used to the idea that I can live exactly as I please now I have my own place.  Tonight I am experimenting with doing exactly what I want...  I've been DJing with my Sisters all day at a crazy corporate event in...

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Anna May Wong’s Chinese Almond Duck

Anna May Wong’s Chinese Almond Duck

Oh my goodness, it feels like being in an industrial kitchen this evening as I try and cook TWO main courses.  AMWs duck - for the first time ever - plus my all time favourite non-silver-screen-suppers dish - Leon's Sausage, Kale and Flageolets Casserole.  It doesn't...

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Vincent Price’s Hungarian Goulash

Vincent Price’s Hungarian Goulash

To say that my housewarming was a humdinger would, I think, be an understatement.  What a wonderful and crazy night it was.  I tried to make a list of everyone who rocked up, I got to 61 people and then realised I was still drunk so had to stop...  It was...

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Josephine Baker’s Spaghetti Bolognaise

Josephine Baker’s Spaghetti Bolognaise

Apologies, apologies.  I am very behind with sending out recipes to test cooks.  I have been running around getting ready for my housewarming and hereby PROMISE to get back on track when I am surrounded by empty beer cans and overflowing ashtrays on Saturday.  Or if...

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Charlie Chaplin’s Apple Roll

Charlie Chaplin’s Apple Roll

Today I am very excited to report that at last we have a Charlie Chaplin recipe to test.  This is almost the Holy Grail for us (when Marilyn Monroe’s diaries are published in October we will have it!) and this is such a ridiculously exciting moment.  Is this sad? That...

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Carole Lombard’s Cherry Tart

Carole Lombard’s Cherry Tart

Well I learned several lessons making Ronald's pie last night.  First one was that a small mistake in a recipe can cause absolute chaos!  This is why I am so grateful to all my test cook volunteers, because if I make a howler like there was in Ronald's, hopefully...

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Ronald Coleman’s English Pot Pie

Ronald Coleman’s English Pot Pie

"They talk of the artist finding liberation in work, it is true. One can be someone else in another, more dramatic, more beautiful world."  Oh how true Ronald!  That's what it is like in Silver Screen Suppers world.  Liberated! More dramatic and more beautiful. ...

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Ginger Rogers’ Coffee Parfait

Ginger Rogers’ Coffee Parfait

Hello sailor!!!  I am loving Ginger tonight because unlike her Butterscotch Date Pudding, the Coffee Parfait is a resounding success.  Ginger has gone from having the worst ever Silver Screen Suppers recipe to having one of the best.  SCRUMPTIOUS! ...

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Gloria Swanson Frock Contest Part 2!

Gloria Swanson Frock Contest Part 2!

The wonderful portrait painter Brian Dennis won this dress - designed by Gloria Swanson - in our recent competition.  He is now spreading the love and running his own contest for one lucky lady (or indeed a slender man) to have their portrait painted in the legendary...

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Carole Lombard’s Barbecued Spare Ribs

Carole Lombard’s Barbecued Spare Ribs

Shoulders! They are playing the National Anthem and I am feeling all tearful and worried for our boys.  COME ON ENGLAND!  It's such a momentous match, so very exciting.  I'm watching it at home as I am hosting a post match barbecue so have to tend to cooking stuff at...

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Gary Cooper’s Buttermilk Griddle Cakes

Gary Cooper’s Buttermilk Griddle Cakes

Well howdy doody there Coop!  Nice cowboy stance you great big hunk you! The lovely Will up there in Doncaster made Coop's Griddle Cakes the day after he tried out Veronica's Spiced Beef and Peas.  The result being that he felt that he was, "as big as a house"!  It...

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Veronica Lake’s Spiced Beef and Peas

Veronica Lake’s Spiced Beef and Peas

It's time for me to get back on track writing up test cook reports on recipes.  My mind has been scattered to the four winds with all this moving business but it feels like heaven to be in my new place and all kinds of new resolutions are being made. So, as I am about...

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Carole Lombard’s Barbecued Spare Ribs

Carole Lombard’s Barbecued Spare Ribs

Oh Carole!  Lounging poolside on a fur rug, only YOU could get away with that! Well on Saturday the entire contents of my lock-up were transported in a van and carried up four flights of stairs by two beefcakes for hire and 5 true and trusted friends.  Everything is...

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William Powell’s Beets Piquants

William Powell’s Beets Piquants

Oh the lovely William.  His moustache puts me in mind of Charley’s.  I am so, so, so loving my new home.  Boxes everywhere and lots of scrabbling going on every time I need to find anything but I’m loving it. 10 year old Shirley popped in for a snoop...

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