by Jenny | 18 Mar, 2021 | Louise Brooks, Marlene Dietrich, Mary Pickford, Rudolph Valentino
HippFest Silent Cinema Festival has begun – whoopee! My Mary Pickford Silver Screen Supper video goes out on Saturday morning and is available for 48 hours so if you have landed here looking for more information about her enchiladas or cocktails, please skip to...
by Jenny | 11 Mar, 2021 | Mary Pickford
Here is something super cute to scoff after your Mary Pickford enchiladas! I made these in honour of HippFest Silent Cinema Festival which is ALMOST UPON US my lovelies. Have you got your pass yet? Only £20 for loads of amazing silent films with specially...
by Jenny | 2 Mar, 2021 | Mary Pickford
Greetings to all those attending the wondrous Hippfest Silent Cinema Festival! Passes are only £20 for 5 days of fabulousness, do sign up, it’s all online! Wherever you are in the world, whatever the time difference, do grab a pass as most things are available...
by Jenny | 15 May, 2020 | Mary Pickford, Movie Star Cocktails
This week we propose a Mary Pickford for your cocktail hour. You will need 2oz rum, 3/4 oz pineapple juice and 3 dashes of grenadine. Shake with ice. Serve with a whistle swizzle stick if you have one! Cheers...
by Jenny | 7 Aug, 2015 | Florence Vidor, Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo, Janet Gaynor, Joan Crawford, June Knight, Marion Davies, Mary Pickford, Norma Shearer
Cripes. This party took place in September 2014, so my memories are now pretty dim, but this has just got to come off my “to do” list… The first part of my report was written soon after the party (sensible) and is here… My...
by Jenny | 21 Aug, 2013 | Mary Pickford
Oops – I missed one. Vic said: “Sponge based trifle cake in a drink form.” There are various versions of this cocktail online but we followed the recipe in the Stork Club Book: 2oz.rum 3/4 oz. pineapple juice 3 dashes grenadine Shake and serve in a 3...
by Jenny | 15 Aug, 2013 | Mary Pickford
Mr Rathbone liked these. He thought they tasted like “candied rum” – how poetic! He liked the photo too – saying that the parrot added a “touch of the tropical”. I think that I got the recipe from the Stork Club...
by Jenny | 8 May, 2007 | Mary Pickford
“The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.” I have finally cracked open the box of Biscuick that Rosalind kindly lugged all the way back from the USofA for me. I have two lovely 1930s recipe books for the weirdness that is Biscuick and...
by Jenny | 18 Sep, 2006 | Mary Pickford
“If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.” Well, another sad and sorry singleton’s...
