by Jenny | 6 May, 2023 | Dennis King, Movie Star Cocktails
God bless the King. Dennis King. Another classic cocktail from the brilliant Bottoms Up! cocktail book, published in 1928. This copy, with the original corkscrew still attached, is available to buy for a cool £4,000. The Saratoga is a classic for a reason, the...
by Jenny | 5 May, 2023 | Fanny Brice, Movie Star Cocktails
I’ve been saving this for Coronation weekend and here it is. In case you don’t know, there’s royal stuff going on in the UK tomorrow so if you are going to be toasting the new King or any other regal person in your life, here’s the ideal...
by Jenny | 14 Apr, 2023 | Charlie Chaplin, Movie Star Cocktails
I am a big fan of Richard Godwin’s online cocktail emporium The Spirits. Recently I was delving around in there, reading about Apricot Brandy and I spotted this comment on the Charlie Chaplin cocktail. “The original recipe of this from the Old Waldorf...
by Jenny | 9 Mar, 2023 | Bette Davis, Movie Star Cocktails
During the first UK lockdown of the pandemic, me and Mr R made Friday night videos of the movie star cocktails we made when all the pubs were closed. It was loads of fun and we stuck all the videos on YouTube if you fancy having a look. Lots of cocktails were named...
by Jenny | 27 Oct, 2022 | Marilyn Miller, Movie Star Cocktails
My lovely friend Sasa reminded me at the Murder, She Cooked launch party that I had vowed to write a book gathering together all the movie star cocktails I know of. It’s on the list, Sasa! Our conversation also reminded me that I hadn’t yet dipped in to...
by Jenny | 18 Sep, 2022 | Angela Lansbury, Movie Star Cocktails, Murder, She Cooked
Happy International Angela Lansbury Appreciation Day! It’s a momentous day for me as I am celebrating completion of the Murder, She Cooked book. I am on tenterhooks awaiting my final proof copy but I THINK it is finished. Here’s Jessica reading an...
by Jenny | 14 Jun, 2022 | June Havoc, Movie Star Cocktails, Murder, She Cooked
The June Havoc Almond Cocktail has been on the “to test” list for a while as she is in not one, but two episodes of Murder, She Wrote. The first is a truly remarkable one for film buffs. The Days Dwindle Down (1988) has a star-studded cast...
by Jenny | 24 Oct, 2021 | Diana Ross, Movie Star Cocktails
Yinzerella of Dinner Is Served 1972 made a Mahogany Pie for this year’s Pieathalon and her blog post included some sensational clips of a movie I’d never seen. Mahogany starring Diana Ross. Just one look at these gifs convinced me I had to get hold of it...
by Jenny | 25 Jul, 2021 | Movie Star Cocktails, Vincent Price
Do you have a bottle of Angostura Bitters hanging around in your cocktail cabinet? You bought it for some tipple or another years ago, and it now just sits there, unloved? Most of us do. Luckily, Vincent Price was involved in an ad campaign that featured recipes...
by Jenny | 4 Jul, 2020 | Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean, Movie Star Cocktails, Rock Hudson
This is the penultimate Quaranatini Time! Pubs are set to re-open here in the UK TODAY so there’s only one more movie star tipple demo video to go. The last time me & Mr R exchanged money for cold beverages in a pub was on our wedding day – 20th...
by Jenny | 19 Jun, 2020 | Movie Star Cocktails, Quarantini Time!, Ralph Bellamy
Gosh, I’ve just realised that I am a week behind with the Quarantini Times! So here’s a link to the demo for Ralph’s Scotch Sour and hot on the heels of this will be the demo for the Marlon Brando Godfather. Where does all the time go? I have no...
by Jenny | 9 Jun, 2020 | Gertrude Niesen, Movie Star Cocktails, Quarantini Time!
This one comes with a warning, Mr R had to put me to bed for half an hour after consuming just one Buzz-Bomb (and some of the rest of the champagne of course). I lay there like a MUMMY, unable to move a muscle. This cocktail is a humdinger and no mistake. The brain is...
by Jenny | 30 May, 2020 | Don Ameche, Movie Star Cocktails, Quarantini Time!
Don Ameche was a man’s man and didn’t have any truck with mixed drinks. He liked his bourbon straight up and with no nonsense about a chaser. Here we raise a glass to him and get excited about next week’s BUZZ-BOMB cocktail. Mind you, looks like he...
by Jenny | 23 May, 2020 | Binnie Barnes, Movie Star Cocktails
Up periscope! This cocktail is a humdinger. Mr R thought it was “psychoactive” and I saw a yellow aura all around his bonce after drinking just one of these Schnorkels. It was like he’d just eaten a bowl of Ready Brek. The Schnorkel wasn’t...
by Jenny | 8 May, 2020 | Douglas Fairbanks, Movie Star Cocktails, Quarantini Time!
This week’s Quarantini Time features a cocktail named after the swashbuckling Douglas Fairbanks gleaned from the amazing Savoy Club Cocktail Book. As his niece Leticia Fairbanks pointed out to me in a comment on a previous post about this cocktail, her uncle was...
by Jenny | 1 May, 2020 | Martin Landau, Movie Star Cocktails, Quarantini Time!
I love Martinis! I waxed lyrical about them here when the Carole Landis Martini was the recipe of the month. So here’s a little video demo of the way Martin Landau likes his Martini… …and here’s the recipe – CHEERS my lovelies! 2 oz good...
by Jenny | 24 Apr, 2020 | Movie Star Cocktails, Quarantini Time!, Shirley Temple
It’s Friday so you know what that means? QUARANTINI TIME! This weeks cocktail du jour is the Shirley Temple. Mind you, I realised after watching an episode of Mad Men the other day that a cocktail should have 3 ingredients and these only have two. I suppose that...
by Jenny | 17 Apr, 2020 | Movie Star Cocktails, Quarantini Time!, Vincent Price
When I volunteered for the Vincent Price Blogathon I had grand plans of throwing an elaborate dinner party with many dishes gleaned from Vincent’s fabulous cookbooks. Remember the days when you could have chums over for food and fun? I could have kicked off...
by Jenny | 16 Apr, 2020 | Charlie Chaplin, Movie Star Cocktails, Quarantini Time!
My second movie star lockdown cocktail was a Charlie Chaplin. A very fruity little fella composed of sloe gin, lime juice and apricot brandy. I had a few technical problems with the Mary Astor Painless Anaesthetic video so I may do that one again sometime, but a new...
by Jenny | 31 Mar, 2020 | Mary Astor, Movie Star Cocktails, Quarantini Time!
Hello chums! Get your cocktail shakers out and join me on Instagram Live this Friday for a MOVIE STAR COCKTAIL! I was planning to make a little edited video showing this cocktail under construction but I didn’t get around to it. A special prize to anyone who can...
by Jenny | 2 Mar, 2019 | Jean Harlow, Movie Star Cocktails
When I think of Jean Harlow, I always think of her like this… so when I saw that my lovely internet chum Samantha of Musings of a Classic Film Addict was co-hosting a Jean Harlow Blogathon I thought to myself, I’m going to spend a whole day in bed wearing...
by Jenny | 27 Jan, 2019 | Dinner and a Movie, Kay & Fred's Movie Night, Mary Astor, Movie Star Cocktails
I was beside myself with excitement when I saw that my fave food mag Delicious Magazine has a new column called Kay & Fred’s Movie Night. Kay Plunkett-Hogge and her partner Fred will be selecting a movie and suggesting a meal to have alongside it each month....
by Jenny | 10 Dec, 2017 | Faye Dunaway, Movie Star Cocktails
Had these last night to kick off my birthday celebrations. Why am I writing a blog post on my BIRTHDAY? Because Mr R is still asleep and I am over excited, so I am up and sitting by the gas fire waiting for festivities to begin. We have SNOW in London today for the...
by Jenny | 28 May, 2017 | Mary Astor, Movie Star Cocktails
It has been the week of the bad back. Painkillers haven’t touched it. Alternation of the application of a frozen slab of parsnip soup with a hot water bottle has had no impact. The only thing that helps with the constant pain is BOOZE. Luckily there is a new...
by Jenny | 20 Jul, 2016 | Hedda Hopper, Movie Star Cocktails
Last time Angus and Clive came round to dinner they brought LOADS of booze, including a bottle of bourbon, from which only a sip was taken. They refused to take it home with them at the end of the night, so I promised to make them some Hedda Hopper cocktails aka...
by Jenny | 29 Oct, 2014 | Joan Crawford, Movie Star Cocktails
I pressed the “publish” button for my book on Friday – eek! I’ve been celebrating all weekend. Here I am, cocktail in one hand, proof copy in the other. Don’t I look pleased with myself?! Well I AM pleased with myself. It was a lot of...
by Jenny | 17 Aug, 2014 | Louella Parsons, Movie Star Cocktails
All of the film star recipes I make and write about here have some kind of provenance. They are either something the star claimed to make themselves, or something they stated was their fave thing to eat in a particular Hollywood eating establishment, OR dishes that...
by Jenny | 1 Jul, 2013 | Liberace, Movie Star Cocktails
I got a tip-off from my favourite food blog Dinner is Served 1972 that the Liberace biopic starring Michael Douglas was a humdinger. Yinzerella and her mom watched it on HBO celebrating the event with kaftans and a Liberace cocktail. Here in the UK we are VERY lucky...
