"Soiled Doves" Of The Victorian Era...

Abandoned 19th Century Theatre...

"Gone With The Wind," & The Author Of It, ~ Margaret Mitchell: Some Fascinating Videos...

When I read the book I loved the scope of the story. Yes, how much of the Civil War it helped me to understand. I thought Scarlett was a selfish brat and was glad she didn't get Rhett. The movie, ~ I thought Viven Leigh was perfect as Scarlett, Mammy, Melanie, Ashley Wilkes, Suellen, ~ perfectly cast. But, Clark Gable as Rhett, ~ no. I see Rhett as More like a young Timothy Dalton, or a young Pierce Brosnan, or even a young Hugh Jackman...

Clips From "From Hell," ~ Based On The Award Winning Graphic Novel, And Starring Johnny Depp...

Marguerite: The Weird & Outrageous, ~ A Short Story, Part 1...

Marguerite was "un infant terrible," ~ a terrible child, but she was never really a child. (You know what I mean.) Well, of course, she was small once, and when she was full grown she was still tiny, being no more than four feet eleven. But, she was abnormally advanced in mind and spirit always, with a sly cunning, like an exquisite evil vixen fox.

But, her hair, rather than being red, was a silky platinum blond and it stayed that way, even when she was an adult. (She was such a diminutive beauty.) Marg, as she liked to call herself, said she was born on a murky Spring night under a streetlight in Pigalle, in Paris, but if that was true who could say? Her father was a grifter. Her mother was a streetwalker-pickpocket of the scrappiest type, picking fights with other soiled doves, continually, even when she was in labor. That Marguerite survived her birth was practically a miracle. She was taken under the wing of another streetwalker, a heart-of-gold type, who was nursing her own baby at the time. (Yes, Marguerite's mother rejected her, calling her "a squirmy little rat".) When Marguerite was twelve she delighted in dressing in adult clothes and seduced the son of a baker, who was eighteen. He wanted to marry her, but Marguerite would have none of that. However, she did develop a liking for chocolate eclaires. [To be continued.] --- Copyright by Antoinette Beard, 2023.

Clips From "Van Helsing"...

Gabriel Van Helsing, ~ investgator extraodinaire, goes afer Doctor Jeckle-Mister Hyde, then tackles female vampires, the wives of Count Dracula, in Romania, plus the Count himself, gets himself bit by a werewolf, and you just know nothing go-oo-od will come of that!!!...

The Daring Madame de Maintenon, ~ Louis XIV's Last Mistress & Secret Wife...

"Gigi," ~ the 1958 movie based on Colette's story of a girl born into a family of famous and scandalous mistresses......

The Tragic Life Of Beautiful Sisi, ~ Empress Of Austria...

Colette: French Writer, ~ best known for creating "Gigi"...

The Top Scandals The 19th & Early 20th Centuries...