New #watercolor painting. I love painting women and I’m trying to improve my ability. This is titled “The Higher the Hair, The Closer to Heaven”
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Elordi looks NOTHING like Elvis. were the makeup and hair department on strike? idk who that is but it isn't elvis... he looked more like elvis that time he dressed up as elvis for halloween than in this movie... also he looks scary af...
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“Connie Stevens was just another Monroe-style starlet with platinum hair and a little girl voice when she first hit Hollywood in the late fifties. Had she appeared on the scene just a trifle earlier, that image probably would have stuck. However, by the time Connie started to make the rounds, the Era of the Teenager was in full flower, so Warners decided to turn her into the girl-next-door type – a sort of singing Sandra Dee.
During her first year with the studio, Connie appeared to be one of those stars who exist only in the pages of Photoplay magazine. Even with no TV or screen credits to speak of, she was nonetheless all over the movie and teen monthlies dispensing dating tips, makeup tricks and her recipe for spaghetti sauce. When the time seemed right, Warners paired her with Edd Byrnes on the aforementioned “Kookie, Kookie (Lend Me Your Comb).” She couldn’t miss, and she didn’t.
For Connie’s first solo release, Warners provided her with “Sixteen Reasons”, a formula ballad which had Connie Pledging her Ten Commandments of Love. The lyrics were corny, but it was a passable slow dance tune and as such hung around the top of the charts for twenty-four weeks. The only problem was that Warners couldn’t come up with comparable material for Connie’s subsequent releases. Her follow-up “Too Young to Go Steady” was a dud.
Although Connie’s recording career faded quickly, the studio continued to exploit her squeaky-clean image on TV in Hawaiian Eye and on the screen with roles that were even dumber than her records. (In Susan Slade, for example, Connie played an unwed mother who eludes public disgrace by pretending that her illegitimate son is her brother).
All things considered, Connie Stevens was one of the few studio-manufactured teen stars of the fifties who managed to hold onto lasting stardom. She continues to show up in things like The Hollywood Squares and Grease 2 and of course her celebrity hasn’t been hurt by her much-publicized marriages to actor James Stacey and the inimitable Eddie Fisher.”
/ Rock’n’Roll Confidential by Penny Stallings, 1984 /
Born on this day 85 years ago (8 August 1938): kitsch icon Connie Stevens.
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i fear my haircut plans have been thwarted because i'm re-entering a mermaid enthusiast renaissance and the long hair helps
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☆ It’s showtime, baby! ☆
instagram: @cakenausea_ for more from this photoshoot! xo
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