From Russell Square to the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens and from Brussels to the Battle of Waterloo, find out where (and how) literary classic Vanity Fair filmed for ITV and Amazon

He first appears in the dream-world of the weaving floor. His posture is impeccable. Whereas the wage workers have bits of cotton fluff sticking like snow to their hair, eyelashes, (lungs) and clot…

Recently, I was able to talk to acclaimed costume designer Massimo Cantini Parrini about his designs for Cyrano (2021). Parinni is the designer for two Frock Flick favorites, Tale of Tales (2015) a…

Sara. Swedish. There's infinite room in my heart for Classic Hollywood and everything connected to that glorious period in time....

As the BBC airs its rival to 'Mad Men’, Fay Weldon, Felicity Green and Catherine Freeman recall their working lives in male-dominated offices in the Fifties.

I Love Lucy unused, bought in 2010 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "Bonus Bucks" (Mar. 8, 1954) Ricky's contest winning one dollar bill-worth three hundred dollars-goes on a wild journey : from Lucy's purse to the grocery boy, to Ethel, To Ricky's pajamas, the the Speedy Laundry, where Lucy, attempting to retrieve the bonus buck, ends up in a vat of starch.

Luscious at the movies: Films and TV shows set in the 1900s-1940s - part 2 including 20th century period dramas...