Royce Reed and Marilyn Hoggatt

Royce Reed and Marilyn Hoggatt

A couple of years ago we found clips of Royce on You Tube. We, at Mimi Berlin, posted a few and here is one more: Quando, Quando, also featuring Marilyn.

Royce Reed and Marilyn Hoggatt; “two of the most unusual ladies ever to grace downtown L.A.”

The makers of these clips are Bill Geerhart and Andrew D’Ambrosio. They filmed the ladies from the 1990s until 2010 at the Hotel Stillwell in downtown Los Angeles and later residences. They planned to make a documentary from this material. Bill Geerhart and Andrew D’Ambrosio’s campagin on indiegogo is closed. But the full-lnght documentary is nowhere to be found…. Maybe you know if they ever finished it or otherwise where to find it? If you do know more please let us know!
Thanks! xoxo Mimi

Read about Royce and Marylin here on LA Weekly.com
Forever Fabulous – Happy hours with Royce and Marilyn by Steven Mikulan. (Published on June 10, 1999.)

Friday Night, Party Night! #74

Friday Night, Party Night! #74
Friday Night, Party Night! #74

Tonight we’ll dress up and dance in a circle round a tree…..
From A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle in1935. (via nitratediva)

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Friday Night, Party Night! #72

Friday Night, Party Night! #72

Friday Night, Party Night! #72
Tonight we’ll head on to the Disco. No, not the Discotheque, that’s a place were glamour rules. The plain Disco is more down to earth, like you see above…..(gif via giphy.com)

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Victorian Burlesque Dancers

Victorian Burlesque Dancers

Dancers or Burlesque performers if full costume, photographed in the 19th Century in New York. Please click images for details (Danke schön Rex Dieter for finding these beauties) (via mashable.com)

Mask Dances by Margaret Severn

Mask Dances by Margaret Severn

73-Mask Dances (Margaret Severn) all photo’s by Nina Leen (courtesy of time/life see complete series here) Margaret Severn (1901-1997) was a famous ballet-dancer. Born in Birmingham Alabama, she lived most of her life in New York, and toured extensively in Vaudeville from 1922-1928. She was Paris based in the ’30s, and retired to Vancouver Canada in 1970.(via http://hillofbees.com/tag/margaret-severn/  http://cosmicmachine.blogspot.nl/2011/04/margaret-severn-mask-ballet.html