Candice Bergen: Timeless Chic

Candice Bergen is one actress who has aged gracefully.  After seeing these photos from the late 1960's and early 1970's, it's easy to see why.  She grew up in Beverly Hills, California with a model mother and her father Edgar Bergen who was an actor, comedian, and ventriloquist. Candice also modeled for high fashion magazines like Vogue while also pursuing an acting career.  She starred in her second film The Sand Pebbles with Steve McQueen.  Of course, most people these know her from Murphy Brown and Sex and the City.  It's too bad that today's young actresses don't look this wholesome and timeless. Enjoy!

Life magazine cover and subsequent shots from 1970 by Michael Mauney.

David Frost and Candice Bergen 1968.

Candice and Bert Schneider at the California 500 September 1972.

In costume for The Adventurers.

British Vogue cover December 1967

Candice by Michael Mauney 1970

Candice by Michael Mauney 1970

Candice at Truman Capote's Black & White Ball 1966.

Album covergirl.

Candice with Michael Caine and Anthony Quinn on the set of The Magus 1967.

Candice and Anthony Quinn on set 1967.

Dancing with Michael Caine on set 1967.

Sunning herself on set with Michael Caine 1967.

They don't make them like they used to...

In honor of the Oscars, I thought it would be fun to take a look at some vintage stars and their statues.  I love how so many of them are genuinely smiling and happy.  Of course, if you just won an Academy Award, you'd be smiling too.  They just seem so much more relaxed than the stars of today. The focus seems more on the films and not the fashion.  They really don't make them like they used to! 

Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Joan Crawford and Fernando Lamas

Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly backstage.

Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly backstage.

Audrey Hepburn

Cary Grant

 

Elizabeth Taylor and Eddie Fisher

Oleg Cassini and Grace Kelly

James Dean

Olivia de Havilland, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, and David Selznick

Paul Newman

Bette Davis, Marlon Brando, and Grace Kelly

Julie Andrews and Audrey Hepburn

Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty

Robert Redford

Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward

Sidney Poitier and Anne Brancroft

Steve McQueen, wife Neile, Claudia Cardinale and Rock Hudson

Faye Dunaway photographed by Terry O'Neill at breakfast 29 March 1977 at the Beverly Hills Hotel the day after winning an Academy Award for Network.

Local Color: Le Jardin

Le Jardin....what better place to find local color? A garden is filled with all of the colors of the rainbow, and this Sacramento shop is no different. I am very lucky to live so close to this jewel of a shop. I drive by almost daily and peer into the windows to see what new treasures the ladies who own this shop have found.

Mother and daughter team Linda Fairley and Janice Fairley Winn have a way with putting things together: vintage French style furniture and leather bound books....topiaries and leopard print pillows.....

all mixed in with industrial tables and architectural remnants. I love it all! And isn't the floor brilliant? They painted the yellow and white checkerboard right on top of the concrete. It looks just like handmade glazed pavers.

The ladies always seem to have beautiful alabaster lamps on hand.

I almost took home these gilt banded glasses the other day.

This white wire cage would make the perfect table base!

The green window frames....perhaps a headboard for a twin bed in a little girl's room? And that gilt mirror!

Dashes of mercury glass, some vintage, some new add a bit of sparkle. And there are pieces of coral, and antlers and vintage paintings....

These chairs were particularly nice covered in an icy blue velvet.

I spotted the interesting wicker table up above, and thought of countless possibilities....and then there was the Bergere...

What a beautifully scaled mirror this was! And hiding below it , the green headboard....so pretty!

So.....if you are in the neighborhood....or even if you are not....Le Jardin can be found at:

2598 21st Street

Sacramento, California 95818

And since there is no website quite yet....if you see anything you like, you can call:

916-739-6726

Stop in a pick a few flowers!