Mobile Secretary, Culver City, 1955
A heavy metal typewriter is not something you often see perched on the lap of a young lady sitting in a powder blue ’54 Olds 88 Convertible. Especially when parked with the top down and the door open in the forecourt of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the greatest star factory in all of Hollywoodland.
Peering over her shoulder she exudes the elegance of simplicity posing in a flowy, full-skirted lavender sundress over white high-heeled sling-backs and a generous strand of malt ball-sized coral beads.
This is no time for dictation! She ought to be in pictures! Someone call Dory Sherry, the MGM producer made famous on I Love Lucy.
But first get this young lady a laptop, quick! Oooops, they haven’t been invented yet.
Here’s to her, the ’54 Olds, MGM and laptops!
Charles Phoenix
Jan 21, 2012
hey danny, is that you down there in indiana? chuck and the family are still here in mich. hi to you!
What a hoot! I am imagining during the time she was in the car typing what movie stars may have walked past her or through those famous gates.
My friend Charles. Thanks for this awesome, beautiful, great, cool and unforgettable picture of mobile secretary, Culver City 1955. My God, the fifties years, I repeat the best time in the world . Nice people, innocence time, cool days and peace. Thanks again my friend. Your friend from Sao Paulo, Brazil.Ezio
Someone needs to do an article on wind wings in car windows and their demise. Also, Miss Jane Hathaway would never have shown that much skin. Fabu pic!
What an awesome picture!!! That girl just SCREAMS 50′S!!! Of course this picture was taken 22 years before I was born, so i’m guessing that this pretty much sums up 1950′s Hollywood. I would have rather seen Hollywood back then. I went for my first visit in 2008, and it was certainly not the vision I had in my head. It was kind of creepy, like a ghost of its former self.
Interesting color combination on the Oldsmobile…powder blue with two-tone green interior? Could this car have been repainted blue in it’s young life? I suspect the original color was the light green (aka 1954 Oldsmobile Glacier Green) showing in the door jam. What thinks you, Charles?
You hit another one out of the park with this slide! Love the colors in this shot.
I think his name was Dory Schary, not Sherry.
While I like all the new technology today I WISH I COULD GO BACK IN TIME!
Of course I would be about 4 years old in 55! But I would grow up during that great era!