Knitting, dancing (balboa, lindy and charleston), and djing with my gramophones.
Music
Al Bowlly, Ambrose & His Orchestra, Harry James, Glenn Miller, Vera Lynn, Cole Porter, George & Ira Gershwin, Noel Coward, Gracie Fields, Irving Berlin, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Gene Krupa, Artie Shaw, Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli, Carmen Miranda, Ella Fitzgerald, The Ink Spots, The Fontaine Sisters, The Boswell Sisters, Elvis Presley, George Formby, Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Harry Roy, Rosemary Clooney, Jimmie Lunceford, Hutch, Annette Hanshaw, Ray Noble, Fats Waller, Fred Waring, Cab Calloway, Eddie Cantor, Helen Kane, Bix Beiderbecke, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Paul Whiteman, Lionel Hampton, Louis Prima, Louis Jordan, Kay Starr, Jo Stafford, Billie Holiday, Helen Ward, Mildred Bailey, Judy Garland, The Savoy Hotel Orpheans, The Coon-Sanders Nighthawks, Peggy Lee, Helen Humes, Anita Horn, Carroll Gibbons, The California Ramblers, Chick Webb, Lew Stone, Elisabeth Welch, Anita O'Day, Fletcher Henderson, Nat Gonnella, Helen Forrest, Lee Wiley...
I also love the 80s, and live out this obsession through Prom Night.
Movies
Theodora Goes Wild, The Cat and the Canary, The Thin Man, everything with Fred and Ginger, The Women, Summer Stock, This Happy Breed, Brief Encounter, The Big Sleep, Grand Hotel, Rain, Mildred Pierce, Rebecca, Rope, Shadow of a Doubt, Spellbound, The Lady Vanishes, Dial M for Murder, Rear Window, The Petrified Forest, Marked Woman, The Letter, Dark Victory, Now Voyager, All About Eve, ...Baby Jane, Some Like It Hot, Niagara, Double Indemnity, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Brighton Rock, Shanghai Express, Hellzapoppin', A Day At The Races, The Password Is Courage, The Servant, The Blue Lamp, Odd Man Out, Roman Holiday, Funny Face, Tootsie, A Chorus Line, Cabaret, Dirty Dancing, Strictly Ballroom, Flashdance, The Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink, Abigails Party.
Heroes
Lady Bracknell, Miss Marple (Joan Hickson), Noel Coward, F. Scott and Zelda, Marlene Dietrich, Josephine Baker, Poirot, Fred and Ginger, Harold Lloyd, Rudolph Valentino, Fay Wray, Margot Channing, Tallulah Bankhead, Joan Crawford, Robert Donat, Dirk Bogarde, Ivor Novello, Alfred Hitchcock, Bette Davis...
About me:
Appalled by the rise in the wearing of denim by all social classes, as well as an increasing willingness to display one's undergarments in public, I, as a lady of discerning taste, endeavour to recreate the romance of days gone by, armed only with my grace, charm, wit and wind-up gramophone. I work both alone and as a member of the lovely
Shellac Sisters.
Allow me to add my own particular panache to any of your social occasions. My music is as impeccable as my style. My library of original 78s ranges from the sophistication of big band swing to the torrid embrace of the tango, as well as waltzes, polkas, foxtrots, Charlestons, and all of the most modern sounds of the 1920s, 30s, 40s and 50s. Oh, and I have an extensive collection of dance music from the same eras, stored on shiny silver discs.
My gramophone has been adapted to allow me to play in any setting, both indoors and out. I am equally at home in the most intimate of speakeasys as I am in the most ostentatious of ballrooms.
Who I'd like to meet:
Ladies and gentlemen of taste and distinction. This includes, but is not limited to, flappers and flibbertigibbets, dandies and doughboys, suffragettes and socialites, bon viveurs and vamps.
Gee! Thanks for the friendship Doll-face! TAKE A PEEK AT THE NEW EXCLUSIVE COLLECTION IN TOPSHOP OXFORD CIRCUS NOW!! (on the basement floor -2) Mwah! xxx
