Maybelline in Times Square, 1938
Excerpt from The Maybelline Story and the Spirited Family Dynasty Behind It. .
My aunt Verona said she remembered once running into Tom Lyle and Alice Faye at a posh restaurant in 1938, right after the filming of “Alexanders Ragtime Band.” She said Tom Lyle and Alice Faye made a devastatingly handsome couple, he so tall dark and handsome, and she so petite, blond and glamorous. “For a second,” she said, “I thought it was Howard Hughes and Jean Harlow.”
Harlow had already died, of course, but Alice Faye, was a blond bomb shell that did have a Harlow aura. Verona went on to tell me that at that time Maybelline had a giant neon sign in Times Square and believed it was Alice who insisted that particular view of Times Square be shot and used in the film. Verona was sick I didn’t tell Alice who my uncle was, and she knew Tom Lyle would be very disappointed as well.
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