EVERY DAY IS BESS FLOWERS DAY ON TCM

 I've recently brainstormed a possible series for TCM entitled "Where's My Bess." Bob Osborne would be the host and there would be four panelists with laser beams. One of the panelists would be a celeb along the lines of Little Baby Peggy, Marsha Hunt or Mary Carlisle. A film clip would be shown containing a crowd scene in which Bess Flowers, Queen of the Dress Extras (869 films), appears as a background player. The first panelist who spots Flowers and flashes on her image with his/her beam wins. When they do so, they must also shout out "There's my Bess." It has to be those EXACT words or it doesn't count.They would win a dinner with Leonard Maltin or Richard Lamparski or Tony Slide. Meanwhile, I guess I've just got too much time on my hands.

MISTER FIRSTNIGHTER RECOMMENDS

(voice of Westbrook Van Van Voorhis) On this day in history in 1984 . .

. . .  Queen of the Dress Extras, Bess Flowers, ascended unto that great cattle call in the sky http://tinyurl.com/oss9r2b

I Get Dizzy Just Thinkin' About It

Here is the final lineup of "Dramatis Personae" in my forthcoming book (now called) "Shared Air: My Six Decade Interface with Celebrity" To be published by Landfill Press, Fall 2015 *** Charles Laughton - Robert Blake - Little Jimmy Scott - Lou Levy - Nico - Severn Darden - Tim Hardin - Tim Reid - Jane Harvey - Dusty Springfield - Chris Connor - Mary Ann McCall - John F. Kennedy - Lizabeth Scott - Joe Franklin - Stanley Siegel - Dan Propper - Elizabeth Montgomery - Djuna Barnes - Myrna Loy - Billy Wilder - Shelley Winters - Chet Baker - Lucy Ann Polk - Jo Stafford - Paul Weston - Oscar Brown, Jr. - Marilyn Bergman - Nat Shapiro - Fayard Nicholas - Charlie Mingus - Fred Katz - Carl Van Vechten - Frank Zappa - Salvador Dali - Dame Joan Collins - Barbara Stanwyck - Neal Cassady - Ricky Jay - Chuck Berry- Blossom Dearie - Miles Davis - Nino Tempo - Leslie Nielson - Priscilla Presley - Ricardo Montalban - Gore Vidal - Ruth Olay - Sir Richard Rodney Bennett - Demas Dean - Bumps Blackwell - Sally Marr - Richard Berry - Charles Manson - Page Cavanaugh - Paul Giamatti - Frances E. Williams - Wonderful Smith - Johnny Carson - Michael Legrand - Herb Jeffries - Dave Frishberg - Sir Ian McKellen - Van Dyke Parks - Annie Ross - Sarah Vaughan - Cynthia Harris - Jimi Hendrix - Bette Midler - Noreen Nash re: Lucille Bremer - Walter Shenson re: The Beatles - Alan Livingston re: Yma Sumac - Don Bagley re: Julie London - Clayburn Pierson - Tuesday Weld - Barbara Harris