Times Square 1938, during the filming of
"Alexander's Ragtime Band"
Alice Faye
Tom Lyle Williams
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.”
Howard Hughes
Jean Harlow
Harlow had already died, of course, but Alice Faye, was a blond bombshell 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.
