Tom Lyle Williams with his nephew Bill Williams by the pool at the Villa Valentino
Bad-mitten Court at the Villa Valentino
Lush gardens surrounding the Pool at the Villa Valentino
Excerpt from a letter written by Emery Shaver to his sister Betty from the Villa Valentino, Hollywood, California, dated January 26, 1944 (War time rationing at the Villa) We have been having a most usual cold spell, but it is not too severe, however, the heat, especially at night, feels very good. Our garden had been coming along so well, many lovely roses and camellias now, and some azaleas. Some of our citrus trees are bearing heavily, so we have plenty of oranges, grape-fruit and tangerines. Food is scarce and very high. We just cannot manage to have all our meals at home, so we have to eat out often, however, tonight we are having Lyle's favorite, vegetable soup, a big pot of it, and we will make a meal from that, as there are plenty of vegetable and meat in it - well, maybe I exaggerate a bit - not so much meat. With gooseberry pie for dessert, it should be a good meal.
Want to see more pictures and read more about the Villa Valentino? Here are past Posts on the subject.
Maybelline Headquarters at the Villa Valentino - the maybelline story Nov 02, 2012 Their story is clearly spelled out in my book, The Maybelline Story, but in case you've already read the book and wished for more pictures of Maybelline West, The Villa Valentino and the three men who lived there, here are ...
THE MAYBELLINE STORY : The Villa Valentino and Tom Lyle's ... Jul 18, 2011 Tom Lyle's family meant the world to him and visited often at the Villa Valentino in the Hollywood Hills, (until it was taken for the Hollywood freeway,) than at his new modern glass and steel estate in Bel Air, California.
Life at the Villa Valentino in Hollywood, in the 1930s. Jan 14, 2011 Tom Lyle and Emory led a quiet life in the luxury of the Villa Valentino, and didn't flaunt their relationship. In the 1920's and 30's people didn't care much if somebody was gay as long as they kept a false identity in public.
THE MAYBELLINE STORY : Remodeled Villa Valentino becomes a ... Feb 25, 2011 Valentino's sudden death at 31 from a ruptured ulcer caused worldwide hysteria, several suicides, and riots at his funeral. These same crowds of women haunted the Villa Valentino in Whitley Heights for many years. THE MAYBELLINE STORY : Rudolph Valentino's Villa in 1936 in ... Feb 21, 2011 Scroll down and enjoy some of Maybelline's amazing Art Deco advertisements from the 1930's, and further down you will find posts describing Rudolph Valentino's Villa in Whitley Heights after the "Great Lover's" death in ...
Rudolph Valentino's Aspiration, sets the tone for positive thinking. Sep 09, 2011 Aspiration at the Villa Valentino, Tom Lyle's home in the Hollywood Hills. I believe Tom Lyle, was a major contributor, paying for the statue to be set in De Longpre Park, in 1930. He bought the Villa, placed a copy of Aspiration ...
THE MAYBELLINE STORY : The Latin Lovers Villa becomes the ... Feb 22, 2011 The Villa Valentino was located in the Whitley Heights section of Hollywood at 6776 Wedgwood Place, but was eventually razed to make room for the Hollywood Freeway in 1949. When Tom Lyle bought the Villa he loved it's ...
THE MAYBELLINE STORY : Hollywood Royalty, Rudolph Valentino ... Nov 21, 2012 After Valentino's untimely death, Tom Lyle and Emery rented than bought the home in Whitley Heights...named it The Villa Valentino and concentrated on Maybelline's Advertising... while brother, Vice President Noel James ...
Love sick women tear Rudolph Valentino's toilet apart. Feb 23, 2011 Once the Villa Valentino was finished Tom Lyle put a heavy rustic wooden gate and fortress like walls around it, as well as the 100 trees to protect his privacy. Privacy was of utmost importance to him as he worked from the ...
Maybelline Story brings Romance back to life. - the maybelline story Sep 15, 2011 Maybelline Story brings Romance back to life. Rudolph Valentino was every woman's Romantic Idol, in the 1920's and even more so after his untimely death in 1926. Tom Lyle Williams, bought the Villa Valentino, around ...
MAYBELLINE GLAMOUR ADS created at Valentno's Villa in West ... Jan 18, 2011 From the Villa Valentino studio in Hollywood came Technicolor airbrushed photos of stars' faces so flattering and popular that movie studio executives flocked to Tom Lyle to promote the movies their stars were appearing in.
Maybelline Headquarters in the Hollywood Hills - the maybelline story Mar 09, 2011 Their story is clearly spelled out in my book, The Maybelline Story, but in case you've already read the book and wished for more pictures of Maybelline West, The Villa Valentino and the three men who lived there, here are ... Maybelline family honors Noel A. for his duty in the Navy - 1945. Jun 03, 2011 Noel joined the Navy, left Chicago and headed to Southern California where he was stationed in San Diego, close enough to visit his uncle Tom Lyle at the Villa Valentino and Bill of Course. Noel A. at the Villa Valentino with ...
Whitley Heights, Paradise during Hollywood's silent film era. Sep 29, 2011 Villa Valentino, 6776 Wedgewood Place, Whitley Heights, built in 1922, this was the site of the home Valentino shared with Natacha Rambova in upscale Whitley Heights just north of Hollywood. In 1951 the state of California...
THE MAYBELLINE STORY : Valentino's death mourned at grave site ... Feb 24, 2011 Tom Lyle's sister's Mabel and Eva with their husbands, Chet and Ches, on the veranda of Rudolph Valentino's Villa in the Hollywood Hills, August, 1937 -. Here's the earliest photograph I have of a Lady in Black (click,) ...
HEDY LAMARR, a plan for mixing beauty with brains, in 1938. Dec 19, 2011 Chet and Mabel flew to California with Ches and Eva to visit Tom Lyle at the Villa Valentino in 1938. It was a pleasure trip, with some very important business to discuss. "What to do about an IRS suit, looming over the ... THE MAYBELLINE STORY : Maybelline founder's nephew Bill ... Jan 25, 2011 Tom Lyle's nephew Bill Williams spent his childhood at his uncle's Villa Valentino and developed a passion for beautiful convertibles. Out of all the classic cars Bill collected and sold during his life, his favorite was his 1977 first ...
THE MAYBELLINE STORY : William Haines and Jimmy Shields - the ... Oct 21, 2011 Tom Lyle opened an antique store in Beverly Hills, for Emery, where he could meet celebrities, outside the Villa Valentino. Tom Lyle, preferred a secluded life inside the Villa. Haines and Shields had a hand in decorating The ...
THE MAYBELLINE STORY : Automobile designer Alain Clenet's ... Oct 23, 2011 The nostalgic features reminded him of his childhood in the 1930's, growing up surrounded by his uncle's beautiful custom-designed, Packard's. Tom Lyle's 1939 Packard 120 Convertible Victoria, at the Villa Valentino, where ... belline Summer-Daze, 1922 - 2011 May 23, 2011 Evelyn Williams, my grandmother, with her brother in law Tom Lyle Williams, her son, (my dad,) Bill Williams and my mother Pauline Mac Donald Williams at the Villa Valentino in Hollywood Hills, 1942.
Maybelline Heiress says "let them eat cake," - the maybelline story Jan 28, 2011 Maybelline Heiress says "let them eat cake," while filming at her fathers estate. The Villa Valentino, Hollywood Hills, 1945. Rudolph Valentino's Statue, Aspiration symbolized aspiring to the stars and never giving up on your ...
THE MAYBELLINE STORY : Our Darling "Diddy" rests in the arms of ... Oct 12, 2012 At The Villa Valentino, Eva, June Tom Lyle and Marilyn... in the pool ...... Villa Valentino (6); car guys (8); card mounted products history (1); CARE (1); Carl Perkins (1); Carl Wilson (1); CARLYLE BLACKWELL JR. (4); Carmen ...
THE MAYBELLINE STORY : Maybelline founder Tom Lyle Williams ... Dec 23, 2010 Tom Lyle Williams with Sallee Allen, Emery Shaver, his niece Annette Louise Williams (Corbet) (his brother Noel and Frances Williams second child) and Arnold Anderson in front of the Villa Valentino in the Hollywood Hills, ...
THE MAYBELLINE STORY : Maybelline King was never to proud to ... Dec 16, 2010 Tom Lyle bought Evelyn a little Californi a Bungalow The Maybelline Story, inside peek of a never before told stroy! Mar 11, 2011 He enjoyed his time with his nephew, swimming in The Villa Valentino's Olympic-size pool, playing badminton, dropping dimes in the slot machine in the game room - decorated like the Hawaiian Islands -or listening to Bing ...
THE MAYBELLINE STORY : My mother's friends included Judy ... Jan 14, 2013 My father's mother, Evelyn Williams, Tom Lyle Williams, my father Bill Williams with his girlfriend, (my mother,) Pauline Mac Donald at Tom Lyle's Villa Valentino in the Hollywood Hills 1941. Sparkie the dog is in the float.
Tom Lyle Williams and Emery Shaver, together in life and death. Nov 14, 2011 Tom Lyle and Emery ran the advertising division of the Maybelline Company, at the Villa Valentino in the Hollywood Hills. When the Villa was torn down to make room for the Hollywood freeway, in 1949, they moved to a...
THE MAYBELLINE STORY : Sharrie's upcoming events in October. Oct 08, 2011 http://vimeo.com/29981530 Click here, to see Sharrie's interview, discussing her father Bill Williams, and his uncle Tom Lyle Williams, at the Villa Valentino. Bill Williams 1977, Series 1, Clenet, will be shown at The Santa...in West Los Angeles on Kelton Ave., so they would be near him at the Villa Valentino and he could help r Maybelline Family grows as the next generation is born in the 1940's. Jul 01, 2011 Tom Lyle bought a 1940 Packard while at The Villa Valentino in Hollywood in 1940. Tom Lyle with is first little niece, Noel and Frances' first grandchild, Annette Huber, born in 1940. . Uncle Ches Haines, 1940, (Tom Lyle's ...
Maybelline Family Glitz and Glamour in California, 1938. May 24, 2011 Tom Lyle Williams with Mabel, Chet, Ches and Eva at The Villa Valentino - Hollywood, 1938. Catalina California 1938 - left to right, My father Bill, great uncleTom Lyle, my Grandmother Evelyn and my auntie Eva, auntie Mabel...
Maybelline's founder Tom Lyle Williams belief in positive thinking. Sep 14, 2011 Besides having the statue ASPIRATION, at the Villa Valentino and in Bel Air, representing Rudolph Valentino, and his great success in Hollywood, Tom Lyle, believed in the principals outlined in this brochure, sponsored by...
THE MAYBELLINE STORY : The Gilded Lily, behind Maybelline doors. Oct 24, 2011 Bob also remembers when The Villa Valentino was taken in eminent domain, for the Hollywood freeway and Tom Lyle bought the lot at the top of Bel Air, to build his steel and glass estate. The story goes. Emery told Tom Lyle ...
