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Jewels of Hollywood Past
Filed in archive Celebrity Jewelry by tammy on January 23, 2007
Jewels of Hollywood Past
I happened to find a wonderful page full of jewelry and celebrity stories, especially about stars from the past like Marlene Dietrich (pictured from wikimedia.org).

According to the International Colored Gemstone Association's web site, Dietrich loved jewelry and often worn her own emerald jewelry in many of her movies.

I particularly liked this story about how she almost lost a ring while baking a cake (could you picture Jennifer Aniston baking a cake?): Once when baking a cake at Katherine Cornell's house, Marlene thought she had lost her 37.41-carat cabochon emerald ring which she had removed in the kitchen. The house was turned upside down but the ring couldn't be found. It was only during dessert that the ring was discovered by one of the dinner guests inside a piece of the cake!

Other celebrities include Elizabeth Taylor (of course), Queen Elizabeth (again, no big surprise), Mary Pickford, Theda Bara, Gloria Swanson, who also has an interesting story:

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Gloria Swanson had such extravagant taste in jewelry that she had to rent it. Inspite of paying only 10 percent of the value of her jewelry, one year her annual jewelry budget was $500,000. Gloria Swanson wore an important emerald, amethyst and gold necklace by Iribe in "Affairs of Anatole" in 1920, starting a fashion for colorful jewelry.

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