Hutton Playtime in Hollywood - Love With The Proper Stranger 1963 Steve in Hutton Playtime again. This time the shoes. In some shots it looks as if he’s wearing the chukkas but there are enough examples throughout the movie that it makes sense he had the low cut version as part of his jazz … [Read more...] about Hutton Playtime in Hollywood – Love With The Proper Stranger 1963
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Hutton Playtime in Hollywood – Five Miles From Midnight 1962
Hutton Playtime in Hollywood - Five Miles From Midnight 1962 Ok so this is an interesting one. To be filed under 'actors wearing their own shoes and not giving a damn about continuity'. Perkins is the male star of this movie filmed on location in Paris, but I'm guessing that Tony had limited … [Read more...] about Hutton Playtime in Hollywood – Five Miles From Midnight 1962
Hutton Playtime in Hollywood – The Man From The South 1962
Hutton Playtime in Hollywood - The Man From the South 1962 One of Steve McQueen’s early appearances wearing his own Hutton Playtime, here he sports standard ivy gear - an OCBD, V Neck sweater, slim slacks and yes, his own pair of Playtime. You can tell they’re his because as so often with McQueen … [Read more...] about Hutton Playtime in Hollywood – The Man From The South 1962
Hutton Playtime in Hollywood – Boulevard 1960
Hutton Playtime in Hollywood - Boulevard 1960 This is a bit of an anomaly in the pantheon of Hutton Playtime spotting. Once again not quite Hollywood, being a classic French movie by auteur director Julien Duvivier. Boulevard tells the story of two brothers living in La Pigalle and their … [Read more...] about Hutton Playtime in Hollywood – Boulevard 1960
A Tea Set For Santana?
A Tea Set For Santana? Shopping with Armando Peraza. This is one of my favourite stories because it concerns a man who was an incredible soul, that I was lucky enough to hang out with on several occasions and call a friend - the legendary Cuban Conguero Armando Peraza. When I was 15 I bought … [Read more...] about A Tea Set For Santana?
Hutton Playtime in Hollywood – Sea of Sand 1958
Hutton Playtime in Hollywood - Sea of Sand 1958 This was perhaps the first movie where I ever noticed the Hutton Playtime. I’m a movie nut. When I was in my late teens and early twenties I would go several times a week to the Everyman or the Scala and sit through two or three movies at a stretch. … [Read more...] about Hutton Playtime in Hollywood – Sea of Sand 1958
Hutton Playtime in Hollywood – The Blob 1958
Hutton Playtime in Hollywood - The Blob 1958 Maybe the low budget element of Steve McQueen’s first real starring role feature (not counting The St Louis Bank Robbery, that is credited a year later and where he wore sneakers and not Playtime) gave Steve the urge to wear a lot of his own clothes. … [Read more...] about Hutton Playtime in Hollywood – The Blob 1958
Shopping For Santana & Other Tales
Shopping For Santana & Other Tales Tea Set shopping for Santana, living in Mussolini’s villa, creating the world’s first MP3s, writing the ‘readers’ letters for Razzle magazine, and getting disqualified from Latin GRAMMYs… When I started this blog in 2009 I was very careful to keep the … [Read more...] about Shopping For Santana & Other Tales