Hey there kittens...glad you all swung in for a chit chat...sit a spell and let me give a tale...You see I have gotten some sweet & amazing emails, awards, write ups about my blog, selected on numerous top vintage lists for fashion & vintage living...but just recently i got the sweetest darn email evah...first it was a long long email about my impact on vintage living...my joy...& just every other darn tooten' wonderful comment i could imagine =0)...ahhh ya me! Any who...this gal asked if i had ever had an exciting thing go on that i hadn't shared. Well, hmmmmmm...ya! there is lots!...but i share lots too...so i needed help...so i asked Daddy-o & he mentioned this...this funny lil' spotlight in my joyous life...Yes...it is true...I Was an extra in the movie...Catch me if you can! Extra Extra...sayin' it like the show...hee hee... 
Ahhhh...so funny huh?! This was such a fun moment...I love this movie...well yes i am partial...ok so here is it my story of an extra...In Hollywood!!! Ok so one Sunday night i got a call from a agency asking if i was, who i was..."lawdy-daw"...they asked if i was a vintage gal who owned vintage cars...first hold the phone i was real -real sceptical...ends up being a friend of mine gave them my name and number saying that i wore vintage clothes and drove vintage cars and that i would be purrrrfect for an extra in this movie...so long story short...i did it...I filmed for 3 weeks straight every day & night...and my car and i were in a few movie shots...this one above filmed at the Ontario airport...which was made to look like the Miami airport in the 60's...my car is in the back right side...however...you cant see it in this photo...
Next i filmed in LA by a famous train station for this scene and a few others...this one is the one that i am standing to the side of Leonardo...i walk by many, many ,many times in this shot...however my dream was to be the clerk inside the shop...which her line is...We don't open up for a half an hour (in the most jersey voice evah) I soooooo wanted to do that line...as I listened to it for a whole day, over & over & over again...
Now my favorite part about the extra work was this...the warehouse of vintage fashion...and GETTING MY HAIR & Makeup DONE EVERY DAY!!!!!!!!!!!! I loved it!
Next i filmed in LA by a famous train station for this scene and a few others...this one is the one that i am standing to the side of Leonardo...i walk by many, many ,many times in this shot...however my dream was to be the clerk inside the shop...which her line is...We don't open up for a half an hour (in the most jersey voice evah) I soooooo wanted to do that line...as I listened to it for a whole day, over & over & over again... 
Now my favorite part about the extra work was this...the warehouse of vintage fashion...and GETTING MY HAIR & Makeup DONE EVERY DAY!!!!!!!!!!!! I loved it!However I hated this outfit...I kept telling the fashion people...I have a better outfit than this!!!!!!! Let me wear it please! tee hee...alas they would say no...you see they were very very picky...they snap photos of every person in their outfits...and look at them every day to check that every day you are the same top to bottom. Every thing from the hair, makeup,shoes,jewels, down to the undergarments...was period perfect! So day after day i wore this...& the yucky bullet bra!
Now check out this... there was one mistake...you see my white gloves...well one dark night, this night pictured here...i was supposed to be in New York at night well they filmed me walking across the window in a shot...but alas...i have white gloves on...well you only wore white gloves in the daytime in New york...so stop...hold it...they stopped filming so i could take them off...like they stopped everything just for a pair of white gloves...wow!
So now onto the daytime...this is me driving in traffic up & down round and round on set...its really LA...but i believe it was a New York shot when Leonardo is going to the bank to forge some checks...the worst thing about driving your car...is they spray it with this mud stuff so it isn't shiny for the camera...awww...my purdy car is dirty!
Now looky here...there is my car in front of one of the directors...you see it was very hard to get photos on set...you have to sign a waiver that you wont take photos or let anyone know where the locations are...well of coarse my rocken Daddy-o made friends with this particular director...and well he let us snap a few pictures! yay!
So this is me with a good friend of mine... he is one of the coolest guys in the Rockabilly scene...hes very well known here and Japan... they even have a doll of him in Japan...and well he hated the 60's period clothing they had him in...no one would ever recognize him & well i think he was happy about that...hahahha
now take a lil look...in front of the cab...yep that is Steven Spielberg...directing...
ok so this is it...my moment...ok my favorite moment the one im gonna share...this day up in old Pasadena we filmed...they shut down a old street of vintage houses...paid each home owner $350.00 to not be home or hide out...so as an extra i sat on a porch while my car was parked out front of this house...looking at this amazing man...Tom Hanks...and this is what happened...
........................................the back end of his car...yup...he smiled, tipped his hat...then waived at me and i got this....a horrid picture with my purse in the way...why me!!!!!!!! However I met Christopher Walkin, and had a blast on a great movie
Now check out this... there was one mistake...you see my white gloves...well one dark night, this night pictured here...i was supposed to be in New York at night well they filmed me walking across the window in a shot...but alas...i have white gloves on...well you only wore white gloves in the daytime in New york...so stop...hold it...they stopped filming so i could take them off...like they stopped everything just for a pair of white gloves...wow!
So now onto the daytime...this is me driving in traffic up & down round and round on set...its really LA...but i believe it was a New York shot when Leonardo is going to the bank to forge some checks...the worst thing about driving your car...is they spray it with this mud stuff so it isn't shiny for the camera...awww...my purdy car is dirty! 
Now looky here...there is my car in front of one of the directors...you see it was very hard to get photos on set...you have to sign a waiver that you wont take photos or let anyone know where the locations are...well of coarse my rocken Daddy-o made friends with this particular director...and well he let us snap a few pictures! yay! 
So this is me with a good friend of mine... he is one of the coolest guys in the Rockabilly scene...hes very well known here and Japan... they even have a doll of him in Japan...and well he hated the 60's period clothing they had him in...no one would ever recognize him & well i think he was happy about that...hahahha
now take a lil look...in front of the cab...yep that is Steven Spielberg...directing... 
ok so this is it...my moment...ok my favorite moment the one im gonna share...this day up in old Pasadena we filmed...they shut down a old street of vintage houses...paid each home owner $350.00 to not be home or hide out...so as an extra i sat on a porch while my car was parked out front of this house...looking at this amazing man...Tom Hanks...and this is what happened...
........................................the back end of his car...yup...he smiled, tipped his hat...then waived at me and i got this....a horrid picture with my purse in the way...why me!!!!!!!! However I met Christopher Walkin, and had a blast on a great movie...now is it hard to find me in the movie...ummmm,mm Yes! We had to slow it down like a million time to see me...and like once you see my arm...oh ya! I mostly ended up on the cutting room floor where all the great shots end up... wink wink;0)
So that is it...my tale of somethin' i haven't shared before...The Day I was and extra...Extra Extra! tee hee...thanks for swingin' by for some Extra time...Cat~
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