To the One I Love the Best

Ludwig Bemelmans’ charming intergenerational friendship with the late-in-life ‘First Lady of Interior Decoration’ provides an enormously enjoyable nostalgia trip to the sun-soaked glamour of Los Angeles, where de Wolfe surrounded herself with classic movie stars and a luminous parade of life’s oddities. With hilarity and mischief that de Wolfe would no doubt approve, ‘To the One I Love the Best’ lifts the curtain on 1950s Hollywood – a bygone world of extravagance and eccentricity, where the parties are held in circus tents and populated by ravishing movie stars.