My mind went wild with all type of connections I could make with just this little tidbit of information. By buying my wedding dress I was able to tie my wedding into my love for both Old Hollywood, and 50's and 60's pop culture, politics and fashion. Oh but thats not all, Grace Kelly also dated and rejected a marriage proposal from Bing Crosby and instead ended up marrying the Prince of Monaco and became a princess. So just by my dress I have tied my wedding into a princess theme (which is fitting since its a ball gown) and also my even more unhealthy obsession with American standard crooners and the movie White Christmas. All these little tie-ins to my wedding made me think about the ultimate tie-in game. The 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon.
I found a great generator that seems to be connected with IMDB called www.oracleofbacon.org go there, have fun! I know I did. This is what I found out:
Oleg Cassini was costume designer for Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950) with Eda Reiss Merin who was in Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1983) with Kevin Bacon.
Yep my wedding dress designer is only 2 degrees separated from Kevin Bacon. So I wanted to see what other ties I could find. Here they are:
Grace Kelly was in Mogambo (1953) with Donald Sinden who was in Balto (1995) with Kevin Bacon
Bing Crosby was in Say One For Me (1959) with Robert Wagner who was in Wild Things (1998) with Kevin Bacon.
Yep folks, I even tied my wedding into the movie Wild Things... such a cinematic masterpiece that movie was. :-/ Actually, that was the movie that made me decide to stop watching Kevin Bacon movies because he is way too comfortable with on-screen nudity for my tastes. You can only take so many glances of a middle-aged man's man meat. And I think I'm going to leave you with that. Man meat seems like a good closer.
