The small group of tourists made their way into the old mansion's enormous living room, following behind the guide who was showing them around. The guide's voice droned on and on about the late movie star who had once owned this home, but the huge painting that hung over the fireplace's mantlepiece much more eloquently told the story of who Gloria Dunham had been.
Slender and buxom with platinum blonde hair, the woman in the portrait was astoundingly beautiful. She had become a famous movie star back in the Fifties, but by following in the footsteps of such women as Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield, she had quickly been typecast as a stupid sexpot. She had come to Hollywood expecting to become a serious actress though and had apparently never been able to reconcile herself with the fact that all anyone wanted to do was stare at her big breasts. She had made a fortune playing the ditzy blonde in countless films, but her unhappiness had led her to drink far too much and this had led to her early death.
Gazing up at the beautifully done portrait of the actress, Darlene Chase was overcome with sympathy for the tragic woman. There was just something about this now long dead woman that had struck a profound chord within her and she found herself getting lost in the big blue eyes that stared out from the painting.
Whoever the artist was who had created that masterpiece, he or she had done an especially good job on those eyes, Darlene mused as she continued to stare fixedly up at the painting. Those eyes seemed so incredibly lifelike . . .
Standing beside her was her husband Joe, who was regarding the picture with a much more critical air. Like all of those movie makers of old, all he was focused on at the moment were those big, firm tits and he thought to himself that the portrait would have been absolutely perfect if only she had posed in the nude for it.
Glancing sideways at his wife, he frowned when he saw the look of spellbound fascination on Darlene's face as she looked up at that giant painting of a dead actress.
Slipping an arm around her middle, he put a grin on his face as he teased in a low voice to avoid disturbing the rest of the tour group, "Be careful, dear. If her husband catches you staring at her like that, he's going to think you have designs on her and get jealous."
Darlene didn't respond to his touch or even look at him, answering in a curiously detached sounding voice. "She never married. As a matter of fact, she hardly ever went out with men at all even though she was hotly pursued by most of male Hollywood. That's why there were a lot of rumors swirling around that she was a lesbian."
The tour guide was leading the group through a large double door to the next room, so Joe turned his wife and led her away from the painting to follow the rest of the group. Darlene didn't resist as he pulled her away, but stumbled once or twice as she kept looking back over her shoulder, hardly able to take her eyes off the woman in the painting.
It was only after the last of the tourists had departed and the living room was quiet and empty once again that something absolutely impossible happened:
In that massive old painting hung high over the fireplace, Gloria Dunham's head slowly turned as if to look after the now departed crowd of people. Just as astonishing though was the fact that the woman's full lips curved up into an absolutely wicked smile.
Joe and Darlene Chase next found themselves in a comfortable parlor, where the tour guide was showing everyone a display cabinet in which resided the small number of awards the actress had won during her career.
Darlene didn't pay much attention to the lecture though. The reason the late movie star had won so few was because they just didn't give awards to women who were only on the screen in the first place to draw in more paying male viewers. She had to wonder just how far Gloria Dunham could have gone if all of those movie producers had seen her as anything more than eye candy. Would that display case be overflowing with trophies and awards?
Letting her eyes wander around the room idly as she once more tuned out the tour guide's voice, Darlene started as she spotted something unexpected.
Standing at the back of the room, apparently entirely unnoticed by the rest of the tour group or the guide, was a strikingly attractive and buxom woman with platinum blonde hair, wearing a rather old fashioned dress. The woman seemed to be curious about Darlene as well as her big blue eyes were focused on her and her alone. Just as soon as their eyes met, the strange woman gave her a wide, friendly smile.
This woman looked uncannily like the very actress who once owned this home and Darlene simply couldn't understand why more of her fellow tourists weren't paying attention to the Gloria Dunham lookalike in their midst.
Now that she had been noticed, the woman started to move forward, drifting easily through the crowd packed into the parlor that day. Darlene was very surprised when everyone else in the room still paid no attention at all to the woman who was now weaving her way through the mass of people.
Glancing quickly at the man who was standing right beside her, she was even more surprised to see that her husband also didn't seem to have noticed the woman who was now closing in on them. Darlene didn't doubt her husband's fidelity, but she was well aware that Joe was a breast man and couldn't imagine a set like those escaping his attention.
It seemed so strange to her that nobody else was reacting to this woman who was dressed up like a dead actress, Darlene finally gave in and chose to draw her husband's attention to her to see what he thought. Giving him a nudge, Darlene nodded towards the approaching woman and spoke in a soft voice.
"Look at that, Joe. What do you think about that?"
Her husband looked in the direction she had indicated, but to her amazement it was very obvious that he did not see what she was trying to show him. "Uh, yeah, honey," he murmured, giving his wife a little squeeze. "That's very interesting."
Darlene just stared at him blankly for a long moment. How could he possibly not see that woman?! How was it that nobody at all in that room but her seemed to be able to see that woman?! It just didn't seem possible.
Turning back to where she had last seen the woman, Darlene let out a little gasp when she saw that the mysterious woman had seemingly vanished into thin air.
There was no possible way she could have left the room so quickly, no possible place where she might be hiding, and yet that Gloria Dunham lookalike was nowhere to be seen.
When the tour guide was finally ready to lead the little group on to their next destination in the old house, Darlene once again did not follow at first. Her eyes darting about and her head swinging, she did not even notice that everyone else was leaving as she scanned the room for any trace of that mysterious woman.
Once more, Joe finally had to slip an arm around his wife and actually steer her out of the room and after the rest of the group.
Darlene was still looking for that mysterious woman when she found herself being led into the old mansion's master bedroom. There was just no sign of her anywhere and so she was finally starting to relax. Joe couldn't have been more happy about this as his wife was starting to draw curious looks from the other tourists over the way she seemed to be frantically searching for something.
The tour guide walked over to one of the walls and pointed out all of the pictures that hung there, explaining that these were portraits of all of the people that Miss Dunham was closest to. Looking across the big canopy bed at all of those pictures, Darlene couldn't help but notice that each and every one of them was of a woman.
It was more support for the idea that Gloria Dunham was a lesbian, but of course nobody would ever know for sure since she had somehow kept so very much of her personal life not merely private, but almost completely secret.
Darlene glanced away for just an instant when the tour guide moved over to show them all just what sort of books populated the late actresses shelves, but her eyes soon wandered back to those far more interesting pictures. What she saw gave her a severe start.
That Gloria Dunham lookalike was back, stretched out ever so casually on the bed that stood between Darlene and the wall of pictures, her head propped up on one elbow. There was simply no possible way that she could have slipped into this room and arranged herself on the bed like that in the brief time that Darlene was looking away, and yet there she was. To her great surprise, she saw that the lookalike had changed out of her dress into something that certainly was more appropriate for the bedroom but not really for wearing in front of a crowd of strangers like this.
Darlene's jaw dropped as she stared at the luscious vision of buxom beauty relaxing on the bed in a lacy and rather insubstantial negligee, aiming an absolutely wicked smile back at her. Her nightgown really left absolutely nothing to the imagination and of course she had the figure of a porn star and so Darlene was very surprised when once again nobody else in the room even seemed to notice that she was there.
How could they possibly not see this practically nude woman who was sprawled on the bed right in front of them? It just wasn't possible!
Unlike everyone else apparently, the only thing Darlene could see at that moment was the beautiful woman on the bed and so she didn't notice when her husband drifted away from her side, moving over to the bookshelf to take a closer look at something.
Darlene stood as still as a statue, her heart pounding harder and harder and her breath coming faster and faster. This woman's big blue eyes were every bit as hypnotizing to her as those in the painting had been previously and, when this was combined with all of that mysterious woman's other delicious physical attributes, the effect on the housewife was extremely profound.