Monthly Archives: April 2014

Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — TCM Classic Film Festival Highlights the Glory Days of American Cinema

Posted on April 15, 2014 by lmharnisch

Carl Davis conducts an orchestra for “Why Worry?” at the TCM festival. Photograph by Tyler Golden / Turner Entertainment Networks.   Blending popular, timeless films with bountiful celebrity appearances, the TCM Classic Film Festival gloriously salutes the epoch of classic … Continue reading →

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1944 in Print — Hollywood Gossip by Louella Parsons, April 15, 1944

Posted on April 15, 2014 by lmharnisch

April 15, 1944 EIGHTEEN YEAR OLD PATRICIA MUNZEL*, the singing thrush from Spokane, who got herself into the Metropolitan by winning an audition, has a Hollywood job. She is signing a contract with Jack Warner that will pay her in … Continue reading →

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1944 in Print — Hollywood by Sidney Skolsky, April 15, 1944

Posted on April 15, 2014 by lmharnisch

April 15, 1944 Some quotations from the Motion Picture Herald, including this about “Princess O’Rourke.” I played this fine picture on Sunday-Monday to just fair business and had more raves about it than anything I played in years. Maybe  it … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Lily DuTertre and Wikipedia

Posted on April 15, 2014 by lmharnisch

Unless you prowl the outer fringes of the publishing industry, you may have never heard of Lily DuTertre, who is an avid compiler of “high quality Wikipedia articles” into books. Like this one on unsolved murders, selling for $26.68.

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Movieland Mystery Photo ( Updated + + + + )

Posted on April 14, 2014 by lmharnisch

This is the 1972 film “Pulp,” starring Michael Caine. Notice that imdb is not always reliable: “Michael King is a seedy writer of sleazy pulp genre novels under a half dozen sensational pseudonyms whose ambition is to dictate 10,000 words … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — Play ball! Motion Picture Studios Play Baseball

Posted on April 14, 2014 by lmharnisch

The Selig baseball team, courtesy of the Collections of the Margaret Herrick Library Long before there was radio, television, the Internet, social media, computer games or rotisserie leagues, major league baseball dominated the American landscape. For decades, it filled newspaper … Continue reading →

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Ghost Bike — Pasadena

Posted on April 11, 2014 by lmharnisch

This is one of the “ghost bikes” that have cropped up around the Los Angeles area as memorials to bicyclists who have been killed. Steve Lopez writes about ghost bikes.

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1944 in Print — Hollywood Gossip by Louella Parsons, April 11, 1944

Posted on April 11, 2014 by lmharnisch

April 11, 1944 HOLLYWOOD, APRIL 10 — So many movies are mentioned for Cary Grant that when I hear he is to make a picture I say, “Does Cary know it?” This time he does know he is to star … Continue reading →

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1944 in Print — Hollywood by Sidney Skolsky, April 11, 1944

Posted on April 11, 2014 by lmharnisch

April 11, 1944 HOLLYWOOD, April 11 — Greer Garson’s underwear scene in “Mrs. Parkington” is giving the Hayes office a problem. From the Miami News.  

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1970s VHS Nostalgia — ‘Saturday Night Live,’ 1978

Posted on April 10, 2014 by lmharnisch

I recently watched an episode of “Saturday Night Live” (guest star Jill Clayburgh) that I taped in 1978, and I found rather sad. Out of the four people in this skit, only Bill Murray is still alive. John Belushi, Clayburgh … Continue reading →

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1944 in Print — Life Magazine, April 10, 1944

Posted on April 10, 2014 by lmharnisch

April 10, 1944 Life’s cover story is Air Chief Marshal Arthur T. Harris, who backed the theory of mass bombing. The movie of the weeks is “Buffalo Bill,” starring Joel McCrea. Life visits the home “in the majestic setting of … Continue reading →

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1944 on the Radio — ‘The Lone Ranger’

Posted on April 10, 2014 by lmharnisch

April 10, 1944: Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear! “The Lone Ranger.” Courtesy of otronmp3.com.

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Books From the Slush Pile: ‘Kitty Genovese’ by Catherine Pelonero

Posted on April 10, 2014 by lmharnisch

The reject pile! Aspiring authors, avert thine eyes! This is a sample of review copies that are cast aside in bins to be rummaged through by the staff. Usually they are contemporary genre fiction (“50 Shades of Stealing Maps for … Continue reading →

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1944 in Print — Hollywood Gossip by Louella Parsons, April 10, 1944

Posted on April 10, 2014 by lmharnisch

Here’s another political cartoon by Edmund Waller “Ted” Gale, formerly of The Times, who moved to the Examiner. “There’s a Burma Girl a-Settin’ ” refers to the poem “Mandalay” by Rudyard Kipling. April 10, 1944 JUST THE DAY BEFORE JOAN … Continue reading →

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1944 in Print — Hollywood by Sidney Skolsky, April 9, 1944

Posted on April 9, 2014 by lmharnisch

April 9, 1944 Sidney Skolsky says: In “Objective Burma,” there is a soldier named Cesar Negulesco who is described as being “very concerned about his lack of experience with women,” which is a rib directed at wolf Jean Negulesco. From … Continue reading →

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1944 in Print — Hollywood Gossip by Louella Parsons, April 9, 1944

Posted on April 9, 2014 by lmharnisch

April 9, 1944 “A man is downstairs with a black eye,” announced Collins, my butler, who in the nine years he has been with me has seen many stars come through that front door. From the Milwaukee Sentinel.

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LAPD Scrapbook: Rodger Young Village

Posted on April 9, 2014 by lmharnisch

I stumbled across this photo in going through the LAPD scrapbooks at the city archives. This is Rodger Young Village, built for returning veterans due to the acute housing shortage in Los Angeles. This site is now occupied by the … Continue reading →

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LAPD Scrapbook: L.A. Crime Wave, March 8, 1946

Posted on April 9, 2014 by lmharnisch

I recently visited the city archives and thanks to archivist Michael Holland, I learned that the LAPD kept scrapbooks in the 1940s. This is an editorial from the California Grocers Journal, which says: At one time police brutality was common … Continue reading →

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1944 in Print — Hollywood Gossip by Louella Parsons, April 8, 1944

Posted on April 8, 2014 by lmharnisch

Why look! It’s our old friend cartoonist Edmund Waller “Ted” Gale, who left The Times to go to the Los Angeles Examiner. In 1944, April 8 was Holy Saturday and the papers are full of stories and ads for Easter. … Continue reading →

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LAPD Parker Center Cop Shop Files

Posted on April 8, 2014 by lmharnisch

In 2013, I was given a box of material that was cleaned out of the old press room at the LAPD’s Parker Center headquarters, sometimes called “the cop shop.” The box was a jumble of press releases, photographs, artists’ sketches … Continue reading →

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