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Monthly Archives: November 2016
Daily Mirror Christmas Buying Guide: Scary Clown Clock to Terrify Baby Boomers
Photo of the Abbotwares Bozo clock via EBay. If you are tired of misty-eyed Baby Boomer nostalgia, this may be for you. I have written before about Abbotwares radios (often rendered as Abbotware). You may recall “Atwater Kent’s Love Child … Continue reading
Posted in Found on EBay, Television
Tagged #EBay, Abbotwares, Bozo the Clown, Insane Clown Posse
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Eve Golden’s YouTube Theater: That Girl In The Satin Dress! She Kills Me!
A poster for “Rufus Jones for President.” Note: Eve has discontinued her YouTube Theater, but has consented to have me post the entries she has already written. Ever see Rufus Jones for President? Calling it “quite a pip” … Continue reading
Posted in African Americans, Eve Golden, Film, Hollywood
Tagged Ethel Waters, Eve Golden, Sammy Davis Jr., Vitaphone, YouTube Theater
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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)
This week’s mystery movie has been the 1933 Warner Bros. film “The Silk Express,” with Neil Hamilton, Sheila Terry, Arthur Byron, Guy Kibbee, Dudley Digges, Arthur Hohl, Allen Jenkins, Harold Huber, George Pat Collins, Robert Barrat, Vernon Steele and Ivan … Continue reading
Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Celebrities’ Sons Become Photographers
Carlyle Blackwell Jr.,Bryant Washburn Jr., Elsie Ferguson II and Erich von Stroheim Jr. shown in Motion Picture Herald, 1933. When it comes to careers, many children follow in the footsteps of their parents, either through family tradition or because it … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Photography
Tagged Carlyle Blackwell Jr., film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Peter Gowland, photography
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L.A. Celebrates a Wartime Thanksgiving, 1943
Note: This is a post from 2013. Happy Thanksgiving! A wartime Thanksgiving in Los Angeles, with many service personnel welcomed into people’s homes for a holiday meal. The Times published cooking tips for war workers, advising cooks who were otherwise … Continue reading
Posted in 1943, Food and Drink, World War II
Tagged #Thanksgiving, 1943, World War II
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An 1890s Thanksgiving in the Kitchen
Note: This is a repost from 2011. Happy Thanksgiving! Here’s a traditional roast turkey recipe from the “Every-Day Cook-Book and Family Compendium,” written about 1890 by Miss E. Neill. Be sure your fire is bright and clear and watch out … Continue reading
Posted in 1890, Food and Drink, From the Stacks
Tagged #1890s, #cookbooks, #recipes, #Thanksgiving, #turkey
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Eve Golden’s YouTube Theater: ‘I Will Be Really Impressed If You’ve Heard of Billie Carleton’
Billie Carlton in a Pathe newsreel. Note: Eve has discontinued her YouTube Theater, but has consented to have me post the entries she has already written. Well, have you? She was a rising British stage starlet in the 1910s … Continue reading
Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: North Hollywood Department Stores Appeal to Common Man
Rathbuns enlarges its Baby Shop for new generation of Baby Boomers, Van Nuys News, March 8 1951. As a city or community grows more prosperous, so does its retail establishments. Simple businesses with few choices of product give way … Continue reading
Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)
This week’s mystery movie has been the 1940 MGM film “And One Was Beautiful,” with Robert Cummings, Laraine Day, Jean Muir, Billie Burke, Ann Morriss, Esther Dale, Charles Waldron, Frank Milan, Rand Brooks, Paul Stanton and Ruth Tobey. It was … Continue reading
Black Dahlia and the Hotel Cecil: L.A.’s Noir Folklore
The Guardian has jumped into it again with the Black Dahlia case, finding that it can’t resist the yarn about Elizabeth Short “rumored to have had her last drink at the hotel bar.” The Guardian, in case you don’t recall, … Continue reading
Posted in 1947, Another Good Story Ruined, Black Dahlia, Cold Cases, LAPD
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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)
This week’s mystery movie has been the 1943 film “The Kansan,” with Richard Dix, Jane Wyatt, Albert Dekker, Eugene Pallette, Victor Jory, Robert Armstrong, Beryl Wallace, Clem Bevans, Hobart Cavanaugh, Francis McDonald, Willie Best, Douglas Fowley, Rod Cameron, Eddy Waller … Continue reading
Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Ravenswood Apartments Attract the Stylish
Mae West in her boudoir at the Ravenswood, Life magazine, Feb. 19, 1940. Note: This is an encore presentation of a post from 2014. Built during the early years of the Great Depression, the luxurious Ravenswood Apartment building at 570 … Continue reading
Posted in 1930, Architecture, Film, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory
Tagged 1930, architecture, film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mae West, Mary Mallory
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In the Steps of Raymond Chandler: L.A. Mystery Quotes (Updated +)
To accompany my piece on James Ellroy, Michael Connelly and The Wrong Side of Goodbye at the L.A. Review of Books, here are eleven mystery writers strolling Los Angeles in the shadow of Raymond Chandler. Can you identify the authors? … Continue reading
Eve Golden’s YouTube Theater: Talking About Talkies
A program for “The Jazz Singer” at Chicago’s Garrick Theatre (d. 1960), listed on EBay at $141.53. If you tell me that The Jazz Singer was “the first talkie,” I will have to punch you in the throat. I know … Continue reading
Posted in Eve Golden, Film, Hollywood
Tagged Eve Golden, film, hollywood, talking pictures, The Jazz Singer
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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)
This week’s mystery movie has been the 1928 MGM film “The Viking,” with Pauline Starke, Donald Crisp, LeRoy Mason, with a screenplay by Jack Cunningham from Ottilie A. Liljencrantz’s “The Thrall of Leif the Lucky.” The film was produced by … Continue reading
Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: ‘The House I Live In’ Promotes Tolerance
Though the United States is a nation of immigrants, in times of trouble people act of fear and ignorance, hating and blaming the other for their problems. Throughout the country’s history, in times of economic problems, the newest immigrant … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory
Tagged Academy Awards, film, Frank Sinatra, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory
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A Reminder From Pier Angeli and Friend
Pier Angeli and her little friend remind Daily Mirror readers to turn back their clocks this Sunday.
Eve Golden’s YouTube Theater: The Party’s Over Now
A Belgian poster for “Humoresque,” listed on EBay for $6.99. I am going to spoil two films for you, so stop reading now if you have not seen What Price Hollywood? (1932) and Humoresque (1946). Lowell Sherman and … Continue reading
Posted in Eve Golden, Film, Hollywood
Tagged #Joan Crawford, Eve Golden, film, hollywood, Humoresque, Lowell Sherman, What Price Hollywood, YouTube Theater
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