Monthly Archives: September 2019

Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on September 30, 2019 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1924 MGM picture “The Red Lily.” The new credits list “an original story written and directed by Fred Niblo.” Modern credits: Ramon Novarro, Enid Bennett (note: Niblo’s wife), Frank Currier, Mitchell Lewis, Risita Marstini, … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — Yamashiro

Posted on September 30, 2019 by lmharnisch

Photo: A postcard of the Bernheimer house, listed on EBay at $6. Note: This is an encore post from 2011. In Japanese, Yamashiro means castle on the hill. Standing in its original 1914 location, Yamashiro restaurant, the elegant dowager at … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Halloween Is Coming – Rethink Your Choices

Posted on September 27, 2019 by lmharnisch

Seriously. Dressing up like the victim of a grotesque murder doesn’t honor Elizabeth Short – or you.

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on September 23, 2019 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1966 Proteus Films release “The Shooting,” with Will Hutchins, Millie Perkins, Jack Nicholson, Warren Oates, Charles Eastman, Guy El Tsosie, Brandon Carroll, B.J. Merholz, Wally Moon, William Mackleprang and James Campbell. Photography by Gregory … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — A. L. ‘Whitey’ Schafer Simplifies Portraits

Posted on September 23, 2019 by lmharnisch

“Thou Shalt Not,” “Whitey” Schafer’s most famous image. Note: This is an encore post from 2013. In the very early days of the motion picture industry, stills photographers meant nothing to the moving picture companies. They asked their feature cameramen … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Halloween Costumes – Rethink Your Choices

Posted on September 17, 2019 by lmharnisch

Time for my annual reminder: Dressing up like the victim of a gruesome murder isn’t cool. It isn’t hip, not even ironically. Reconsider your choices; you still have time to be Harley Quinn or Mad Moxxi. Or for a change, … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on September 16, 2019 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1932 RKO picture “State’s Attorney,” with John Barrymore, Helen Twelvetrees, Jill Esmond, Ralph Ince, William Boyd, Albert Conti, Mary Duncan, Frederick Burton, C. Henry Gordon, Paul Hurst and Oscar Apfel. Associate producer James Kevin … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: North Hollywood Federal Savings and Loans Funds Business and Housing

Posted on September 16, 2019 by lmharnisch

North Hollywood Federal Savings and Loan, 1961, Valley Times Collection, L.A. Public Library. Originally designed to serve as a combination bank and office building, the former North Hollywood Federal Savings and Loan building at Riverside Drive and Lankershim Boulevard in … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on September 9, 2019 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1933 (copyright 1934) Universal picture “Counsellor at Law,” with John Barrymore, Bebe Daniels, Doris Kenyon, Isabel Jewell, Melvyn Douglas, Onslow Stevens, Thelma Todd, Clara Langsner, J. Hammond Dailey, Mayo Methot, Bobby Gordon, Malka Kornstein, … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Cinecon 55 Gets Hep to Fun Entertainment

Posted on September 9, 2019 by lmharnisch

A post for “Get Hep to Love,” listed on EBay at $17.98. The recently concluded 55th Annual Cinecon Film Festival featured a little something for every type of film lover, playing everything from silents to documentaries, television kinescopes, Vitaphone shorts, … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — Committee for the First Amendment Defends Free Speech

Posted on September 2, 2019 by lmharnisch

Herbert Biberman, one of the Hollywood 10, courtesy of Mary Mallory. Note: This is an encore post from 2014. In times of social uncertainty and economic malaise, those in fear often turn to discriminating, finger pointing, blame and stonewalling, claiming … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on September 2, 2019 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1949 Twentieth Century-Fox picture “The Fan,” with Jeanne Crain, Madeleine Carroll, George Sanders, Richard Greene, Martita Hunt, John Sutton, Hugh Dempster, Richard Ney and Virginia McDowall. Screenplay by Walter Reisch, Dorothy Parker and Ross … Continue reading →

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