Monthly Archives: November 2023

Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on November 27, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1949 Twentieth Century-Fox film Come to the Stable, with Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Elsa Lanchester, Thomas Gomez, Dorothy Patrick, Basil Ruysdael, Dooley Wilson, Regis Toomey and Mike Mazurki.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Agnes O’Malley Marx, Pioneering Film Publicist

Posted on November 27, 2023 by lmharnisch

Agnes O’Malley Marx in the Los Angeles Daily News, 1954. The early moving picture industry offered opportunity to diverse workers: immigrants, women, and people of color more easily found jobs and opportunities for growth and leadership in the new field. … Continue reading →

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L.A. Celebrates a Wartime Thanksgiving, 1943

Posted on November 23, 2023 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2013. 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 engaged … Continue reading →

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An 1890s Thanksgiving in the Kitchen

Posted on November 23, 2023 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2011. 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 for … Continue reading →

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George Hodel: Ask Me Anything, November 2023 / The George Hodel Bugging Transcripts

Posted on November 22, 2023 by lmharnisch

Here’s Boxy and I with this month’s “Ask Me Anything” on George Hodel. I talked about Steve Hodel’s Internet squabble with Esotouric and his bizarre new book “Black Dahlia Avenger IV.” Then I went over the LAPD guidelines for managing … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on November 20, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1943 Twentieth Century-Fox picture The Gang’s All Here, with Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Phil Baker, Benny Goodman and His Orchestra, Eugene Pallette, Charlotte Greenwood, Edward Everett Horton, Tony De Marco, James Ellison, Sheila Ryan … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory: Hollywood Heights – ‘Napoleon’

Posted on November 20, 2023 by lmharnisch

Photo: The trailer for the restored version of Abel Gance’s “Napoleon.” Credit: San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Note: This is an encore post from 2012. In the mid-1920s, the world was looking for inspiration on how to live passionately, doggedly … Continue reading →

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‘Ask Me Anything’ on George Hodel – November 21

Posted on November 15, 2023 by lmharnisch

Reminder: Boxy and I will be doing a live “Ask Me Anything” on George Hodel and Steve Hodel next Tuesday at 10 a.m. Pacific time on YouTube and Instagram.  This time, we’ll take a look at what’s going on in … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on November 13, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1947 Paramount film Welcome Stranger, with Bing Crosby, Joan Caulfield, Barry Fitzgerald, Wanda Hendrix, Frank Faylen, Elizabeth Patterson, Robert Shayne, Larry Young, Percy Kilbride, Charles Dingle and Don Beddoe.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Fred Archer, Master of Artistic Photography

Posted on November 13, 2023 by lmharnisch

Joan Bennett photographed by Fred Archer, Modern Screen Magazine. Note: This is an encore post from 2015 As stillsmen Elmer Fryer and Fred Archer wrote in the 1928 article for “Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers,” “In the … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Ask Me Anything, November 2023

Posted on November 8, 2023 by lmharnisch

Here’s this month’s Ask Me Anything on the Black Dahlia case. I talked about the Cleveland Torso Killings and why they aren’t related to the murder of Elizabeth Short. I also took an extended look at John Gilmore’s dreadful Severed, … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Mona Darkfeather – Native American Who Wasn’t

Posted on November 6, 2023 by lmharnisch

Long before Iron Eyes Cody was outed as non-Native American, silent film actress Josephine Workman claimed full Native American heritage, though only her maternal grandmother was actually Native American. Accentuating her dark, exotic looks and embroidered background, she took the … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on November 6, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1946 Eagle Lion picture Caesar and Cleopatra, with Vivien Leigh, Claude Rains, Stewart Granger, Flora Robson, Francis Sullivan, Basil Sydney, Cecil Parker, Ernest Thesiger, Michael Rennie, Antony Eustrel, Robert Adams, Raymond Lovell, Olga Edwardes, … Continue reading →

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