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Category Archives: 1938
Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights – 1938 Floods Wreak Havoc on Los Angeles Area
Flooding in North Hollywood, courtesy of Mary Mallory. Note: This is an encore post from 2013. Seventy-five years ago, a deluge of rain hit Los Angeles and the surrounding area, leading to massive floods and causing millions of dollars … Continue reading
Posted in 1938, Mary Mallory, Pasadena, San Fernando Valley
Tagged 1938, flooding, Los Angeles River, Pasadena, San Fernando Valley
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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)
This week’s mystery movie was the 1938 Warner Bros. film Gold Is Where You Find It, with George Brent, Olivia de Havilland, Claude Rains, Margaret Lindsay, John Litel, Marcia Ralston, Barton MacLane, Tim Holt, Sidney Toler, Henry O’Neill, Willie Best, … Continue reading
Posted in 1938, Film, Hollywood, Mystery Photo
Tagged #George Brent, #Olivia de Havilland, 1938, film, hollywood, Michael Curtiz, mystery photo, Warner Bros.
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Christmas House Offers Simple Family Joys of Holiday Season
The Christmas House in Boyle Heights, courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library. Note: This is an encore post from 2019. Long before the inauguration of Instagram and trying to win social media by posting the most elaborate or flashy … Continue reading
Posted in 1938, Architecture, Film, Fire Department, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Nuestro Pueblo
Tagged 1938, Boyle Heights, Christmas House, film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory
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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)
This week’s mystery movie was the 1938 Warner Bros. picture The Beloved Brat, with Bonita Granville, Dolores Costello, Donald Crisp, Natalie Moorhead, Lucile Gleason, Donald Briggs, Emmett Vogan, Loia Cheaney, Leo Gorcey, Ellen Lowe, Mary Doyle, Paul Everton, Bernice Pilot, … Continue reading
Posted in 1938, Film, Hollywood, Mystery Photo
Tagged 1938, Bonita Granville, Dolores Costello, film, hollywood, mystery photo, Warner Bros.
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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)
This week’s mystery movie was the 1938 Twentieth Century-Fox film “In Old Chicago,” with Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, Don Ameche, Alice Brady, Andy Devine, Brian Donlevy, Phyllis Brooks, Tom Brown, Sidney Blackmer, Berton Churchill, June Storey and Paul Hurst. Directed … Continue reading
Posted in 1938, Film, Hollywood, Mystery Photo
Tagged #Don Ameche, #Tyrone Power, Alice Faye, film, Henry King, hollywood, mystery cow, mystery photo, Twentieth Century-Fox
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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)
This week’s mystery movie was the 1938 Warner Bros. film “Secrets of an Actress,” with Kay Francis, George Brent, Ian Hunter, Gloria Dickson, Isabel Jeans, Penny Singleton, Dennie Moore, Selmer Jackson, Herbert Rawlinson, Emmet Vogan and James B. Carson. Directed … Continue reading
Posted in 1938, Film, Hollywood, Mystery Photo
Tagged #George Brent, 1938, film, hollywood, Ian Hunter, Kay Francis, mystery photo, Warner Bros.
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Christmas House Offers Simple Family Joys of Holiday Season
The Christmas House in Boyle Heights, courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library. Note: This is an encore post from 2019. Long before the inauguration of Instagram and trying to win social media by posting the most elaborate or flashy … Continue reading
Posted in 1938, Architecture, Film, Fire Department, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Nuestro Pueblo
Tagged 1938, Boyle Heights, Christmas House, film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory
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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)
This week’s mystery movie was the 1938 RKO picture “Condemned Women,” with Sally Eilers, Louis Hayward, Anne Shirley, Esther Dale, Lee Patrick, Leona Roberts, George Irving, Richard Bond, Netta Packer, Rita LaRoy and Florence Lake. Musical direction by Roy Webb, … Continue reading
Posted in 1938, Film, Hollywood, Mystery Photo
Tagged #Louis Hayward, #prisons, #RKO, 1938, Anne Shirley, Esther Dale, film, hollywood, Lew Landers, mystery photo, Sally Eilers
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights – 1938 Floods Wreak Havoc on Los Angeles Area
Flooding in North Hollywood, courtesy of Mary Mallory. Note: This is an encore post from 2013. Seventy-five years ago, a deluge of rain hit Los Angeles and the surrounding area, leading to massive floods and causing millions of dollars … Continue reading
Posted in 1938, Mary Mallory, Pasadena, San Fernando Valley
Tagged 1938, flooding, Los Angeles River, Pasadena, San Fernando Valley
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Christmas House Offers Simple Family Joys of Holiday Season
The Christmas House in Boyle Heights, courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library. Long before the inauguration of Instagram and trying to win social media by posting the most elaborate or flashy photo, George G. Skinner designed a homespun holiday … Continue reading
Posted in 1938, Architecture, Film, Fire Department, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Nuestro Pueblo
Tagged 1938, Boyle Heights, Christmas House, film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory
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Dec. 2, 1938: California’s First Use of Gas Chamber Horrifies Witnesses; Hanging Is ‘Quicker and Better’
Note: This is an encore post from 2005 and originally appeared on the 1947project. The Times editorialized: Kessel and Cannon were two of five convicts who twisted a wire around the warden’s neck and dragged him into the prison … Continue reading
Posted in 1938, Crime and Courts, Homicide
Tagged #Gas Chamber, 1938, Albert kessel, executions, Robert Lee Cannon
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights – 1938 Floods Wreak Havoc on Los Angeles Area
Flooding in North Hollywood, courtesy of Mary Mallory. Note: This is an encore post from 2013. Seventy-five years ago, a deluge of rain hit Los Angeles and the surrounding area, leading to massive floods and causing millions of dollars … Continue reading
Posted in 1938, Mary Mallory, Pasadena, San Fernando Valley
Tagged 1938, flooding, Los Angeles River, Pasadena, San Fernando Valley
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Holocaust Remembrance Day
This is an especially appropriate day to recall the editorial stand of the Los Angeles Times in the 1930s toward European refugees. In a March 30, 1938, editorial, The Times opposed wholesale admission of European refugees, saying that they would … Continue reading
‘Laura’ – The Making of a Film Noir Classic, Part 47
Jay Dratler in a photo from the jacket of his novel “The Pitfall,” listed on EBay at $245. In his discussion of the making of “Laura” in “Behind the Scenes,” film scholar Rudy Behlmer quickly dispenses with Jay Dratler, who … Continue reading
‘Laura’ — The Making of a Film Noir Classic, Part 10
For those who just tuned in, I’m using Louella Parsons’ May 15, 1944, item on Rouben Mamoulian being replaced as director of “Laura” to take a meandering look at the making of the film. We have been focusing on a … Continue reading
Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: ‘Too Much Johnson’ Introduces Orson Welles’ Talent
Joseph Cotten, left, in “Too Much Johnson.” The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Los Angeles County Museum of Art opened their salute to Orson Welles Saturday, May 3, 2014, by screening the first films ever made … Continue reading
Posted in 1938, Film, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Preservation
Tagged #Orson Welles, 1938, film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Too Much Johnson
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Studio City Revolves Around Movies
The Studio City Theatre, courtesy of Mary Mallory. Celebrities and movies have existed as an integral part of Studio City’s economic life from its very beginning. Established as a motion picture district in 1928, Studio City would see entertainment-related businesses … Continue reading
Posted in 1938, Film, Hollywood, San Fernando Valley, Theaters
Tagged 1938. film, hollywood, San Fernando Valley, theaters
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Christmas on the Radio — Jack Benny
Jack Benny at the microphone, a photo listed on EBay for $9.97. Here are some of Jack Benny’s Christmas shows, courtesy of Archive.org. From 1936 | 1938 | 1941 | 1944 | 1947 | 1948
Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights – 1938 Floods Wreak Havoc on Los Angeles Area
Flooding in North Hollywood, courtesy of Mary Mallory. Seventy-five years ago, a deluge of rain hit Los Angeles and the surrounding area, leading to massive floods and causing millions of dollars in damage and a devastating loss of life. Many … Continue reading
Posted in 1938, Mary Mallory, Pasadena, San Fernando Valley
Tagged 1938, flooding, Los Angeles River, Pasadena, San Fernando Valley
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