Category Archives: 1944

1944 on the Radio — NBC Symphony Orchestra, November 5, 1944

Posted on November 5, 2025 by lmharnisch

November 5, 1944: Arturo Toscanini conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3. Continue reading →

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October 20, 1944: MACARTHUR IN PHILIPPINES

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October 20, 1944: MacArthur in Philippines. Continue reading →

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1944 on the Radio – NBC Symphony With Marian Anderson, October 15, 1944

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October 15, 1944: Marian Anderson performs with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Continue reading →

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1944 in Print — Hollywood News and Gossip by Louella Parsons, October 14, 1944

Posted on October 14, 2025 by lmharnisch

October 14, 1944: Danton Walker says: David Sarnoff, RCA president, predicts a television gadget that will be worn on the wrist but contains a practical television screen. Continue reading →

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1944 on the Radio — Kay Kyser’s Kollege of Musical Knowledge

Posted on October 11, 2025 by lmharnisch

October 11, 1944: Kay Kyser’s Kollege of Musical Knowledge from the U.S. Naval Air Station at Alameda. Continue reading →

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1944 in Print — Hollywood News and Gossip by Louella Parsons, October 10, 1944

Posted on October 10, 2025 by lmharnisch

October 10, 1944: Now it is Carole Landis wealthy Al Vanderbilt is beauing to the nightspots. Apparently he and K.T. Stevens are no longer romancing, for he is seeing the ex-Mrs. Wallace every eve, Louella Parsons says. Continue reading →

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1944 in Print — Hollywood News and Gossip by Louella Parsons, October 9, 1944

Posted on October 9, 2025 by lmharnisch

October 9, 1944: Wendell Willkie* didn’t know the real reason for his hospitalization. Intimates persuaded news and air reporters to “play it down.” … When the flash of his passing reached midtown spots at 2:30 Sunday ayem — it sent many people home depressed, Walter Winchell says. Continue reading →

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1944 in Print — Hollywood News and Gossip by Louella Parsons, October 8, 1944

Posted on October 8, 2025 by lmharnisch

October 8, 1944: The first official visit Effie Klinker, Edgar Bergen’s new wooden spinster, made was to Louella Parsons. Continue reading →

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1944 in Print — Hollywood News and Gossip by Louella Parsons, October 7, 1944

Posted on October 7, 2025 by lmharnisch

October 7, 1944: One thing about Preston Sturges, he doesn’t underrate his own talents. He was approached recently to act as commentator on a radio show. “Yes I am interested,” drawled Sturges, “providing you give me a two-hour show and build a theater for me,” Louella Parsons says. Continue reading →

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1944 in Print — Hollywood News and Gossip by Louella Parsons, October 3, 1944

Posted on October 3, 2025 by lmharnisch

October 3, 1944: Danton Walker says: Complaints of civilians who have had to wait while Nazi prisoners are fed in dining cars have resulted in a new ruling; hereafter the prisoners must remain in their guarded cars and eat out of waxed paper boxes. Continue reading →

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1944 in Print — Hollywood News and Gossip by Louella Parsons, October 2, 1944

Posted on October 2, 2025 by lmharnisch

October 2, 1944: Danton Walter says: Part of the campaign to eliminate Nazi influence in the postwar world is an order from Washington to commanding generals to destroy all films made in Germany since 1933, Danton Walter says. Continue reading →

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1944 in Print — Hollywood News and Gossip by Louella Parsons, October 1, 1944

Posted on October 1, 2025 by lmharnisch

October 1, 1944: The always unpredictable and exciting Maria Montez never fails to come through with some unexpected and dramatic episode when I talk to her, Louella Parsons says. Continue reading →

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1944 in Print — Hollywood News and Gossip by Louella Parsons, September 30, 1944

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September 30, 1944: Lucille Ball, since her separation from Desi Arnaz, has gone to live in the Hollywood home of Jody and Renee (DeMarco) Hutchinson, Danton Walker says. Continue reading →

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1944 on the Radio — Kay Kyser’s Kollege of Musical Knowledge: September 27, 1944

Posted on September 27, 2025 by lmharnisch

September 27, 1944: On the radio: Kay Kyser’s College of Musical Knowledge, with Phil Harris filling in. Continue reading →

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1944 in Print — Hollywood News and Gossip by Louella Parsons, September 26, 1944

Posted on September 26, 2025 by lmharnisch

September 26, 1944: Hollywood’s fear of emphasizing the war angle of war pictures that not a single shot is fired in “Abroad With Two Yanks,” Danton Walker says. Continue reading →

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1944 in Print — Hollywood News and Gossip by Louella Parsons, September 25, 1944

Posted on September 25, 2025 by lmharnisch

September 25, 1944: All the battles Sam Goldwyn had with Warner Bros. over rights to “Those Endearing Charms” will come to naught. When he purchased the play it was taken to the Dramatists Guild for a settlement on the claim Sam had bought it before Warners. Now he’s sold it through his agent to RKO, Louella Parsons says. Continue reading →

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1944 in Print — Life Magazine, September 25, 1944

Posted on September 25, 2025 by lmharnisch

September 25, 1944: Claire Poe of Miami Beach, Fla., appears on the cover of Life’s special issue “A Letter to GIs,” because she is the kind of good-looking American girl that a lot of GIs know and would like to hear from. Continue reading →

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1944 in Print — Hollywood News and Gossip by Louella Parsons, September 24, 1944

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September 24, 1944: Why is young Van Johnson the idol of the bobby sox brigade and at this moment crowding Frank Sinatra and Alan Ladd for top honors? Van isn’t handsome, he hasn’t a striking physique and he hasn’t Frankie’s ability to sing, Louella Parsons says. Continue reading →

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1944 in Print — Hollywood News and Gossip by Louella Parsons, September 23, 1944

Posted on September 23, 2025 by lmharnisch

September 23, 1944: I don’t wonder William Goetz is eager to get Loretta Young started before the cameras. She looks so wonderful since the birth of her baby, and so radiant. He has decided to co-star her with Gary Cooper in Gary’s first independent production, a western, tentatively titled “The American Cowboy,” Louella Parsons says. Continue reading →

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1944 in Print — Hollywood News and Gossip by Louella Parsons, September 19, 1944

Posted on September 19, 2025 by lmharnisch

September 19, 1944: Jennifer Jones makes her next movie for Hal Wallis. David Selznick read the script by Ayn Rand, liked it, and told Hal that Jennifer was free to start any time. So apparently the trouble with 20th is all settled…. Wonder what happened to “Fountainhead” if it is to be filmed? Louella Parsons says. Continue reading →

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