Category Archives: 1956

Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on May 5, 2025 by lmharnisch

For Monday, we have a very sleepy mystery guest. Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on May 27, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1956 United Artists film Comanche, with Dana Andrews, Kent Smith, Nestor Paiva, Henry Brandon, Stacey Harris, John Litel, Lowell Gilmore, Mike Mazurki and Tony Carbajal. Introducing Miss Linda Cristal. And Reed Sherman.

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on May 20, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1956 Twentieth Century-Fox film 23 Paces to Baker Street, with Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker, Patricia Laffan, Maurice Denham, Estelle Winwood, Liam Redmond, Isobel Elsom, Martin Benson, Natalie Norwick and Terence de Marney.

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on September 4, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1956 Paramount picture The Mountain, with Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Claire Trevor, William Demarest, Barbara Darrow, Richard Arlen, E.G. Marshall, Anna Kashfi, Richard Garrick, Harry Townes, Stacy Harris and Yves Brainville.

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on July 17, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1956 Universal picture A Day of Fury, with Dale Robertson, Jock Mahoney, Mara Corday, Carl Benton Reid, Jan Merlin, John Dehner, Dee Carroll, Sheila Bromley, James Bell, Dani Crayne, Howard Wendell, Charles Cane, Phil … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on June 26, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1956 Columbia picture Hot Blood, with Jane Russell, Cornel Wilde, Luther Adler, Joseph Calleia, Mikhail Rasumny, Nina Koshetz, Helen Westcott, Jamie Russell, Wally Russell, Nick Dennis and Richard Deacon.

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on January 2, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1956 film The Scarlet Hour, with Carol Ohmart, Tom Tryon, Jody Lawrance, James Gregory, Elaine Stritch, E.G. Marshall, Edward Binns, David Lewis, Billy Gray, Jacques Aubuchon, Scott Marlowe, Johnstone White, James F. Stone, Maureen … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on September 27, 2021 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery entry was The Last Letter, Season 5, Episode 7 of Death Valley Days from 1956, with William Pullen, Clint Eastwood, Forrest Stanley, George Pembroke, Russ Todd, John Sargent, Gregg Barton and Robert Sherman. Directed by Stuart E. … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on August 30, 2021 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1956 film Patterns, with Van Heflin, Everett Sloane, Ed Begley, Beatrice Straight, Elizabeth Wilson, Joanna Roos, Valerie Cossart, Eleni Kiamos, Ronnie Welsh, Shirley Standlee, Andrew Duggan, Jack Livesy, John Seymour, James Kelly, John Shelly, … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + + +)

Posted on August 24, 2020 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1956 film “The Long Arm” (also known as “The Third Key,”) with Jack Hawkins, John Stratton, Dorothy Alison, Geoffrey Keen, Ursula Howells, Newton Blick, Sydney Tafler, Ralph Truman, Maureen Delany, Richard Leech, Meredith Edwards, … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on December 2, 2019 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1956 Warner Bros. film “A Cry in the Night,” with Edmond O’Brien, Brian Donlevy, Natalie Wood, Raymond Burr, Richard Anderson, Irene Hervey, Carol Vezzie, Mary Lawrence, Anthony Caruso, George J. Lewis, Peter Hanson, Tina … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on August 12, 2019 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1956 MGM picture “The Opposite Sex,” with June Allyson, Joan Collins, Dolores Gray, Ann Sheridan,  Ann Miller, Leslie Nielsen, Jeff Richards, Agnes Moorehead, Charlotte Greenwood, Joan Blondell, Sam Levene, Harry James, Art Mooney, Dick … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Cecil B. DeMille – Big Man on Campus

Posted on January 30, 2017 by lmharnisch

  Cecil B. DeMille meets students who will attend DeMille Junior High School, Long Beach Press-Telegram, Sept. 9, 1956. Schools are often named after historic or famous figures that offer inspiration, hope, and good examples to students of that neighborhood … Continue reading →

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Harvey Glatman: The Early Years — Part 4

Posted on January 9, 2014 by lmharnisch

Aug. 26, 1946: Harvey Glatman is arraigned, published in the Knickerbocker News of Albany, N.Y. In case you just tuned in, I did quite a bit of research on the early years of serial killer Harvey M. Glatman for an … Continue reading →

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Man Held in Killing of Ex-Marine — Part 2

Posted on August 14, 2013 by lmharnisch

As strange as the tale of Michael Timothy Cavanaugh had been, the case became even more bizarre once he was arrested. After several days of denying that he knew ex-Marine Ralph Welch, even though he was driving Welch’s car and … Continue reading →

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Found on EBay – Another Good Story Ruined

Posted on November 16, 2012 by lmharnisch

A vendor on EBay has listed this AP photo from New York as showing Ralph von Hiltz, the “murderer of Black Dahlia.” (Price: $25.44). This is just another crackpot confession. The Times reported in 1956 that then-Chief of Detectives Thad … Continue reading →

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Our lawless city

Posted on January 1, 2008 by lmharnisch

<p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p><p>lapd_crime_stats</p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p></p> Los Angeles Police Department Crime Statistics Offense 1956 1957 Increase/Decrease Homicide 104 119 +14.4% Rape 1,056 1,271 +20.4% Robbery 3,548 4,269 +20.3% Aggravated Assault 5,315 5,786 +8.9% Burglary 22,799 26,887 +17.9 Larceny (Except Auto Theft) 45,276 50,173 +10.8% Auto … Continue reading →

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