Category Archives: Film

Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Yutaka Abe, ‘DeMille of Japan,’ Started in U.S. Silent Films

Posted on May 6, 2024 by lmharnisch

Jack (Yutaka) Abe in an ad for Mystic Faces in Film Daily, Sept. 1, 1918. Note: This is an encore post from 2022. Virtually unknown today, young Yutaka Abe gained fame in the American silent film industry after immigrating to … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on May 6, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1936 Republic picture The Lawless Nineties, with John Wayne, Ann Rutherford, Harry Woods, George Hayes, Al Bridge, Snowflake, Etta McDaniel, Tom Brower, Cliff Lyons, Jack Rockwell, Al Taylor, Charles King, George Chesebro, Tracy Layne, … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on April 29, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1938 MGM film Of Human Hearts, with Walter Huston, James Stewart, Gene Reynolds, Beulah Bondi, Guy Kibbee, Charles Coburn, John Carradine, Ann Rutherford, Leatrice Joy Gilbert, Charley Grapewin, Leona Roberts, Gene Lockhart, Clem Bevans, … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Clara Bow’s 1920s Home for Sale, a Cozy Cottage for Star of Silent Films

Posted on April 23, 2024 by lmharnisch

Clara Bow’s former rental at 7576 Hollywood Blvd. is on the market for $1.3 million. Hollywood homes can show a star’s character just as much as any candid portrait. Ostentatious or understated, hip or homey, residences serve as a snapshot … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on April 22, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1944 Universal picture Can’t Help Singing, with Deanna Durbin, Robert Paige, Akim Tamiroff, David Bruce, Leonid Kinskey, June Vincent, Ray Collins, Andrew Tombes, Thomas Gomez, Clara Blandick, Olin Howlin and George Cleveland.

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on April 15, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1954 film Black Tuesday, with Edward G. Robinson, Jean Parker, Peter Graves, Milburn Stone, Warren Stevens, Sylvia Findley, Jack Kelly, Hal Baylor, James Bell, Victor Perrin and Russell Johnson.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: The Flapper Speaks to American Women

Posted on April 15, 2024 by lmharnisch

The Flapper – via Wikipedia. Note: This is an encore post from 2013. Life changed quickly in the United States post-World War I. Nowhere was this more evident than in the role and actions of young women emancipating themselves from … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + +)

Posted on April 8, 2024 by lmharnisch

For Monday, we have a mystery fellow. His slumbering mystery companion has been cropped out because even asleep he lacks sufficient mysteriousness.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Darkness Has No Borders at Noir City Hollywood

Posted on April 8, 2024 by lmharnisch

Never Open That Door (1952), shown at Noir City Hollywood. Wonderful programming choices highlighted the 25th Anniversary of Noir City at Hollywood’s Netflix Egyptian Theatre displayed depravity, darkness, and deceit across the world, truly demonstrating that “darkness has no borders.”. … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo–April Fools’ Day Edition (Updated + + + +)

Posted on April 1, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s April Fools’ mystery movie was the 1964 Woodfall film Girl With Green Eyes, with Peter Finch, Rita Tushingham, Maire Kean, Arthur O’Sullivan, Julian Glover, T.P. McKenna, Lislott Goettinger, Patrick Laffan and Lynn Redgrave.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Eva McCormick – Early Projectionist Put Movies on the Screen

Posted on March 26, 2024 by lmharnisch

Women were integral to the development and rise of the motion picture industry into both entertainment and economic powerhouse in the Twentieth Century. The fledgling field welcomed women, immigrants, and people of color eager to contribute at a time when … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on March 25, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1957 Twentieth Century-Fox film Three Brave Men, with Ray Milland, Ernest Borgnine, Frank Lovejoy, Nina Foch, Dean Jagger, Virginia Christine, Edward Andrews, Frank Faylen, Diane Jergens, Warren Berlinger, Andrew Duggan, Joseph Wiseman, James Westerfield, … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Noir City Returns to Egyptian Theatre

Posted on March 21, 2024 by lmharnisch

Lizabeth Scott in Desert Fury (1947), showing March 24 as part of Noir City Hollywood. The Film Noir Foundation celebrates the 25th Anniversary of Noir City Hollywood with a return to Hollywood’s beautiful restored Egyptian Theatre March 22 through 31, … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on March 18, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1940 Warner Bros. picture Three Cheers for the Irish, with Priscilla Lane, Thomas Mitchell, Dennis Morgan, Virginia Grey, Irene Hervey, Alan Hale, William Lundigan, Frank Jenks and Henry Armetta.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Bessie Lasky, Painter

Posted on March 18, 2024 by lmharnisch

Bessie Lasky in her studio, courtesy of Jesse L. Lasky.com. Note: This is an encore post from 2019. Though overshadowed by her husband, Jesse, Bessie Lasky was as much an artist as he, a multitalented artist in many fields with … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Carrie Jacobs-Bond, Pioneering Songwriter and Publisher

Posted on March 12, 2024 by lmharnisch

As wildly popular as Taylor Swift in her day, Wisconsin born Carrie Jacobs-Bond became viral the old fashioned way, through the sale of sheet music. Several of her songs became standards employed for years for special occasions. Music wasn’t a … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on March 11, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1934 RKO short La Cucaracha, with Steffi Duna, Don Alvarado and Paul Porcasi.

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Daylight Saving Time: A Reminder From Pier Angeli and the Daily Mirror

Posted on March 10, 2024 by lmharnisch

Pier Angeli and her adorable little friend remind Daily Mirror readers that Daylight Saving Time begins today and to set your clocks forward one hour. Hi Eve!!

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Ida May Park Finds Direction in Films

Posted on March 7, 2024 by lmharnisch

Ida May Park in Photoplay. Note: This is an encore post from 2018. Virtually forgotten today, Los Angeles-born Ida May Park earned the distinction of being one of the first women to direct feature films in early Hollywood, as well … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on March 4, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1954 Republic picture Laughing Anne, with Wendell Corey, Margaret Lockwood, Forrest Tucker and Ronald Shiner.

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