Category Archives: Film

Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Busch Gardens and Hogan’s Aristocratic Dream

Posted on August 5, 2024 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2012. Filmmakers have always loved shooting around the Los Angeles area because so many diverse locations offer tantalizing story possibilities at a fraction of the cost of traveling around the United States or … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on August 5, 2024 by lmharnisch

The timekeeper is Weegee, btw. This week’s mystery movie was the 1949 RKO picture The Set-Up, with Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter, Wallace Ford, Percy Helton, Hal Fieberling, Darryl Hickman, Kenny O’Morrison, James Edwards, David Clarke, Phillip … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + +)

Posted on July 30, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1939 MGM picture Idiot’s Delight, with Norman Shearer, Clark Gable, Edward Arnold, Charles Coburn, Joseph Schildkraut, Burgess Meredith, Laura Hope Crews, Skeets Gallagher, Peter Willes, Paterson, William Edmunds, Fritz Feld, Virginia Grey, Virginia Dale, … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — The Three Lives Of Villa Aurora

Posted on July 23, 2024 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2013. Cats have nine lives. People often experience second or third acts in their lives or careers. Some homes have multiple lives as well, like Villa Aurora, which has experienced three diverse lives, … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on July 22, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery TV show was Happy Birthday Marvin, a 1973 episode of Insight, a Paulist Production, with Bob Newhart, Anne Francis, Harold Gould, Clint Howard and Ivor Francis. Insight aired in syndication from 1960 to 1983.

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on July 15, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1948 Allied Artists movie The Hunted, with Preston Foster, Belita, Pierre Watkin, Larry Blake, Russell Hicks, Frank Ferguson, Cathy Carter, Joseph Crehan, Edna Holland, Carole Donne, Robert Earle and Tristram Coffin.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Douglas Fairbanks, Author

Posted on July 8, 2024 by lmharnisch

Douglas Fairbanks: “Teaching his dog to smile.” Note: This is an encore post from 2013. Douglas Fairbanks exploded onto the filmmaking scene in 1915 after a successful career on Broadway as a dashing leading man. His jaunty joie de vivre … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on July 8, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1941 Columbia picture Ladies in Retirement, with Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester, Edith Barrett, Isobel Elsom, Emma Dunn, Clyde Cook and Queenie Leonard.

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on July 1, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1975 film Murph the Surf, with Robert Conrad, Don Stroud, Donna Mills, Robyn Millan, Ben Frank, Pepper Martin, Morgan Paull, Paul Stewart, Burt Young and Luther Adler.

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on June 24, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery film was Escape Route, an episode of the British TV series The Saint, with Roger Moore, John Gregson, Wanda Ventham, Ivor Dean, Donald Sutherland, Jean Marsh, Jeremy Burnham, Terry Yorke, Romo Gorrara, Vicki Wolf, Tony Doonan, Eric … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: ‘Don’t Be a Sucker’ Promotes American Values

Posted on June 24, 2024 by lmharnisch

“Don’t Be a Sucker” is on YouTube. Note: This is an encore post from 2017. Still as relevant today as when it was first produced over 70 years ago, the United States Army Signal Corps’ short “Don’t Be a Sucker” … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hale’s Tours Offer Virtual Reality in 1906

Posted on June 17, 2024 by lmharnisch

George C. Hale in the Salt Lake City Herald, Oct. 20, 1905. Note: This is an encore post from 2016. Technology changes often move with the speed of lightning, upending life as it moves hurly burly into a brave new … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on June 17, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1952 MGM film Lovely to Look At, with Kathryn Grayson, Red Skelton, Howard Keel, Marge and Gower Champion, Ann Miller, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Kurt Kaszmar and Marcel Dalio.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: ‘The Key to Hollywood’ Promotes Tourism

Posted on June 10, 2024 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2014. Sightseeing has long been the lifeblood of Hollywood and Los Angeles. Long before Gray Line Tours or even any of its poorer knockoffs came along, companies offered sightseeing around these areas, particularly … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on June 10, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1937 Twentieth Century-Fox film Crack-Up, with Peter Lorre, Brian Donlevy, Helen Wood, Ralph Morgan and Thomas Beck.

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on June 3, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1933 RKO picture Lucky Devils, with Bill (William) Boyd, Dorothy Wilson, William Gargan, Robert Rose, Rosco Ates, William Bakewell, Julie Haydon, Bruce Cabot, Rochelle Hudson, Creighton (Lon Jr.) Chaney, Phyllis Fraser and Betty Furness.

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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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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Donald Biddle Keyes, Cameraman

Posted on May 27, 2024 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2013. Most motion picture still photographers picked up cameras at young ages, intrigued at how they could paint with light. Many yearned to do more than just snap shots in a portrait studio … Continue reading →

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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 May 13, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1947 United Artists film The Private Affairs of Bel Ami, with George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Ann Dvorak, Frances Dee, John Carradine, Susan Douglas, Hugo Haas, Marie Wilson, Albert Basserman, Katherine Emery, Richard Fraser and … Continue reading →

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