Category Archives: Film

Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on December 4, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1940 Warner Bros. short Service With the Colors, with Robert Armstrong, William Lundigan, Henry O’Neill, William Orr, Herbert Anderson and George Haywood.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywood and Poinsettias

Posted on December 4, 2023 by lmharnisch

A postcard c. 1908 of poinsettias, “California’s Christmas flower,” listed on EBay. Note: This is an encore post from 2020. Euphorba Pulcherrima, better known as the poinsettia plant, has been popular in Los Angeles since the late 1800s. Some call … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on November 27, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1949 Twentieth Century-Fox film Come to the Stable, with Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Elsa Lanchester, Thomas Gomez, Dorothy Patrick, Basil Ruysdael, Dooley Wilson, Regis Toomey and Mike Mazurki.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Agnes O’Malley Marx, Pioneering Film Publicist

Posted on November 27, 2023 by lmharnisch

Agnes O’Malley Marx in the Los Angeles Daily News, 1954. The early moving picture industry offered opportunity to diverse workers: immigrants, women, and people of color more easily found jobs and opportunities for growth and leadership in the new field. … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on November 20, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1943 Twentieth Century-Fox picture The Gang’s All Here, with Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Phil Baker, Benny Goodman and His Orchestra, Eugene Pallette, Charlotte Greenwood, Edward Everett Horton, Tony De Marco, James Ellison, Sheila Ryan … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory: Hollywood Heights – ‘Napoleon’

Posted on November 20, 2023 by lmharnisch

Photo: The trailer for the restored version of Abel Gance’s “Napoleon.” Credit: San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Note: This is an encore post from 2012. In the mid-1920s, the world was looking for inspiration on how to live passionately, doggedly … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on November 13, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1947 Paramount film Welcome Stranger, with Bing Crosby, Joan Caulfield, Barry Fitzgerald, Wanda Hendrix, Frank Faylen, Elizabeth Patterson, Robert Shayne, Larry Young, Percy Kilbride, Charles Dingle and Don Beddoe.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Fred Archer, Master of Artistic Photography

Posted on November 13, 2023 by lmharnisch

Joan Bennett photographed by Fred Archer, Modern Screen Magazine. Note: This is an encore post from 2015 As stillsmen Elmer Fryer and Fred Archer wrote in the 1928 article for “Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers,” “In the … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Mona Darkfeather – Native American Who Wasn’t

Posted on November 6, 2023 by lmharnisch

Long before Iron Eyes Cody was outed as non-Native American, silent film actress Josephine Workman claimed full Native American heritage, though only her maternal grandmother was actually Native American. Accentuating her dark, exotic looks and embroidered background, she took the … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on November 6, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1946 Eagle Lion picture Caesar and Cleopatra, with Vivien Leigh, Claude Rains, Stewart Granger, Flora Robson, Francis Sullivan, Basil Sydney, Cecil Parker, Ernest Thesiger, Michael Rennie, Antony Eustrel, Robert Adams, Raymond Lovell, Olga Edwardes, … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Margaret Winkler, Animation Pioneer

Posted on October 31, 2023 by lmharnisch

Little known beyond animation circles, Margaret J. Winkler was one of the earliest distributors and producers of animated cartoons, the first woman in her field. Possessing savvy and a sharp eye, she signed two animators early in their career who … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on October 30, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1935 Paramount picture Rumba, with George Raft, Carole Lombard, Lynne Overman, Margo, Gail Patrick, Iris Adrian, Monroe Owsley and Jameson Thomas.

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + +)

Posted on October 23, 2023 by lmharnisch

For Monday, we have a mysterious woman. She does not know what to make of such goings-on.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: John Decker – Painter to the Stars

Posted on October 23, 2023 by lmharnisch

Chester Conklin by John Decker, courtesy of Mary Mallory. Note: This is an encore post from 2013. “To sing, to laugh, to dream, to walk in my own way and be alone…” A recording of John Decker’s voice recited this … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + +)

Posted on October 16, 2023 by lmharnisch

For Monday, we have a mystery fellow.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — Spooky, Ooky Witch’s House Haunts Beverly Hills

Posted on October 16, 2023 by lmharnisch

A sketch of the “The Witch’s House” by Charles Owens from “Nuestro Pueblo,” courtesy of Mary Mallory Note: This is an encore post from 2013. Once upon a time, home design and architecture saluted fantasy and make-believe, and not just … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on October 9, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1955 Warner Bros. film Young at Heart, with Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, Gig Young, Ethel Barrymore, Dorothy Malone, Robert Keith, Elisabeth Fraser, Alan Hale Jr., Lonny Chapman and Frank Ferguson.

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on October 2, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1938 Warner Bros. picture Four Daughters, with Priscilla Lane, Rosemary Lane, Lola Lane, Gale Page, Claude Rains, John Garfield, Jeffrey Lynn, Dick Foran, Frank McHugh and May Robson.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Myrtle Gonzalez – Early Latina Movie Star

Posted on September 25, 2023 by lmharnisch

An autographed photo of Myrtle Gonzalez by the Martel-Carruthers studio, inscribed to Jean Herscholt, listed on EBay at $250 Note: This is an encore post from 2021.  Mostly forgotten today because of her untimely death in the 1918 influenza epidemic, … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on September 25, 2023 by lmharnisch

I picked a mystery movie for this week, but upon previewing the film I decided that the print wasn’t good enough to use, and that there were other issues that sent it back to the vault. While I’m picking a … Continue reading →

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