Category Archives: Film

March 22, 1938

Posted on March 22, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, "Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife," from Ernst Lubitsch. Below, Earle Kynette’s last attempt to get out of jail is rejected as his defense prepares for a trial to begin April 12 … Carl Warr is arrested 25 years after strapping a … Continue reading →

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March 19, 1958

Posted on March 19, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, a look at the making of "The Defiant Ones." Below, we drop the masthead to run a terrific horizontal shot as a test pilot who bailed out of an F-4D  Skyray is rescued from the ocean  … President Eisenhower … Continue reading →

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March 18, 1958

Posted on March 18, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, one of Clark Gable’s lesser pictures is featured at a fund-raiser for the Press Club’s 8-Ball Foundation. When the Mirror and Examiner closed in 1962, the foundation held a benefit to raise money for unemployed journalists. Below, a plane … Continue reading →

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Marilyn Monroe

Posted on March 18, 2008 by lmharnisch

Jerry Clark, the chief warden of the retirees’ group known as the Old Farts of The Times, sends along a photo of Marilyn Monroe with Mirror reporter Jack Searles, center, who died March 1. Jerry writes that the mystery reporter … Continue reading →

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March 16, 1958

Posted on March 16, 2008 by lmharnisch

Frances Farmer is interviewed by The Times’ Cecil Smith upon her return to acting in "The Tongues of Angels," a "Studio One" production. Farmer, whose life imploded in the 1940s, says: "I’m better now at my work than I have … Continue reading →

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Dirty pix

Posted on March 11, 2008 by lmharnisch

March 11, 1958 Los Angeles As rackets go, it was a pretty good one. There was a lot of quick, easy money to be made from suckers. And because the victims were breaking the law, they couldn’t complain that they … Continue reading →

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March 10, 1938

Posted on March 10, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, two more movies that are not on Netflix … Below, Mayor Frank Shaw dismisses the recall campaign as the work of "New York vice lords" who are trying to take over the city … Please don’t pick the wildflowers … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on March 7, 2008 by lmharnisch

March 7, 1958 Another citizen is resentful because police came and got him at 2 a.m. on a warrant for an unanswered parking violation. Eventually, after the long ride to City Jail, the processing and waiting, a neighbor put up … Continue reading →

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March 7, 1958

Posted on March 7, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, a look at upcoming films with African American casts, "St. Louis Blues" and "Porgy and Bess." Click on the image to read the complete story. Below, time to take the classic Porsche 356 up to see the snow …  … Continue reading →

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March 7, 1938

Posted on March 7, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, Spencer Tracy as the Tin Man–that’s a casting idea that never occurred to me. Or to MGM, apparently. Below, former President Hoover is to visit Hitler … Cleanup from the storms continues as the death toll reaches 92 … … Continue reading →

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March 6, 1958

Posted on March 6, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, Hey look what I found! An interview with Saul Bass. Is this cool or what? Below, Marie McDonald and Harry Karl, alias "Karl the Shoe Man." You may recall earlier posts about the Jane Russell film "Fuzzy Pink Nightgown." … Continue reading →

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Pellicano file

Posted on March 5, 2008 by lmharnisch

June 29, 1977 Isn’t this a grim little story…. How odd that Pellicano was involved in it. Hm.

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March 2, 1958

Posted on March 2, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, "Fort Dobbs," with Clint Walker, Virginia Mayo and Brian Keith. Below, our own Chuck Hillinger and photographer Bruce Cox try to go rafting in the L.A. River after the Army Corps of Engineers finished its project to cover the … Continue reading →

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March 2, 1938

Posted on March 2, 2008 by lmharnisch

At top, "Snow White" in Spanish … Above, a Baltimore wife-beater gets 20 lashes, the most severe flogging since 1889, The Times says …  Garbo and Stokowski? … Nazi Field Marshal Hermann Goering says the Luftwaffe is ready to protect … Continue reading →

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Feb. 29, 1968

Posted on February 29, 2008 by lmharnisch

Faye Dunaway talks with Kevin Thomas about life since "Bonnie and Clyde" … Romney drops out of the presidential race–doesn’t that sound familiar? … According to reports, President Johnson is preparing to mobilize Marine reservists and National Guard troops to … Continue reading →

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Feb. 28, 1958

Posted on February 28, 2008 by lmharnisch

Studio executive Harry Cohn dies … On the jump, the rest of the Cohn obituary … A man commits suicide by jumping from the Subway Terminal Building … Pilot whale Bubbles "celebrates" a year in captivity … The Fire Department … Continue reading →

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Feb. 28, 1938

Posted on February 28, 2008 by lmharnisch

Paul Wright, found not guilty of killing his wife and best friend while they were doing something that couldn’t be printed in The Times, walks out of jail and hopes to be a forgotten man … World War I hero … Continue reading →

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Feb. 25, 1958

Posted on February 25, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, a profile of William Alland, who played the reporter tracking down the life of "Citizen Kane" and in his final years worked for the Los Angeles Times poll. Below, A race car plows into a crowd of spectators at … Continue reading →

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Feb. 21, 1958

Posted on February 21, 2008 by lmharnisch

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Feb. 21, 1938

Posted on February 21, 2008 by lmharnisch

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