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Category Archives: Hollywood
Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Pickford Headlines 1933 Rose Parade
Photo: Mary Pickford in the 1933 Rose Parade. Courtesy of Mary Mallory Note: This is a 2012 post with a slight update. The 136th Rose Parade is Wednesday. Tomorrow sees the 124th annual Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, welcoming … Continue reading
Posted in 1933, Film, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Pasadena
Tagged #Mary Pickford, #Rose Parade, 626, film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory
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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)
For Monday, we have a mystery fellow. Continue reading
Posted in 1941, Film, Hollywood, Mystery Photo
Tagged #Charles Laughton, #Deanna Durbin, 1941, film, hollywood, mystery photo, Robert Cummings
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: The Story of ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer’
Mary Mallory looks at the history of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” Continue reading
Posted in Film, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory
Tagged #Christmas, animation, Burl Ives, holidays, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Max Fleischer
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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)
For Monday, we have a mysterious fellow. Continue reading
Posted in 1939, Film, Hollywood, Mystery Photo
Tagged #Lucille Ball, 1939, Edward Everett Horton, film, hollywood, Kay Kyser, mystery photo
24 Comments
Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywood and Poinsettias
In this installment of Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory looks at the history of the poinsettia plant. Continue reading
Posted in Film, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory
Tagged agriculture, film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, poinsettias
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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)
For Monday, we have a mystery woman. Continue reading
Posted in 1938, Film, Hollywood, Mystery Photo
Tagged 1938, Ben Hecht, film, George Gershwin, George Marshall, hollywood, mystery photo
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L.A. Daily Mirror Retro Holiday Shopping Guide
The Retro Holiday Shopping Guide: Melba Levick’s “The Big Picture: Murals of Los Angeles.” Wonderful paintings, most of them lost. One of my favorite’s is Kent Twitchell’s “Old Woman of the Freeway” featuring actress Lillian Bronson. Continue reading
Posted in 1988, Architecture, Art & Artists, Books and Authors, Crime and Courts, Downtown, From the Stacks, Hollywood, Latinos, Photography, Preservation, San Fernando Valley, Sports, Zoot Suit
Tagged #hollywood, #la, #photography, Architecture
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: ‘White Christmas’ Soothes the Home Front in 1942
Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds and Virginia Dale in “Holiday Inn.” Note: This is an encore post from 2015. Recognized today as one of the top selling singles and pieces of sheet music of all time, Irving Berlin’s “White … Continue reading
Posted in 1942, Film, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Music
Tagged film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, White Christmas
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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)
This week’s mystery movie was the 1937 Warner Bros. film Green Light, with Errol Flynn, Anita Louise, Margaret Lindsay, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Walter Abel.
Posted in 1937, Film, Hollywood, Mystery Photo
Tagged #Errol Flynn, film, hollywood, Lloyd Borzage, mystery photo, Warner Bros.
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Tote DuCrow–Character Actor of the Silent Screen
Tote DuCrow in Camera, 1922. The early decades of cinema brought many enterprising, colorful character actors to the screen, those looking and appearing real on film. Not as physically attractive or full of charisma, they brought striking personas and authenticity … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory
Tagged #Silent Films, film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory
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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)
This week’s mystery movie was the 1937 Warner Bros. film Penrod and Sam, with Billy Mauch, Frank Craven, Spring Byington, Craig Reynolds, Jackie Morrow, Philip Hurlick, Charles Halton, Bernice Pilot and Kenneth Harlan.
Posted in 1937, Film, Hollywood, Mystery Photo
Tagged 1937, Billy Mauch, Booth Tarkington, film, Frank Craven, hollywood, mystery photo, William McGann
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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)
Lobby card for Unknown Blonde listed on EBay. This week’s mystery movie was the 1934 film Unknown Blonde, with Edward Arnold, Barbara Barondess, Barry Norton, John Miljan, Dorothy Revier, Leila Bennett, Walter Catlett, Helen Jerome Eddy, Claude Gillingwater and Arletta … Continue reading
Posted in 1934, Film, Hollywood, Mystery Photo
Tagged 1934, Edward Arnold, film, Franklin Pangborn, hollywood, mystery photo, Pre-Code
17 Comments
Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Lillian St. Cyr, ‘Indian Princess’ of Early Films
Lillian St. Cyr, who took the name Princess Red Wing (frequently rendered as Redwing), Moving Picture World, 1912. Note: This is an encore post from 2021. Throughout much of her life, Lillian Margaret St. Cyr felt caught between two worlds … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Native Americans
Tagged film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Native Americans, Princess Redwing
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Samuel Fuller’s ‘Power of the Press’
In an age when most of the mainstream media shills for ratings, spectacle, and train wrecks, taking a look back at vintage films can often provide a sad window into how little history changes unless a determined, freedom-loving press like … Continue reading
Posted in 1943, Film, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory
Tagged film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Newspapers, Samuel Fuller
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: ‘Your Girl and Mine’ Promotes Women’s Suffrage
“Your Girl and Mine,” Moving Picture World. Note: This is an encore post from 2015. From the 1840s on, many women in the United States fought to vote. Considered merely chattel, like slaves, women were forced to endure horrible marriages, … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory
Tagged #women's history, film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, women's suffrage
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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)
This week’s mystery movie was the 1940 Warner Bros. picture Torrid Zone, with James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Pat O’Brien, Andy Devine, Helen Vinson, Jerome Cowan and George Tobias.
Posted in 1940, Film, Hollywood, Mystery Photo
Tagged #James Cagney, 1940, Ann Sheridan, film, hollywood, mystery photo, Pat O'Brien, Warner Bros.
33 Comments
Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Dr. Caligari and the Rise of American Nationalism
Note: This is an encore post from 2022. Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, described by film critic Roger Ebert as the “first true horror film,” still wows audiences more than 100 years after creation due to its high … Continue reading
Posted in 1921, Film, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory
Tagged 1921, film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Nationalism
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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)
This week’s mystery movie was the 1938 Twentieth Century-Fox film Happy Landing, with Sonja Henie, Don Ameche, Ethel Merman, Cesar Romero, Jean Hersholt, Billy Gilbert, Raymond Scott Quintet, Wally Vernon and Leah Ray.
Posted in 1938, Film, Hollywood, Mystery Photo
Tagged #Cesar Romero, #Don Ameche, 1938, Ethel Merman, film, hollywood, mystery photo, Sonja Henie, Twentieth Century-Fox
27 Comments
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