Category Archives: Hollywood

Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on October 21, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1949 film Lost Boundaries, with Beatrice Pearson, Mel Ferrer, Susan Douglas, the Rev Robert H. Dunn, Richard Hylton, Grace Coppin, Carleton Carpenter, Seth Arnold, Wendell Holmes, Parker Fennelly, Ralph Riggs, William Greaves, Rai Saunders, … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — Henry Armetta, Excitable Support

Posted on October 21, 2024 by lmharnisch

Henry Armetta, courtesy of Mary Mallory. In many films of the 1930s and 1940s, what audiences remember most are the one-of-a-kind supporting players, with vibrant personalities, colorful ways of talking, recognizable tics and dramatic looks. Many of these people came … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on October 14, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1924 Pathe Picture Girl Shy, with Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Richard Daniels and Carlton Griffin.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights – Vice Raid and Early TV in Hollywood’s Biggest Storehouse

Posted on October 14, 2024 by lmharnisch

The Hollywood Storage Building as seen in Google Earth. Note: This is an encore post from 2021. Originally Los Angeles’ tallest building when opened in 1926, the Hollywood Storage Building at the southwest corner of Highland Avenue and Santa Monica … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Fiesta de las Flores

Posted on October 7, 2024 by lmharnisch

President William McKinley and First Lady Ida McKinley at La Fiesta de las Flores, 1901. Though founded September 4, 1781 the tiny pueblo of Los Angeles featured little assets to lure large numbers of migrants westward looking to call it … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on October 7, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1953 Paramount film Sangaree, with Fernando Lamas, Arlene Dahl, Patricia Medina, Francis L. Sullivan, Charles Korvin, Tom Drake, John Sutton, Willard Parker, Charles Evans, Lester Mathews, Roy Gordon, Lewis L. Russell, Russell Gaige and … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Helen Holmes, The Railroad Girl

Posted on September 30, 2024 by lmharnisch

In the mid-1910s, action-packed serials starring adventurous heroines thrilled audiences of young women dreaming of independence and agency. At the same time, women in the United States campaigned for the right to vote, eager to shape public policy and take … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on September 30, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1951 RKO film Payment on Demand, with Bette Davis, Barry Sullivan, Jane Cowl, Kent Taylor, Betty Lynn, John Sutton, Frances Dee, Peggie Castle, Otto Kruger, Walter Sande, Brett King, Richard Anderson, Natalie Schafer, Katherine … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Warner Bros. Celebrates Batman Day

Posted on September 23, 2024 by lmharnisch

First appearing in 1939’s Detective Comics #27 on March 30, 1939, Batman has grown into a Super Hero and an iconic emblem of justice employing just his intellect, athletic skill, and technological savvy and superiority. To celebrate the 85th Anniversary … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on September 23, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1950 Twentieth Century-Fox picture When Willie Comes Marching Home, with Dan Dailey, Corinne Calvet, Colleen Townsend, William Demarest, James Lydon, Lloyd Corrigan and Evelyn Varden.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — The First Motion Picture Electrical Parade

Posted on September 23, 2024 by lmharnisch

Harold Lloyd’s float in the electrical parade, courtesy of Mary Mallory. Note: This is an encore post from 2013. Long before the Walt Disney Co. began presenting an electrical parade at its parks, Los Angeles offered electrical parades as part … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on September 16, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1949 Warner Bros. film It’s a Great Feeling, with Dennis Morgan, Doris Day, Jack Carson, Bill Goodwin, Irving Bacon, Claire Carleton and the Mazzone-Abbott Dancers.

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

Posted on September 16, 2024 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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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: May Brotherton, Queen of Film Editing

Posted on September 9, 2024 by lmharnisch

May Brotherton in the Balboa Day Book, 1916. Women were integral to motion picture production from its very beginning. Working behind the scenes, they dominated the dirty work of cutting and assembly of film and negative for decades. Quick and … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on September 9, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1948 MGM film Three Daring Daughters, with Jeannette MacDonald, Jose Iturbi, Jane Powell, Edward Arnold, Harry Davenport, Moyna MacGill, Larry Adler, Mary Eleanor Donahue, Ann E. Todd, Dick Simmons, Amparo Iturbi and Tom Helmore.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — Rah! Rah! Hollywood Celebrates Pennants

Posted on September 2, 2024 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2013. Hollywood has always been creative in promoting its films and personalities to the public. Employing posters, lobby cards, window cards and photographs, silent film production companies hyped upcoming films. With the success … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on September 2, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1959 Columbia picture The True Story of Lynn Stuart, with Betsy Palmer, Jack Lord and Barry Atwater.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hotel Brevoort, Bohemians’ Outpost on Lexington

Posted on August 27, 2024 by lmharnisch

Long an entertaining trope for many a movie and stage play, the boarding house for theatrical performers offered an opportunity to gather together a colorful band of characters while at the same time providing them a supportive haven and family … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on August 26, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1937 Paramount picture Waikiki Wedding, with Bing Crosby, Bob Burns, Martha Raye, Shirley Ross, George Barbier and Leif Erikson. 

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Eleanor Fried Darling, Jill of All Trades

Posted on August 20, 2024 by lmharnisch

W. Scott Darling and Eleanor Fried Darling, Film Daily, 1926. Women made the silent film industry the giant success it became during the 1920s. Thanks to their example in uplifting filmmaking, movie attendance skyrocketed among women. To maintain supply for … Continue reading →

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