Category Archives: Hollywood

Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

Posted on April 25, 2011 by lmharnisch

      Los Angeles Times file photo   [Update: Aug. 23, 1959 — Franchot Tone is seen as gentle father torn between vastly different sons, Cameron Mitchell, left, policeman, and Dennis Hopper, tough guy, in drama on "Reckoning" series.] … Continue reading →

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From the Vaults — ‘Fires on the Plain’ (1959)

Posted on April 22, 2011 by lmharnisch

    So far in my ramble through old foreign films, I have done the Holocaust (“Yiddle With His Fiddle”) and incest (“La Mujer del Puerto,”) so imagine my surprise when this week’s entry, “Fires on the Plain,” turned to … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 18, 1941

Posted on April 18, 2011 by lmharnisch

            April 18, 1941: Lee Shippey is hospitalized after what The Times vaguely referred to as “major surgery.” His column continued to appear with guest writers filling in. On the jump: Benjamin “Bugsie” Siegel is … Continue reading →

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‘The Apartment’ Wins Oscars for Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Director

Posted on April 18, 2011 by lmharnisch

           April 18, 1961: In a ceremony held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented awards to Elizabeth Taylor for “Butterfield 8,” Burt Lancaster for “Elmer Gantry” and … Continue reading →

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From the Vaults — ‘La Mujer del Puerto’ (1934)

Posted on April 18, 2011 by lmharnisch

    None of the countless movies  I have ever seen – domestic or foreign — prepared me for the 1934 Mexican film “La Mujer del Puerto” (“The Woman of the Port”). If you watch the movie without knowing anything … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 17, 1941

Posted on April 17, 2011 by lmharnisch

            SANTA FE CHIEF, April 16 — NOTHING MAKES YOU feel more remote from the toil, trouble and strife of the war world than a powerful train. It's a moving island from which all disturbing influences … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 16, 1941

Posted on April 16, 2011 by lmharnisch

           April 16, 1941: Tom Treanor writes another column about Leland Stowe and Thomas Mann. “Both of these splendid speakers emphasized strongly the evil that Germany is doing. They spoke on moral grounds and they used … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

Posted on April 16, 2011 by lmharnisch

      Los Angeles Times file photo   [Update: I call Daily Mirror readers the Brain Trust and here’s why. Mike Hawks and Don Danard (via email) independently identified our mystery woman and Wednesday’s mystery companion. This still is … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 15, 1941

Posted on April 15, 2011 by lmharnisch

           April 15, 1941: Lee Shippey writes about the restoration of the Don Ignacio de Palomares house as a WPA project to help celebrate the centennial of the Rancho Santa Anita grant to Don Hugo Reid. … Continue reading →

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From the Stacks — ‘Ride the Pink Horse’

Posted on April 15, 2011 by lmharnisch

        Out of curiosity, I picked up this paperback for 50 cents at the Southern California Library’s book sale because the 1947 movie based on Dorothy B. Hughes’ novel is often mentioned as a classic film noir, … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 14, 1941

Posted on April 14, 2011 by lmharnisch

            April 14, 1961: One of the joys of these old newspapers is stumbling across an undiscovered gem, and Tom Treanor has one today: An interview with Paul Revere Williams, the famous African American architect. … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, April 13, 1961

Posted on April 13, 2011 by lmharnisch

    April 13, 1961: The Mirror publishes a tough editorial on Robert Welch and the John Birch Society. A sample: "Welch's spurious reasoning went the full circle and came back to the familiar cry — if you are not … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 13, 1941

Posted on April 13, 2011 by lmharnisch

           April 13, 1941: Stocking buyers to whom I have talked believe there is only about a two-month supply of raw silk in the country. That would seem to be the tipoff to buy. In a … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 11, 1941

Posted on April 11, 2011 by lmharnisch

        April 11, 1941: These soldier boys sneer a little when they read of strikes in war industries. My lad is on duty for a 12-hour shift, apparently. The first four months of his soldiering he got … Continue reading →

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‘Citizen Kane’ — April 10, 1941

Posted on April 11, 2011 by lmharnisch

    April 10, 1941: "Citizen Kane" does occasionally sink to dullness because of its reiterations, notwithstanding it can be classified as, in a number of aspects, one of the most arresting pictures ever produced, Edwin Schallert says.

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Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]

Posted on April 11, 2011 by lmharnisch

      Los Angeles Times file photo   [Update: This is Dorothy Mackaill (d. 1990) in an undated photo! ] We’re off to a late start on this week’s mystery photo. It turns out that our mystery guest was … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 10, 1941

Posted on April 10, 2011 by lmharnisch

           April 10, 1941: Lee Shippey writes about the wildflower fields of Kern County. “Now I have seen them and I know that until one has seen them one cannot comprehend what California's spring wildflower show … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 9, 1941

Posted on April 9, 2011 by lmharnisch

           April 9, 1941: Whom do you think of as the Lone Ranger? Clayton Moore? Brace Beemer? Meet Earl Graser, who played the Lone Ranger on the radio until he was killed in a car accident … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, April 8, 1941

Posted on April 8, 2011 by lmharnisch

           April 8, 1941: Lee Shippey shares a letter from England and Tom Treanor has a roundup of items about the fighting in Europe. Those "changes" in Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane" dwindled to one minor alteration, … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates, April 7, 1961

Posted on April 7, 2011 by lmharnisch

               April 7, 1961: I came across a letter to the editor (on the jump) about Gov. Pat Brown’s grant of clemency for William Erwin “Machine Gun” Walker, which I overlooked (so many stories, … Continue reading →

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