Category Archives: Hollywood

Paul Coates, Dec. 14, 1960

Posted on December 14, 2010 by lmharnisch

         Dec. 14, 1960: While traveling overseas, Paul Coates runs into an old friend – who isn’t sure if he’s Paul Coates or Matt Weinstock. Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller make an expedition to Europe in Maurice … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Dec. 14, 1940

Posted on December 14, 2010 by lmharnisch

        Dec. 14, 1940: Humphrey Bogart, film bad man. Recently, Mr. Bogart found himself unable to realistically enact a screen murder because his "killer mood" had been destroyed when he saw a studio gardener trap a gopher … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo — Updated

Posted on December 14, 2010 by lmharnisch

      Los Angeles Times file photo   Update: This is Thelma Todd and Antonio Moreno. Although there's no further caption information on the back of the print, I believe it's from "Bohemian Girl," as Mary Mallory says.  Please … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Dec. 13, 1941

Posted on December 13, 2010 by lmharnisch

           Dec. 13, 1941: The better local niteries are frowning on femmes who step out in slacks, Jimmie Fidler says.

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Movieland Mystery Photo

Posted on December 13, 2010 by lmharnisch

        Los Angeles Times file photo   Jan. 17-19 1936: The foreman of the Los Angeles County Grand Jury says the case of Thelma Todd is still open despite the autopsy surgeon's finding that death was caused … Continue reading →

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From the Vaults: ‘MASH’ (1970)

Posted on December 13, 2010 by lmharnisch

I loathe war movies. I also loathe hospital movies, and movies with predominantly male stars (really, who wants to sit and watch a bunch of men running around?) And I really loathe movies with long football scenes. Yet then we … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates, Dec. 12, 1960

Posted on December 12, 2010 by lmharnisch

    Dec. 12, 1960: Paul Coates updates the story of a Beverly Hills physician who had hit bottom and was in a mental hospital when he saved the life of an inmate.  Coates interviews the doctor, who has been … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Dec. 12, 1940

Posted on December 12, 2010 by lmharnisch

           Dec. 12, 1940: Nominated for the odd job championship: Brian Kilgore, former Chicago mortician, who bills himself as a technical director for gangster funerals, Jimmie Fidler says. 

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Movieland Mystery Photo — Updated

Posted on December 12, 2010 by lmharnisch

      Los Angeles Times file photo   Update: This is Thelma Todd and Inez Courtney in a photo stamped Nov. 7, 1932.     Jan. 4-11, 1936: If you’re sick of the Thelma Todd case by now, you … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo — Updated

Posted on December 11, 2010 by lmharnisch

         Los Angeles Times file photo   Update: Mrs. Wallace Ford and her brother George Baker arrive to testify about the Thelma Todd case. "Mrs. Ford said Miss Todd telephoned she was coming to a party at … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Dec. 11, 1940

Posted on December 11, 2010 by lmharnisch

           Test pilot Rudolph B. Lechner, 37, is killed when his  SBC-2 Navy bomber fails to come out of a test dive. Dec. 11, 1940: Eleanor Powell has invented a tap-dancing shoe that quadruples the number … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo — Update

Posted on December 11, 2010 by lmharnisch

        Los Angeles Times file photo   Update: This is Thelma Todd giving a surprise birthday party for Patsy Kelly on the set of "Sing, Sister, Sing." "Because of Patsy's particular fondness for condiments and sauces, Thelma … Continue reading →

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Found on EBay — ‘What Actors Eat’

Posted on December 10, 2010 by lmharnisch

A copy of the Lymanhouse book “What Actors Eat – When They Eat!” has been listed on EBay. This cookbook turns up once or twice a year on EBay, usually at a ridiculous price. Bidding on this one, however, starts … Continue reading →

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Police Battle Muslim Mob in Algiers , Dec. 10, 1960

Posted on December 10, 2010 by lmharnisch

         Dec. 10, 1960: “It costs a lot of money to look like Marilyn Monroe … I’ve got the bills to prove it.”

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Dec. 10, 1940

Posted on December 10, 2010 by lmharnisch

        Dec. 10, 1940: That old rumor about Jackie Cooper being a midget should be thoroughly exploded by now, Jimmie Fidler says.  

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Movieland Mystery Photo — Update

Posted on December 10, 2010 by lmharnisch

      Photograph by the Los Angeles Times   Update: Chauffeur Ernest Peters, left, talks to Sid Grauman. Please congratulate Mary Mallory and Mike Hawks for identifying Grauman!         Photograph by the Los Angeles Times   … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock, Dec. 9, 1960

Posted on December 9, 2010 by lmharnisch

       Dec. 9, 1960: "No truth to the ugly rumor that the reporters in the courthouse pressroom watch those synthetic courtroom cases on their TV set. When I dropped in to check, they were watching an old war … Continue reading →

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Jimmie Fidler in Hollywood, Dec. 9, 1940

Posted on December 9, 2010 by lmharnisch

              Dec. 9, 1940:  Jimmie Fidler asks,  “How can actors who are such nice people on the way up and on the way down, be such insufferable asses while they're on top?” Note to … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo — Updated

Posted on December 9, 2010 by lmharnisch

        Los Angeles Times file photo   Update: This is Charley Chase and Thelma Todd in a photo by Agnes O'Malley. Please congratulate Mary Mallory, Mike Hawks, Cold in Phoenix and Brent Walker for identifying them!   … Continue reading →

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Found on EBay – Jean Spangler

Posted on December 8, 2010 by lmharnisch

An Oct. 12, 1949, edition of the Examiner, with a Page 1 story about the disappearance of Jean Spangler – drawing the usual parallels to the 1947 Black Dahlia case – has been listed on EBay. Old issues of the … Continue reading →

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