Category Archives: Hollywood

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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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on August 19, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery was the 1953 Twentieth Century-Fox picture Call Me Madam, with Ethel Merman, Donald O’Connor, Vera-Ellen, George Sanders, Billy De Wolfe, Helmut Dantine, Walter Slezak, Steven Geray, Ludwig Stossel, Lilia Skala, Charles Dingle, Emory Parnell and Percy Helton.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Smokey Bear Turns 80

Posted on August 13, 2024 by lmharnisch

As climate change worsens around the world, so do the outbreak of wildfires. Just in the last few years, such countries as Canada, Greece, and Australia have experienced devastating fires, as has such U. S. states as Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on August 12, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1949 picture Champion, with Kirk Douglas, Marilyn Maxwell, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart, Luis Van Rooten, Harry Shannon, John Day, Ruth Roman and Lola Albright.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Busch Gardens and Hogan’s Aristocratic Dream

Posted on August 5, 2024 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2012. Filmmakers have always loved shooting around the Los Angeles area because so many diverse locations offer tantalizing story possibilities at a fraction of the cost of traveling around the United States or … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on August 5, 2024 by lmharnisch

The timekeeper is Weegee, btw. This week’s mystery movie was the 1949 RKO picture The Set-Up, with Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias, Alan Baxter, Wallace Ford, Percy Helton, Hal Fieberling, Darryl Hickman, Kenny O’Morrison, James Edwards, David Clarke, Phillip … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Upton Sinclair’s EPIC Race for Governor vs. the Studios and News Media

Posted on July 30, 2024 by lmharnisch

Epic Answers: How to End Poverty in California. 90 years ago, author and former Socialist Upton Sinclair entered the race for Governor of California as a Democrat, hoping to better the lives of common people and the unemployed. Upset at … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + +)

Posted on July 30, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1939 MGM picture Idiot’s Delight, with Norman Shearer, Clark Gable, Edward Arnold, Charles Coburn, Joseph Schildkraut, Burgess Meredith, Laura Hope Crews, Skeets Gallagher, Peter Willes, Paterson, William Edmunds, Fritz Feld, Virginia Grey, Virginia Dale, … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — The Three Lives Of Villa Aurora

Posted on July 23, 2024 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2013. Cats have nine lives. People often experience second or third acts in their lives or careers. Some homes have multiple lives as well, like Villa Aurora, which has experienced three diverse lives, … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on July 22, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery TV show was Happy Birthday Marvin, a 1973 episode of Insight, a Paulist Production, with Bob Newhart, Anne Francis, Harold Gould, Clint Howard and Ivor Francis. Insight aired in syndication from 1960 to 1983.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Drag Comes to Hollywood at B.B.B.’s Cellar

Posted on July 16, 2024 by lmharnisch

Long before Silver Lake’s Black Cat Cafe or the first LBGT parade down Hollywood Boulevard in the 1960s, Hollywood highlighted female impersonators and the gay community in a popular, energetic nightclub called B. B. B.’s Cellar and led by host … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on July 15, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1948 Allied Artists movie The Hunted, with Preston Foster, Belita, Pierre Watkin, Larry Blake, Russell Hicks, Frank Ferguson, Cathy Carter, Joseph Crehan, Edna Holland, Carole Donne, Robert Earle and Tristram Coffin.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Douglas Fairbanks, Author

Posted on July 8, 2024 by lmharnisch

Douglas Fairbanks: “Teaching his dog to smile.” Note: This is an encore post from 2013. Douglas Fairbanks exploded onto the filmmaking scene in 1915 after a successful career on Broadway as a dashing leading man. His jaunty joie de vivre … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on July 8, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1941 Columbia picture Ladies in Retirement, with Ida Lupino, Louis Hayward, Evelyn Keyes, Elsa Lanchester, Edith Barrett, Isobel Elsom, Emma Dunn, Clyde Cook and Queenie Leonard.

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on July 1, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1975 film Murph the Surf, with Robert Conrad, Don Stroud, Donna Mills, Robyn Millan, Ben Frank, Pepper Martin, Morgan Paull, Paul Stewart, Burt Young and Luther Adler.

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on June 24, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery film was Escape Route, an episode of the British TV series The Saint, with Roger Moore, John Gregson, Wanda Ventham, Ivor Dean, Donald Sutherland, Jean Marsh, Jeremy Burnham, Terry Yorke, Romo Gorrara, Vicki Wolf, Tony Doonan, Eric … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: ‘Don’t Be a Sucker’ Promotes American Values

Posted on June 24, 2024 by lmharnisch

“Don’t Be a Sucker” is on YouTube. Note: This is an encore post from 2017. Still as relevant today as when it was first produced over 70 years ago, the United States Army Signal Corps’ short “Don’t Be a Sucker” … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hale’s Tours Offer Virtual Reality in 1906

Posted on June 17, 2024 by lmharnisch

George C. Hale in the Salt Lake City Herald, Oct. 20, 1905. Note: This is an encore post from 2016. Technology changes often move with the speed of lightning, upending life as it moves hurly burly into a brave new … Continue reading →

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