Category Archives: Hollywood

  April 22, 1940: “There's talk that Daisy, edjoocated purp of the 'Blondie' pics, will be replaced because the dog's owner is asking too much dough,” Jimmie Fidler says. 

  April 21, 1941: “Yvonne of the King Sisters and musician Buddy Cole are on the love list,” Jimmie Fidler says.

  April 20, 1940: “Femme stars at Paramount are squawking about male execs hogging the studio's only sunbathing roof,” Jimmie Fidler says.

  April 17, 1940: “Stage door Johnnies besieging the Florentine Gardens to date a blond shapely, while down the street, in a battered flivver, her boyfriend smiles — and waits,” Jimmie Fidler says.

April 15, 1940: “Victor is dickering with Jimmy Cagney for sales rights to his monologue recordings of the Dalton Trumbo novel ‘Johnny Got His Gun,’ ” Jimmie Fidler says.

April 14, 1941: “Orson [Welles], having at last backed his boasts by producing a very fine picture, should now set himself the more difficult task — if it's not too late — of making a few friends,” Jimmie Fidler says.  … Continue reading →

   April 13, 1940: “Wot's this re: Orson Welles retrenching financially by moving into the Hollywood YMCA,” Jimmie Fidler asks.

June Storey in “Rancho Grande” with Gene Autry. April 12, 1940: Seen in profile, W.C. Fields' expression is touchingly nose-talgic, Jimmie Fidler says. 

  “Weird experiments of a mad scientist.” Are there any other kind?  April 11, 1940: Ode to mayhem: "And now, Miss Velez, DO try to act like a lady!"

  April 10, 1940: How come Metro finds such difficulty in fitting Hedy Lamarr with a story? The biography of Lola Montez has never been screened.

  “Young Tom Edison Was a Bad Boy!” April 9, 1940: Are those Saturday afternoon air jaunts of Jimmy Stewart and Olivia de Havilland dress rehearsals for an elopement, as intimates insist? … Now it's Akim Tamiroff who's bought a … Continue reading →