Category Archives: Hollywood

September 26, 1959: Matt Weinstock

Posted on September 26, 2009 by lmharnisch

September 26, 1959: Al Capone’s widow is preparing to sue over the film “Al Capone,” seeking a share of the profits, Matt Weinstock says. Gene Tierney has been released from the Menninger Clinic, a news story says.

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New Cartoon Show Premieres

Posted on September 26, 2009 by lmharnisch
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A Kinder, Simpler Time Dept.: Your Movies

Posted on September 26, 2009 by lmharnisch

California gets 16,000 Nazi POWs as farm workers. Spencer Tracy in "The Seventh Cross." Funeral services are planned for Harry Chandler, who died Sept. 23, 1944, at the age of 80. "Until a few days before his death he had … Continue reading →

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Found on EBay — Earl Carroll’s Nightclub

Posted on September 25, 2009 by lmharnisch

This photograph of a man, possibly a fellow named Harrison Randall, with a bicycle outside Earl Carroll's nightclub has been listed on EBay. Bidding starts at $5.35.

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A Kinder, Simpler Time Dept.: Your Movies

Posted on September 25, 2009 by lmharnisch

Sept. 25, 1943: The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen had called a strike against the Pacific Electric Railway over wages. The Times says 70% of the freight workers remained on the job. But as they moved freight into the yard on … Continue reading →

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Movie Star Mystery Photo

Posted on September 25, 2009 by lmharnisch

Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Hall Bartlett in an unidentified photo published in 1954. Update: As many people guessed from a certain picture with a seagull, this is Hall Bartlett. Hall Bartlett; Wrote, Directed Offbeat Films September 16, 1993 … Continue reading →

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The Tax Man Comes for Mickey Cohen; Covering the Mets

Posted on September 25, 2009 by lmharnisch

Sept. 25, 1969: A typical screamer headline we put on the late final edition, which was for street sales. The front page of the home delivery edition didn't look like this. The National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of … Continue reading →

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A Kinder, Simpler Time Dept.: Your Movies

Posted on September 24, 2009 by lmharnisch

Sept. 24, 1942: "Wake Island" opens in Los Angeles. 

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UCLA Fires Angela Davis; Meet Halo Harry

Posted on September 24, 2009 by lmharnisch

Sept. 24, 1969: Johnny Hart on the new incivility. The late Ken Reich interviews Angela Davis. Reich writes: Angela Davis, 25, says her role in the "struggle for black liberation" had marked her as a special target for the University … Continue reading →

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A Kinder, Simpler Time Dept.: Your Movies

Posted on September 23, 2009 by lmharnisch

Sept. 23, 1941: Tyrone Power in "A Yank in the R.A.F."

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A Kinder, Simpler Time Dept.: Your Movies

Posted on September 22, 2009 by lmharnisch

Sept. 22, 1940: Hedda Hopper writes about Marjorie Rambeau, one of our former mystery guests! Los Angeles Times file photo Marjorie Rambeau in "The Night Duel," 1926.

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U.S. Tightens Border; DiMaggio and the Angels?

Posted on September 22, 2009 by lmharnisch

Sept. 22, 1969: The U.S. tightens inspections at the border as part of Operation Intercept. And hippies gather at Griffith Park. Akron had everything for the swinging bachelor pad — including armor. Al Capp satirized all sorts of people and … Continue reading →

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September 21, 1959: Matt Weinstock

Posted on September 21, 2009 by lmharnisch

September 21, 1959:  “After many months of research and collaboration, writers Harry Essex and Irving Shulman have finished a pre-sold novel based on [Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle’s] life and the sensational scandal that marred it. The title, ‘Fatty.’ ” (This book … Continue reading →

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A Kinder, Simpler Time Dept.: Your Movies

Posted on September 21, 2009 by lmharnisch

Sept. 21, 1939: Joel McCrea in "Espionage Agent." Not on Netflix.

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Disney on Khrushchev

Posted on September 20, 2009 by lmharnisch

Nikita Khrushchev didn't go to Disneyland, but Walt Disney was ready for him.

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Nikita, Film Bigwigs Gay at Studio Party

Posted on September 19, 2009 by lmharnisch

Sept. 19, 1959: The Mirror-News gets a photo of Nikita Khrushchev from a TV monitor. An early frame grab! And photos on the cover for the 10-star edition. First celebrities to arrive at the studio to greet the premier were … Continue reading →

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CIA ‘a Farce,’ Khrushchev Says

Posted on September 19, 2009 by lmharnisch

Oct. 4, 1959, Republic Corp. President Victor M. Carter describes comments made by Nikita Khrushchev during a tour of housing developments in the San Fernando Valley. Khrushchev told ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge that the Soviets had intercepted and read secret … Continue reading →

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Khrushchev: ‘Why Not Disneyland?’

Posted on September 19, 2009 by lmharnisch

Photograph by Bruce Cox / Los Angeles Times Actor David Niven, center, in a toast at Twentieth Century Fox studios with Nikita Khrushchev, left, Eric Johnston of the Motion Picture Producers Assn., Andrei Gromyko and studio executive Buddy Adler. Photograph … Continue reading →

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Movie Star Mystery Photo

Posted on September 18, 2009 by lmharnisch

Los Angeles Times file photo Update: Our mystery guest is Esther Ralston, above, in 1923. Esther Ralston; Silent Era ‘American Venus’  January 21, 1994 By MYRNA OLIVER, TIMES STAFF WRITER Esther Ralston, the beautiful blonde “American Venus” of silent films, … Continue reading →

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Found on EBay — Earl Carroll’s Nightclub

Posted on September 16, 2009 by lmharnisch

This menu from Earl Carroll's nightclub in Hollywood (now the Nickelodeon building at 6230 Sunset Blvd.) has been listed on EBay. The vendor suggests the menu is from about 1946. Bidding starts at $9.99.

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