Category Archives: Hollywood

Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Nation’s First Legally Permitted Gay Pride Parade

Posted on June 5, 2023 by lmharnisch

Crowd gathering to march in the Los Angeles Christopher Street West pride parade. June 28, 1970. On June 28, 1970, Hollywood hosted the nation’s first legally permitted LGBT Parade, helping spark gay pride and the right for equality in California. … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Ben Model’s Undercrank Productions Bring Silent Films to Life

Posted on June 2, 2023 by lmharnisch

For more than 40 years, Ben Model has been accompanying silent films and finding new ways to bring them to audiences all over the world. Besides being a resident film accompanist at the Museum of Modern Art in New York … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on May 29, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1955 picture The Desperate Hours, with Humphrey Bogart, Fredric March, Arthur Kennedy, Martha Scott, Dewey Martin, Gig Young, Mary Murphy, Richard Eyer, Robert Middleton, Alan Reed, Bert Freed, Ray Collins, Whit Bissel and Ray … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on May 22, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1953 MGM picture The Clown, with Red Skelton, Tim Considine, Jane Greer, Loring Smith, Philip Ober, Lou Lubin, Fay Roope, Walter Reed, Edward Marr, Jonathan Cott, Don Beddoe and Steve Forrest.  

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Mary Mallory: Hollywood Heights – Patience Abbe

Posted on May 22, 2023 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2012. Patience Abbe and her brothers John and Richard parlayed their adventures globetrotting with their famous photographer father James Abbe and mother Polly, a former Ziegfeld dancer, into three books in the 1930s. … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Fine Chinese Dining and Asian American Celebrities’ Restaurants

Posted on May 17, 2023 by lmharnisch

Willie Fung opened the New Moon cafe. Americans fell in love with Chinese food over the decades, drawn to it originally by cheap prices and chop suey, before growing to love more exotic and elegant dishes. At the same time, … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on May 15, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1946 MGM picture No Leave, No Love, with Van Johnson, Keenan Wynn, Pat Kirkwood, Guy Lombardo and his Orchestra, Edward Arnold, Marie Wilson, Leon Ames, Marina Koshetz, Selena Royle, Wilson Wood, Vince Barnett and … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on May 8, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1939 Universal picture First Love, with Deanna Durbin, Robert Stack, Eugene Pallette, Helen Parrish, Lewis Howard, Leatrice Joy, June Storey, Frank Jenks, Charles Coleman, Mary Treen and Kathleen Howard.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Two Chinese Restaurants in Studio City

Posted on May 8, 2023 by lmharnisch

A matchbook cover for Rickshaw Boy, Courtesy of Mary Mallory. Note: This is an encore post from 2016. Graphics, films, advertisements, music – all demonstrate values and cultures of the time and place in which they were created. Words, phrases, … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on May 1, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1939 Warner Bros. short Old Hickory, with Hugh Sothern, Nana Bryant, Victor Kilian, Frank Wilcox, Irving Pichel, Natalie Moorhead, George Renevant and John Hamilton.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywood’s First Studio Librarian, Elizabeth McGaffey

Posted on May 1, 2023 by lmharnisch

In a field that prides itself on accuracy in production, it took a woman to recognize the importance of organizing and conducting research to verify facts and figures. Forgotten today, Elizabeth McGaffey established the Lasky Feature Play Company’s library with … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on April 24, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1944 Twentieth Century-Fox picture Wilson, with Charles Coburn, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell, Ruth Nelson, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, William Eythe, Mary Anderson, Ruth Ford, Sidney Blackmer, Madeleine Forbes, Stanley Ridges, Eddie Foy Jr., … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory: Hollywood Heights – The Quest for a Movie Museum

Posted on April 24, 2023 by lmharnisch

Image: Postcard showing a model of a proposed Hollywood museum, listed on EBay $3.99. Note: This is an encore post from 2011. Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced Oct. 6 … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: TCM Classic Film Festival Salutes Warner Bros. Centennial

Posted on April 19, 2023 by lmharnisch

Highlighting classic film while saluting legendary Warner Bros. Studio’s Centennial, the recently concluded 14th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival offered an entertaining, thoughtful slice of life through its diverse slate of vintage movies and programming. While slimmed down from past … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on April 17, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1947 Republic picture The Flame, with John Carroll, Vera Ralston, Robert Paige, Broderick Crawford, Henry Travers, Blanche Yurka, Constance Dowling, Hattie McDaniel, Victor Sen Yung, Harry V. Cheshire, John Miljan, Garry Owen and Eddie … Continue reading →

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Eve Golden: The Amazing Life of Allan Gould

Posted on April 14, 2023 by lmharnisch

Ruth Tester and Allan Gould perform Manhattan in the 1929 Paramount short Makers of Melody. Longtime readers may recall that way back in 2013, Larry and I pondered the career of Allan Gould, whom I had seen in a 1929 … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + +)

Posted on April 10, 2023 by lmharnisch

For Monday, we have a mysterious fellow. Back of the Head Guy has been cropped out due to insufficient mysteriousness and will appear later in the week. Update: For Friday, here’s Back of the Head Guy.

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Mary Mallory: Hollywood Heights, ‘Hollywood’

Posted on April 10, 2023 by lmharnisch

Aug. 26, 1923: “Hollywood” plays at Grauman’s Rialto. Note: This is an encore post from 2011. More than a decade before the release of HOLLYWOOD BLVD., Paramount Pictures also released a film looking at the behind-the-scenes industry that was also … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on April 3, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1985 TV movie The Hearst and Davies Affair, with Robert Mitchum, Virginia Madsen, Fritz Weaver, Doris Belack, Laura Henry, Francis Hyland, Caroline Yeager, Lorne Kennedy, George Touliatos, Wayne Best, Donna Goodhand, David Daldorisi and … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights–TCM Classic Film Festival Marks 13 Years of Celebrating Movies

Posted on April 3, 2023 by lmharnisch

Dorothy Dandridge in Carmen Jones, screening at the TCM Classic Film Festival. For the 13th year, the TCM Classic Film Festival celebrates the love of film by screening movies on the big screen the way they were meant to be … Continue reading →

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