Category Archives: Hollywood

Richard Widmark, RIP

Posted on March 26, 2008 by lmharnisch
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Mini contest

Posted on March 26, 2008 by lmharnisch

March 24, 1958 Los Angeles Just because the deadline passed 50 years ago doesn’t mean the Daily Mirror can’t have a little fun. There are no prizes, only a little vintage amusement…. Send me your best interpretation of the NBC … Continue reading →

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March 26, 1958

Posted on March 26, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, one movie that is not on Netflix (although "Bitter Victory" is available) … Below, The Times’ editorial page pays tribute to attorney Joseph Scott … and notes the fifth anniversary of Jonas Salk’s announcement that he had discovered a polio … Continue reading →

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Recalling Michael Todd

Posted on March 24, 2008 by lmharnisch

Here’s Cecil Smith’s two-part series on Michael Todd, published in The Times in May 1957. David Niven called him, "The best thing to ever hit Hollywood." John Farrow, fired as the director of "Around the World in 80 Days," said: … Continue reading →

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Paul Coates

Posted on March 24, 2008 by lmharnisch

March 24, 1958 In the movies, they make it out like reporters aren’t averse to drinking one too many. That they’d trade their mothers’ wedding bands for an exclusive expose. And that when they’re on a hot crime story, they … Continue reading →

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March 24, 1958

Posted on March 24, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, the pill is 100% effective in preliminary tests … Below, Bob Hope returns from the Soviet Union, where it was 20 below, and says "Palm Springs, open up your pearly gates" … A makeshift bomb is found in the … Continue reading →

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March 24, 1938

Posted on March 24, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, the dazzling hands of Los Angeles visitor Albert Tangora, who can type 141 words a minute for an hour, The Times says. Tangora, the world’s champion typist, was married in Los Angeles in 1926 to the former Dorothy Lane, … Continue reading →

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Michael Todd, RIP

Posted on March 22, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, on his way to a Friars’ Club roast in New York, producer Michael Todd, writer Art Cohn, and pilots William S. Verner and Tom Barkley are killed when Todd’s Lockheed Lodestar crashes in bad weather in New Mexico. Below, … Continue reading →

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March 22, 1938

Posted on March 22, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, "Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife," from Ernst Lubitsch. Below, Earle Kynette’s last attempt to get out of jail is rejected as his defense prepares for a trial to begin April 12 … Carl Warr is arrested 25 years after strapping a … Continue reading →

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March 18, 1958

Posted on March 18, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, one of Clark Gable’s lesser pictures is featured at a fund-raiser for the Press Club’s 8-Ball Foundation. When the Mirror and Examiner closed in 1962, the foundation held a benefit to raise money for unemployed journalists. Below, a plane … Continue reading →

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Marilyn Monroe

Posted on March 18, 2008 by lmharnisch

Jerry Clark, the chief warden of the retirees’ group known as the Old Farts of The Times, sends along a photo of Marilyn Monroe with Mirror reporter Jack Searles, center, who died March 1. Jerry writes that the mystery reporter … Continue reading →

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March 16, 1958

Posted on March 16, 2008 by lmharnisch

Frances Farmer is interviewed by The Times’ Cecil Smith upon her return to acting in "The Tongues of Angels," a "Studio One" production. Farmer, whose life imploded in the 1940s, says: "I’m better now at my work than I have … Continue reading →

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Videotape

Posted on March 10, 2008 by lmharnisch

April 28, 1958Los Angeles As The Times noted in November 1957, NBC planned to introduce videotaped programs with the switch to daylight saving time. Although the time switch didn’t occur until April 27 in 1958, we have already rolled the … Continue reading →

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March 9, 1938

Posted on March 9, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, two movies you will not find on Netflix … The Harry Raymond bombing takes a crucial turn with the beginning of a campaign to recall Mayor Frank Shaw … A writ of habeas corpus is denied for Police Capt. … Continue reading →

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Matt Weinstock

Posted on March 7, 2008 by lmharnisch

March 7, 1958 Another citizen is resentful because police came and got him at 2 a.m. on a warrant for an unanswered parking violation. Eventually, after the long ride to City Jail, the processing and waiting, a neighbor put up … Continue reading →

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March 7, 1938

Posted on March 7, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, Spencer Tracy as the Tin Man–that’s a casting idea that never occurred to me. Or to MGM, apparently. Below, former President Hoover is to visit Hitler … Cleanup from the storms continues as the death toll reaches 92 … … Continue reading →

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March 6, 1958

Posted on March 6, 2008 by lmharnisch

Above, Hey look what I found! An interview with Saul Bass. Is this cool or what? Below, Marie McDonald and Harry Karl, alias "Karl the Shoe Man." You may recall earlier posts about the Jane Russell film "Fuzzy Pink Nightgown." … Continue reading →

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Pellicano file

Posted on March 5, 2008 by lmharnisch

June 29, 1977 Isn’t this a grim little story…. How odd that Pellicano was involved in it. Hm.

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Feb. 29, 1968

Posted on February 29, 2008 by lmharnisch

Faye Dunaway talks with Kevin Thomas about life since "Bonnie and Clyde" … Romney drops out of the presidential race–doesn’t that sound familiar? … According to reports, President Johnson is preparing to mobilize Marine reservists and National Guard troops to … Continue reading →

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Feb. 28, 1958

Posted on February 28, 2008 by lmharnisch

Studio executive Harry Cohn dies … On the jump, the rest of the Cohn obituary … A man commits suicide by jumping from the Subway Terminal Building … Pilot whale Bubbles "celebrates" a year in captivity … The Fire Department … Continue reading →

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