Category Archives: Hollywood

1944 in Print — Hollywood News and Gossip by Louella Parsons, October 9, 1944

Posted on October 9, 2025 by lmharnisch

October 9, 1944: Wendell Willkie* didn’t know the real reason for his hospitalization. Intimates persuaded news and air reporters to “play it down.” … When the flash of his passing reached midtown spots at 2:30 Sunday ayem — it sent many people home depressed, Walter Winchell says. Continue reading →

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1944 in Print — Hollywood News and Gossip by Louella Parsons, October 8, 1944

Posted on October 8, 2025 by lmharnisch

October 8, 1944: The first official visit Effie Klinker, Edgar Bergen’s new wooden spinster, made was to Louella Parsons. Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights; ‘America Tropical’ at 93

Posted on October 7, 2025 by lmharnisch

In Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory looks at the history of David Siqueiros’ mural “America Tropical.” Continue reading →

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October 7, 1949: Actress Jean Spangler vanishes

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October 7, 1949: Starlet Jean Spangler vanishes. Continue reading →

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1944 in Print — Hollywood News and Gossip by Louella Parsons, October 7, 1944

Posted on October 7, 2025 by lmharnisch

October 7, 1944: One thing about Preston Sturges, he doesn’t underrate his own talents. He was approached recently to act as commentator on a radio show. “Yes I am interested,” drawled Sturges, “providing you give me a two-hour show and build a theater for me,” Louella Parsons says. Continue reading →

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October 6, 1949: LAPD Gangster Squad Abolished

Posted on October 6, 2025 by lmharnisch

October 6, 1949: The LAPD’s Gangster Squad is abolished under Police Chief William Worton. Continue reading →

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Movieland ‘Unsuitable’ Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on October 6, 2025 by lmharnisch

This week’s “unsuitable” mystery movie was the 1934 Paramount film Search for Beauty, with Larry “Buster” Crabbe, Ida Lupino, Robert Armstrong, James Gleason, Toby Wing, Gertrude Michael, Bradley Page, Frank McGlynn Sr., Nora Cecil, Virginia Hammond, Eddie Gribbon and “Pop” … Continue reading →

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October 4, 1943: American Troops Enter Bomb-Shattered Naples

Posted on October 4, 2025 by lmharnisch

October 4, 1943: Tom Treanor says of the liberation of Naples: The Germans left Naples in a truly deplorable condition. In a huge hospital for incurables I myself saw 70 rotting corpses of men, women and children. They were killed in street fighting during the past week and authorities were unable to move their bodies because of the lack of transportation. Continue reading →

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October 3, 1947: Full House – Burglar Slips In on Mystery Writer’s Poker Game

Posted on October 3, 2025 by lmharnisch

October 3, 1947: Reddest face in town yesterday belonged to Charles Bennett, writer of screen mysteries in which the brilliant detective always catches the crook. While he had a few friends in for a card game, a burglar crawled through a window and stole his wife’s purse and a pair of earrings. Continue reading →

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1944 in Print — Hollywood News and Gossip by Louella Parsons, October 3, 1944

Posted on October 3, 2025 by lmharnisch

October 3, 1944: Danton Walker says: Complaints of civilians who have had to wait while Nazi prisoners are fed in dining cars have resulted in a new ruling; hereafter the prisoners must remain in their guarded cars and eat out of waxed paper boxes. Continue reading →

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October 2, 1947: On Skid Row, Homeless Children Mourn Their Beloved Sister Ollie

Posted on October 2, 2025 by lmharnisch

October 2, 1947: Sister Ollie (though she was famous under another name) died happy, according to her mother, Sister Sibbie, the superintendent at Sunshine Mission, 558 S. Wall St., a shelter for homeless women and children on skid row. Continue reading →

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1944 in Print — Hollywood News and Gossip by Louella Parsons, October 2, 1944

Posted on October 2, 2025 by lmharnisch

October 2, 1944: Danton Walter says: Part of the campaign to eliminate Nazi influence in the postwar world is an order from Washington to commanding generals to destroy all films made in Germany since 1933, Danton Walter says. Continue reading →

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1944 in Print — Hollywood News and Gossip by Louella Parsons, October 1, 1944

Posted on October 1, 2025 by lmharnisch

October 1, 1944: The always unpredictable and exciting Maria Montez never fails to come through with some unexpected and dramatic episode when I talk to her, Louella Parsons says. Continue reading →

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September 30, 1959: Matt Weinstock

Posted on September 30, 2025 by lmharnisch

Sept. 30, 1959: “The body of a San Bernardino Freeway crash victim was hurled into a tree where it hung unnoticed for five hours today” … W.C. Fields vs. Cecil B. DeMille … and Matt Weinstock on some friendly traffic officers. Continue reading →

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1944 in Print — Hollywood News and Gossip by Louella Parsons, September 30, 1944

Posted on September 30, 2025 by lmharnisch

September 30, 1944: Lucille Ball, since her separation from Desi Arnaz, has gone to live in the Hollywood home of Jody and Renee (DeMarco) Hutchinson, Danton Walker says. Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: It All Began With a Barn

Posted on September 29, 2025 by lmharnisch

In Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory looks at the history of Hollywood Heritage Museum, which began as a barn that served as the first moving picture studio. Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on September 29, 2025 by lmharnisch

For Monday, we have a mysterious woman. Continue reading →

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September 28, 1959: Matt Weinstock

Posted on September 28, 2025 by lmharnisch

September 28, 1959: Matt Weinstock has the story of a woman who attended a movie at Grauman’s Chinese Theater and felt a light tap on her leg. It was her seatmate’s pet snake, Gertrude, who loved the movies. Continue reading →

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September 27, 1963: Married Couple Held in Blackmail of Single Woman for $27,000

Posted on September 27, 2025 by lmharnisch

September 27, 1963: I always thought blackmail was something that only occurred in old Perry Mason episodes, but here’s an actual case and it’s quite strange. It involves a married man blackmailing a single woman. No really!

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September 26, 1959: Matt Weinstock

Posted on September 26, 2025 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. Continue reading →

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