Category Archives: Hollywood

Daylight Saving Time: A Reminder From Pier Angeli and the Daily Mirror

Posted on March 12, 2017 by lmharnisch

Pier Angeli and her little friend remind Daily Mirror readers that Daylight Saving Time begins today and to set your clocks forward one hour.

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RIP Robert Osborne (1932 – 2017)

Posted on March 6, 2017 by lmharnisch

  Robert Osborne, the always affable TCM host, has died at 84 after years of declining health. TCM Remembers Robert Osborne (video). Los Angeles Times. Variety. Washington Post. New York Times profile.

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on March 6, 2017 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie has been the 1932 MGM film “The Beast of the City,” with Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford, Jean Hersholt, Dorothy Peterson, Tully Marshall, John Miljan, Emmett Corrigan, Warner Richmond, Sandy Roth and J. Carroll Naish, … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hillview Apartment Building Graces Hollywood Boulevard

Posted on March 6, 2017 by lmharnisch

  A postcard of the Hillview Apartment Building, from the California State Library. Long an elegant sight on Hollywood Boulevard, the Hillview Apartment Building’s (now the Hollywood Hudson Apartments) central location in Hollywood and its graceful look attracted entertainers of … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on February 27, 2017 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie has been the 1952 RKO film “Blackbeard, the Pirate,” with Robert “Yarr” Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix, Keith Andes, Torin Thatcher, Irene Ryan, Alan Mowbray, Richard Egan, Skelton Knaggs, Dick Wessel, Anthony Caruso, Jack Lambert, Noel … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: 940 N. Highland Ave. Salutes Animals

Posted on February 27, 2017 by lmharnisch

  940 N. Highland Ave. via Google Street View. Long a striking icon on Highland Avenue, 940 N. Highland Avenue’s attractive facade highlights the building’s original use as a dog and cat hospital. Simple and elegant, its sleek modernistic look … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on February 20, 2017 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie has been the 1931 RKO picture “Millie,” based on the novel by Donald Henderson Clarke, directed by John Francis Dillon, produced by Charles R. Rogers, adapted by Charles Kenyon, with dialogue by Charles Kenyon and Ralph … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights – Hollywoodland’s Kanst Art Gallery

Posted on February 20, 2017 by lmharnisch

  Note: This is an encore post from 2013. The Hollywoodland housing development possessed many unique features when it opened in 1923. The neighborhood was the first themed housing development built on hillsides, the first to include a shopping center … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Remembering ‘Severed’ Con Man John Gilmore

Posted on February 17, 2017 by lmharnisch

I promised I would tell a few tales about the late John Gilmore, author of “Severed.” It’s on L.A. Review of Books. (Though prone to exaggeration, Gilmore actually had a few small roles as an actor, including this 1960 appearance … Continue reading →

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Eve Golden’s YouTube Theater: Theresa Harris

Posted on February 14, 2017 by lmharnisch

  An image of Theresa Harris from PM magazine, Oct. 29, 1949, listed on EBay for $60. Lena Horne was an angry, angry woman—she felt that if she’d been white she’d have had the career of Rita Hayworth or Doris … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on February 13, 2017 by lmharnisch

Several members of the Brain Trust identified this week’s mystery movie as the 1946 film “The Verdict,” and with four good reasons: Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring and Rosalind Ivan. (And I could have thrown in Arthur Shields and … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — AMPAS Awards Stills Photographers

Posted on February 13, 2017 by lmharnisch

“A close second as the Best Production Still Out-of-Doors, is this beautifully composed and lighted scene from “Song of Bernadette,” 20th-Century-Fox production, by Stax Graves,” Courtesy of Mary Mallory. Note: This is an encore of a post from 2014. Over … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on February 6, 2017 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie has been the 1973 film “Bad Charleston Charlie,” released by International Cinema Corporation, presented by Reno Carell, in association with Bad Charleston Charlie Associates. It was produced by Ross Hagen, directed by Ivan Nagy, with Ross … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Edward A.D. Christopher Home Witnesses History

Posted on February 6, 2017 by lmharnisch

  The Edward A.D. Christopher home, photograph by Mary Mallory. With the speed of change in technology, transportation, and society, it’s often amazing that something historic survives. The Edward A. D. Christopher home at 11015 Aqua Vista Street in Studio … Continue reading →

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Eve Golden’s YouTube Theater: Mephisto

Posted on January 31, 2017 by lmharnisch

  A postcard of Igo Sym listed on EBay as Buy It Now for $6. So I’m watching this 1927 German silent film, Café Elektric, starring Marlene Dietrich as a ne’er-do-well spoiled rich girl. And I am charmed by the … Continue reading →

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Coming Events: Book Signing for ‘Hollywood at Play’

Posted on January 30, 2017 by lmharnisch

A book signing for “Hollywood at Play,” by Donovan Brandt, Mary Mallory and Stephen X. Sylvester, will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday at Larry Edmunds Bookshop at 6644 Hollywood Blvd.

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on January 30, 2017 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie has been the 1931 Paramount film “The Smiling Lieutenant,” with Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Charlie Ruggles, Miriam Hopkins, George Barbier and Hugh O’Connell. The film was directed by Ernst Lubitsch, written by Ernest Vajda and Samson … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Cecil B. DeMille – Big Man on Campus

Posted on January 30, 2017 by lmharnisch

  Cecil B. DeMille meets students who will attend DeMille Junior High School, Long Beach Press-Telegram, Sept. 9, 1956. Schools are often named after historic or famous figures that offer inspiration, hope, and good examples to students of that neighborhood … Continue reading →

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Eve Golden’s YouTube Theater: Castles on the Air

Posted on January 24, 2017 by lmharnisch

  Eve Golden’s biography of Vernon and Irene Castle. I am operating on the assumption that none of you have read my 2007 biography of Vernon and Irene Castle—that book laid an ostrich-sized egg. Three dogs and a cat bought … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on January 23, 2017 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie has been the 1951 Twentieth Century-Fox film “Fixed Bayonets!” with Richard Basehart, Gene Evans, Michael O’Shea, Richard Hylton, Craig Hill and Skip Homeier. The film was written and directed by Samuel Fuller  from a novel by … Continue reading →

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