Tag Archives: 1956

Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on January 2, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1956 film The Scarlet Hour, with Carol Ohmart, Tom Tryon, Jody Lawrance, James Gregory, Elaine Stritch, E.G. Marshall, Edward Binns, David Lewis, Billy Gray, Jacques Aubuchon, Scott Marlowe, Johnstone White, James F. Stone, Maureen … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on August 30, 2021 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1956 film Patterns, with Van Heflin, Everett Sloane, Ed Begley, Beatrice Straight, Elizabeth Wilson, Joanna Roos, Valerie Cossart, Eleni Kiamos, Ronnie Welsh, Shirley Standlee, Andrew Duggan, Jack Livesy, John Seymour, James Kelly, John Shelly, … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + + +)

Posted on August 24, 2020 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1956 film “The Long Arm” (also known as “The Third Key,”) with Jack Hawkins, John Stratton, Dorothy Alison, Geoffrey Keen, Ursula Howells, Newton Blick, Sydney Tafler, Ralph Truman, Maureen Delany, Richard Leech, Meredith Edwards, … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on December 2, 2019 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1956 Warner Bros. film “A Cry in the Night,” with Edmond O’Brien, Brian Donlevy, Natalie Wood, Raymond Burr, Richard Anderson, Irene Hervey, Carol Vezzie, Mary Lawrence, Anthony Caruso, George J. Lewis, Peter Hanson, Tina … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on August 12, 2019 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1956 MGM picture “The Opposite Sex,” with June Allyson, Joan Collins, Dolores Gray, Ann Sheridan,  Ann Miller, Leslie Nielsen, Jeff Richards, Agnes Moorehead, Charlotte Greenwood, Joan Blondell, Sam Levene, Harry James, Art Mooney, Dick … Continue reading →

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Harvey Glatman: The Early Years — Part 4

Posted on January 9, 2014 by lmharnisch

Aug. 26, 1946: Harvey Glatman is arraigned, published in the Knickerbocker News of Albany, N.Y. In case you just tuned in, I did quite a bit of research on the early years of serial killer Harvey M. Glatman for an … Continue reading →

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Man Held in Killing of Ex-Marine — Part 2

Posted on August 14, 2013 by lmharnisch

As strange as the tale of Michael Timothy Cavanaugh had been, the case became even more bizarre once he was arrested. After several days of denying that he knew ex-Marine Ralph Welch, even though he was driving Welch’s car and … Continue reading →

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Found on EBay – Another Good Story Ruined

Posted on November 16, 2012 by lmharnisch

A vendor on EBay has listed this AP photo from New York as showing Ralph von Hiltz, the “murderer of Black Dahlia.” (Price: $25.44). This is just another crackpot confession. The Times reported in 1956 that then-Chief of Detectives Thad … Continue reading →

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Charlton Heston, RIP

Posted on April 6, 2008 by lmharnisch

Oct. 28, 1956 Los Angeles Look at this! We had our religion writer Dan Thrapp interview Charlton Heston about his role as Moses in "The Ten Commandments." Fortunately, Thrapp was not from the "over a salad and mineral water at … Continue reading →

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Rocket to Stardom

Posted on February 11, 2008 by lmharnisch
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Christmas past

Posted on December 7, 2007 by lmharnisch

Dec. 24, 1956Los Angeles      Photograph by Pete Grant / The Los Angeles Times The Times features the home of W.N. Chandler, 13060 Otsego St., Sherman Oaks, in a Dec. 24, 1956, photo essay on holiday yard decor.

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Paul V. Coates–Confidential File

Posted on August 22, 2007 by lmharnisch

Aug. 22, 1957 Desmond Slattery–actor, naturalist, man-about Googies–paid his annual visit to my plush offices yesterday. And, of course, I’m glad he did. Because it means that he won’t be around for another 11 months or so. But don’t get … Continue reading →

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Boyfriend kills waitress

Posted on May 21, 2007 by lmharnisch

  To Whom It May Concern: My name is Linda Pyne and I am writing on behalf of my husband, Richard D. Pyne. As an infant he was abandoned by his parents. He did know that his mother was murdered … Continue reading →

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