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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on December 30, 2024 by lmharnisch

For Monday, we have a mystery fellow. Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on December 23, 2024 by lmharnisch

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

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on December 16, 2024 by lmharnisch

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

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywood and Poinsettias

Posted on December 9, 2024 by lmharnisch

In this installment of Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory looks at the history of the poinsettia plant. Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on December 9, 2024 by lmharnisch

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

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: ‘White Christmas’ Soothes the Home Front in 1942

Posted on December 2, 2024 by lmharnisch

Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds and Virginia Dale in “Holiday Inn.” Note: This is an encore post from 2015. Recognized today as one of the top selling singles and pieces of sheet music of all time, Irving Berlin’s “White … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on December 2, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1937 Warner Bros. film Green Light, with Errol Flynn, Anita Louise, Margaret Lindsay, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Walter Abel.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Tote DuCrow–Character Actor of the Silent Screen

Posted on November 25, 2024 by lmharnisch

Tote DuCrow in Camera, 1922. The early decades of cinema brought many enterprising, colorful character actors to the screen, those looking and appearing real on film. Not as physically attractive or full of charisma, they brought striking personas and authenticity … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on November 25, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1937 Warner Bros. film Penrod and Sam, with Billy Mauch, Frank Craven, Spring Byington, Craig Reynolds, Jackie Morrow, Philip Hurlick, Charles Halton, Bernice Pilot and Kenneth Harlan.

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on November 18, 2024 by lmharnisch

Lobby card for Unknown Blonde listed on EBay. This week’s mystery movie was the 1934 film Unknown Blonde, with Edward Arnold, Barbara Barondess, Barry Norton, John Miljan, Dorothy Revier, Leila Bennett, Walter Catlett, Helen Jerome Eddy, Claude Gillingwater and Arletta … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Lillian St. Cyr, ‘Indian Princess’ of Early Films

Posted on November 18, 2024 by lmharnisch

Lillian St. Cyr, who took the name Princess Red Wing (frequently rendered as Redwing), Moving Picture World, 1912. Note: This is an encore post from 2021. Throughout much of her life, Lillian Margaret St. Cyr felt caught between two worlds … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on November 11, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1953 Warner Bros. film Blowing Wild, with Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Ruth Roman, Anthony Quinn, Ward Bond, Ian MacDonald, Richard Karlan and Juan Garcia.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Samuel Fuller’s ‘Power of the Press’

Posted on November 11, 2024 by lmharnisch

In an age when most of the mainstream media shills for ratings, spectacle, and train wrecks, taking a look back at vintage films can often provide a sad window into how little history changes unless a determined, freedom-loving press like … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: ‘Your Girl and Mine’ Promotes Women’s Suffrage

Posted on November 4, 2024 by lmharnisch

“Your Girl and Mine,” Moving Picture World. Note: This is an encore post from 2015. From the 1840s on, many women in the United States fought to vote. Considered merely chattel, like slaves, women were forced to endure horrible marriages, … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on November 4, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1940 Warner Bros. picture Torrid Zone, with James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Pat O’Brien, Andy Devine, Helen Vinson, Jerome Cowan and George Tobias.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Dr. Caligari and the Rise of American Nationalism

Posted on October 28, 2024 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2022. Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, described by film critic Roger Ebert as the “first true horror film,” still wows audiences more than 100 years after creation due to its high … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on October 28, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1938 Twentieth Century-Fox film Happy Landing, with Sonja Henie, Don Ameche, Ethel Merman, Cesar Romero, Jean Hersholt, Billy Gilbert, Raymond Scott Quintet, Wally Vernon and Leah Ray.

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on October 21, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1949 film Lost Boundaries, with Beatrice Pearson, Mel Ferrer, Susan Douglas, the Rev Robert H. Dunn, Richard Hylton, Grace Coppin, Carleton Carpenter, Seth Arnold, Wendell Holmes, Parker Fennelly, Ralph Riggs, William Greaves, Rai Saunders, … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — Henry Armetta, Excitable Support

Posted on October 21, 2024 by lmharnisch

Henry Armetta, courtesy of Mary Mallory. In many films of the 1930s and 1940s, what audiences remember most are the one-of-a-kind supporting players, with vibrant personalities, colorful ways of talking, recognizable tics and dramatic looks. Many of these people came … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on October 14, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1924 Pathe Picture Girl Shy, with Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Richard Daniels and Carlton Griffin.

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