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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on June 24, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery film was Escape Route, an episode of the British TV series The Saint, with Roger Moore, John Gregson, Wanda Ventham, Ivor Dean, Donald Sutherland, Jean Marsh, Jeremy Burnham, Terry Yorke, Romo Gorrara, Vicki Wolf, Tony Doonan, Eric … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: ‘Don’t Be a Sucker’ Promotes American Values

Posted on June 24, 2024 by lmharnisch

“Don’t Be a Sucker” is on YouTube. Note: This is an encore post from 2017. Still as relevant today as when it was first produced over 70 years ago, the United States Army Signal Corps’ short “Don’t Be a Sucker” … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hale’s Tours Offer Virtual Reality in 1906

Posted on June 17, 2024 by lmharnisch

George C. Hale in the Salt Lake City Herald, Oct. 20, 1905. Note: This is an encore post from 2016. Technology changes often move with the speed of lightning, upending life as it moves hurly burly into a brave new … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on June 17, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1952 MGM film Lovely to Look At, with Kathryn Grayson, Red Skelton, Howard Keel, Marge and Gower Champion, Ann Miller, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Kurt Kaszmar and Marcel Dalio.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: ‘The Key to Hollywood’ Promotes Tourism

Posted on June 10, 2024 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2014. Sightseeing has long been the lifeblood of Hollywood and Los Angeles. Long before Gray Line Tours or even any of its poorer knockoffs came along, companies offered sightseeing around these areas, particularly … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on June 10, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1937 Twentieth Century-Fox film Crack-Up, with Peter Lorre, Brian Donlevy, Helen Wood, Ralph Morgan and Thomas Beck.

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on June 3, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1933 RKO picture Lucky Devils, with Bill (William) Boyd, Dorothy Wilson, William Gargan, Robert Rose, Rosco Ates, William Bakewell, Julie Haydon, Bruce Cabot, Rochelle Hudson, Creighton (Lon Jr.) Chaney, Phyllis Fraser and Betty Furness.

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on May 27, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1956 United Artists film Comanche, with Dana Andrews, Kent Smith, Nestor Paiva, Henry Brandon, Stacey Harris, John Litel, Lowell Gilmore, Mike Mazurki and Tony Carbajal. Introducing Miss Linda Cristal. And Reed Sherman.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Donald Biddle Keyes, Cameraman

Posted on May 27, 2024 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2013. Most motion picture still photographers picked up cameras at young ages, intrigued at how they could paint with light. Many yearned to do more than just snap shots in a portrait studio … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on May 20, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1956 Twentieth Century-Fox film 23 Paces to Baker Street, with Van Johnson, Vera Miles, Cecil Parker, Patricia Laffan, Maurice Denham, Estelle Winwood, Liam Redmond, Isobel Elsom, Martin Benson, Natalie Norwick and Terence de Marney.

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on May 13, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1947 United Artists film The Private Affairs of Bel Ami, with George Sanders, Angela Lansbury, Ann Dvorak, Frances Dee, John Carradine, Susan Douglas, Hugo Haas, Marie Wilson, Albert Basserman, Katherine Emery, Richard Fraser and … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory: Hollywood Heights – Max Davidson

Posted on May 13, 2024 by lmharnisch

Photo: Lillian Elliott and Max Davidson in “Call of the Cuckoo.” Note: This is an encore post from 2012. America has always been the land of immigrants. From when this part of the world was a mere colony to other … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Yutaka Abe, ‘DeMille of Japan,’ Started in U.S. Silent Films

Posted on May 6, 2024 by lmharnisch

Jack (Yutaka) Abe in an ad for Mystic Faces in Film Daily, Sept. 1, 1918. Note: This is an encore post from 2022. Virtually unknown today, young Yutaka Abe gained fame in the American silent film industry after immigrating to … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on May 6, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1936 Republic picture The Lawless Nineties, with John Wayne, Ann Rutherford, Harry Woods, George Hayes, Al Bridge, Snowflake, Etta McDaniel, Tom Brower, Cliff Lyons, Jack Rockwell, Al Taylor, Charles King, George Chesebro, Tracy Layne, … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on April 29, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1938 MGM film Of Human Hearts, with Walter Huston, James Stewart, Gene Reynolds, Beulah Bondi, Guy Kibbee, Charles Coburn, John Carradine, Ann Rutherford, Leatrice Joy Gilbert, Charley Grapewin, Leona Roberts, Gene Lockhart, Clem Bevans, … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Clara Bow’s 1920s Home for Sale, a Cozy Cottage for Star of Silent Films

Posted on April 23, 2024 by lmharnisch

Clara Bow’s former rental at 7576 Hollywood Blvd. is on the market for $1.3 million. Hollywood homes can show a star’s character just as much as any candid portrait. Ostentatious or understated, hip or homey, residences serve as a snapshot … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on April 22, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1944 Universal picture Can’t Help Singing, with Deanna Durbin, Robert Paige, Akim Tamiroff, David Bruce, Leonid Kinskey, June Vincent, Ray Collins, Andrew Tombes, Thomas Gomez, Clara Blandick, Olin Howlin and George Cleveland.

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on April 15, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1954 film Black Tuesday, with Edward G. Robinson, Jean Parker, Peter Graves, Milburn Stone, Warren Stevens, Sylvia Findley, Jack Kelly, Hal Baylor, James Bell, Victor Perrin and Russell Johnson.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: The Flapper Speaks to American Women

Posted on April 15, 2024 by lmharnisch

The Flapper – via Wikipedia. Note: This is an encore post from 2013. Life changed quickly in the United States post-World War I. Nowhere was this more evident than in the role and actions of young women emancipating themselves from … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + +)

Posted on April 8, 2024 by lmharnisch

For Monday, we have a mystery fellow. His slumbering mystery companion has been cropped out because even asleep he lacks sufficient mysteriousness.

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