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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + +)

Posted on January 16, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1944 Republic picture The Lady and the Monster, with Vera Hruba Ralston, Richard Arlen, Erich von Stroheim, Helen Vinson, Mary Nash, Sidney Blackmer, Janet Martin, Bill Henry, Charles Cane, Juanita Quigley, Josephine Dillon and … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on January 8, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1954 MGM picture Tennessee Champ, with Shelley Winters, Keenan Wynn, Dewey Martin, Earl Holliman, Dave O’Brien, Charles Buchinsky (Bronson) and Yvette Dugay (Duguay).

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: 2178 High Tower Drive, L.A.’s First Community Elevator

Posted on January 8, 2024 by lmharnisch

The Tower appeared in the March 24, 1939, installment of Nuestro Pueblo by Joseph Seewerker and Charles Owens of the Los Angeles Times. Note: This is an encore post from 2020. Both marketing gimmick and necessity, the elevator shaft that … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on January 1, 2024 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1933 Twentieth Century picture Blood Money, with George Bancroft, Judith Anderson, Frances Dee, Chick Chandler, Blossom Seeley, Etienne Girardot and George Regas.

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Mary Astor’s Lost Film ‘New Year’s Eve’

Posted on December 30, 2023 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from January 2020. Since TCM is featuring Mary Astor, here’s a brief post on her lost movie “New Year’s Eve.” (A tip of the hat to Lou Lumenick, who tweeted about the movie on … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on December 25, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1931 Chesterfield Motion Picture film The Devil Plays, with Jameson Thomas, Florence Britton, Thomas Jackson, Richard Tucker, Robert Ellis, Lillian Rich, Edmund Burns, Dorothy Christy, Lew Kelly, Carmelita Geraghty, Jack Trent and Murdock McQuarrie.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Agnes Grew, Pioneering Paramount Executive

Posted on December 18, 2023 by lmharnisch

Agnes Grew with a map showing the results from a survey of women movie-goers, 1945. A leader in almost everything she tried, Agnes Grew is mostly forgotten like many other women working in the motion picture industry during the 1920s-1930s. … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on December 18, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1945 Paramount picture Love Letters, with Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ann Richards, Cecil Kellaway, Gladys Cooper, Anita Louise, Robert Sully, Reginald Denny, Ernest Cossart and Byron Barr.

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on December 11, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1941 Paramount picture The Road to Zanzibar, with Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Una Merkel, Eric Blore, Douglass Dumbrille, Iris Adrian and Lionel Royce.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Lighting the Way on Santa Claus Lane

Posted on December 11, 2023 by lmharnisch

Hollywood Boulevard decorated for Christmas in the 1950s. Note: This is an encore post from 2021. Starting in the late 1920s, Hollywood Boulevard’s Christmas decorations dazzled shoppers and tourists with their thousands of twinkling lights, a spectacular backdrop for holiday … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywood Sign Built and Illuminated November-December 1923

Posted on December 8, 2023 by lmharnisch

The Hollywoodland Sign, in a photo published in the Los Angeles Evening Herald, Dec. 8, 1923. Note: This is an encore post from 2017. Originally constructed as a publicity gimmick and branding symbol to help generate sales for a real … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on December 4, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1940 Warner Bros. short Service With the Colors, with Robert Armstrong, William Lundigan, Henry O’Neill, William Orr, Herbert Anderson and George Haywood.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywood and Poinsettias

Posted on December 4, 2023 by lmharnisch

A postcard c. 1908 of poinsettias, “California’s Christmas flower,” listed on EBay. Note: This is an encore post from 2020. Euphorba Pulcherrima, better known as the poinsettia plant, has been popular in Los Angeles since the late 1800s. Some call … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on November 27, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1949 Twentieth Century-Fox film Come to the Stable, with Loretta Young, Celeste Holm, Hugh Marlowe, Elsa Lanchester, Thomas Gomez, Dorothy Patrick, Basil Ruysdael, Dooley Wilson, Regis Toomey and Mike Mazurki.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Agnes O’Malley Marx, Pioneering Film Publicist

Posted on November 27, 2023 by lmharnisch

Agnes O’Malley Marx in the Los Angeles Daily News, 1954. The early moving picture industry offered opportunity to diverse workers: immigrants, women, and people of color more easily found jobs and opportunities for growth and leadership in the new field. … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on November 20, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1943 Twentieth Century-Fox picture The Gang’s All Here, with Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, Phil Baker, Benny Goodman and His Orchestra, Eugene Pallette, Charlotte Greenwood, Edward Everett Horton, Tony De Marco, James Ellison, Sheila Ryan … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on November 13, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1947 Paramount film Welcome Stranger, with Bing Crosby, Joan Caulfield, Barry Fitzgerald, Wanda Hendrix, Frank Faylen, Elizabeth Patterson, Robert Shayne, Larry Young, Percy Kilbride, Charles Dingle and Don Beddoe.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Fred Archer, Master of Artistic Photography

Posted on November 13, 2023 by lmharnisch

Joan Bennett photographed by Fred Archer, Modern Screen Magazine. Note: This is an encore post from 2015 As stillsmen Elmer Fryer and Fred Archer wrote in the 1928 article for “Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers,” “In the … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Mona Darkfeather – Native American Who Wasn’t

Posted on November 6, 2023 by lmharnisch

Long before Iron Eyes Cody was outed as non-Native American, silent film actress Josephine Workman claimed full Native American heritage, though only her maternal grandmother was actually Native American. Accentuating her dark, exotic looks and embroidered background, she took the … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on November 6, 2023 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie was the 1946 Eagle Lion picture Caesar and Cleopatra, with Vivien Leigh, Claude Rains, Stewart Granger, Flora Robson, Francis Sullivan, Basil Sydney, Cecil Parker, Ernest Thesiger, Michael Rennie, Antony Eustrel, Robert Adams, Raymond Lovell, Olga Edwardes, … Continue reading →

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