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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Donald Biddle Keyes, Cameraman

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 + + + +)

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 + + + +)

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

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

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 + + + +)

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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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: TCM Festival Salutes Hollywood’s Golden Age

The recently concluded 15th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival brought together film fans from around the world to Hollywood to celebrate films, friends, and fun. Filled with diverse programming offering something for everyone, the Festival brings together archivists, academics, and … Continue reading

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

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

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 + + + +)

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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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Silent Films’ Broad Range on Display at San Francisco Festival

While the recently concluded 27th SFSFF moved from the beautiful vintage Castro Theatre to a new barnlike structure adjacent to the remaining structure from the 1915 Panama Pacific Intl. Exposition, it once again featured diverse programming offering an emotional, humanistic … Continue reading

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

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

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 + + +)

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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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Darkness Has No Borders at Noir City Hollywood

Never Open That Door (1952), shown at Noir City Hollywood. Wonderful programming choices highlighted the 25th Anniversary of Noir City at Hollywood’s Netflix Egyptian Theatre displayed depravity, darkness, and deceit across the world, truly demonstrating that “darkness has no borders.”. … Continue reading

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: 15th TCM Classic Film Festival Returns to Hollywood

For its 15th Anniversary, the TCM Classic Film Festival returns to Hollywood April 18-21 to examine crime in all its permutations with the theme “Most Wanted: Crime and Justice in Film.” A diverse group of archivists, musicians, and presenters will … Continue reading

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Movieland Mystery Photo–April Fools’ Day Edition (Updated + + + +)

This week’s April Fools’ mystery movie was the 1964 Woodfall film Girl With Green Eyes, with Peter Finch, Rita Tushingham, Maire Kean, Arthur O’Sullivan, Julian Glover, T.P. McKenna, Lislott Goettinger, Patrick Laffan and Lynn Redgrave.

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Eva McCormick – Early Projectionist Put Movies on the Screen

Women were integral to the development and rise of the motion picture industry into both entertainment and economic powerhouse in the Twentieth Century. The fledgling field welcomed women, immigrants, and people of color eager to contribute at a time when … Continue reading

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

This week’s mystery movie was the 1957 Twentieth Century-Fox film Three Brave Men, with Ray Milland, Ernest Borgnine, Frank Lovejoy, Nina Foch, Dean Jagger, Virginia Christine, Edward Andrews, Frank Faylen, Diane Jergens, Warren Berlinger, Andrew Duggan, Joseph Wiseman, James Westerfield, … Continue reading

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Noir City Returns to Egyptian Theatre

Lizabeth Scott in Desert Fury (1947), showing March 24 as part of Noir City Hollywood. The Film Noir Foundation celebrates the 25th Anniversary of Noir City Hollywood with a return to Hollywood’s beautiful restored Egyptian Theatre March 22 through 31, … Continue reading

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