Tag Archives: hollywood

Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on April 10, 2017 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie has been the 1962 MGM picture “Billy Rose’s Jumbo,” with Doris Day, Stephen Boyd, Jimmy Durante and Martha Raye, Dean Jagger, Joseph Waring, Lynn Wood, Charles Watts, James Chandler, Robert Burton, Wilson Wood, Norman Leavitt, Grady … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — Nelson Evans, Hollywood’s Early Forgotten Portrait Photographer

Posted on April 10, 2017 by lmharnisch

Photo: Nelson Evans Note: This is an encore post from 2012. Unlike the theatrical world, the early motion picture industry was slow in recognizing the importance of photographs to help publicize and sell its films. While Broadway producers hired great … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on April 3, 2017 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie (and sadly, a fairly poor print) has been the 1939 British film “Spy in Black,” the debut of “the Archers”: director Michael Powell and writer Emeric Pressburger. It featured Conrad Veidt, Sebastian Shaw and Valerie Hobson, … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on March 27, 2017 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie has been the 1952 Columbia picture “Affair in Trinidad,” with Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, Alexander Scourby, Valerie Bettis, Torin Thatcher, Howard Wendell, Karel Stepanek, George Voskovec, Steven Geray, Walter Kohler, Juanita Moore. The screenplay was by … Continue reading →

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

Posted on March 27, 2017 by lmharnisch

The TCM Classic Film Festival returns to Hollywood for its seventh year April 6-9, 2017, dedicated to the late genial host Robert Osborne. It opens Thursday afternoon with a tribute by Osborne’s colleagues and friends, with all programs that day … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Second Universal City Celebrates Its Centennial

Posted on March 20, 2017 by lmharnisch

Universal City in the Washington Times, Feb. 10, 1915. Note: This is an encore post from 2015. In an age where businesses come and go, bought up by larger competitors or going under due to bad financial decisions, finding one … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Week 2 — Updated + + + +)

Posted on March 13, 2017 by lmharnisch

The two weeks’ mystery movie has been the 1945 Warner Bros. film “Roughly Speaking,” with Rosalind Russell, Jack Carson, Robert Hutton, Jean Sullivan, Donald Woods, Alan Hale, Andrea King, Ann Doran, Mona Freeman, Robert Arthur, Ray Collins, John Qualen, Kathleen … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Heart of California Offers Intriguing Look at Cowboy Life

Posted on March 13, 2017 by lmharnisch

  A poster for “Heart of California,” courtesy of Dwight Manley. In honor of Brea, California’s Centennial Celebration, a fraction of Dwight Manley’s stunning silent motion picture poster collection is currently on exhibit in that city. Containing everything from one-sheets … Continue reading →

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Daylight Saving Time: A Reminder From Pier Angeli and the Daily Mirror

Posted on March 12, 2017 by lmharnisch

Pier Angeli and her little friend remind Daily Mirror readers that Daylight Saving Time begins today and to set your clocks forward one hour.

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RIP Robert Osborne (1932 – 2017)

Posted on March 6, 2017 by lmharnisch

  Robert Osborne, the always affable TCM host, has died at 84 after years of declining health. TCM Remembers Robert Osborne (video). Los Angeles Times. Variety. Washington Post. New York Times profile.

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on March 6, 2017 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie has been the 1932 MGM film “The Beast of the City,” with Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, Wallace Ford, Jean Hersholt, Dorothy Peterson, Tully Marshall, John Miljan, Emmett Corrigan, Warner Richmond, Sandy Roth and J. Carroll Naish, … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hillview Apartment Building Graces Hollywood Boulevard

Posted on March 6, 2017 by lmharnisch

  A postcard of the Hillview Apartment Building, from the California State Library. Long an elegant sight on Hollywood Boulevard, the Hillview Apartment Building’s (now the Hollywood Hudson Apartments) central location in Hollywood and its graceful look attracted entertainers of … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on February 27, 2017 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie has been the 1952 RKO film “Blackbeard, the Pirate,” with Robert “Yarr” Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix, Keith Andes, Torin Thatcher, Irene Ryan, Alan Mowbray, Richard Egan, Skelton Knaggs, Dick Wessel, Anthony Caruso, Jack Lambert, Noel … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: 940 N. Highland Ave. Salutes Animals

Posted on February 27, 2017 by lmharnisch

  940 N. Highland Ave. via Google Street View. Long a striking icon on Highland Avenue, 940 N. Highland Avenue’s attractive facade highlights the building’s original use as a dog and cat hospital. Simple and elegant, its sleek modernistic look … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on February 20, 2017 by lmharnisch

This week’s mystery movie has been the 1931 RKO picture “Millie,” based on the novel by Donald Henderson Clarke, directed by John Francis Dillon, produced by Charles R. Rogers, adapted by Charles Kenyon, with dialogue by Charles Kenyon and Ralph … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights – Hollywoodland’s Kanst Art Gallery

Posted on February 20, 2017 by lmharnisch

  Note: This is an encore post from 2013. The Hollywoodland housing development possessed many unique features when it opened in 1923. The neighborhood was the first themed housing development built on hillsides, the first to include a shopping center … Continue reading →

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Black Dahlia: Remembering ‘Severed’ Con Man John Gilmore

Posted on February 17, 2017 by lmharnisch

I promised I would tell a few tales about the late John Gilmore, author of “Severed.” It’s on L.A. Review of Books. (Though prone to exaggeration, Gilmore actually had a few small roles as an actor, including this 1960 appearance … Continue reading →

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Eve Golden’s YouTube Theater: Theresa Harris

Posted on February 14, 2017 by lmharnisch

  An image of Theresa Harris from PM magazine, Oct. 29, 1949, listed on EBay for $60. Lena Horne was an angry, angry woman—she felt that if she’d been white she’d have had the career of Rita Hayworth or Doris … Continue reading →

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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)

Posted on February 13, 2017 by lmharnisch

Several members of the Brain Trust identified this week’s mystery movie as the 1946 film “The Verdict,” and with four good reasons: Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Joan Lorring and Rosalind Ivan. (And I could have thrown in Arthur Shields and … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — AMPAS Awards Stills Photographers

Posted on February 13, 2017 by lmharnisch

“A close second as the Best Production Still Out-of-Doors, is this beautifully composed and lighted scene from “Song of Bernadette,” 20th-Century-Fox production, by Stax Graves,” Courtesy of Mary Mallory. Note: This is an encore of a post from 2014. Over … Continue reading →

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