Tag Archives: #Maureen O’Hara

Manzanar Internment Camp Rising Rapidly in Owens Valley

Posted on March 20, 2012 by lmharnisch

March 20, 1942: A crew of 400 carpenters working 10-hour shifts is hurriedly building the internment camp at Manzanar for “10,000 alien and American-born Japanese from Los Angeles and other Southern California cities,” The Times says. “Manzanar is the former … Continue reading →

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Confidential–Tells the Facts and Names the Names

Posted on September 5, 2007 by lmharnisch

Scenes from the Confidential trial: Sept. 4, 1957, Dorothy Dandridge testifies Photograph by Dan McCormack, Los Angeles Times

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Oops!

Posted on September 4, 2007 by lmharnisch

Sept. 4, 1957 Los Angeles On a field trip to Grauman’s Chinese Theater so that the court could visit the notorious Row 35, where Maureen O’Hara’s alleged tryst occurred, jurors discovered that it was really Row 40. Aisle C. Upon … Continue reading →

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Kiss and Tell

Posted on August 24, 2007 by lmharnisch

  Aug. 24, 1957 Los Angeles And where does our favorite scandal magazine get such high-quality dirt?  (Oh, I know, people only read it at the beauty parlor and the barbershop). It turns out that in Hollywood, money will unseal … Continue reading →

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Confidential: Tells the Facts and Names the Names

Posted on August 18, 2007 by lmharnisch

Here’s the Confidential magazine article about Maureen O’Hara that prompted her lawsuit and the testimony about the alleged tryst at Grauman’s Chinese Theater. From the March 1957 issue. (Note: O’Hara successfully proved that she was out of the country when … Continue reading →

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Grauman confidential–Part II

Posted on August 18, 2007 by lmharnisch

Aug. 18, 1957Los Angeles Maureen O’Hara says through her lawyer that it was impossible for her to have engaged in the alleged tryst at Grauman’s Chinese Theater because at the time it supposedly occurred she was out of the country … Continue reading →

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Grauman confidential

Posted on August 17, 2007 by lmharnisch

  Aug. 17, 1957 Los Angeles BY JACK SMITH Actress Maureen O’Hara’s alleged love scene with a Latin in three rear seats of Grauman’s Chinese Theater was re-enacted before a spellbound audience here yesterday at the Confidential libel trial. A … Continue reading →

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Confidential: Tells the Facts and Names the Names

Posted on May 14, 2007 by lmharnisch

May 14, 1957: Liberace testifies before the Los Angeles County Grand Jury about Confidential magazine. Page 1 The continuation, Page 5

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