Tag Archives: YouTube Theater

Eve Golden’s YouTube Theater: Some People . . .

Posted on February 21, 2017 by lmharnisch

Ethel Merman in Gypsy on the cover of Playbill. So Barbra Streisand is still talking about playing Mama Rose in Gypsy. Now, I love Babs, but she is 74, and when Dainty June and Rose Louise went into vaudeville in … 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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Eve Golden’s YouTube Theater: Blossom Seeley — The Other Sophie Tucker

Posted on February 7, 2017 by lmharnisch

  Blossom Seeley and Bennie Fields in a Vitaphone short.   TCM recently showed the fascinating pre-Code Broadway Thru a Keyhole, with an amazing cast including poor Russ Columbo Texas Guinan, and Blossom Seeley. Bizarrely, Blossom was not given a … Continue reading →

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Eve Golden’s YouTube Theater: Mephisto

Posted on January 31, 2017 by lmharnisch

  A postcard of Igo Sym listed on EBay as Buy It Now for $6. So I’m watching this 1927 German silent film, Café Elektric, starring Marlene Dietrich as a ne’er-do-well spoiled rich girl. And I am charmed by the … Continue reading →

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Eve Golden’s YouTube Theater: Castles on the Air

Posted on January 24, 2017 by lmharnisch

  Eve Golden’s biography of Vernon and Irene Castle. I am operating on the assumption that none of you have read my 2007 biography of Vernon and Irene Castle—that book laid an ostrich-sized egg. Three dogs and a cat bought … Continue reading →

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Eve Golden’s YouTube Theater: Meine damen und herren, Viktor und Viktoria!

Posted on January 17, 2017 by lmharnisch

  Renate Müller in Viktor und Viktoria. I have never been a big Blake Edwards fan. The one time I encountered him he was very unpleasant, and even before that I’d never cared for most of his films—I feel his … Continue reading →

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Eve Golden’s YouTube Theater: ‘Green Acres’ was genius. I will not entertain counter-arguments

Posted on January 10, 2017 by lmharnisch

Arnold the Pig in a musical moment. Too many people think of Green Acres as just another hick sitcom, like Petticoat Junction and The Beverly Hillbillies (though to be fair, The Beverly Hillbillies could sometimes be genuinely funny). But Green … Continue reading →

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Eve Golden’s YouTube Theater: Who Knew Dick Shawn Could Sing?

Posted on December 20, 2016 by lmharnisch

  A still of Dick Shawn and Renee Taylor in “The Producers,” listed as Buy It Now on EBay for $10. Note: Eve has discontinued her YouTube Theater, but has consented to have me post the entries she has already … Continue reading →

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Eve Golden’s YouTube Theater: Does 1971 Count As An ‘Old Movie?’

Posted on December 13, 2016 by lmharnisch

A scene from The Boy Friend. Note: Eve has discontinued her YouTube Theater, but has consented to have me post the entries she has already written. I hope so, because this is one of my half-dozen very favorite movie musical … Continue reading →

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Eve Golden’s YouTube Theater: That Girl In The Satin Dress! She Kills Me!

Posted on November 29, 2016 by lmharnisch

  A poster for “Rufus Jones for President.”   Note: Eve has discontinued her YouTube Theater, but has consented to have me post the entries she has already written. Ever see Rufus Jones for President? Calling it “quite a pip” … Continue reading →

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Eve Golden’s YouTube Theater: The Party’s Over Now

Posted on November 1, 2016 by lmharnisch

  A Belgian poster for “Humoresque,” listed on EBay for $6.99.   I am going to spoil two films for you, so stop reading now if you have not seen What Price Hollywood? (1932) and Humoresque (1946). Lowell Sherman and … Continue reading →

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Eve Golden’s YouTube Theater: Why Jayne Mansfield Really Was Divoon

Posted on October 18, 2016 by lmharnisch

Cary Grant and Jayne Mansfield in a still from “Kiss Them for Me,” listed on EBay at $8.99. If Jayne Mansfield had died in 1957 instead of 1967, she’d be remembered as one of the most talented and promising actresses … Continue reading →

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Eve Golden’s YouTube Theater: Well, Here Is the Damndest Film You’ll Ever See

Posted on October 4, 2016 by lmharnisch

  “Cigarette Life!” A deathless line from “Tomato Is Another Day.” I offer for your bewilderment Tomato Is Another Day (1930), seven of the weirdest minutes ever committed to film. It was never widely shown (for obvious reasons) and was … Continue reading →

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Eve Golden’s YouTube Theater: I Have Such a Crush on Bill Goodwin

Posted on September 13, 2016 by lmharnisch

  A still of Bill Goodwin, listed on EBay as Buy It Now for $17.50. Among my unlikely crushes is Bill Goodwin, an actor whose name is pretty much forgotten today. He was good-looking in an ordinary-guy sort of way; … Continue reading →

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Eve Golden’s YouTube Theater: Ann Pennington and Her Anti-Gravity Legs

Posted on August 23, 2016 by lmharnisch

Ann Pennington in an ad for Lux soap, listed on EBay as Buy It Now for $9.99. Note: We are pleased to introduce a feature by author Eve Golden, whom longtime readers will recall from her previous feature “Queen of … Continue reading →

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