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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — The Gibbons-Del Rio House: Like Stepping...
The Cedric Gibbons home, via Google Street View. Celebrity has often been the cachet for creating style, fashion and cultural trends, especially with the advent of films. Stars wearing a particular...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Wiltern Theatre Jazzes Up Movie Theater...
The grand opening of what was then the Warner Western Theater, courtesy of Mary Mallory. The history of one street corner can often show the growing pains of a burgeoning city. What started out as...
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Biltmore Hotel Appears in 1931 Film
TCM recently aired several Wheeler and Woolsey films and we were happily surprised to see this establishing shot at the opening of the 1931 RKO picture “Cracked Nuts.” It is our old friend the...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — The Gibbons-Del Rio House: Like Stepping...
The Cedric Gibbons home, via Google Street View. Celebrity has often been the cachet for creating style, fashion and cultural trends, especially with the advent of films. Stars wearing a particular...
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Biltmore Hotel Appears in 1931 Film
TCM recently aired several Wheeler and Woolsey films and we were happily surprised to see this establishing shot at the opening of the 1931 RKO picture “Cracked Nuts.” It is our old friend the...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — The Gibbons-Del Rio House: Like Stepping...
The Cedric Gibbons home, via Google Street View. Note: This is an encore post from 2014. Celebrity has often been the cachet for creating style, fashion and cultural trends, especially with the advent...
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Literary diversions
On the Fourth of July, 1910, in Reno, Jack Johnson defeated James J. Jeffries to become the first African American heavyweight champion of the world. In 1931, at the age of 53, he was working out every...
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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)
This week’s mystery movie was the 1931 Warner Bros. picture “Other Men’s Women,” with Grant Withers, Mary Astor, Regis Toomey, James Cagney, Fred Kohler, J. Farrell MacDonald, Joan Blondell, Lillian...
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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)
This week’s mystery movie was the 1931 MGM picture “The Sin of Madelon Claudet,” with Helen Hayes, Lewis Stone, Neil Hamilton, Cliff Edwards, Jean Hersholt, Marie Prevost, Robert Young, Karen Morley,...
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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)
This week’s mystery movie was the 1931 RKO picture Smart Woman, with Mary Astor, Robert Ames, John Halliday, Edward Everett Horton, Noel Francis, Ruth Weston, Gladys Gale, Alfred Cross and Lillian...
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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)
This week’s mystery movie was the 1931 Columbia picture Ten Cents a Dance, with Barbara Stanwyck, Ricardo Cortez, Monroe Owsley, Sally Blane, Blanche Friderici, Martha Sleeper, David Newell, Victor...
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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)
This week’s mystery movie was the 1931 Universal picture Waterloo Bridge, with Mae Clarke, Kent Douglass, Doris Lloyd, Frederick Kerr, Enid Bennett, Bette Davis, Ethel Griffies, Rita Carlisle and Ruth...
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Movieland Mystery Photo (Updated + + + +)
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,...
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