An Empty Yankee Stadium Was Used As A Filming Location For Buster Keaton’s “The Cameraman” Here Are Some Views Of A “Different” Yankee Stadium In 1928 90 years ago, Buster Keaton made The Cameraman, a comedy in which he played a newsreel cameraman trying to get newsworthy footage. Many of the scenes were shot on […]
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Rudolph Valentino Is Not Acting, He’s Actually In Court – 1925 Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d’Antonguella – aka Rudoplh Valentino, one of the world’s biggest film stars in 1925. As big as a film star Valentino was it would not prevent him from being compelled to show up in court against […]
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Babe Ruth and Gary Cooper Get A Visit From Former Yankee Bob Meusel & His Daughter When Babe Ruth played himself in the classic film The Pride of The Yankees (1942) he had not played for seven years. Since his retirement, Ruth’s weight had ballooned to 270 pounds. The Babe wanted to look good for […]
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Actors Talking About Acting William Holden – “The best actors I know have no style but that of genuine professionalism. They act each role according to the script. And if they do have a style, it is so much a part of their personality it can’t be noticed.” (Atlanta Constitution April 22, 1956) If you […]
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Clara Bow The “It” Girl Made Only One Film In Color, and This One Minute Fragment Is All That That Survives (And What Exactly is “It”) Most movie fans never saw Clara Bow’s beautiful red hair except when illustrated on magazine covers. All but one of her films was made in black and white. Her […]
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Chico Marx Entertaining The Troops During World War II When author Charlotte Chandler wrote her entertaining book about Groucho Marx, Hello I Must Be Going (Doubleday, 1978), it was mentioned by Groucho’s friends that someone should write or compile a book about Groucho’s eldest brother, Chico Marx. Eventually a book was written about Chico by […]
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Things You Will Find At The Allentown Book & Paper Show On a cloudless Saturday at eight forty in the morning, a line of about 200 eager men and women snaked its way around Agricultural Hall at the Allentown Fairgrounds in Allentown, PA. They were anxiously awaiting the April 21 opening of the two day […]
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So What Did Jayne Mansfield Look Like As Brunette? Along with Marilyn Monroe, Jean Harlow and Brigitte Bardot, Jayne Mansfield (1933-1967) is one of the Hollywood stars who usually has the word “blonde” inserted before the word bombshell. Mansfield’s hair was dyed blonde for the majority of her film career, which may leave you wondering […]
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Maude Fealy “The Most Beautiful Woman In the World” In An Atypical Pose One of the most read stories we have done was about Maude Fealy the stage star and film actress who had a career that spanned the first half of the 20th century. Given the lack of fact based information available on the […]
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The Sights & Sounds Of Yankee Stadium 1931 – Yankees vs. Red Sox What follows is a rare and amazing 14 minutes of film. Yankee Stadium on opening day April 14, 1931. Yankees versus the Red Sox. Happenings before and during the game. What makes it so unusual is that the film crew was experimenting […]
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The Barrymore Family Reunion – 1932 Here is the early 20th century’s royal family of acting, the Barrymore’s, Lionel, Ethel and John. Each a star in their own right, first on the stage and later in films. Yet the trio only appeared in one movie together, Rasputin and the Empress (1932). The Clan Barrymore When […]
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Can You Recognize These 10 Movie Stars From When They Were Young? Some adults look very similar to the way they looked as children. Others look drastically different. Actors are no different than anyone else. Some look the same as they did when they were kids. Others you would never recognize. Here are 10 movie […]
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Mary Carlisle, Movie Star Of The 1930s Is 104 Years Young While she is not a household name, Mary Carlisle appeared in many films in the 1930s, including co-starring with Bing Crosby in three of his films. With 65 films to her credit from 1923 -1943, Mary Carlisle is among the last survivors of Hollywood’s […]
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Clint Eastwood Reprises His Role As “Dirty Harry” For The Fourth Time – 1983 Megastar Clint Eastwood is soon to be seen again in his hard-hitting role as Dirty Harry. He will be starring in an explosive new thriller called “Sudden Impact”, that will mark the 4th film about tough, unconventional detective Harry Callahan. This […]
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Marilyn Monroe Was Pronounced Dead August 5, 1962 (Though She Actually Died A Day Earlier) Today is the recognized anniversary of Marilyn Monroe’s death. Arguably, no movie star has had such an enduring grip upon the public’s imagination so long after their death as Marilyn Monroe. When we say today is the recognized anniversary of […]
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Papermania Plus – Something For Everyone On a beautiful summer day, customers came from many states to search among a variety of goods, not all necessarily made of paper. Collectors congregated at Hartford, Connecticut’s XL Center for Papermania Plus 74, which took place on Saturday, August 25, 2018. There were all sorts of antiques, ephemera, […]
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Outtake Photo of The Legends of Comedy Just before posing for a formal photograph, an unnamed Globe photographer captured this informal moment. This photograph was unpublished until now. Flanking the seated Lucille Ball are (l-r) Milton Berle, George Burns, Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Groucho Marx and longtime Lucy co-star Gale Gordon. The only one who […]
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Va-Va-Voom. Can You Guess Who This Is? I did not recognize this well known celebrity when I first saw this photograph. Do you know who it is? Here are some clues to who our mystery celebrity is: She appeared regularly on a television show which had a long run in the 1950s. Two of her […]
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Brooklyn Daily Eagle Columnist Rian James Shares His Picks For The Best Restaurants in New York City in 1929 Rian James (1899-1953) may not be a well known name today, but back in the 1920s and 30s, he was a widely read journalist and “man about town.” In 1933 James took a stab at writing […]
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Up and Coming Movie Star Elizabeth Taylor – 1944 Taylor-Made Star – Hollywood’s newest moppet sensation is twelve-year-old Elizabeth Taylor acclaimed as a star for her outstanding performance with Mickey Rooney in “National Velvet.” she is now playing her second leading role, with Frank Morgan and Lassie, the collie wonder dog, in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “Hold High […]
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