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Classic Movie Daily for Wednesday, December 23

December 23, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Helen Twelvetrees, Pefect Ingenue by Cliff Aliperti
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Born on this date, December 23: Bertram Grassby in 1880; John Cromwell in 1886; Eric Blore in 1887; Ann Pennington in 1893; Fredi Washington in 1903; Kane Richmond in 1906; James Roosevelt in 1907; and Barbara Ruick in 1930.

All links lead to each actor’s IMDb page, set to open in a new tab.

Cliff’s Notes
Over the weekend I gave away 237 copies of the Kindle edition of Helen Twelvetrees, Perfect Ingenue. If you were one of those 237, I thank you very much for taking a look—hope you’re enjoying it!

In retrospect, I’m not quite sure how bright I was in giving away the book like that, but I did it for a few reasons: 1) To thank you for putting up with my constant mentions of the Twelvetrees project this past year; 2) To create some word-of-mouth about the book; 3) To entice happy readers into buying the paperback edition of the book; 4) To tease out some early Amazon/Goodreads reviews for the book.

I really hope #1 happened, and I could see #2 happening on my social networks (thank you!). Time will tell on the final two points, but I’m hopeful.

I’m keeping my notes short today, but I did put together a few items to follow (subscribers, keep scrolling through your email to see them!).

Today’s extra features are mostly birthday-based: for the first time in awhile I put together a collection of clippings, this time featuring Fredi Washington, the actress best known from Imitation of Life; there’s an Ann Pennington fan photo; a photo of producer James Roosevelt on a movie set with Paulette Goddard; and a shot of Eric Blore with my favorite, Warren William, in a classic pose from one of the Lone Wolf movies. There’s also a couple of smaller (trading card-sized) birthday shots included at the bottom of this post.

I also tease my next review, which I wasn’t going to do, but then I found a neat ad for the movie in a newspaper dated Christmas Day, so I couldn’t resist.

Today’s mailing is capped by a Christmas-themed promotional photo of, who else, Helen Twelvetrees … I’ll be sending out a companion photo to this shot on Helen’s birthday—if you don’t know when that is, don’t worry, you don’t have long to wait.

Thanks for reading!
Cliff

Bertram Grassby 1916 MJ Moriarty Playing Card

Barbara Ruick 1954 Equator brand tobacco card from Germany

Above: Barbara Ruick

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