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Clipping: Clara Bow, Pretty Brooklyn Girl Wins Place in the Movies, 1923

May 4, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Clara Bow Brookly Daily Eagle 1923 article

“Clara Bow, Pretty Brooklyn Girl, Wins Place in the Movies,” a look at a Brooklyn Daily Eagle article from early 1923.

Filed Under: Clippings, Notes & Quotes

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Clipping: Lilyan Tashman, Brooklyn Girl, 1922

May 4, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Lilyan Tashman 1922 feature article

“The Rise of Lilyan Tashman, Brooklyn Girl,” as covered in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1922.

Filed Under: Clippings, Notes & Quotes

TCM Preview and Recommendations for May 2015

May 2, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti 3 Comments

Helen Mack in Sweepings

Preview and recommendations for May 2015 on Turner Classic Movies. Pick of the Month: Sweepings (1933) on May 5. Star of the Month is Sterling Hayden. Friday Night Spotlight on Orson Welles. Plus Immortal Ephemera site news.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: now playing guide, previews, schedules, TCM, Turner Classic Movies

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Movie Star Pennants Offered by 1916 Movie Magazines

April 30, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Movie Star Pennants in Motion PIcture Magazine

The 1916 movie star pennants that resemble the Ferguson Bakery BF2 baseball pennants of the same period were being offered as subscription premiums by various movie magazines in 1916.

Filed Under: Movie Collectibles

Manhattan Melodrama (1934) Starring Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy

April 29, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti 6 Comments

Clark Gable in Manhattan Melodrama

Famed for its part in leading to the end of outlaw John Dillinger’s life, and revered by movie buffs as the first of the William Powell-Myrna Loy team-ups, MGM’s Manhattan Melodrama is a solid underworld effort highlighted by a top performance from Clark Gable.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1934, Clark Gable, Gangsters, George Sidney, Isabel Jewell, Jimmy Butler, Leo Carrillo, MGM, Muriel Evans, Myrna Loy, Nat Pendleton, Noel Madison, pre-Code, Shirley Ross, Thomas E. Jackson, W.S. Van Dyke, William Powell

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Manhattan Melodrama / The Thin Man / William Powell 1934 MGM Timeline

April 29, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti 2 Comments

William Powell 1934 Ardath Who Is This

A look through several Jan-May 1934 Hollywood Reporter clippings to illustrate the intersecting timelines of Manhattan Melodrama, The Thin Man, and William Powell’s arrival at MGM.

Filed Under: Notes & Quotes, Research Tagged With: William Powell

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In Brief: Teenage Betty Grable, 1933

April 27, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Betty Grable 1938 Movie Millions Game Card

… She had arrived in Hollywood in 1928 and made her film debut as an unbilled chorine around the time of her thirteenth birthday in Fox’s widescreen musical extravaganza Happy Days (1930) …

Filed Under: Notes & Quotes, Research

Show Them No Mercy (1935) Starring Rochelle Hudson and Cesar Romero

April 26, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti 4 Comments

Rochelle Hudson and Edward Norris

A band of kidnappers return to their hideout with $200,000 in ransom money in Show Them No Mercy. They find a stranded family at the house and have no choice but to hold them captive until they make sure the ransom money is good.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1935, 20th Century, 20th Century-Fox, Bruce Cabot, Cesar Romero, Crime, Darryl F Zanuck, Edward Brophy, Edward Norris, Frank Conroy, Gangsters, George Marshall, Kubec Glasmon, Rochelle Hudson, Warren Hymer

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The Weyerhaeuser Kidnapping – Basis of Show Them No Mercy (1935)

April 24, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Show Them No Mercy 1935

Ripped from the headlines, 20th Century’s SHOW THEM NO MERCY has its basis in the May 24, 1935 real-life kidnapping of George Weyerhaeuser.

Filed Under: Notes & Quotes, Research

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Code Tightens on ‘G Men’ Cycle, Late 1935

April 23, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Show Them No Mercy Seal of Approval

When the cycle of “G Men” films that replaced the pre-Code era’s gangster movies became overwhelming, the MPPDA stepped in with new Production Code guidelines.

Filed Under: Notes & Quotes, Research

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