An August 1927 advertisement showing 15 top stars then working at First National.
Research Notes & Reading Quotes
Short pieces of content related to my daily reading and writing routine. Interesting facts I spot while researching my posts and books. Fascinating quotes I come across while reading books or searching old newspaper archives. Classic movie history as it happened.
Brief Excerpt from We Were Interrupted, 1920s Scandals
“I roamed the streets, kept my eyes peeled; investigated,” Rascoe wrote, but while he familiarized himself with every tiny slice of New York life, the bigger events weren’t his bread and butter.
Brief Excerpt from We Were Interrupted, Bootleg Liquor
“The most reliable liquor was synthetic gin which one made oneself …”
Pre-Code.com’s Danny Reid Releases Hildegarde Withers eBook
Just released: Murder on Celluloid: A Companion to the Hildegarde Withers Film Series by Danny Reid of Pre-Code.com.
Clipping: Clara Bow, Pretty Brooklyn Girl Wins Place in the Movies, 1923
“Clara Bow, Pretty Brooklyn Girl, Wins Place in the Movies,” a look at a Brooklyn Daily Eagle article from early 1923.
Clipping: Lilyan Tashman, Brooklyn Girl, 1922
“The Rise of Lilyan Tashman, Brooklyn Girl,” as covered in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1922.
Manhattan Melodrama / The Thin Man / William Powell 1934 MGM Timeline
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.
In Brief: Teenage Betty Grable, 1933
… 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) …
The Weyerhaeuser Kidnapping – Basis of 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.
Code Tightens on ‘G Men’ Cycle, Late 1935
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.