Best known for playing Andy Hardy’s mother in 14 of MGM’s Hardy family movies, Fay Holden was discovered in England by Mrs. Patrick Campbell. She originally worked as Gaby Fay.
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.
Freddie Bartholomew eBook Now Available at Kobo
Freddie Bartholomew: An Informal Biography, previously available at Amazon.com, is also now available for purchase at Kobo.
Warren William Biography Posted at WarrenWilliam.com
Linking over to a biography at Warren William.com. With bonus images that did not fit that post.
Excerpt: “Elissa Landi Unloads,” A Bit of Temperament, 1934
“I do not feel I’m a genius misjudged, but I do feel I have been badly treated—made to do stupid roles when stupid girls were put in roles I should have had …
Bruce Cabot and Adrienne Ames, 1933-37
Adrienne Ames and Bruce Cabot, married—divorced—reconciled—divorced …
Terence Towles Canote of A Shroud of Thoughts on TCM Saturday!
Tune into TCM Saturday, April 11, 2015 to see Terence Towles Canote of A Shroud of Thoughts introduce A Hard Day’s Night at 2:15 pm Eastern …
Charles Ray Pays Agreed Prize — Plus Bonus
I was researching the Charles Ray play Yen in the Cleveland Plain Dealer and found a few articles reporting a promotional gimmick …
Theodore Dreiser’s Six Worst Movies of 1931
Dreiser finds Hollywood home of “the cheap sex story,” and berates it for having a “head as empty as its purse is full” in a January 1932 article from New Movie Magazine.
How Many TVs Were in New York in 1939?
Notes from the article “RCA and Farnsworth in a Patent Exchange; NBC Plans ‘Big Push,’” Motion Picture Herald, October 7, 1939, 41. According to Alfred H. Morton, Vice-President of NBC in charge of television, there were 1,200 television sets in the New York area as of publication in October 1939. When NBC began its television […]
“She Came from Montana” – Myrna Loy as Covered by Newspapers of the 1920s
Local girl Myrna Loy featured in a Helena, Montana, newspaper article from 1926, plus some other old Loy clippings and pre-Thin Man biography and information.
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