Classic Movies & Movie Collectibles
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.
A collection of clippings following Bob Hope pre-fame as half of Hope & Durbin with Hurley’s Jolly Follies, teamed with George Byrne as Dancemedians, early billing as Lester Hope, and his rise as master of ceremonies under the name of Bob Hope traced from Decatur, IL beginning in late 1928 into 1929.
A glance at Pershing’s Crusaders (1918) through clippings, advertisements, a review excerpt, and an old movie card image of Blackjack Pershing himself.
“Phonovision is a process by which a motion picture is released to your television screen not at the expense of a sponsor, but …”
Matronly character actor Fay Bainter as a youthful Broadway beauty of the 1910s …
“Why not look upon the front of the old tenement as the fly looks at the man’s face? Let the camera be the fly …”
Wallace Beery 1936 “Closeup and Comedy” newspaper clipping …
Slacker charges against champion Jack Dempsey influence First National’s The Patent Leather Kid, released in 1927 just ahead of the Dempsey-Tunney rematch in 1927.
Screen name Sue O’Neil causes confusion. The IMDb credits the wrong sister in numerous Hal Roach comedies. Dorothy Mackaill’s temperament lands Molly O’Day a breakthrough movie role in The Patent Leather Kid.
A February 1928 advertisement showing the top stars then working at First National.
Edward Everett Horton photo clipping from 1910 along with a few other items …
