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More on the EMO Movie Club of the 1930s

August 28, 2017 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

A recently acquired group of R95 EMO Movie Club linen-textured photos offers insight into details of the club while setting a July 1935 date to their founding.

Filed Under: Movie Collectibles, Notes & Quotes, Research

Dracula, Frankenstein 1938 Reissues Revive Universal Horror

October 27, 2016 By Cliff Aliperti 1 Comment

1938 ad for Dracula and Frankenstein in Brooklyn

How Universal horror died in 1936, only to return after a Beverly Hills exhibitor paired Dracula and Frankenstein reissues at his theater in August 1938.

Filed Under: Notes & Quotes, Research Tagged With: 1938, Bela Lugosi, Boris Karloff, Dracula, Emil Umann, Frankenstein, Horror, reissues, Universal Horror

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Anti Red-Head League Targets Wanton, Faithless, and Ruthless Women

May 1, 2016 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Laying out the six objectives of the Anti Red-Head League, plus the organization’s fifteen counts against red-headed women. Summer 1932.

Filed Under: Notes & Quotes, Research

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Jack Dempsey’s War Record and The Patent Leather Kid (1927)

May 12, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

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.

Filed Under: Notes & Quotes, Research Tagged With: Boxing, Jack Dempsey, World War I

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Untangling Molly O’Day and Sally O’Neil, Film Star Sisters

May 11, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti 2 Comments

Molly O'Day and Sally O'Neil

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.

Filed Under: Notes & Quotes, Research Tagged With: Molly O'Day, sally oneil, Sue O'Neil

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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

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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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Bruce Cabot and Adrienne Ames, 1933-37

April 11, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Adrienne Ames and Bruce Cabot in Disgraced

Adrienne Ames and Bruce Cabot, married—divorced—reconciled—divorced …

Filed Under: Notes & Quotes, Research

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