Born on this date in 1899, Aline MacMahon … Several newspaper clipping gathered including images of MacMahon in her preteen years and excerpts about her career.
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.
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.
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.
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.
… 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) …