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Do You Remember? Theatre Magazine Recalls Early Film Stars…from 1920

September 21, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 4 Comments

Ford Sterling 1917 Kromo Gravure Trading Card

Harlowe R. Hoyt recalls the good old days from the October 1920 edition of Theatre Magazine. Remember when early film stars were doing even earlier things.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: harlowe r hoyt, silent film stars, silent stars, theatre magazine

The Half Naked Truth (1932) Starring Lee Tracy and Lupe Velez

September 17, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 2 Comments

Lupe Velez and Lee Tracy

Lee Tracy takes Lupe Velez from carny hooch dancer to Broadway star in Gregory La Cava’s The Half Naked Truth (1932) for RKO. Also starring Frank Morgan and Eugene Pallette

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1932, Comedies, Eugene Pallette, Frank Morgan, Franklin Pangborn, Gregory La Cava, Lee Tracy, lupe velez, Max Steiner, screwball comedies, shirley chambers, the half naked truth, Warner Archive

The Half Naked Truth About Press Agent Harry Reichenbach

September 17, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 2 Comments

Harry Reichenbach

Some of the real life exploits of press agent Harry Reichenbach, basis for Lee Tracy’s Jimmy Bates in the RKO movie The Half Naked Truth (1932).

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: harry reichenbach, Lee Tracy, press agent, the half naked truth, Warner Archive

Claudette Colbert, Her Start, Broadway Success and Earliest Films

September 13, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 4 Comments

Claudette Colbert 1939 Rothmans Beauties tobacco card

A biography of Claudette Colbert covering her earliest days as she came to the stage, found Broadway success and transitioned to film. Claudette Colbert from France to New York, up until It Happened One Night (1934).

Filed Under: Movie Star Biographies, News - Notes Tagged With: Claudette Colbert, Frank Capra, it happened one night, the barker, The Sign of the Cross, the smiling lieutenant

Milton Sills, The Mighty Two-Fisted He-Man of the Silent Screen

September 9, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 8 Comments

Advertisement featuring Milton Sills in The Making of O'Malley

A biography of Milton Sills, stage and silent film actor with a philosophy background. Poised to make a hit in talkies when he died in 1930. Article also includes a synopsis of Sills’ most famous film, The Sea Hawk.

Filed Under: Movie Star Biographies Tagged With: biography, Doris Kenyon, Frank Norris, james quirk, milton sills, silent actor, stage actors, the barker, the sea hawk, The Sea Wolf

1935 Lipton’s Movie Star Stamps from Australia – Advertisement, Checklist

September 7, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

1935 Lipton Movie Star Stamps full ad

Vintage Lipton’s advertisement for an Australian redemption offer involving a set of 1935 Warner Brothers Movie Star Stamps. With checklist.

Filed Under: Movie Collectibles Tagged With: liptons, movie star stamps, punchboards, Stamps

1950 Harlich Corporation Movie Star Punchboard Advertisement

September 7, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

A 1950 distributor’s advertisement for a Movie Star Punchboard which paid out in movie star stamps and cash. From the Harlich Corporation.

Filed Under: Movie Collectibles Tagged With: harlich corporation, movie star punchboards, punchboards

8 Questions for Author Dan Van Neste About The Whistler Film Series

September 5, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 5 Comments

Dan Van Neste

Dan Van Neste, author of The Whistler: Stepping Into the Shadows, answers 8 questions about Columbia’s film series The Whistler starring Richard Dix.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: Columbia, Dan Van Neste, harry cohn, interview, j donald wilson, michael duane, Richard Dix, rudolph flothow, series, the whistler, William Castle

Death Comes in Threes – Movie Star Passings of 1935

September 3, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 2 Comments

Screen Stars Recall Deaths in Cycles of 3

A look back to some screen deaths in threes from 1935 with additional thoughts on the general phenomena of celebrity deaths coming in threes.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: deaths in threes, newspapers

September 2012 TCM Preview – A Look Inside My Now Playing Guide

August 31, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 1 Comment

Lauren Bacall 1952 Watford Trading Card

Lauren Bacall is TCM’s Star of the Month for September. TCM preview for September includes Mack Sennett and birthdays for Garbo and Colbert.

Filed Under: News - Notes Tagged With: previews, schedules, TCM, Turner Classic Movies

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