An irregular weekly update about classic movies, film books, vintage collectibles and general 19th and 20th century pop culture. This week, The Card, Dark Victory, The Major and the Minor, and Watchmen.
Let’s Set the Record Straight! Motion Picture Magazine slams Photoplay!
Text of a full-page ad published by Motion Picture Magazine in their December 1961 issue reminding all that they’ve been around since February 1911, or longer than Photoplay.
Charles Triplett Visits the Ava Gardner Museum in Smithfield, NC
Charles Triplett, owner of the spectacular Judy Garland collection shown off recently on the VintageMeld, is back, this time taking us inside the Ava Gardner Museum in his home state of North Carolina.
Tyrone Power in Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942)
Twentieth Century-Fox’s “Son of Fury” plays as a 98 minute epic tale of redemption which opens with a fight, leads to an escape, turns into a brief tale at sea, then an island romance and adventure, a return for vengeance, even a spectacle of a courtroom trial, before, of course, culminating in yet another big fight with the intervening years leading to a different outcome.
Odds and Ends – What I’m Watching, Reading, Selling, Doing
An irregular weekly update about classic movies, film books, vintage collectibles and general 19th and 20th century pop culture. This week, Madame Curie, film books, notes on collectibles sold and soon to be sold.
Charles Triplett’s Judy Garland Collection
Collector Charles Triplett shares his passion for Judy Garland which sprouted from his viewing The Wizard of Oz over 40 years ago, when he was just 6. Includes several photos of original Judy Garland gowns and movie collectibles.
Diamond Jim (1935) starring Edward Arnold as Diamond Jim Brady
Based on the biography “Diamond Jim, The Life and Times of James Buchanan Brady” published a year earlier by Parker Morell this uneven though still enjoyable comedy was brought to the screen by Universal through a Preston Sturges script under the direction of Eddie Sutherland. Starring Edward Arnold as Diamond Jim Brady.
The Real Diamond Jim Brady
Did Diamond Jim Brady really eat that much? A brief biography of the Gilded Age personality James Buchanan Brady which is a companion post to the Examiner.com coverage of the 1935 movie Diamond Jim starring Edward Arnold.
Joe Cook’s Massive Spark Plug Collection on Display
Details from super spark plug collector Joe Cook about collecting plugs, sharing his collection through his mini-museum inside his home, and how he takes his display on tour to various conventions and meet-ups. Lots of photos!
Louise Brooks stars in William Wellman’s Beggars of Life (1928)
Louise Brooks and Richard Arlen star in William Wellman’s Beggars of Life (1928) based on the novel by Jim Tully. Also starring Wallace Beery, a pre-Depression tale of hobo life.
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