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HITCHCOCK THE WORLD OVER. This year, the third National Film Preservation, For the Love of Film Blogathon, celebrates director Alfred Hitchcock. Film bloggers, over one hundred, are posting on...

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Ketti Gallian was born December 25, 1912 in Nice, France. She went to Paris in 1927 and found work as a chorus girl and mannequin. Returning to Nice, Ketti secured minor roles in two Les Studio P...

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Screen Book Magazine was an interesting publication. As its name might suggest, they took the "book" of one film and made it the dominant subject of the issue. This July, 1929 edition, brought it...

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Most early film actresses began their professional life before they made an appearance on the silver screen. Some found success in films, others were already past the mid-point in their careers b...

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Helen Mack was born November 12, 1913 in Rock Island, Illinois. At age seven she was enrolled at the Professional Children's School in New York City. She appeared on Broadway, in vaudeville and i...

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Born in New York on May 1, 1905, to vaudeville comedy performers John Hyams and Leila McIntyre, Leila appeared on-stage with her parents while still a child. As a teenager she worked as a model a...

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Here are some more wonderful covers from film magazines of the 20's and 30's. When I get these magazines, they often show their age with stains, tears, creases, fading, etc. I always clean them u...

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I find film noir is sometimes difficult to define, with a thin line existing between it and a crime drama, detective story, etc. The setting might be the lower depths of a city, or it may center ...

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Grace Bradley, one of the few actresses who kept her given name, was born on September 21, 1913 in Brooklyn, New York. She attended The Eastman School of Music and wanted to become a professional...

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Some of the best artists and illustrators of the twentieth century produced cover illustrations for the leading film publications. The images in this post cover each year from 1920 to 1929, and a...

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Martha Virginia Wing was born in Virginia on July 14, 1915. Toby found herself in Hollywood in the early 1920's when her father became an assistant director at Paramount. As as result of his posi...

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In an earlier post I provided some information on Film Fun ( here ), along with some covers and inside spreads from a few assorted issues. However, this time out we are concentrating on just one...

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Glenda Farrell was born June 30, 1904, in Enid, Oklahoma. With a stage and Broadwa y background, and after one uncredited film role and and one comedy short, Glenda was signed with Warner Brother...

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The previous post presented "Seen, But Not Heard" actresses from the first half of the alphabet as they appeared in the 1924 Stars Of The Photoplay publication. This post gives us the balance of ...

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In 1924, Photoplay magazine came out with their second edition of the "Stars of the Photoplay" hard cover book, filled with 250 images and bios of the leading stars of the day. Actresses accounte...

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Recently I was contacted by Sally Phipps son, who had seen the April 2007 post about his mother on this blog. He was writing to let me know that the postcard I "posted" was actually not her, even...

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Jobyna Ralston was born Jobyna Lancaster Raulston in South Pittsburgh, Tennessee on November 21st, 1899. She was named after actress Jobyna Howland , a favorite of her parents. Jobyna left Tennes...

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Postcards, covers, and ads featuring actresses make up the content of this post. The actresses have all appeared here before, but the material is making it's debut. Enjoy. As always, double clic...

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Elda Furry (Hedda Hopper) was born May 2, 1885, in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. She is primarily remembered as one of the two most famous Hollywood gossip columnists ever, the other being rival ...

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One (27 x 41 in.), two (41 x 54 in.) and three (41 x 81 in.) sheets, display sheets (22 x28 in.), lobby cards (11 x 14 in.), window cards (14 x 22 in.), and inserts (14 x 36 in.), all designed to...

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Bette Davis, 1908 -1989, needs no introduction and if you are looking for detailed biographical information there are sufficient resources on the web, including this one . This post gives us a gl...

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The stepchild of the film business, the movie serial/chapter play/cliffhanger nonetheless thrilled and entertained audiences from the industry's earliest days. There were a staggering 277 silent ...

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Constance Cummings (previous post's Mystery Guest #5) was born Constance Halverstadt on May 15, 1910, in Seattle, Washington. As young girl she wanted to be a classical dancer, but in her mid-tee...

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Welcome to Mystery Guest #5. As with Mystery Guest #4, this it will be a rolling post, with one new image and clue added over the next week or so to help you guess. Three previous mystery guests ...

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Born Anna Sophie Ondrakova in Tarnów, Galicia, Austria-Hungary, now Poland, on May 15, 1903, Anny was the daughter of an Austro-Hungarian officer, and spent her childhood in Prague. Early on she...

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