In remembrance... 9/11/01

In remembrance... 9/11/01

September 08, 2021
off topic

The blog goes dark this week in remembrance of the 20th anniversary of our nation's sorrow on September 11, 2001.

Hollywood Stars and the Search for a Polio Vaccine

Hollywood Stars and the Search for a Polio Vaccine

Agustus 26, 2021
Cecil B. DeMille, Desi Arnaz, Judy Garland, Lucille Ball, Mickey Rooney, Robert Young, short subject

Hollywood public service shorts on behalf of the March of Dimes and the search for a polio vaccine remind us of a world where a deadly and e...

Happy 93rd Birthday, Ann Blyth!

Happy 93rd Birthday, Ann Blyth!

Agustus 16, 2021
Aldo Ray, Ann Blyth, Ann Blyth: Actress Singer Star, Gene Barry, Jack Weston, MacDonald Carey, Tab Hunter, television

Happy 93rd Birthday to the wonderful Ann Blyth!    For a bit of a departure, here's an episode of Burke's Law from 1964 now on YouT...

Requiescat in Pace - Jane Withers

Requiescat in Pace - Jane Withers

Agustus 08, 2021
Ann Blyth, Jane Withers, Mary Wickes, Requiescat in pace

Jane Withers, who passed away at 95 years old on August 7th, was one of Hollywood's greats, who deserves more recognition.  She began as...

Veronica Lake sells shoes - Screen Guide March 1942

Veronica Lake sells shoes - Screen Guide March 1942

Juli 22, 2021
advertising, Screen Guide, Sullivan's Travels, Veronica Lake

This ad from Screen Guide , March 1942, is a typical marvel of Hollywood merchandizing.  A photo of Veronica Lake is pasted in the corner of...

Podcast - Discussing THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

Podcast - Discussing THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

Juli 08, 2021
podcast, The Best Years of Our Lives

  A few months ago I had the pleasure of talking about one of my favorite movies -- The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) with Paul Francis Su...

Bing Crosby & Paul Robeson sing "Ballad for Americans"

Bing Crosby & Paul Robeson sing "Ballad for Americans"

Juli 04, 2021
Bing Crosby, Independence Day, Paul Robeson

  For Independence Day, Bing Crosby and Paul Robeson both give us the "Ballad for Americans" from 1940.  Happy Fourth of July!

Canada Carries On - Proudly She Marches - 1944

Canada Carries On - Proudly She Marches - 1944

Juli 01, 2021
newsreels, World War II

For Canada Day today, which celebrates the 1867 founding of the Canadian Confederation, we have a view of Canada's women service personn...

Link to my Zoom talk on BESIDE THE STILL WATERS

Link to my Zoom talk on BESIDE THE STILL WATERS

Juni 27, 2021
off topic

Here is a link to my recorded Zoom talk  earlier this month on the historical background of my novel Beside the Still Waters   for the Holyo...

Norman Lloyd - Requiescat in pace

Norman Lloyd - Requiescat in pace

Juni 10, 2021
Dorothy McGuire, Norman Lloyd, Requiescat in pace, Saboteur, television

Norman Lloyd, who recently left us, was an actor of skill, intelligence, with an astounding resilience that gave him a life of 106 years and...

Zoom talk on BESIDE THE STILL WATERS

Zoom talk on BESIDE THE STILL WATERS

Juni 03, 2021
Beside the Still Waters, off topic

  Zoom presentation on BESIDE THE STILL WATERS: Tuesday, June 8, 2021, 7 p.m. (ET) I'll be discussing the historical background of my no...

Till the End of Time - 1946

Till the End of Time - 1946

Mei 20, 2021
Bill Williams, blogathon, Caleb Peterson, Dorothy McGuire, Edward Dmytryk, Guy Madison, Harry von Zell, Jean Porter, Richard Benedict, Robert Mitchum, Ruth Nelson, Till the End of Time, Tom Tully, William Gargan

Till the End of Time (1946) examines the difficulties of post-war adjustment for three returning Marines, their families, and a war widow f...