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A Stint in "Take Her, She's Mine" on Broadway - 1961-62

hankwhitt wrote 1 week ago: In the summer of 1961, after sophomore year at the University of Notre Dame, I landed a lead role in … more →

Tags: The 1960's, Hank Whittemore, Take Her, She's Mine, George Abbott, Hal Prince, Elizabeth Ashley, Marty Huston, jungle jim

Hollywood Gossip - September, 1949

Vicki wrote 2 months ago: Hollywood Gossip PPG = Pittsburgh Post-Gazette TB = Toledo Blade TM = Time Magazine One night Barbar … more →

Tags: 1940's Happenings, Hollywood Gossip, Moving Pictures, Radio Shows & Personalities, 1940s, 1949, Amos 'n' Andy, Amos and Andy, barbara hale

Tarzan and the Amazons (April 29, 1945)3 comments

Adam Lounsbery wrote 2 months ago: On August 8, 1944, The Hollywood Reporter announced that director Kurt Neumann was looking for 48 at … more →

Tags: 1945, april 1945, Tarzan, Tarzan and the Amazons, Kurt Neumann, Edgar Rice Burroughs, John Jacoby, marjorie l. pfaelzer, Brenda Joyce

Special Data

M.E. Windham wrote 3 months ago: * Wednesday February 11 Dear Diary, I have more room here so I can go into detail a little more abou … more →

Tags: 1940s, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Thanks for the memory, The Road to Zanzibar, Madeleine Carroll, Tarzan, chattanooga choo choo, William Hays

Saturday, February 21, 1942

M.E. Windham wrote 3 months ago: Dear Diary, I went to the Telenews theatre today and saw some scenes from “A Benefit ‘Te … more →

Tags: 1940s, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Brook Hollow Golf Club, Telenews Theater, A Benefit "Tee"

Friday, February 20, 1942

M.E. Windham wrote 3 months ago: Dear Diary, I saw in the paper this morning that although the PGA had offered to pay the expenses of … more →

Tags: 1940s, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Love Field, Dallas Love Field airport, P.G.A., Brook Hollow Golf Club, sleeper plane

Laurel & Hardy Troupe Help Family - 08-27-1939

Vicki wrote 3 months ago: August 27, 1939 From “Fidler in Hollywood,” by Jimmie Fidler: . . . And here’s an … more →

Tags: 1930's Happenings, Hollywood Gossip, Radio Shows & Personalities, Moving Pictures, old time radio, our krazy kulture, 1939, OTR, Blogging

Johnny Eck in Tarzan Escapes

Dan North wrote 3 months ago: The strangest thing I’ve seen this week came a little way into Tarzan Escapes, a rather brief, … more →

Tags: freaks, Johnny Eck, Maureen O'Sullivan, slideshow, Tarzan, Tarzan The Ape Man

'Tarzan' actress Brenda Joyce dies

goremasterfx wrote 3 months ago: Brenda Joyce Brenda Joyce, who played Jane in five Tarzan movies, died of pneumonia on July 4 in a S … more →

Tags: GoreMaster people, goremaster, 'Tarzan' actress Brenda Joyce dies, Brenda Joyce, Tarzan movies, Betty Leabo, big-screen debut, 1939's The Rains Came, Little Old New York

RIP Brenda Joyce (1917-2009)

bunnybuntales wrote 4 months ago: I just heard Brenda Joyce, most famous as the lady who succeeded Maureen O’Sullivan as Jane in … more →

Tags: classic film stars, Classic Movies, Movies, classic film, films, Celebrities, Maureen O'Sullivan, Lex Barker

Tuesday, July 15, 1941

M.E. Windham wrote 4 months ago: Dear Diary, I saw in the paper this morning that the Hollywood restaurant, Pirate’s Den, owned … more →

Tags: 1940s, Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Pirate's Den, Ken Murray, Rudy Vallee, joel mccrea

Tarzan the Ape Man and his Mate10 comments

Dan North wrote 4 months ago: [This post refers to the first two Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan films, Tarzan the Ape Man (W.S. Van Dyk … more →

Tags: Sex & Sexuality, Film Form, censorship, Race, Colonialism, chimpanzee, Tarzan, Maureen O'Sullivan, MGM

Who Cheeta? 1 comment

Dan North wrote 5 months ago: See also Tarzan the Ape Man and his Mate. [WARNING: Unusually for Spectacular Attractions this post … more →

Tags: Animal, autobiography, Cheeta, chimp, chimpanzee, Doctor Dolittle, Rachel Roberts, Rex Harrison, Tarzan

06.02.09 - Tuesday

Joshua James LeJeune wrote 6 months ago: Word: ephemeral [i-fem-er-uhl] adj. 1. lasting a very short time; short-lived; transitory: the ephem … more →

Tags: snuggie, Bill Murray, weezer, Rivers Cuomo, T. S. Eliot, Ephemeral, Martha Washington, Marquis de Sade, Thomas Hardy

Ungawa2 comments

lwtc247 wrote 6 months ago: Just now I could hear the sound of some drums banging away on the TV, and hey presto, the old classi … more →

Tags: escapism, ungawa, Tarzan. Johnny Weissmuller, Memories of Childhood, Tarzan

hope6 comments

Jennifer wrote 7 months ago: I dip in and out of hope these days. I think we’re all doing that with the state of the world … more →

Tags: Friends, Depression, HOPE, Where the Wild Things Are, marriage and sex, Ikea

Warner Bros prepping new Tarzan movie2 comments

Mr Hollywood wrote 1 year ago: Now that Hellboy II director Guillermo Del Toro will helm The Hobbit, Warner Bros has chosen the les … more →

Tags: American Films, Remakes, Disney, warner bros., Stephen Sommers, Warner, walt disney, Hellboy II, Hellboy 2

UP A CREEK WITHOUT A PADDLE8 comments

hoopscoach wrote 1 year ago: Watching USA Swimmer Michael Phelps win gold medals like John Corrar used to make jump-shots from th … more →

Tags: John Corrar, Swimming, The Ferro's, Cathy Cain, Basketball, Holy Name, Sports, Michael Phelps, Olympics

A Comedic Dispatch From Little Neck, NY

lolabrigada wrote 1 year ago: Everyone says that newspapers are dying, and that very well may be the case. Nonetheless, I am a gre … more →

Tags: Random Observations, Letters to the Editor, Little Neck, Fruit (sic) Loops


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