Anita Loos, looking scholarly, famous for writing the bestselling, “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”, notoriously lied about her age, stating she started writing for motion pictures at the age of twelve in 1912… Pictured below: Charlie Chaplin, Anita Loos, Paulette Goddard, and John Emerson. Loos and Emerson were married for seventeen years…
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Late notice my darlings, but if you’re in the Los Angeles area there’s a showing of CAPTAIN BLOOD this evening at 5:30 pm at the Egyptian Theater with a panel discussion on pirate films to follow. http://www.americancinemathequecalendar.com/content/captain-blood-0 Bonus, if you want to spend a hot afternoon at the theater Martin…
City Hall as seen by Ansel Adams on an overcast day in 1940: . Here is City Hall in “Gangster Squad”. Production Designer Maher Ahmad, Cinematographer Dion Beebe, and Costume Designer Mary Zophres: . Check in tomorrow for an intimate peek at one recording artist’s beginnings in the 1960s…
This is getting rather sad… Here is a young Richard Zanuck with his parents skiing in Sun Valley, 1950. Anyway you slice it, he had a fabulous run. RIP:
We thank you for your amazing screen presence and wish you the happiest of times on your retirement.
From 1925 to 1928 William Wyler cranked out twenty-nine westerns – most of them were two reelers (24 minutes) in the Universal Mustang series. In later years he had this to say: “I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of…