Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Friday, March 20, 2020

Music To My Ears 4

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This one's a bit of a mystery.  Another picture of the same woman, at least I think so, with yet another name.  So, is it Mary Reaga...
Thursday, October 17, 2019

Ryan's Daughter

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Despite the fact that I live in Los Angeles and work in the movies, albeit in a rather minor position, I don't have a lot of photos ...
Thursday, April 18, 2019

New Pages

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After the photo lab I worked at went out of business, I ended up working on movie sets as a background actor and stand-in.  When I found...
Thursday, March 28, 2019

Clifton Webb and Friends

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The man on the right is actor Clifton Webb.  Curiously what's written on the back, "Dave McIntyre Don Larson June 59"  doe...
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Thursday, May 31, 2018

Dolores Del Rio and Her Hollywood Home

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What can I say?  I love Dolores Del Rio.  She was born in Mexico, moved to Hollywood during the silent era and started working in the mo...
Monday, February 12, 2018

Mariette Hartley and Arlene Dayton?

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One would think, since I live in Los Angeles and work in the movies (albeit at a very low level), I'd have lots of Hollywood phot...
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Thursday, November 30, 2017

Camera, Action!

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I might be necessary to click on the photos and bring them up in a bigger window to see, but there is a camera in the upper left corn...
Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Lights

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Alright, the shiny thing is a reflector.  Obviously, it's used to reflect light, and less obviously, to soften light.  The crew memb...
Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Sound

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After the photo lab I worked at went belly up, after going through my unemployment, savings and retirement fund, I started doing backgro...
Thursday, November 9, 2017

Famous People?

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I have to say, this very small snapshot looks like it was posed.  Too, the tall man on the right looks familiar, and  the guy in the tre...
Monday, October 23, 2017

My Heart Calls You

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Written on the back, "Mein herz ruft nach dir."  A quick trip to Google translate gave me my heart calls you.  It sure looks l...
Wednesday, October 11, 2017

Samurai

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Written on the back, "This Poster Is Good Shot."   I agree.
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Sunday, April 16, 2017

A Night At the Movies

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Stamped on the back, "MISSION PHOTO SERVICE, 278 Franklin Street, Phone 3571, Monterey, California."  And it's dated, ...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Hollywood At War

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These two photos are each stamped, "MAY 13, 1943." Most people, when they think of Hollywood and war,  think of war movie...
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Friday, January 8, 2016

Star Wars In the Teens

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I'm old enough to have seen the original Star Wars when it first came out.   For the record, I thought it a fun, but somewhat incons...
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Saturday, January 17, 2015

More Hollywood Costume Postcards

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A month or so ago, I put up a couple of photographic bits of ephemera form the ongoing Hollywood Costume show at LACMA, The Los Angele...
Saturday, December 20, 2014

Hooray For Hollywood (And Berlin)

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Take a look to the right of this post and you'll see an advertisement.  I'm not happy about that.  I'd prefer to live in a...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Cine Kodak Eight Model 20

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I love photographs of people holding cameras, especially when it's a camera in my collection.  The Cine Kodak Eight Model 20 (Mine st...
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Monday, May 6, 2013

Eileen Heckenbach Loved the Accordion 1

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Anthony Galla-Rini was an American accordionist born in 1904.  At the age of four, he was part of his father's Vaudeville act.  In t...
Saturday, April 13, 2013

May You Live In Interesting Times, Lilian Harvey

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I'm sure most people have heard the old Chinese curse about living in interesting times.  Well, I'm not sure such a curse ever ex...