Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch

  Ever since I first saw this production still from the 1947 Paramount "all star" extravaganza Variety Girl  I have wondered, not ...

5262 Mary Ellen Ave., Van Nuys, CA                                        This San Fernando Valley property, currently under repairs, became...

10728 Bellagio Rd, Los Angeles, CA The party-giving Rathbones purchased this Bel Air mansion in June of 1939 for the-then hefty amount of $6...

"A dour foreign legion picture," as the always perceptive Don Miller called it in his groundbreaking little tone B Movies , Legion...

Founded by John R. Freuler , formerly of the American Film Company, Big Four Film Corporation was created to produce very low budget Western...

In honor of the US primary contests I give you early 1930 Z-Western starlet Edna Aslin , here demonstrating a certain lack of decision by ad...

Well, actually, who is/was Ethel Beck ? The nominal leading lady in a Jack Perrin western cum gangster movie Gun Grit (1936), she clearly wa...

'745 Domingo Dr., Newport Beach, CA This rather drab condiminium complex near the Pacific Ocean in the Orange County community of Newpor...

17800 Tramonto Dr., Pacific Palisades, CA This forbidding home overlooking the Pacific once belonged to the Hollywood acting duo of Patricia...

Born in New York City in 1934, Carol Kelly was out of a performing family that also included sister Nancy Kelly and brother Jack Kelly, bot...