Meanwhile... Back at the Ranch

Saturday, April 26, 2025

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DAMES AHOY from 1930 and one of Universal's last silents featured light leading man Glenn Tryon and a newcomer named Helen Wright (. Ac...
Saturday, April 12, 2025

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a Broadway soubrette of some note - "TheFaithful Heart," "The Dancers" (1923) - Flora Sheffield had come to New York wit...
Friday, April 11, 2025

HARRY ARRAS DIED ON THE SET

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Veteran screen bit player Harry Arras, of the original Long Beach Balboa Company, was stricken on the set of Warner Bros.' ESCAPE FRIM C...
Wednesday, April 9, 2025

HOLLYWOOD BOULEVARD

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from the American Fiom Institute Catalog: Although many reviews and publicity items credit George Clemens as cinematographer, Karl Struss i...
Wednesday, March 26, 2025

LORNA BALFOUR

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Perusing a who's who I came across the name Lorna Balfour, who played Beryl Mercer's daughter in a Janet Gaynor-Charles Farrell prog...
Friday, September 2, 2016

VARIETY GIRL Andra Verne (1922-2015)

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  Ever since I first saw this production still from the 1947 Paramount "all star" extravaganza Variety Girl  I have wondered, not ...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

The final home of REX LEASE

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5262 Mary Ellen Ave., Van Nuys, CA                                        This San Fernando Valley property, currently under repairs, became...
Wednesday, April 6, 2016

The home of BASIL RATHBONE and OUIDA BERGERE

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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...
Sunday, March 27, 2016

HALA LINDA in LEGION OF MISSING MEN (Monogram 1937)

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"A dour foreign legion picture," as the always perceptive Don Miller called it in his groundbreaking little tone B Movies , Legion...
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Wednesday, February 24, 2016

The (forgotten) women of the BIG FOUR FILM CORP. 1930-1931

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Founded by John R. Freuler , formerly of the American Film Company, Big Four Film Corporation was created to produce very low budget Western...
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Hans J. Wollstein (aka Lightning Bryce)
Hoyer, Denmark
For six years I was as an associate editor with www.allmovie.com, specializing in classic Hollywood B-Films. In my spare time, I published "Strangers in Hollywood" (Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow press, 1994) and "Vixens Floozies and Molls" (Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1999 & 2003). I'm retired now but I still watch B-Movies and this site is a personal outlet for my extant review cravings. But feel free to comment on my comments.
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