THE BIG TIMER

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THE BIG TIMER was a 1932 Columbia Picture starring Thelma Todd, Constance Cummings, and Ben Lyon.

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THE BIG TIMER

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Rita Hayworth Photo

Here is a picture of Rita Hayworth in a black dress from the 1937 Columbia picture GIRLS CAN PLAY. I'm not sure if this is the dress that Thelma Todd wore in AFTER THE DANCE in 1935, but it might be.

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BACHELOR GIRL Lobby Card

THE BACHELOR GIRL was a 1929 Columbia picture which had Thelma Todd in the cast, along with William Collier Jr., Jacqueline Logan, and Edward Hearn.

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Christine McIntyre And Shemp Howard Poster

Shemp Howard had his own series at Columbia before he replaced Curly as the "Third Stooge". Here is a poster for one of those films, BRIDE AND GLOOM, with Christine McIntyre. She frequently appeared in the Three Stooges series along with Shemp.

Thanks go to Jorge Finkielman for providing us with this picture.




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Thelma Todd Photo

Thelma Todd original full fashion studio portrait photo, 1930's, Columbia Pictures.

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AIR HOSTESS Lobby Cards

Here is a set of AIR HOSTESS lobby cards that turned up on ebay. They were all in a block, so I cut them up, and then put both versions on the blog.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The ones in a block look clearer, because they're smaller.







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Christine McIntyre Photos

 

 

Some more pictures of Christine McIntyre.



A publicity picture with the Three Stooges for BRIDELESS GROOM, 1947.

                                                                       "You wolf!"

 

 

 

 

 

ALL GUMMED UP

 

 With Shemp Howard in one of his solo films at Columbia.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 With Shemp Hoard at Columbia.

 

 

 

                                                                              POSTERS

 

 

 

Let's give the little lady a great big hand!

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Suzanne Ridgeway

Suzanne Ridgeway was one of the beautiful girls that worked with the Three Stooges.

 

 

 

 

 

 

With the Stooges. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

With Ben Blue

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

June Travis, Toddy Peterson & Suzanne Ridgeway -‘Mr. Doodle Kicks Off’ - 1938 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Suzanne Ridgeway - 1938 Hurell photo

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SAMSON AND DELILAH ( 1949 )

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Suzanne Ridgeway photo by Bruno of Hollywood

 

 

 

 

 Suzanne Ridgeway and friend in GIRLS IN CHAINS (1943)

 

 

 

 

Suzanne Ridgeway:
http://obscureactresses.wordpress.com/2013/11/12/suzanne-ridgeway/

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0725920/








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THREE STOOGES FAQ By David J. Hogan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Although the films of the Three Stooges are treated as kiddie fare on television, this author has sprinkled references to sex perversion through the book that are not kiddie fare and have nothing to do with the Three Stooges. The author evidently doesn't want to believe that anyone could still complain about "dirty humor" and says something that implies as much while discussing the Stooges' RHYTHM AND WEEP. But we are still free to complain about these things today, and I am complaining about what he has done.

While implying we are unable to complain of some things, the author tells us to complain about what he wants to complain about. And does so in a totalitarian tone.

While discussing THE YOKE'S ON ME, the author takes the opportunity to complain about Japanese having been put in internment camps during the second World War, but somehow fails to express any kind of concern about the Indians having been put on reservations at an earlier date.

He goes on to say that in THE YOKE'S ON ME the Japanese are "killed", but that in NO DOUGH, BOYS ( the very next film ) the Germans are "subdued". Both films end the same way, with the bad guys unconscious. Many of the Stooges' films end that way and sometimes the Stooges themselves are unconscious at the end.*

 In addition to demonstrating a lack of concern about Indians being put on reservations, the author actually attempts to make "jokes" about white women being raped by Indians and thereby demonstrates insensitivity to mistreatment of women. Although the movie industry was notorious for mistreating women, little or nothing is said about that in this "Faq".

 The author does not seem to know that Adrian Booth was the same girl as Lorna Gray under a different name, information that can be found in any number of other books.

The author puts some emphasis on scenes supposedly being timed wrong, saying that they tried to milk the laughs from gags for too long a period of time. The author evidently did not know that two-reel comedies were timed for a theater audience, not a lone individual who periodically hits the pause button to write notes.

This author does not always communicate things in a way that is easy to understand, and there are passages in this book whose meaning is not clear to me, such as where he says that by the time you reach the conclusion of the Stooges' LOOSE LOOT you will have a "stomach ache". Then there are peculiar words I do not understand, some of which may not be standardized, some of which are in a foreign language ( Yiddish ). And then there are things that he doesn't know about at all, possibly because they are inconvenient, such as World War II era Japanese medical experiments.





*I'm aware that the story that the Japanese were killed at the end of this film was in a previous book, THE COMPLETE THREE STOOGES by Jon Soloman. I've written about that before.

Hollywood and the Axis Powers:
http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2013/07/hollywood-and-axis-powers.html


Japanese Medical Experiments:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731


Kill Chaplin:
http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2012/12/kill-chaplin.html


Pearl Harbor:
http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2012/12/pearl-harbor.html






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AIR HOSTESS Photos

AIR HOSTESS starred Evalyn Knapp, but Thelma Todd was also in the cast as the "other woman".


Reblogged from http://www.laurelandhardyforum.com/

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AIR HOSTESS Pressbook

The pressbook for the movie AIR HOSTESS, a Columbia picture released in 1933 and starring Evalyn Knapp, James Murray, and Thelma Todd.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The picture of Thelma Todd at lower right looks like the one that was used on the cover of Donati's book.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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