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Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Helen Twelvetrees With Wampus Baby Stars

In 1929 Helen Twelvetrees was one of the Wampus Baby Stars, along with Loretta Young, Jean Arthur, Anita Page, and Sally Blane ( who was Loretta Young's sister ).

Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Merry Christmas

From-

Mary Pickford

Louise Brooks

Anna May Wong

Myrna Loy

Carole Lombard

Lois Moran

Loretta Young

Lupe Velez

Grace Bradley

Priscilla Lane

ClaireTrevor

Diana Lynn

Jane Greer

Virginia Grey

Ann Miller

Olga San Juan

Anne Jeffreys and Robert Sterling

Betty Grable

Marilyn Monroe

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Merry Christmas

From Loretta Young, Guy Kibbee, and Thelma Todd in 1935!

Monday, April 14, 2014

THE DOCTOR TAKES A WIFE starred Loretta Young and Ray Milland, but Dorothy Appleby and Carol Tevis were also in the cast as girls in a bookstore. This was actually Carol Tevis' last screen appearance.

Here is a flyer for this movie.

Neither Dorothy Appleby or Carol Tevis are shown or mentioned here, the emphasis is on the stars.

Loretta Young    ...     June Cameron
    Ray Milland    ...     Dr. Timothy Sterling
    Reginald Gardiner    ...     John R. Pierce
    Gail Patrick    ...     Marilyn Thomas
    Edmund Gwenn    ...     Dr. Lionel Sterling
    Frank Sully    ...     Louie Slapcovitch
    Gordon Jones    ...     O'Brien
    Georges Metaxa    ...     Jean Rovere
    Charles Halton    ...     Dr. Streeter
    Joseph Eggenton    ...     Dr. Nielson
    Paul McAllister    ...     Dean Lawton
    Chester Clute    ...     Johnson
    Hal K. Dawson    ...     Charlie
    Edward Van Sloan    ...     Burkhardt
    Helen Ainsworth    ...     Amazon in Book Store (uncredited)
    Erville Alderson    ...     Harrison - Printer (uncredited)
    Dorothy Appleby    ...     Woman in Book Store (uncredited)
    Irving Bacon    ...     Sam Appleby - Gas Station Attendant (uncredited)
    Don Beddoe    ...     Morning Express Reporter (uncredited)
    Henry Blair    ...     Boy (uncredited)
    Harry C. Bradley    ...     Dapper Salesman (uncredited)
    Spencer Charters    ...     Henry Quinn - Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
    Catherine Courtney    ...     Woman in Book Store (uncredited)
    Dix Davis    ...     Boy (uncredited)
    Helen Davis    ...     Woman in Book Store (uncredited)
    Edgar Dearing    ...     Motorcycle Cop (uncredited)
    Vernon Dent    ...     Man Outside Phone Booth (uncredited)
    Claire Du Brey    ...     Party Guest (uncredited)
    Edward Earle    ...     Party Guest (uncredited)
    Edward Gargan    ...     George - Doorman (uncredited)
    Sumner Getchell    ...     Wedding Celebrant (uncredited)
    Wesley Giraud    ...     Western Boy (uncredited)
    Jane Goude    ...     Mrs. Nielson (uncredited)
    Olin Howland    ...     Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
    Jane Keckley    ...     Mrs. Quinn (uncredited)
    William Lally    ...     Deck Steward (uncredited)
    Charles Lane    ...     Reporter (uncredited)
    Bobby Larson    ...     Boy (uncredited)
    Eddie Laughton    ...     Photographer (uncredited)
    Ann Lee    ...     Maid (uncredited)
    Ian Maclaren    ...     Professor (uncredited)
    Myra Marsh    ...     Lydia Johnson (uncredited)
    Frances Morris    ...     University Registration Desk Clerk (uncredited)
    William Newell    ...     Soda Jerk (uncredited)
    Frank Orth    ...     New York Editor (uncredited)
    Renie Riano    ...     Telegraph Operator (uncredited)
    Virginia Sale    ...     School Teacher (uncredited)
    Dorothy Ann Seese    ...     Child (uncredited)
    Gertrude Sutton    ...     Mabel (uncredited) (voice)
    Emma Tansey    ...     Old Woman Sitting Outside of Lakewood Lodge (uncredited)
    Carol Tevis    ...     Whiney Woman in Bookstore (uncredited)
    Charlotte Treadway    ...     Woman in Book Store (uncredited)
    Larry Wheat    ...     Party Guest (uncredited)
    John Wray    ...     Joe - Farmer (uncredited)
Directed by
Alexander Hall

Writing credits
George Seaton         (screenplay) &
Ken Englund         (screenplay)
Aleen Leslie         (story)
Produced by
William Perlberg    ....     producer

Cinematography by
Sidney Hickox         (director of photography) (as Sid Hickox)

Film Editing by
Viola Lawrence

Art Direction by
Lionel Banks

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
William Mull    ....     assistant director

Sound Department
Lodge Cunningham    ....     sound (uncredited)

Music Department
Morris Stoloff    ....     musical director (as M.W. Stoloff)
Friedrich Hollaender    ....     composer: stock music (uncredited)
Howard Jackson    ....     composer: stock music (uncredited)
Raphael Penso    ....     composer: stock music (uncredited)

Crew verified as complete

Production Companies
    Columbia Pictures Corporation

Monday, December 23, 2013

White Christmas

Alice White, that is.

Alice White, Loretta Young and Lola D'Avril

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Flyer For COCKEYED CAVALIERS And BULLDOG DRUMMOND STRIKES BACK

A flyer for the Broadway Theater advertises Wheeler and Woolsey's COCKEYED CAVALIERS with Thelma Todd as well as BULLDOG DRUMMOND STRIKES BACK with Ronald Colman and Loretta Young.

Saturday, September 7, 2013

HOLLYWOOD'S FAMOUS RECIPES OF THE MOVIE STARS

A book of movie star recipes from the early thirties. The pictures printed in this book were all autographed, but in the copies I have it is difficult to see all the signatures.

Saturday, February 16, 2013

SEVEN FOOTPRINTS TO SATAN

SEVEN FOOTPRINTS TO SATAN was Thelma Todd's first sound film.

Seven Footprints to Satan

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Seven Footprints to Satan

Directed by	Benjamin Christensen
Written by	Benjamin Christensen
Starring	Thelma Todd Creighton Hale William V. Mong Sheldon Lewis
Release date(s)	January 27, 1929 (1929-01-27)

Seven Footprints to Satan is a 1929 American dark comedy film directed by Danish filmmaker Benjamin Christensen. Based on the book of the same name by Abraham Merritt, it stars Thelma Todd, Creighton Hale, William V. Mong and Sheldon Lewis, and contains appearances by Sojin and Angelo Rossitto among others. It was produced as both a silent film and as a part-talkie, with dialog scenes, a full musical score, and sound effects.

Plot summary

Jim and Eve, a young society couple, are kidnapped on the eve of Jim's departure for Africa and brought to a mansion that is home to a strange and glamorous Satanic cult.

Production

Seven Footprints to Satan is the fifth of seven films made by Christensen during his tenure in Hollywood, and is one of only four that survive in a relatively complete state (Eagle's Nest and Haunted House are believed to be lost; House of Horror exists only in sound elements). Seven Footprints to Satan is also notable one of the first films of Loretta Young, who appears uncredited as an extra.^[1]
According to Internet reviews, only a silent version of the film, with Italian intertitles, is currently available for viewing.^[2]

References

External links

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Abraham Merritt's story features characters named "Eve" and "Satan" and may be seen as having some similarities to the Bible story, even though Merritt's Satan turns out to be an impostor in the end. The movie version would add to the imposture by having it that the whole adventure was a put-on, which might have been as much as anything to make the book's horriffic ending more suitable for the movies, which more ordinarily tended to have a happy ending.

The original story had it that Eve was a brunette,

But Thelma Todd was a blonde,

and the Eve on the cover of this dust jacket is a representation of Thelma Todd. There were also some pictures of Thelma Todd from the movie inside the book.

Later editions of the book varied as to whether the girl was shown as a blonde or brunette.

SEVEN FOOTPRINTS TO SATAN for years was unavailable for viewing, with only a few prints of the film known to exist. Even when it became available on home video, the copy that was circulated had Italian subtitles, making it difficult to follow for people who didn't speak that language. Later Peter Kavel had the subtitles translated into English, which helped a great deal.

SEVEN FOOTPRINTS TO SATAN was like a different version of THE CAT AND THE CANARY and also similar to THE BAT, which was a Roland West movie. It can be seen as part of a late twenties horror cycle. SEVEN FOOTPRINTS TO SATAN was also part of a triology of movies made by Benjamin Christensen at First National, preceded by THE HAUNTED HOUSE ( 1928 ) and followed by HOUSE OF HORROR ( 1929 ).

Creighton Hale, sometimes called "The poor man's Harold Lloyd", was the leading man in both THE CAT AND THE CANARY and in SEVEN FOOTPRINTS TO SATAN. A star in the silent era, his career would suffer a decline in the sound era.

Sojin, who hailed from Japan, was a popular in the silent era, frequently typecast as a mysterious Oriental. One of his most famous roles was the Mongolian prince in the 1924 Douglas Fairbanks film THE THIEF OF BAGDAD. He played himself in SEVEN FOOTPRINTS TO SATAN. In 1926 he had appeared in another horror comedy, Roland West's THE BAT.

The business of having the steps light up is something that had probably been done before and has also been done since in "I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise" sung by Georges Guetary in AN AMERICAN IN PARIS.

That song came from George White's Scandals of 1922.

It's likely that this effect had already been done onstage before author Abe Merrit put it in the story. He could even have been thinking of the song about the "Stairway to Paradise".