Wheeler And Woolsey And Friends On Tour

Wheeler and Woolsey made personal appearance tours, and some of the girls who worked with them in the movies went with them on these tours. Dorothy Lee, the girl who worked with them most often, went on more than one of these tours.  And Thelma Todd went with them on one tour.

From G. D. Hamann's THELMA TODD IN THE THIRTIES:

10/27/1933 EHE Harrison Carroll

Going the personal appearance idea one better, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Thelma Todd and Dorothy Lee will join together in a musical comedy and make a swing through Texas, up the South Atlantic Coast, the middle west and finally to New York.

The vehicle, "Dumb Bells," is all ready and the four-starred caravan will leave Hollywood soon after they finish HIPS, HIPS HOORAY at RKO. They plan to play engagements at Phoenix, El Paso, Fort Worth, Dallas, New Orleans, Memphis, Chicago, Detroit and on to Broadway.

If you can believe it's enthusiastic backers, "Dumb Bells" will not be the thrown-together show such as you road audiences have been victimized by in the past. Tim Whelan, Wheeler and Woolsey collaborated on the book, and the veteran team of Kalmar and Ruby have furnished the songs.




Betty Grable went with them on another.

Betty Grable had evidently made a splash in THE GAY DIVORCEE in 1933, singing "Let's K-nock K-nees"  and dancing with Edward Everett Horton,

but wouldn't be considered a big star until the forties.

Betty Grable became the top pin-up girl of the second World War.

Here we see Betty Grable being interviewed on the radio by Paula Stone in the 1940's.

Betty Grable:
http://bettygrable.net/

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002107/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Grable


Dorothy Lee:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Lee_(actress)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0497186/

Dorothy Lee on personal appearance tour with Wheeler and Woosey:
http://books.google.com/books?id=ZlNcYGUwEpMC&pg=PA86&lpg=PA86&dq=wheeler+and+woolsey+personal+appearance&source=bl&ots=Ve_bLczM2D&sig=YHg4QLiy57ENLiu2QDCBGDtkxa8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=96XxUYSRB4PRqgH20gE&ved=0CD4Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=wheeler%20and%20woolsey%20personal%20appearance&f=false


Wheeler And Woolsey:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler_%26_Woolsey

http://talkieking.blogspot.com/2009/01/wheeler-woolsey-great-comedy-team.html

Wheeler And Woolsey Fan Page:
http://users.wowway.com/~stoogeman/




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Jeanette MacDonald Photos

Jeanette MacDonald was a star in the thirties, who is best known for working with Nelson Eddy. We have a few pictures of her with Thelma Todd on this blog.



Thelma Todd, Jeanette MacDonald and Bob Ritchie at a cocktail party given by Paula Stone. Dated 12/7/35 on the backside.

 Another photo from the same party.

 Here we see Marie Wilson with Thelma Todd and Patsy Kelly as well as Jeanette MacDonald at a Hollywood party in 1935.

And here is another one.

Thelma Todd is at left, with Paula Stone, Jeanette MacDonald, and Patsy Kelly. What appears to be the same box of candy appears in this picture, too.

Another picture of Jeanette MacDonald with Paula Stone from the same period.

Reblogged from http://www.basilrathbone.net/gallery/posed2.htm

Dolores Del Rio, Fay Wray, Jeanette MacDonald, Paula Stone, Anita Louise, Fred Stone, James Blakeley, Johnny Mack Brown, Russell Hardie, Glenda Farrell, Basil Rathbone, and three unidentified women

This copy was published in HOLLYWOOD, April 1936.

A cut scene from The Girl of the Golden West (MGM, 1938) with Jeanette MacDonald, Carol Tevis, and Ray Bolger

With Clark Gable in SAN FRANCISCO ( 1938 ). This is the only Jeanette MacDonald movie I've ever seen on local television.

The television cartoon DUDLEY DO-RIGHT featured caricatures of Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddie, along with horse.

Special thanks to Margie for supplying many of the pictures used here.

DUDLEY DO-RIGHT:
http://www.toonopedia.com/dudley.htm

Jeanette MacDonald And Nelson Eddy site:
http://maceddy.com/

Paula Stone:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Stone



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Paula Stone Photos

More Paula Stone photos, with some other familiar faces.

From front to back: June Travis, Paula Stone, Alma Lloyd, Kay Linaker, Eunice Healey, Marie Wilson

 Paula Stone interviewing Betty Grable on the radio during the second World War.

Paula Stone Interviewing Dinah Shore on her radio program. 

Paula Stone interviewing Joan Crawford in 1952.

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From Mexico With Adulation Rides Again

American movie stars were very popular in latin america. Here is a Mexican fan magazine from January 4, 1936, Mujeres Deportes.

At the time this was written, Shirley Temple was the biggest star in the movies. 

 

 

The cartoon feature is Feg Murry's SEEIN' STARS.

 

 

Thelma Todd was still in the news at the beginning of 1936 as she had died recently and the investigation was still trying to figure out if it had been an accident, murder, or suicide. A question that still hasn't been decided absolutely.

 

Paula Stone, June Travis, Alma Lloyd, Kay Linaker, Marie Wilson and Eunice Healy appear to be singing Christmas carols in the picture at top right.*

And Shirley Temple can be seen again at bottom right.




* Paula Stone gave a party that Thelma Todd, Patsy Kelly, and Marie Wilson went to towards the end of 1935. We've had a photograph that was taken at that party on the blog before. Jeanette McDonald was in it, too.


Paula Stone:
http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2014/08/paula-stone.html


Marie Wilson:
http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2012/04/marie-wilson-and-my-friend-irma.html
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Paula Stone danced in the movies and later had a career on the radio. And in 1935, she was photographed with Thelma Todd.

Paula Stone

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

   

Stone in 1945.

Paula Stone (January 20, 1912 – December 23, 1997) was an actress in theater and motion pictures from New York City.

• 1 Birth
• 2 Theater
• 3 Movies
• 4 Radio
• 5 Television
• 6 Marriage
• 7 References
• 8 External links

She was the daughter of Fred Stone, a stage actor, dancing comedian, and owner of the Fred Stone theatrical stock company. Her mother, Allene Crater Stone, acted with her father and was a singer. The family had a ranch at Lyme, Connecticut.

Theater

Stone made her debut in May 1925 at the Illinois Theater in Chicago, Illinois, in Stepping Stones. She was 13 years old. Her sister Dorothy made her stage debut at 16. Dorothy performed with Fred Stone at the Globe Theater in Manhattan, in Criss-Cross in December 1926. Stone was then 14 and training to be a stage actress within two years. Her first ambition was to be a singer like her mother. Another sister, Carol, was 12. She also aspired to go into theater work.
Stone appeared with Fred and Dorothy in Ripples, a show which debuted in New Haven, Connecticut, in January 1930. The first New York show of the same production came at the New Amsterdam Theater in February. Stone and her father teamed in Smiling Faces, produced by the Shubert Theater owners in 1931. Mack Gordon and Harry Revel wrote the music and lyrics. The musical had its first night in Springfield, Massachusetts.
Stone toured in You Can't Take It With You, Idiots Delight, and other plays. In November 1940 she was cast with Marcy Wescott for the Dennis King musical show. It debuted at the Forrest Theater in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
When her husband was reported missing during World War II, Stone began doing camp and canteen shows with her father. The two joined again in a play produced by the Theatre Guild in September 1950.

Movies

She signed with RKO Radio for a singing and dancing role in a musical in May 1935. Her second motion picture role features her opposite Dick Foran in Treachery Rides The Range (1936), a Warner Bros. release. The movie sought to illustrate injustices perpetrated by buffalo traders against Cheyenne Indians. Foran and Stone provided the romantic interest. Her first motion picture paired her with William Boyd in Hopalong Cassidy (1935).
She had the role of Mabel, best friend of the leading lady Pearl, in The Girl Said No (1937). The movie was directed by Andrew L. Stone and received an Academy Award nomination. Her final motion picture was Laugh It Off (1939), a musical released by Universal Pictures.

Radio

Stone took singing lessons. She was hired by WNEW in West Palm Beach, Florida, to broadcast the news and gossip of Broadway to servicemen. She wrote the scripts for this program and later secured her own show on the Mutual Radio Network. In 1950 she hosted Hollywood USA. The show related entertainment news and she interviewed celebrities. In 1952 her broadcast was known as The Paula Stone Program. She was affiliated with the Mutual Broadcasting System in 1954.

Television

In 1954 Stone worked for Broadway Angels, Inc., in New York City. She was the MC of Angel Auditions, a television show which examined prospective Broadway shows. The plays were tried in summer stock and considered for production on Broadway.

Marriage

Stone announced that she intended to marry cafe owner Walter Mason in 1937, but she did not. She wed orchestra leader Duke Daly in July 1939, at her home in Beverly Hills. Daly, 30, resided in Miami, Florida. His real name was Linwood A. Dingley. She was married to Michael Sloane in 1946.
Paula Stone died in Sherman Oaks, California, in 1997.

References

• "Film and Drama". Long Beach Press-Telegram. September 23, 1950. p. 10. 
• "Walter Winchell On Broadway". Nevada State Journal. October 14, 1952. p. 4. 
• "Rialto Gossip". New York Times. May 17, 1925. p. X1. 
• "Some Advantages Of Having Relatives". New York Times. December 5, 1926. p. X9. 
• "Fred Stone Falls In A Solo Flight; Breaks Both Legs". New York Times. August 4, 1928. p. 1. 
• "Fred Stone Bounces Back In Ripples". New York Times. January 29, 1930. p. 30. 
• "Jests Of Airplane Mishap". New York Times. February 12, 1930. p. 29. 
• "Theatrical Notes". New York Times. September 17, 1931. p. 21. 
• "Screen Notes". New York Times. May 25, 1935. p. 12. 
• "The Screen". New York Times. May 30, 1936. p. 7. 
• "News Of The Screen". New York Times. March 1, 1937. p. 15. 
• "Paula Stone To Be Married". New York Times. August 6, 1937. p. 21. 
• "Paula Stone To Be Wed". New York Times. July 13, 1939. p. 22. 
• "Engaged For Dennis King Show". New York Times. November 13, 1940. p. 28. 
• "Paula Stone And Phil Brito Are Heard On KPAC". Port Arthur News. August 28, 1945. p. 28. 

External links

• Paula Stone at the Internet Movie Database
• Corbis page featuring some portraits of Paula Stone

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Her father had been the original scarecrow in the Broadway production of THE WIZARD OF OZ. Paula Stone was one of Ida Lupino's friends and came to know her quite well according to author Donati, who mentions her in the acknowledgements of his book IDA LUPINO: A BIOGRAPHY.


Paula Stone was new to Hollywood when she gave the party at which this picture was taken in 1935.



 Here we see Paula Stone with Marie Wilson, Thelma Todd, and Patsy Kelly as well as Jeanette MacDonald at a Hollywood party in 1935.


Thelma Todd, Jeanette MacDonald and Bob Ritchie at a cocktail party given by Paula Stone. Dated 12/7/35 on the backside.

Another picture of Jeanette MacDonald with Paula Stone from the same period.

Reblogged from http://www.basilrathbone.net/gallery/posed2.htm

Dolores Del Rio, Fay Wray, Jeanette MacDonald, Paula Stone, Anita Louise, Fred Stone, James Blakeley, Johnny Mack Brown, Russell Hardie, Glenda Farrell, Basil Rathbone, and three unidentified women

This copy was published in HOLLYWOOD, April 1936.

ATLANTIC FLIGHT was a movie Paula Stone made in 1937 with real-life aviators Dick Merrill and Jack Lambie which also had a few familiar faces, including Gertrude Messinger, Ivan Lebedeff, and Paula's cousin Milbourn, who later played "Doc" on TV's GUNSMOKE.

Reblogged from http://free-classic-movies.com/movies-03h/03h-1937-08-25-Atlantic-Flight/index.php#.U9025FIg-1s


                                          Gertrude Messinger as the airport diner waitress

Jack Lambie, Paula Stone and Ivan Lebedeff

Milburn Stone with cousin Paula Stone

IDIOT'S DELIGHT ( 1939 ) with Clark Gable

 The girl to Gable's right looks like Paula Stone to me.


Paula Stone interviewing Betty Grable on the radio during the second World War.

Reblogged from https://wnew1130com.ipower.com/news/staff/q-r-s-t/paula-stone/

Paula Stone and her father Fred Stone worked together in putting on shows to entertain the troops during the second World War.

 I think Paula Stone might be the dancer fourth from the right.

HOLLYWOOD, August 1937


Paula Stone tap dance from SWING IT, PROFESSOR:





HOP-A-LONG CASSIDY trailer:





ATLANTIC FLIGHT:





IDIOT'S DELIGHT dance number:





ATLANTIC FLIGHT:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Flight

"The Boy Friends" ( Gertrude Messinger ):
http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-boy-friends.html

HOP-ALONG CASSIDY:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hop-Along_Cassidy

IDIOT'S DELIGHT:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot's_Delight_(film)

Ivan Lebedeff:
http://benny-drinnon.blogspot.com/2012/08/ivan-lebedeff.html

Paula Stone:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0832096/

http://wnew1130com.ipower.com/news/staff/q-r-s-t/paula-stone/

http://obscureactresses.wordpress.com/2014/03/25/paula-stone/




Watch ATLANTIC FLIGHT at  http://free-classic-movies.com/movies-03h/03h-1937-08-25-Atlantic-Flight/index.php#.U9025FIg-1s

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MOTION PICTURE September 1935 - Thelma Todd as Lillian Russell

There had been another reference to Thelma Todd as Lillian Russell in MOTION PICTURE in September 1935. So it seem to have been a recurring thing in that magazine.

Cellophane seemed more glamorous when it was new.

Thelma Todd is likened to Lillian Russell on the last page. It could be because of the then-current movie DIAMOND JIM, which had Binnie Barnes playing Lillian Russell.



                                                         Binnie Barnes as Lillian Russell

Alice Faye as Lillian Russell

                                                Marilyn Monroe as Lillian Russell

And Lillian Russell herself, a glamour girl whose day was before the others.

I thought Paula Stone ( who was in a picture on the last page of the article ) was cute, we've had her on the blog before, in another picture from MOTION PICTURE. One that had Thelma Todd in it.

This happens to be the same issue the Pat O'Brien article was in that I put on the blog the other day.

Watch Paula Stone in SWING IT PROFESSOR, 1937





Binnie Barnes:
http://classiccinemaimages.com/binnie-barnes/binnie-barnes/

DIAMOND JIM with Binnie Barnes as Lillian Russell:
http://immortalephemera.com/3790/diamond-jim-1935-starring-edward-arnold-as-diamond-jim-brady/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026277/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1


Grace Moore:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Moore

Marian Marsh:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Marsh


MOTION PICTURE:
http://mediahistoryproject.org/fanmagazines/

Lillian Russell:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillian_Russell

Ann Southern:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Sothern

Paula Stone:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paula_Stone


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