Happy Halloween

From Shirley Temple!

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AS THE EARTH TURNS

We've had a picture of Dorothy Appleby lying on a hammock before. This movie seems to be where it came from.












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From early 1934 Warner Brothers AS THE EARTH TURNS, based on Gladys Hasty Carroll's novel; directed by Alfred E. Green; starring Jean Muir, Donald Woods, Russell Hardie, Emily Lowry, Arthur Hohl, George Billings, Marilyn Knowlden, Javir Gibbons, Joyce Kay, Dorothy Gray, Cora Sue Collins, Dorothy Peterson, David Landau, Clara Blandick, William Janney, Dorothy Appleby, Sarah Padden, Egon Brecher, David Durand, Wally Albright and in a small, uncredited role a very young Shirley Temple. Can you spot her?


AS THE EARTH TURNS:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023769/

Jean Muir:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Muir_(actress)


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Dickie Moore And Shirley Temple

Dickie Moore passed away a few days after fellow Our Gang Member Jean Darling. Here is a publicity photo showing Dickie Moore and Shirley Temple having a tea party with Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse.

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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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Happy New Year

From Shirley Temple!

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Happy Thanksgiving

From Shirley Temple!



















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Thirties Star Shirley Temple Dies

Shirley Temple, the biggest little star of the thirties, has died.

Reblogged from http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/11/us-shirley-temple-idUSBREA1A0LD20140211

(Reuters) - Shirley Temple Black, who lifted America's spirits as a bright-eyed, dimpled child movie star during the Great Depression and later became a U.S. diplomat, died late on Monday evening at the age of 85, her family said in a statement.
Temple Black, who lured millions to the movies in the 1930s, "peacefully passed away" at her Woodside, Calif., home from natural causes at 10:57 p.m. local time (0157 ET), surrounded by her family and caregivers, the statement said on Tuesday.
"We salute her for a life of remarkable achievements as an actor, as a diplomat, and most importantly as our beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and adored wife of fifty-five years," the statement said.
As actress Shirley Temple, she was precocious, bouncy and adorable with a head of curly hair, tap-dancing through songs like "On The Good Ship Lollipop." As Ambassador Shirley Temple Black, she was soft-spoken and earnest in postings in Czechoslovakia and Ghana, out to disprove concerns that her previous career made her a diplomatic lightweight.
"I have no trouble being taken seriously as a woman and a diplomat here," Black said after her appointment as U.S. ambassador to Ghana in 1974. "My only problems have been with Americans who, in the beginning, refused to believe I had grown up since my movies."
Black, born April 23, 1928, started her entertainment career in the early 1930s and was famous by age 6. She became a national institution and her raging popularity spawned look-alike dolls, dresses and dozens of other Shirley Temple novelties as she became one of the first stars to enjoy the fruits of the growing marketing mentality.
Shirley was 3 when her mother put her in dance school, where a talent scout spotted her and got her in "Baby Burlesk," a series of short movies with child actors spoofing adult movies.
Movie studio executives took notice. In 1934 she appeared in the film "Stand Up and Cheer!", and her song and dance number in "Baby Take a Bow" stole the show. Other movies in that year included "Little Miss Marker" and "Bright Eyes" - which featured her signature song "On the Good Ship Lollipop" - and in 1935 she received a special Oscar for her "outstanding contribution to screen entertainment."
She made some 40 feature movies, including "The Little Colonel," "Poor Little Rich Girl," "Heidi" and "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm," in 10 years, starring with big-name actors like Randolph Scott, Lionel Barrymore and Jimmy Durante.
Shirley was a superstar before the term was invented. She said she was about 8 when adoring crowds shouting their love for her made her realize she was famous.
"I wondered why," she recalled. "I asked my mother and she said, 'Because your films make them happy.'"
She was such a money-maker that her mother - who would always tell her "Sparkle, Shirley!" before she appeared before an audience - and studio officials shaved a year off her age to maintain her child image.
Her child career came to an end at age 12. She tried a few roles as a teenager - including opposite future president Ronald Reagan in "That Hagen Girl" - but retired from the screen in 1949 at age 21.
The Screen Actors Guild gave her its 2005 Life Achievement Award, and in her acceptance speech posted on the group's website, she said: "I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: start early!"
POLITICS AND DIPLOMACY
Temple was only 17 in 1945 when she married for the first time to John Agar, who would eventually appear with her in two movies. Their five-year marriage produced a daughter.
In 1950 she wed Charles Black in a marriage that lasted until his death in 2005. She and Black had two children.
Black's interest in politics was sparked in the early '50s when her husband was called back into the Navy to work in Washington.
She did volunteer work for the Republican Party while attempting to make a comeback with two short-lived TV series, "Shirley Temple's Storybook" in 1959 and "The Shirley Temple Theater" a year later.
Seven years after that she ran unsuccessfully for Congress in California but stayed in politics, helping raise more than $2 million for Richard Nixon's re-election campaign.
She was later named to the United States' team to the United Nations and found that the her childhood popularity was an asset in her new career.
"Having been a film star can be very helpful on an international basis," Black once said. "Many people consider me an old friend."
Sometimes the public found it hard to accept her in diplomatic roles. But in 1989 she pointed out her 20 years in public service were more than the 19 she spent in Hollywood.
In 1974, Ford appointed Black ambassador to Ghana and two years later made her chief of protocol. For the next decade she trained newly appointment ambassadors at the request of the State Department.
In 1989, President George H.W. Bush made Black ambassador to Prague - a sensitive Eastern European post normally reserved for career diplomats. Black had been in Prague in 1968, representing a group fighting multiple sclerosis at a conference, when Soviet-bloc tanks entered to crush an era of liberalization known as the "Prague Spring."
President Gustav Husak did not seem daunted by the prospect of a U.S. ambassador who had witnessed the invasion. He told her that he had been a fan of "Shirleyka."
In 1972, Black was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a mastectomy. She publicly discussed her surgery to educate women about the disease.
Black is survived by her children, Susan, Charlie Jr., and Lori, her granddaughter Teresa and her great-granddaughters Lily and Emma, the family statement said. It said private funeral arrangements were pending.
(Reporting by Eric M. Johnson; Editing by Bill Trott and Sonya Hepinstall)

 

        

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                                     Shirley Temple at the height of her fame in the 1930's.

 

 

 

 

Dancing with Bill "Bojangles" Robinson in the 1930's.

 

 

 

 

Dancing with Bojangles again, in the 1940's.

 

 

 

 

Shirley Temple marries John Agar

 

 

 

 

FAIRY TALE THEATER on television.

 Shirley Temple site:
http://miss-shirley-temple.tumblr.com/

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Happy New Year

From:



                                                                      Alice White

 

 

 

Thelma White and Dorothy Lee

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thelma Todd

 

 

 

 

Lona Andre And Mary Kornman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shirley Temple

 

 

 

 

 

 

Olivia Dehaviland

 

 

 

 

 

Rita Hayworth

 

 

 

 

 

Virginia Vale

 

 

 

 

 

Dona Drake

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ann Miller

 

 

 

 

 

Betty Hutton

 

 

 

 

 

Julie Adams

 

 

 

 

 And Marie Wilson

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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From Mexico With Adulation

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 appears to be 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.

 

This appears to be "Alice in Wonderland".

 

 

 

This magazine also had articles about Clark Gable, Sonja Heinie, and Marie Wilson. This was still early in Marie Wilson's career. In 1946, she would appear in SATAN MET A LADY, which had the same story as THE MALTESE FALCON, the first version of which had Thelma Todd in it.

 

 

 

 

 Marie Wilson would later gain fame as "My Friend Irma", a character she would play for years.

 

 

 

 

Media History Project: Fan Magazines:

http://mediahistoryproject.org/fanmagazines/

 

 

Vintage Movie Magazines:

http://www.classichollywoodbios.com/vintagemoviemagazines.htm

 

 

SATAN MET A LADY:

http://davycrockettsalmanack.blogspot.com/2011/10/overlooked-films-satan-met-lady-maltese.html

 

 

Shirley Temple:

http://www.shirleytemple.com/

Mickey's Polo Team

Mickey's Polo Team is another cartoon with caricatures of various movie stars. Laurel and Hardy are again amoung those depicted. A Mae West bird, "Jennie Wren", from the cartoon WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN? also appears, as do some other familiar characters from Disney cartoons.




From Wikkipedia:

Mickey's Polo Team is a 1936 American animated short film produced by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists. The cartoon features of game of polo played between four Disney characters, led by Mickey Mouse, and four cartoon versions of real-life movie stars. It was directed by David Hand and was first released on January 4, 1936. The film was inspired by Walt Disney's personal love of polo.^[1]
The cartoon features cameos of many Disney characters from the Mickey Mouse and Silly Symphony film series, as well as several real-world 1930s entertainment figures.
In detail the characters are:

• Referee: Jack Holt

• The "Mickey Mousers" team:
  • Mickey Mouse
  • Goofy as "The Goof"
  • Big Bad Wolf
  • Donald Duck, riding a donkey

• The "Movie Stars" team:
  • Stan Laurel
  • Oliver Hardy
  • Harpo Marx, riding an ostrich
  • Charlie Chaplin

• Spectators:
  • Shirley Temple, seated with the Three Little Pigs
  • Charles Laughton, dressed as Henry VIII
  • Eddie Cantor
  • W. C. Fields
  • Harold Lloyd
  • Greta Garbo, waving a Pom-pon
  • Edna May Oliver, seated next to Max Hare, from The Tortoise and the Hare
  • Clark Gable, seated with Clarabelle Cow
  • Pluto
  • Fifi the Peke
  • Two Easter Bunnies, from Funny Little Bunnies
  • The Wise Little Hen, from The Wise Little Hen
  • The Flying Mouse and his mother, from The Flying Mouse
  • Peter and Polly Penguin, from Peculiar Penguins
  • King Midas and Goldie the Elf, from The Golden Touch
  • Ambrose Puss the Cat and Dirty Bill the Dog Robber, from The Robber Kitten
  • Cock Robin and Jenny Wren, from Who Killed Cock Robin?

 See also

• Mickey's Gala Premiere
• Mother Goose Goes Hollywood
• Hollywood Steps Out
• Hollywood Daffy
• The Autograph Hound
• Slick Hare
• What's Cookin' Doc?
• Felix in Hollywood

 Notes

1. ^ Smith, Dave (1996). "Mickey's Polo Team". Disney A to Z: The Official Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Hyperion. pp. 328. ISBN 0-7868-8149-0.

 External links

• Mickey's Polo Team at The Encyclopedia of Disney Animated Shorts

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You can't tell the score without knowing the players.

The audience contains both human beings and funny animals, naturally.

Mouse polo.

Harpo Marx wore a red wig, which was frequently depicted in color cartoons as blond.

Mickey Mouse, Charlie Chaplin, Olliver Hardy.

Laurel and Hardy. Big horse laugh.

Clark Gable and friend.

Edna May Olliver worked with Wheeler and Woolsey.

Charles Laughton, Eddie Cantor, Harold Lloyd, W.C. Fields, Greta Garbo.

1. Legs Sparrow, one of the three prime suspects from the Silly Symphony Who Killed Cock Robin.

2. Peter and Polly Penguin from the Silly Symphony Peculiar Penguins.

3. Three of the many miniature Mickey orphans that appeared in the shorts Orphans Benefit and Orphans Picnic. Because there are three, I identified them as such rather than as Morty and Ferdy who made their lone screen appearance in Mickey's Steamroller.

4. Cock Robin and a distinctly off-model incarnation of Jenny Wren from Who Killed Cock Robin. The Jenny Wren character was in fact a caricature of Mae West, though the resemblance is not apparent in this particular version.

5. The Wise Little Hen from the Silly Symphony of the same name. That short is best known for the debut of Donald Duck.

6. King Midas and Goldie from the Silly Symphony The Golden Touch.

7. The title character from the Silly Symphony The Flying Mouse, who is accompanied by his mother.

8. Ambrose and Dirty Bill from the Silly Symphony The Robber Kitten.

9. Pluto and his occasional girlfriend Fifi.

10. The Three Little Pigs surround famous child star Shirley Temple.

11. Two unnamed rabbits possibly derived from the Easter-themed Silly Symphony Funny Little Bunnies.


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Laurel and Hardy appeared as cartoon characters in several Disney cartoons. Their producer, Hal Roach, would return the favor by depicting Mickey Mouse and the Three Little Pigs from Disney's cartoons in his 1934 film BABES IN TOYLAND. Mickey Mouse was played by Josephine the Monkey in costume and the Three Little Pigs were three midgets in pig suits.

In 1934, Mickey Mouse also appeared in MGM's HOLLYWOOD PARTY as a cartoon character. Laurel and Hardy as well as Jimmy Durante were the stars of the movie, which also featured Lupe Velez and The Three Stooges in small roles.

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See MICKEY'S POLO TEAM:



See the cartoon sequence from HOLLYWOOD PARTY:

THE AUTOGRAPH HOUND

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

The Autograph Hound
Donald Duck series
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Jack King
Voices by	Clarence Nash Billy Bletcher
Animation by	Johnny Cannon John Elliotte Larry Clemmons Ed Dunn Ed Love Ward Kimball Paul Allen Rex Cox Seamus Culhane Nick De Tolly (assistant)
Studio	Walt Disney Productions
Distributed by	RKO Radio Pictures
Release date(s)	September 1, 1939
Color process	Technicolor
Running time	7:55
Language	English

The Autograph Hound is a 1939 American Donald Duck cartoon which features Donald Duck as an autograph hunter in Hollywood. Many celebrities from the 1930s are featured. This is the first cartoon where Donald Duck is featured in his blue sailor hat.

Plot

Donald Duck tries to enter a Hollywood studio so he can search for celebrities willing to sign their autograph. A police officer guarding the gate prevents him from entering the building. Donald manages to sneak inside by climbing on the limousine with Greta Garbo so that it seems he's riding along with her. The police officer discovers he's been fooled and chases Donald, who enters a room with the name "Mickey Rooney" on it. Inside, Mickey Rooney is dressing up in front of the mirror, when Donald asks him for his autograph. Rooney writes his name in Donald's book and makes it disappear and reappear with a magic trick. Donald, who is not amused, tries to impress Rooney by doing a similar trick with an egg. The egg is however obviously hidden under Donald's hat and Rooney who is aware of this, crushes it, laughing loudly. Donald gets extremely angry and starts waving his fists, while Rooney manages to put a violin in Donald's hands. When Donald discovers he has been tricked for the third time he throws the violin at Rooney. Rooney ducks and the instrument lands in the face of the police officer.
Alarmed, Donald runs away and hides under a bell-jar carried by actor Henry Armetta. When the police officer discovers Donald's hiding place the duck runs to another film set full with ice. There he meets Sonja Henie and asks her for an autograph. Henie signs her name by skating it in the ice, so that Donald has to carry it with him. While walking in a desert setting Donald discovers the ice has melted. He notices a tent with the silhouettes of three belly dancing Arabic women, who turn out to be the Ritz Brothers. Excited, he asks them for their autographs, but behaving like screwballs they jump on Donald and sign their group name on his buttocks. An enraged Donald throws a paint can at their heads, but it hits the face of the police officer instead.
Again Donald has to flee and he runs to a castle with the sign The Road To Mandalay, which turns out to be just a model. After bumping his head into it and realizing his mistake he runs into another direction. On a pair of stairs he bumps into Shirley Temple. She, too, recognizes him and asks for an autograph. They both sit down to sign each other their autographs and Donald, excited he has his first real autograph, jumps in the air with joy. Then the police officer grabs him. Shirley tells the police officer to leave him alone and he drops Donald on the floor in surprise. "Donald Duck? Did you say "Donald Duck?". Other Hollywood actors hear his comment and enthusiastically rush to Donald to ask him to sign his autograph for them. (In chronological order: Greta Garbo, Clark Gable, The Andrew Sisters, Charlie McCarthy, Stepin Fetchit, Roland Young, the Lone Ranger riding his horse Silver, Joe E. Brown, Martha Raye, Hugh Herbert, Irvin S. Cobb, Edward Arnold, Katharine Hepburn, Eddie Cantor, Slim Summerville, Lionel Barrymore, Bette Davis, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Mischa Auer, Joan Crawford and Charles Boyer). When the police officer asks Donald to sign his autograph book and offers him his pen, Donald squirts ink in the policeman's face. While the ink drips from the officer's face and writes Donald's name on his chest, Donald laughs hysterically.

Cultural references

• Quite a few of the caricatures featured at the end of the cartoon also appeared in an earlier Disney short: Mother Goose Goes Hollywood (1938)
• Donald Duck imitated Sonja Henie in an earlier cartoon, The Hockey Champ (1939).
• Bette Davis is featured in her role as Jezebel (1938), Lionel Barrymore appears as Dr. Gillespie from the Dr. Kildare film series and Charles Boyer is dressed as Napoleon Bonaparte in reference to his film Conquest (1937).
• The Road to Mandalay was the working title of the first "Road to..." series, Road to Singapore, with Bob Hope and Bing Crosby.

More information

• IMDB entry
• Explanation and visual comparison between the caricatures featured in the cartoon and the real celebrities

External links

• The Autograph Hound at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• The Autograph Hound at the Internet Movie Database

   

The Garbomobile.

Donald Duck fools the guard into thinking he's with Garbo. Actually, he's on the outside of the car.

Donald tries to play a joke with an egg, but Mickey Man spoils it. "That joke laid an egg- or was it you?"

Mickey Rooney at left and Henry Armetta at right.

The Ritz Brothers at left, Sonja Heinie at right.

Donald asks for an autograph.

The autograph is on ice.

Shirley Temple on the good ship Lollipop.

Donald fell down and hit his head and saw stars. No, just one.

The Marx Brothers, who are more highly reguarded today than the Ritz Btothers

 

Charlie McCarthy was supposed to be a sort of a lady's man, or aspired to be one.

 

Slim Summerville was one of Zasu Pitt's frequent costars. Irvin S. Cobb was a famous writer who once worked for Hal Roach.

They had a lot of jokes about Martha Raye having a big mouth. Somehow, that wasn't what I thought of whenever I looked at her. She was very well develped in other areas as well.

 

"I've noticed!"




Stepin Fetchit, whose act would be considered objectionable by many today.

Clark Gable and Greta Garbo. She didn't get to play Scarlet O'Hara, either.

"Oh-oh! My OTHER boyfriend is here!!!"

The Lone Ranger began as a radio show, but a movie serial had already been made, in 1938. Clayton Moore played him on the television version. I was on television with Clayton Moore when he made a personal appearance in Indianapolis.

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Original pencil drawing of Martha Raye and Joe E. Brown characters.

 

Original pencil drawing of Shirley Temple character.

I frequently come across references to "modern audiences" not knowing who the old movie stars are in these cartoons. When I originally saw this one, I didn't know who the Ritz Brothers were, myself. And I wouldn't doubt that some people wouldn't be familiar with these stars of the past. But sometimes it's strange what they want to tell you people do or don't know about, such as the phony story about nobody knowing what phonograph records are.

 

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