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29 March 2012

Vintage Hollywood photos of Bison Archives find a happy new home @ the Academy

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A glorious addition to the visual holdings of the Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences comes from the purchase of 70,000 print photographs from the private collection of Marc Wanamaker of Bison Archives. [...]

13 April 2011

Doing the monster mash at Malibou Lake

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An edgy, even freaky, scene between Boris Karloff as the sensitive monster Frankenstein and a cute little girl was filmed at a place called Malibou Lake, north of Los Angeles. [...]

20 February 2011

James Dean, moody, on location in Griffith Park

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A yummy new book “Location Filming in Los Angeles,” written by arts·meme pal, Marc Wanamaker in collaboration with Karie Bible and Harry Medved, provides a delicious historic photo-tour of location shooting all around our fair city, including a rare shot of James Dean, filming “Rebel Without a Cause.” [...]

8 March 2010

Pavlov(a)’s dog … of a movie

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Anna Pavlova’s sole appearance in a feature film was in “The Dumb Girl of Portici” by Universal Pictures in 1915. Even Hollywood’s highest paying director, a woman named Lois Weber, did not succeed in bringing out Pavlova’s soulful quality. [...]

23 February 2010

Uncle Carl’s two-bit boxed lunch

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Carl Laemmle, the entrepreneur/founder of Universal Pictures, was not just a pioneer of filmmaking. He augmented studio revenues by allowing spectators to filmmaking, which had great appeal in Los Angeles in the ‘teens. [...]

1 April 2009

Theodore Kosloff, ballet instructor

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Was Theodore Kosloff a fine ballet instructor? Malcolm McCormick, co-author of the 20th century dance history book, “No Fixed Points,” says: “Kosloff was sending dancers to New York in the 1950s. They arrived strong and rigorously trained — they had been required to wear weights on their angles to develop strength.” [...]