Happy Easter, 2025 -- April 20, 2025

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Happy Easter, everyone. Jean Arthur, attired as an artist, decorates a big Easter egg. She made many great movies with Frank Capra, George Stevens and Howard Hawks.

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Happy Easter, 2024 -- March 31, 2024

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Happy Easter, everyone. Actress Sharon Tate wishes us a Buona Pasqua.

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Happy Easter, 2023 -- April 9, 2023

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Happy Easter, everyone. Lillian Roth acted and sang on Broadway and in movies.  She appeared in The Love Parade with Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald and Animal Crackers with the Marx Brothers.  Alcoholism ruined her career.  She wrote a memoir, I'll Cry Tomorrow, which was made into a popular movie. 

Happy Easter, 2022 -- April 17, 2022

Moving Picture World, 23-May-1914

Happy Easter, everyone. Here is a Bunny for Easter. John Bunny was a popular performer in early Vitagraph comedies like "A Cure for Pokeritis" (1912), "Hearts and Diamonds" (1914) and "The Pickwick Papers" (1913). He was born to play Mr Pickwick. Bunny died in 1915 and the world mourned. A detail from a Vitagraph ad in the 23-May-1914 Moving Picture World.  Be sure to click on the image to see the larger version.  Note his tooth.

Happy Easter, 2021 -- April 4, 2021

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Happy Easter, everyone. Actress and director Ida Lupino poses with a darned big Easter Bunny.

Happy Easter, 2020 -- April 12, 2020

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Happy Easter, everyone.  Harvey is my favorite rabbit. 

Happy Easter, 2019 -- April 21, 2019

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Happy Easter, everyone. Actress Susan Hayward, seen here posing with the Easter Bunny, was in some good movies like I'll Cry Tomorrow and I Want to Live.

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Happy Easter, 2018 -- April 1, 2018

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Happy Easter, everyone.  Jean Parker appeared with Laurel and Hardy in The Flying Deuces.

Happy Easter, 2017 -- April 16, 2017

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Happy Easter, everyone. Lillian Roth acted and sang on Broadway and in movies.  She appeared in The Love Parade with Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald and Animal Crackers with the Marx Brothers.  Alcoholism ruined her career.  She wrote a memoir, I'll Cry Tomorrow, which was made into a popular movie. 

Easter Rising 100 Years -- March 28, 2016

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100 years ago, on Easter Monday, 1916, the Irish Volunteers and members of the Irish Citizen Army and the Cumann na mBan rose up against the British occupation in Dublin and declared the Irish Republic.  The British stopped them and executed their leaders.  This heavy-handed response led to increased support for Irish independence.

Seán O'Casey wrote a play, The Plough and the Stars, which premiered in 1926.  The last two acts take place during the rising.  In 1936, director John Ford adapted it into a movie starring Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck. 

Happy Easter, 2016 -- March 27, 2016

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Happy Easter, everyone. Here is a bunny for Easter. Disney lost control of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit in 1928 and didn't get him back until 2006.

News of the Week April 24, 1915 -- April 24, 2015

The 24-April -1915 Motography featured "News of the Week as Shown in Films," with items from current newsreels.

"The fruit liner Heredia after her collision near New Orleans.  Copyright 1915 by Pathe News."  On 30-March-1915, the United Fruit Company liner Heredia rammed liner Parisian near the mouth of the Mississippi, then swerved off and sank steamer Weems. 

"Vice-president Marshall speaking at University of California.  Copyright 1915 by Universal Animated Weekly."  Thomas R Marshall of Indiana was Woodrow Wilson's Vice President.  Here he spoke at Cal Berkeley. 

"U. S. divers leave Washington for Honolulu to raise submarine.  Copyright 1915 by Universal Animated Weekly."  USS F-4 sank on 25-March-1915 off of Honolulu.  All hands were lost. 

"General Von Morger and his stall leaving their headquarters near Bolimov, Russian Poland.  Copyright 1915 Hearst-Selig News Pictorial."  I can't find anything about Von Morger.

"Easter parade on boardwalk at Atlantic City, N. J. Copyright 1915 Hearst-Selig News Pictorial."  Easter fell on 04-April-1915. 

"Wm. Hale Thompson, Chicago's new mayor, with Mrs. Thompson.  Copyright 1915 by Pathe News."  Big Bill Thompson (no relation, thank Heaven) was the last Republican mayor of Chicago.  He served from 1915 to 1923, then 1927-1931.  He was known for being profoundly corrupt. 

A Bunny for Easter -- April 20, 2014

Happy Easter, everyone. Here is a Bunny for Easter. John Bunny was a popular performer in early Vitagraph comedies like "A Cure for Pokeritis" (1912), "Hearts and Diamonds" (1914) and "The Pickwick Papers" (1913). He was born to play Mr Pickwick. Bunny died in 1915 and the world mourned.A detail from a Vitagraph ad in the 23-May-1914 Moving Picture World.  Be sure to click on the image to see the larger version.  Note his tooth.