Happy New Year from Jean Harlow -- December 31, 2018

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I wish everyone a happy and peaceful New Year.

Beautiful actress Jean Harlow appeared in some great movies during her brief career. She died at the age of 26 in 1937.

Marie Dressler 150 -- November 9, 2018

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Marie Dressler was born 150 years ago today, on 09-November-1868.  She started in the theater at an early age and wound up on Broadway.  She made her first movie in 1914, in Keystone's Tillie's Punctured Romance with Charlie Chaplin.  She made more movies, but primarily appeared on stage.  Her career slowed down in the early 1920s, but she came back later in the 1920s and the early 1930s, appearing in many popular movies.  She died in 1934.

Moving Picture World, 12-December-1914

Some sources claim that Tillie's Punctured Romance is the first feature-length slapstick comedy, or even the first feature-length comedy. I don't know if that is true, but it is certainly the first one to be a big success, despite being advertised by the ALCO Film Corporation, which released the movie, with taglines like "The First Successful Picturizing of Comedy on a Whole Basis." I wonder what that means in English. Notice that the ad contains a photo of Charlie Chaplin dancing with star Marie Dressler, but does not mention his name. Neither does it mention director Mack Sennett, costar Mabel Normand, nor the Keystone company which produced the film.

Moving Picture World, 26-December-1914

This Alco ad mentions that Marie Dressler is "Supported by Charles Chaplin and Mabel Normand."

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Marie Dressler has a wonderful scene with Jean Harlow in Dinner at Eight.

Grauman's Chinese #40 -- July 24, 2014

In July, 2012 we paid a return visit to Hollywood and Grauman's Chinese Theater. Sid Grauman was a San Francisco showman who came to Los Angeles and built three major houses, the Million Dollar, the Egyptian, and the Chinese. The theater has hosted many film premieres, but is most famous for the hand and footprints (and hoofprints and nose prints and other types of prints) in the forecourt.

Beautiful actress Jean Harlow left her handprints, footprints and three mysterious dots on 29-September-1933.  She died at the age of 26 in 1937. 

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