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Saturday, July 29, 2017

Irving Thalberg's Support and Ultimate Surrender of Franchot's Career

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Irving Thalberg began his film career immediately following his high school graduation. While still a teen, Thalberg became a secretary for ...
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Wednesday, July 26, 2017

A Candid Apology

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To any faithful readers out there in the world, I apologize that this blog has not been regularly updated this summer. Due to personal/profe...
Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Franchot: A Wealthy, but Sensitive Comrade

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Three Comrades. Source: www.ha.com Sonia Lee, in a July 1938 piece on the stars of Three Comrades for Hollywood Magazine, was impressed ...
Friday, June 30, 2017

Hope for the Best (1945)

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Hope for the Best ran for 117 performances between February 7, 1945 and May 19, 1945. Produced by Jean Dalrymple and Marc Connelly, the play...
Friday, June 16, 2017

Thousands Cheer vs. Star Spangled Rhythm: The Judy Garland Blogathon

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In celebration of Judy Garland’s birthday and Crystal’s blogathon in tribute to her, I am comparing two early 1940’s films, Star Spangled R...
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Thursday, June 1, 2017

Janet Blair on Franchot Tone

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In 1948, actress Janet Blair discussed working with Franchot Tone. Blair said: Yes, when Franchot and I started to work together in I ...
Tuesday, May 16, 2017

"He's No Gable!": Musings on Frequent Internet Mumblings

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I was thinking of the most frequent comments I read about Franchot online that fall on the unfair, silly, misconstrued, or just plain untr...