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On Vacation - Madison, Concerts, Ralph Bellamy and Badgers
Madison, Wisconsin (c) Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin SystemMost of our family trip was spent in the city of Madison. Golden era Hollywood and Broadway actor Ralph Bellamy once...
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Kiss Them For Me (1957) - Film Locations
The film Kiss Them For Me (1957) is a bit of a mixed bag. Although this comedy directed by Stanley Donen is weak on plot and doesn't deliver many big laughs there are still quite a few things that make...
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Ain't No Party Like An Old Hollywood Party...
Entrance to Buster Keaton EstateMark your calendars. On Saturday, October 6, 2012, the Los Angeles Conservancy is having a benefit dinner party that is being held at the Buster Keaton Estate in Beverly...
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Strange Intruder (1956) - Film Locations
Ida Lupino and Edmund PurdomThe main reason I started watching the film Strange Intruder (1956) was because it starred Ida Lupino. A nice surprise was spotting the Sierra Madre, California town square...
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On the Loose (1951) - Film Locations
Robert Arthur and Joan EvansOn the Loose (1951) is one of those 1950s films with a theme about juvenile delinquency. In this short B movie Joan Evans plays a neglected teenager who will do anything to...
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Ernest Borgnine Beverly Hills Home For Sale
 Ernest Borgnine in front of his home in 1969.The longtime Beverly Hills home of Oscar winning actor Ernest Borgnine is currently for sale at $3.395 million. Borgnine lived in the house for six...
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Two-Minute Warning (1976) - Film Locations
Right now there is a battle going on in Los Angeles. It's a stadium war. There are a few competing developers out there that each think they have the best plan to build a new stadium in Los Angeles and...
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Jane Withers Hosts a Hollywood Halloween Party
I was thumbing through an issue of Movieland magazine from November 1944 and came across a photo spread of a Halloween party hosted by then seventeen year old actress, Jane Withers. I love these silly,...
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A Christmas Story (1983) at the Orpheum Theatre, Downtown Los Angeles
Poster image courtesy of Warner Bros.Now that Halloween has passed I'm excited to start planning all of my Christmas time activities. I'm not one of those people that totally bypasses Thanksgiving...
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The Colonial House - A Classic Hollywood Apartment
The Colonial House. Photo: TopLACondos.comBuilt in 1930 and designed by noted Los Angeles architect Leland Bryant (Harper House, Savoy Plaza, Sunset Tower), the Colonial House has long been a home to...
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The House on Telegraph Hill (1951) - Film Locations
 House on Telegraph Hill (1951) is a thriller about a Nazi concentration camp survivor, Victoria (Valentina Cortesa), who assumes the identity of her friend Karin who died in the camp. Victoria's...
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Elvis Presley's Palm Springs Birthday Bash
The Elvis Honeymoon House in Palm SpringsOn January 5, in Palm Springs, California, Elvis fans can celebrate the legendary performer's 78th birthday (which is on January 8). Festivities will take place...
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An Old-Fashioned Unplugging
Photo by Thomas J. Story from SunsetWhen I received the latest issue of Sunset magazine in the mail I thumbed passed the first few articles but stopped on one entitled "The unplugged home," about a San...
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Huell Howser - California Dreamin'
Huell Howser gives some background on the Hollywood sign.When I first moved to California eight years ago I was fortunate, while channel surfing on TV, to stumble across a program called California's...
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The Careless Years (1957) - Film Locations
Dean Stockwell in the The Careless YearsI recently streamed the film, The Careless Years (1957) on Netflix and discovered three things:Santa Monica High School is used as the high school in the story....
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A 1970s Television Flashback
James Garner, Peter Falk, Jack KlugmanThis year Dear Old Hollywood is having a 1970s flashback. Lately I've been catching up with the classic 1970s television shows Quincy M.E. starring Jack Klugman,...
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The Rockford Files - Film Locations - Riverside at Maple
The Rockford Files:Â Season 1, Episode 4, "Exit Prentiss Carr" (1974)During the episode "Exit Prentiss Carr," Jim Rockford (James Garner) takes a case in the fictional town of Bay City. One of the...
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Fatty Arbuckle's 1919 Pierce ArrowThey certainly don't make them like this anymore. Check out this short video from CNNMoney showing off a custom built 1919 Pierce Arrow automobile. The vehicle was...
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Love Crazy (1941) - Film Locations
Steve and Susan Ireland are about to celebrate their fourth anniversary, but when Steve runs into an old flame, a meddling mother in-law convinces her daughter that Steve is cheating on her. After some...
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Highway Dragnet (1954) - Film Locations
Last week the blog Paradise Leased provided an update on the status of Apple Valley, California's famous Hilltop House, a once gorgeous modern home that unfortunately has been left to deteriorate over...
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