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Is the movie "What's Up Doc?"
Commented Feb 11, 2011 on Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated] at The Daily Mirror
Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]
Los Angeles Times file photo Los Angeles Times file photo [Update: This is “What’s Up Doc?” with Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal, as most people realized. ] For all those Daily Mirror readers who complain when a mystery photo is too ea...
Well, that's Peter Bogdonovich...
Commented Feb 11, 2011 on Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated] at The Daily Mirror
Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]
Los Angeles Times file photo Los Angeles Times file photo [Update: This is “What’s Up Doc?” with Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal, as most people realized. ] For all those Daily Mirror readers who complain when a mystery photo is too ea...
You have an extra .html in your link to the cover with Paul's daughter.
Commented Jan 4, 2011 on Paul Coates, Jan. 4, 1961 at The Daily Mirror
Paul Coates, Jan. 4, 1961
Jan. 4, 1961: Three unidentified military personnel are killed in the explosion of a nuclear reactor 40 miles from Idaho Falls, Idaho. "There appeared to be no major radiation alarm here, although the Post-Register newspaper and local radio stations received a numb...
Sure looks like Ginger Rogers to me!
Commented Jan 3, 2011 on Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated] at The Daily Mirror
Movieland Mystery Photo [Updated]
Los Angeles Times file photo [Update: It was quite a pleasant surprise to be rummaging through a file of old pictures and stumble across one showing George Gershwin. Judging by the response, the “brain trust” (my nickname for the Daily Mirror readers) enjoyed...
Harold Lloyd?
Commented Dec 17, 2010 on Movieland Christmas Mystery Photo at The Daily Mirror
Movieland Christmas Mystery Photo
Photograph by Bill Murphy/Los Angeles Times Here’s a mystery fellow with a mystery pet!
Zazu Pitts and Roland West?
Commented Dec 7, 2010 on Movieland Mystery Photo -- Updated II at The Daily Mirror
Movieland Mystery Photo -- Updated II
Photograph by the Los Angeles Times Update: And here’s a mystery photo! Update II: This is Zasu Pitts and John E. Woodall. Please congratulate Mary Mallory, Karen and Dennis Gilliam for identifying our mystery couple and Steve Stoliar, Zabadu and Stacia for ide...
When you click on the front page, it takes you to a completely different front page.
And the model in the Eastside Beer ad sure looks like Mary Ann Mobley.
Commented Dec 2, 2010 on Christina Makes Peace With Joan Crawford, Dec. 1, 1960 at The Daily Mirror
Christina Makes Peace With Joan Crawford, Dec. 1, 1960
Dec. 1, 1960: Eastside Beer is $1.09 a six-pack or $7.81 USD 2009. On the jump, Joan Crawford’s daughter Christina tells Lee Belser: "At long last Mummy and I seem to be feeling a bond of common experience." And Marilyn Monroe meets Joe DiMaggio in Mauri...
What a sad end to a life. Did they ever find out who did it, or did they just stop looking?
Would love to see the full Joan Crawford article.
Commented Nov 18, 2010 on Former Mirror Writer Beaten to Death – Update at The Daily Mirror
Former Mirror Writer Beaten to Death – Update
Roby Heard, 1921 - 1960 This is something I wrote in 2002 at the request of Det. Rick Jackson of the LAPD’s cold case unit. Jackson said that the “murder book” for 1960 was missing and that the department had no information the case, so I pulled this together...
Larry, are you listening????
Commented Nov 12, 2010 on Paul Coates Is on Vacation, Nov. 10, 1960 at The Daily Mirror
Paul Coates Is on Vacation, Nov. 10, 1960
Nov. 10, 1960: Paul Coates is on vacation. Instead, we have a letters column in which readers say that women have too many rights, the minimum age for a driver’s license should be raised to 18 and wonder, if cars cause air pollution, why didn’t Los Angeles build more ...
I hate this! I know this person, but her name escapes me!!
Commented Nov 10, 2010 on Movieland Mystery Photo at The Daily Mirror
Movieland Mystery Photo
Photograph by Art Rogers / Los Angeles Times Here’s our mystery guest for the week. Last week’s mystery fellow was Michael Ansara and the weekend guest was Robert Mitchum’s brother John, who also performed as John Mallory. There’s a new photo on the jump! ...
I want to read more about the "wrong person in coffin" story!!
Commented Nov 10, 2010 on Paul Coates Is on Vacation, Nov. 10, 1960 at The Daily Mirror
Paul Coates Is on Vacation, Nov. 10, 1960
Nov. 10, 1960: Paul Coates is on vacation. Instead, we have a letters column in which readers say that women have too many rights, the minimum age for a driver’s license should be raised to 18 and wonder, if cars cause air pollution, why didn’t Los Angeles build more ...
William Desmond Taylor's house?
Commented Oct 11, 2010 on Movieland Mystery Photo -- Updated at The Daily Mirror
Movieland Mystery Photo -- Updated
Los Angeles Times file photo Well, this should be fun – for me, anyway. What’s the mystery? That’s for you to figure out. A typical room of a certain era, eh? [Update: Oct. 13, 10:56 a.m. Everybody seems to recognize this as William Desmond Taylor's apartmen...
Jimmy Lydon.
Commented Sep 13, 2010 on Movieland Mystery Photo -- Updated at The Daily Mirror
Movieland Mystery Photo -- Updated
Los Angeles Times file photo Here’s this week’s mystery fellow with a (not) mysterious companion. Update: I've been completely occupied with an upcoming story about the 1910 Times bombing so I haven't had a chance to post the names of everyone who has recognized our myst...
Jimmy Lydon.
Commented Sep 13, 2010 on Movieland Mystery Photo -- Updated at The Daily Mirror
Movieland Mystery Photo -- Updated
Los Angeles Times file photo Here’s this week’s mystery fellow with a (not) mysterious companion. Update: I've been completely occupied with an upcoming story about the 1910 Times bombing so I haven't had a chance to post the names of everyone who has recognized our myst...
Lynne Baggett?
Commented Sep 2, 2010 on Movieland Mystery Photo -- Update at The Daily Mirror
Movieland Mystery Photo -- Update
Los Angeles Times file photo July 10, 1954: Rites are conducted for Joel Watnick, who died after being struck by our mystery guest, actress Lynne Baggett, in a hit-and-run accident at Waring and Orlando avenues. Waring and Orlando via Google maps’ street view. ...
Is that George Tobias on the right?
Commented Sep 2, 2010 on Movieland Mystery Photo -- Update at The Daily Mirror
Movieland Mystery Photo -- Update
Los Angeles Times file photo July 10, 1954: Rites are conducted for Joel Watnick, who died after being struck by our mystery guest, actress Lynne Baggett, in a hit-and-run accident at Waring and Orlando avenues. Waring and Orlando via Google maps’ street view. ...
YAY Nico!! I'm so glad that this pup will live his life out surrounded by love!
Commented Sep 2, 2010 on Update: Nico, the deaf shelter dog whose photo inspired online rescue community, has a new home in Indiana at L.A. Unleashed
Update: Nico, the deaf shelter dog whose photo inspired online rescue community, has a new home in Indiana
Last year, guest blogger Janet Kinosian shared the story of Nico, a shelter dog who was rescued through the efforts of Southern California rescuers and a community of animal-loving Facebook users. Since then, Nico's story has gotten even better; here, Kinosian fills us in on what's been going on...
"...and then I'm putting in a deck right there. Come on, let me show you the bedroom."
"Billy Goat remodels, signs deal with HGTV."
Commented Aug 23, 2010 on Caption this: Goat intruder chases German couple out of their own flat at L.A. Unleashed
Caption this: Goat intruder chases German couple out of their own flat
Sometimes we see a photo and immediately know it's going to become our desktop wallpaper. This goat's photo is one of those. Apparently, he turned up mysteriously in a German couple's flat while it was being renovated. The couple returned home to check on the place and discovered, much to thei...
One of my favorite movies - skip "Move Over Darling" - the remake in the 60s.
I think the movie pairings of Irene Dunn and Cary Grant were some of the best movies ever made.
Of course, Carole Lombard was absolutely perfect in "In Name Only" with Grant.
Commented Aug 6, 2010 on From the Vaults: 'My Favorite Wife' (1940) at The Daily Mirror
From the Vaults: 'My Favorite Wife' (1940)
Returning to earlier themes of Cary Grant and wife-swapping, this week we have "My Favorite Wife," a screwball comedy. As usual with this genre, your mood will determine whether you find the antics hilarious or simply trying. So if you are at all tired or cranky, maybe watch a nice slasher fil...
I too, can not understand how you can stand and videotape something but not DO something. Sad.
Commented Jun 28, 2010 on Video goodness: Determined tortoise helps to right a fellow tortoise that flipped onto its back at L.A. Unleashed
Video goodness: Determined tortoise helps to right a fellow tortoise that flipped onto its back
We're forever in reader Lee B.'s debt for drawing our attention to this amazing demonstration of the goodness of animals. We couldn't believe our eyes as one tortoise worked to help the other regain its footing. (We're a bit flummoxed as to why the person holding the video camera didn't ju...
Lila Leeds?
Commented Jun 11, 2010 on Movieland Mystery Photo at The Daily Mirror
Movieland Mystery Photo
Los Angeles Times file photo Update: This is Madge Bellamy as “The Spirit of Christmas” in a photo marked Dec. 30, 1923. Curiously enough, I saw her introduce a showing of “The Iron Horse” at the Autry museum years ago. As I recall, she was teeny and very amusing. Note: Regula...
Olive Thomas?
Commented Jun 8, 2010 on Movieland Mystery Photo at The Daily Mirror
Movieland Mystery Photo
Los Angeles Times file photo Update: This is Madge Bellamy as “The Spirit of Christmas” in a photo marked Dec. 30, 1923. Curiously enough, I saw her introduce a showing of “The Iron Horse” at the Autry museum years ago. As I recall, she was teeny and very amusing. Note: Regula...
I have to agree with Mary on this...I miss your old crime beat stories. I wish you'd do more - you write them so well.
Commented May 21, 2010 on Movie Star Mystery Photo at The Daily Mirror
Movie Star Mystery Photo
Los Angeles Times file photo I’m calling this series of mystery photos “Lucille Ball and Friends.” In going through The Times’ files of Ball photos, I was struck by the number of unfamiliar images. We’ve all seen the stills of Lucy and Ethel in the chocolate factory. These ph...
Okay, for Wednesday, is one of the men Paddy Chyevski?
And for today's - the couple standing together - Madelyn Pugh Davis and Bob Carroll, Jr.? And the guy with the glasses, is that Bob Ball, Lucy's brother?
PS, we all know Desi!!
Commented May 13, 2010 on Movie Star Mystery Photo [Update] at The Daily Mirror
Movie Star Mystery Photo [Update]
Los Angeles Times file photo It’s Friday, which means it’s time to identify our “mystery” guest. As everyone knows, she’s Lucille Ball. I have to say I enjoyed going through her photos so much that I have another week’s worth of photos. That’s right, two weeks of Lucille Ball. ...
The one on the far left is Lucille Ball.
Commented May 10, 2010 on Movie Star Mystery Photo [Update] at The Daily Mirror
Movie Star Mystery Photo [Update]
Los Angeles Times file photo It’s Friday, which means it’s time to identify our “mystery” guest. As everyone knows, she’s Lucille Ball. I have to say I enjoyed going through her photos so much that I have another week’s worth of photos. That’s right, two weeks of Lucille Ball. ...
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