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Fantastic 26

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Joan Collins

made her Hollywood debut in Howard Hawks‘s box office disaster, Land of the Pharaohs (1955)

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Bobby-soxing with bowling shoes!

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Bimbo bowler brie:

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Los Angeles television back in the day:

2 CBS
4 NBC
5 KTLA Gene Autry’s station
7 ABC
9 KHJ million dollar movie! Talk shows Don Mcguire, Michael Blodgett — don’t confuse with porn actor Mike Ranger!?!?!?
11 KTTV Metromedia –Joe Pyne, Mort Sahl!!!!!!!!!!
13 KCOP Jeepers Creepers

UHF: Fantastic 26!!!!!!!!!!!
This station showed the serials I used to read about in Screen Thrills Illustrated.
Ray “Crash” Corrigan in “Undersea Kingdom, and “King of the Rocket Men, for instance. I especially liked the Republic studio robots:

Los Angeles had kid TV shows such as Sheriff (“put another candle on my birthday cake”) John, who was a sheriff, and Engineer Bill (“red light green light”), who was a railroad engineer, but there was also Soupy Sales, who was a sleazy dude living in a shack with a mean dog, and a nice dog –really low budget creativity like Earnie Kovacs, a radio in his shack even though he was on television, and his girlfriend Peaches,

who was Soupy in drag!

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Mandy Tyler bobby-soxer:

bobby-soxing:

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Brie as Shirley:

Baby Jane

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Joan Crawford

requested the part of Blanch in the film “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” Joan also recommended Bettie Davis for the part of Baby Jane Hudson!

This was perfect as in the 1930s you could argue that Joan was better looking, but Bettie perhaps more talented as an actress.

The movie was really successful, and Joan and Bettie were going to make another movie together, but the animosity level was too high. Joan, who was on the board of directors of Pepsi Cola, quit the proposed film.

The author (Henry Farrell) of “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane” is a really fantastic writer. I wish I could write that good!

Also, in the movie “Whatever happened to Baby Jane,” the nosy neighbors next door had a Keane print hanging on their wall thus:

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Holly Mccall!

(I had a rug just like that!)

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Holly with her women’s Army uniform removed.

Was that Holly’s uniform or from the surplus store on Van Nuys Blvd.?

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The girls:

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Mandy Tyler

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Here are some photos from the best ever bobby-soxing scene in video:

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Shirley:

Corliss Archer

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“Having darned and put away the last pair of bobby socks, Corliss went downstairs”

[and later]

Within the last few months she had been promoted from bobby socks to stockings”

The father in this story was an Attorney. Apparently, the Archers were a prosperous family, and extrapolating backward, the great depression was merely a speed bump for them.

Meet Corliss Archer” was first published in 1942, when the outcome of the war was still uncertain.
My copy was published in 1944, and according to what was written inside by a previous owner, was presented as a gift on Dec 1945, with Europe and Asia in rubble, people in the USA must have felt rather smug back then, whereas since 1968 we have been gradually declining ever since. (Actually, you could argue that 1968 was a point of inflection, and the actual decline began around 1977.)

“MEET CORLISS ARCHER” by F. HUGH HERBERT

Cameras both still and motion loved Shirley Temple

like no one else! Shirley portrayed Corliss Archer in the movies.

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Big-time bobby-soxing:

& Ginger:

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High School teacher,

who lived in the Silver Lake district of Los Angeles.

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Janet Mason (PTA soccer mom!) wearing a garter belt:

& Rebecca Starr:

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The amazing movie “Soldier in the Rain” with Steve McQueen and Jackie Gleason, along with Tuesday Weld and Tom Poston (Don’t confuse with Orson Bean!), had a scene where McQueen took polaroid pictures of a soldier in drag,

trying to win a pin up photo contest!

“Root a toot toot.”

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Elsewhere:

Sometimes he would require mature women

to dress like little girls, before ravaging them!

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Helen:

“Butterfield 8” revisited

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The movie “Butterfield 8” was made and set in the sixties, with call girl Liz Taylor driving a T-Bird –just like mom! (Did someone from the movie studio spot my mom driving around the San Fernando Valley back then?)

Voice on the phone: “Is Margo there?”

Calling Butterfield 8

Oh! the novel upon which the movie was based took place during the great depression!

I have always been facinated by the 1930s. Things were so real then.
Go into the CCC until the war, then either into the Armed Forces or if physically unable, to work in a defense plant or ship yard.

Also, several movies in the seventies were based on events from the thirties:

“Paper Moon,” “Bonnie and Clyde,” “Day of the Locusts,” “Hard Times,” “Boxcar Bertha,” and my favorite “They Shoot Horses Don’t They?” Plus many more.

BUtterfield 8 by John O’Hara

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Lora Black wearing coins:

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from Wikipedia:

“Susan Sarandon

(born October 4, 1946) is an American actress. She won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1995 film Dead Man Walking.

Sarandon has received five Academy Award nominations for Best Actress, for Atlantic City (1980), Thelma & Louise (1991), Lorenzo’s Oil (1992), The Client (1994) and Dead Man Walking (1995), for which she finally won. On television, she has received five Emmy nominations, including for Bernard and Doris (2007) and You Don’t Know Jack (2010). Her other films include The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), Pretty Baby (1978), The Hunger (1983), The Witches of Eastwick (1987), Bull Durham (1988),

White Palace (1990) [another favorite of mine], Little Women (1994), Stepmom (1998), Igby Goes Down (2002), Enchanted (2007), The Lovely Bones (2009) and Arbitrage (2012).”

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Amazing amateur lovers:

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In the parking lot at the bank noticed a smartly dressd female about 25 years old, wearing flats with a short red skirt,

and driving a red Kia.

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Brie bobby socks:

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and more Shirley:

Donna Breed plus Laverne and Shirley

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From Wikipedia:

Donna Reed

(January 27, 1921 – January 14, 1986) was an American film and television actress.

With appearances in over 40 films, Reed received the 1953 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Lorene Burke in the war drama From Here to Eternity. She is also well known for her role as Mary Hatch in Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life (1946). She worked extensively in television, notably as Donna Stone, an American middle class mother in the sitcom The Donna Reed Show

(1958–1966), in which she played a more prominent role than many other television mothers of the era and for which she received the 1963 Golden Globe Award for Best TV Star – Female.

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“Chanel Preston

and Riley Reid

did a stellar job of portraying Lavern & Shirley

respectively.”

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Gill Ellis Young – The woman behind the famous “Lady Sonia”

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Lisa Ann

Pornstars hit rankings:

World #1

North America #1

United States #1

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OH! Almost forgot Sally

from Mad–Men.

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Shirley with doll:

Wonder girl & Burlesque

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from Wikipedia:

Gracie Allen

(July 26, 1895 – August 27, 1964), was an American comedienne who became internationally famous as the zany partner and comic foil of husband George Burns. For contributions to the television industry, Gracie Allen was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6672 Hollywood Boulevard. She and George Burns are also both members of the Television Hall of Fame, having earned joint induction in 1988.

Gracie Allen was born in San Francisco, California.

She soon began performing Irish folk dances with her three sisters, who were billed as “The Four Colleens.” In 1909 Allen joined her sister, Bessie, as a vaudeville performer. At a performance in 1922 Allen met George Burns and the two formed a comedy act. The two were married on January 7, 1926, in Cleveland, Ohio.

Gracie Allen was born with heterochromia, giving her two different color eyes; one blue and one green.
Birth date mystery

Depending on the source, Gracie Allen is alleged to have been born on July 26 in 1895, 1896, 1902 or 1906. All public records held by the City and County of San Francisco were destroyed in the earthquake and great fire of April 1906.

Among Allen’s signature jokes was a dialogue in which Allen would claim that she was born in 1906, her foil would press her for proof or corroborating information; she would say that her birth certificate had been destroyed in the earthquake, her foil would point out that she was born in July but the earthquake was three months earlier in April, and Allen would simply smile and reply “Well, it was an awfully big earthquake.”

Recommended reading:

“Gracie: A Love Story” by George Burns

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Burlesque Queen Blaze Starr

with nylons rolled!

and brie

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22 year old porn actress Rebecca Starr:

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Debbie the MILF ready for the promotion panel!

Debbie sez “You’ll have to answer for that!”
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Speaking of MAD MEN,

brie as Joan

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Not forgetting Debra Winger as Wonder Girl!

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Sarah Young as a MILF wearing pink tennis shoes:

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Lastly, brie wearing a Shirley dress:

Surrealistic Writing

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An attempt at surrealistic writing:

I came upon the water from an unexpected direction, finding a poster of myself floating there. The poster looked something like a movie poster with both words and illustration. I pulled the poster out of the water and went into the nearby bathroom. After finishing my business, I left the poster there for others to gawk at, but later thought I would want the poster as a curiosity and a keepsake, but now it was gone. So, I returned quickly to the water hoping to find another poster, which I did, but a wave crashed over it as they were no doubt expecting me this time! I then went downtown and heard a horse galloping. Whereupon I looked and saw it was Zorro pasting a poster

of me on the wall of the building! I knew they were after me for the crime of enticement. Two of them grabbed me. it was their job to prepare me for the ordeal. Applying debilitating cream, then dressing me as a school girl wearing lacy bobby socks, loafers, plaid skirt, blouse, and with my hair in pigtails, I was now ready!

I knew there was no escape as the pederasts were gathering for the gang bang of me by the sodomites. I thought perhaps i should poop before the event. They swarmed me and were shoving their apendages into my orifices, one after the other, then I awoke.

Recommended reading: “Second Skin” Paperback by John Hawkes

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There is not much information available on Rebecca Starr.

Apparently, she

came to Los Angeles from South Africa, and worked in the porn industry for 3 years, then returned to South Africa with a pile of money, but I’m not completely sure.

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From “Chasin the 50’s:”

Tiffany Mynx petticoating.

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Chasey Lain bobby-soxing:

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Brie Bride

from the video.

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Brie’s house in California:

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Brie as Shirley

Patty Duke on Shirley Temple

from Entertainment Weekly:

Patty Duke

ruled the 1960s, winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at 16 for The Miracle Worker and later starring in her eponymous sitcom. Starting her career at just 7, Duke has unique insight into the life of a child star, and the specific challenges they face as they grow up in the public eye. Duke opened up about those struggles in her memoir, Call Me Anna, which showed how she overcame her own difficult obstacles.

With the sad news that perhaps the most famous child star of all time, Shirley Temple,

passed away Monday night, EW spoke with Duke to discuss Temple’s influence on her, her own on-set experiences, and why she thinks so many child stars struggle once they hit adulthood.

I don’t know a whole lot about Shirley Temple’s home life or background to get what we saw on film. Except, having been almost in her shoes I know that that little girl worked hours and hours and hours and I hope somebody treated her very kindly. Every mother wanted their daughter to be Shirley Temple. I had very straight hair and my mother used to drive me crazy curling my hair so that I could look like Shirley Temple. Didn’t work!

As a child, I idolized Shirley the movie star. My favorite Shirley Temple movies were the ones that had her incredible singing and dancing and dimples, but then she’d do a scene that was serious and I would be sobbing for days. The mold had been broken. There was only one Shirley Temple. But look, she’ll live on: When we go to a restaurant, my grandchildren order a Shirley Temple.

–As told by Patty Duke

Baby Bottles,Tennis, & Women’s Surplus Army Uniforms

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brie as Bettie Page.

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Rebecca Starr!

& baby bottle brie:

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When the new Zody’s store (sort of like a Kmart –by the way I still have my life time Gemco membership card, even though they went belly-up years ago) opened in Burbank, Smiley Burnett (one of Gene Autry’s sidekicks), and Linda Kaye

from “Petticoat Junction” were there. Burnett had a big roll of what looked liked tickets. He would tear off a “ticket” handing them to the people in line as an autograph. It didn’t even look like he signed them. It looked more like his signature was printed on them! After a few years, I threw mine away. Whereas, my uncle, who worked at Universal Studio, obtained a personally autographed photograph from Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. It was one of his prized possessions –really cool.

Substitute teacher was trying to make it as an actor.

He once took over the Enterprise, when Captain Kirk, Spock, Scotty, the communications officer, the doctor, George Takai, and even the Russian guy beamed down to some planet.

Also, my mom was going with a gofer at the studios, who acquired a Star Trek script, which I tried to rip off from him, but before he left :”Hey! Where’s that script!?” Somehow I knew it would have value in the future.

Taking trigonometry during the “summer of love.” Dragged off to the “love-in” at Griffith Park –“At the Love-in!”

(Chocolate Watch Band)

Had the kool aid, but not the sugar cubes! The sugar cubes containing LSD will cause you to jump off a freeway overpass, according to badge 714! “Dum De Dum Dum.”

Speaking of tennis:

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Mom:

Me:

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Alexis Texas as Marilyn Monroe:

brie as Marilyn:

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Holly Mccall wearing a woman’s Army uniform (Holly’s or from the surplus store on Van Nuys Blvd.?)

brie as Holly Mccall!

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brie as Shirley:

Stream of Consciousness

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brie a cheerleader somewhere in Los Angeles county:

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Speaking of 1970s retro nurses:

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Attempt at stream of conscious writing:

Watching the old black & white Hoffman television, “Coast Federal Savings—Ninth and Hill.”

Les crane and the shotgun microphone!

Les: “I was a fighter pilot in Korea.”

Someone from the audience: “Which side were you on Les?”

Les (seriously): “You want to come up here and say that?”

Purchased used car salesman Cal Worthington’s book “My dog spot” –“Go see Cal!”

Jingle on the radio: “The more you shop at Owl Drug Stores

the more money you save.”

Also, emanating from the juke box at the aformentioned Owl drug store on Sepulveda in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles:
“Standing on the corner
watching all the girls go by” –The Four Lads

Tom Duggan and Joe Dolan–lively debate.

At the Panorama theatre Comander Cody Sky Marshall of the Universe in the last serial “King of the Rocketmen” transpires.

As a kid in the T-bird driving around Reseda on a rainy day with Bobby Darin on the radio –fingers snapping to “Mac the Knife” — snap snap!

On 8 millimeter film playing tether ball in the backyard of the house in Arleta.

Soupy Sales as a sleazy dude living in a shack with a radio, even though he was on television. Soupy had a girl friend named “Peaches,” who was himself in drag!

“I love to get a pie in the face.”

La Crescenta outside in the dark wearing girlie clothes during a warm Santa Anna wind –this is when Zorro rides! At any moment the headlights of a car coming up the driveway could have spot-lighted me, but didn’t.

On the black & white television Buster Crabbe as Tarzan with a half nude pre code Jane in a scene, which looked like it was filmed during a Santa Anna wind!

Assigned reading:
“Up the City of Angels”
by Liza Williams

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Kandi Barbour:

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Rebecca Starr!

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Swinger bobby-soxer:

a bobby-soxing wife:

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& brie as Shirley: