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Image: Olivia de Havilland 1930s Fan Photo

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Olivia de Havilland pictured on a 5" X 7" movie star fan photo from the late 1930s.

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Image: Olivia de Havilland Picturegoer Postcard

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Olivia de Havilland pictured on a 1930s Picturegoer Postcard from England.

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Image: James Cagney and Olivia de Havilland 1941 Still Photo

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James Cagney and Olivia de Havilland in The Strawberry Blonde on a 1941 promotional still photo. You can click this one to enlarge if you so wish.

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Image: Olivia de Havilland 1940s Promotional Still Photo

Written by Cliff Aliperti and originally published on Immortal Ephemera

Olivia de Havilland Promotional Still Portrait, from the mid to late 1940s.

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The Roaring Twenties (1939) Starring James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart

Written by Cliff Aliperti and originally published on Immortal Ephemera

The Roaring Twenties is one of James Cagney’s four most iconic gangster portrayals; the one where “he used to be a big shot” by the end of the movie. Cagney’s big four are linked in our memories by their huge finishes, memorable exclamation points for each of Cagney’s excitable mugs. They stain a montage of death and murder in our minds with classic scenes propped even higher through classic lines uttered either by Cagne...

Clipping: Al Jolson Decks Walter Winchell, Both Dish, 1933

Written by Cliff Aliperti and originally published on Immortal Ephemera

Three sides are offered after Al Jolson punched Walter Winchell at the Hollywood American Legion Stadium in 1933. The movie referred to and causing the incident was Broadway Thru a Keyhole (1933).

Jolson is credited as author of the left-hand column, Winchell wrote the right-hand column, and the two columns in between appear to be a neutral recounting of the incident from a syndicated news outlet.

The bottom couple of li...

Clipping: Larry Fay Profile by Mark Hellinger, 1927

Written by Cliff Aliperti and originally published on Immortal Ephemera

A little background with special flavor: A profile of Larry Fay written by Mark Hellinger. Syndicated column discovered in the 16 January 1927 edition of the Buffalo Courier Express, page 1.

(At end of Column 1 above, move to Column 2 below—Don't return to Column 2 in the above clipping until after completing all of Column 1 that follows below)

(The short clipping that follows is the very end of Hellinger's piece, to b...

Attorney for the Defense (1932) – Edmund Lowe’s Fallon for Columbia

Written by Cliff Aliperti and originally published on Immortal Ephemera

Early DVR alert if you haven't seen this one—It plays on TCM on 24 August 2016 at 5:00 pm ET. It's a rare one for TV and never released on home video, so don't miss it!

William J. Fallon, here we go again. This time it’s Edmund Lowe playing prosecutor turned defense attorney William J.—ahem—Burton. Unlike Fallon, or most of his other Hollywood reincarnations (William Powell in For the Defense [1930] and Lawyer Man [1932];...

Danny Reid Releases The Pre-Code Companion #5

Written by Cliff Aliperti and originally published on Immortal Ephemera

Danny Reid's latest installment of The Pre-Code Companion, issue #5, is now available at Amazon.com. The issue opens with my article about Heroes for Sale (1933)—I've included an excerpt below, but since my article comes first in this issue, you can preview even more of it through Amazon's "Look Inside" button on the product page itself.

This fifth issue of the Companion includes articles about They Call It Sin (1932),...

Image: Richard Barthelmess 1920s Fan Photo

Written by Cliff Aliperti and originally published on Immortal Ephemera

Richard Barthelmess pictured on a 5" X 7" movie star fan photo from the mid- to late-1920s.

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