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The Widow from Chicago (1930) Starring Alice White

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Made as one thing, released and promoted as another, The Widow from Chicago is the story of the unlikely romance that brews from a woman’s infiltration of the New York underworld in search of vengeance.

It really has nothing to do with any of this:

Alice White stars as Polly, who is neither a widow, nor from Chicago, but wants the New York hoods who killed her policeman brother to think she's both. Polly’s brother Jimm...

Helen Twelvetrees, Perfect Ingenue Now Available: Paperback and eBook

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Well, that was quite a year! If you've been following this site for more than a week, then you know I've been working on something big for awhile. All done.

Helen Twelvetrees, Perfect Ingenue is now available on Amazon.com both as an eBook for your Kindle (Click Amazon's "Read on Any Device" link if you read on something else) and in paperback, a first for me!

In fact, there are many ways to read Helen Twelvetrees, Perfec...

Image: Helen Twelvetrees and Marjorie Rambeau Still Photo, Her Man (1930)

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Marjorie Rambeau and Helen Twelvetrees pictured in Her Man on a 1930 promotional still photo. You can click to enlarge.

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Alice White, 1930 Old Gold Advertisement

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My review of The Widow from Chicago is still coming, I promise. I was doing some background research on the movie yesterday and came across a couple of Alice White clippings in the old Brooklyn Daily Eagle that won't really fit that post, so here they are.

White was still huge that year at First National, in fact, The Widow from Chicago was all along an Alice White-picture, not an Edward G. Robinson-picture. Not until it...

Image: Helen Twelvetrees, 1931 Pathe Promotional Portrait

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Helen Twelvetrees Pathe promotional portrait, 1931. From the press tag affixed on reverse:

An exquisite new camera study of Helen Twelvetrees, Pathe's dramatic young ingenue. Following "Swing High," the fair Helen was featured in "Her Man," under the direction of Tay Garnett. She also portrays the leading feminine role opposite Bill Boyd in "The Painted Desert."

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Classic Movie Daily, December 9 Check-In, Kirk Douglas B-Day, Cover Preview

Written by Cliff Aliperti and originally published on Immortal Ephemera

I'm working on a review, but after I accepted that I was running late for the second day in a row I thought I'd settle on resurrecting the "Daily" instead. The coming review is teased a few posts down in subscribers' emails (or HERE for the impatient).

Back in a second, but first, I don't want to stray too far from the familiar formula ...

Born on this date, December 9: in 1876; in 1898;

Image: Kirk Douglas 1954 Star Pictures Premium Photo

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Kirk Douglas 1954 Star Pictures Premium Photo. There's a small gallery of these on an older part of the site—I've since acquired several more, plus taken nicer scans of them (like this one), so an update will occur at some point.

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Coming Soon: Review of …

Written by Cliff Aliperti and originally published on Immortal Ephemera

"Widows made while you wait ..."

I should be back with a review of The Widow from Chicago before the week is out. The above ad appeared in the St. Petersburg Independent, February 4, 1931.

It was interesting to watch how the local advertising for this title developed. Alice White is top-billed, so ads such as this one were appropriate:

That one above appeared in The Spokesman Review (Spokane, WA) in early February, but i...

Image: Kirk Douglas and Virginia Mayo Still Photo, Along the Great Divide (1951)

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Kirk Douglas and Virginia Mayo in Along the Great Divide on a 1951 promotional still photo. You can click the image above to enlarge.

Pick up Along the Great Divide on DVD-R at Amazon.com or direct from the Warner Bros. shop.

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Image: Carol Dempster 1920s Fan Photo

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Carol Dempster pictured on a deluxe-sized 8" X 10" movie star fan photo from the 1920s.

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