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Constance Cummings

Written by Cliff Aliperti and originally published on Immortal Ephemera

Constance Cummings (1910-2005)

Born Constance Cummings Halverstadt in Seattle, WA, Cummings is featured in twenty Hollywood releases between 1930-1935, but after marrying screenwriter Benn Levy, she continued her career in his native Britain, never again appearing in another Hollywood film. Her best known screen appearance came in the UK opposite Rex Harrison in Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit (1945) directed by David Lean. Sh...

Joan Bennett

Written by Cliff Aliperti and originally published on Immortal Ephemera

Joan Bennett (1910-1990)

Fort Lee, NJ born daughter of actor Richard Bennett, Joan Bennett was also younger sister of actresses Constance and Barbara Bennett. All three sisters appeared in The Valley of Decision (1916), a film written by and starring their father, and while Joan also appeared with Richard Bennett in The Eternal City (1923), her career proper really begins on Broadway, again with her father, in Jarnegan (19...

Some Recently Landed Doris Day Images

Written by Cliff Aliperti and originally published on Immortal Ephemera

Rest in peace Doris Day, 1922-2019.

My favorite Doris Day movies aren't really the usual titles, but I've always enjoyed her most in The Winning Team (1952), Love Me or Leave Me (1955), and Midnight Lace (1960).

TCM Remembers page currently includes TCM Remembers Doris Day video, plus complete updated schedule for 24-hour tribute to Doris Day airing on June 9.

This weekend I got in a big box of stuff: movie cards, postc...

Mary Brian

Written by Cliff Aliperti and originally published on Immortal Ephemera

Mary Brian (1906-2002)

Born Louise Byrdie Dantzler in Corsicana, TX, she debuted as Wendy in Peter Pan (1924) after impressing in a beauty contest, and became one of the more popular ingenues throughout the remainder of the silent era and in early talkies. Popular silent roles came in Brown of Harvard (1926), Beau Geste (1926), and as W.C. Fields' daughter in Running Wild (1927) and Two Flaming Youths (1927). We're more fa...

Katharine Hepburn

Written by Cliff Aliperti and originally published on Immortal Ephemera

I might have to shorten this one up a bit (brevity, Cliff, brevity!), but it is Hepburn, and there are all of those Oscars and Oscar nominations. I can't name-check one without mentioning them all, can I?

Katharine Hepburn (1907-2003)

Hartford, CT born screen legend cut her acting teeth at Bryn Mawr College, graduated in 1928, and made it to Broadway before the year was out. In 1932, a Hollywood scout saw her in The Warri...

Kent Taylor

Written by Cliff Aliperti and originally published on Immortal Ephemera

Kent Taylor (1907-1987)

Born in Nashua, Iowa, Taylor didn't take up acting until his family moved to California in 1931. Almost immediately he signed with Paramount and was playing bit parts in major releases. Taylor climbed the ladder at Paramount and by 1933 he landed important supporting roles in titles such as I'm No Angel (1933) starring Mae West, White Woman (1933) with Carole Lombard and Charles Laughton, David Haru...

Mae Murray

Written by Cliff Aliperti and originally published on Immortal Ephemera

In brief: I'm going to start sending daily posts. They'll be like this, or at least they'll be like this once you reach the Mae Murray heading. Little mini-biographies of film stars from the 1910s through the 1950s.

If you think daily is too much for you, you'll find the unsubscribe button at the bottom of this email—if you wind up going that route, I do hope you'll Like the page on Facebook, where you should be able to t...

Richard Barthelmess

Written by Cliff Aliperti and originally published on Immortal Ephemera

Hey, why not start this out with two posts! More on what this is after the Barthelmess entry—I don't want to distract you too much from the fun stuff up top!

This one actually went out to the Facebook page on Thursday, hope you enjoy it:

Richard Barthelmess (1895-1963)

Son of stage actress Caroline Harris, Richard Barthelmess was born in New York City and began his own stage career while in college. Barthelmess made his...

New Collectible Checklist & Gallery: 1933 Moviebook Corp. Set of 32 Film Stars

Written by Cliff Aliperti and originally published on Immortal Ephemera

I forgot to mention this last week, but when I posted the video for the Moviebook set, I also created a new gallery and checklist page for the set.

Lots of links in the gallery to various other issues from this company. Here's the new page: https://immortalephemera.com/movie-collectibles/1933-moviebook-corp-trading-cards/

That will show you both sides of all 32 cards from this set:

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More Movie Collectible Videos Posted to YouTube

Written by Cliff Aliperti and originally published on Immortal Ephemera

Silly me, when I wrote last week to announce that I'd started posting videos to YouTube again, I assumed that if I embedded a video into my post that email subscribers—my most valuable readers!—you—would actually see the video inside their email. Har, har, har! Didn't happen.

Well, a couple more new videos have posted to YouTube since I last wrote, so I figured I'd send you another update but with links this time instead...