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re: Carlotta Monti https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/s6y9th.jpg ladailymirror 1933 Some 30 years later. . . . Carlotta shows up at W.C. Field's entombment. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/VZCrQ7.jpg ladailyirror https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/923/KtPIUN.png ladailymirror Did you read to the end? It's sad and touching. :( . |
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The film has it's moments. It is not perfect but Rod Steiger does a passable version of W.C. Fields. The film spends at least 30 minutes on the supposed abduction of the body of W.C.'s drinking buddy John Barrymore from the mortuary for one last meeting of the drinking & poker club and to send him off to eternity happy. Did that corpse abduction actually happen, or just a tall tale about Fields? See (*) below for more about Barrymore. Valerie Perrine played Carlotta as the sweet woman that she probably was, and I remember the scene where she sprinkled the roof with a garden hose so the dying Fields could get to sleep. Fields liked the sound of rain on the roof--it relaxed him and it didn't rain often enough in L.A. like it did in Philadelphia. They also found an old L.A. red car to appear on tracks in one if the scenes. The little person Billy Barty also appeared in the film as Ludwig, a pal of Fields. Maybe he was supposed to be one of the Munchkins. Can't remember. Fields would have made a memorable Wizard of Oz, but Frank Morgan did a good job. Besides, I don't think W.C. was still at MGM when they made it. I vaguely recall that L.B. Meyer had a grudge or dislike of Fields, possibly because he considered him demanding and unreliable because of his drinking. So Fields probably never had a chance to be the Wizard. Fields did a good Mr. Macawber in 1935 for the MGM version of David Copperfield, but he does seem a little tipsy sometimes, but Mr. M was a drinker. "Something will turn up my boy". The eternal optimist. I read somewhere that Fields' family has possibly prevented the release of "W.C. Fields and Me" for viewing so it is very hard or maybe impossible to find on television or on DVD even today. I guess the family doesn't like the film or maybe they didn't like Carlotta Monti or her book. She did love Fields but I guess his family viewed Carlotta as a golddigger. Sad the way she was treated at the burial service. I conjecture the unnamed "little (old) man" referred to in ER's newspaper article above about the burial service above may have been Fields' old vaudeville pal Ludwig, played by Billy Barty in the film. If that was Ludwig, he was treated even worse than Carlotta. The attendant wouldn't even let him see the crypt, and he shuffled away misty eyed. Carlotta and Ludwig got no respect. ---------- (*) John Barrymore and Evelyn Nesbitt. As some of you know, young John Barrymore and the youthful "Gibson Girl" model Evelyn Nesbitt had an affair around the time she got involved with the famous architect Sanford White around 1905 in NYC. White was later killed by Nesbitt's insanely jealous husband Thaw at the Madison Square Garden which White designed; Nesbitt may have posed for the rotating nude statue of the goddess Diana at the crown. The trial of Thaw was the O.J. trial of its day. The case is covered in the films/book "Ragtime" and the "Lady on the Red Velvet Swing". My question--Nesbitt later moved to L.A., perhaps when Barrymore was still alive in the late 1930s. Is it known whether Nesbitt and Barrymore ever met in L.A.? I believe Nesbitt led a quiet life teaching art here in her later years. Barrymore always said that Nesbitt was the love of his life, and he may have proposed to her back around 1905. So, did they ever run into eachother in L.A.? Was Nesbitt's move here because Barrymore was here? Any info? |
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mystery location. Joe E. Brown's house, March 22, 1934. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/sCJF4O.jpg eBay At least we know it's located somewhere in Beverly Hills. . |
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It appears that W.C. Fields didn't forget about his mistress in his will. W.C. Fields’ 1938 Cadillac V-16 Fleetwood. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/gGW5xE.jpg latimesblog photograph is dated 1980. Carlotta sold the car to the Imperial Palace Auto Collection in 1984. The car was listed for sale in 2009 [no price given] https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/XEVRDP.jpg latimesblog via Hemmings classified car ads I don't know where, or with whom, the car currently resides. . |
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Film noir actress Barbara Payton got lost on the mean streets of Hollywood, and sadly, never found her way back. Today, I'm sending back my requests and comments to a film producer and screenwriter in Europe who has offered me an option on my work on Barbara's story. So, here's to one more try. Photo credit: The Vintage News.com |
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Maybe we've seen this, maybe we haven't. This photograph was on eBay the other day and I couldn't stop staring at it. We're looking at the west end of the Third Street tunnel. (1964) The multi-story building on the right is the old Hotel Elmar. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/ppdaIc.jpg eBay :previous: Chevy Impala. A parked car one street over appears to be covered with a tarp and I see Jim's Express over on the right. Scene from The Unfaithful (1947) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/JlTqfo.jpg americanfilmnoir . |
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Recently found on eBay Three photographs showing 977 Elden Ave. on November 22, 1922. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...922/7spLif.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/922/1HCRIo.jpg That's a tall fence across the street! What are they keeping, giraffes? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/2kStpX.jpg All three found on eBay. |
Looks very similar to the house my parents and my brother and I moved to from Texas in about 1952, though the address was 1225 Eldon Ave. It was quite a different neighborhood back then. We later moved across Pico to Westmoreland Ave.
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The building to the right of the tunnel was either the Crown Hotel at 702 W 3rd Street or the Havlin Hotel at 706 W 3rd Street (or possibly both). The 1963 CD still lists both, but only the Havlin is in the 1964 edition. |
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Thanks for the correction Hoss. That explains why I was confused by the description at americanfilmnoir https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...923/Lq8Zx4.jpg "This is the Third Street tunnel at the west entrance with Hope Street above. In the clip below Zachary Scott and Steven Geray drive through the tunnel and turn onto the Hope Street frontage and go into the Hotel Elmar which is visible on the left corner above." Is this a newstand? https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...922/1LDq01.jpg detail or someone's player piano? . |
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In 1951, the mystery business just outside the tunnel was "Butch" Bonollo's Shine Parlor. https://hosting.photobucket.com/imag...chBonollo1.jpg Detail from USC Digital Library |
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mystery location, Los Angeles Robby Muller, Polaroid 600 (1984) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/0hSV1B.jpg annetgelink There is additional information at annetgelink Good luck, minions....:superwhip . |
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A less-fancy version of the shoeshine stand shows up in the remake of "M" shot in 1950. You can see this scene at 50:00 minutes in on YouTube. |
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I don't know of it's been mentioned before, however there was a noir movie simply called "Angel's Flight" from 1965 that featured a good amount of location filming on Bunker Hill, including the other side of the Third Street Tunnel. Admittedly I barely paid attention to the plot as I was too busy studying the scenery.
I'd try to post some stills but alas, since I'm usually lurking on these pages at work, I'm only using my phone. :breakcomp: |
Hey! That guy didn't pay!
Speaking of noir in '84, I was reminded of this:
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I don't know if we've ever had a firm dated on the building of the Sphinx Realty office on Fairfax Ave, but someone just found this. The article dated December 7, 1923.
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I haven't had time to look up the old posts on the Shinx Reality office, M T. I'll see if I can find a date later today. :) I still think the Robby Muller polaroid is somewhere downtown. I don't get a West Los Angeles vibe at all. I've had this photograph in an old file dated 1960s. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/922/UFl2er.jpg eBay It's amazing how the MCA Building was all alone back in the day. Now there's the taller Hitlon Universal and the shorter Sheridan Universal. I haven't found the build date of the MCA building but I think it was later than the 1960s. I'd guess early seventies. :shrug: . |
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Dedicated on July 9 1963, the imposing "Black Tower" (constructed of black aluminium and glass) houses the executive offices where scripts are read and and careers are made (or broken). |
The link for the mystery photo E_R posted says about the photographer: "Robby Müller has continued to take Polaroid pictures ever since 1974, sometimes while working on a film, as a way of studying light and composition.
I don't know how dates get assigned to photographs, but Müller's IMDB page shows that he was the cinematographer on a 1984 release filmed in L.A. called Repo Man. (However, it opened March 2, so it was probably filmed in 1983.) But the filming locations for that film include: --E 10th St & Crocker St --Stanford Ave & E Pico Blvd --Stanford Ave & E 23rd St --2731 South Central Ave --Wilson St & Violet St --Palmetto St & Mateo St --842 South Broadway, Downtown, Los Angeles --Tunnel at Lower Grand & West Gen Thad Kosciuszko Way --Maple Ave & E 8th St --2404 E 28th St, Los Angeles --Orme Ave & E Olympic Blvd --Sixth Street Viaduct Not to say he did take the photo while working on any film, so... So it could be anywhere. :runaway: Robby Müller also worked on Barfly, a favorite with Scott Charles for the L.A. dive bar photos. |
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A film that Robby Müller worked on with LA area locations in 1984 was To Live and Die in LA. Locations listed here - www.imdb.com - To Live and Die in LA (Locations) Some of these were shot in 1984, others in 1985. This is another of his polaroids dated 1984-85 and taken while filming To Live and Die in LA. https://i.imgur.com/6CdIyyt.jpg hero-magazine.com |
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The black tower on the right is a common style and thus hard to pin down, but the bank building on the upper left is unusual--a brownish-gray building with a horizontal band of windows only on the top floor and then blank wall beneath, at least on the side that is showing. There probably aren't a lot of those. If I had not been told it was LA, I would have guessed downtown San Diego. |
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I spent over an hour on Google maps zoning in and out of all the black towers like that which I could think of. I looked at Santa Monica, Wilshire Blvd. in its entirety, Westwood, Century City, Hollywood, Koreatown, downtown. I checked Ventura Blvd. I even checked out by the airport, downtown Long Beach, and even downtown San Diego. None of the black towers I saw seemed to have the same dimensions as the one in the photo, but who knows, I might have misjudged.
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https://i.postimg.cc/prpLW2cp/Cent-Cit-NW.jpg LAPL 00104772, detail Here's a larger chunk of the same LAPL image: https://i.postimg.cc/3Rb3bsr7/Cent-C...0104772det.jpg LAPL 00104772, detail The camera is looking northwest (mostly north) at Century City. |
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If there is a curb there should be a break in front of the garage door. I initially lightened the photograph. I wish I hadn't. Here it is before I jiggled with the lighting & contrast. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/8...922/jRRGoO.jpg This also gives you a better look at the street. . . to me it looks exceptionally wide. The oil spots in the foreground tell us cars have been parked on this side of the street. . |
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Yeah, that sidewalk/curb is indeed optically confusing. And now that you've shown more of the photo, I'm wondering if that's a one-way street? And maybe that dark building on the right isn't a building at all, but a metal box on top of the roof of the old brick building? Hmmm... |
Here's a map of Repo Man locations:
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It's been longer than it seems, but I used to visit Century City almost every week. I loved the shopping center before Westfield took it over. I saw dozens of movies at the AMC 14 every year. A couple productions each year at the Shubert. Almost every store and restaurant I used to like at the Westfield is gone. Century City used to be very friendly. It's what I liked about it. You could spend a whole day there by yourself and have a good time. At one time the shopping mall was listed as one of the top ten people watching places in Los Angeles. Westfield took that away with their redesign. Sorry...memories were lighting the corners of my mind... |
I wouldn't expect such an old masonry building built right up to such a wide one-way street to have existed anywhere in present-day Century City, but who knows. Also, the black building in the photo doesn't have a screen for mechanical on the roof like the Century City building in question, as the windows go right up to the top of the façade instead.
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Here's a very interesting photograph that just showed up on eBay https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/iPk6eS.jpg "Palm Ave. from W. Hollywood P.E. Station, 4-23-30" Notice the car-race sculpture on the pedestal. (we discussed them years ago) I wonder if any have survived. Also note the small cafe behind the station. The white truck is delivering Wonder Bread. . |
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Take a look at this noirishers. :) "Vintage Los Angeles SE Corner Hollywood Blvd Cahuenga Photo Slide Nov 1974." https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/B20hZY.jpg eBay The building has stood the test of time like a champ. . |
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Here's another slide from Nov. 1974 (no doubt taken by the same tourist) "Star’s Deli Restaurant Hollywood Blvd 35mm Photo Slide Nov 1974 Vtg Los Angeles." https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/HOFvwR.png eBay This is the northwest corner of the old Warners Theater building on Hollywood & Wilcox. Here's the corner of the building today. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/jfpOOO.jpg It appears they have restored the original grillwork and tlles. Here . |
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