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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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https://i.postimg.cc/W309FtR9/1947.gif I admire any citizen who uses proper hand signals when making a turn. |
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https://i.postimg.cc/pdBV6SRh/Elden977.jpg gsv Those palms are probably about 120 years old. Any street trees which reach or exceed the hundred year mark should have special protection bestowed on them, say I. |
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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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