The Year Was 1938 – May 20
The News Around Hollywood Just finishing ‘Love Finds Andy Hardy,’ a long term contract at MGM is awarded to Cecilia Parker for her work in the family series. She began…
My First Script
It All Starts with an Idea Some time in those four months that we lived in San Jose I wrote my first script, an historical adaptation. It was a road…
The Year Was 1938 – May 19
News around Hollywood Today child actor Virginia Weidler was added to the RKO production ‘Mother Carey’s Chickens.’ She was borrowed from MGM where she was at work in ‘Too Hot…
The Fourth Grade and Dealing with Change
A Tough Year The fourth grade for me was a tough year. I began the school year in Spokane. My father’s job of ferrying minuteman missiles around to the silos…
Heaven and Hearts
heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain You yet You deign to remain within our hearts.
The Year Was 1938 – May 18
News Around Hollywood Darryl F Zanuck expounds on the biz – some are saying that negative costs must come down to meet a lesser box office take, but he points…
Sutch for Such
Hearing from Mark Twain ‘“When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not,” he once said, quaintly, “but I am getting old, and soon I shall…
The Year Was 1938 – May 17
News Around Hollywood Sam Briskin, producer, left RKO last November, being recalled to Columbia to an executive producer post. He had been there between 1926-1934.
The Bassett Hound and the Altas Missile
Sick Days and TV Shows Third grade and sick days on the couch in the living room. In the mornings it was all rest and trying to sleep off the…
The Year Was 1938 – May 16
In the News Fay Bainter’s stock in Hollywood rose with her performance in Warner Brothers’ film ‘Jezebel’ which not only garnered her an Oscar but also earned her a contract…