The Year Was 1938 – August 22
News Around Hollywood Beginning Production on this date: Per Ed Sullivan Per Sidney Skolsky OUTSIDE HOLLYWOOD Newspaper headlines charge Shirley Temple and five others of communist sympathies. The revelation came…
They Call It Screwball
No. I’m not writing about the baseball pitch that behaves in an opposite manner to the curve ball. I am referring to the meaning of the word when it is…
The Year Was 1938 – August 16
News Around Hollywood Reported on This Date Outside Hollywood In Pineville MO, 20th Century Fox has paid $25,000 to turn the town into a frontier village for their epic ‘Jesse…
The Year Was 1938 – July 18
NEWS AROUND HOLLYWOOD PER ED SULLIVAN OUTSIDE HOLLYWOOD
The Year Was 1938 – May 21
News Around Hollywood Robert Montgomery’s 34th birthday. Until September he was the president of the Screen Actors Guild. The Oscar nominated actor, for 1937’s ‘Night Must Fall,’ has his next…
The Year Was 1938 – May 15
In the News ‘Room Service’ with the Marx Brothers to begin shooting today at RKO under director William A Seiter. . Director Herbert Leeds leaves for Callander, Ontario, Canada where…
The Year Was 1938 – May 12
• Shirley Temple is appointed sponsor of National Airmail Week. She is visited on the set of ‘Little Miss Broadway’ for the presentation by acting Postmistress of Los Angeles, Mary…
The Year Was 1938 – May 9
Actors in the News Comedienne Joan Davis was taken to the hospital after a fall when doing a knockabout dance number with Buddy Ebsen in “My Lucky Star” at 20th…
The Year Was 1938 – May 7
John Ford returns from Hawaii after a five weeks there, and meets with Zanuck about his next film for 20th Century Fox. An action film about midget subs in the…