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The Gabor Clan
{mother} Jolie Gabor, Countess de Szigethy  [1896-1997]
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Magda Gabor  [1915-97]
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Zsa Zsa Gabor  [1917-2016]
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Eva Gabor  [1919-95]
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    | Magic Lantern's Greta Garbo  [1905-90] Page |
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John Garfield  [1913-52]
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on H.U.A.C.'s Hollywood Blacklist in the 1940s & 1950s
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    | Judy Garland  [1922-69] browse Judy Garland on DVD • IMDb listing • Wikipedia |
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"I Could Go On Singing" feature film [United Artists March 1963]
A successful singer appearing in London agrees to care for her son while her ex is on business in Rome; when the father returns, the boy is torn between loyalty to his father and affection for his mother. Directed by Ronald Neame; starring Judy Garland {last film}, Dirk Bogarde, Jack Klugman, Aline MacMahon & Gregory Phillips M.G.M. Video letterboxed color DVD [5/2004] out of prodn/used M.G.M. Video color VHS [4/92] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia novelization [1963] by John D. MacDonald for-hire novelization of the 1963 Judy Garland movie, later disavowed by MacDonald Fawcett Gold Medal mass pb [1963] out of print/used |
daughter  Liza Minnelli
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official Liza Minnelli website
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James Garner  [1928-2014]
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starred in the western-comedy series "Maverick" [1957-60] /tt0050037/
starred in the detective TV series "The Rockford Files" [1974-80] /tt0071042/
  | "The Garner Files: A Memoir" [2011]  by James Garner, with Jon Winokur; Introduction by Julie Andrews Simon & Schuster 9¼x6¼ hardcover [11/2011] for $14.55 |
Greer Garson  [1904-96]
Garson Studios [est. 1989] in Santa Fe, New Mexico
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Ben Gazzara  [1930-2012]
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Chief Dan George  [1899-1981]
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Helen Gibson - Queen of The Serials  [1892-1977]
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0316993/ • first wife [1913-20] of cowboy star Hoot Gibson [1892-1962] {just below}
  | "Helen Gibson: Silent Serial Queen" on DVD [2012] featuring 'Fearless Helen' in three chapters of the "Hazards of Helen" serial [Kalem 1915-16] and three two-reel Western railroad dramas [Capital Film Co. 1920]; music composed & performed by Frederick Hodges Bitterroot Mountain Publng DVD [2012] for $16.99 |
  | "Lights, Camera, Action: Helen Gibson - The Silent Serial Queen Who Became Hollywood's First Professional Stuntwoman" [2013] by Larry Telles, Foreword by Robert S. Birchard Bitterroot Mountain Publng 11x8¼ pb [12/2013] for $15.29 |
cowboy star  Hoot Gibson  [1892-1962] Page
at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore
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Dorothy Gish  [1898-1968]
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Lillian Gish  [1893-1993]
browse Lillian Gish on DVD • AFI Award video • IMDb listing • Wikipedia |
official Lillian Gish™ website
JWP's Lillian Gish fansite
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"The Movies, Mr. Griffith and Me" [1969] by Lillian Gish, with Ann Pinchot Mercury House pb [6/88] out of print/used Prentice-Hall pb [9/69] out of print/used Pearson hardcover [6/88] out of print/many used Prentice-Hall hardcover [9/69] out of print/used |
  | "Lillian Gish: A Life On Stage and Screen" [1999] by Stuart Oderman McFarland & Co. pb [5/2009] for $39.95 McFarland & Co. 10¼x7 hardcover [11/99] out of print/used |
  | "Lillian Gish: Her Legend, Her Life" [2001] by Charles Affron Univ CA Press 9x6 pb [3/2002] for $21.95 Scribner hardcover [3/2001] out of print/many used |
Jackie Gleason  [1916-87]
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DMK's 'Jackie Gleason, The Great One' fansite
"The Hustler" [1961] with Paul Newman
  | "Gigot" [Seven Arts Sept 1962] Gleason steps out of his 'Great One' persona to portray a mute janitor in Paris, France where the movie was filmed. Pathos, heroism, and slapstick, very Chaplin-esque. Directed by Gene Kelly; script by John Patrick & Jackie Gleason; with Katherine Kath; Oscar nom for the music video/DVD and soundtrack CD not available; full credits at IMDb |
  | "Soldier  In  The  Rain"  [Allied Artists Nov 1963] A sentimental comedy of the peacetime U.S. Army; a goofy supply sergeant idolizes a corrupt Master Sergeant and hopes that they will go into business together when they retire. Produced & co-written by Blake Edwards; directed by Ralph Nelson; co-written by Maurice Richlin, based on the William Goldman novel; music by Henry Mancini; starring Jackie Gleason, Steve McQueen, Tuesday Weld, Tony Bill, Tom Poston, Ed Nelson, Lew Gallo, Rockne Tarkington, Paul Hartman, John Hubbard & Adam West not available on DVD; b&w VHS [undated] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb 11"x17" poster from Amazon for $9.99 27"x40" poster from Amazon for $29.00 based on the 1960 novel by William Goldman Dell movie tie-in mass pb [1/63] out of print/used Atheneum hardcover [1/60] out of print/used |
"Gleason" biopic [2002]
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character actor James Gleason  [1882-1959]
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Ruth Gordon  [1896-1985]
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      | Cary Grant  [1904-86]
browse Cary Grant on DVD • IMDb listing • Wikipedia |
DD's 'Ultimate Cary Grant Pages' fansite
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"Hollywood Collections: Cary Grant, The Leading Man" [1988] VHS [5/94] out of prodn/used |
  | "The Cary Grant Signature Collection" DVD Box Set [2004]
Warner Home Video b&w DVD set [6/2004] 5 disks for $28.99 contains "My Favorite Wife" [1940] co-starring Irene Dunne & Randolph Scott; "Destination Tokyo" [1943] with John Garfield; "Night and Day" [1946] directed by Michael Curtiz, with Alexis Smith; "The Bachelor and The Bobby-Soxer" [1947] co-starring Myrna Loy & Shirley Temple; and "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House" [1948] co-starring Myrna Loy & Melvyn Douglas; extras include trailer galleries, cartoons, shorts & radio shows |
  | "Cary Grant Screen Legend Collection" [2006]
Paramount b&w/color DVD [11/2006] 3 disks for $24.99 contains "Kiss and Make Up" [1934] with Helen Mack & Edward Everett Horton; "Thirty Day Princess" [1934] co-written by Preston Sturges, with Sylvia Sidney & Edward Arnold; "Wings In The Dark" [1935] with Myrna Loy, Hobart Cavanaugh & Roscoe Karns; "Big Brown Eyes" [1936] directed by Raoul Walsh, with Joan Bennett, Walter Pidgeon & Lloyd Nolan; and "Wedding Present" [1936] with Joan Bennett & William Demarest |
Lorne Greene  [1915-87] from Canada
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Gene Hackman
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Lloyd Hamilton [1891-1935]
DVDs of Lloyd Hamilton at Amazon • IMDb listing [1913-34] • Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/Lloyd-Hamilton-Comedian-Silent-Cinema/dp/0786441593/
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Juanita Hansen [46 credits, 1914-41]
including star of the 1920 Warner Bros. serial "The Lost City"
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Sir Cedric Hardwicke
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Magic Lantern's
Jean Harlow  [1911-37] Page
CMG's official Jean Harlow™ website
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Dutch actor Rutger Hauer [1944-2019]
most famous for his role in "Blade Runner" [1982]
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actress Wanda Hawley [83 credits, 1917-31]
including "The Young Rajah" opposite Valentino
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Rita Hayworth  [1918-87]
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was married to Orson Welles
watch Rita singing 'Put the Blame On Mame' [3:23] online at YouTube
http://www.amazon.com/Films-Hayworth-Tonight-Salome-Thompson/dp/B0024FAG7Q/
Cindy's 'Rita Hayworth, The Love Goddess' fansite
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Paul Henreid  [1908-92]
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on H.U.A.C.'s Hollywood Blacklist in the 1940s & 1950s
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Audrey Hepburn  [1929-93]
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          | Kate Hepburn  [1907-2003]
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Magic Lantern's "The African Queen" 1951 Movie Page
Directed by John Huston [1906-87], starring Katharine Hepburn & Humphrey Bogart [1899-1957]
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Pat Hingle [1924-2008]
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Philip Seymour Hoffman [1967-2014]
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William Holden  [1918-81]
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  | "The Billy Wilder DVD Collection" DVD Box Set [2002]
Paramount b&w DVD set [3/2006] 3 disks - out of prodn/used Paramount b&w DVD set [3/2002] 3 disks - out of prodn/used contains 3 feature films written & directed by Billy Wilder: "Sunset Boulevard" [1950] starring William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim & Buster Keaton; "Stalag 17" [1953] starring William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger & Neville Brand; "Sabrina" [1954] starring Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn & William Holden; extras unclear |
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Hal Holbrook
autobio "Harold" [2011]
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Stanley Holloway  [1890-1982]
http://en.goldenmap.com/Stanley_Holloway
his 1981 autobiography "Wiv A Little Bit of Luck"
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Sterling Holloway  [1905-92]
no browse/Amazon entry • IMDb listing •
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Stuart Holmes  [1884-1971]
Holmes had bit parts in almost 500 films from 1909 to 1964, mostly as
'bald man', 'wedding guest', 'reporter', 'juror', 'board member', and such
IMDb listing •
Wikipedia
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Oscar Homolka  [1898-1978]
no browse/Amazon entry • IMDb listing •
Wikipedia
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Bob Hope  [1903-2003]
http://www.amazon.com/Road-Comedy-Films-Bob-Hope/dp/0275982572/
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Dennis Hopper  [1936-2010]
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had residences in Venice Beach, California and Taos, New Mexico
Dennis Hopper day [on his birthday May 17th - 2014 = #1] in Taos, NM
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singer & actress  Lena Horne [1917-2010]
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illusionist/magician  Harry Houdini [1874-1926]
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Leslie Howard [1893-1943]
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portrayed Ashley Wilkes in "Gone With The Wind" [1939]
"The Man Who Gave A Damn" 90-minute documentary []
Directed by Tom Hamilton, with Howard's great-grandson, Alex Kiehl
official movie blog
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Sam Jaffe  [1891-1984]
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on H.U.A.C.'s Hollywood Blacklist in the 1940s & 1950s
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child actress Gloria Jean {Schoonover}  [b. 1926]
no browse/Amazon entry • official website • IMDb listing [1939-62] •
Wikipedia
"Gloria Jean: A Little Bit of Heaven" [2005]
authorized biography by Scott & Jan MacGillivray 9780595674541
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actor-singer  Herb Jeffries  [b. 1913]
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Ben Johnson  [1918-96]
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http://benjohnsonscreencaps.shutterfly.com/
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Van Johnson  [1916-2008]
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Natalie Joyce [47 credits, 1922-32]
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Boris Karloff  [1887-1969]
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Boris Karloff Filmography [1916-71] at Wikipedia
  | "Boris Karloff: Master of Horror 20 Movie Pack Collection" DVD Box Set [2008]
Mill Creek Ent. DVD set [8/2008] 4 disks for $13.49 contains "His Majesty, The American" as extra [1919 silent]; "The Last of The Mohicans" as extra [1920 silent]; "Dynamite Dan" [1924 silent]; "The Bells" [1925 silent]; "King of The Wild" [1930 serial]; "Juggernaut" [1936] directed by Michael Curtiz; "Mr. Wong, Detective" [1938]; "The Mystery of Mr. Wong" [1938]; "Mr. Wong In Chinatown" [1939]; "The Fatal Hour" [1939]; "Doomed To Die" [1940]; "The Ape" [1940]; "Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome" [1947]; "The Island Monster" [1953]; "Sabaka" [1954]; 3 episodes of "The Veil" TV series [1958]; "The Terror" [1963] directed by Roger Corman; and "(Isle of The) Snake People" [posthumous; 1971] |
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            | Magic Lantern's Danny Kaye  [1913-87] Page |
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      | dancer-actor-director  Gene Kelly  [1912-96]
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      | Grace Kelly  [1929-82]
browse Grace Kelly on DVD • IMDb listing • Wikipedia |
Grace Kelly made only 11 films before marrying Prince Rainier III of Monaco in April 1956
"True Grace" biography [2007] by Wendy Leigh
new "High Society" biography by Spoto /0307395618/
"Wedding In Monaco" ½-hour CinemaScope documentary []
"Grace of Monaco" [The Weinstein Company Spring 2014?] 
Announced 8/2012: Pierre-Ange Le Pogam & Udaf Chopra are producing; Olivier Dahan is directing from a script by Arash Amel;
stars include Nicole Kidman {as Grace Kelly}, Paz Vega {as diva Maria Callas}, Tim Roth, Parker Posey, Frank Langella & Milo Ventimiglia;
film is set in 1962 when the city-state/tax haven of Monaco got into a heated dispute with France's Charles De Gaulle who gave Prince Rainier
six months to change his tax laws; the actress/royal maneuvered behind the scenes to save Monaco from a coup;
added 9/2013: TWC bumped the film's release to Spring 2014 • latest info at IMDb
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child actor Tommy Kelly  [b. 1925]
no browse/Amazon entry • IMDb listing [1938-50] •
Wikipedia
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actor Edgar 'Slow Burn' Kennedy  [1890-1948]
IMDb listing [1938-50] •
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Magic Lantern Video & Book Store's
actor Edgar Kennedy Page
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      | Deborah Kerr  [1921-2007]
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child actress Marilyn Knowlden  [b. 1926]
no browse/Amazon entry • official website •
IMDb listing [1931-44] •
Wikipedia {empty}
  | "Little Girl In Big Pictures: The Autobiography of 1930s Child Star Marilyn Knowlden" [2011] BearManor Media 9x6 pb [4/2011] for $24.95 publisher BearManor Media's book page |
actress & singer Jana Kramer
www.janakramer.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jana_Kramer
spokes-model for Pure Silk shave cream (2016)
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  Alan Ladd  [1913-64]
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served in the U.S.A.A.F. First Motion Picture Unit during World War II
official Alan Ladd™ website
    | "Shane" [Paramount April 1953] Directed by George Stevens, screenplay by A.B. Guthrie Jr. from the Jack Schaefer story; starring Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon DeWilde, Jack Palance & Ben Johnson; Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Script, Best Supporting Actor (JP & BDW), won for Best Cinematography; listed at National Film Registry 1993 Paramount color DVD [8/2000] for $22.49 Hungry Minds color VHS [4/98] for $9.95 full credits from IMDb "Shane" posters at AllPosters.com Novel by Jack Schaefer [1954] Bantam Starfire pb [10/83] for $5.99 DH Audio UNABR [1/92] out of stock/used hardcover edition illustrated by J. McCormick Houghton Mifflin YA [1/92] out of print/many used |
actress Barbara La Marr [27 credits, 1920-26]
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      | Burt Lancaster  [1913-94]
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comic actor Lupino Lane  [1892-1959]
Broadway credits [1920-25] at IBDb •
IMDb listing [1931-44] •
Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/Lupino-Lane-Collection-Morocco-Circumstantial/dp/B00ARKYSWE/
http://www.amazon.com/Forgotten-Funnymen-Lupino-Lane-Volume/dp/B00HVJZ562/
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character actor  Ed Lauter  [1938-2013]
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silent-era star  Florence Lawrence  [1886-1938]
no browse/Amazon entry • IMDb listing •
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autobio "Growing Up With The Movies"
serialized in Photoplay Magazine from Nov 1914 to Feb 1915
FREE online text & photos at The Great Stars website
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"Florence Lawrence, The Biograph Girl: America's First Movie Star" [1991] by Kelly R. Brown McFarland & Co. 9x6 pb [3/2007] for $35.00 McFarland & Co. library hardcover [4/99] out of print/used |
Christopher Lee  [b. 1922]
browse Christopher Lee on DVD • IMDb listing • Wikipedia
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        | Jack Lemmon  [1925-2001]
browse Jack Lemmon on DVD • IMDb listing • Wikipedia |
starred in "Some Like It Hot" [1959] directed by Billy Wilder
starred in "The Apartment" [1960] directed by Billy Wilder
starred in "Irma la Douce" [1963] directed by Billy Wilder
starred in "The Fortune Cookie" [1966] directed by Billy Wilder
starred in "Avanti!" [1972] directed by Billy Wilder
starred in "The Front Page" [1974] directed by Billy Wilder
starred in "Buddy, Buddy" [1981] directed by Billy Wilder
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Marion Leonard []
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          | Magic Lantern's comedian  Jerry Lewis  [1926-2017]  Page |
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silent-era comedian of France
Max Linder  [1883-1925]  Page
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  Carole Lombard  [1908-42]
browse Carole Lombard on DVD • IMDb listing •
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DMK's 'Carole Lombard, Lovable Madcap' fansite
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"Carole Lombard: The Hoosier Tornado" [2003] by Wes D. Gehring Indiana Historical Society 7½x5¾ hardcover [10/2003] for $15.56 |
  | "Screwball: The Life of Carole Lombard" [1975] by Larry Swindell Wm. Morrow hardcover [1975] out of print/used |
  Peter Lorre  [1904-64]
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      | Myrna Loy  [1905-93]
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"The Thin Man" movie series with William Powell
The Myrna Loy Center For The Performing Arts [est. 1991] in Helena, MT
DM's Myrna Loy fansite
"Myrna Loy: The Only Good Girl in Hollywood" [10/2011] by Emily W. Leider
http://www.amazon.com/Myrna-Loy-Only-Good-Hollywood/dp/0520253205/
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  Béla Lugosi  [1882-1956]
browse Béla Lugosi on DVD • IMDb listing •
Wikipedia
"The Immortal Count: The Life and Films of Bela Lugosi" [] by by Arthur Lennig
http://www.kentuckypress.com/live/title_detail.php?titleid=2024
"Intimate Interview with Bela Lugosi" short subject [1932] filmed at his Hollywood home during production of "White Zombie"
25-minute docufilm "100 Years of Horror: Bela Lugosi" hosted by Christopher Lee
"The Midnight Girl" [1925]
"White Zombie" [United Artists Aug 1932]
  | The original zombie movie, elements lost for decades, new 5-year digital 69-minute restoration; a plantation owner lures a couple to Haiti so that he can seduce the girl; when she is uncooperative, he obtains a zombie potion and gives it to her, but is then dissatisfied with her lack of emotion • Directed by Victor Halperin; script by Garnett Weston, based on the novel "The Magic Island" by William Seabrook; starring Bela Lugosi, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Cawthorn, Robert Frazer, John Harron, Brandon Hurst, George Burr Macannan
watch 1/2012 restoration trailer [1:42] at YouTube Kino Lorber remastered b&w Blu-ray [1/2013] for $22.28 Kino Lorber remastered b&w DVD [1/2013] for $19.28 Roan Group widescreen b&w DVD [10/99] for $12.58 1999 DVD features trailer, TV interview, and 1932 short subject "Intimate Interview with Bela Lugosi" Republic Pictures b&w VHS [1998] for $6.69 V.C.I./F.F.I. b&w VHS [6/95] for $6.96 full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia • watch cut video [1:05:20] online at Internet Archive |
  | "The Bela Lugosi Box: 15 Frightful Films" DVD Box Set [2006]
Passport Video DVD set [9/2006] 5 diska - out of prodn/used contains 15 feature films, totalling 17 hours: "The Midnight Girl" [1925]; "White Zombie" [1932]; "The Death Kiss" [1932]; "The Mysterious Mr. Wong" [1934]; "The Return of Chandu" [1934]; "Chandu On The Magic Island" [1935]; "The Dark Eyes of London (The Human Monster)" [1939]; "The Devil Bat" [1941]; "The Corpse Vanishes" [1942]; "Bowery At Midnight" [1942]; "The Ape Man" [1943]; "Scared To Death" [1947] Lugosi's only color film; "Glen or Glenda?" [1953] by Ed Wood, Jr.; "Bride of The Monster" [1955]; "Plan 9 From Outer Space" [1959] by Ed Wood, Jr.; and bonus material: 25-minute docufilm "100 Years of Horror: Bela Lugosi" hosted by Christopher Lee |
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