Under the old studio system movie moguls groomed promising new stars by first creating for them a new name. Today we look at the curious screen career of a B-movie star who acted under three different names, but is remembered…
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A Bijou Flashback: The History of Movie Newsreels
Traditional movie Newsreels, produced between their theatrical debut in 1911 and their demise in 1967, are wondrous windows on the world that once was, and collectively serve as a perpetual record of our shared history and popular culture. Today we…
Read more →A Bijou Flashback: Remembering Will Rogers
Today we pay homage to the film legacy of Will Rogers. He was brilliant at teaching common sense to the common man during the Roaring Twenties and Great Depression; a populist who manipulated the media to educate his fellow citizens…
Read more →A Bijou Flashback: Forgotten Hollywood Treasures
Where on television today can you find short subjects starring Betty Boop, Laurel & Hardy, Our Gang or Flash Gordon? Hollywood studios stopped producing short subjects altogether in the late 1950s as television became a household fixture, but in their…
Read more →Richard Ney: From Hollywood Babylon to Wall Street Jungle
Guest blogger Bob Campbell writes: Actor Richard Ney tried to warn us about the shortfalls of stock short-selling when he abandoned a 25 year Hollywood career to become a best-selling author of books critical of Wall Street obfuscation and greed….
Read more →Hollywood Sneak Previews
Growing up in Southern California was a movie-lovers paradise! My home base of Bellflower, California was relatively equidistant to Long Beach, Hollywood and Westwood – each with an abundance of movie theaters to tempt my attendance. Beginning in 1955, at…
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