Alabama Yesterdays

Alabama Yesterdays: Random wanderings through Alabama history

Showing posts with label movie. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movie. Show all posts
Sunday, March 16, 2025

Alabama in "Whiplash" (1948)

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Sometimes I run across really strange Alabama "connections", and I've written blog posts about a few of them. One examined box...
Thursday, September 21, 2023

Johnny Mack Brown as Billy the Kid

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I recently picked up and flipped through my copy of William K. Everson's classic A Pictorial History of the Western Film, as one does wh...
Friday, September 15, 2023

Gail Patrick in "The Preview Murder Mystery"

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One of the topics I bring out from time to time on this blog is film actresses from the state whose careers began before 1960. I've cove...
Friday, August 4, 2023

Joe Louis in "The Phynx"

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I can guess what you're thinking--what's a phynx? Let's investigate. "The Phynx" is a film released briefly in May 19...
Friday, September 30, 2022

Silent Filmmaking in the Birmingham Area, Part 6: Homegrown Silents (2)

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Over the years [after all, this blog goes back to 2014] I've written a number of pieces here about the Alabama connections to various si...
Thursday, September 2, 2021

Movies with Alabama Connections: Stark Love (1927)

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Well, I knew that Fob James, Jr ., acted like a monkey while governor, but I didn't realize until recently that his father had actually ...
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