Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label movies. Show all posts
Thursday, May 18, 2023

Grand Theater in Huntsville

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Recently my brother Richard and I were going through some papers at mom's house in Huntsville, and we found this piece torn from a newsp...
Thursday, January 7, 2021

Alabama Photo of the Day: Homewood Theatre in 1941

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The first photo below shows the Homewood Theatre after its renovation in 1941. Below that is an article from the Birmingham News in January...
Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Film Actresses from Alabama Before 1960 (7): Boots Mallory

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In its January 1933 issue New Movie Magazine declared she was "Delectable Boots Mallory , the new Fox find..." Let's investiga...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Film Actresses from Alabama before 1960 (6): Lottice Howell

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Lottice Howell is a bit different from the other actresses I've covered so far in this series. Her film career was much less substantial...
Thursday, July 14, 2016

Movies with Alabama Connections (7): The Alabama Hills

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On the eastern slope of the Serra Nevada Mountains in Inyo County, California, is an area of rock formations known as the Alabama Hills. The...
Monday, February 8, 2016

Movies with Alabama Connections (5): Bayou

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If you examine this film's entry at the Internet Movie Database  [IMDB] , you'd never know there are Alabama connections. But hey, I...
Thursday, January 7, 2016

Movies with Alabama Connections (4): Lifeboat

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I saw this Hitchcock film again recently, and thought I would include it in this series of blog posts. The presence of two Alabama natives w...
Thursday, September 24, 2015

Movies with Alabama Connections (2): 100 Rifles

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OK, ok, this "connection" is pretty minor, but get used to it; there will be more such postings. After all, there are a number of ...
Monday, August 25, 2014

Cut! Movies & TV Shows Set in Birmingham

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            Recently that gushing fountain of interesting stuff, the io9.com site, ran a piece on “the most popular television show set in...