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New Photos Added: Johnny Depp, Orson Welles, “Baby Jane,” Angie Dickinson, Jack Brickhouse, Cary Grant, Jean Seberg, Jerry Lewis, etc.

October 4th, 2008 by Scott Marks

Jean Arthur (with Charles Boyer) - 1 Photo added from History is Made at Night.

Chicago TV and Radio - 3 images of Jack Brickhouse added. HEY! HEY! (Thanks, Rob!)

Cartoon Movie Posters - New gallery with 84 images added.

Raymond Burr - New gallery with 11 images added.

Kirk Douglas - 1 image added from Lust for Life.

Johnny Depp - 2 images added from Arizona Dream (with Jerry Lewis).

Cary Grant (poolside with Randolph Scott) - 1 image added.

The Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon - 1 image added.

Angie Dickinson in Point Blank - 1 photo added.

Jean Seberg - 1 image added.

Frank Tashlin - 24 images added.

Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine in Some Came Running -  image added.

Orson Welles - 16 images added. (Thanks, Rob!)

Bette Davis, Joan Crawford and Maidie Norman in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? - New gallery with 34 images.

Jayne Mansfield, Tony Randall, Joan Blondell and Shamroy in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? - New gallery with 13 images.

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Dorothy Kilgallen story optioned for big screen biopic

October 3rd, 2008 by Scott Marks

Arlene Francis, Bennett Cerf, Dorothy Kilgallen & John Charles Daly

November 8, 1965 was the last time Dorothy Kilgallen, syndicated columnist of The Voice of Broadway, appeared as a member of the What’s My Line? panel. Twelve hours after that live Sunday night broadcast, Ms. Kilgallen was found dead on the third floor of her five-story New York townhouse.

It was her 515th stint as a regular panelist on the popular and erudite (by game show standards) quiz program and for years controversy has surrounded her death. Viewers of her last show saw a visibly disoriented Ms. Kilgallen slur, sweat and stammer her way through the thirty minute program. A career substance abuser (mostly booze), when her hairdresser arrived the next morning, he discovered the lifeless body of the chinless columnist. The cause of death was listed as a combination of alcohol and Seconal, possibly concurrent with a heart attack. Unable to determine whether or not her demise was a suicide or an accident, medical examiner James Luke added “circumstances undetermined” to the death certificate.

According to Variety, producer John Davis (Dudley Do-Right, I Robot, Fat Albert, Norbit) has optioned Good Night, Dorothy Kilgallen, a proposal for an expose book by Paul Alexander that ties the columnist’s death to her investigation of the JFK assassination. Kilgallen was an outspoken critic of the Warren Commission. A friend of JFK’s, she began a crusade to single-handedly uncover a conspiracy behind his murder. She conducted an interview with assassin’s assassin Jack Ruby that purported to contain important new information on the murder of President Kennedy. She conceived the interview as a centerpiece for her expose Murder One, Alexander’s book insists that Kilgallen died mysteriously and the notebooks containing the information she was about to publish disappeared.

While the Kennedy cover-up might have been her last bout with controversy, it wasn’t her first. Frank Sinatra refused to appear on What’s My Line due to a long standing feud with the singer that began after an antagonistic 1956 article titled The Frank Sinatra Story. Frank went out of his was to belittle the “chinless wonder” in his Vegas act and it wasn’t until years after her death that Sinatra finally agreed to appear as a WML? mystery guest. In addition to Mr. Sinatra, she also fought with Jack Paar and Arthur Godfrey. Her feud with Paar was based on his support of Fidel Castro and Kilgallen, a staunch anti-Communist, criticized him for it.

Producer John Davis will bring the project to Fox through his first-look deal. No talk yet of who they will get to play Ms. Kilgallen, but I’m rooting for Patricia Clarkson. As for the Bennett Cerf role, my vote goes to Dave Thomas! Sadly, SCTV’s What’s My Shoe Size? is no longer on available YouTube, so you’ll just have to make due with the real thing.

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Emulsion Compulsion closed today on account of birthday

October 1st, 2008 by Scott Marks

It’s my birthday so I’m gonna’ go get tanked with some old friends and pull up a wall.

Don’t know where the festival dinner will be. The majority of the restaurants in San Diego still post this sign:

The presents are already rolling in. Too bad it doesn’t bobble half as much as the real thing did on Bob Hope’s Salute to the Presidents.

Until tomorrow…I Hope.

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Frank Tashlin: New Photos Added with Jerry Lewis, Jayne Mansfield, Elvis Presley and more!

September 30th, 2008 by Scott Marks

Frank Tashlin making a pact with Bob ‘For Satan’ Hope on the set of “The Lemon Drop Kid” (1950)

Since the day began on a note of Tashlin, now seemed like as good a time as any to post a bunch of new photos and production stills from his movies. I added over a dozen new photos of Tash on the set with Jerry Lewis, Bob Hope, Jayne Mansfield, Groucho Marx, Cecil B. DeMille (thanks, Rob!), Elvis Presley, Anita Ekberg, Jack Benny, Ronald Reagan, Leon Shamroy and Doris Day. There is also a new gallery of 11 gorgeous promotional stills from Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?

There is an abundance of Tashlin material on EC, as well there should be! Click on the links below for a pictorial overview of Frank Tashlin’s career.

Frank Tashlin photos
Artists and Models photos
Hollywood or Bust photos
The Disorderly Orderly photos
The Geisha Boy photos
The Girl Can’t Help It! photos
Rock-A-Bye baby photos
Who’s Minding the Store? photos

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Jerry Lewis gun case dismissed

September 20th, 2008 by Scott Marks

Schtick ‘em up!

The marvelous, marvelous Las Vegas Justice Court Judge Karen Bennett-Haron has dismissed the nutty firearms charge against Jerry Lewis.

On July 29, the 82-year-old legend was caught carrying an unloaded gun before boarding a Northwest Airlines flight to Detroit at Las Vegas’ McCarran airport. Officers confiscated the 22-caliber Beretta and cited Lewis for having a concealed weapon without a permit.

Jerry said the handgun was a engraved gift given to him during the 2007 Muscular Dystrophy Telethon. “I had a gun in my carrying case … which was given to me by a marvelous engraver,” Lewis said. “Last year, at the telethon of ‘07 he presented me with this gorgeous gift. I put it in that traveling case and I hadn’t traveled since that telethon.”

Lewis recalled, “when (manager Jeff) Low asked if I had a gun, I said, ‘I know what I packed, Jeff.’ Then it all flashed, a whole year flashed in front of me,” The gun was confiscated and Jerry was ordered to attend a court hearing in order to get it back.

On Friday, the case was dismissed after attorneys agreed to let Jerry off without fines. Lewis’ lawyer, Ross Goodman, says Lewis was forced to surrender the engraved gun. Goodman calls the quick resolution “a good result for great guy.”You said it!

My review of Riotous…I mean Righteous Kill somehow managed to turn EC regualr Matt Wilson’s thoughts to the R rated outtakes from the Martin & Lewis laff parade The Caddy. I thought that it would be marvelous to celebrate Jerry’s liberty by posting the notorious, NSFW blooper reel for your listening pleasure. So, come on and join the fun and hear profane radio spots from Paramount’s The Caddy…with a big GLOCK on it!

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New Audrey Hepburn Photos Added to Image Vault

September 10th, 2008 by Scott Marks

That’s Amore!

Christmas ‘75 was probably the most pivotal Yuletide of my life. It was the year I first met David Elliott when I took his class at Columbia College on neglected films (he made us sit through Olivier’s Richard III) and for whatever reason (probably our mutual adoration of The Long Goodbye, we became fast friends.

While I can’t recall what my gift was to Dave (probably a Whitman Sampler of a dry hunk of schtollen), I’ll never forget the bounty that I received. I had been collecting movie posters for years (stole my first one when I was 13), but it wasn’t until that fateful holiday that I really developed a passion for 8 x 10 stills.

Under the tree (his, not mine) sat a plastic shopping bag with my name on it. And what to my wondering eyes should appear but about 500 original stills that Dave had accumulated over the years. I still have every one of them and approximately 49, 500 more.

Audrey Hepburn in Billy Wilder’s “Sabrina”

We also share an uncompromising passion for Audrey Hepburn. Who doesn’t? In return for Dave’s kindness, every piece of Audrey memorabilia in my collection was transferred over. When David and Valerie named their first child Sabrina, it was my pleasure to pass on my original insert poster that to this day adorns her bedroom wall.

Many of you have checked out my burgeoning Image Vault tribute to La Hepburn, and now is a perfect time to pay another visit. I borrowed one of Dave’s scrapbooks and have been busily scanning the several hundred images in his collection. With only a hundred or so scanned and added, I have miles to go before I sleep.

Thanks, Dave, and I made sure to eat a lot of potato chips and greasy barbecue while handling your collection.

Audrey Hepburn Image Gallery

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