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[Earl Boebert]

Originally Posted by Earl Boebert

And here's Commissioner Gordon-to-be Neil Hamilton with daughter/Batgirl-to-be Yvonne Craig in the 1958 Perry Mason "The Case of the Lazy Lover."



Cheers,

Earl

RIP Yvonne Craig, 1937 - 2015

Earl

[Flyingwedge]

Originally Posted by tovangar2

Only 29 guesses re 41 peeps? I think I recorded them all (misspellings are my own). Please somebody finish/correct this
(MGM releases by date):

01. Steve Forrest
02.Pier Angeli / Natalie Wood
03. Debbie Reynolds
04. Louis Calhern
05.George Murphy
06. Ava Gardner
07. Van Johnson
08. Vic Damone
09.Paul Douglas
10. Howard Keel
11. John Ericson
12.
13.
14. Leslie Caron
15. Leslie Nielson
16. Eva Gabor
17. Merle Oberon
18. Ann Francis
19. Walter Pidgeon
20. Stewart Granger
21. Claire Trevor/Hedda Hopper (?)
22.
23. Russ Tamblin
24.
25. Robert Taylor
26. Elizabeth Taylor
27. Kurt Kasznar
28. George Raft
29.
30. Deborah Kerr
31.
32. Ann Miller
33. Lionel Barrymore
34. Donna Reed
35.
36.
37. Hugh O'Brian (?)
38.
39. Joan Fontaine
40. George Sanders
41. Esther Williams

Could 6 be Cyd Charisse instead of Ava Gardner?
Could 15 be James Donald instead of Leslie Nielsen?
29 = Janet Leigh?
37 = Jeff Richards (see: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0724143/)
And now I think 21 is Jane Powell.

[tovangar2]

Originally Posted by Earl Boebert

01. Steve Forrest
02. Pier Angeli
03. Debbie Reynolds
04. Louis Calhern
05. George Murphy
06. Cyd Charisse
07. Van Johnson
08. Vic Damone
09. Paul Douglas
10. Howard Keel
11. John Ericson
12. Lauren Bacall
13. Jose Ferrer
14. Leslie Caron
15. James Donald
16. Eva Gabor
17. Merle Oberon
18. Ann Francis
19. Walter Pidgeon
20. Stewart Granger
21. Jane Powell
22. Delores del Rio
23. Russ Tamblyn
24. Edward Purdom/Donald Woods
25. Robert Taylor
26. Elizabeth Taylor
27. Kurt Kasznar
28. George Raft
29. Janet Leigh
30. Grace Kelly
31. Fernando Lamas
32. Ann Miller
33. Lionel Barrymore
34. Donna Reed
35. Ann Blyth
36. Michael Wilding
37. Jeff Richards
38. Spring Byington
39. Joan Fontaine
40. George Sanders
41. Esther Williams

[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by tovangar2

01. Steve Forrest
02. Pier Angeli
03. Debbie Reynolds
04. Louis Calhern
05. George Murphy
06. Cyd Charisse
07. Van Johnson
08. Vic Damone
09. Paul Douglas
10. Howard Keel
11. John Ericson
12.
13.
14. Leslie Caron
15. James Donald
16. Eva Gabor
17. Merle Oberon
18. Ann Francis
19. Walter Pidgeon
20. Stewart Granger
21. Jane Powell
22.
23. Russ Tamblyn
24.
25. Robert Taylor
26. Elizabeth Taylor
27. Kurt Kasznar
28. George Raft
29. Janet Leigh
30. Grace Kelly
31.
32. Ann Miller
33. Lionel Barrymore
34. Donna Reed
35.
36. Michael Wilding
37. Jeff Richards
38. Spring Byington
39. Joan Fontaine
40. George Sanders
41. Esther Williams

Who are these famous MGM stars? [/
MGM archives

[MartinTurnbull]

I just came across this early photo of the Hollywood Plaza Hotel's foyer in a comprehensive article on the Paradise Leased blog about the history of the hotel. It helped me piece together something I've been wanting to do for ages - a timeline of the various incarnations of the restaurant space:

• 1925 to 1928 - Klemtner’s Blue Plate Café
• 1928 – 1931 - Pig ‘N Whistle Café
• 1931 to 1936 – Russian Eagle Café before it moved to the Sunset Strip.
• Dec 17, 1936 to Sept 1937 – Cinnabar
• Sept 1937 – It Café (owned by Clara Bow for about a year, then changed management and was taken over by Phil Selznick - David O. Selznick’s uncle)
• 1944 – Les Comiques
• 1952 - Westerner Lounge-Grill

Click HERE to read it.

[Ninja55]

35 is Ann Blyth. 12 could be Lauren Bacall. 31 is Fernando Lamas

[tovangar2]

added to the list above (this page).

I think someone said Fernando Lamas before. I just forgot to write it down.

[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by Ninja55

35 is Ann Blyth. 12 could be Lauren Bacall. 31 is Fernando Lamas

Although Ann Blyth [#35] was signed with Universal she was Optioned with MGM for a short time. That's what confused me at first. If she is Ann Blyth?

[CityBoyDoug]

Could Mr. 13 be Howard Keel?

[Johnny Socko]

Originally Posted by MartinTurnbull

I just came across this early photo of the Hollywood Plaza Hotel's foyer in a comprehensive article on the Paradise Leased blog about the history of the hotel. It helped me piece together something I've been wanting to do for ages - a timeline of the various incarnations of the restaurant space:

• 1925 to 1928 - Klemtner’s Blue Plate Café
• 1928 – 1931 - Pig ‘N Whistle Café
• 1931 to 1936 – Russian Eagle Café before it moved to the Sunset Strip.
• Dec 17, 1936 to Sept 1937 – Cinnabar
• Sept 1937 – It Café (owned by Clara Bow for about a year, then changed management and was taken over by Phil Selznick - David O. Selznick’s uncle)
• 1944 – Les Comiques
• 1952 - Westerner Lounge-Grill

Click HERE to read it.

Thank you for this! I am interested in this location because my late mother-in-law lived here for many years (the building serves as senior housing) -- but it often gets forgotten among its more-famous peers.

The real shame is that the lobby is now barely more than a couple hundred square feet of linoleum. I don't understand why they couldn't retain the original lobby and give those seniors someplace more interesting to reside.

In terms of the great MGM photo: It makes sense that Leslie Nielsen, Walter Pidgeon, and the lovely Anne Francis were present, since they starred in Forbidden Planet together.


http://www.moviemail.com/film/dvd/Forbidden-Planet/

[John Maddox Roberts]

I think 35 looks more like Kathryn Grayson. I thought 22 was Dolores del Rio, but I can't find that she was ever under contract to MGM.

[NoirNous]

#13 looks like Jose Ferrer.

[John Maddox Roberts]

Is #24 maybe Edmund Purdom?

[CityBoyDoug]

Could MGM number 24 be Donald Woods.....

[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by John Maddox Roberts

Is #24 maybe Edmund Purdom?

Edmund Purdom or Woods?

[Krell58]

Originally Posted by Johnny Socko

http://www.moviemail.com/film/dvd/Forbidden-Planet/

Dr. Morbius - Surely, you don't think my Id caused all the damage to your ship?
Commander Adams - I do, and don't call me Shirley.

This is the movie where my user name comes from.

[tovangar2]

OK, everyone in the group photo now has a name (or two) attached. See updated list on this page (above).

I anyone wants to put more effort into confirming the less obvious ones, more power to you :-)

[mrfredmertz]

31 is Fernando Lamas

[tovangar2]

Originally Posted by MartinTurnbull

I just came across this early photo of the Hollywood Plaza Hotel's foyer in a comprehensive article on the Paradise Leased blog about the history of the hotel. It helped me piece together something I've been wanting to do for ages - a timeline of the various incarnations of the restaurant space:

• 1925 to 1928 - Klemtner’s Blue Plate Café
• 1928 – 1931 - Pig ‘N Whistle Café
• 1931 to 1936 – Russian Eagle Café before it moved to the Sunset Strip.
• Dec 17, 1936 to Sept 1937 – Cinnabar
• Sept 1937 – It Café (owned by Clara Bow for about a year, then changed management and was taken over by Phil Selznick - David O. Selznick’s uncle)
• 1944 – Les Comiques
• 1952 - Westerner Lounge-Grill

Click HERE to read it.

The Cinnabar caught, and has held, my attention like few other spaces. A magical place. Maybe that it only existed for nine months has something to do with it.

In 1936 one hundred thousand dollars was spent wisely and intelligently to remodel the former Pig 'n Whistle into the gorgeous art deco Cinnabar Restaurant. It was created by G. Albert Landsburgh, the renowned theater architect and designer of theater interiors. A.E. Heinsbergen Studios did the mural work. The Cinnabar was meant to complement the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel's Cine-Grill (both hotels were then owned by the same firm). In 1937, after what seems like the lifespan of a soap bubble, the beautiful Cinnabar dream-space was gutted for the "It Cafe".


paradiseleased


MartinTurnbull

Originally Posted by Johnny Socko

Thank you for this! I am interested in this location because my late mother-in-law lived here for many years (the building serves as senior housing) -- but it often gets forgotten among its more-famous peers.

I did a post a few years back on the history of the now 114-year-old palm trees at the back of the Plaza Hotel which may interest you. It's here.


google maps, 2012

I got a ton of info for that post from that excellent Paradise Leased page (all credited of course). I'm a big fan of that site and also of the Plaza Hotel (not to mention palm trees).

[HossC]

Another Bank of America by Julius Shulman. These shots show Santa Monica Boulevard, although the address of the bank was 1100 N Western Avenue. This group is titled "Job 1409: Bank of America (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1952".

The Hotel Palomar, now the Palomar Apartments (see below), was at 5473 Santa Monica Boulevard, and Singer Sewing Machine Co was at 5511 Santa Monica Boulevard.







All from Getty Research Institute

The bank has either gone or been remodeled, but unlike my previous post, many of the other buildings survive. As mentioned above, the Hotel Palomar is now the Palomar Apartments. It's a shame that the circular details at the top have gone, but the patterns on the lower floors are still there, as is a blade sign where the old coffee shop sign used to be.


GSV

The old Security First National Bank building has lost a few feet from the top, but otherwise appears to be intact.


GSV