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  • The Belousoffs: The Luckiest or Unluckiest Couple? Just ask Howard Hughes and Bugsy Siegel.
  • Dorothy Ponedel’s memoir is one of our last chances to hear from a Classic Hollywood insider
  • Take me out to the ball game — the 1935 Screen Stars ‘Comedians vs Leading Men’ Baseball Game
  • The Young Americans
  • ‘Nobody’s Stooge: Ted Healy’: Living gumshoe Bill Cassara investigates the life and mysterious death of the founder of The Three Stooges
  • 10 Highlights from 2017: Mysteries Solved, Serendipitous Discoveries, and Back Stories Revealed!
  • That time my grandmother Mitzi won 50 bucks in an M-G-M ‘picture titling’ contest
  • In a bold move, my great-grandmother refused Mae West’s donation until she visited her charity
  • Great-grandmother Ida Mayer Cummings honored as a Los Angeles Times Woman of the Year on this day 60 years ago
  • What on earth was Mary Pickford’s “scheme” with Louis B. Mayer?
  • Packed full of Hollywood greatness in under 200 words, this Mary Pickford letter is dizzying!
  • An urgent letter from Mary Pickford to my great-grandmother Ida Mayer Cummings to support Willkie over Roosevelt, as war raged in Europe
  • Great-grandma Ida with two legends of the radio era, Atwater Kent and Kay Kyser, and hosted by Mary Pickford
  • Dear Media: The wrong movie mogul was hanged. Louis B. Mayer was no #HarveyWeinstein
  • Before Childhood 2.0 and kid yoga there was the crazy stuff we did in the 70s.
  • That quiet, breathtaking moment when a rare photo reveals its true significance
  • Louis B. Mayer was no sexual predator. Here is my statement. #HarveyWeinstein
  • Another fabulous photo from M-G-M director W.S. Van Dyke’s ‘Women Without Men’ Party, July 1st, 1935.
  • Instead of Tinder, how about a time machine that takes you back to W.S. Van Dyke’s ‘Women Without Men Party’ in the summer of 1935?
  • The fateful moment Walter Pidgeon and Louis B. Mayer both realized they were from the same far-flung town in Canada
  • Two lovely notes from Joan Crawford to my grandmother will make you miss the lost art of letter writing
  • A man called Mary is one of the reasons why I love Australians.
  • Vintage Hollywood #RoshHashanah telegrams and you’ll want Silicon Valley to bring back this retro awesomeness!
  • There would be no Greta Garbo without Louis B. Mayer sailing to Italy to fix the epic mess that was BEN-HUR
  • I can put down my sword: Two new books are the last nails in the coffin of another I fought for years
  • UPDATE: Remember the mystery autobiography in my grandmother Mitzi’s papers?
  • Early team bonding! What else would explain a Hollywood mogul on a scooter?
  • Norma Shearer’s remarkable letter about Louis B. Mayer sent to my grandmother Mitzi in 1972
  • Happy birthday to my glamorous, talented grandmother, Mitzi, once a Hollywood princess.
  • Bob Hope emceed so many of great-grandma Ida’s events the family story is she discovered him…
  • If I had just one ticket for the time machine, this is who I would visit, without question.
  • Glamorous Mitzi visits the set of Black Sheep and interviews Adrienne Ames, the Countess of Warwick, and Allan Dwan. Sigh…
  • Louis B. Mayer and the simple photo that tells the story of a rich civic life that is all but gone today
  • That time Vaudeville comedian and Hollywood actor, Chic Sale, went out on a limb as Abraham Lincoln
  • When I was a kid it seemed every boy was channeling Jerry Lewis… I miss those times.
  • So, did my cat see a ghost or a spider over my shoulder last night?
  • Eleanor Roosevelt delivers a message on religious tolerance in 1946 that somehow we still need to hear in 2017.
  • My full circle moment: I visit the home Louis B. Mayer bought for my great-grandmother Ida Mayer Cummings, his older sister
  • Today and Sunday at 2pm! Alicia Mayer Q&A: Classic Hollywood, Louis B. Mayer, MGM, and more…
  • Greta Garbo meets MGM’s Leo the Lion. Let’s just say it was a quiet trip home.
  • Jerry Mayer’s office at MGM is a temple of Art Deco perfection from floor to ceiling
  • Pretty sure the ghost of Marion Davies was my photo research assistant yesterday…
  • From the Mystery Files: Do you recognize the costume Mitzi is wearing?
  • Mitzi photographed by master MGM glamour photographer George Hurrell but who’s the designer?
  • Mitzi on the set of ‘The Great Ziegfield’ in 1935 and you’ll want to fire up the time machine
  • Which Looney Tunes character did the doctor mention to bring Mel Blanc out of his two-week coma?
  • Born This Day: Louis B. Mayer’s earliest memories were of hard work, cold and hunger.
  • My grandmother’s girl crush on Dolores Del Rio, Lord Byron, Pat O’Brien, and a scowling Lloyd Bacon.
  • A Twitter miracle from 2013 comes full circle for me in August!
  • Mogul, star, impresario: In early Hollywood, there were NO degrees of separation.

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  • W.S. Van Dyke - the trusted director, star maker, party host, and patriot, with one of Hollywood's saddest endings
    W.S. Van Dyke - the trusted director, star maker, party host, and patriot, with one of Hollywood's saddest endings
  • The Legendary Ghosts of 625 Beach Road, Hearst's Gargoyle and Citizen Kane
    The Legendary Ghosts of 625 Beach Road, Hearst's Gargoyle and Citizen Kane
  • The Perfect Pickford Family
    The Perfect Pickford Family
  • Charles Bickford: Acquitted of attempted murder at nine, nearly killed by a lion, and three times Oscar nominee
    Charles Bickford: Acquitted of attempted murder at nine, nearly killed by a lion, and three times Oscar nominee
  • Instead of Tinder, how about a time machine that takes you back to W.S. Van Dyke's 'Women Without Men Party' in the summer of 1935?
    Instead of Tinder, how about a time machine that takes you back to W.S. Van Dyke's 'Women Without Men Party' in the summer of 1935?
  • The fateful moment Walter Pidgeon and Louis B. Mayer both realized they were from the same far-flung town in Canada
    The fateful moment Walter Pidgeon and Louis B. Mayer both realized they were from the same far-flung town in Canada
  • Jean "Baby" Harlow. Dead at 26.
    Jean "Baby" Harlow. Dead at 26.
  • Greta Garbo meets MGM's Leo the Lion. Let's just say it was a quiet trip home.
    Greta Garbo meets MGM's Leo the Lion. Let's just say it was a quiet trip home.
  • The pro-Hitler maid who nearly killed George Burns' career
    The pro-Hitler maid who nearly killed George Burns' career
  • Dear Media: The wrong movie mogul was hanged. Louis B. Mayer was no #HarveyWeinstein
    Dear Media: The wrong movie mogul was hanged. Louis B. Mayer was no #HarveyWeinstein

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  • Charles Bickford: Acquitted of attempted murder at nine, nearly killed by a lion, and three times Oscar nominee
  • Instead of Tinder, how about a time machine that takes you back to W.S. Van Dyke's 'Women Without Men Party' in the summer of 1935?
  • The fateful moment Walter Pidgeon and Louis B. Mayer both realized they were from the same far-flung town in Canada
  • Jean "Baby" Harlow. Dead at 26.
  • Greta Garbo meets MGM's Leo the Lion. Let's just say it was a quiet trip home.
  • The pro-Hitler maid who nearly killed George Burns' career
  • Dear Media: The wrong movie mogul was hanged. Louis B. Mayer was no #HarveyWeinstein

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