@HannahHowe@toot.wales

HannahHowe

@HannahHowe@toot.wales

Mother, author, publisher, genealogist, SOE historian, Welsh, European, vintage movie and music fan. 👩 ✍️ 📚 🌳 💼 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 🎥 🎼 Joined 2019. Active since November 2022.

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HannahHowe, to movies

Movie News - February 19, 1948

A Prediction

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Movie Quiz #2

A still from a movie released in August 1938. Can you name the film, the actor and the actress making her Hollywood debut?

HannahHowe, to music

Looking at the results of the music polls we’ve been running, and thinking about Elvis Presley. Does he remain an icon of twentieth century popular music, or has his reputation faded? What are your thoughts?

HannahHowe, to music

Hands up if you owned one of these…

HannahHowe, to movies

Reluctantly, I have decided not to follow any new followers on Mastodon. I have made this decision because since the new year too many people are following with the expectation that I will follow back, and when I do that they unfollow.

In the main, I post social history based items on Mastodon - vintage movies, music and genealogy. If these items are of interest to you, please take a look.

Apologies to the genuine people out there who deserve follows.

HannahHowe, to movies

Movie News - January 28, 1948

An advertisement for Gay Red lipstick. The advertisement failed to mention that Mrs Alan Ladd was Sue Carol born Evelyn Jean Lederer, October 30, 1906 – February 4, 1982). After a spell as an actress, Sue became an agent. The fourth of her four marriages was to Alan Ladd, previously a client. The marriage lasted until his death in 1964.

HannahHowe, to movies

Movie News - January 19, 1948

As 500 cinema goers watched Murder is My Business at the Tottenham Court Road cinema last night, a man went up to the box office, smashed the thick glass with the butt-end of a revolver and told the two female cashiers to hand over the takings. However, the cashiers had other ideas. Mrs Harris screamed and pressed the alarm while Mrs Wilson shouted, “Don’t you dare!”

HannahHowe, to music

I'd like to invite you to nominate your favourite pieces of classical music. For example: Pachelbel - Canon, Ravel - Bolero, Vivaldi - Spring. If there's enough interest I'll run a poll.

HannahHowe, to music

What is your favourite Christmas song? Please nominate your favourites, from any era. If I receive enough replies I will run a poll to determine which is our favourite Christmas song.

HannahHowe, to music

Did anyone here experience The Beatles as they emerged during the 1960s? What was Beatlemania like?

HannahHowe, to random

A bereavement in my family means that I need time for reflection. I know that a large number of you enjoy participating in the music polls, so I will keep them going, but I won’t be featuring a lot of other content for the time being.

Love the ones you love, every second of every day.

HannahHowe, to genealogy

Meet My Female Ancestors

Eleanor Wood
Relationship to me: 8 x great grandmother
Baptised: 2 February 1670 in Derbyshire, England
Married: 9 January 1693 to Evan Bevan in Pennsylvania
Died: 28 January 1745 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Gave birth to: four girls and four boys, including my ancestor John Bevan

HannahHowe, to movies

My latest Hollywood article for the Seaside News appears on page 41 of the magazine.

https://issuu.com/seasidenews/docs/seaside_news_-_november_web_81c14dc9eb0081/41

HannahHowe, to Rugby

Rugby World Cup Reflections

Favourite Match: Portugal v Fiji, not the greatest quality, but great fun.

Best Play: The first half of France v South Africa, both sides were awesome.

Most Disappointed Teams: France and Ireland, both must have reckoned this was their year.

Wooden Spoon: the organisers. Who on Earth thought it was a good idea to match-up the top four teams in the quarter-finals?!?!

HannahHowe, to cymru

The story of my 19 x great grandmother, Constance of York, Countess of Gloucester, and her part in a plot to help liberate Wales.

https://hannah-howe.com/ancestry/medieval-women/

HannahHowe, to movies

Clara Bow’s fifty-fourth movie was No Limit, produced between September and October, 1930, with location filming in New York between 17 - 30 October. The movie was released on January 24, 1931. Clara played Helen “Bunny” O’Day. Gloria Jacobson stood in as Clara’s double.

HannahHowe,

@Tim_Eagon I see your point. And he was one of Clara’s boyfriends, one she loved more than most.

HannahHowe, to movies

Researching the William Desmond Taylor murder case and just discovered that Carl Stockdale, pictured, the man who might have given prime suspect Charlotte Shelby a false alibi, or might even have murdered Taylor at Shelby’s request, was a leading villain of the silent movie era. You couldn’t make it up, as they say.

HannahHowe, to random

My youngest son just received his GCSE results: A* in Biology, Physics and History. A in Chemistry, English and Welsh. He takes after me 😉

HannahHowe,

@abominabledrh Thank you 🙂

HannahHowe, to movies

Notable Movie Debuts, 1949

Julie Andrews in The Singing Princess

An Italian animated film dubbed into English, The Singing Princess was Julie Andrews’ first venture into voice-over work. Italy’s first film in Technicolor, The Singing Princess was reissued in 1967 to cash-in on Julie Andrews’ success.

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Gloria Swanson regales William Holden with her former glories in Sunset Boulevard, 1950.

HannahHowe, to movies

And the winner of our 1939 Best Actor Oscar is…James Stewart. Thanks for voting. After the vote in 1939, Carole Lombard consoled her partner Clark Gable: “Don't worry, Pappy. We'll bring one home next year.” Gable was morose and said he wouldn’t win in the future. Lombard replied, "Not you, you self-centered bastard. I meant me."

HannahHowe, to movies

At the age of forty-two, Claudette Colbert wanted more control over her career, and to spend more time with her husband, Dr Joel Pressman, so she went freelance. She said, “I had long wanted to be free of contractual obligations and restrictions, so that I could choose vehicles best suited to me.”

HannahHowe, to movies

Boris Karloff in Frankenstein, 1931. In Mary Shelley’s novel, the monster is articulate and speaks frequently. Also, in movie adaptations of novels a character’s thoughts are externalised as dialogue. However, director James Whale decided that his monster should remain practically mute, adding to his sense of isolation and ostracism.

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