Thanksgiving 2024 -- November 28, 2024

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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.  I'm grateful for health and life, my family, and my coworkers.

The photograph shows Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as a Pilgrim couple. 

Marilyn Monroe -- Thanksgiving 2023 -- November 23, 2023

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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. I'm grateful for health and life, my family, my students and my coworkers.

Here we see Marilyn Monroe saddened because she can't find the turkey. 

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Surely, Exhibitors Have Much to be Thankful For -- November 22, 2023

Film Daily, 16-November-1923

Thanksgiving is coming. 

Universal listed many of their upcoming productions to celebrate Thanksgiving.

Charles Ray -- The Courtship of Myles Standish -- November 21, 2023

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Thanksgiving is coming.

Speaking of Pilgrims, many years ago, I took a book about silent films out of the Richmond Branch Library. I think it was The Movies in the Age of Innocence by Edward Wagenknecht. The author spent many pages talking about Charles Ray, who was producing his own films for United Artists. Wagenknecht said that The Courtship of Myles Standish, the expensive, elaborate epic film, based on the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, was a bomb on a Hiroshima scale, and that it ruined Charles Ray's career. At the time, I had never seen a movie with Charles Ray, but I think that the book prejudiced me. When I did see some of his movies later, I thought he was a pleasant actor.

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Photoplay, December, 1923

Judy Garland -- Thanksgiving 2022 -- November 24, 2022

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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. I'm grateful for health and life, my family, my students and my coworkers.

The photograph shows Judy Garland dressed as a Pilgrim and a turkey dressed as a turkey.

Anne Jeffreys -- Thanksgiving 2021 -- November 25, 2021

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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. I'm grateful for health and life, my family, and my coworkers.

The photograph shows actress Anne Jeffreys preparing to dish up the turkey. She worked in movies, on Broadway and in television. She made lots of westerns.

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Thanksgiving 2020 -- November 26, 2020

 

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Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. I'm grateful for health and life, my family, and my coworkers.

The photograph shows musical comedy star Janis Paige returning from hunting a turkey. Janis Paige appeared in many movies and television shows, but is most famous for appearing in the original production of The Pajama Game on Broadway.

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Thanksgiving 2019 -- November 28, 2019

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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. I'm grateful for health and life, my family, and my coworkers.

The photograph shows Barbara Kent, who was one of the last surviving people who acted in silent films as adults. She died in 2014.

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Thanksgiving 2018 -- November 22, 2018

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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. I'm grateful for health and life, my family, and my coworkers.

The photograph shows curvaceous actress Carole Landis carving a turkey by the swimming pool.  She appeared in some very good movies and toured to entertain soldiers in the South Pacific during World War Two.  With her career in decline and a complicated life, she committed suicide in 1948 when she was 29 years old.

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Her career took off when DW Griffith selected her to play the lead in Hal Roach's One Million BC.

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She posed for a lot of pin-up pictures.  This was one of the pictures that was most popular with soldiers.

Thanksgiving 2017 -- November 23, 2017

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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.  I'm grateful for health and life, my family, and my coworkers.

The photograph shows Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as a Pilgrim couple. 

Thanksgiving 2016 -- November 24, 2016

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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.  I'm grateful for health and life, my family, and my coworkers.

The photograph shows actresses Jean Arthur and Lillian Roth playing Pilgrims. 

Thanksgiving 2015 -- November 26, 2015

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Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.  I'm grateful for health and life, my family, and my coworkers.
The photograph shows red-headed actress Peggy Shannon, who had performed in the Ziegfeld Follies and Earl Carroll's Vanities before going to Hollywood.

Bring Home the Turkey -- November 24, 2015

Film Daily, 11-January-1927.

With Thanksgiving coming, I thought I would post this ad for an Our Gang comedy, "Bring Home the Turkey."  Note that it says "Hal Roach presents His Rascals."  "Little Rascals" was an alternate name for the group. 

Thanksgiving 2014 -- November 27, 2014

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.  I'm grateful for health and life, my family, and my coworkers.

Actress Barbara Kent, who lived until 2011, had a career that spanned the transition from silent movies to talkies.  She starred in Harold Lloyd's first two talkies, Welcome Danger and Feet First.