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Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Make-up Artists (1938) A short focusing on Hollywood’s studio make-up departments, in which Penny Singleton gets into the make-up chair for BLONDIE (1938).
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 9 (5/12/39) The 3 Stooges clown around at the 1939 San Fernando Valley Horse Show.
Screen Snapshots Series 23, No. 3 (1943) Stars mix it up with servicemen including Bob Cummings joining up as a civilian flight instructor; Kay Kyser entertains the troops with a radio broadcast.
Screen Snapshots: Famous Fathers and Sons (1946) This Screen Snapshots (production number 7860) goes on informal visits with Hollywood's famous fathers and their sons. Home movies for the future. George Burns, Ronnie Burns, Noah Beery, Noah Beery Jr, Bing Crosby, Dennis Crosby, Gary Crosby.
Screen Snapshots: Smiles and Styles (1946) A visit to Arrowhead Springs Hotel with Andy Clyde, Vera Vague, Jerry Colonna who take in a post-war fashion show and water ballet.
Screen Snapshots: Out of This World Series (1947) Hollywood was always a big sports town, until it actually got some professional sports franchises, and many of the actors around town--- ex-jocks,would-be-jocks or just sports fans---belonged to and played on summer amatuer baseball or softball teams for recreation. And, staging a baseball game between two teams of actors was a good method of raising money for charity. Actors such as Ed Wynn,Kay Kyser,Danny Kaye, Joe E. Brown and Danny Thomas were foremost sports fans, had played the game at the semi-pro or professional level, and were involved in some kind of ownership of sports teams at various times in their careers. The game in this short was for charity and featured the Andy Russell Sprouts against the Frank Sinatra Swooners. Jack Carson and Hal "The Great Gildersleeve" Peary served as umpires in the game, with Mickey Rooney, John Garfield, Keenan Wynn, Peter Lawford, Danny Kaye, Danny Thomas, Jackie Cooper and others as a member of one of the teams. No, they didn't use Mickey Rooney for a base and, no, Peter Lawford didn't show up at a baseball game with a cricket bat. Or, maybe he did.
Screen Snapshots: Laguna, U.S.A. (1947) The correct and full name of this short is "Screen Snapshots: Laguna,U.S.A." (Columbia production number 9852), in which director/producer Ralph Staub is out touring Laguna Beach. While there, he drops in at the Griffin Theatre where actors Brian Aherne, Lon Chaney Jr., Dane Clark and Eddie Bracken are rehearsing, as members of the Griffin Theatre Players, their roles in an upcoming stage presentation of "Of Mice and Men." To be precise, Lon Chaney is not in this film as "Lennie", as some sources seem to think. He is in this film as himself, an actor, rehearsing the role of "Lennie" (which he played in the 1939 film) for a stage production of "Of Mice and Men." That makes a slight difference in identifying his role in this short. The Griffin Theatre Players was an orginization of (mainly) film players who liked to get back "to their roots" and "on the boards" once in a while.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Stars to Remember (1948) Lon Chaney, Douglas Fairbanks, Carole Lombard, Will Rogers
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Holiday (1948) Glenn Ford, Charles Ruggles, Eleanore Powell, Sonny Tufts.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Party (1948) Turning back the clocks to revisit some of Hollywood’s party life from the early 30’s to the “present”. Thelma Todd, Zasu Pitts, Marie Dressler, James Gleason, Charlotte Greenwood, Bob Burns, Johnny Downs, Ronald Reagan. Smiley Burnette cons his party guests into painting his fence, including a befuddled Hugh Herbert.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Honors Hersholt (1948) Jean Hersholt is honored with a gala party at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Guests include Edward G. Robinson, Rudy Vallee, Joan Bennett, and Cornel Wilde.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Friars Honor George Jessel (1948) Celebrities gather to honor comedian George Jessel. With Kay Kyser, Al Jolson, Pat O’ Brian, Lou Holtz, Eddie Cantor, Dinah Shore, Harpo Marx, Bob Hope, Jack Benny and George Burns, William Bendix, Jack Oakie, Danny Kaye and Harry Cohn.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood’s Santa Claus Lane (1948) Hollywood Blvd. at Christmastime. Features the Hollywood Christmas Parade with floats dedicated to outstanding radio programs of the year like Duffy’s Tavern, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Hopalong Cassidy, Blondie and Dagwood, The Life of Riley and others.
Screen Snapshots: Medals for Hollywood Stars (1949) Photoplay’s Gold Medal Dinner Awards honor the most popular stars of 1948. With Clifton Webb, Shirley Temple, Adoplh Menjou.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Happy Homes (1949) Screen Snapshots visits some Hollywood stars at home with their spouses and children, including Eddie Cantor and his five daughters, some vintage (old-for-1949) footage with Bing Crosby and Dixie Lee when the headcount for their home was only one boy (they had four by 1949, all born in the 30's), and other families around town.
Screen Snapshots: Thirtieth Anniversary Special (1950) This salute (production number 3851) to 30 years of Screen Snapshots from Columbia Pictures features a full house of contract players from Paramount Pictures, leaving one to possibly presume that Columbia contractees Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, the Three Stooges and Gene Autry weren't available the day Ralph Staub shot this one.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Mr. Movies (1952) Saints and Sinners Club members have honor Adolph Menjou at a dinner at the Ambassador Hotel. With Chill Wills, John Derek, Arthur Franz, and Frank Fontaine (The Jackie Gleason Show).
Screen Snapshots: Young Hollywood (1952) The sons and daughters of Hollywood visit to the Getty Ranch for a Treasure Hunt.
Screen Snapshots: Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians (1952) Actor Joe E. Brown narrates this compilation of film clips and behind-the-scenes footage of some of the screen's most famous comics, ranging from Ben Turpin and Fatty Arbuckle to W.C. Fields and Andy Clyde. A "Screen Snapshots" Two-Reel Special.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Goes to Mexico (1954) Broderick Crawford trails along with Ralph Staub in this edition of Screen Snapshots as they visit Latin-American players working in Hollywood, including actor Jorge Negrete who died shortly after this was filmed in 1953 and prior to its 1954 release.
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Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 11 (1930) Eddie Lambert leads the tour; Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Joan Crawford return from their honeymoon trip; Carl Laemmle, Jr. welcomes Paul Whiteman to Hollywood; Edward Everett shows off his menagerie; Eddie Quillan displays his saxophone skills; other players are glimpsed. TITLES AVAILABLE
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Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Make-up Artists (1938) A short focusing on Hollywood’s studio make-up departments, in which Penny Singleton gets into the make-up chair for BLONDIE (1938).
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 9 (5/12/39) The 3 Stooges clown around at the 1939 San Fernando Valley Horse Show.
Screen Snapshots Series 23, No. 3 (1943) Stars mix it up with servicemen including Bob Cummings joining up as a civilian flight instructor; Kay Kyser entertains the troops with a radio broadcast.
Screen Snapshots: Famous Fathers and Sons (1946) This Screen Snapshots (production number 7860) goes on informal visits with Hollywood's famous fathers and their sons. Home movies for the future. George Burns, Ronnie Burns, Noah Beery, Noah Beery Jr, Bing Crosby, Dennis Crosby, Gary Crosby.
Screen Snapshots: Smiles and Styles (1946) A visit to Arrowhead Springs Hotel with Andy Clyde, Vera Vague, Jerry Colonna who take in a post-war fashion show and water ballet.
Screen Snapshots: Out of This World Series (1947) Hollywood was always a big sports town, until it actually got some professional sports franchises, and many of the actors around town--- ex-jocks,would-be-jocks or just sports fans---belonged to and played on summer amatuer baseball or softball teams for recreation. And, staging a baseball game between two teams of actors was a good method of raising money for charity. Actors such as Ed Wynn,Kay Kyser,Danny Kaye, Joe E. Brown and Danny Thomas were foremost sports fans, had played the game at the semi-pro or professional level, and were involved in some kind of ownership of sports teams at various times in their careers. The game in this short was for charity and featured the Andy Russell Sprouts against the Frank Sinatra Swooners. Jack Carson and Hal "The Great Gildersleeve" Peary served as umpires in the game, with Mickey Rooney, John Garfield, Keenan Wynn, Peter Lawford, Danny Kaye, Danny Thomas, Jackie Cooper and others as a member of one of the teams. No, they didn't use Mickey Rooney for a base and, no, Peter Lawford didn't show up at a baseball game with a cricket bat. Or, maybe he did.
Screen Snapshots: Laguna, U.S.A. (1947) The correct and full name of this short is "Screen Snapshots: Laguna,U.S.A." (Columbia production number 9852), in which director/producer Ralph Staub is out touring Laguna Beach. While there, he drops in at the Griffin Theatre where actors Brian Aherne, Lon Chaney Jr., Dane Clark and Eddie Bracken are rehearsing, as members of the Griffin Theatre Players, their roles in an upcoming stage presentation of "Of Mice and Men." To be precise, Lon Chaney is not in this film as "Lennie", as some sources seem to think. He is in this film as himself, an actor, rehearsing the role of "Lennie" (which he played in the 1939 film) for a stage production of "Of Mice and Men." That makes a slight difference in identifying his role in this short. The Griffin Theatre Players was an orginization of (mainly) film players who liked to get back "to their roots" and "on the boards" once in a while.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Stars to Remember (1948) Lon Chaney, Douglas Fairbanks, Carole Lombard, Will Rogers
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Holiday (1948) Glenn Ford, Charles Ruggles, Eleanore Powell, Sonny Tufts.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Party (1948) Turning back the clocks to revisit some of Hollywood’s party life from the early 30’s to the “present”. Thelma Todd, Zasu Pitts, Marie Dressler, James Gleason, Charlotte Greenwood, Bob Burns, Johnny Downs, Ronald Reagan. Smiley Burnette cons his party guests into painting his fence, including a befuddled Hugh Herbert.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Honors Hersholt (1948) Jean Hersholt is honored with a gala party at the Beverly Hills Hotel. Guests include Edward G. Robinson, Rudy Vallee, Joan Bennett, and Cornel Wilde.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Friars Honor George Jessel (1948) Celebrities gather to honor comedian George Jessel. With Kay Kyser, Al Jolson, Pat O’ Brian, Lou Holtz, Eddie Cantor, Dinah Shore, Harpo Marx, Bob Hope, Jack Benny and George Burns, William Bendix, Jack Oakie, Danny Kaye and Harry Cohn.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood’s Santa Claus Lane (1948) Hollywood Blvd. at Christmastime. Features the Hollywood Christmas Parade with floats dedicated to outstanding radio programs of the year like Duffy’s Tavern, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Hopalong Cassidy, Blondie and Dagwood, The Life of Riley and others.
Screen Snapshots: Medals for Hollywood Stars (1949) Photoplay’s Gold Medal Dinner Awards honor the most popular stars of 1948. With Clifton Webb, Shirley Temple, Adoplh Menjou.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Happy Homes (1949) Screen Snapshots visits some Hollywood stars at home with their spouses and children, including Eddie Cantor and his five daughters, some vintage (old-for-1949) footage with Bing Crosby and Dixie Lee when the headcount for their home was only one boy (they had four by 1949, all born in the 30's), and other families around town.
Screen Snapshots: Thirtieth Anniversary Special (1950) This salute (production number 3851) to 30 years of Screen Snapshots from Columbia Pictures features a full house of contract players from Paramount Pictures, leaving one to possibly presume that Columbia contractees Charles Starrett, Smiley Burnette, the Three Stooges and Gene Autry weren't available the day Ralph Staub shot this one.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Mr. Movies (1952) Saints and Sinners Club members have honor Adolph Menjou at a dinner at the Ambassador Hotel. With Chill Wills, John Derek, Arthur Franz, and Frank Fontaine (The Jackie Gleason Show).
Screen Snapshots: Young Hollywood (1952) The sons and daughters of Hollywood visit to the Getty Ranch for a Treasure Hunt.
Screen Snapshots: Memories of Famous Hollywood Comedians (1952) Actor Joe E. Brown narrates this compilation of film clips and behind-the-scenes footage of some of the screen's most famous comics, ranging from Ben Turpin and Fatty Arbuckle to W.C. Fields and Andy Clyde. A "Screen Snapshots" Two-Reel Special.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Goes to Mexico (1954) Broderick Crawford trails along with Ralph Staub in this edition of Screen Snapshots as they visit Latin-American players working in Hollywood, including actor Jorge Negrete who died shortly after this was filmed in 1953 and prior to its 1954 release.
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Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 12 (1930) Al St. John, John Boles, Nancy Drexel, Jack Holt, Thomas H. Ince Jr, Leatrice Joy, Arthur Lake, Florence Lake. Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 13 (1930) Fred Kelsey, William Beaudine, William Boyd, Betty Compson, Robert Coogan, Leo Diegel, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Frank Fay, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers.
Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 14 (1930) Eddie Lambert, Calvin Coolidge, Grace Coolidge, Jack L. Warner, Mary Pickford, Dolores del Rio, Marie Dressler, Ralph Graves, Matt Moore, Ramon Novarro, Dorothy Revier, Lowell Sherman, Erich von Stroheim. President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge visit Jack L. Warner and Mary Pickford in Hollywood; various players are glimpsed at work on the Columbia lot; stars turn out for a Hollywood Premiere.
Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 18 (1930) Andy Clyde, Aileen Pringle, Grant Withers, Bessie Love, John Miljan, Walt Disney, Eddie Cantor, Ida Tobias Cantor, Samuel Goldwyn, Louis B. Mayer. Players Aileen Pringle and Grant Withers are seen working on the set of Soldiers and Women at Columbia; Bessie Love and John Miljan are seen at MGM; Walt Disney is shown drawing Mickey Mouse; Eddie Cantor and his family arrive in Hollywood in preparation for his work in Samuel Goldwyn's Whoopee.
Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 20 (1930) Billy Bevan, Nils Asther, Charles Bickford, Billie Burke, Mrs. Florenz Ziegfeld Karl Dane, Bebe Daniels, Rosetta Duncan, Vivian Duncan, Leon Errol.
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 9 (5/12/39) The 3 Stooges clown around at the 1939 San Fernando Valley Horse Show.Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 8 (1931) Bessie Love. Screen
Snapshots Series 9, No. 21 (1931) Buster Keaton plays in a celebrity baseball game.
Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 22 (1931) James Finlayson, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Maurice Chevalier, Dorothy Jordan, Jean Darling, Frankie Darro, Billie Dove, Leon Janney, Ben Lyon.
Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 23 (1931) Claud Allister, Benny Rubin, Neil Hamilton, Dorothy Sebastian, Harold Goodwin, Karl Dane, George K. Arthur, Marjorie Kane, Andy Clyde, Nick Stuart, Marion Davies, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, John Gilbert, Ina Claire, Eddie Cantor, Charles Chaplin, Jack Mulhall, Dolores del Rio, George Bancroft.
Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 24 (1931) Mickey Rooney, Mary Pickford, Robert Armstrong, Jean Arthur.
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 1 (1931) Fred Kelsey is the host.
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 3 (1931) Eddie Cantor.
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 5 (1931) Andy Clyde plays football with the Sennett girls; Mary Pickford's miniature golf course is shown.
Screen Snapshots Series 10, No. 6 (1931) Eddie Buzzell, Sidney and Murray, Wheeler and Woolsey, Olsen and Johnson
Screen Snapshots Series 14, No. 6 (2/22/35) Celebrities attend a benefit for Sid Grauman's Chinese Theatre. The 3 Stooges appear later in the short, not connected to the Grauman's theme, clowning around outside a film studio office.
Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 7 (2/28/36) The 3 Stooges clown on a cruise ship with Victor McLaglen, in an outtake from THE CAPTAIN HATES THE SEA (1934).
Screen Snapshots: Studio Talent Parade (1938) A dwarf village on Hollywood's Wilshire Boulevard is shown; a bench is dedicated in honor of the late Lon Chaney; a visit to Leo Carrillo's new ranch is offered; Hollywood notables appear at the Academy Awards banquet of 1938, honoring 1937's outstanding films.
Screen Snapshots: Stars at a Charity Ball (1939) A gala charity ball is hosted by Basil Rathbone and his wife Ouida Bergere at their estate in Bel Air. Many candid shots of past, present and future (reference 1939) stars are shown as they arrive.
Screen Snapshots: Seeing Hollywood (1940) Features Andy Clyde on the set of a Paramount western.
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 6 (1940) Buster Keaton, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby.
Screen Snapshots: Art In Hollywood (2/23/40) Fritz Lieber, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, Robert Wilcox, Florence Rice, Mary Boland and Fred MacMurray display their painting and sculpture hobbies. The 3 Stooges (Moe, Larry & Curly) collaborate on a painting, and wind up more painted than the canvas.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Recreations (3/29/40) Hollywood celebrities attend various sport and entertainment attractions in LA. Buster Keaton, Larry Fine, and Curly Howard are briefly seen enjoying a baseball game. Sol Horowitz (father of Moe, Shemp, and Curly Howard) also appears.
Screen Snapshots Series 20, No. 3 (11/22/40) The 3 Stooges appear. Research continues on plot detail.
Screen Snapshots Series 21, No. 1 (1941) This edition of Screen Snapshots (production number 3851) has more of a vaudeville flavor as opposed to Ralph Staub's usual candid-camera at home with the stars offerings. Ken Murray, assisted by the Brewer Twins, is the MC, while the Andrews Sisters sing "In Apple Blossom Time" and the pre-Uncle Miltie Milton Berle plays his clarinet. The rest of the players, with contract-player faces belonging to 20th-Century Fox, RKO Radio, Universal and Columbia, just pass through.
Screen Snapshots Series 21, No. 2 (1941) In this Screen Snapshots (production number 3852), silent star Hobart Bosworth introduces clips from films featuring stars of the past who were deceased.
Screen Snapshots Series 21, No. 3 (11/7/41) The 3 Stooges (Moe, Larry & Curly) are celebrity attendees at the Army Flying Cadet graduation ceremony at Ryan Field, Hemet, CA.
Screen Snapshots Series 21, No. 4 (1941) Ralph Staub's Screen Snapshots follows Billy Gilbert all over San Francisco as he visits city hall and takes over the mayor's job; goes to the US mint; operates a cable car; visits Chinatown; works as a chef in Joe DiMaggio's Fish Grotto restaurant, and makes a personal appearance at a theatre.
Screen Snapshots Series 21, No. 6 (1942) Alan Mowbray, then starring in a series of comedy shorts for Columbia, acts as Master of Ceremonies and tour guide on a trip to stores, shops and sports events in Hollywood. The first stop is at Slapsie Maxies where stars are watching the floor show, and then to a donut shop where several stars are seen dunking donuts. The short ends up at a charity baseball game between comedians and leading men.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood in Uniform (1943) Several prominent actors are seen in their new roles as WWII military officers and enlisted men. Highlights include Robert Stack (a former amateur skeet shooting champion) displaying his remarkable skill as an artillery training officer; Tyrone Power as a Marine drill instructor; Rudy Vallee leading a military band; and Glenn Ford in the everyday grind of a Marine private.
Screen Snapshots Series 22, No. 8 (3/31/43) The 3 Stooges appear. Research continues on plot detail.
Screen Snapshots Series 24, No. 3 (1944) Vera Vague, Spike Jones, Art Linkletter.
Screen Snapshots Series 24, No. 4 (1944) Alan Mowbray bakes a cake, Leo Carrillo appears at his rodeo, Bela Lugosi visits a Red Cross blood bank, Victor Mature appears with his Tars and Spars Coast Guard recruiting show, Jerry Colonna demonstrates post-war men's hairstyles, and Smiley Burnette hosts a barbecue.
Screen Snapshots (1945) Moe, Larry and Curly are among the celebrities attending a charity baseball game at LA's Wrigley Field. Research continues to determine the exact SCREEN SNAPSHOTS release number and date.
Screen Snapshots: 25th Anniversary (1945) A look back at 25 years of Columbia's series of newsreels chronicling the film industry and the lives of Hollywood stars. Clips from earlier films in the series are featured, along with a montage of film greats who have passed away in the intervening years.
Screen Snapshots: Radio Shows (1945) Ralph Staub take his
Screen Snapshots on a behind-the-scenes visit of several network radio shows that originated from the west coast including; The Bob Hope Show, The Judy Canova Show, The Fitch Sunday Bandwagon, Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge, the Eddie Cantor program, and the 1945 series of "The Saint" with Brian Aherne in the title role.
Screen Snapshots: Fashions and Rodeo (1945) A Hollywood fashion show, the singing of Robert Mitchell's Boy Choir and shots from Leo Carrillo's annual rodeo are blended together in this edition of Screen Snapshots (production number 7853.)
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Celebrations (1945) Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Ronald Colman, Arthur Treacher. This Snapshots (production number 7854) hits the sports trail and begins with many members of Hollywood's English colony demonstrating how Cricket should be played (by aging actors who can't run), and then ends up with shots from one of Bing Crosby's golfing clambakes for charity.
Screen Snapshots: Looking Down on Hollywood (1946) This 10-minute entry in Columbia's Screen Snapshots series ( No. 2 in Series No. 26 and Columbia production number 8852) is, according to the narrator, a thorough view of the highlights of Hollywood. These highlights include the CBS and NBC broadcasting studios, the Palladium, Earl Carroll's Chinese Theatre (nee Grauman's), the Griffith Park Observatory and the well-known hotels (Hollywood, the Roosevelt,et al) restaurants and night clubs. It concludes with an aerial view of the crowded Hollywood Park race track. Hey, at least, it isn't Ken Murray's home movies and doesn't have Little Georgie Jessel tagging along. And Ralph Staub didn't say the horse running dead last at the race track belonged to Bing Crosby.
Screen Snapshots: Movie Stuntmen and Doubles (1946) Screen Snapshots Series 25, No. 6: Wendell Niles and Don Prindle Show (1946) This edition of Screen Snapshots (production number 7856) finds Ralph Staub dropping in on the Blue Network (formerly NBC, about to evolve into ABC) radio program featuring Wendell Niles and Don Prindle, as two friends who were always arguing. Guest stars dropping by were Jerry Colonna, Dick Foran and Johnny Mercer. This program, broadcast in 1945, was off the air when this short was released.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Victory Show (1946) This Screen Snapshots (production number 7857) presents the Hollywood Victory Show, and has a story within a story format, which was told real quick since half of the nine and a half minutes was taken up with introducing the performers.
Screen Snapshots: Looking Back (1946) Screen Snapshots No.8 in 1945-46 series (production number 7858) is a review of the film comedy talents of previous eras and years features The 3 Stooges, Abbott and Costello, and Harry Langdon.
Screen Snapshots: The Judy Canova Radio Show (1946) Ralph Staub drops his Screen Snapshots (production number 7859) camera in on NBC's The Judy Canova Radio show, sponsored by Colgate Toothpaste and broadcast on that netw ork from 1944-1953 primarily on Saturday night.
Screen Snapshots: The Skolsky Party (1946) This Screen Snapshots (production number 8854) was made in connection with a party held at Schwab's Hollywood drug store - called the "Schwabadero" here - and hosted by columnist/producer Sidney Skolsky to celebrate the opening of his production, "The Jolson Story."
Screen Snapshots: Radio Characters (1946) The first Screen Snapshots of the 1946-47 season (production number 8851) features popular radio performers as the (voice) characters they played on radio programs; Mel Blanc from two programs, the Joan Davis and Judy Canova shows; Dave Willock, "Tugwell" of the Jack Carson program; Jeanne Roos, Jack Benny's telephone operator; Dr.Horatio Birdbath from the Spike Jones show; Pat McGeehan from the Red Skelton program; and Jane Eberhardt, the B-O-O-O Girl.
Screen Snapshots: My Pal, Ringeye (1947) In this Screen Snapshots entry (production number 8858), Smiley Burnette, then appearing as the sidekick in Columbia's "Durango Kid" series with Charles Starrett, throws a birthday party for his horse, Ringeye, and invites some friends to attend, all of whom, with the exception of Eddie Dean, were working in some Columbia film then in production.
Screen Snapshots: Holiday in Las Vegas (1947) Another in Columbia's Screen Snapshots series (production number 8857) with some Hollywood people shown working, playing and hanging out in Las Vegas, and even clambering about on Boulder Dam.
Screen Snapshots: Off the Air (1947) Ralph Staub goes tooling around Hollywood dropping in on famous radio (and film) people at their homes. He finds Kay Kyser (from radio's "Kolledge of Musical Knowledge")making a doll house for his daughter. Others called upon were Eve Arden ("Our Miss Brooks"), Al Jolson ("The Kraft Music Hall"), Barbara Jo Allen (Vera Vague on "The Bob Hope Show")and Art Linkletter ("People Are Funny" and "House Party.)Columbia production number 9854.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Movie Columnists (1947) This Columbia Screen Snapshots (number 5 for the 1946-47 production year with a production number of 8855) finds Staub and his camera paying (undeserved) homage to the radio and print-media gossip columnists of the era, including the unforgettable (not to mention you-gotta-be-kidding) Louella "Lolly" Parsons and Hedda "The Hat" Hopper.
Screen Snapshots: Behind the Mike (1947) Harry von Zell. In this Columbia Screen Snapshots (number six for the 1946-47 production year with 8856 as the production number), Staub takes his camera into the studios of the radio stations and more or less includes all of the network announcers of the time based on the west coast in L.A.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Cowboys (1947) Gene Autry, Jackie Coogan, William Boyd, Hoot Gibson, Buck Jones, Tom Mix. Off-stage and home-movie glimpses of past-and-present Hollywood cowboys, with Robert Young included as he was currently making a western at Columbia.
Screen Snapshots: Famous Hollywood Mothers (1947) In this entry in Columbia's Screen Snapshots series (production number 8859), Ralph Staub visits the homes of actresses Judy Canova, Ginny Simms, Rosalind Russell, Brenda Marshall and Eleanor Powell, as they show off their offsprings.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Rodeo (1949) Ralph Staub takes in the annual Hollywood rodeo held in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, while Gene Autry describes the color and introduces some of the attendees, such as John Wayne and Jane Russell.
Screen Snapshots: Vacation at Del Mar (1949) Screen Snapshots visits the Del Mar Hotel and racetrack complex showing glimpses of many of Hollywood's top name at play, including George Raft and J. Carroll Naish at the races.
Screen Snapshots: Disc Jockeys, U.S.A. (1949) Jack Smith, singer on the Kate Smith radio program, and star of his own long-running CBS program (1943-51, sponsored by Proctor and Gamble), accompanies Ralph Staub's Screen Snapshots camera across the USA interviewing and meeting some of the most famous of the disc jockeys of the time.
Screen Snapshots: Spin That Platter (1949) Released shortly before Buddy Clark's death in a plane crash, and playing theatres after his death, this Screen Snapshots has Clark as the narrator who introduces many of the nation's top radio disc jockeys of the time. Similar to the "Disc Jockeys,U.S.A" entry in this series, meaning that Staub either found disc jockeys interesting,or shot more footage than he could use the first time around.
Screen Snapshots: Motion Picture Mothers, Inc. (1949) A square dance is held to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of Motion Picture Mothers, Inc., an orginization for mothers of various film workers. With Pat O'Brien as the master of ceremonies, among those in attendance with their mothers were Jane Powell, Bud Abbott and Gary Cooper.
Screen Snapshots: The Great Showman (1950) Some of Holllwood's (and California's) heaviest-hitters turn out to honor Grauman Chinese Theatre owner Sid Grauman,including; (then) California Governor Earl Warren (and later Chief Justice US Supreme Court), Darryl Zanuck, Jack Warner, and Jesse L. Lasky among others.
Screen Snapshots: Famous Cartoonists (1950) Ralph Staub zooms his Screen Snapshots camera in on many of the most famous newspaper comic-strip cartoonists and creators of the era. Notable in that all of the comic-strip characters referenced, with the exception of "Our Debbie" and "Smoky Stover", appeared in films or cartoons at some point or another, ranging from the silent years past 1950. Gus Edson's "Dondi" while not mentioned in this short, was also made into a feature film.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Goes to Bat (1950) Jack Carson, Bob Crosby, Lorna Gray.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Ice Capades Premiere (1950)
Screen Snapshots: Meet the Winners (1950) Filmed at the 1950 Photoplay Awards Dinner with a comedy bit by Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, and Bob Hope as the awards presenter.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Famous Feet (1950) Grauman’s Chinese Theater Hand and Footprint Ceremonies with Sid Grauman, The Ritz Brothers, Al Jolson, Edgar Bergen, The 4 Marx Brothers, Tom Mix, and John Wayne
Screen Snapshots: Jimmy McHugh's Song Party (1951)
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Memories (1951) Wallace Beery, Frank Morgan, William Desmond, Richard Dix, Al Jolson, Grace Moore, Edward G Robinson Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Pie Throwers (1951) Screen Snapshots: Hopalong in Hoppy Land (1951) William Boyd, Jess Parker, Don DeFore, Susan Hayward.
Screen Snapshots: The Great Director (1951) This Columbia short (production number 3860) finds Staub doing an early-day golly-gee whiz-swell version of Larry King (but with more class and less boot-licking)over Cecil B. DeMille as they look at old film clips which do little to prove the assertion that DeMille was a Great Director. DeMille mainly shows up to plug his upcoming "The Greatest Show On Earth"...which wasn't.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Awards (1951) With producer Ralph Staub handling the microphone, this offering takes the viewer to the annual Photoplay Gold Medal Awards dinner. Loretta Young, John Derek, Farley Granger, and David Wayne are heard from, and Ronald Reagan, toastmaster, is seen giving the awards to the winners, including John Wayne, Broderick Crawford, Gregory Peck and Robert Rossen.
Screen Snapshots: Reno's Silver Spur Awards (1951) Ralph Staub meanders over to Reno to take in the 1951 Reno Silver Spurs Awards, which is confined to the director (John Ford) and stars (John Wayne and Harry Carey Jr.) of Republic's 1950 "Rio Grande." Don Wilson emcees the ceremony in this shot with a Columbia production number of 3855.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Goes Western (1951) Randolph Scott, Gene Autry.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Night Life (1952) This Columbia Screen Snapshots entry (production number 4858) is strictly a photo-op of scenes where various performers show up at premiers of their current film ( Ronald Reagan and Doris Day)or married performers out on the town (Virginia Mayo and Michael O'Shea) and somebody schilling for Columbia films (Dick Haymes), and the majority of the listed cast have no scenes with the rest of the people seen. A pity, since some of the players and people seen here represent the valley-to-the-peaks spectrum of the Hollywood political scene from the far left Democrat (Dore Schary) to the always-testing-the-wind middle (Frank Sinatra) to the Republican right (Ronald Reagan and George Murphy) to the out-of-sight right (Cecil B. DeMille), who still hasn't paid his one dollar union fee so he could be a performer on radio. Some interacting among those present would have made some interesting footage, politically speaking.
Screen Snapshots: Fun in the Sun (1952) Olsen and Johnson
Screen Snapshots: Memorial to Al Jolson (1952) Jack Benny narrates the Screen Snapshots that, utilizing archive footage, traces the career of Al Jolson, and rare off-stage shots of Jolson with stars such as Bob Hope, Eddie Cantor and Pat O'Brien. Screen Snapshots: Meet Mr. Rhythm, Frankie Laine (1952)
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Fun Festival (1952) Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis perform at the Photoplay Awards Dinner. Billed as a "Screen Snapshots" Special.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Pair of Jacks (1953) Jack Benny, Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, Mary Livingstone, Jack Carson, Phil Harris, Don Wilson
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Stunt Men (1953) George Montgomery, once a stuntman/double, primarily in Republic westerns circa 1938-39 as George Letz, visits Ralph Staub to look at some footage of stuntmen in action. They discuss the hazardous and dangerous work the unheralded and uncredited stunt men perform.
Screen Snapshots: Men of the West (1953) In this Screen Snapshots (Columbia production number 6853), Randolph Scott visits Ralph Staub's projection room to plug his latest Columbia western, and Staub shows Scott some footage from silent films with Tom Mix and Will Rogers. A brief resume of the careers of both actors is also presented.
Screen Snapshots: Mickey Rooney - Then and Now (1953) Mickey Rooney, plugging his latest Columbia film, stops by Ralph Staub's editing room and film vault, and the two of them watch clips from Rooney's films, dating back as far as the Mickey McGuire comedies.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Great Entertainers (1953) Gene Nelson is Ralph Staub's guest as they attend the testimonial dinner for (long-departed) showman Sid Grauman where Art Linkletter is the Master of Ceromonies, with stars such as Jack Benny and Ginger Rogers and most of the (past and present) heavy-hitter studio moguls present.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Laugh Parade (1953) A typical 1950's Screen Snapshot short (Columbia production number 6852) in which some current Columbia contract player drops by Ralph Staub's projection room and watches footage, usually taken from earlier Screen Snapshots. Donna Reed visits Staub in this entry and he shows her some footage from Screen Snapshots number 7 of series 21, mid-40's vintage featuring James Stewart. Janet Blair sings a song, via stock footage from "Something For the Boys", while serviceman Jimmy Stewart is in a filmed-radio skit with Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy, in which he defends dummy McCarthy in a court martial. Charlie provides no help in his own defense.
Screen Snapshots: Ha! Ha! From Hollywood (1953) Ralph Staub visits Art Linkletter and his family at home, and then is out front watching Linkletter's coast-to-coast "House Party" radio show, where Joan Leslie, Ken Murry and Spike Jones appear as Linkletter's guests.
Screen Snapshots: Out West in Hollywood (1953)
Screen Snapshots: Spike Jones in Hollywood (1953) In this Columbia entry of the Screen Snapshots series (production number 5855), Ken Murray takes band-leader Spike Jones and his family (wife and kids)on a Hollywood tour to see the stars (via Murray's vintage home movie footage) at play. Among the celebrities at play they see Charlie Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, and Boris Karloff at a charity tennis tournament.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Greatest Comedians (1953) In this entry of Columbia's Screen Snapshots series (Columbia production number 5858), Glenn Ford visits Ralph Staub to promote his latest Columbia film, and Staub shows him some filmed skits footage from some radio shows. The footage was from the Groucho Marx program and the Jimmy Durante-Garry Moore program, and was something less than 1953-current as one segment involved Carole Landis who had been deceased for a few years.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Grows Up (1954) The growing up mentioned in the title of this Screen Snapshots refers to former child-star Larry Simms, the Alexander "Baby Dumpling" Bumstead of the "Blondie" Films, who was grown up and in the U. S. Navy. He helps narrate scenes of stars, Abbott and Costello, Burns and Allen, and Rita Hayworth, entertaining servicemen.
Screen Snapshots: Memories in Uniform (1954) John Carroll is Ralph Staub's guest and they reminisce and watch film of the days when Carroll and other Hollywood stars, Ronald Reagan, Gene Autry, James Stewart, Clark Gable and others, were in the uniforms of the US armed forces.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Life (1954) Radio and television personality Ralph Edwards is Ralph Staub's guest master of ceremonies in this Screen Snapshots. Among the Hollywood people, and their families, featured are Vera Vague, Art Linkletter, Eve Arden and Hal Peary.
Screen Snapshots: The Great Al Jolson (1955) In this special Screen Snapshots short many of Ameri ca's top composers pay a belated-by-years homage to a man who turned many of their songs into hits, Al Jolson. Many other screen personalities, most with little or no Jolson ties, appear in live and archive footage.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood's Invisible Man (1954) William Lundigan is Ralph Staub's guest in this Screen Snapshots and the two of them visit Hollywood's "Pirate's Den," where they encounter several stars, Bob Hope, Roy Rogers, Harry Ritz, Jerry Colonna and others, having fun in a relaxed mood.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Stars on Parade (1954) The Andrews Sisters, Gene Autry, Edgar Bergen, Lum and Abner Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Stars to Remember (1954) Lon Chaney, Douglas Fairbanks, Carole Lombard, Will Rogers.
Screen Snapshots: Hula from Hollywood (1954) Patrica Medina is Ralph Staub's guest in this Screen Snapshots and he takes her to Don the Beachcomber's Hollywood club where they see some of Hollywood's married couples (John Huston and Evelyn Keyes, Kay Kyser and Georgia Carroll, Phil Harris and Alice Faye) in attendance at the Beachcombers.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Plays Golf (1955) Ray Bolger, Walter Brennan, Jack Carson, Dennis O’Keefe.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Premiere (1955) Ralph Staub takes his Screen Snapshots camera to a Hollywood premiere where Cornel Wilde is acting as master of ceremonies, and where George Jessel, who never missed a super market opening, was among those guaranteed to be present.
Screen Snapshots: Ramblin' Round Hollywood (1955) Producer and promoter Ken Murray, never known to venture far from his house without his 16mm movie camera, drops in on Ralph Staub in this Screen Snapshots entry and the two watch close-up tete-a-tetes, shot by Murray, of some of tinseltown's leading citizens, past and present.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Beauty (1955) Ralph Staub attends a Friars Club dinner in Hollywood, where Bob Hope, George Burns, Jack Benny and other stars are in attendance, and he later visits Rhonda Fleming at the studio and she talks of her plans as a member of a singing group with (not shown) Jane Russell, Adrian Booth and Connie Haines.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Bronc Busters (1955) Jack Lemmon, Gene Autry, Charles Starrett, Roy Rogers, Tom Mix, Hoot Gibson, William S Hart, William Boyd
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Cowboy Stars (1955) Jack Carson and his wife, actress Lola Albright, watch western film clips and discuss the careers of such stars as John Wayne, Gene Autry, Jane Russell and others in this Screen Snapshot.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Goes a Fishin' (1956) Dana Andrews and director Fritz Lang join Ralph Staub in this edition of Screen Snapshots, discuss their own fishing exploits and watch film on other Hollywood personalities working with the rod and reel.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Small Fry (1956) Ralph Staub spends his time in this edition of Screen Snapshots dropping in on various Hollywood people and their children, including Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, George Montgomery and Dinah Shore, and Glenn Ford and Eleanor Powell. Plus, some radio program footage of Fanny Brice from her "Baby Snooks" program.
Fabulous Hollywood (1956) Ralph Staub interviews celebrities around the swimming pool at the Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Screen Snapshots: Playtime in Hollywood (1956) Groucho Marx, Danny Kaye, Mickey Rooney, Jane Russell.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood, City of Stars (1956) Jerry Lewis Dean Martin.
The Heart of Show Business (1957) The history of Variety Clubs International, showing its inception in Pittsburgh and the charitable work of many of the Tents.
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Star Night (1957) Ralph Staub attends a Hollywood dinner where Bob Hope and George Gobel are among the entertainers. Filmed in Technicolor.
Hollywood Glamour on Ice (1957) Producer/director Ralph Staub sets up his cameras outside a Hollywood charity benefit outside the Ice Capades show and interviews celebrities as they enter the affair.
Rock 'Em Cowboy (1958) Producer/director Ralph Staub attends a rodeo and interviews actors Audie Murphy, Frankie Laine and Nan Wynn.
Glamorous Hollywood (1958) Producer/director Ralph Staub sets up his cameras outside a Hollywood charity event and interviews celebrities as they enter the affair.
Special Thanks to Les Adams for providing synopsis details for the SCREEN SNAPSHOTS series.
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