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CAST OF CHARACTERS
A CALENDER OF MOVIES: What to Watch When
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
A DAY WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY: December 7, 1941
ABBOTT & COSTELLO
AMERICAN CLASSIC MOVIES INTRODUCTIONS
ANIMALS AND THE MOVIES
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: The Black Dahlia Murder
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Evan Thompson's Bottle House
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: The Hollywood Sign
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Homes of the Stars
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Jean Harlow
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Maps and Floor Plans
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Pickfair
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Scotty's Castle
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: West Hollywood Historical Association
ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Whimsy
ARCHIVES: VOLUME 1
ARCHIVES: VOLUME 2
ARCHIVES: VOLUME 3
ASSORTED SHORT CLIPS
"B" MOVIES
THE BARRYMORE FAMILY
BIOGRAPHIES
BLOOPERS*
BOBBY "BORIS" PICKETT
BUSTER KEATON
CARLA LAEMMLE
CARTOONS
CHARLIE CHAN ANNEX
CHARLIE CHAN: Bloopers & Bonus Questions*
CHARLIE CHAN: The Books and Their Movies!
CHARLIE CHAN: Chang Apana
CHARLIE CHAN: Charlie's Sons
CHARLIE CHAN: Chemicals
CHARLIE CHAN: Chronology
CHARLIE CHAN: Cookbook, the Preview
CHARLIE CHAN: Cookbook
CHARLIE CHAN: Criminal?!?!*
CHARLIE CHAN: Extras
CHARLIE CHAN: Hawaii Steve
CHARLIE CHAN: Maps
CHARLIE CHAN: Maven and Rush Glick's Interview in . . . "Monster Bash"!
CHARLIE CHAN: Movie Eras
CHARLIE CHAN: Movie Notes
CHARLIE CHAN: Behind That Curtain (1929)
CHARLIE CHAN: Murder Rate
CHARLIE CHAN: On The Town
CHARLIE CHAN: Puzzles and Quizzes
CHARLIE CHAN: Quiz and Puzzle Answers
CHARLIE CHAN: Spookies
CHARLIE CHAN: Transportation
CHARLIE CHAN: Weather
CHILDREN'S CORNER
CHILDREN'S CORNER: Colleen's Moore's Fairy Castle
CHILDREN'S CORNER: Nancy Drew
CHILDREN'S CORNER: Nancy Drew (For Older Fans!)
CHILDREN'S CORNER: The Hardy Boys
CHILDREN'S CORNER: Paper Dolls
CHILDREN'S CORNER: Shirley Temple
COMEDIANS
COPPER CAPERS: FBI's and CIA's!
COSTUME DESIGNERS
DASHIELL HAMMETT
ETTA KIT
FASHIONS IN FILM
FOOD CENTRAL
FOOD CENTRAL: Recipes of the Week
FOOD CENTRAL: Recipes of the Week (Cookbook Form)
FOOD CENTRAL: Rejuvenating Diet
FILM NOIR
GENRES
GINGER ROGERS
HALLOWEEN FUN!
HAUNTS: Hollywood and Elsewhere
HISTORY: Hollywood and Elsewhere
HOLLYWOOD'S MARRY-GO-ROUNDS
HOLLYWOOD'S SCANDALS
HORROR - SCIENCE FICTION
HORROR - SCI FI: Annex
HORROR - SCI FI: The Atomic Submarine (1959)
HORROR - SCI FI: Bela Lugosi
HORROR - SCI FI: Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi
HORROR - SCI FI: Boris Karloff
HORROR - SCI FI: Dracula (1931)
HORROR - SCI FI: Frankenstein (1931)
HORROR - SCI FI: Gojira (1954) & Godzilla (1957)
HORROR - SCI FI: Invaders from Mars (1954)
HORROR - SCI FI: King Kong
HORROR - SCI FI: Lon Chaney
HORROR - SCI FI: Nifty Fifty's Creature Features
HORROR - SCI FI: Nightmare Theatre with Gorgon
HORROR - SCI FI: Ray Harryhausen
HORROR - SCI FI: Stephen King
HORROR - SCI FI: Universal Monster Genealogy
HORROR - SCI FI: Wes Davis
HORROR - SCI FI: The Witch's Dungeon
HUSTON FAMILY
INTERVIEWS
JONATHAN GEFFNER
JOSEPHINE BAKER
KAY LINAKER
LEI MAKING
LOCATIONS
MAKEUP ARTISTS
MDs - RNs - RNBs - OH MY!
MARX BROTHERS
MARY ASTOR
MAVEN'S LIBRARY
MAVEN'S MAYHEM
MAVEN'S WEBSITES TO CHECK OUT
MUSIC
MUSIC: Dancers
MUSIC: The Lyrics
MYSTERIES
MYSTERIES: A Warning For Those Who Give Away The Endings!
MYSTERIES: Alfred Hitchcock
MYSTERIES: The Bat
MYSTERIES: D. W. Griffith vs. Mary Roberts Rinehart
MYSTERIES: Gum Shoes
MYSTERIES: Old Dark Houses
ORSON WELLES
PERRY MASON
QUIZZES AND PUZZLES
QUIZ ANSWERS
QUOTES From Great Hollywood Movies
QUOTES From Hollywood
QUOTES From Dorothy Parker
QUOTES Dorothy Parkers' "The Waltz"
REVIEWS
RONALD REAGAN
SAN FRANCISCO'S OLD CHINATOWN
SEX IN THE CINEMA
SHIRLEY TEMPLE
SILENTS
TAYLOR SCHULTZ: Hollywood Sculptor
VINCENT PRICE
VINCENT PRICE: Connoisseur
WHOZAT?
THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939)
WHAT'S MY LINE?
Here are the interviews that you
won't find anywhere else! 

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     Maven is pleased to announce that she has an interview with Oden Fong, # 1 son of Benson and Mayla Fong!  He is a pastor at the Cavalry Chapel out in California.  Read more right here!

Oden Fong

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     Be sure to check in at Maven's new page at  HORROR - SCI FI: Annex for more interviews . . . think Robert Clarke, Mara Corday, etc.!

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Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley in an interview with Diane Sawyer:

 
 

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The Mole Men
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From "Superman and the Mole Man" (1951)
"Superman and the Mole Men" (1951)
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With George Reeves and Phyllis Coates

     This is an interview* with Harry Thomas who work on the George Reeves television episode of Superman and the Mole Men plus Michael Shayne in The Neanderthal Man.
     One of the "Mole Men," Billy Curtis, was inthe scene in The Thing when James Arness got cut down to size!
 
*Monster Kid Online Magazine # 5

Louise Brooks
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Maven has come across a series of clips that not only has Louise Brooks from the 20s movie scene but an interview with Brooks:
A must see for any serious student of Hollywood in the 1920s.

JAMES ARNESS
 
A name representing a man and a career larger than life . . . anyway you define him OR it!!  And at 6'6" and 86 years of age and still going . . . what else would you expect?!
 
James Arness does very few interviews, unfortuantely for Maven but she has come across  a few sites for those of us who remember his work dating either to Gunsmoke (1955 - 1975) or Them! (1954).  Arness is certainly remembered as one of the few actors who could face John Wayne on the movie screen and see eye to eye with "Duke" Wayne!
 
James Arness' biography from the Internet Movie Database:
 
 
Archive for Amrican Television:

An incredible site for interviews with so many actors and all, like James Arness, that you'll just have to check it out for yourselves!:  http://emmytvlegendsinterviews.blogspot.com/

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Johnny Sheffield as Most of Us Remember HIm
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"Boy" in the Tarzan Movies with Johnny Weissmuller
Johnny Shefffield
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As "Bomba"

Johnny Sheffield . . . Bomba . . . Boy . . . .  Whatever name you knew him by, you never knew about this three part interview that Maven came across!
 
 
[There was to be a third part about "his Bomba co-stars, other Tarzan actors, life after the movies, and Bantu the Zebra Boy! "  That page is, unfortunately, STILL under construction.]

Johnny Sheffield
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In More Recent Years

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Trini Lopez
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Click for His Website

     Happy Birthday To Fellow Texan Trini Lopez!  He'll be a young 39-years-young* on Friday, May 15, 2009.  To share your own birthday wishes for Trini, go to his great website at www.trinilopez.com . . . .  Please continue here for interviews that he very kindly shared with Maven, with a big thank you to his personal assistant, Oralee Walker.

TRINI LOPEZ: International Singer

*This is following Maven's calendar (thanks to Mrs. Pendleton of Chan Fan Fame)!  And please check just one of Trini's entries on www.youtube.com:  singing Sinner Man at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-XcB_GvSag&feature=PlayList&p=3E2143F2B69FC20C&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=19!

     How about an interview that Gary James did with Bobby "Boris" Pickett at:  http://classicbands.com/BobbyBorisPickettInterview.html
 
     Here are interviews with the singer Dusty Springfield for those who remember her and appreciate her music:
      One she did with the Beatles' Paul McCartney and John Lennon:
 
      Check out Kim Novak on Vertigo (1958) at http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~muffin/kim_novak_c.html
 
      Plus a five part interview with the adult Rose Marie (each is approximately 30 minutes):

Not to mention one Boris Karloff did with a Canadian radio station about getting a star on Hollywood's walk of fame for Jack Pierce at http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2008/05/08/boris-karloff-to-universal-give-master-of-make-up-jack-pierce-a-star/.
 
A click here will take you to an interview with Peggy Moran . . . .  No, it isn't one of Maven's interviews but it also has goodies like "Karloff's Last Act . . . ."  'Nuff said?!

You can now read the interview that Maven and Rush Glick did with John Bishop in the Monster Bash Magazine right here:

Maven got lucky enough to interview Carla Laemle, the only known survivor of Bela Lugosi's Dracula (1931) and who turned 99 on October 20, 2008.  Click to read it: 

AUNT SARAH: Actress in Jonathan Geffner's Dummy Noir "Oxford Park"

ED GOLUSKY: A Movie Fan Looks Back

JONATHAN GEFFNER

KURT SCHMIDT: www.charliechan.net

LUGOSI: HOLLYWOOD'S DRACULA - Gary Rhodes and Art Greenhaw

RUSH GLICK: www.charliechan.info

STEVE O.: Chan Fan Supreme

WES DAVIS: Professor of English and Films

Check out Professor Davis' new page here at HORROR - SCIENCE FICTION: Wes Davis

  

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