June 25, 2020 By Ken Brafman, Image from AMPAS Collection TITLE: TRUE CONFESSION: This is another film that came out of the 1930’s that falls into the “screwball comedy” genre; but with some film noir overtones. Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray star as Helen and Ken, and they’re a rather odd married couple. Helen is, …
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June 18, 2020 By Bill Pumford, Image from Bill Pumford Collection TITLE: SKYFOREST FOX FARMS: This week’s image is a real photo of a silver fox. During the 1920’s and into the early 1950’s the raising of foxes for their pelts was the second largest industry in the San Bernardino Mountains; cattle ranching being the …
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June 11, 2020 By Ken Brafman, Image from AMPAS Collection Title: MOUNTAIN MOVIES: THE AWFUL TRUTH (1937): “Okay, America! IT’S SO FUNNY…IT HAS Hollywood hysterical…Broadway bellowing…Main St. mirth-quaked…Gopher Gulch guffawing…AND THAT’S THE TRUTH! So read one of the taglines for this must-see movie from 1937, voted one the 50 greatest comedies of all time in …
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June 4, 2020 Contributed by Gloria Anderson, Image from Bill Pumford Collection Title: Friends of the Crestline Library: The Crestline Friends of the Library is a registered 501c3 non-profit group that volunteers their time and diligently works to raise funding to provide more resources for the Crestline Branch Library. The first meeting of the Friends …