Mother, author, publisher, genealogist, SOE historian, chess lover, Welsh, European, vintage movie and music fan. 👩 ✍️ 📚 🌳 💼♟ 🏴 🇪🇺 🎥 🎼 Joined 2019. Active since November 2022.
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Last Notes npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe Thinking about artists whose roots stem from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s… npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe ***Attention David Bowie fans and admirers*** npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe My latest Golden Age of Hollywood article for the Seaside News appears on page 43 of the magazine https://issuu.com/seasidenews/docs/seaside_news_-_may_web_00541612d24fe7/43 npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe Introduction update. I’m interested in social history, including the history of popular music and movies. I post a lot of polls. If you don’t like music, movies or polls, you won’t like my posts. However, if these subjects interest you, please feel free to connect. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe 12 February 1978 npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe In 1919, my 2 x great grandfather William Howe was unwell, so the villagers railed round and arranged a prize draw for his benefit, raising the equivalent of £2,500. The success of the draw illustrated the high esteem in which William was held within the community. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe Lilac Cottage: The Howe Family, 1939-45. The story of my ancestors on the Home Front and Frontline, a story personal to me, yet common to many people at that time. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe @npub1fv9…j9ta I have an ancestor who came from the Lincoln area Tetford. In the early 1800s she moved to London and became a nurse/dentist/chemist. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe Movie Quiz #11 npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe My article on SOE agent Pearl Witherington, one of the greatest heroines of WW2, the only woman to lead a SOE network. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe Movie Quiz #8 npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe Movie Quiz #6 npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe @npub1fv9…j9ta Thank you 🙂 npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe I’d like to invite you to select your favourite recording artists of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. The most popular nominations will feature in a poll later this year. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe 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? npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe Hands up if you owned one of these… npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe 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. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe 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. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe Favourite Christmas Song npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe Did anyone here experience The Beatles as they emerged during the 1960s? What was Beatlemania like? npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe After the success of Sunset Boulevard, Nancy Olson was paired with William Holden in Union Station. This movie has a Taking of Pelham 123 vibe to it, or maybe that should be the other way around because Union Station came first. The movie also has a noirish undercurrent and moments of genuine suspense. William Holden is very good. As for Nancy Olson, to be honest, I need to watch the movie again before forming a strong opinion on her role. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe I’m delving into 1948, researching material for two novels scheduled for 2024 - Eve’s Peace, a sequel to my Eve’s War Heroines of SOE series, and Dana, book three in my Golden Age of Hollywood series. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe I’m delving into 1948, researching material for two novels scheduled for 2024 - Eve’s Peace, a sequel to my Eve’s War Heroines of SOE series, and Dana, book three in my Golden Age of Hollywood series. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe I’m pleased to say that the writing of Sunshine, book two in my Golden Age of Hollywood series, is going well, and that we hope to bring the publication date forward from April 2024 to earlier in the year. Watch this space 🙂 npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe Clara Bow’s fifty-third movie was Her Wedding Night, produced between July 24 and August 15, 1930, and released on September 18, 1930. Clara played Norma Martin in a racy comedy about a young woman with a hyperactive love life. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe Favourite Movie Quote Poll npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe My attempt to discover who murdered film director William Desmond Taylor on the night of February 1st/2nd 1922. Here’s some background on suspect #2 Mary Miles Minter. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe Wholesome Actresses #1 npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe After her highest grossing film, Grand Hotel (1932), Greta Garbo only made eight more movies. She concluded her career with Two-Faced Woman (1941) a convoluted tale about fictitious twin sisters. The film was a flop. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe My latest Golden Age of Hollywood article for Bylines Cymru - Early Hollywood : Tragedy and Triumph. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe The Tatler, March 1933. Mary Pickford, Gary Cooper and Marion Davies at a party thrown by Gary Cooper. Mary was short, 4’ 10”, Gary was tall, 6’ 3”, and Marion loved to party 🍾 npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe With a water pistol, we’ve just completed a family re-enactment of the 1922 William Desmond Taylor Hollywood murder. The police records revealed the entry and exit points of the bullet. Our re-enactment suggested that the murderer was either a man on his knees or a woman around five feet tall. The angle of the wrist is all wrong for anything outside those parameters. I’m sensing a Double Indemnity-style shooting with the male-female roles reversed. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe My revamped website, which includes details of my novels, background articles and features, my family tree, and a discount store https://hannah-howe.com/ npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe Hedy Lamarr was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler on November 9, 1914 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. From an early age, she developed a fascination for acting and inventing, two interests that dominated her life. She made her movie debut in Money on the Street a 1930 Austrian-German romantic-comedy, appearing as an extra. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe The result of our Welsh actor poll. I predicted the order, but not the percentages. At one time, Burton was king, and now Hopkins. Maybe Sheen will be in the future 🤔 npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe In April 1943, the Hollywood Women’s Press Club nominated their most cooperative and uncooperative actresses. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe Mae West’s The Heat’s On, 1943. Picturegoer reported that members of the Hay’s Office watched the production of this picture “to save trouble later.” npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe February 4, 1922. The murder of movie director William Desmond Taylor. The media start to speculate that a woman was involved. Over time, three people fell under suspicion: Mabel Normand, actress and Taylor’s lover; Mary Miles Minter, who loved Taylor even though he was thirty years older than her; Charlotte Shelby, Mary’s mother who was jealous of her daughter’s affection for Taylor. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe Actress of the Month: Claudette Colbert npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe Marlene Dietrich and Basil Rathbone at a party thrown by Daryl Zanuck, February 1938. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe Initially, the Hays Office denied The Outlaw a certificate of approval because of this poster. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe Our 1970s movie poll. The Monty Python match-up. The films polled the same number of votes. Neither movie is ranked by the AFI, so no tie-break there. Therefore, I have counted the number of votes each film has received throughout our polls. I trust that is acceptable to you. The result: Monty Python and the Holy Grail 697 votes, Monty Python’s Life of Brian 588 votes. Monty Python and the Holy Grail progresses to tomorrow’s final. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe @npub10xg…h39u The vote is actually 113 v 118, but Mastodon can’t handle the percentages, probably because we’ve received over 200 votes. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe @npub10xg…h39u Neither of these films is ranked by the AFI. We’re going to have to toss our mythical movie coin 👍 🪙 npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe Our semi-final movie match-up, Monty Python and the Holy Grail v Monty Python’s Life of Brian is still tied at 50% - 50%. Would someone care to cast the decisive vote…full details on my timeline 👇 npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe Henry Fonda and Madeleine Carroll in Blockade (1938). Set during the Spanish Civil War, the movie tried to warn of the fascist threat developing in the world. However, instead of being brave and bold, the movie did so in timid fashion. Fearing a flop, the publicity department reported that Franco had banned Blockade in Spain. He hadn’t. However, when word reached Franco that he had banned the movie, he did. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe Highest Grossing Movies, 1948 npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe 1933. King Kong offers Tyrannosaurus a lesson in dental hygiene while Fay Wray screams from the trees. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe The Invisible Man, 1933. Claude Rains shows William Harrigan where to go. Rains made his movie debut in a film in which his face was never shown. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe Happy 99th Birthday to Eva Marie Saint, one of my favourite actresses. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe @npub10xg…h39u What’s it called? I will try to find it. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe @npub10xg…h39u Lucky seven 🙂 And that’s seven more than Twitter. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe Notable Movie Debuts, 1947 npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe At the conclusion of our 1970s poll I'd like to run one more movie poll before (probably) retiring. This one will be Favourite Twentieth Century Movie Quotes. My eldest son has prepared the graphics. I think this will be my favourite poll. I hope you will follow it and enjoy it. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe After 102 votes in our 1970s Mastodon Mega Movie Poll, Mad Max and The French Connection are deadlocked at 51 votes each. If you would like to break the deadlock, you’ll find details on my timeline 👇 npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe Anne Francis (September 16, 1930 – January 2, 2011) was perfectly cast as Honey West. Her movie breakthrough arrived with Forbidden Planet (1956) one of the first colour, big-budget, science-fiction-themed motion pictures. In the 1960s she made the transition into television appearing in a large number of popular series. However, her signature role remained Honey West. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe Honey West was one of the first female private eyes to appear on television. Anne Francis initially played her in a second-season episode of Burke’s Law, “Who Killed the Jackpot?", broadcast on April 21, 1965. That appearance led to Honey West being commissioned as a spin-off. More soon… npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe Honey West ran for thirty episodes, from September 17, 1965 to April 8, 1966. The series, which starred Anne Francis, was historic in that it marked the first time a woman played the lead character in a network TV series with her character's name as the title. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe Robby the Robot combs Anne Francis’ hair, Forbidden Planet, 1956. npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe Notable Movie Debuts, 1946 npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe I’m imagining myself as the producer of The Thirty-Steps, mixing and matching the movies from the past. Who would I cast as Richard Hannay? npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe Movie Events, 1945 npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe Highest grossing movies, 1944 npub1qegaj7d4n96ypld3wj4mau06udxz07gjr8w8n0nfnv9cz3jzgvvqr6eu4l Hannah Howe Movie Quiz
