She Was In a Laurel & Hardy Movie…and I Didn’t Even Know It!
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
I wasn’t overly-ecstatic to meet Carla Laemmle on October 1, 2005 at the Hollywood Collectors Show. I didn’t even recognize her name…although I should have. She was the niece of Universal Studios founder Carl Laemmle, so there should have been some name recognition. But I was a bit impressed that she had appeared – albeit briefly – in the 1930 Bela Lugosi version of Dracula. I became even more impressed to find that she had appeared in the Academy Award winning Broadway Melody. Read the rest of this entry »
Mom, Bob, Briana, and I headed out for another over-nighter at Diana and Tom’s cabin at Indian Lake on Saturday morning August 18. This gathering was a family Summer picnic, so there were a lot more people enjoying the festivities than during our last visit. Christi and Creed had planned to make this trek as well, but Christi woke up that morning deciding that she wasn’t in a ‘lake mood.’ Ashleigh had been required to work, having requested off far too many weekends this Summer. I had had to go into work early that morning to do sales in Cincinnati so I had spent the night at my Mom’s. She and Bob picked us up at about 11:00am and we were on our way… 
At left and below is a series of shots from the classic horror flick The Exorcist. Truth be told, I hadn’t seen the film in a long, long time (yet I naturally will never forget many aspects of it – like the tried-and-true projectile vomiting scene, for instance). But because it had been so long, I scarcely remembered the classic stairway sequence from the film - although I didn’t have the heart to tell Bob, who was excited to escort me to this location in Washington D.C. on the Georgetown University Campus. But once I returned home and re-viewed the scene where Father Karras plummets to his death outside of Regan’s house, I naturally appreciated the fact that I had taken the picture at the bottom of the page…which is also special because it was the very first one of our Virginia trip taken on August 4, 2007. Enjoy! 
I had no appreciation really for who Peggy Ahern was when I met her at the Hollywood ’80 convention, but was eager to have any of the former-child stars whom I encountered sign my little blue autograph book. Later I found out exactly who Peggy was…one of the short-term leading ladies of the Our Gang series from 1924 to 1927. Over this span of time she only appeared in seven of the silent films. Of utmost distinction was that she signed my autograph page, and then Woim Kibrick signed on the same page right under her as seen 