Dr. Annette Bochenek
@home2hollywood.bsky.social
Classic cinema-loving redhead entranced by the Golden Age of Hollywood and Art Deco. TCM Writer. Author. June Preisser biographer. #TCMParty goer #LetsMovie
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November 23, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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“I felt I had let [my fans] down by not remaining a child. They’d be dying to meet me and yet I could see their faces fall when I walked into the room. What do you say to someone whose fantasy has just been disturbed?” –Darla Hood hometownstohollywood.com/oklahoma/dar...
November 23, 2025 at 1:35 AM
“I felt I had let [my fans] down by not remaining a child. They’d be dying to meet me and yet I could see their faces fall when I walked into the room. What do you say to someone whose fantasy has just been disturbed?” –Darla Hood hometownstohollywood.com/oklahoma/dar...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Remembering Vivian Blaine on her birthday. #botd hometownstohollywood.com/new-jersey/v...
November 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Remembering Vivian Blaine on her birthday. #botd hometownstohollywood.com/new-jersey/v...
November 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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November 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Otis Harlan worked in vaudeville shows and musicals, including Victor Herbert’s The Magic Knight. Reportedly, he was the performer who introduced Irving Berlin’s classic breakthrough song “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” on the Vaudeville stage in 1911. hometownstohollywood.com/ohio/otis-ha...
November 19, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Otis Harlan worked in vaudeville shows and musicals, including Victor Herbert’s The Magic Knight. Reportedly, he was the performer who introduced Irving Berlin’s classic breakthrough song “Alexander’s Ragtime Band” on the Vaudeville stage in 1911. hometownstohollywood.com/ohio/otis-ha...
“I’m not the comedian I once was. A comedian has to be slightly insulting–comedy has to be 70 percent insults–and I’m always afraid today, when I say something funny, it may hurt someone. If another comic makes a crack about my mouth, I just can’t insult him back.” –Joe E. Brown
November 18, 2025 at 5:22 PM
“I’m not the comedian I once was. A comedian has to be slightly insulting–comedy has to be 70 percent insults–and I’m always afraid today, when I say something funny, it may hurt someone. If another comic makes a crack about my mouth, I just can’t insult him back.” –Joe E. Brown
“I could have happily lived my entire life in Cincinnati, married to a proper Cincinnatian, living in a big old Victorian house, raising a brood of offspring, but preordination…had other plans for me.” –Doris Day hometownstohollywood.com/ohio/doris-d...
November 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“I could have happily lived my entire life in Cincinnati, married to a proper Cincinnatian, living in a big old Victorian house, raising a brood of offspring, but preordination…had other plans for me.” –Doris Day hometownstohollywood.com/ohio/doris-d...
“If people want to think I get drunk and stay out all night, let ’em. That’s how I got here, you know.” –Dean Martin hometownstohollywood.com/ohio/dean-ma...
November 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
“If people want to think I get drunk and stay out all night, let ’em. That’s how I got here, you know.” –Dean Martin hometownstohollywood.com/ohio/dean-ma...
Virginia Dale worked in several different musical films throughout the 1930s and 1940s, including Idiot’s Delight (1939), Buck Benny Rides Again (1940), & Love Thy Neighbor (1940). She is best known for her performance as Lila Dixon in Holiday Inn (1942). hometownstohollywood.com/north-caroli...
November 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Virginia Dale worked in several different musical films throughout the 1930s and 1940s, including Idiot’s Delight (1939), Buck Benny Rides Again (1940), & Love Thy Neighbor (1940). She is best known for her performance as Lila Dixon in Holiday Inn (1942). hometownstohollywood.com/north-caroli...
“If playing the melody is corn, then I want to be corny.” –Kay Kyser hometownstohollywood.com/north-caroli...
November 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
“If playing the melody is corn, then I want to be corny.” –Kay Kyser hometownstohollywood.com/north-caroli...
“I must be the oldest living child soprano.” –Kathryn Grayson hometownstohollywood.com/north-caroli...
November 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
“I must be the oldest living child soprano.” –Kathryn Grayson hometownstohollywood.com/north-caroli...
I'm delighted to share that Hometowns to Hollywood received the Classic Movie Blog Association (CMBA) Award for Best Blog Event, "The Once Upon a Time Blogathon." Check out the wonderful blogathon entries here. hometownstohollywood.com/2025/05/07/t...
November 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
I'm delighted to share that Hometowns to Hollywood received the Classic Movie Blog Association (CMBA) Award for Best Blog Event, "The Once Upon a Time Blogathon." Check out the wonderful blogathon entries here. hometownstohollywood.com/2025/05/07/t...
“Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl’s values.” –Ava Gardner hometownstohollywood.com/north-caroli...
November 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
“Although no one believes me, I have always been a country girl and still have a country girl’s values.” –Ava Gardner hometownstohollywood.com/north-caroli...
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November 9, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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“I am from a little town in North Carolina. I have chosen to keep one foot in that life and my other foot in this life and I’ve had success with that.” –Andy Griffith hometownstohollywood.com/north-caroli...
November 9, 2025 at 3:44 PM
“I am from a little town in North Carolina. I have chosen to keep one foot in that life and my other foot in this life and I’ve had success with that.” –Andy Griffith hometownstohollywood.com/north-caroli...
“I like pictures better. It was different when we first started in. Then it was a novelty. Now debutantes and grandmothers are rivals in learning new steps, and all enjoy dancing themselves more than watching other people do it.” — Irene Castle hometownstohollywood.com/new-york/ver...
November 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
“I like pictures better. It was different when we first started in. Then it was a novelty. Now debutantes and grandmothers are rivals in learning new steps, and all enjoy dancing themselves more than watching other people do it.” — Irene Castle hometownstohollywood.com/new-york/ver...
“My father was a tailor. I used to deliver for him. I’d have to hold the clothes up high to keep them from dragging on the ground.” –Tony Curtis hometownstohollywood.com/new-york/ton...
November 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
“My father was a tailor. I used to deliver for him. I’d have to hold the clothes up high to keep them from dragging on the ground.” –Tony Curtis hometownstohollywood.com/new-york/ton...
“I was afraid of getting stuck with only young parts. I’ve always had that trouble because I have a young-looking face.” –Tom Drake hometownstohollywood.com/new-york/tom...
November 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
“I was afraid of getting stuck with only young parts. I’ve always had that trouble because I have a young-looking face.” –Tom Drake hometownstohollywood.com/new-york/tom...
“Hollywood! It’s like an old chair–if it’s useful, keep it; if not, give it to Goodwill.” –Sylvia Sidney hometownstohollywood.com/new-york/syl...
November 5, 2025 at 6:34 PM
“Hollywood! It’s like an old chair–if it’s useful, keep it; if not, give it to Goodwill.” –Sylvia Sidney hometownstohollywood.com/new-york/syl...
“I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I could get away from the awfulness of life, at that time, was at the movies.” -Susan Hayward hometownstohollywood.com/new-york/sus...
November 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
“I learned at a very early age that life is a battle. My family was poor, my neighborhood was poor. The only way that I could get away from the awfulness of life, at that time, was at the movies.” -Susan Hayward hometownstohollywood.com/new-york/sus...
John Leroy “Roy” Atwell was born in Syracuse, New York, on May 2, 1878, to Joseph and Louisa Atwell. As a child, he organized amateur plays in a neighborhood barn with his friends, later inspiring him to pursue theater. hometownstohollywood.com/new-york/roy...
November 4, 2025 at 4:14 AM
John Leroy “Roy” Atwell was born in Syracuse, New York, on May 2, 1878, to Joseph and Louisa Atwell. As a child, he organized amateur plays in a neighborhood barn with his friends, later inspiring him to pursue theater. hometownstohollywood.com/new-york/roy...