1945 – Page 3 – Fists and .45s!

Ella Raines

On: October 14, 2020June 29, 2020 By: Romeyn

Promotional shot of Ella Raines for the Strange Affair of Uncle Henry, 1945

The Showman’s Review of Secret Agent X-9

On: September 8, 2020June 16, 2020 By: Romeyn

The Showman’s Review of the 1945 serial Secret Agent X-9, from the September 8th, 1945 issue of the Motion Picture Herald.

Dick Tracy, Detective

On: August 21, 2020August 17, 2020 By: Romeyn

In what was the first of 4 RKO releases based on Chester Gould’s comic strip character we find Dick Tracy on the trail of a serial killer called Splitface.
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Hiroshima, August 6th, 1945

On: August 6, 2020August 4, 2020 By: Romeyn

75 years ago, August 6th, 1945 the B-29 Enola Gay drops the first atomic bomb, which detonates over Hiroshima at 8:16 a.m. at an altitude of 2,000 feet, which killed 70,000 people with the initial blast.

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Kara, the Jungle Princess

On: May 3, 2020April 9, 2020 By: Romeyn

Kara, The Jungle Princess was a short lived comic character appearing in Exciting Comics #39-49 (1945) with her final appearance in Fighting Yank #21 (1947)

And Then There Were None, 1945

On: April 24, 2020April 22, 2020 By: Romeyn

Seven guests, one newly hired secretary and two house servants find themselves stranded and alone in a mansion on a remote island at the invitation of “U.N. Owen.”

After dinner, one of the servants plays a record and the voice on it accuses each of murder. One by one they end up dead, and after each death a ceramic Indian figurine is found broken off of the peculiar table display in the dining room. Early on they realize the deaths are relatable to an old minstrel song called “Ten Little Indians” (lyrics below). Can they find the killer before there are none? Based off of the novel by Agatha Christie. Continue reading “And Then There Were None, 1945” →

Goebbels’ House, March 18, 1945

On: April 9, 2020October 5, 2019 By: Romeyn

Pfc. Abraham Mirmelstein of Newport News, Virginia, holds the Holy Scroll as Capt. Manuel M. Poliakoff, and Cpl. Martin Willen, of Baltimore, Maryland, conduct services in Schloss Rheydt, former residence of Dr. Joseph Paul Goebbels, Nazi propaganda minister, in Münchengladbach, Germany on March 18, 1945. They were the first Jewish services held east of the Rur River and were offered in memory of soldiers of the faith who were lost by the 29th Division, U.S. 9th Army. (Caption from The Atlantic photo essay)

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