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Michael L. Holm, our former next door neighbor in Pomona, Cal..1940-2005

Michael Holm in his upstairs room over the garage at work on his printing press in 1954..I was twelve years old in 1954 and I used to go over next door on Alvarado Street in Pomona, Calif. and help Mike with his printing business..The Holms were once our next door neighbors from 1954 to 1957, and then our family decided to move into a much worse neighborhood right next to the San Bernardino Freeway on the other side of town in April of 1957...
From around 1970 I used to see Michael Holm around town at different restaurants and he just didn`t seem to be the same ole Mike..Not even friendly-like anymore..And as time went on and I still would see Mike around town in Pomona and he grew worse and worse like he was having serious mental problems..His appearance grew worse and worse and he became heavier and heavier..I even saw him on Hollywood Boulevard in 1974, just standing on the sidewalk like he didn`t have a purpose for even being there and didn`t even know why he was there...You couldn`t even carry on a conversation with him anymore because he was no longer rational...All this time until his death in 2005 he was living in the same house that used to be next door to our family on Alvarado in Pomona and living with his mom who was probably taking care of him for the last 35 years of his life...His two younger brothers and his younger sister had moved out and were living on their own all that time..Erik Holm, who I really liked and got along well with, was the second youngest and Michael was the oldest of the brothers...Erik has also passed on only just two months ago with lung cancer..I haven`t been in contact with the Holm Family since we moved from the area in 1957...
I found the following forum on the internet by Karla Holm, Mike Holm`s younger sister who would be in her early 50s now and graduated from Ganesha High School in 1973, as follows:

As for the 2 Michaels...my brother was Mike L. Holm (unless the other one's middle name starts with an L also.) He wouldn't have made it to any of the reunions but thanks for checking. So...he was in the Latin Club and Key Club. That is good to know. He had his own printing business when he was still in school. Gave the other printers around town a run for their money :) That even made the newspaper, with a photo of him by his printing press. I think I have the article and one of his old business cards in with my "Michael" stuff. He was very good at math too. He is responsible for making me understand and enjoy numbers at an early age.

Mike had his own printing business which he ran out of our garage when he was 16 years old. This is the photo that appeared in the Progress Bulletin when they ran an article entitled something like, 'Michael Holm doesn't need allowance'.

In Memory of my Brother, Michael Holm, GHS Class of '59
Today (12/6/05) I received a call letting me know that my oldest brother Mike had passed away during the night. Mike had a very kind & gentle spirit which took a lot of abuse. I am glad he isn't suffering any more, but I miss him terribly.
Karla Holm

Michael L. Holm, Class of '59, 1940-2005
If you can believe this, I am actually going to be brief(er). I wanted to let anyone that may be interested know that my brother Mike died yesterday. He had been hospitalized since late last week in Pasadena. He had emphysema. He could breathe in but was having trouble breathing out. He had been hospitalized with lung problems a few times over the last few years and always got better so I think we all didn't take it as seriously.

My middle brother Erik just had the lower lobe of one of his lungs removed due to cancer on Monday (12/5/05) so when my mom called me, I thought the news was regarding him. I never thought it could be about Michael. I am not sure what he died of as of yet (heart attack, stroke, congestive heart failure), but I will post it when I find out.

Michael's last 35 years were very lonely ones. I think he was ready to pass on and had come to terms with it quite a few years ago. So those of us that loved him know he is in a better place and that there is now an end to his suffering, but it still is sad for those of us left behind.



The Holm brothers probably around 1951, from left to right: Michael, Chris and Erik

The four Holm kids in the mid-1950`s, from left to right: Erik, Michael, Chris and then Karla on the bottom..

Again, here are some GHS forum messages I found on the internet which were posted by Karla Holm, Michael`s younger sister, following Michael`s death in 2005, as follows:

Re: Michael L. Holm, Class of '59, 1940-2005
It was very moving to see my brother's photo on the front page this morning. And what an honor! Thank you all from the bottom of my heart.

I thought I was doing pretty well today. But when I saw his graduation photo, I just started to bawl. They weren't only tears of sadness though. As I mentioned in my other post, he lead a very isolated and lonely life for the past 30-35 years. The Mike I remember had a gentle kindness about him and he was always considerate of others feelings, putting theirs above his own, even when their actions were less than kind towards him. His illness kind of snuck up on him in his early 30's, but by the time he was 40 he was imprisoned in a body that didn't leave much room for any real quality of life. As sad as it is for those of us that miss him, he is finally free from the ties that bound him for so many years and for that, how can one NOT be happy for him.

Thank you again for honoring my brother Mike. And thank you ALL for your kind words, your prayers and for your friendship. You will never know just how much it all means to me. I will pass them along to the rest of my family as well.

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Re: Michael L. Holm, Class of '59, 1940-2005
I talked to my mom tonight. She is really doing pretty well. We had a nice talk. We laughed at some "Mike" stories and got weepy over others. I asked her if she found out what exactly was the cause of Mike's death and she said she wouldn't know till she got the death certificate. I don't understand why the hospital couldn't give her the information, but maybe it is because of it being done over the phone. You know, privacy act and all. That is just a guess. So until the certificate arrives, we just don't know what the cause was.

My other brother seems to be doing OK, other than being in a lot of pain. They are hoping to move him out of ICU tomorrow or the next day and then he will remain there for about 4-5 more days.

I was going to PM you all to thank you personally, but thought I would do it publically instead. John, Jackie, Jen, Sandie, Debbie, Robin and Jan, I would like to thank you all for your kind words of sympathy. It sure is nice to have friends especially at a time like this, and I do consider you all my friends.

Tonight I read your comments to my mom, and let her know about Mike's photo being on the home page. She just kept saying that she couldn't believe how sweet you all were. She asked me to please tell you all thank you. She wondered if she could get copies of what you had said, and I told her I would send them to her for her memory book.

It has been very comforting to me the past few days to see my brother's face staring back each time I visit here, and to read each one of your heartfelt messages. Thank you again for your thoughtfulness and for caring. It truly means so much to me.
Thank you John. I don't feel strong though. I put up a good front most of the time until I am alone and have time to reflect, like right now. A wave of sadness has hit me and I am crying. I can't help wishing that someone who loved him had been there by his side, to hold his hand or kiss his forehead and tell him everything would be OK. I feel like he died alone thinking no one cared.


Michael Holm standing next to his date for the Ganesha High School Senior Prom, 1959, in front of the big palm tree in front of our former residence at Wisconsin and Alvarado Streets in Pomona, Calif. two years after we had already moved to another location in Pomona..

Here is what was posted about this photo by Michael`s younger sister, Karla, in the Ganesha High School Forum on the Internet, as follows:

Details on photo of mike holm with date for senior prom, 1959, in front of big palm tree on corner of our former house at wisconsin and alvarado, pomona..
My mom just told me about this photo. I may have it a bit mixed up because my mom is 85 and she kept changing details while telling me. But here goes anyway.

We didn't have much money, but they went down to John P. Evans and bought that suit for Mike. He was so proud to have a fancy outfit for the senior prom. (There is something about his date's presence that says she really didn't want to be there. Mike looks happy though). At the dance, she said she had a splitting headache and wanted to go home. So he drove her home and later he went over to see if she was OK, but she wasn't there cuz she ended up going back to the dance with someone else. His feelings were really hurt. All dressed up and nowhere to go...



Michael Holm in Los Alamitos escorting Miss Norway..Photo was taken at the base in Los Alamitos, Calif...Mike was a fire control tech in the Navy...

An early photo of downtown Pomona, California on 2nd Street

Highland Avenue, Hollywood, California, 1937


Fairbury, Nebraska, 1942, My mother holding me


My mother in the 1940`s at work at a bank in Council Bluffs, Iowa where we were living before moving to Southern California

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Camarillo State Hospital, Eerie Looking Corridor, one of many...

An eerie looking gothic style corridor which was located inside the former Camarillo State Hospital, in Camarillo, California...Which had closed it`s doors in 1997 and is now a state university...But no one can erase the memories of all the cruelty that once went on there and the barbaric practices that were performed on the helpless "so-called patients"...The former state hospital was built in 1936 and it resembled a medieval dungeon while it was in use...a very depressing place to be, or to even visit, for that matter...And the hauntings still go on there today even though it is no longer a state hospital...

"The Window" (1949)...

Bobby Driscoll and Arthur Kennedy in "The Window" (1949)...The film noir classic from RKO...

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Bobby Driscoll (1937-68)...

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Bobby Driscoll (United States, 1937-68)

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Hollywood has many sad stories about child actors who were unable to make the transition to adult film careers. Perhaps the most tragic is that of Bobby Driscoll. Bobby was born March 3, 1937 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He was perhaps the best known child star in the 1940`s and early 50`s. Bobby's parents moved to Los Angeles in 1943 and a local barber insisted that Bobby should audition for the movies. As a result Bobby landed a small role in "Lost Angel" opposite child star Margaret O'Brien. A hard worker and natural actor, he soon had offers from different studios. Unlike some of the sickingly-sweet 1930`s child actors, Bobby delivered charming, believable performances. He played in "So Goes My Love" with Myrna Loy and Don Amechee. Loy remarked, "He has so much charm, if Don Amechee and myself aren't on our toes all the time, we know that the audience would be looking at the youngster and ignoring us." Ameche said, "He has talent and I've worked with a lot of child actors in my time, but none of them bore the talent that seems apparent in young Driscoll." His performances in "Song of the South", "The Window", and "Treasure Island" are Hollywood classics.


Family:
Bobby was born March 3, 1937 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I know very little about his family life. One report indicates that his parents were very strict, even abusive. His mother was the driving force behind his film career.


Film Career:
He was perhaps the best known boy child star in the 1940`s and early 50`s. The best known girl at the time was Margaret O'Brien. Bobby is remembered for some classic performances in "Treasure Island" and "The Window". I remember him best for his performance in "Song Of The South", unfortunately now rarely shown. Bobby's parents moved to Los Angeles in 1943 and a local barber insisted that Bobby should audition for the movies. His mother was very interested and thanks to her tireless efforts he landed a small part in MGM's "Lost Angels". His performance was noticed by none other than Walt Disney. Bobby became the first human actor to sign a long-term contract with Disney in 1946. It was with Disney that all of his better films were made, with the exception of The Window. Bobby apparently was a real trooper and carefully supervised by the Disney people. His mother recalled, "People weren't ever allowed to use a swear word in front of him. He had a great deal of love for Walt Disney. And he always did what ever the director told him to do." She explained that during the filming of "Miss Susie Slagle's" (1946) when he was about 10, he caught his foot and wound up hanging from a box. He cried his eyes out, but didn't make a sound until he was discovered because the director told him that noise costs money. That same year while filming "O.S.S" (1946) he was sent to the basement for a sack of coal. "Stay there until we need you," the director told him. When they broke for lunch no one remembered Bobby, he remained quietly in the basement. Bobby as a young actor had it all. He was good looking, alert, and intelligent and ready to try anything a director asked. He had a great a sense of humour. He also had intuitive acting skills.


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Films:
Bobby appeared in quite a number of films, including several Disney classics: "Song Of The South", "So Dear To My Heart", and "Treasure Island". His most impressive performance was probably the non-Disney thriller--"The Window" (1949)...


"Lost Angel" (1944)
Bobby landed a small role in "Lost Angel" for his first film. He played opposite child star Margaret O'Brien. While he had only a small part, his talent was obvious. A hard worker and natural actor, he soon had offers from different studios.


"So Goes My Love"
Unlike some of the sickingly-sweet 1930`s child actors, Bobby delivered a charming, believable performance. He played in "So Goes My Love" with Myrna Loy and Don Amechee. Loy remarked, "He has so much charm, if Don Amechee and myself aren't on our toes all the time, we know that the audience would be looking at the youngster and ignoring us." Ameche said, "He has talent and I've worked with a lot of child actors in my time, but done of them bore the talent that seems apparent in young Driscoll."


"Song Of The South" (1946-47)
Bobby's first film with Disney was "Song Of The South". He wore a velvet suit and lace collar. It is "Song of the South" that I best remember him. Burl Ives's songs in "Song of the South", including the popular "Zip-a-dee-Doo-Dah". The movie which combined animation and live actors was a big success. The film today is one of the lesser known Disney films. The Uncle Remus story is considered racially insensitive and is unlikely to be re-released in the United States in the near future. "Song of the South" was, however, in many ways a ground breaking film, both in the mixing of live action and animation and, for the 1940`s, a rather progressive mixed racial film. The message of a boyhood friendship between a white and black boy and the loving and wise elderly black man was also different than the way black people had been portrayed in films. Johnny wears a burgandy velvet Fauntleroy suits and lace collar--which he detests. There is a major scene in the film about that lace collar. He also appears in a sailor suit. Despite the fact it was very progressive film when made, it has unfortunately proven controversial in our modern day. It is less an indightment of the film than a desire by some to rewrite history.


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"So Dear to My Heart" (1948)
Another success was "So Dear to My Heart". Like the "Song of the South" there are animated sequences. Unlike "Song of the South" it is the "live" story that dominates the film. It is set on the small Kincaid farm in 1903. Twin sheep are born one white and one black, but the mother sheep rejects the black lamb. Jeremiah Kincaid (Bobby Driscoll) adopts the the black lamb and names it Danny after the great trotting horse Dan Patch. The lamb grows up to be a bit of a problem on the Kincaid farm. Jeremiah's grandmother (Beulah Bondi) wants the boy to get rid of his pet. Jeremiah's only ally is kindly blacksmith Uncle Hiram (Burl Ives), who also worked with Bobby in "Song of the South". Uncle Hiram encourages Jeremiah to enter his lamb in blue-ribbon competition at the county fair. Money is tight and Grandma is opposed to the idea. Jeremiah decided to earn the money to pay his own way. Then the plot thickens. During a storm, Danny runs away. Granny refuses to let Jeremiah from searching for him. Granny is convinced that Jerimiah wants to enter the state fair contest for selfish reasons rather than love for his pet. She warns that the Lord may not let Danny survive the night. The next day, however, Danny returns. Jeremiah decides that he won't attend the county fair because he had promised that he'd forget about the competition if Danny was spared. Of course this is a Disney film and a happy ending is required. Finally Granny comes around. Danny attend the Fair and while he doesn't win, his real prize is far more important than the blue ribbon. The musical score included a hit song, "Lavender Blue", which co-star Burl Ives retained added to his standard repertoire. Hal Erickson The New York Times saluted the way Bobby filled the movie "with the eager charm of an idealized childhood."


"The Window" (1949)
Bobby was also memorable in Ted Tezlaff's thriller "The Window". He was 12-years old at the time. The New York Times exclaimed, "The striking force and terrifying impact of this RKO melodrama is chiefly do to Bobby's brilliant acting." As a result he won an Oscar for the outstanding juvenile actor in 1949. Bobby Driscoll plays a boy who witnesses a murder through a window, but no one believes him. The film established Bobby as the dominant boy child star of his era, certainly one of Hollywood`s finest child stars. The studios were still dominant in Hollywood, although their importance was waining. Disney "loaned" Bobby to RKO for this film. Many believe this was his finest movie. As a result he received a special Academy Award in 1949. Remade as "The Boy Cried Murder." Bobby wears a long sleeve striped "T" shirt in the film. These long-sleeved "T"-shirts were popular in the Fall, but here is being worn during the summer. This was a very popular style in America during the 1940`s and early 50`s. I'm not sure that it was worn in other countries. In a tragic ending to his life, an adult Driscoll was found dead in an abandoned New York City tenement not unlike the setting of "The Window" of an apparent drug overdose.


"Treasure Island" (1950)
Bobby most important Disney role was his engaging depiction of Jim Hawkins in "Treasure Island". He was 13-years old. Of all the film versions of "Treasure Island", it is Bobby's performance that really makes Jim Hawkins come to life. There was an especially vivid scene in this production, perhaps the goriest of any Disney production. A terrified Jim shoots a murderous pirate between the eyes. It was so gory that the scene had to be cut when "Treasure Island" was re-issued in the 1980`s so that the film, which had been passed and approved by the 1950 censors, could qualify for a "G" rating. His performance earned him his star on the "Walk of Fame". This was his last important film.


Television:
Bobby appeared in many television programs, most after his film career had begun to decline. But then television was just beginning to come into its own at the time. None of his TV appearances were particularly notable.


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Boyhood Clothes:
I'm not sure what kind of clothes Bobby wore as a boy when not in costume for one of his films. The available photogaphs suggest that he dressed like the average American boy.


Teen Films:
Bobby's career faltered when he reached his teens. An acne-faced teenager, Bobby had increasing difficulty obtaining roles. He was the voice and model for Disney's animated "Peter Pan" (1953). This was his last work for Disney. His last film was "The Party Crashers" (1958), a rather over-blown juvenile delinquent melodrama starring Frances Farmer. It was unsuccessful. Bobby moved to New York to try stage work and turned to alcohol and drugs. He found himself unable to get work, a shock for someone that as a boy had been so successful. He dropped from public view. Drug addiction, hospitals, jail sentences and poverty followed. Bobby simply couldn't deal with this. He was unable to adjust to the loss of stardom that he had come to take for granted.


Adult Life:
Driscoll married Marilyn Jean Rush in 1956. They has three children. She divorced him.


Tragic End:
One source says that he was abused by his strict parents. Even at a fairly young age (14) he was experimenting with drugs. As he matured his problems multiplied and he was unable to adjust. His drug problem became increasingly severe. He was arrested several times for a variety of matters and lived as a vagrant in and out of jails, emaciated and sick. He was finally found dead in an abandoned tenement. The setting tragically reminds one of "The Window". It was not until more than a year after his burial that he was identified as a result of his finger prints. Surely one of the saddest stories of any child actor, especially distressing when you see the lovely little boy in his films. I will never forget that charming boy in "Song of the South" with the beautiful smile dressed in the velvet suit and lace collar. He is buried in a pauper's grave on an island in New York City...


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"The Big Country" (1958)

Movie poster for "The Big Country" (1958) with Gregory Peck, Burl Ives, Charlton Heston, Charles Bickford, Jean Simmons, Carroll Baker and Chuck Connors (an all-star cast) and directed by William Wyler, from United Artists...I saw this classic western film when it first came out in the theaters and I fell in love with the soundtrack, so much so that I had to go out and buy the LP record album version of the soundtrack to play on my hi fi set, at the time...

Joan Crawford (early photo)...click this link for my 5th weblog

Joan Crawford in her early years...

"Sons of the Desert" (1939)...click this link for my 4th weblog

Movie poster for "Sons Of The Desert" (1939) with Laurel and Hardy...Classic comedy...

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Ronald Defeo...

This is Ronald Defeo who killed his entire family from inside the Amityville, New York infamous haunted, demon possessed house on Ocean Avenue in 1974...Afterwards he claimed to not even remembering having done it and said he was possessed at the time...Defeo is now serving a life prison sentence...

"The Amityville Horror" (1979)...click this link for my 2nd weblog...

Movie poster for "The Amityville Horror" (1979) with James Brolin and Margot Kidder...
George and Kathy Lutz who moved into the Amityville, New York demon possessed house two years after Ronald Defeo killed his entire family inside the same house on Ocean Avenue in 1974...The Lutz`s were drivin out by the same demons who allegedly had also possessed Defeo and they had to leave their entire belongings behind and never to return to reclaim them...
The infamous house on Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York...

"The Public Enemy" (1931)...

James Cagney in "The Public Enemy" (1931) from Warner Brothers...The film classic which put Cagney on the map as a gangster type actor during prohibition times...

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Jon Provost...(click this link for blog #1)...

Jon Provost who replaced Tommy Rettig as Lassie`s caretaker in 1957...Provost was living on east Lincoln Avenue, near Washington Avenue, in Pomona, at this particular time, and I, myself, was also raised in Pomona, California...

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Daffy Duck...

Daffy Duck....

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Historical Dodge House...

The Historic Dodge House, Council Bluffs, Iowa, where I once lived before the family moved to California some years ago...Dodge was actually the name of a famous high commanding officer in the American Civil War...

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"Grand Hotel" (1932)...

The great Wallace Beery with Joan Crawford in "Grand Hotel" (1932), with an all star cast, including Jean Harlow and Marie Dressler, from MGM...Beery and Crawford both successfully made the cross-over from the silent era to the talkies...Beery died in 1949...

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Joan Crawford (early profile photo)...

The great Joan Crawford, early 30`s profile, born 1904, died in 1977...There was always an ongoing fued between herself and the great Bette Davis...The only time they ever worked together was in "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?" in 1962, where they were really acting out their real life fued on the big screen for all to see...

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"The Mechanic" (1972)...

Movie poster for the 1972 film "The Mechanic" with Charles Bronson as a hit man for the mob...Good downtown Los Angeles, Main Street (Skid Row) scene where Bronson does someone in from across the street in a run-down, "flea-bag" hotel...

"The Gay Divorcee" (1933)...

A scene from "The Gay Divorcee" (1933) with Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire...The dance number is "Night and Day"..Excellent classic musical from RKO...

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"Rear Window" (1954)...

A scene from "Rear Window" (1954) with James Stewart and Grace Kelly...An Alfred Hitchcock classic which was actually taken from the film noir classic "The Window" (1949), with Bobby Driscoll, who witnesses a murder being committed in his New York City apartment building while sleeping outside on the fire escape, and "Rear Window" has an identical plot to it only Jimmy Stewart suspects a murder has been committed as he looks out of his window and observes what is happening in the apartment across from him, on the other side...

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"Song of the South" (1947)...

Movie poster for "Song Of The South" with Bobby Driscoll when he was Disney`s number one child star, of the late 40`s era...This film is rarely shown today for the same reason you never see any "Amos and Andy" television reruns of the early 50`s and the reason being that blacks find it offensive and sort of stereo types blacks..But I do not agree with that as these films are a work of art and should be viewed by all...However Bobby Driscoll`s life was a tragic one..After he was tossed aside by Disney in the early 1950`s, he found it difficult to find work so he turned to drugs...He dropped out of sight in the 1960`s and then he was found dead, and identified as a John Doe, in New York City, in an abandoned apartment building, of a drug overdose, in 1968, at the age of 31...No one knew it was Bobby Driscoll at the time until his mother demanded that an autopsy be performed and his fingerprints then identified him...Driscoll is still buried in New York City in a pauper`s grave...

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"The Snake Pit" (1948)...

A scene from "The Snake Pit" (1948) with Olivia de Havilland and Leo Genn...

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Norms Restaurant...

Norms Restaurant Chain in Southern California...Very Good Eating At Reasonable Prices....

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The Egyptian Theater, Hollywood...

World Famous Egyptian Theater on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California, built during the 1920`s...I bought tickets for the entire family to go here, in the year 1960, to see "Ben Hur" (1959) with Charlton Heston when it first opened during the month of May of that year...The family was living on Elaine Street in Pomona, California at that particular time...

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