tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520374013278982095.post4338749023488094774..comments2023-03-25T05:53:44.505-07:00Comments on film-415: SF Silent Film Festival Winter Event 2009Michael Hawleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04712772885405352863noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520374013278982095.post-59508658832516505382009-03-02T09:29:00.000-08:002009-03-02T09:29:00.000-08:00You're probably right about that, Frako, as the or...You're probably right about that, Frako, as the original 1922 THE CAT AND THE CANARY stage play was written by San Francisco native John Willard (according to Margarita Landazuri's SFSFF program notes).<BR/><BR/>I checked out the link you provided and there was something vaguely familiar about the photo of her memorial plaque. Then I realized the plaque came at the end of a Pacific Heights walking Ghost Tour I took two years ago. It stands outside the site of her former mansion at Octavia and Bush Streets. A seamy 1935 accounting of her years in San Francisco can be found here:<BR/><BR/>http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist10/mammy.htmlMichael Hawleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04712772885405352863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2520374013278982095.post-73015634846635554152009-03-01T12:34:00.000-08:002009-03-01T12:34:00.000-08:00Michael, Frako here. About the malevolent housekee...Michael, Frako here. About the malevolent housekeeper Mammy Pleasant in Cat and the Canary--it's probable she was named after Mary Ellen "Mammy" Pleasant, a notorious San Francisco character from the 1880s whose suspected involvement in the murder of a prominent businessman, ownership of a big piece of property at Octavia and Buchanan and enormous fortune overshadowed her work as a civil rights pioneer.<BR/>http://www.geocities.com/mepleasant.geo/mep.html<BR/><BR/>By the way, your photo is VERY CUTE!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com