{"id":23677,"date":"2025-12-25T11:09:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T19:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=23677"},"modified":"2025-12-26T20:00:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T04:00:37","slug":"walk-of-fame-movies-hold-that-ghost-with-joan-davis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/25\/walk-of-fame-movies-hold-that-ghost-with-joan-davis\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk of Fame Movies: Hold That Ghost with Joan Davis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hold-that-ghost-1.jpg\" alt=\"Joan Davis and Lou Costello in Hold That Ghost.\" class=\"wp-image-23681\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hold-that-ghost-1.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hold-that-ghost-1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hold-that-ghost-1-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/HoldThatGhost.jpg\" alt=\"Left to right: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Evelyn Ankers, Joan Davis and Richard Carlson in HOLD THAT GHOST \" class=\"wp-image-23679\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/HoldThatGhost.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/HoldThatGhost-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/HoldThatGhost-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I watched a VHS rip of this from the Internet Archive. I only watched Abbott &amp; Costello if it was the only thing on TV when I was a kid, so the picture quality felt right. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The story was the same structure I remembered: Someone needs to do an unpleasant\/scary\/dangerous thing, and Abbott browbeats Costello into doing it. And the Andrews sisters show up to sing a couple of songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/joan-davis.jpg\" alt=\"Composite picture. On the left, a mockup of Joan Davis's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On the Right, a black and white portrait photo of Joan Davis.\" class=\"wp-image-23680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/joan-davis.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/joan-davis-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/joan-davis-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The best part of this movie is Joan Davis (1521 Vine Street). She&#8217;s got great timing and was a gifted physical comedian. I need to find more of her stuff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today&#8217;s fake poster is brought to you by the word &#8220;that.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hold-that-ghost-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A fake poster for Hold That Ghost mimicking the poster of She's All That.\" class=\"wp-image-23678\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hold-that-ghost-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hold-that-ghost-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hold-that-ghost-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/hold-that-ghost.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forget Abbott &#038; Costello- watch for Joan Davis!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63,20,359],"tags":[350,357,78,10,358],"class_list":["post-23677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-photoshop","category-watch-of-fame","tag-fake-posters","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-photoshop","tag-walk-of-fame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24089,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23677\/revisions\/24089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}