Tag Archives: #Douglas Fairbanks

Movieland Mystery Photo – Silent Version (Updated + + + +)

Posted on September 1, 2025 by lmharnisch

For our silent film version of the mystery movie, we have a mystery guest looking at Back of the Head Guy on the floor. Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Silent Films’ Broad Range on Display at San Francisco Festival

Posted on April 19, 2024 by lmharnisch

While the recently concluded 27th SFSFF moved from the beautiful vintage Castro Theatre to a new barnlike structure adjacent to the remaining structure from the 1915 Panama Pacific Intl. Exposition, it once again featured diverse programming offering an emotional, humanistic … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory: Hollywood Heights – United Artists Theatre

Posted on February 7, 2022 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2012. Los Angeles and Hollywood have been the Mecca and Medina of movies, where their acolytes came to worship, work and learn in the teens and 1920s.  After making movies, reverent places of … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: United Artists Incorporated February 1919

Posted on February 4, 2019 by lmharnisch

From left, D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks, image via the Library of Congress. The entertainment industry as we know it irrevocably changed on February 5, 1919, when superstars Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, and D.W. … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Cinecon 51 Presents Entertaining and Eclectic Films

Posted on September 12, 2015 by lmharnisch

Douglas Fairbanks in “Wild and Woolly,” Photoplay, 1917. Another Cinecon has come and go, but left behind memories of rare film, good friends, and fun times. This year’s festival featured a mix of silent drama and rollicking movie musicals, and … Continue reading →

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