Tag Archives: Hollywood Heights

Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Bert Longworth and ‘Hold Still, Hollywood’

Posted on June 26, 2023 by lmharnisch

Note: This is an encore post from 2012. In the last forty years, movie collectors and photography connoisseurs have recognized the art and value of Hollywood still photography, most particularly in the gloriously lit and composed portraits of glamorous stars. … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2023

Posted on June 20, 2023 by lmharnisch

Stan and Ollie, showing at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. The San Francisco Silent Film Festival celebrates the glory of world cinema with an impressive slate of newly restored and little seen films July 12 through 16 at the … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Nation’s First Legally Permitted Gay Pride Parade

Posted on June 5, 2023 by lmharnisch

Crowd gathering to march in the Los Angeles Christopher Street West pride parade. June 28, 1970. On June 28, 1970, Hollywood hosted the nation’s first legally permitted LGBT Parade, helping spark gay pride and the right for equality in California. … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Ben Model’s Undercrank Productions Bring Silent Films to Life

Posted on June 2, 2023 by lmharnisch

For more than 40 years, Ben Model has been accompanying silent films and finding new ways to bring them to audiences all over the world. Besides being a resident film accompanist at the Museum of Modern Art in New York … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Fine Chinese Dining and Asian American Celebrities’ Restaurants

Posted on May 17, 2023 by lmharnisch

Willie Fung opened the New Moon cafe. Americans fell in love with Chinese food over the decades, drawn to it originally by cheap prices and chop suey, before growing to love more exotic and elegant dishes. At the same time, … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Two Chinese Restaurants in Studio City

Posted on May 8, 2023 by lmharnisch

A matchbook cover for Rickshaw Boy, Courtesy of Mary Mallory. Note: This is an encore post from 2016. Graphics, films, advertisements, music – all demonstrate values and cultures of the time and place in which they were created. Words, phrases, … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywood’s First Studio Librarian, Elizabeth McGaffey

Posted on May 1, 2023 by lmharnisch

In a field that prides itself on accuracy in production, it took a woman to recognize the importance of organizing and conducting research to verify facts and figures. Forgotten today, Elizabeth McGaffey established the Lasky Feature Play Company’s library with … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: TCM Classic Film Festival Salutes Warner Bros. Centennial

Posted on April 19, 2023 by lmharnisch

Highlighting classic film while saluting legendary Warner Bros. Studio’s Centennial, the recently concluded 14th Annual TCM Classic Film Festival offered an entertaining, thoughtful slice of life through its diverse slate of vintage movies and programming. While slimmed down from past … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory: Hollywood Heights, ‘Hollywood’

Posted on April 10, 2023 by lmharnisch

Aug. 26, 1923: “Hollywood” plays at Grauman’s Rialto. Note: This is an encore post from 2011. More than a decade before the release of HOLLYWOOD BLVD., Paramount Pictures also released a film looking at the behind-the-scenes industry that was also … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights–TCM Classic Film Festival Marks 13 Years of Celebrating Movies

Posted on April 3, 2023 by lmharnisch

Dorothy Dandridge in Carmen Jones, screening at the TCM Classic Film Festival. For the 13th year, the TCM Classic Film Festival celebrates the love of film by screening movies on the big screen the way they were meant to be … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywoodland Opens March 31, 1923

Posted on March 27, 2023 by lmharnisch

An ad for Hollywoodland, October 1923. Note: This is an encore post from 2022. On March 31, 1923, owners of a new hillside development in the Hollywood Hills called Hollywoodland announced the opening of their elaborate new tract in stories … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: 2178 High Tower Drive, L.A.’s First Community Elevator

Posted on March 20, 2023 by lmharnisch

The Tower appeared in the March 24, 1939, installment of Nuestro Pueblo by Joseph Seewerker and Charles Owens of the Los Angeles Times. Note: This is an encore post from 2020. Both marketing gimmick and necessity, the elevator shaft that … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Peggy Hamilton, Hollywood Fashion Influencer

Posted on March 13, 2023 by lmharnisch

Peggy Hamilton in an RKO publicity photo by Bachrach, 1931. Besotted with fashion from a young age, Peggy Hamilton turned her passion into a career in 1920s Los Angeles, becoming Hollywood’s first fashion influencer. The first to promote Hollywood and … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Master of Electric Lights Had Hollywoodland Sign Beaming

Posted on March 1, 2023 by lmharnisch

Unknown today, Paul D. Howse was a pioneer in early entertainment and ballyhoo promotional methods. Thanks to his company’s domination of the electrical sign market and his prowess with promotion, Howse would help electrify the Hollywoodland Sign in 1923, helping … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Rose McClendon, First Lady of Black Theater

Posted on February 23, 2023 by lmharnisch

Rose McClendon, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, via the New York Public Library. The first lady of the early Black stage, largely forgotten today, Rose McClendon set a blazing example of how talent could offer opportunity, even in difficult, discriminatory … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: ‘Crazylegs’ Salutes Elroy Hirsch and the Los Angeles Rams

Posted on February 13, 2023 by lmharnisch

An image of Elroy “Crazylegs” Hirsch, scanned from a negative listed on EBay at $24.99. Note: This is an encore post from 2016. Los Angeles is currently experiencing the second coming of its professional football team, the Los Angeles Rams, … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: May Whitney Emerson, Founded Women’s Film Company

Posted on February 8, 2023 by lmharnisch

A feminist ahead of her time, author May Whitney Emerson advocated equal opportunities and rights for women in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Brash, fearless, and determined, she blazed a trail through the arts and journalism as she traveled … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights – Marion Davies, an Actress With a Heart to Help Children

Posted on January 16, 2023 by lmharnisch

Hollywood Heritage will celebrate Marion Davies’ birthday with a celebration Sunday, Jan. 22., at 2 p.m.  featuring Lara Gabrielle, author of Marion Davies: Captain of Her Soul, and a showing of Zander the Great. Tickets are $10 for members, $20 … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Clock Tower Enters Its Second Century

Posted on January 2, 2023 by lmharnisch

A landmark both as one of the first buildings in the original Cahuenga Valley area known as Colegrove and for its dramatic appearance looming over the intersection of Santa Monica Boulevard and Cahuenga Avenue, what is now the L.A. Security … Continue reading →

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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Chop Suey Comes to Hollywood

Posted on December 27, 2022 by lmharnisch

Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 6, 1884. Chinese food has long been popular in the United States, particularly chop suey, and for many it is a Christmas Day tradition. Although stories claimed that chop suey was a special dish created in … Continue reading →

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