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Tag Archives: Mary Mallory
Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Thomas Ince’s Dias Dorados Salutes California’s Past
In the early 1920s, Hollywood was booming. The adolescent film business had blossomed from a small by-the-seat-of-the pants mom and pop operation into a major industry backed by Wall Street, which was turning the large companies into international conglomerates. … Continue reading
Posted in 1921, Architecture, Film, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory
Tagged 1921, architecture, Beverly Hills, film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Thomas Ince
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights – Hamburger’s Department Store, Arrow Movie Theater
A postcard of Hamburger’s Department Store is listed on EBay as Buy It Now for $2.99. Note: This is an encore post from 2013. The classy, oversize May Co. Department Store located at 801 S. Broadway in downtown Los Angeles … Continue reading
Posted in 1908, Architecture, Broadway, Downtown, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Theaters
Tagged 1908, architecture, downtown, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, theaters
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: 54th Annual Cinecon Goes to the Movies
A fascinating look at what middle America saw at the movies from the 1910s through the 1950s, the 54th Annual Cinecon Classic Film Festival provided an excellent slate of films running the gamut from silents to sound, musicals to westerns, … Continue reading
Posted in 2018, Film, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory
Tagged #Cinecon, #Silent Films, 2018, film, Hollwood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Charlie Ruggles, Dog Lover
Befuddled and often tongue-tied onscreen, beloved character actor Charlie Ruggles possessed sharp business and organizational skills off screen. He parlayed a love of dogs into a profitable kennel business for several years in the 1930s and 1940s, working to ensure … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Film, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory
Tagged #Dogs, film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Sessue Hayakawa, Author
Sessue Hayakawa in Cine Mundial. Long renowned as one of the most mesmerizing, exotic actors of the silent screen, Sessue Hayakawa and his piercing eyes and sensual mouth stole women’s attentions and minds. Born in Japan, the son of aristocratic … Continue reading
Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: 54th Annual Cinecon Celebrates the Movies
For filmgoers looking for the rare and unusual, the 54th Annual Cinecon Classic Film Festival opens Thursday at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, with a cornucopia of silent and sound films, many unseen since their original release. Featuring newly restored … Continue reading
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Tagged #Cinecon, Coming attractions, film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Bert Longworth and ‘Hold Still, Hollywood’
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
Posted in Books and Authors, Film, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Photography
Tagged Bert Longworth, film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, photography
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hale’s Tours Offer Virtual Reality in 1906
George C. Hale in the Salt Lake City Herald, Oct. 20, 1905. Note: This is an encore post from 2016. Technology changes often move with the speed of lightning, upending life as it moves hurly burly into a brave new … Continue reading
Posted in 1906, Film, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory
Tagged film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, tourism, virtual reality
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Broncho Billy Silent Film Festival Thunders Onto the Screen
The 21st Annual Broncho Billy Silent Film Festival gallops into action Aug. 10 through 12 at the marvelous little Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Niles, Calif., featuring a look at rare silent films, most in 35 millimeter, screening … Continue reading
Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Robert Ryan Fights for Quality Education
Jessica and Robert Ryan, photo courtesy of Mary Mallory. Known as much for his intense, brooding performances onscreen as his passionate defense of causes off it, actor Robert Ryan cared deeply about whatever he focused his attention on. While … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Film, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, San Fernando Valley
Tagged education, film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, San Fernando Valley
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: The Enchanted Hill – Hollywood’s Ultimate Mansion
Fred Thomson in an undated image. In the early days of the Hollywood film industry, moguls and movie stars lived simply, residing in comfortable but elegant homes. As the business evolved from small companies into large-scale moviemaking factories in the … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Film, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory
Tagged Beverly Hills, film, Frances Marion, Fred Thomson, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: ‘Sins of Hollywood – Tinseltown’s First Sordid Look at Scandal
“The Sins of Hollywood,” via Archive.org. Note: This is an encore post from 2015. From its very beginnings, the motion picture industry has endured protests and censorship attacks from conservative members of the American public, those scandalized at seeing women … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory
Tagged film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Kenneth Anger, Mary Mallory
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Virgil Apger, MGM’S Classic Portrait Photographer
Virgil Apger, photo courtesy of Mary Mallory Note: This is an encore post from 2013. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios excelled in most areas of film production, including that of still portrait photography. Several of its head portrait photographers, like Ruth Harriet … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, Photography
Tagged #MGM, film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory, movies
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Mary Andrews Clark Home Provides Affordable Housing
306 Loma Drive, via Google Street View. Long a beautiful site at 306 Loma Drive in Los Angeles, the Mary Andrews Clark Memorial Home has been a site of affordable housing for more than 100 years. Built by Sen. William … Continue reading
Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Celebrity Politicians, Hollywood’s Honorary Mayors 2
Oct. 25, 1954: Betty White becomes honorary mayor of Hollywood. Note: This is an encore post from 2013. During the 1930s and 1940s, neighborhoods and cities surrounding Los Angeles named celebrities as honorary mayors to help gain their areas vital … Continue reading
Posted in 2013, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Mary Mallory
Tagged Art Linkletter, Betty White, film, hollywood, Hollywood Heights, honorary mayors, Mary Mallory
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: 23rd Annual S.F. Silent Film Festival Celebrates World Cinema
Kevin Brownlow’s 80th birthday was celebrated with a showing of “Mare Nostrum.” Image courtesy of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Coming at a time when walls and words separate more people than ever, the 23rd Annual San Francisco Silent … Continue reading
Celebrity Politicians: Hollywood’s Honorary Mayors, Part I
Photo: Hugh Herbert, honorary mayor of Studio City, courtesy of Mary Mallory. Note: This is an encore post from 2012. Tomorrow is election day. Elections and politics are important to everyone, be they Joe Citizen or Joseph Kennedy. Over the … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Hollywood, Hollywood Heights, Politics, San Fernando Valley
Tagged #Studio City, Encino, films, hollywood, Mary Mallory, San Fernando Valley, Van Nuys
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Mary Pickford Dances Into Screen Adulthood in ‘Rosita’
Above, a clip of “Restoring a Lost Silent Film: How to See “Rosita” by Dave Kehr from the Museum of Modern Art. In 1922, legendary German film director Ernst Lubitsch and “America’s Sweetheart” Mary Pickford searched for new challenges … Continue reading
Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — Marion Davies’ Santa Monica Beachside Cottage
Marion Davies’ beach house, courtesy of Mary Mallory. Note: This is an encore post from 2014. Newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst inherited and erected lavish estates for himself around California like Wyntoon, his Northern California retreat, and Hearst Castle, his … Continue reading
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: 23rd San Francisco Silent Film Festival Salutes World Cinema
“The Man Who Laughs” will screen May 30 at the Castro Theatre as part of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Image courtesy of the SFSFF. Bigger and better than ever, the 23rd Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival … Continue reading