If you ever hear that I’ve gone missing after they announce the invention of a time machine, you might look for me in this photo. I’ll be the one loitering outside the star dressing room building on the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio lot. This photo was taken in 1926, when MGM was only two years old, so among the luminaries I’ll be stalking—er, observing would be Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Joan Crawford, Lon Chaney, William Haines, Lionel Barrymore, Marion Davies, Ramon Novarro, and Mae Murray.
This is how that building looks nowadays. I believe it’s now part of the sound department at Sony studios, which now owns what was the old MGM lot.
Buster Keaton had his own little house on the lot! I don’t think I’ve ever seen pics of it.
You forgot Jean Harlow? I was lucky enough to sit in her dressing room several years ago and even have photo’s of her leaning over the railing of that photo you posted. I hope they have survived.
Jean wasn’t around in 1926, otherwise I would have included her.