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A motorcar is parked out front of the Hollywood Hotel as seen in “Night Life in Hollywood” (1922)
This image gives us a view of what the Hollywood Hotel on the northwest corner of Hollywood Blvd and Highland Ave looked like in 1922. It is, in fact, a screengrab from a 1922 movie called Night Life In Hollywood … Continue reading
Newman’s Drug Co at the southwest corner of Hollywood Blvd and Western Ave, Hollywood, as seen in “Double Indemnity” (1944)
This image is actually a screengrab from a documentary called “Los Angeles Plays Itself” which is a 2003 film that looks at all the ways Los Angeles has been depicted (as itself and other locations) in the movies. I freeze-famed … Continue reading
Letter from David O. Selznick to Ed Sullivan re casting of Vivien Leigh, January 7, 1939
In a recent research rabbit hole (an occupational hazard when you write historical fiction), somewhere someplace somehow I came across this image of a letter that David O. Selznick wrote to Ed Sullivan. At the time – January 7, 1939 … Continue reading
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MGM Studios and its famous 10-column entrance in 1939
If I ever got my hands on a time machine, this is exactly where I’d be asking it to take me: to the MGM Studios and its famous 10-column entrance. This is even the year I’d pick: 1939, when they … Continue reading