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Hollywood stars gather to welcome home Marion Davies at the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles, 1928
You knew you’d made it into the Hollywood A List if you scored an invite to one of Marion Davies’s parties. And she’d throw one for pretty much any reason. This one was thrown in the French room at the … Continue reading
Premiere of “Spartacus” at the Pantages Theatre, Hollywood Blvd, October 19, 1960
The premiere of “Spartacus” at the Pantages Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard on October 19, 1960, was a big night for Hollywood. Not just because the movie went on to earn $60 million on a $12 million budget and four Academy … Continue reading
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The living room at Pickfair, 1143 Summit Dr., Beverly Hills, California
Pickfair was the legendary Beverly Hills estate of movie stars Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. During most of the 1920s, they were Hollywood’s power couple and an invitation to Pickfair was a golden ticket. But most of us non-A-listers never … Continue reading
Aerial shot of MGM’s Circus Maximus set for “Ben-Hur” at La Cienega and Venice Boulevards, Los Angeles, 1924
In 1924, after a disastrous shoot in Italy, MGM made the expensive decision to bring their mammoth production of “Ben-Hur” back to Los Angeles and start over. To film the spectacular Circus Maximus chariot race in which Ben-Hur (Ramon Novarro) … Continue reading
A 15-foot portrait of Harold Lloyd hangs outside Sid Grauman’s Million Dollar Theater, 307 S. Broadway in downtown Los Angeles, July 1920
In this photo from July 1920, we can see a 15-foot portrait of Harold Lloyd hanging outside Sid Grauman’s Million Dollar Theater, 307 S. Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. What’s interesting is that Lloyd’s movie, “High and Dizzy” was the … Continue reading
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Looking east along Hollywood Boulevard toward Carl Laemmle’s building on the Vine Street corner, 1931
This is a screen-grab from a British short called “Round About Hollywood” which travels around Hollywood in 1931 in a two-color process known as Cinecolor. As the camera approaches the Hollywood and Vine intersection, it passes that building on the … Continue reading
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Apollo Theater and Apollo Natural Foods, 5544 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, 1945
I love finding vintage photos of movie theaters like this because it reminds us that movies starring Linda Darnell, Claudette Colbert, and Don Ameche didn’t always just play on rotation on TV. They were enough of an attraction to lure … Continue reading
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Fatty Arbuckle’s Plantation Club, 10920 Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, circa 1928
Poor ol’ Fatty Arbuckle. In the early 1920s, a series of highly publicized rape trials in which he was found not guilty irreparably damaged his reputation and he was held up but the more conservative elements as an example of … Continue reading
Charlie Chaplin’s studios on La Brea Ave, Hollywood, circa mid 1920s
By the late 1910s, Charlie Chaplin had become so big that he built his own studio on La Brea Ave, south of Hollywood Blvd, which included six English-style buildings described by the Los Angeles Times reported as “arranged as to … Continue reading
Eddie Cantor’s Antique Shop, 8743 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, circa 1930s
Not only did Eddie Cantor have a store in the Brown Derby building on Vine Street, but in the 1930s, he also had an antique and gift store at 8743 Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, in the middle of the Sunset … Continue reading