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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...
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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...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights – Hamburger’s Department Store, Arrow Movie...
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...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Thomas Ince’s Dias Dorados Salutes...
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...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: ‘None Shall Escape’ Is a Powerful Look at...
“None Shall Escape” in The Film Daily, 1944. Note: TCM is airing “None Shall Escape” on Sunday night to honor Marsha Hunt. Here’s an encore of Mary Mallory’s post from earlier this year. On Friday,...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights – Richfield Building Jazzes Up Los Angeles’...
The Richfield Building in an undated postcard. Note: This is an encore post from 2013. After years of deprivation, darkness and worry during World War I and its aftermath, America was ready to look...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Colleen Moore’s Dollhouse Supports...
Colleen Moore’s doll house in a frame grab from CBS “Sunday Morning.” Note: This is an encore post from 2015. From the beginning of time, people have been collectors. Objects as diverse as paintings,...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — A. L. “Whitey” Schafer Simplifies Portraits
“Thou Shalt Not,” “Whitey” Schafer’s most famous image. Note: This is an encore post from 2013. In the very early days of the motion picture industry, stills photographers meant nothing to the moving...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Tam O’Shanter Celebrates the Art of Dining
The Tam O’Shanter, as seen in the 1920s, when Los Feliz Boulevard was a dirt road. Courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library. Opened 96 years ago, the storybook-style Tam O’Shanter Inn has always...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: ‘That’s My Baby’ Promotes Popularity of...
Film studios often employed gimmicks as ways to build word of mouth, increase box office, and promote movie stars throughout the golden age of Hollywood. Pennants, dolls, photos, dishes, and even...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: John Decker – Painter to the Stars
Chester Conklin by John Decker, courtesy of Mary Mallory. Note: This is an encore post from 2013. “To sing, to laugh, to dream, to walk in my own way and be alone…” A recording of John Decker’s voice...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Abel Gance’s ‘J’Accuse’ a Passionate...
An ad for “I Accuse” in Exhibitors Herald, Nov. 5, 1921. The “war to end all wars” ended November 11, 1918, at 11 am. After four years of butchery, gas attacks, hand-to-hand combat and trench warfare,...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Actor Jack Donovan Designs Bungalow Courts...
Jack Donovan on the porch of his home, “Picture-Play Magazine,” April 1923.. From its beginnings, the Hollywood film industry has constructed elaborate sets and facades before demolishing them to...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Mary Pickford Dances Into Screen Adulthood...
Above, a clip of “Restoring a Lost Silent Film: How to See “Rosita” by Dave Kehr from the Museum of Modern Art. This is an encore post from May. In 1922, legendary German film director Ernst Lubitsch...
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L.A. Mirror Retro Holiday Shopping Guide
Note: This is an encore post from 2017. Mary Mallory’s posts are one of the L.A. Daily Mirror’s most popular features, so we are happy to recommend “Hollywoodland”; “Hollywood Celebrates the...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywood Sign Built and Illuminated...
The Hollywoodland Sign, in a photo published in the Los Angeles Evening Herald, Dec. 8, 1923. Note: This is an encore post from 2017. Originally constructed as a publicity gimmick and branding symbol...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Cafe Montmartre Ushers in Hollywood Nightlife
6757 Hollywood Blvd., former location of the Cafe Montmartre, via Google Street View. Constructed in 1922 as part of the expanding restaurant empire of impresario Adolph “Eddie” Brandstatter, the...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: ‘White Christmas’ Soothes the Home Front in...
Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds and Virginia Dale in “Holiday Inn.” Note: This is an encore post from 2015. Recognized today as one of the top selling singles and pieces of sheet music of...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Olvera Street, Salute to Los Angeles’...
A postcard of the Avila Adobe, listed on EBay for $1.89. “A people that has lost touch with its historical past, forgotten its traditions and wasted its heritage is as unfortunate as a man who has...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights – Campo de Cahuenga, California’s Birthplace
A photo of the original museum at Campo de Cahuenga, courtesy of Mary Mallory. Note: This is an encore from 2012. Driving south down Lankershim Boulevard from Toluca Lake into Universal City, it’s...
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