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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: 2016 S.F. Film Festival Offers Appetizing...
“Beggars of Life,” courtesy of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. The just concluded Twenty First Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival featured a strong weekend of thoughtful and powerful...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Julian Eltinge Says ‘I’m at Your Service,...
One of the most famous female impersonators of all time, but now also one of the most forgotten, Julian Eltinge stood as one of the most successful headliners of the early 1900s, setting attendance...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywoodland’s First House
2716 Woodhaven Drive as shown in a Studebaker promotional brochure, courtesy of Steve Vaught’s Paradise Leased blog. On March 31, 1923, publicists trumpeted the news that a great sub development...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Steve ‘Broken Nose’ Murphy Slays Them in...
Steve “Broken Nose” Murphy” in “Sherlock Jr.” Some people succeed in films because of great notoriety, talent, or beauty. Others flourish because of unusual skill or looks, such as Steve...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: The Bell & Howell Building Then and Now
716 N. La Brea Ave., via Google Street View, from 2014. Simple and elegant, 716 N. La Brea Ave. today remains little changed on the exterior as to how it looked when finished in 1931. It stands as a...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: James Davies – Paramount’s Physical...
James Davies, left, gives Buster Crabbe a rubdown in “Search for Beauty,” with Robert Armstrong, right. Photo courtesy of Mary Mallory American culture has seen each decade popularize certain...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywoodland Sign Premieres November 1923
Jan. 6, 1924: The Times publishes a photo of an Oakland car that was driven up to the Hollywood sign. Note: Here’s a post from November 2013 for those who wrongly assume that the Hollywood sign was...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Russell Ball —- An Eye for Glamour
Doris Kenyon by Russell Ball, Motion Picture Magazine, 1928. Motion picture still photography, just like any brand marketing, is all about creating a recognizable and attractive product appealing to...
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Mary Mallory: Hollywood Heights – Hollywood Country Club
Editor’s note: Mary will be giving a presentation on “Studio City Before the Studio: An Afternoon of Local History” on July 30 at 3 p.m. at the Studio City branch of the Los Angeles Public Library,...
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Mary Mallory on Studio City Before the Studio
One more reminder that Mary Mallory will be speaking at 3 p.m. today at the Studio City branch of the Los Angeles Public Library, 12511 Moorpark St. The event is free.
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Two Chinese Restaurants in Studio City
A matchbook cover for Rickshaw Boy, Courtesy of Mary Mallory. Graphics, films, advertisements, music – all demonstrate values and cultures of the time and place in which they were created. Words,...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Cinecon Film Festival 52 Offers...
A still from “The King of Jazz,” which will be shown at the Cinecon Film Festival. Labor Day weekend is almost upon us, and it offers another madcap melange of movies at the 52nd Cinecon Film Festival...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Larry Edmunds Bookshop Provides Film...
Jeanne Moreau shoots a scene for the 1970 film “Alex in Wonderland,” starring Donald Sutherland, right, at Larry Edmunds Bookshop, from a catalog listed on EBay Long a mecca for film aficionados,...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Rockhaven Sanitarium Seeks Its Rehabilitation
The gate at Rockhaven, by Mary Mallory Hiding in plain sight and sitting in a state of arrested decay at 2713 Honolulu Ave. in Montrose, the historic Rockhaven Sanitarium stands as the only living...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Sojin Kamiyama
Photo: Sojin Kamiyama in “The Road to Mandalay,” listed on EBay as Buy It Now for $23.95. Note: This encore post on Sojin Kamiyama coincides with a showing of one of his films: “Diplomacy” at Cinecon...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — The Selig Zoo, Motion Pictures’ First...
The Selig Zoo, in Cement and Engineering News. Note: This is an encore of a 2014 post. From its humble beginnings as merely a boarding home for William Selig’s wild animal film stars, the Selig Zoo at...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: 52nd Cinecon Offers Something for Everyone
A DVD of “None Shall Escape,” listed on EBay as Buy It Now for $12.75. Offering both something for the esoteric cineaste as well as the general film fan, the 52nd Cinecon Film Festival just...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Silver Screen Revue Salutes Silent Days
A matchbook from the Wilshire Bowl, listed on EBay as Buy It Now for $9.95. Within just a few years of sound motion pictures becoming the approved film format, silent films became a virtual pariah in...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Esther Ralston and Hollyridge Drive
The Esther Ralston home on Hollyridge Drive, via Hollywood Vagabond. California saw a renaissance of Spanish Revival architecture in the wake of World War I, as it both saluted the life and culture of...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Barney Oldfield Sets Up Shop in Downtown...
A postcard showing the interior of Barney Oldfield’s saloon on South Spring Street, courtesy of Mary Mallory. ‘Mile a minute” Barney Oldfield, the first automobile racer to achieve that feat while...
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