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L.A. Mirror Retro Holiday Shopping Guide
Mary Mallory’s posts are one of the L.A. Daily Mirror’s most popular features, so we are happy to recommend two books: “Hollywood Celebrates the Holidays,” written with Karie Bible, and “Hollywood...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywoodland Survives 1961 Fire
California is suffering its worst fire fall season in decades, after the huge Santa Rosa-Sonoma conflagration a few months ago, and the blazes surrounding the Los Angeles area over the past week. 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: Studio City Motels, Then and Now
The Carlton Motor Lodge, via Google Street View. The evolution of a community can often be acknowledged through the types of businesses along its main streets. Simple buildings from its days as an...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Oscar Apfel, Paramount’s Forgotten Man
Oscar Apfel in Motion Picture News. Multi-talented, smart, ambitious, hard-working, Oscar Apfel rose to the top of the early movie industry only to see evolving business practices, lack of luck, and...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Charlie Chaplin Comes to Hollywood
Oct. 16, 1917: An architect’s rendering of Chaplin’s studios in The Times Note: This is an encore post from 2013. Ninety-five years ago, comedian Charlie Chaplin constructed the first beautiful studio...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Du Barry Apartments – S. Charles Lee French...
The Du Barry Apartments via Google Street View. S. Charles Lee’s design for the Du Barry Apartments, March 10, 1929. Still attracting admiring looks after 89 years, the classy Du Barry Apartments...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Pressbooks to Sell Movies
Note: This is an encore post from 2013. From the beginning of the motion picture industry, film companies devised all types of advertising to entice consumers to buy movie tickets. Posters, lobby...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywood National Bank Watches History Go By
Carol Hughes as photographed by Schuyler Crail, with Hollywood and Cahuenga in the background, courtesy of Mary Mallory. Note: This is an encore post from 2016. One of the most important and busiest...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Delight Evans Sells the Movies to Female Fans
Full of charm and personality, Cordelia D. “Delight” Evans fell in love with the movies as a toddler, and basically dedicated the rest of her life to learning about, watching, and telling others...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: ‘Moving Picture Hero of My Heart’ Promotes...
From its beginnings, the motion picture industry developed adept advertising and promotional concepts to spread the word of its film products and stars. Quick to develop cross-promotions and...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Second Universal City Celebrates Its...
Universal City in the Washington Times, Feb. 10, 1915. Note: This is an encore post from 2015. In an age where businesses come and go, bought up by larger competitors or going under due to bad...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Ida May Park Finds Direction in Films
Ida May Park in Photoplay. Virtually forgotten today, Los Angeles-born Ida May Park earned the distinction of being one of the first women to direct feature films in early Hollywood, as well as write...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywoodland Opens
Note: This is an encore post from 2013. By the early 1920s, real estate development was booming all around Los Angeles. For decades, the city had boldly advertised itself as a mecca in which average...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: N. Hollywood Playhouse Promotes Theater in...
The North Hollywood Playhouse in 1962, when “Rebel Without a Cause” was being performed, from the Los Angeles Public Library. In her memoir, actress Teri Garr wrote being in the production. For...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: 20th Annual Hollywood Film Noir Festival...
Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake in “The Blue Dahlia,” which launched the festival. Dark dives, shady dames, and sleazy P.I.s populate the sordid underbelly of the sunny City of the Angels in Noir City:...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Erich von Stroheim’s ‘Paprika’
A copy of Erich von Stroheim’s “Paprika” inscribed to Hugo Ballin has been listed on EBay as Buy It Now for $875. Note: This is an encore post from 2012. Famed director/actor Erich von Stroheim faced...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: ‘None Shall Escape’ Is a Powerful Look at...
“None Shall Escape” in The Film Daily, 1944. On Friday, April 27, the TCM Classic Film Festival presents the rarely screened 1944 film “None Shall Escape,” a thoughtful film ahead of its time, as...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival Salutes the...
Martin Scorsese is presented with the first Robert Osborne Award for film preservation. In its ninth year of celebrating classic film, the 2018 TCM Classic Film Festival highlighted the written word...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: 23rd San Francisco Silent Film Festival...
“The Man Who Laughs” will screen May 30 at the Castro Theatre as part of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Image courtesy of the SFSFF. Bigger and better than ever, the 23rd Annual San...
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