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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — Marion Davies’ Santa Monica Beachside Cottage
Marion Davies’ beach house, courtesy of Mary Mallory. Note: This is an encore post from 2014. Newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst inherited and erected lavish estates for himself around...
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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. In 1922, legendary German film director Ernst Lubitsch and “America’s Sweetheart” Mary...
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Celebrity Politicians: Hollywood’s Honorary Mayors, Part I
Photo: Hugh Herbert, honorary mayor of Studio City, courtesy of Mary Mallory. Note: This is an encore post from 2012. Tomorrow is election day. Elections and politics are important to everyone, be...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: 23rd Annual S.F. Silent Film Festival...
Kevin Brownlow’s 80th birthday was celebrated with a showing of “Mare Nostrum.” Image courtesy of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Coming at a time when walls and words separate more people...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Celebrity Politicians, Hollywood’s Honorary...
Oct. 25, 1954: Betty White becomes honorary mayor of Hollywood. Note: This is an encore post from 2013. During the 1930s and 1940s, neighborhoods and cities surrounding Los Angeles named celebrities...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Mary Andrews Clark Home Provides Affordable...
306 Loma Drive, via Google Street View. Long a beautiful site at 306 Loma Drive in Los Angeles, the Mary Andrews Clark Memorial Home has been a site of affordable housing for more than 100 years....
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Virgil Apger, MGM’S Classic Portrait...
Virgil Apger, photo courtesy of Mary Mallory Note: This is an encore post from 2013. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios excelled in most areas of film production, including that of still portrait...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: ‘Sins of Hollywood – Tinseltown’s First...
“The Sins of Hollywood,” via Archive.org. Note: This is an encore post from 2015. From its very beginnings, the motion picture industry has endured protests and censorship attacks from conservative...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: The Enchanted Hill – Hollywood’s Ultimate...
Fred Thomson in an undated image. In the early days of the Hollywood film industry, moguls and movie stars lived simply, residing in comfortable but elegant homes. As the business evolved from small...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Robert Ryan Fights for Quality Education
Jessica and Robert Ryan, photo courtesy of Mary Mallory. Known as much for his intense, brooding performances onscreen as his passionate defense of causes off it, actor Robert Ryan cared deeply about...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Broncho Billy Silent Film Festival Thunders...
The 21st Annual Broncho Billy Silent Film Festival gallops into action Aug. 10 through 12 at the marvelous little Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Niles, Calif., featuring a look at rare silent...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hale’s Tours Offer Virtual Reality in 1906
George C. Hale in the Salt Lake City Herald, Oct. 20, 1905. Note: This is an encore post from 2016. Technology changes often move with the speed of lightning, upending life as it moves hurly burly...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Bert Longworth and ‘Hold Still, Hollywood’
Note: This is an encore post from 2012. In the last forty years, movie collectors and photography connoisseurs have recognized the art and value of Hollywood still photography, most particularly in...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: 54th Annual Cinecon Celebrates the Movies
For filmgoers looking for the rare and unusual, the 54th Annual Cinecon Classic Film Festival opens Thursday at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, with a cornucopia of silent and sound films, many...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Sessue Hayakawa, Author
Sessue Hayakawa in Cine Mundial. Long renowned as one of the most mesmerizing, exotic actors of the silent screen, Sessue Hayakawa and his piercing eyes and sensual mouth stole women’s attentions and...
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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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