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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — Ivan Mosjoukine, the Man With the Piercing...
Ivan Mosjoukine, courtesy of Mary Mallory. Not as well known as other silent film stars like Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford, Buster Keaton or Rudolph Valentino, the recently rediscovered Russian...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Silent Film Festivals, Then And Now
Northern California plays host to two wonderful silent film festivals in the next few weeks, the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum’s Bronco Billy Silent Film Festival, and the San Francisco Silent...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights —‘The Diamond From the Sky’ Shines Light on...
“Like a Diamond From the Sky,” by Leo Bennett and Leo Wood, courtesy of Mary Mallory. Thanks to “What Happened to Mary?” (Edison, 1912), “The Adventures of Kathlyn” (Selig, 1913) and “The Perils of...
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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. The classy, oversize May Co. Department Store located at 801 S. Broadway in downtown Los Angeles is up for sale....
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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. Parade magazine claimed in its July 7, 2013, issue that the completed Hollywoodland sign premiered...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Glass Slides, Motion Pictures’ First Coming...
A magic lantern slide for the Gloria Swanson film “Her Gilded Cage” (1922), listed on EBay with bids starting at $89. Before movie studios employed trailers to raise audiences’ awareness and interest...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Virgil Apger, MGM’S Classic Portrait...
Virgil Apger, photo courtesy of Mary Mallory Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios excelled in most areas of film production, including that of still portrait photography. Several of its head portrait...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hats Off to Black-Foxe Military Institute
Long before there were Tiger Moms, many parents stressed discipline and hard work to their school-age children. Boys were often enrolled in military prep schools to learn discipline, rigor and...
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An Anniversary for Musso & Frank
Oct. 11, 1919: Frank’s Cafe at 6669 Hollywood Blvd. is meeting with fine success, from Holly Leaves. July 28, 1923: The opening of Musso & Frank Grill, in Holly Leaves, courtesy of Mary Mallory....
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — The First Motion Picture Electrical Parade
Harold Lloyd’s float in the electrical parade, courtesy of Mary Mallory. Long before the Walt Disney Co. began presenting an electrical parade at its parks, Los Angeles offered electrical parades as...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Albert Witzel, Early Glamour Photography...
Albert Witzel, courtesy of Mary Mallory. Deadwood, S.D.-born Albert Walter Witzel possessed a dead-on knack for capturing the public’s eye with his vibrant, elegant portrait photographs. Witzel became...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: ‘War Brides’ Promotes Peace
The killing of Austria’s Franz Ferdinand in 1914 helped kick off the Great War, or what we now know as World War I. Brutal fighting led to maimings and killings on a scale never witnessed before....
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywood Studio Club Provides Home For...
The Studio Club in Photoplay, 1917. T he advent of the 20th century offered the possibility of more freedom and opportunity for women. For decades, women had advocated for the right to vote, led by...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — The Three Lives Of Villa Aurora
Cats have nine lives. People often experience second or third acts in their lives or careers. Some homes have multiple lives as well, like Villa Aurora, which has experienced three diverse lives,...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — Cinecon 2013, Part 1
Featured at Cinecon: Carmen Miranda in “Down Argentine Way.” Another year, another Cinecon. A jam-packed schedule of watching films, sharing meals, and trying to catch up with friends from far and...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights – Cinecon 2013, Part 2
A still from “Suddenly It’s Spring” has been listed on EBay with a price of $9.35. Labor Day weekend at Cinecon is jam-packed with movies all day. For the first time, Saturday’s session began a little...
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Mary Mallory’s ‘Hollywoodland’ Now Available at Amazon
The L.A. Daily Mirror is very pleased to announce that Mary Mallory has collected her first entries in the Hollywood Heights series — with additional content — into an ebook that is now available on...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — Los Angeles’ Forgotten J. B. Lankershim...
Charles Owens’ drawing of the Lankershim monument in “Nuestro Pueblo.” Los Angeles’ Boy Scout Camp Arthur Letts is a distant memory today, a large getaway in the Hollywood Hills offering camping,...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — Rah! Rah! Hollywood Celebrates Pennants
Hollywood has always been creative in promoting its films and personalities to the public. Employing posters, lobby cards, window cards and photographs, silent film production companies hyped upcoming...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — Carrie Jacobs-Bond, Hollywood Tunesmith
Long before Harold Arlen wrote “Lose That Long Face” for “A Star Is Born” starring Judy Garland, songwriter Carrie Jacobs-Bond practiced those words. Mostly forgotten today, Jacobs-Bond was one of the...
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