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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — Marion Davies’ Santa Monica Beachside Cottage
Marion Davies’ beach house, courtesy of Mary Mallory. Newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst inherited and erected lavish estates for himself around California like Wyntoon, his Northern...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — Fanchon and Marco Face the Music and Dance
Marco, left, and Fanchon, courtesy of Mary Mallory. Movie-going experiences today offer little bang for the buck, offering mostly commercials, advertisements and loud trailers before the films. In the...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — The Selig Zoo, Motion Pictures’ First...
The Selig Zoo, in Cement and Engineering News. From its humble beginnings as merely a boarding home for William Selig’s wild animal film stars, the Selig Zoo at 3800 Mission Road in East Los Angeles...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — Morgan Lithograph Co. Designs Eye-Popping...
Morgan Lithograph’s poster for “The Sheik.” Fast-cutting, hyper-kinetic trailers and TV spots today sell upcoming films to the general public. In the 1910s-1920s, however, eye-catching visual...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Samuel S. Hinds, Pasadena Playhouse...
Samuel S. Hinds, courtesy of Mary Mallory. Some people are lucky enough to work in a profession doing something they love, offering both pleasure and satisfaction. Others work at jobs that allow them...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: TCM Movie Location Bus Tour Cruises Los...
Over the decades, motion picture producers have unknowingly documented historic and outstanding architecture surrounding Hollywood and Los Angeles while filming their movies. These visual...
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Mary Mallory: Film Noir Fest Visits The Dark Side
A lobby card for “Too Late for Tears,” listed on EBay as Buy It Now for $75. For 16 years at Hollywood’s Egyptian Theatre, the Film Noir Foundation has been presenting Noir City, a dedicated look at...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: ‘Poor Pauline,’ Parody Sheet Music
“Poor Pauline,” courtesy of Indiana University. While sheet music was sold and manufactured beginning in the 1700s, only in the late 1880s did its sales truly take off, when Tin Pin Alley music...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — Ramona Shines a Light On Early California
A poster for “Ramona” featured on the program for the premiere of the restored film. Only 86 years after it originally opened in Los Angeles, the newly restored motion picture “Ramona” premiered March...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — The Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood Party Central
The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, courtesy of Mary Mallory. Once movie studios moved into Hollywood, life changed in the sleepy, little farming community. Easygoing small town life gave way to the jazzy...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — Play ball! Motion Picture Studios Play...
The Selig baseball team, courtesy of the Collections of the Margaret Herrick Library Long before there was radio, television, the Internet, social media, computer games or rotisserie leagues, major...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — TCM Classic Film Festival Highlights the...
Carl Davis conducts an orchestra for “Why Worry?” at the TCM festival. Photograph by Tyler Golden / Turner Entertainment Networks. Blending popular, timeless films with bountiful celebrity...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — TCM Classic Film Festival Scores on Silent...
Carl Davis conducts a live orchestra in his score for “Why Worry?” at the TCM Classic Film Festival. Photograph by Tyler Golden / Turner Entertainment Networks. Just as the TCM Classic Film Festival...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — Early Los Angeles Portrait Photographers...
Garden City Foto Co. demonstrated its setup for high-angle shots in this ad from a Los Angeles city directory. Long before topnotch stills photographers like Fred Hartsook and Albert Witzel began...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Alberto Vargas Glorifies 1940s Young...
Vargas poses with Kay Aldridge in a photo published in Cine-Mundial. “One day I will paint a Vargas girl so beautiful, so perfect, so typical of the American Girl, that I shall be able to show it to...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Wiltern Theatre Jazzes Up Movie Theater...
The grand opening of what was then the Warner Western Theater, courtesy of Mary Mallory. The history of one street corner can often show the growing pains of a burgeoning city. What started out as...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: ‘Too Much Johnson’ Introduces Orson Welles’...
Joseph Cotten, left, in “Too Much Johnson.” The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Los Angeles County Museum of Art opened their salute to Orson Welles Saturday, May 3, 2014, by...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: ‘The Epic of Everest’ Scales New Heights
An image from “The Epic of Everest,” listed on EBay for $9.99. Britain ruled the seas and world in the early 20th century, organizing expeditions to forlorn and distant lands like the poles and Mt....
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — 4418 Vineland Ave. Yesterday and Today
Over the decades, towns and cities undergo great change as they evolve from agrarian societies into metropolitan areas. Multi-unit residential properties, modern office buildings and skyscrapers...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights — Medical Arts Building
Mary went on a field trip to visit the Toluca Plaza building (formerly the Medical Arts Building) for her latest post, but some of her photos got caught in my spam filter. Here they are. This is “Aunt...
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