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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: San Francisco Silent Film Festival...
“Sherlock Holmes” starring William Gillette, courtesy of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Conceived by Melissa Chittick and Stephen Salmons as a way to share the beauty of early cinema with the...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Los Angeles Breakfast Club Dines on History
Leading up to the twentieth century, few social organizations existed, except for those of wealth or higher class, or working for a charitable organization. Most people attended a religious...
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Mary Mallory/Hollywood Heights: San Francisco Silent Film Festival Celebrates...
“When the Earth Trembled,” courtesy of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. The San Francisco Silent Film Festival offered a little something for everyone during their recently concluded 20th...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Santa Barbara’s Lobero Theatre David O....
The Lobero Theatre. Santa Barbara’s beautiful Lobero Theatre has long operated as Hollywood’s go-to location for theatrical tryouts and performances since its opening in 1924. California’s oldest...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: 1915 Panama Pacific International...
The Tower of Jewels, in an image from the Los Angeles Public Library. One hundred years ago, San Francisco hosted the most elaborate and and fantastic World’s Exposition until that time in celebration...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Max Ree Adds Fine Design
Max Ree , in an undated photo. Mostly forgotten today thanks to his short film career, Danish architect turned costume and set designer Max Ree fashioned elegant artistry in the motion picture field...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: It’s Time for the Broncho Billy Silent Film...
Fannie Ward in “The Cheat.” For the 18th year in a row, the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum is holding their Broncho Billy Silent Film Festival in Niles’ historic 1913 Edison Theatre this weekend...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywood Athletic Club Trains Filmdom’s Elite
The Hollywood Athletic Club, Photoplay, 1924. In the 1910s and 1920s, social clubs were all the rage in Los Angeles and surrounding communities. Many people immigrated to Southern California’s sunny...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Teddy the Dog, Mack Sennett’s Best Friend
Teddy the dog with a Mack Sennett bathing beauty, courtesy of Mary Mallory. Guide, guard, and constant companion, the friendly dog is man’s best friend. Unswervingly loyal and supportive, canines give...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Assistance League Scouts Film Locations
Motion Picture Magazine, 1925. In the early days of the motion picture industry, no rules and regulations held down the field’s growth and development as companies basically made it up as they went...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Junius Estep and Alfred Lindstedt, Early...
Bessie Eyton by Junius Estep, courtesy of Mary Mallory. In the early days of silent film production, moving picture companies promoted their brand names to consumers, selling films around the quality...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: 4269 Lankershim Blvd: Evolution of an Address
Club Indigo matchbook courtesy of Mary Mallory. While some proprietorships remain in business for decades at one address, most often, occupancy at the site frequently changes due to economic and...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: The ‘It’ Cafe, Hollywood’s Swankiest Night...
The “It” Cafe in the Hollywood Plaza Hotel, courtesy of the Los Angeles Public Library. Restaurants go in and out of style in Hollywood just as quickly as go-go boots and bell bottoms, thanks to those...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: ‘Since Ma Is Playing Mah Jongg’ 1920s Game...
“Since Ma Is Playing Mah Jongg,” sung by Eddie Cantor, sheet music courtesy of Mary Mallory. In the 1920s, life changed fast and furiously as people celebrated the Jazz Age. Dance mad,...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: The 233 Club, Hollywood’s Masons
Feb. 27, 1926: The proposed building for the 233 Club in the Los Angeles Times. The jazz-mad, high-flying 1920s celebrated adventure, life, and excitement after all the dreariness and death of World...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Theatre Mechanique: Little Theatre, Big Heart
Theatre has enlightened and entertained audiences for centuries as it weaves the tales of life and love through both the comedic and dramatic talents of myriad actors. While most stage acting involves...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: ‘Sins of Hollywood – Tinseltown’s First...
“The Sins of Hollywood,” via Archive.org. From its very beginnings, the motion picture industry has endured protests and censorship attacks from conservative members of the American public, those...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Cinecon 51 Presents Entertaining and...
Douglas Fairbanks in “Wild and Woolly,” Photoplay, 1917. Another Cinecon has come and go, but left behind memories of rare film, good friends, and fun times. This year’s festival featured a mix of...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywood Cemetery Battles to Offer Place...
Hollywood Cemetery, the Los Angeles Herald, May 21, 1905. For over 115 years, Hollywood Cemetery, or what is now Hollywood Forever Cemetery, has offered a bucolic place of eternal rest for those...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Jesse L. Lasky, Music Man
Jesse Lasky on the cover of “We’ve Had a Lovely Time, So Long, Good Bye,” Courtesy of Mary Mallory. Best known as one of Hollywood’s early motion picture moguls, native Californian Jesse L. Lasky also...
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