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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Erich von Stroheim Unlocks Suspense With...
A poster for “The Devil’s Passkey.” Riding high on the wave of great reviews and huge box office for “Blind Husbands,” his first film as director, artistic Austrian Erich von Stroheim expanded his...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Roy Harlow’s Pump Room Fills Up Studio City...
A postcard of Roy Harlow’s Pump Room, courtesy of Mary Mallory. Ventura Boulevard has been the dining and entertainment mecca of Studio City residents back to 1927, when the area was still part of...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: La Belle Tour Provides Classic Appeal
6208 Franklin Ave., via Google Street View. Hollywood’s population exploded during the early 1920s as motion picture production soared, thanks to studios moving their production facilities westward...
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Houdini on TCM: ‘The Grim Game’
Harry Houdini in “The Grim Game.” Update: TCM is airing “The Grim Game” on Oct. 18. Set your DVRs! Here is Mary Mallory’s post on the film. Long considered mostly lost, Harry Houdini’s second film,...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: ‘Your Girl and Mine’ Promotes Women’s Suffrage
“Your Girl and Mine,” Moving Picture World. From the 1840s on, many women in the United States fought to vote. Considered merely chattel, like slaves, women were forced to endure horrible marriages,...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Chateau des Fleurs Provides Elegant French...
6626 Franklin Ave., via Google Street View. Hollywood, California, exploded in population during the late 1910s and early 1920s with the influx of moving picture companies arriving in town and people...
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‘Hollywood Celebrates the Holidays’ by Karie Bible and Mary Mallory: Coming...
Mary Mallory and Karie Bible (whom we profiled at The Times) have collaborated on a new book, “Hollywood Celebrates the Holidays,” which goes on sale starting Wednesday. The book is published by...
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Pordenone Screens the Best of Silent Films
A PDF of the film festival’s 240-page catalog can be downloaded here. Note: Mike Hawks recently returned from the Pordenone Silent Film Festival and this is what he tells Mary Mallory. By Mike Hawks...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Margaret Bourke-White, Motion Picture...
Margaret Bourke-White and Michael Curtiz during filming of “The Adventures of Robin Hood.” Renowned photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White fearlessly documented battles on land, air, and sea, surviving...
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Karie Bible and Mary Mallory Book Signing
Mary Mallory, left, and Karie Bible spent years tracking down photos for their project. We stopped off at Larry Edmunds Bookshop on Hollywood Boulevard on Saturday afternoon for the authors’...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: The Case of the Clicking Heels, Part 1
Hazel Glab’s mug shot. This story arises from Linda Hammonds asking for further information regarding a 1920s Spanish home that sits at 12744 Ventura Blvd. on the Facebook page SoCal Historic...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: The Case of the Clicking Heels, Part 2
Hazel Glab In later life as Hazel Stoddard This is Part 2 of the story of Hazel Glab, flamboyant flapper, whose husband, John, died under mysterious circumstances June 18, 1928, at 12744 Ventura...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: ‘Weegee, Weegee, Tell Me Do’
“Weegee, Weegee, Tell Me Do,” courtesy of Mary Mallory. What we know as the game of Ouija evolved out of spiritualism practices into a major fad of the early twentieth century. While some denounced...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Hollywoodland Sign Arises November 1923
When I began researching and writing my Arcadia Publishing book “Hollywoodland” almost five years ago, standard gossip stated that developers constructed the giant Hollywoodland sign in July 1923 as a...
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Daily Mirror Holiday Gift Guide
“Hollywood Celebrates the Holidays” by Karie Bible and Mary Mallory has been receiving lots of attention since it was released in October and we were quite pleased to add a copy to the Daily Mirror...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Movie Tie-Ins for the Holidays
Since almost the beginning of the motion picture industry, advertising tie-ups and promotions have stoked audience interest and desire in seeing certain moving pictures and movie stars. Studios...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Al Levy’s Tavern Toasts 1930s Hollywood
A detail of a matchbook for Al Levy’s Tavern, 1627 N. Vine St., listed on EBay as Buy It Now for $6.95. Much of the glamour of classic Hollywood grew out of the fame and atmosphere of its famous...
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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.” Recognized today as one of the top selling singles and pieces of sheet music of all time, Irving Berlin’s “White...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Ambassador Theatre Entertains Hotel’s Guests
The Ambassador Theater, as shown in the Exhibitors Herald, 1921. On February 9, 1919, the Los Angeles Times reported that the California Hotel Company would soon begin construction on a luxurious...
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Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Stand-Ins Honor Themselves With the Elmers
William Hoover, left, doubled for Edward Arnold, Silver Screen, August 1939. Since 1927, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has recognized best acting performances in motion pictures by...
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