Mary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Pickford Headlines 1933 Rose Parade
Photo: Mary Pickford in the 1933 Rose Parade. Courtesy of Mary Mallory Note: This is a 2012 post with a slight update. The 136th Rose Parade is Wednesday. Tomorrow sees the 124th annual Tournament of...
View ArticleMary Mallory: Hollywood Heights – United Artists Theatre
Note: This is an encore post from 2012. Los Angeles and Hollywood have been the Mecca and Medina of movies, where their acolytes came to worship, work and learn in the teens and 1920s. After making...
View ArticleMary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Pickford Headlines 1933 Rose Parade
Photo: Mary Pickford in the 1933 Rose Parade. Courtesy of Mary Mallory Note: This is a 2012 post with a slight update. The 131st Rose Parade is on Wednesday. Tomorrow sees the 124th annual Tournament...
View ArticleMary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Grauman’s Chinese Theatre Turns 90
The opening of “King of Kings at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. Photo courtesy of Bruce Torrence. Note: This is an encore post from 2017. Still ready for its close-up, the TCL Chinese Theatre, originally...
View ArticleMary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: 39th Pordenone Silent Film Festival...
In a tumultuous year filled with pandemic, isolation, ill will, and seeming madness, the 39th Annual Pordenone Silent Film Festival transported guests on magical journeys to other worlds, eras, and...
View ArticleMary Mallory: Hollywood Heights – Mary Pickford and Miniature Golf
Note: This is an encore post from 2012. The 1920s saw a series of fads sweep the nation as the American populace searched out the new and exciting after experiencing hardship and deprivation during...
View ArticleMary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Pickford Headlines 1933 Rose Parade
Photo: Mary Pickford in the 1933 Rose Parade. Courtesy of Mary Mallory Note: This is a 2012 post with a slight update. The 131st Rose Parade is on Wednesday. Tomorrow sees the 124th annual Tournament...
View ArticleMary Mallory: Hollywood Heights – Mary Pickford Day
Note: This is an encore post from 2013. Los Angeles in 1923 was a bustling, growing, optimistic place. The town recognized all sorts of interesting people and topics, saluting them with their own...
View ArticleMary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: United Artists Incorporated February 1919
From left, D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin and Douglas Fairbanks, image via the Library of Congress. The entertainment industry as we know it irrevocably changed on February 5, 1919,...
View ArticleMary 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. This is an encore post from May. In 1922, legendary German film director Ernst Lubitsch...
View ArticleMary 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...
View ArticleMary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: K.O. Rahmn, Mary Pickford’s Photographer
Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks in “The Taming of the Shrew,” photo by K.O. Rahmn, from Close Up. Probably the only actor/stills photographer in early Hollywood, K. O. (Knute Olaf) Rahmn worked...
View ArticleMary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Grauman’s Chinese Theatre Turns 90
The opening of “King of Kings at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre. Photo courtesy of Bruce Torrence. Still ready for its close-up, the TCL Chinese Theatre, originally Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, turns 90 on...
View ArticleMary Mallory: Hollywood Heights – Mary Pickford Day
Note: Mary Mallory is taking this week off, so I’m running a post from several years ago. Los Angeles in 1923 was a bustling, growing, optimistic place. The town recognized all sorts of interesting...
View ArticleMary Mallory: Hollywood Heights – Mary Pickford Day
Note: Mary Mallory is taking this week off, so I’m running a post from several years ago. Los Angeles in 1923 was a bustling, growing, optimistic place. The town recognized all sorts of interesting...
View ArticleMary Pickford Warns Aspiring Actresses: Bring Your Mothers!
Dec. 4, 1923: Los Angeles celebrates Mary Pickford Day with an appearance by the silent screen star, her mother, Charlotte, and her husband, Douglas Fairbanks, before a crowd of fans (mostly women,...
View ArticleMary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Pickford Headlines 1933 Rose Parade
Photo: Mary Pickford in the 1933 Rose Parade. Credit: Courtesy of Mary Mallory Tomorrow sees the 124th annual Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, welcoming the new year with magnificent garlands...
View ArticleHubble: No Evidence of ‘Big Bang’ Theory
Dec. 31, 1941: Celebrate New Year’s Eve at the Hollywood Palladium with Tommy Dorsey, Buddy Rich AND Frank Sinatra … plus Connie Haines and the Pied Pipers. John P. Varnum has a cute little racket. He...
View ArticleMary Pickford Warns Aspiring Actresses: Bring Your Mothers!
Dec. 4, 1923: Los Angeles celebrates Mary Pickford Day with an appearance by the silent screen star, her mother, Charlotte, and her husband, Douglas Fairbanks, before a crowd of fans (mostly women,...
View ArticleMary Mallory / Hollywood Heights: Pickford Headlines 1933 Rose Parade
Photo: Mary Pickford in the 1933 Rose Parade. Credit: Courtesy of Mary Mallory Tomorrow sees the 124th annual Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, welcoming the new year with magnificent garlands...
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