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Gone Hollywood (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
Hollywood is an excellent spot for ghost hunting. From scorned starlets to personable pets, some of Tinseltown’s most famous faces are still haunting the town, decades after their deaths. Hollywood Forever Cemetery 6000 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, Calif. Previously named Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery, the Hollywood Forever Cemetery is the resting (and haunting) place of many [...]
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/15/2008
Cheeta is the chimpanzee that starred with Johnny Weissmuller in the Tarzan films, and this book is presented as his autobiography. Cheeta does concede, disarmingly, that he had some help. But what a memoir it is! He is the last surviving superstar from Hollywood's golden age, and has plenty of juice to spill.
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
NEW YORK.- Hollywood on the Hudson: Filmmaking in New York, 1920-1939, a month-long exhibition that showcases New York City's seminal yet rarely recognized role in the establishment of the modern American film industry between the two world wars, is presented at The Museum of Modern Art, from through October 19, 2008. More than 25 feature films and many shorts, including
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Explore : Actors and Actresses, Cinema, Cities and Towns, Crises and conflicts, D. W. Griffith, Directors, Fine Arts, Gloria Swanson, Louise Brooks, Marx Brothers, Movie Productions, Museum of Modern Art, Museums, New York, New York City, Rudolph Valentino
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Ferdy on Films, etc. (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
Movies about Movies Blogathon Show People (1928) Director: King Vidor By Marilyn Ferdinand This is an entry in the Movies about Movies Blogathon, hosted by Goatdog. Marion Davies means different things to different people. To those unfamiliar with silent films,...
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Dr. X's Free Associations (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
Marion Davies & Jane Winton (The Fair Co-Ed). Left-click photot to enlarge. More Marion Davies photographs: 1; 2; 3
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Modern Mechanix (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
This looks like it’s the first “star” trailer. Travelling Dressing Room—Movie Star Introduces Her “Dressmobile” KEEPING temperamental moving picture stars happy and comfortable while on location has long been a serious problem with directors, but Metro-Goldwyn seems to be on the right track in the solution of this problem by providing luxurious traveling dressing rooms for the [...]
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NewMexiKen (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
… was born on this date in 1863. Was Hearst the model for Charles Foster Kane? Here is what Orson Welles had to say in 1975 (written to promote a book about Hearst and actress Marion Davies). When Frederick Remington was dispatched to the Cuban front to provide the Hearst newspapers with [...]
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Cinema Styles (Free subscription) | 04/13/2008
A great still from the 1932 production Blondie of the Follies . Blondie, the stern looking one on the left with the incredibly tall hat, was played by none other than Susan Alexander Marion Davies. Her friend Lurline, the other stern looking one, on the right, was played by Billie Dove. Blondie joins the cast of Lurline's stage show and quickly gets the attention of Lurline's man, Larry Aydlette Belmont,...
