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Harvey Henderson Wilcox (c. 1832 – March 19, 1891) was an American landowner who registered the name Hollywood for his estate west of the city of Los Angeles in 1887. [1] Hollywood became the center of the movie industry of the United States in the early 1910s.
An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood. Crown Publishers. Harris, Mark. (2005). Pictures at a Revolution: Five Movies and the Birth of the New Hollywood. Penguin Press. Higham, Charles. (1972). Hollywood Cameramen: Sources of Light. Southern Illinois University Press. Higham, Charles. (1984). Hollywood in the Twenties. A.S ...
For example, To Have and Have Not (1944) is notable not only for the first pairing of actors Humphrey Bogart (1899–1957) and Lauren Bacall (1924–2014), but because it was written by two future winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), the author of the novel on which the script was nominally based, and ...
During Hollywood’s Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s, when moviemaking operated under the studio system, the moguls who ruled over the industry exhibited little appreciation for writers or the ...
[2] Hollywood novels portray the entertainment industry as "glitzy, powerful, and often sleazy." [3] According to the New York Society Library, "Yes, there is a part of Los Angeles called Hollywood, but the Hollywood of our imagination is so much more. It is the locus of the motion picture industry. Home to stars and producers and writers.
The Hollywood History of the World is a 1988 book about historical movies written by George MacDonald Fraser. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Fraser said he was inspired to write the book when it occurred to him that "in a way, Hollywood has been a great historical educator, because if you or I or anyone else thinks of ancient Rome, you probably think of something ...
Hollywood: Built in 1921 for the Hollywood lodge of the Masons; Included billiard room, parlor, ballroom and lodge rooms 131: Hollywood Melrose Hotel: Hollywood Melrose Hotel: July 8, 1992 : 5150-70 Melrose Ave. Hollywood: 132
1985: Writers approve a new pact after a two-week strike, but the union’s leader calls it a “defeat” on the key issue of videocassette revenue-sharing. A 2007 rally in Century City, early in ...