Hollywood’s Egyptian Theatre Returns!
This week marks the return of the Egyptian Theatre and we couldn’t be happier!
Ferragamo’s Hollywood Roots
Hollywood and high fashion have always gone hand in hand, and many a star designer career has been launched from the red carpet - meet Salvatore Ferragamo, who first became famous as a Hollywood shoe designer.
Saving Marilyn Monroe’s House - It’s Complicated
The idea of this particular house being demolished had the community up in arms because none other than Marilyn Monroe had purchased and occupied this house in 1962 shortly before her death. It was the only home Marilyn ever owned. This house, while a private residence, has become a shrine of sorts, a way to remember Marilyn Monroe for fans all over the globe.
Hollywood’s First Movie Theatre
We’re not exactly sure when Hollywood’s first movie theatre opened, or even how its name was spelled.
Hollywood & the Ziegfeld Follies
The years 1907 - 1931 were formative years for the motion picture industry and also happen to be the years that over in New York City, a man named Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. was scandalizing Broadway with his “Ziegfeld Follies” shows. The Ziegfeld Follies created a new type of revue show, featuring beautiful showgirls, comedians, and singers in scenarios that were titillating to the public but never too showy or daring to be considered in bad taste. It’s the same line that films were trying to walk until the Hays Code came crashing down on them.
Hotels in Early Hollywood
Four miles west down a small bridle path that would eventually become Sunset Boulevard, a developer named Burton Green was building a Spanish style hotel in a tiny hamlet he called Beverly Hills,
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