1.) When does the tour bus leave, Ms. Cutter?
2.) Do Silver Screen Oasis members get a discount if we say that Randolph *cue chorus* Scott sent us?
3.) Could you please take a look at the mansion in the background in Night and Day (1945) as Ginny Sims and Cary Grant sing "You're the Top?" I am almost positive that Bruno (Robert Walker) in Strangers on a Train (1951) lived in this same mansion but I can't find any clear cut info about this location. This house just reeked of "posh" and I'd bet a nickel that it was featured as Clarence Kolb's digs in The Five Little Peppers movies in the late '30s and early '40s. I thought that Larry might know something about this house too, since I am almost positive it is the LA area. Btw, this song applies to you for all the time and trouble and love you lavished on this wonderful thread:
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4.) Also, was the Hollywood Legion Stadium anywhere near the American Legion Post 43 that you mentioned earlier in this thread? I understand that the Hollywood Legion Post was where the Hollywood elite rubbed elbows with the hoi polloi at the very popular boxing matches, political rallies and all manner of mass meetings that once took place there. From what I have read on Friday nights in the '20s-'50s, it attracted herds of Hollywood residents to the fights each week--especially in the '20s and '30s, before there was much else to do around town. In Robert Parrish's memoirs he recalls the early years of the Depression spent on the fringes of the stadium, where he and his brother tried to cadge a few bucks selling stuff to the big shots--one of whom--Al Jolson--took pity on Parrish and his brother and helped them get into the fights and to find better jobs in the movies (the Parrish kids had been extras for a long time by then). Here are a few pictures of the stadium that I've come across of the Hollywood Legion Stadium:
This is the old Legion Stadium on a busy night. This one was torn down in '33.
I think this is the new entrance to the stadium built in '34, but I'm not sure.
This is the interior of the Legion Stadium that was built in 1934. Does it still exist?
5.) Do you know what parts of the structures built for the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics still exist and are in use in the LA area? I remember seeing them featured in several movies, such as Million Dollar Legs (1932), Search For Beauty (1934) and reportedly in parts of Jim Thorpe, All American (1951).
6.) Could you please tell me if you have been to the Bradbury Building in downtown Los Angeles? I am interested in this place since the architecture is clearly so intricate, beautiful and durable and it has graced so many movies (The Unfaithful, Shockproof, DOA, Chinatown, Blade Runner, 500 Days of Summer and more) and tv shows (Banyon)? Is this being preserved carefully, I hope?
7.) Have you visited Angel's Flight, which I understand has some financial problems due to the poor economy? I have loved this quirky trolley line whenever I spotted it in movies, many of which are detailed here. Below is the image that loomed in front of Van Heflin as he tried to run away from his fate in Act of Violence (1949):
Whoa! Bad mojo on this patch of real estate. Get a priest, a rabbi, a medicine man and a mullah to say a prayer over the spot, will ya, LA?Lzcutter wrote: Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel
1714 N. Ivar Avenue
The 11-story HKHotel opened in 1925 and became very popular with the Hollywood crowd. Today, it is perhaps more known for its more macabre history.
In 1943, it was where police broke into the room of starlet Frances Farmer. Claiming she had failed to report to her parole officer, the police dragged Farmer through the lobby while she spewed obscenities every step of the way.
In July 1948, D.W. Griffith, the pioneering silent film director who had done so much to help create American film story telling techniques, died alone in the hotel. He hadnt directed a film since 1931 and was mostly ignored by the industry he had helped to create. His funeral, however, brought out over 500 industry movers and shakers and celebrities.
In 1962, famed MGM costume designer, Irene, checked into the hotel. She tried to cut her wrists and when that failed, she leapt to her death from the roof. Two days earlier, she had displayed her latest collection at a fashion show in Beverly Hills. Newspaper accounts attribute her depression to the recent death of her husband and business problems