Hollywood Studio Magazine (1978)

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FAMOUS HOLLYWOOD LANDMARKS CAPITOL TOWERS, home of Capito! Records is a special landmark in Hollywood. The Capitol Tower is the home of Capitol Records and has tours. The Huntington Hartford Theatre, was formerly occupied by the Vine St. Theatre and the Lux Radio broadcasts. It opened September 27, 1954 with Helen Hayes in “‘What Every Woman Knows.” Across is the Brown Derby Restaurant—but it’s the Wilshire Brown Derby, built in the shape of a hat for which it was named, where ambitious movie aspirant Constance Bennett worked as a waitress in George Cukor’s classic ‘What Price Hollywood.” Just a few years later, the fable came true when waitress Ellen Drew working at C.C. Brown famed for their hot fudge sundaes met then agent Bill Demarest who took her to Paramount and stardom. Stars still frequent the sweet shop (near the Chinese), the dieter’s dream. At the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, the late character actress Elizabeth Patterson made her home for many years— the Classic Film Collector group recently held their annual convention there. Silent Star Antonio Moreno was responsible for the start of the Masquers Club, composed of members of the entertainment industries. The clubhouse for the Troupers Club, a similar group offers many fine play productions. In 1930, a Valentino memorial ‘‘Aspiration” was dedicated in the De Longpre Park in the heart of Hollywood. Between Hollywood and Los Angeles still stand the Aimee Semple McPherson Temple. Don’t look for the Nora Desmond (SUNSET -BLVD.) mansion on Wilshire near Crenshaw—it was demolished in the late 1950s and the site is now an office building. It was also used in Rebel Without A Cause. Universal’s Hollywood Story was filmed at the old Charles Chaplin Studios on LaBrea near Sunset which is now A&M Records. The Hollywood Professional School for children is still in operation. It’s where Judy Garland first met Mickey Rooney— some other classmates were Donald O’Connor, Gloria De Haven, Frankie Darro and Bonita Granville. There’s a Marker on the American Savings and Loan building at Selma and Vine citing the spot where Cecil B. DeMille filmed the first THE SQUAW MAN in 1913. The barn in which it was shot, was moved to Paramount Studios some vears ago. Although most of the old-time celebrity haunts have been torn down, replaced by parking lots or high rises, the Hollywood Legion Stadium, a landmark since 1919, was so popular with the movie crowd that you didn’t know whether to watch the boxing (on Fridays) or star-gaze. In 1960, it became a bowling alley, Brunswick’s Hollywood Legion Lanes. If old movies are your thing—there are several now flourishing in tinsel-town: The Silent Movie Theatre, a shrine of the old, silent flicks; Tommy Cooper’s Vagabond and Tiffany Theatres that shows films in only their original 35MM prints with often celebrities like Lucille Bremer, Vincente Minnelli and Militza Korjus discussing their films; The Encore near Paramount Studios has jumped on the band wagon of nostalgia and done away with their tired foreign revivals. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, one of the largest in the country is presenting a retrospect of RKO Radio films this summer in the Bing Theatre. It is hard to spot the stars in the enormous department stores along Wilshire Boulevard—preferred by many are the small, smart shops near the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Beverly Hills. Other popular shopping places are the Farmer’s Market and the Century City Shopping Center, which used to be the backlot of 20th-Century-Fox Studios. The Beverly Hills Hotel, a rambling pink mission-style hotel built in 1912, is still the most prestigious hotel. The Movieland Wax Museum in Buena Park has the world’s biggest gathering of stars; 235 figures in 79 movie, TV scenes and recently added singer Roy Clark. At the Movie World “Cars of the Stars” you see collected treasures of more than 50 years of props, movie miniatures from your favorite films, plus the flamboyant cars of stars like Arbuckle, Betty Compson and The Beatles. The Studios are scattered from the San Fernando Valley to Culver City, with Universal Studios offering an excellent 2! hour, narrated tram and walking tour—not to be missed! Hollywood today is the scene of change and tomorrow promises even more change. So, then, the history of Hollywood continues to be written. There is no end ... It’s Still Here.A AERIAL VIEW of the famous Universal Studios taken in 1926. Today’s view of the Universal City complex is far different.