The House That Shadows Built (1928)

Record Details:

Title:
The House That Shadows Built
Date:
1928
Publisher:
New York: Doubleday
Volume:
The House That Shadows Built
Leaf #:
000154
Language:
English
Collection:
Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
November 16, 2023
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136 THE HOUSE THAT SHADOWS BUILT picture houses of the United States rose in numbers from 300 to 3,cxx), and road companies of the spoken drama began to fade out. Even before Griffith and Mary Pickford arrived, the Biograph had established itself in a revamped old mansion at ii East Fourteenth Street, a stone’s throw from the Comedy Theatre. The grand ballroom served as a studio and the bedrooms for laboratories or projecting rooms. In the basement dining rooms the actors and mechanics used to eat their put-up lunches. Thither Mary Pickford walked every day from her boarding house on East Twenty-first Street; thither, presently, came Dorothy and Lillian Gish, whom Griffith singled out from the extra girls for supporting parts and small bits. Griffith would throw a one-reel film together in two or three days. Finished, he witnessed a “rough run” in his crude projecting room, gave his assistant notes on the cutting, and passed to the next job. The actor who wanted to see himself on the screen had usually to wait until his picture appeared at the exhibiting houses. Mary Pickford learned one afternoon that her latest film, which she had not seen, was running at the Comedy. It was a rush season; Griffith had ordered a night session. By omitting dinner, Mary Pickford could see it at its “ supper turn.” She repaired to the Comedy, bought a ticket. A1 Kaufmann stopped her at the door.