Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hollywood. The picture people are becoming introspective. Some months ago they fashioned Souls for Sale out of the services of 50 stars; here is Hollywood with 50 more...
...Hollywood rattles along about the difficulties of breaking into the movies. Venturing westward to this cinema Constantinople comes a young and beautiful maiden (shot of a young and beautiful maiden wandering past "Pickfair," the Pickford-Fairbanks residence, with Doug and Mary chatting on the porch). She drifts into Hollywood hotels (shot of Charlie Chaplin buying a cigar). She tries to get a job (shots of William S. Hart, Pola Negri, Thomas Meighan, Bryant Washburn...
...Hollywood rumor said that Pola's second break with Charlie was attributable to Tilden and an inquisitive reporter was quick to interview all concerned...
...Love Piker. We don't know quite which is more tiresome? watching one of the 57 Hollywood varieties of "daughters'' go straight to the Nether Octopus of Shame, via the bathing-revel and flask-party route or seeing one of them won away from rouge, the Ritz and high-hattiness in general by kittens, tame canaries, rural atmosphere and the sight of a pair of baby-rompers. But The Love Piker temporarily swings the weight of ennui in the latter direction. Hope Warner (Anita Stewart) was a frightful snob. She broke the speed laws, owned a Pekinese, and when rescued...
...film fatuity and the picture destined simply as another flyblown feature, if it were not for the name of WALLACE REID woven in lurid letters throughout its manufacture. Wallace Reid, screen star, died last Fall from the effects of a drug habit contracted among the noisome swamps of Hollywood Society. Human Wreckage is produced by " The Los Angeles Anti-Narcotic League " as the moral epitaph to round out the cheerless fable of Reid's death. Mrs. Wallace Reid is the production's star...