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Hollywood History Part 4

Carl Laemmle And Universal Film

Another central figure in this early Hollywood history was Carl Laemmle, Carl Laemmle Picture who in 1912 formed Universal Film Manufacturing Company (taking over the Nestor Company in the process.) In 1915, Laemmle leased some acres in the San Fernando Valley and moved the show: this is also our current Universal City.

Equally important, historically, to Carl Laemmle, was Jacob Stern, who turned a barn (on the corner of Selma and Vine) into Lasky Company headquarters where the “first full-length motion picture” shot entirely in Hollywood was made.

Charlie Chaplin: A Quiet Genius

Also at this time, Charlie Chaplin, an English vaudeville comedian came to Hollywood Charlie Chaplin Picture (at the offer of Charles Kessel). Chaplin considered the Keystone Comedies to be a “crude mélange of rough-and-tumble,” but he was quite taken by Mabel Normand. At any rate, it was at this time that Chaplin created “The Little Tramp.” Soon after, Chaplin was making $10,000 a week, and he had the incredible distinction of being the most famous man in the world. Chaplin was indeed one of our very first celebrities.

D.W. Griffith: The Quiet Racist

In 1915, D.W. Griffith created—with Thomas Ince and Mark Sennett—the Triangle Film Corporation. Picture W.D. Griffith In 1915, Griffith also began filming The Birth of A Nation: the first movie to ever employ thousands of extras. It also featured Mae Marsh and Lillian Gish. The Birth of a Nation (which celebrated the Ku Klux Klan) Ku Klux Klan Picture went on to make over $15 million while putting Hollywood on the map as the movie mecca of the world. Movie companies like Vitagraph, Lubin, and Clune all pulled their knives to carve out their piece of the rancid, racist pie.

The Hollywood population exploded. Tourism rocked. And Hollywood Boulevard became tres chic. Filmmakers scoured the streets like ants at a picnic. New York Jews and their synagogues and kosher culture invaded the once Christian landscape. Thousands of young folks came seeking fame and Hollywood Boulevard became known as the Boulevard of Broken Dreams. And, heck yeah… the YWCA was created! And, yes indeed, the name Hollywood resonated throughout the world, already, with its misleading dreamy associations.

During the twenties, a lot of little movie houses tried their luck in Hollywood town. Centered around the Sunset and Gower area, they produced little comedies and westerns; most of the studios flippety-flopped… but not all!

United Artists Founded

United Artists was founded in 1919 by D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin. Columbia was formed by Harry and Jack Cohn with Joe Brandt. Columbia went on to produce such classics as It Happened One Night, Lawrence of Arabia, From Here To Eternity, On The Waterfront, The Caine Mutiny, Bye Bye Birdie, Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, and Funny Girl.

One interesting aspect of the Columbia business model was that they didn’t Judy Holiday Picture contract their celebrity stars; instead, they borrowed them from other studios. Some of the celebrities in Columbia’s movies included Clark Gable, Marlon Brando, Judy Holiday, Omar Sharif, Sidney Poitier Picture Henry Fonda, Sidney Portier, and Spencer Tracy.

20th Century Fox was founded by William Fox, who came to Hollywood in 1915. Some of the Fox movie hits include The Grapes of Wrath, State Fair, Miracle on 34th Street, The Sound Of Music, and Hello Dolly. And, in more recent times: Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, and Titanic. Fox celebrities include Tyrone Power, Natalie Wood, Marilyn Monroe, Shirley Temple, Jean Harlow, and Sonja Henie.

The Four Brothers Warner

Warner Brothers also started to kick ass. In 1918, four brothers with the last name Warner—Henry, Jack, Sam, and Albert—released their film: My Four Years In Germany. In their initial Sunset Studio, the Warners were the first to successfully evolve from silent films to films with sound. Some notable Warner Brothers films include Casablanca, The Big Sleep, and The Maltese Falcon. Some of the Warner movie stars include Humphrey Bogart, Errol Flynn, Ingrid Bergman, Bette Davis, Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford, Cary Grant, and Doris Day.

Paramount

The Paramount movie house began as the Famous Players—Lasky Corporation. Paramount was fortunate to have some competent directors on its team: D.W. Griffith and Cecil B. DeMille. Paramount celebrities included Clara Bow, Mary Pickford, and Marlene Dietrich. Some big Paramount movies include Sunset Boulevard, White Christmas, True Grit, Chinatown, The Godfather, Rear Window, and Duck Soup.

More Hollywood Expansion

With the mind-boggling, Hollywood movie house expansion also came another growth surge in other industries. The exquisite Christie Hotel was erected in 1922. The marvelously decadent Garden of Allah Hotel opened in 1927 by Russian actress Alla Nazimova. The Knickerbocker Hotel was finished in 1925. The Chateau Elysee went up in 1928. The Chinese Theater opened in 1927, and, this is the famous spot in Hollywood where celebrities place their handprints in wet cement. Musso and Frank’s Grill opened in 1919. The famous Brown Derby restaurant on Vine Street opened in 1929. The famous Montmartre Café was opened by Eddie Brandstatter in 1923.

In 1936, The Crossroads of the World opened on the north side of Sunset. It was one of the world’s first shopping malls. And, also in the thirties, the Sunset Strip was making some noise. Several important nightclubs, including the Trocadero, opened. The Mocambo opened in 1938. And, in the same year, Earl Carrol opened a club. In 1940, Norman Chandler plunked $1,600,000 into the opening of the Palladium.

World War II Impacts The Movie Biz

The start of World War II profoundly and permanently changed Hollywood. Every Japanese studio employee was put into an internment camp. Much of the actors, drivers, and studio crews enlisted in the army. Some notable celebrities turned soldiers include Robert Taylor, Robert Montgomery, Jimmy Stewart, Victor Mature, and Clark Gable Picture Clark Gable.

Cold War And Hollywood

After World War II came a Cold War, and, this as well profoundly affected Hollywood in the way of its infamous “blacklist.” The House Committee on Un-American activities was rabidly raging its insane campaign to identify no-good commie bastards. Hundreds of actors, actresses, waiters, producers and directors were fucked-up by this patriotic crapola. Subpoenas were sent out en masse.

Jack Warner of Warner Brothers has the historical distinction of proving himself to be a weasel of the highest order, and, in general, just an all-around-piece-of-shit. Jack Warner was offering the committee, you see, evidence and pointing fingers, and, you know, fuck dat coward.

The “Hollywood Ten,” on the other hand, are true American heroes who openly challenged the HUAC. All were convicted, by the way, of “Contempt of Congress.” The American heroes who made-up the Hollywood Ten: Alvah Bessie, Herbert Bibermann, Dalton Trombo, Adrian Scott, Samuel Ornitz, Albert Maltz, John Howard Lawson, Lester Cole, Edward Dmytryk, and Clara Bow Picture Ring Lardner Jr. It is also worth noting that the only movie mogul to protest this affair was Samuel Goldwyn.

After the fervor of McCarthy’s madness faded, many of the banished individuals were welcomed back into the Holly clique. What can one say? The show must go on…

And, thousands of Americans returning from the war decided to make Los Angeles their new home. These ex-soldier boys benefited from the G.I. Bill’s low-interest mortgages… and, thus the post-war housing expansion; not to mention, the general intense suburban expansion throughout America. The suburban build-up in Los Angeles is now called “The Valley.”

The Hollywood Freeway

To accommodate the transportation needs of the new Valley suburbanites, the state of California plunked down $55 million to create the Hollywood Freeway. By 1949, most of the Hollywood Freeway was completed: except for the portion which was to cut through the Cahuenga Pass.

Hollywood Modernized

During the fifties and sixties, a lot of wonderful and somewhat historic Hollywood buildings were annihilated to make room for your typically sterile office buildings. That is, indeed, our modern tendency it would seem. Lots and lots of dull apartment buildings popped-up. Other older buildings were “modernized,” which is to say, made boring. Hollywood Boulevard was washed clean of much of its nostalgic properties.

The Walk Of Fame

Thus, the Walk of Fame came into existence. The sidewalk’s brass stars were to remind of our sacred celebrities of years passed. In September of 1958, the first eight stars (Joanne Woodward, Preston Foster, Ernest Torrence, Olive Borden, Edward Sedgwick, Louise Fazenda, Ronald Coleman, and Burt Lancaster) were set in the sidewalk at the northwest corner of Hollywood and Highland (for lame-ass wannabe hipsters in their Mommy-financed Doc Martins to step on day-in-and-day-out.)

Why So Angry?

During the sixties, lots of angry folks swarmed into H-Town; they were pissed at Amerika for her Vietnam murdering and, heading as far west as they could, ended-up as various homeless bums and degenerates and riff-raff Hollywood-style. Stores sold bongs, pipes, and black-light posters. Skanks sold their diseased twats on the streets. Scum huddled in alleyways passing needles or filthy-fingerprinted bottles of Thunderbird. Movie studios surmised the scene and said, “See ya’s sure as hucksters wouldn’t want to be ya’s.”

The nineties were really brutal to Hollywood town as well. The April 1992 riots fucked things up good and proper. And, the Northridge earth quake was a mean and destructive mamba jamba. The 1996 construction of the Hollywood subway system ended-up fucking shit up as well. In summary, Hollywood is a toilet.

Conclusion: Hollywood + Celebrities = Pissy Toilet

Yes, in summary Hollywood is indeed a pissy toilet that celebrates a bunch of mostly talentless and incredibly vain fucks. The stupid-ass world looks at this celebrity scum and, amazingly, wants to emulate them. Some of these celebrity twats are so brainwashed by the whole illusion that (I just heard this in the news) they are taking horse tranquilizers to lose weight. The aesthetic that’s been pumped-out of this shithole town has turned many minds inside out. Common sense is a thing of the past (if it ever existed.) So much for those religious Wilcox fucks who set-out to establish a booze-free, Christian Utopia. So much for the Indians before them that took the white cock up the hiney just like every American Indian before them. So much for a culture which promotes a sound and humane value system. Hollywood is here. Viva la Satan.

Yours In Christ,

Katie Witherspoon