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| Universal Studio's Back Lot |
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| Including Their European City |
How many old horror movies have you seen from Universal
Studio?! Lots, if you're anything like Maven! Think you could recognized their back lot?! Check these photographs
out to see!
Universal Studio's Back Lot
| 649 West Adams Boulevard |
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| Los Angeles, CA |
West Adams Bouldevard in Los Angeles, California.
Old movie lovers may or may not have heard of the area but
most certainly have heard of some of the people associated with the area.
Theda "The Vamp" Bara from the earlies days of the silents
. . . Fatty Arbuckle from the scandal-ridden early twenties . . . Raoul Walsh transitioned from D. W. Griffith's The Birth
of a Nation (1915) to his own place in Hollwyood history . . . Joseph Schenck who guided studios and actors,
including his wife, Norma Talmadge, after their divorce.
Even houses in Hollywood have their own fascinating stories.
West Adams Boulevard and the Movies
The Theda Bara - Fatty Arbuckle - Raoul Walsh - Joseph Schenck - Norma Talmadge House
The Fatty Arbuckle Home
Rudolph Valentino . . . his name still evokes
memories of the first Latin Lover that Hollywood ever produced! Thanks to a website dedicated to the silent star, we
can take a photographic tour of his Falcon Lair at http://www.rudolph-valentino.com/fl-1.htm.
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| The Ennis Brown House |
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| Damage on the Front Retaining Wall |
| The Ennis-Brown House |
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| One of the Interior Rooms |
June 19, 2009
The Ennis-Brown House is now
for sale for some $15,000,000. For those
who have more money than Maven and want more details . . . you can go to . . . http://www.ennishouse.org/ and
November 17, 2009
| The Ennis Brown House, Los Angeles |
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| www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/wrightennis/ennis.html |
| The Ennis Brown House |
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| Another View of the Gate Plus the Courtyard |
| "The Bat" (1959) |
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| With Vincent Price |
WRECK OF THE WEEK:*
The house that you see at the beginning of The House on Haunted Hill (1959, with VINCENT PRICE) is the Ennis Brown House in Los Angeles, CA.
This is the entrance of the house
that is on the eleven (11) most endangered buildings on the National Trust. [The link is no longer available but you
can check their site at www.nationaltrust.org.] The restoration is estimated at $5,000,000 [2006 USD].
For more about the
movie, House on Haunted Hill (1959), go to the Internet Movie Database at:
Maven also discovered
the outside of Ennis Brown House was also used in Female (1933) with Ruth Chaterton. . . . For more information
just click on the Ennis-Brown House link at www.imdb.com/title/tt0051744/locations.
| Inside the Ennis Brown House (1924) |
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| A Franklyn Lloyd Wright Design |
| The Harry Houdini "Haunted House} |
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| Or Is It All That's Left?! |
| More of Harry Houdini's "Haunted House" |
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| Harold Lloyd's Greenacres |
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| Hollywood Seemed to Have as Many Stairs as Stars! |
Check these sites about his home, Greenacres, out:
Harold Lloyd and Greenacres' Background:
The Story Behind the Photos:
Greenacres' Main Entrance:
The Home:
Sideyard View # 1:
Sideyard View # 2:
The Reflecting Pool:
The Swimming Pool
Greenacres' Archives:
| The Dohenys' Greystone Manor |
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| Click for the Greystone Mansion's Home Page |
And then there is the Doheny Estate
of Greystone Mansion:
Photographs in and out of the house and shots of
movies filmed there:
The Doheny Murder Mystery at Greystone:
Greystone Mansion
| A Masonic Symbol |
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MASONIC SYMBOLS IN MOVIES
Maven doesn't know why these links
skip from # 2 to # 5 but they do lead to a Washington DC Symbols Homepage . . . .
Maven was moving her mouse around
the first diagram . . . .
Interesting!
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| Coit Tower in San Francisco, CA |
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| The Charles' "Home" in "After the Thin Man" (1936) |
| Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara |
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| Click on the Picture to go to www.gwtw.org/tour.html |
| A Drawing That Is Just Part of the Slznick Exhibit |
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| At the Harry Ransome Center, University of Texas at Austin |
Gone with the
Wind is one of Maven's favorite
books (1936) and movies (1939). You can find more about the Gone wiht the Wind exhibit in Atlanta, Georgia, by clicking
on the picture of Vivien Leigh on the left.
You can access the David
O. Selznick Collection at the Harry Ransome Center, University of Texas at Austin, by clicking on the drawing on the right.
Click on the link below
and go to Maven's article about Tara's architecture.
"GONE WITH THE WIND" (1939)
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