ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD

Here are some of Hollywood's architecture and setsput together here just for your enjoyment because Maven just came across a series of links that . . . well, let's just check 'em out!

How well do you know the architecture in movies that you love watching?!

Take this test and then go to QUIZ ANSWERS and find out how well you did!

Architecture in the Movies Quiz

Just Some of Grauman's Autographs, Footprints,

Handprints and Who Knows What Else!

There are so many Hollywood icons that one can call to mind but one of the first might be of Sid Grauman's Chinese Theatre (see the top of the page) but his Forecourt with actors' signatures, shoe prints and all is one that covers a lot . . . . Especially when you think how many have "signed in please" . . . .

A visitor could spend a couple of hours in town right here!

And here's more about the theatre:

http://sites.google.com/site/hollywoodtheatres/chinese

Harold Lloyd's Greenacres

Hollywood Seemed to Have as Many Stairs as Stars!

One of Buster Keaton's contemporaries was Harold Lloyd . . . . Check out HAROLD LLOYD for more an interview about him and his home, Greenacres!

Pickfair, Click to See More of the Home of

Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks

The couple that were THE first superstars of the wold in their day were Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. So . . . Maven has given them TWO pages here at The Old Movie Maven:

MARY PICKFORD AND DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS

ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Pickfair

There are websites devoted to vintage movie stars that have postcards of their homes . . . interesting if you've ever wondered whether those people up on the silver screen lived in homes like the ones we saw up there! http://www.silentsaregolden.com/homes/homesofstars.html

http://www.galenfrysinger.com/homes.htm

Universal Studio's Back Lot

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

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 Harry Houdini "Haunted House}

Or Is It All That's Left?!

More of Harry Houdini's "Haunted House"

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This is an interesting link to what is supposed to be Harry Houdini's Haunted House - or at least estate. Check it out for yourself! http://www.pbase.com/voya/2007_harry_houdini_estate

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A Masonic Symbol

MASONIC SYMBOLS IN MOVIES

http://www.geocities.com/jussaymoe/movies/movies.htm

http://www.geocities.com/jussaymoe/movies/movies2.htm

http://www.geocities.com/jussaymoe/movies/movies5.htm

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!

http://www.geocities.com/jussaymoe/dc_symbolism/index.htm

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Coit Tower in San Francisco, CA

The Charles' "Home" in "After the Thin Man" (1936)

Nick and Nora Charles return to their home in After the Thin Man (1936). . . . Except that "home" was the base of the Coit Tower in San Francisco, CA. So claims http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027260/locations!

While we're at it, you might want to check out http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027260/fullcredits

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027260/goofs

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027260/trivia

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027260/quotes

ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Bernheimer Residence

ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: The Black Dahlia Murder

ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Evan Thompson's Bottle House in Rhyolite, NV

ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Greystone Manor

ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: The Hollywood Sign

ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Homes of the Stars

ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Jean Harlow

ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Maps and Floor Plans

ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch

ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Pickfair

ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Scotty's Castle

ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: West Hollywood Historical Association

ARCHITECTURE IN HOLLYWOOD: Whimsy

Be sure to check out Maven's BUSTER KEATON page for information about his incredible home!