Tim McCoy
“I’ve never been sentimental about my horse. The horse doesn’t give a damn about you. If you want to know the truth – horses are dumb.” — Tim McCoy Silent Men (1933)
Tag: 1933
Clive Brook
“Hollywood is a chain gang and we lose the will to escape. The links of the chain are not forged with cruelties but with luxuries.” — Clive Brook Year: 1930. Artist: Lill Tschudi (1911-2004). Linocut. 255 x 170 mm. The Lawyer’s Secret (1931). Starring Jean Arthur, Charles Rogers, Fay Wray and Richard Arlen. […]
Long Beach Earthquake Damage – 1933
A smashed DeSoto on Main Street in Compton caused by the Long Beach earthquake on March 10, 1933. The quake had a magnitude of 6.4. Over 100 people lost their lives in the disaster. Here are more photos taken in the quake’s aftermath. Damage on Pacific Boulevard in Huntington Park. The U.S. Navy arrives in Long […]
Greta Nissen – Photos and Quotes
“I have heard so much about Hollywood and I see nothing of it except on my way to the studio and back to my home in the evening. At night I feel tired and so I always go to bed early. It is better so.” — Greta Nissen in 1925. Her quote was probably translated by an […]
John Barrymore – photos and quotes
“The good die young, because they see it’s no use living if you have got to be good.” – John Barrymore Moving Picture World (1920). Charles Chaplin, John Barrymore and Douglas Fairbanks posing for a gag photo in 1924. Tempest (1928). Artist: Charles W. Pancoast. “Of course, we are all […]