D.W. Griffith – photos and quotes
“I wonder if you realize that every community, from that of a city like London to the very smallest village in saddest […]
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Carlyle Blackwell – photos and quotes
“Along about the time when I should have been starting off to college, I became exceedingly unpopular, need I say, undeservedly so! […]
Mabel Normand – photos and quotes
“Just because I’m a little – well, you know, different – people believe anything weird about me.” – Mabel Normand Photographer: Aaron Tycko […]
Bessie Barriscale – photos and quotes
“I simply have to talk when I act.” – silent film star Bessie Barriscale (1884-1965). In 1917, she was touted as the “noisiest actress […]
Anita Stewart – photos and quotes
“You know, there are so many men who want to die for me, or about me, but when I give them the […]
Edward Doheny – Los Angeles Oil Tycoon
In August 1907, Los Angeles oil tycoon Edward Doheny (1856-1935) hosted one of the Alexandria Hotel’s first themed banquets. He entertained 40 people. Many […]
Ruth St. Denis – Interpretive Dancer
“I feel that popular dancing as one sees it today is nothing mere than a complicated form of hugging. It will, however, […]
U.S. President William Howard Taft – 1911
On October 16, 1911, U.S. President William Howard Taft arrived in Southern California for a whirlwind tour of Los Angeles, Pasadena, and […]