While doing research for my book, "Silver Lake Chronicles: Exploring an Urban Oasis in Los Angeles", I acquired this old photograph promoting the 1939 20th Century Fox film, "Hollywood Cavalcade." In the film, set in 1913 aspiring film director Michael Connors (Don Ameche) discovers Broadway newcomer Molly Adair (Alice Faye) and convinces her to let him manage her career. The course of their resulting partnership -- and meteoric rise to fame -- parallels Hollywood's own development, from its vaudevillian beginnings to "The Jazz Singer" and the arrival of sound in 1927.

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