While doing research for my book Silver Lake Chronicles: Exploring an Urban Oasis in Los Angeles, it became known to me through reading Coy Watson's book The Keystone Kid: Tales of Early Hollywood that "some of the first people to arrive in the new colony (i.e. Edendale) were Gloria Swanson and her husband Wallace Beery, who became our neighbors across the street. There were also Mabel Normand (Sennett's girl friend), Charlie Murray, Mack Swain, Ford Sterling, etc."
Since I knew exactly where the Watson family lived, I figured it would be an easy task finding out where Gloria and Wallace lived. Not so! The book went to press without knowing where Gloria and Wallace lived. I only discovered thier Silver Lake digs a few days ago, while doing research in the U.S. City Directories, 1821-1989. The house is still standing at 1627 Glendale Boulevard, right around the corner from the Watson family home on Berkeley Avenue.
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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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Mack Sennett being given the heave-ho by a group of his male performers. On the far left are Hank Mann; holding Sennett are Tom Kennedy and Chester Conklin with Jimmy Finlayson standing behind Conklin.
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