Please subscribe and be a part of the livescifi.tv, we really appreciate the support. LIVE this week on Do You Believe, Profiling the Unexplained host Norene Balovich sits down with author and paranormal investigator Jackie Gainy to get the scoop on Tragic Hollywood. Why is all the glamor and glitz filled with death, mysteries, suicides, ghosts, hauntings and paranormal activity. Norene and Jackie will be discussing some of the most tragic cases of Hollywood death and misfortune. The first studio in Hollywood was established by the New Jersey--based Centaur Co., which wanted to make westerns in California. They rented an unused roadhouse at 6121 Sunset Boulevard at the corner of Gower, and converted it into a movie studio in October 1911, calling it Nestor Studio after the name of the western branch of their company. The first feature film made specifically in a Hollywood studio, in 1914, was The Squaw Man, directed by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel,and was filmed at the Lasky-DeMille Barn among other area locations. By 1911, Los Angeles was second only to New York in motion picture production,and by 1915, the majority of American films were being produced in the Los Angeles area. Hollywood movie studios, 1922 Four major film companies -- Paramount, Warner Bros., RKO and Columbia -- had studios in Hollywood, as did several minor companies and rental studios. Hollywood had begun its dramatic transformation from sleepy suburb to movie production capital. The residential and agrarian Hollywood Boulevard of 1910 was virtually unrecognizable by 1920 as the new commercial and retail sector replaced it. The sleepy town was no more, and, to the chagrin of many original residents, the boom town could not be stopped. By 1920, Hollywood had become world-famous as the center of the United States film industry. In 1918, H. J. Whitley commissioned architect A. S. Barnes to design Whitley Heights as a Mediterranean-style village on the steep hillsides above Hollywood Boulevard, and it became the first celebrity community.The neighborhood is roughly bordered on the north and east by Cahuenga Boulevard, on the west by Highland Avenue, and on the south by Franklin Avenue. Among Whitley Heights' many famous residents have been Rudolph Valentino, Barbara Stanwyck, W.C. Fields, Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, William Powell. Tyrone Power, Gloria Swanson, Rosalind Russell, Judy Garland, and Marlene Dietrich

• published: 01 Mar 2013
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