HOLLYWOOD EVENTS

Evening @ The Barn

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 7:30PM

An Evening of RICHARD DIX

Presented By His Son,

ROBERT DIX

Robert Dix, actor and author of Out of Hollywood — Two Generations of Actors talks about growing up in Hollywood with a famous father and will share some of the highlights of his own life as an actor from the 1950s — 1970s.

The program will include a photo presentation illustrating the careers of both father and son, a screening of a 1925 silent film, with musical accompaniment by Michael Mortilla, and a book signing.

Check out Richard Dix in a scene from Val Lewton’s Ghost Ship

Hollywood Heritage Museum in the Lasky-DeMille Barn

2100 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood (across from the Hollywood Bowl)

Refreshments available. FREE PARKING Information: (323) 874-2276

Admission – Members: $5 Non-Members: $10

DOORS OPEN AT 7:00PM. SEATING IS LIMITED. ADMISSION IS SOLD ONLY AT THE DOOR.

For more information, visit: www.hollywoodheritage.org

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Evening @ The Barn

Hollywood Heritage presents a special “Evening @ the Barn” with

MARSHA HUNT 

in person with the 50th Anniversary Presentation of her  documentary, unseen since 1960:

“A Call from the Stars”

Thursday February 18, 2010
7:30 p.m.

Marsha Hunt is a remarkable woman, and Hollywood Heritage is delighted to be hosting this event. 

“A Call from the Stars,” is a 1 hr. documentary Marsha produced that raised money and awareness for the U.S. Committee for Refugees. 14 of Marsha’s celebrity friends participated, including Paul Newman, Bing Crosby, Joanne Woodward, David Niven, Harry Belafonte and Jean Simmons. The special aired on Los Angeles television  February 10, 1960, in observance of the United Nations “World Refugee Year.” 

This special “Evening @ the Barn” is a Fundraiser to assist filmmakers in the completion of the feature documentary ”Marsha Hunt: Sweet Adversity.” Selected clips from this film will be shown, and you can find more information by clicking here to visit the documentary’s website.

Please note that, as this is a fundraiser, admission is $10.00 for both members and non-members. We recommend reservations for this event, as the Barn’s seating is limited to 110 persons. Please phone in your reservation at (818) 762-6608

Raffle tickets will be sold for an autographed copy of Marsha’s beautiful and “hard to find” coffee table book, ”The Way We Wore: Fashions of the 1930’s and 40’s and Our World Since Then.” For more information, please contact the documentary’s co-producer, Roger C. Memos at (310) 717-9364 or by email: zeldacandance@aol.com

Marsha Hunt with “A Call from the Stars” will be presented
in the
HOLLYWOOD HERITAGE MUSEUM in the
Lasky-DeMille Barn

(Across from the Hollywood Bowl)

2100 N. Highland Avenue, Hollywood, CA 90068

Admission $10

 Admission sold only at the door, but advance reservations requested.

Doors open 7 p.m., program starts 7:30 p.m.

Refreshments available for purchase.
 

FREE PARKING as usual.

If arriving by Metro, we are a short walk north of the Hollywood/Highland red line station.

REMINDER: The Hollywood Heritage Museum has a capacity of only 110 guests. Once the capacity is reached, we will not be able to seat anyone else, due to fire regulations.

Please reserve in advance by calling (818) 762-6608.

HOLLYWOOD HERITAGE

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Comedy is Dead 9

with Doug Benson

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

Hollywood Forever Cemetery and Duncan Trussell present the 9th installment of Comedy is Dead in the historic Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Admission is $15 and drinks (beer and wine) are $5. PARKING IS FREE

LINE UP:  Thursday, January 28^th, 2010

Doug Benson- Super High Me, Best Week Ever

Dana Gould- The Simpsons, HBO

Chris Hardwick- Attack Of The Show,  Halloween 2 (and a million other things)

Guy Braunum- Chelsea Lately

Nick Kroll- The League, Worst Week

Natasha Leggero- Chelsea Lately, Reno 911

Duncan Trussell- Curb Your Enthusiasm, HBO’s Funny Or Die

Doors open at 8:00 PM – Comedians go on at 9:00 PM sharp

For more information the public can visit www.comedyisdead.info

or send an email to comedyisdead@gmail.com or call 310.909.7965.

Tickets are available at www.BrownPaperTickets.com

Location Address:

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

6000 Santa Monica Blvd

Los Angeles, CA 90038

323.469.1181

COMEDY IS DEAD

Duncan Trussell is a comedian who got the idea to do a comedy show in a cemetery after watching Last Comic Standing and realizing that Stand-Up comedy has been murdered by the mass media. The show features actual comedians in the beautiful setting of a restored Masonic temple.

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Bob’s Holiday Office Party

Asylum has “Bob’s Holiday Office Party,” with Ann Randolph,

Rob Elk and Joe Keyes, right. (Ed Krieger / December 17, 2009)

Bob’s Holiday Office Party, Hollywood: Now in its 14th season, this irreverent parody gives audiences a humorous peek at the age-old tradition of the holiday office party. Booze-laced eggnog flows freely, faces are slapped, drinks are spilled and embarrassment reigns supreme in Joe Keyes and Rob Elk’s rude and riotous sendup. Theatre Asylum, 6320 Santa Monica Blvd., 8 p.m. tonight through Sat., 7 p.m. Sun. $20. (323) 960-5774. www.bobsofficeparty.com

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times

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2009 Hollywood Christmas Parade

Just a few photos from the 2009 Hollywood Christmas Parade. Sorry, I didn’t stay for the entire event so I didn’t see the Big Guy…..

Hollywood Christmas Parade Grand Marshall: Susan Lucci

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Riddle’s “holiday art sale”

940 Maltman Avenue

Silverlake  

310 990 9182

GARDEN OF THE MIND

Get there early because the good stuff will go fast!

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 A day of Irving Thalberg at the Egyptian

In collaboration with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences exhibit “Irving Thalberg: Creating the Hollywood Studio System, 1920 – 1936

Co-Presented with the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles

AMERICAN CINEMATHEQUE

Grauman’s Egyptian Theater

Sunday, November 22, 2009

2 pm

presents

Author and Thalberg expert Mark Vieira will present a 40 minute illustrated lecture on Irving G. Thalberg prior to the double feature of pre-code features. Ben-Hur, Flesh and the Devil, Tarzan the Ape Man, Grand Hotel, Mutiny on the Bounty, A Night at the Opera, The Good Earth—most filmgoers even today have heard of these Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer classics from the 1920s and 1930s, not to mention the remakes they spawned. Yet few know the name of the young genius behind these masterworks, Irving G. Thalberg. Nicknamed the “Boy Wonder,” Thalberg was running Universal Pictures at the age of twenty and M-G-M at twenty-three. Thirteen years later, he was dead. During that brief span, from 1924 to 1936, he supervised more than four hundred M-G-M films; made stars of, among others, Norma Shearer (whom he married), Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Joan Crawford, Lon Chaney, and Greta Garbo; gave Hollywood careers to stage legends from Helen Hayes to the Barrymores; and elevated film to the level of fine art. This groundbreaking new book tells the story of Thalberg’s short but productive life and confirms his role as the prime architect of the Hollywood studio system.

That Thalberg was a cinematic genius is undisputed. It was he who pioneered many of today’s filmmaking practices, including story conferences, sneak previews, and the resulting retakes. Indeed, it is not every year that the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award is presented by the Academy, but only when the Academy’s Board of Directors wishes to honor a special producer, one whose work reflects “a consistently high quality of motion picture production.”

Thalberg Pre-Code Double Feature – Not on DVD:

SKYSCRAPER SOULS, 1932, Warner Bros., 99 min. Dir. Edgar Selwyn. This pre-code gem is a surprisingly modern treatise on sex and money: Warren William plays a married skyscraper magnate who sleeps with his secretary (Maureen O’Sullivan), while another suitor (Norman Foster) tries to win her heart. Look for future gossip columnist Hedda Hopper as William’s wife! With Art Deco sets by Art Director Cedric Gibbons.

FAITHLESS, 1932, Warner Bros., 88 min. Dir. Harry Beaumont. Tallulah Bankhead plays Carol Morgan, a spoiled young woman whose father’s fortune is wiped out by the depression. She refuses to accept reality, however, and refuses to accept the love of middle-class suitor Robert Montgomery, who’s baffled by the way she prioritizes money over romance.

Hosted by Mark A. Vieira, author of Hollywood Dreams Made Real and Irving Thalberg. Book signing with both Vieira’s Thalberg books at 4:30 PM in the lobby (between films). Reception before the program from 12:30 – 1:30 PM at Larry Edmund’s Book Store just east of the Egyptian at 6644 Hollywood Boulevard.

The major gallery exhibit at the Academy features photographs, documents, poster art, props and costumes from many of the famed motion pictures overseen by Hollywood’s original “Boy Wonder.” Exhibit curated by Mark Vieira is open through December 13th. Free admission. www.oscars.org

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The Magic of Hollywood

It’s Magic
53rd Annual Edition

Sunday, November 8th at 7pm

The Kodak Theatre

Hollywood, CA

HOLLYWOOD —The Magic Castle is the place being honored on Sunday, November 8, at 7 p.m. The 54^th Anniversary of “It’s Magic!” will be hosted by Hollywood Walk of Fame honoree, Milt Larsen, and special guests Neil Patrick Harris, Romi Dames, David DeLuise, Phill Lewis and Steve Valentine for this year’s greatly anticipated annual production…  Click here to continue reading

 
 
 
Starring:
Lance Burton
Mac King
Joseph Gabriel & Katalin
Kevin James
Rudy Coby
Shimada
Jorge Blass
Guest Host Neil Patrick Harris 

Tickets available at www.itsmagic.org
Or the Kodak Theatre Box Office
 

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The 10th Annual Dia De Los Muertos celebration at Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

Hollywood Forever

will be presenting its

10^th annual Dia De Los Muertos Celebration.

Admission $10.00 – 12 years & under are free.

The celebration features:

• The procession will begin with an Aztec Ritual Blessing and will continue with a traditional “Oaxacan Burial” that represents the suffering of death and it concludes on stage welcoming the spirits to celebrate.
• The community honors their beloved that have passed away by creating altars as offerings throughout the cemetery.
• The 150+ Altars are entered in a contest.  1^st prize $3,000, 2^nd prize $2,000 and 3^rd prize $1,000
• Art exhibit in the Cathedral Mausoleum featuring work by the Linares Family and many more.
• The world premier of the film “La Fiesta Eterna”, a film about the tradition of Dia De Los Muertos.
• Children’s Area where kids can learn about this  ancient celebration though art, including traditional face painting.
• Expected attendance of 20,000+ people. (based on 2008 attendance of 20,000)
• Artists performing throughout the grounds such as Xavier Quijas, La Santa Cecilia, La Cafeteras and many more.
• Concluding with a concert under the stars given by world renowned singer/songwriter and Latin Grammy winner Lila Downs.

Gates open at 4:00 PM

Gates Close at 11:00 PM

Lila Downs at 9:00 PM

The public can call 323.447.0999

for more information.

Location Address:

Hollywood Forever Cemetery

6000 Santa Monica Blvd

Los Angeles, CA 90038

323.469.1181

Contact: Liliana Rosas – 323.821.0785

 liliana@ladayofthedead.com

Background:

Dia De Los Muertos is a 3,000 year old Aztec tradition, alternately referred to as “All Souls Day”, where it is believed the spirits of our ancestors and we, the living, can meet face to face for one day a year.

For more info on the festival at Hollywood Forever please visit

 www.ladayofthedead.com.

For more historical context visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Day_of_the_Dead

Lila Downs is a world renowned singer and songwriter and Latin Grammy winner from Oaxaca, Mexico. For more information please visit www.liladowns.com

Hollywood Forever, resting place of Hollywood’s Immortals, has made national headlines with its innovative approach, including digital biographies, summer film series, concert series and more. For more info see www.hollywoodforever.com

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Evening @ The Barn

We’re back with…

 

‘HOORAY FOR EDENDALE!”

- Selig-Polyscope, Keystone, Pathé, Norbig, Mixville! -

The season’s “Evening @ the Barn” opener
happens this Wednesday, October 14, 2009 

at 7:30 p.m. 

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Hollywood Heritage board member and author Robert S. Birchard will share the origins of what is known worldwide as the “Hollywood” film industry.  And Hollywood Heritage secretary Marc Wanamaker once again dives into his vast collection of historic photos from motion picture history, pulling out gems to illustrate Mr. Birchard’s presentation.

Keystone Film Company building,  Edendale