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PASSINGS: Barbara Kent, Edgar Villchur
Barbara Kent Silent film star also was in talkies Barbara Kent, 103, an actress who began her career in silent films of the 1920s and made the transition to talkies in the Harold Lloyd comedies "Welcome Danger" and "Feet First," died Oct. 13 in Palm Desert, her family announced. No cause was given. She was born Barbara Cloutman in Gadsby, Canada, on Dec. 16, 1907, and her family moved from Alberta to Hollywood in the early 1920s. After graduating from Hollywood High School in 1925, she signed a contract with Universal Pictures. Using the stage name Barbara Kent, she was soon loaned to MGM for "Flesh and the Devil," a 1926 drama starring silent-film star John...
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PASSINGS: Barbara Kent, Edgar Villchur
Barbara Kent Silent film star also was in talkies Barbara Kent, 103, an actress who began her career in silent films of the 1920s and made the transition to talkies in the Harold Lloyd comedies "Welcome Danger" and "Feet...
One of Hollywood' most venerable movie palaces, Grauman's Chinese Theatre, is celebrating its 85th birthday this year. And as part of the theater's celebrations, the Chinese is offering a "25 Cent Movie Mondays" series. The first movie screening this Monday ev
The TCM Classic Film Festival highlights decades-old movies, but one of the most buzzed-about titles at the event in Hollywood over the weekend was 2012 Oscar winner "The Artist."
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On Wednesday, the motion picture academy announced the four honorees to be feted at the second annual Governors Awards on Nov. 14. Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola is to receive the Thalberg Award while film historian Kevin Brownlow, French auteur Jean-Luc Godar
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Oct. 22, 1940: Never saw a child with better dining-out manners than 9-year-old Harold Lloyd Jr., Jimmie Fidler says.
For nearly four decades Hollywood historian Marc Wanamaker has indulged his passion: collecting photographs from location film shoots in Los Angeles dating back to the early 1900s. Now, he hopes his new book featuring more than 200 vintage images, including ...
Los Angeles Times file photo I suppose you thought we would never finish with Thelma Todd! Yesterday’s mystery photo was taken in 1964 and shows Harold Lloyd with his famous “permanent†Christmas tree. His mystery dog was named Pepe. Los ...
Los Angeles recorded significant gains in on-location filming activity in 2010, powered by economic recovery, a revival in television comedies and state tax credits that helped to lure new business. But even with the increased activity, feature production rema
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Some upcoming tours are providing rare peeks inside some of Los Angeles' most famous houses, including Frank Lloyd Wright's Millard House (also called La Miniatura, above), Wright's Hollyhock House, the Ron Burkle-owned Green Acres and the iconic modernist Sta
When producers of the ABC game show “Downfall†needed a building from which to hurl dishwashers, gumball machines and other “prizes,†they settled on a warehouse on the east side of downtown Los Angeles. The six-story building on Te
The porn industry, like the rest of Hollywood, has been buffeted by the economic downturn, the falloff in DVD sales and a cornucopia of free content on the Internet. Still, for better or worse, the adult entertainment business remains alive ...
Crime-scene investigator Ryan Wolfe peers around the corner of a building, spying on an ex-con and some neighborhood toughs. When the group disappears down the alley, Wolfe chases after his target, who clambers over a metal gate and into an ...
French Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterrand is asking Hollywood for its budget-weary producers, pressured directors and harried filmmakers yearning for a tax break. France has had a long and rich history of filmmaking, from the pioneering motion pict
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June 6, 1941: Police Chief Arthur Hohmann and Deputy Chief C.B. “Jack” Horrall are about to trade jobs. Horrall will remain chief through World War II and into the postwar period, finally retiring during the Brenda Allen scandal – as ...
Downtown Los Angeles has been a trusty go-to character since Hollywood’s beginnings. Harold Lloyd dangled from a clock in the silent era, and Bunker Hill, in its pre-high-rise slum-ward glory, was a go-to setting for early noir films. More recently, ...
Frank Lloyd Wright's Ennis House, the architect's Mayan-inspired masterpiece and one of Los Angeles' most cherished landmarks, has sold to billion Ron Burkle for about $4.5 million.
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