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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...
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
A photograph of what appears to be the opening of Harold Lloyd’s 1921 “Never Weaken” has been listed on EBay. The vendor erroneously says that the theater is the Mason Opera House, but The Times shows that the film premiered ...
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.
Jonathan Ames, creator of HBO's "Bored to Death," sits down with Los Angeles Times' Television Critic Robert Lloyd for a Q&A.
Films by the great but little known French comic director Pierre Etaix are being shown in Los Angeles in newly restored form. Etaix himself will be in town.
On Wednesday, jewelry designer Tarina Tarantino and her business partner and husband, Alfonso Campos, unveiled ambitious plans for a historic seven-story building in downtown Los Angeles. If and when fully realized, the building at 908 S. Broadway that housed
A tribute to King of Cool action star Steve McQueen and a look inside the film projectionist's world sponsored by the Motion Picture Academy are among this week's highlights.
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."
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
Hearst's Mount Vernon West
A big splash. That's what media mogul William Randolph Hearst made when he finished his Santa Monica beach house in 1931. Its gilded rooms and swimming pools impressed the neighbors, but Hearst had it built to impress the nation.
From the end of the...
Douglas Fairbanks Sr.'s former beach home sells for $6.8 million
Update: The former Santa Monica beach house of silent film star Douglas Fairbanks Sr. has sold for $6,862,000.
In an area that became known as the Gold Coast after Hollywood stars and industry giants built homes there in the 1920s, the...
Hot Property: Hideway fit for a secret agent
A gated Mediterranean owned by actor Pierce Brosnan, who was the fifth James Bond in the long-running film series, has come on the market in Malibu at $3.9 million.
Designed as an artist's retreat, the two-story beach house includes a separate...
Los Angeles Times file photo Jobyna Ralston, Oct. 2, 1926. Los Angeles Times file Photo Update: Jobyna Ralston with Harold Lloyd in ???Girl Shy,??? in a photo marked April 20, 1924. Jan. 23, 1967: Jobyna Ralston dies at the age of 66. Just a reminder on how th
This week week will be your last--at least for a while--to leave the workplace and still see a little sun, so savor that Vitamin D while you can. On November 1, we 'fall back' into Daylight Saving Time mode and by 4:30 or so, it'll be dark out at the workday's
The day is Christmas, 1938. Thousands of cars rumble down Altadena's Santa Rosa Avenue, the street's towering cedars aglow for what a photo caption in the Los Angeles Times calls "The Mile of Trees." The tourist attraction wasn't really a mile long -- but peop
Dec. 25, 1962: "To Harold Lloyd, Christmas has always been a great feast at home. The mammoth tree stands in a high, vaulted room, the center of the family gathering. But Lloyd has been away a great deal this year because the reissue of his old pictures came i
A fight for control over Barnes & Noble is underway -- a business-level fight, that is, all wrapped up in stock trades and boardroom politics. No fisticuffs -- at least, not yet. Today Leonard Riggio, Barnes & Noble's founder and ...
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