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100 never looked so good! 🎂 🎉 🎈
Happy official birthday to what is possibly L.A.’s most iconic landmark: The Hollywood Sign. Muse to artists, wishers, dreamers, and more, for a century, the Conservancy wishes you a very happy centennial and looks forward to your next 100 years! 🥂
📸 Photo courtesy the Hollywood Sign Trust

A belated 100th birthday shout out to the iconic Hollywood Sign. ❤️🎉

Embracing the magic of Hollywood in broad daylight, where the iconic sign stands tall amidst the vibrant cityscape. 🌇

Learn more about the Sign at our website: HollywoodSign.org

📸 Eric Richmond

What a great matinee this afternoon. Come on down to our 25thThree Stooges Big Screen Event at 8pm TONIGHT at the historic Alex Theatre in Glendale‼️

Here is the intro Suzanne Lloyd (Harold’s grandaughter) did for our screening of Safety Last!

Suzanne Lloyd Introduction

We can't wait to see you Stooges fans at the Alex Theatre on November 25th to celebrate 25 years of delicious madness!! alexfilmsociety.org for tickets.

Happy Halloween everyone🎃 And get those Three Stooges Big Screen Event tickets and celebrate with us 25 years of craziness‼️ alexfilmsociety.org

Very sad news.....

CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS THREE STOOGES FANS!? We are celebrating the 25th year of our "Three Stooges Big Screen Event!" with "Best of the Best!" Tickets are on-sale RIGHT NOW! Check-out our website (alexfilmsociety.org) for details. And yes, we are celebrating these screenings once again at the historic Alex Theatre!

See you soon - 6pm today at the Doctors' House Brand Park, Glendale. FREE ADMISSION and FREE POPCORN!!

Harold Lloyd’s Safety Last! saw its fair share of praise when it was released, but the major accolades would come much, much later.

The Library of Congress added Safety Last! to the National Film Registry in 1994, and Los Angeles’ own American Film Institute included the film in more than one of its “100 Years…” lists in 1998 and 2007. With a current 97% on review site Rotten Tomatoes, even user reviews point out what a classic Safety Last! is.

Don’t miss our *free* screening of Harold Lloyd's SAFETY LAST!, on the lawn of the Doctors' House Museum and Gazebo in Brand Park, Glendale, California, on Sunday, October 22nd at 6:00 p.m. Live music will be provided by Cliff Retallick, and there will be a special guest introduction by Suzanne Lloyd, granddaughter of star Harold Lloyd, in person!

Harold Lloyd

Free Outdoor Screening this Sunday, October 22nd at 6:00 PM on the lawn of the Doctors' House Museum and Gazebo in Brand Park, Glendale, California. Free screening.

Thanks Retroformat Silent Films - see you Sunday, October 22 at The Doctors' House in Glendale.

Surprisingly, not every contemporary review of Safety Last! was a rave. Time commented in 1923, “Harold Lloyd is one of the very few who can be laughed at in the same breath as the mighty Chaplin. So it is annoying to have him spoil it by falling back on a succession of cheap spectacularisms...” Ironically, Time used this iconic image for their own cover photo 67 years later, in 1990.

Don’t miss our FREE SCREENING of Harold Lloyd's masterpiece SAFETY LAST!, on the lawn of the Doctors' House Museum and Gazebo in Brand Park, Glendale, California, on Sunday, October 22 at 6:00 p.m., with live music by Cliff Retallick. Suzanne Lloyd, Harold Lloyd's granddaughter, will also be on hand in person to introduce the film! Bring your picnic items, blankets and chairs, and see THE "thrill-comedy" masterpiece by the inventor of the genre, Safety Last! as it was meant to be seen, on the big screen, with live music, at our fabulous outdoor event. And bring some extra napkins, because we guarantee your palms will get sweaty watching this suspense-filled, hilarious classic. Admission is FREE...

Harold Lloyd

Surprisingly, not every contemporary review of Safety Last! was a rave. Time commented in 1923, “Harold Lloyd is one of the very few who can be laughed at in the same breath as the mighty Chaplin. So it is annoying to have him spoil it by falling back on a succession of cheap spectacularisms...” Ironically, Time used this iconic image for their own cover photo 67 years later, in 1990.

Don’t miss our FREE SCREENING of Harold Lloyd's masterpiece SAFETY LAST!, on the lawn of the Doctors' House Museum and Gazebo in Brand Park, Glendale, California, on Sunday, October 22 at 6:00 p.m., with live music by Cliff Retallick. Suzanne Lloyd, Harold Lloyd's granddaughter, will also be on hand in person to introduce the film! Bring your picnic items, blankets and chairs, and see THE "thrill-comedy" masterpiece by the inventor of the genre, Safety Last! as it was meant to be seen, on the big screen, with live music, at our fabulous outdoor event. And bring some extra napkins, because we guarantee your palms will get sweaty watching this suspense-filled, hilarious classic. Admission is FREE...

Harold Lloyd

Sad news ...

She did it all: TV, movies, Broadway and more!
Suzanne Somers died peacefully today surrounded by family, just one day before her 77th birthday.
Her publicist says she survived an aggressive form of breast cancer for 23 years.
Suzanne first got attention on the big screen in 1973's "American Graffiti" but a role on the hit sitcom, "Three's Company," made her a television superstar in 1977.
She would go on to star in two other TV comedies: "She's The Sheriff" and "Step By Step." The latter ran for eight seasons.
In the show biz world, she was best known for her work on television but Suzanne also appeared in "Bullitt" with Steve McQueen and "Magnum Force" with Clint Eastwood. She even appeared on Broadway in a one-woman show.
She gained a whole other kind of fame (and fortune) with the ThighMaster. She got involved with the health and beauty industry. Suzanne wrote more than two dozen books. She even hosted a talk show.
I had fun interviewing her for several weeks back in 2015 when she gave "Dancing With The Stars" a go. I remember her as a voice of positivity. She made people happy. She made people smile. And that's something she was able to do for some 50 years.
May she R.I.P.

NEW RESCHEDULED DATE AND TIME! SUNDAY OCTOBER 22 6pm!!!

A fantastic actress. We were honored to interview Piper at the TCM Classic Film Fest last year! RIP❤️

TCM is saddened to hear of the loss of the formidable Piper Laurie.

An Emmy winner and Oscar nominee, she gave full-blooded performances as flawed, often ferocious women, in films such as THE HUSTLER and CARRIE.

The Hollywood Reporter remembers her here: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/piper-laurie-dead-twin-peaks-hustler-carrie-1235618677/

You don't want to miss Robert Mitchum's portrayal of one of the all-time great movie villains as the Reverend Harry Powell in The Night of the Hunter, now regarded as one of the greatest thrillers of American cinema. Screening Sunday, Oct. 8 at 4 PM at the Vidiots Eagle Theater in Eagle Rock. www.vidiotsfoundation.org

Stooges fans stand by we're celebrating our 25th anniversary of the Stooges Film Fest Saturday, November 25, 2023 (Thanksgiving weekend) at the Alex Theatre. Tickets on sale NOW‼️❤️.

RESCHEDULED FOR SUNDAY OCTOBER 22 @ 6pm!!!

AFS presents "The Night of the Hunter" at the Vidiots Eagle Theater on Sunday, October 8th at 4:00 PM. Unfortunately, Alan K. Rode, previously announced as introducing the film, is convalescing from a mishap and is now unable to join us.

ON THE SET… UNCLE CHARLIE LAYING DOWN THE LAW!
Uncle Charlie’s character on “MY THREE SONS” was kind of gruff. In real life, William Demarest was pretty laid back and soft spoken. Bill always had great stories from all the amazing feature films he appeared in over the decades. He worked with Fred MacMurray on many films prior to “MY THREE SONS”. Fred and Bill loved the game of golf and often teed off together

John Barrymore - 1927

🚨URGENT!🚨 Hollywood's iconic "blonde bombshell" Marilyn Monroe left us way too soon, and now her house where she lived—and died in 1962—may also be lost **if we don't act quickly.** Owners have filed plans to build a new house on the site of Monroe's 1929 Spanish, hacienda-style home in Brentwood, and it appears clearance for a demolition permit may already be in place. Identified in 2013 by the City's SurveyLA program as being potentially historic, the house is currently unprotected.

While we are definitely in the 11th hour, please reach out to Councilmember Councilwoman Traci Park ([email protected] and 213-473-7011) and ask her to *immediately* initiate the Historic-Cultural Monument (HCM) process for Monroe's house at 12305 5th Helena Drive!

If not too late and successful, this could allow the City and residents to consider if Monroe's house should be protected, spared from demolition, and ultimately designated as an HCM. This action can still allow owners to update and even expand the house if desired but ensure its essential character, and Monroe's association, is maintained.
📸: Photo via /Mercer Vine

Maureen O'Hara and John Wayne
The Quiet Man 1952
Directed by John Ford
A retired American boxer returns to the village of his birth in 1920s Ireland, where he falls for a spirited redhead whose brother is contemptuous of their union.