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89 unusual facts about Hollywood


Al Walser

Walser later wrote the book Musicians Make It Big: An Insider Reveals the Secret Path to Break in Today's Music Industry and founded the record label Cut the Bull Entertainment, based in Hollywood.

Alexis Krasilovsky

Her film Women Behind the Camera won Best Documentary awards at the Female Eye Film Festival (Toronto, Canada); the Moondance Film Festival (Universal City, California); and the W.I.N. (Women’s Image Network) Film Festival (Hollywood).

America Now TV

Hollywood up and coming artists, producers, supermodels and celebrities, including Sylvester Stallone, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kirstie Alley, Spanish superstar Julio Iglesias and Canadian singer Norman Iceberg were all interviewed and/or guests on America Now TV.

American football at the 1932 Summer Olympics

All-American Albie Booth of Yale as well as Erny Pinckert and All-American Johnny Baker of USC decided not to play when offered paying jobs in Hollywood.

Arthur Renowitzky

Arthur has appeared on national television, on radio stations, he speaks frequently to juvenile hall incarcerated youth, high schools, he has been a key note speaker at numerous events and is now well known in Hollywood for his music and unforgettable inspiring story.

Axel Madsen

He was best known for his biographies of Hollywood celebrities, fashion pioneers, and business titans.

Backstage and Dangerous: The Private Rehearsal

Backstage and Dangerous: The Private Rehearsal is a rehearsal album of the rock band The Doors, recorded live at the Aquarius Theatre in Hollywood.

Bel Air Circuit

The Bel Air Circuit, more recently known as the Bel Air Digital Circuit, is an exclusive movie distribution service provided by the main Hollywood studios, offered to a group of movie executives, actors, as well as other wealthy individuals, in and around the greater Los Angeles area in the USA.

Benjamin Wishnietsky

He was a great supporter of the Hollywood Stamp Club in Hollywood, Florida and served as editor of their newsletter and on their board of directors for many years.

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Benjamin Wishnietsky retired to Florida and served on the board of the Hollywood Stamp Club, in Hollywood, Florida and was editor of their newsletter, the Hollywood Philatelist for more than 30 years.

Big Screen Preview Network

The Big Screen Preview Network (BSPN) is a digital cable channel focusing on upcoming movies and the current happenings in Hollywood.

Billesley, West Midlands

To the south is the Shirley West ward of Solihull and the Hollywood & Majors Green ward of Worcestershire.

Boris Shumyatsky

Another factor that was turned against Shumyatsky by his opponents: following a visit to the United States, he returned to Moscow with a vision of moving the hub of the film industry to a spot near Odessa, where the climate and geography were similar to those of Hollywood and thus more amenable to year-round film-making.

Carl A. Roles

A Thoroughbred trainer and owner, he trained for prominent stable owners such as Ada L. Rice of Chicago and Hollywood film studio boss, Louis B. Mayer.

Catalina Pottery

The pottery opened free standing stores to sell their wares in Avalon, Santa Catalina Island, Hollywood, Olvera Street in Los Angeles, and in the Arizona Biltmore Hotel, Phoenix.

Choctaw code talkers

During recent decades Hollywood has "discovered" code talkers, but not the Choctaw code talkers.

Christopher Dallman

It was produced by George Stanford and recorded at his home studio in Hollywood.

Chrome Specialties

As the Harley-Davidson craze swept through Hollywood many celebrities and rock stars looking for authentic biker gear wore the company’s leather jackets.

Craig Sawyer

Sawyer is also the owner of Tactical Insider, which brings technical advice on weapons and combat to Hollywood films and actors.

CWFH Heritage Tag Team Championship

The CWFH Heritage Tag Team Championship is a tag team championship controlled by Championship Wrestling from Hollywood.

Dadasaheb Torne

He caught another young man there, Baburao Pai, and started releasing Hollywood movies in Karachi.

Dahn Ben-Amotz

He then traveled to the United States and went to Hollywood.

David Ambrose

David Ambrose (born 1943) is a British novelist and screenwriter whose credits include at least 20 Hollywood films, 3 stage plays, and countless hours of television, including the controversial Alternative 3.

Dj SchizophreNik

Records in Canada, and dance label iMusic in the UK, and is also currently working with A&R Select in Hollywood.

Doug Frith

From July 1996 to January 2008, Frith served as president of the Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association, which is affiliated with the Motion Picture Association of America, and represents the interests of the American film industry in Canada.

Edith Joan Lyttleton

Her first success was with The Law-bringers (1913), which was made into a Hollywood feature film in the 1920s (as were The Altar Stairs and Jim of the Ranges).

Edward Beale McLean

Edward McLean then suddenly announced he had already married Rose Douras, a sister of Hollywood film star Marion Davies.

Emerging adulthood and early adulthood

Hollywood has produced multiple movies where the main conflict seems to be a "grown" adult's reluctance to actually "grow" up and take on responsibility.

Fubar 2

Early plot ideas regarding Terry and Dean trying to conquer Hollywood were scrapped, in favour of the Fort McMurray storyline.

Harry Gant

He was known as Handsome Harry Gant due to his Hollywood-style good looks, The Bandit after his longtime sponsor Skoal Bandit, Mr.

Haspop

Once he reached Las Vegas, the judges selected him as among the 10 acts to move directly to the quarterfinals in Hollywood without having to compete in another round of eliminations.

Haunting the Chapel

Recorded in Hollywood the recording process proved difficult when recording drums in a studio without carpet, although it resulted in drummer Dave Lombardo meeting Gene Hoglan who was to become an influence in his drumming style and speed.

Henry MacRae

In addition to the many westerns and adventure films to his credit, he directed the first Thai-Hollywood co-production, Miss Suwanna of Siam, in 1923.

Henry Nicholas

His mother remarried, to Robert Leach, a journalist and Hollywood screenwriter, who authored feature film scripts and episodes of such classic television shows as Perry Mason and Sea Hunt.

History of the San Diego Chargers

Gerald Courtney of Hollywood won an all-expenses-paid trip to Mexico City and Acapulco for submitting "Chargers" in a name-the-team contest.

Hollywood cycles

In the classic era of Hollywood cinema (1930 – 1945) "cycles" or genres matured.

Hollywood principle

In computer programming, the Hollywood principle is stated as "don't call us, we'll call you."

Hollywood, County Wicklow

About 3 km northeast of the village is the picturesque Poulaphouca, where the Liffey cascades in three stages.

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Hollywood, like its namesake in California, has an illustrious past in the entertainment industry.

Hollywood, Maryland

Sotterley was founded in 1703 by James Bowles, a wealthy planter, eventually changing hands to former Maryland Governor George Plater and through the 20th century to Louisa Satterlee (daughter of J.P. Morgan) and her husband.

Hollywood's Comedy Nights

Hollywood's Comedy Nights is the name of an English-language stand-up comedy show in Cologne, Germany.

Hooah

While used in Hollywood and in common usage among upper ranks in an effort to raise morale, many lower enlisted find its use to be irritating, especially when it comes from soldiers they perceive as sycophantic towards the chain of command or the armed services in general.

Ibunda

It did not turn a profit, a situation the Subentra Group blamed on imported Hollywood films being more popular.

India Dupre

At seventeen she moved to Hollywood to attend UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and has been acting in plays, film and television ever since.

Irene Mayer Selznick

Considered by her peers within the entertainment industry as one of the foremost historians of Hollywood and Broadway, in 1983 Irene M. Selznick published her autobiography A Private View.

Iron Horsemen

The attacks took place on two different occasions at bars in Hollywood, Maryland.

Ish Amitoj Kaur

Presently, she is working on an untitled book to be made into a Hollywood movie.

Jack Joyce

About that time, on the flip of a coin, he decided to go to Europe rather than start a career in Hollywood movies.

Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation

The Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation (JAACD) is an interest group founded in 2005 by Don Feder in the United States formed to combat anti-Christian prejudice in Hollywood, the news media, academia, politics and the courts.

Killarney, Gauteng

It was formerly known as the Hollywood of Johannesburg, due it being the location of one the first film studios in South Africa.

Lefty Gomez

Lefty traveled to Hollywood that April and June returned to Massachusetts to stay with family.

Leopoldo María Panero

#The reference to "Dulce pájaro de juventud" (Sweet Bird of Youth, theatre play by Tennessee Williams, which was brought to film by Richard Brooks in 1962 and which tells how a bon viveur has to leave his hometown, after seducing the boss's daughter. Installed in Hollywood he will become the lover of an autumn star).

Live: A Night on the Strip

Live: A Night on the Strip is a live recording by L.A. Guns which occurred October 7, 1999, at the Key Club on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.

MacArthur, West Virginia

Originally, it was named Hollywood and renamed MacArthur in 1942.

Mary Morain

In 1938, she moved to Hollywood to work with Donald McLean as one of his staff of therapists working under the principles of General Semantics.

Matthew d'Ancona

The same newspaper reported in late October 2009 that d'Ancona was set to become a Hollywood scriptwriter for a film about the art historian Bernard Berenson.

Max Van Ville

Max Van Ville (born January 13, 1987), a.k.a. VANVILLE, is an American DJ/producer/from Hollywood, Los Angeles.

May Berenbaum

She has also gained some measure of fame as the organizer of the Insect Fear Film Festival at the University of Illinois, an annual celebration of Hollywood's entomological excesses.

Michael Worth

Surviving on odd jobs and construction work, Michael accepted whatever small parts he could as he climbed the Hollywood ladder.

Mike Fanning

In his years at Notre Dame he shared the practice field with Daniel "Rudy" Ruettiger whose saga was made into a Hollywood film, "Rudy."

Mr. Skin

In 2007, MrSkin.com was referenced in Judd Apatow's comedy, Knocked Up, which was discussed in a New York Times Business section feature which detailed MrSkin.com's history, its prominence in Knocked Up, and the site's positive relationship with Hollywood companies as a marketing tool.

Pandemonium Shadow Show

It was the first product of his three-year, $50,000 recording contract with RCA Records, and was recorded in their Hollywood studio.

Pareh

During this period cinemas in the country mainly showed Hollywood productions.

Pearry Teo

Pearry Reginald Teo Zhang Pingli (born 23 July 1978), film director/producer, is the first Singaporean movie director to make a Hollywood film.

Pontiac Star Chief

When the storyline of I Love Lucy pointed towards a Hollywood setting in the 1954-1955 season, the characters "drove" (in episode 110, "California Here We Come") to the West Coast in a 1955 Star Chief convertible.

Pradeep Kumar Majhi

His hobbies are like Driving, reading national and international news magazines and watching Hollywood and Bollywood action movies.

R. R. Venkat

The producer has also made his foray into Hollywood with the 2012 English movie Divorce Invitation starring Jonathan Bennett directed by veteran S. V. Krishna Reddy which is a remake of S. V. Krishna Reddy's Srikanth and Ramya Krishnan starrer Aahwanam.

Richard Hough

After leaving school, he joined the RAF (Royal Air Force) at the beginning of World War II and received his initial flight training at an airfield not far from Hollywood.

S. V. Krishna Reddy

He ventured into Hollywood with the upcoming 2012 English romantic comedy, Divorce Invitation, a remake of his 1997 acclaimed Telugu film, Aahvaanam in post production, produced by R. R. Venkat.

Sophia Choi

She moved to the U.S. at the age of seven, and attended Hollywood Elementary School in Hollywood, Maryland.

Stacey Hollywood

In West Hollywood during the 1990s she became a prominent club promoter, hosting full-to-capacity nights at Club Arena, one of the largest nightclubs in Los Angeles.

Sunset Crater

In 1928, a Hollywood film company - Famous Players-Lasky Corporation - planned to detonate large quantities of explosives on the side of Sunset Crater in order to create an avalanche for Zane Grey's motion picture, "Avalanche".

Swaroop Kanchi

Kanchi also collaborated with DreamWorks to make a film on the similarities and differences between Bollywood and Hollywood; the film featured many notable film personalities of Indian film industry.

The Dance of Passion

An early premiere along the lines of Hollywood movie premieres was held on April 24, 2006 at the International Finance Centre Palace.

The Hotel Clarence

The Hotel Clarence's has strong ties to the Hollywood hit It's a Wonderful Life,and the residents claim that when Frank Capra visited this small Upstate New York town in 1945, he was inspired to model the movie's Bedford Falls after it.

The Long Way Out

The Long Way Out is an American-made short film dealing with Hollywood and the lengths a person will go to regain fame.

The Mercer Hotel

Also owned by André Balazs Properties are the Standard Hotels, including The Standard, Hollywood; The Standard, Downtown LA; The Standard Spa, Miami Beach; The Standard, High Line and the newest addition, The Standard, East Village.

The Phantom Edit

The Phantom Edit was originally circulated in Hollywood studios in 2000 and 2001, and was followed by media attention.

The Red Skelton Show

The program was produced at Desilu Productions and CBS Television City in Hollywood, and over five years, from 1955 through 1960, was telecast in color approximately 100 times.

The Saint's Vacation

Also, unlike the previous Saint films, which were produced in Hollywood, The Saint's Vacation was produced and filmed in the United Kingdom.

The Strike

However, the Hollywood production company that gets hold of his script turns it into a ludicrously sensationalist and anachronistic action film, starring Al Pacino (played by Richardson) as Arthur Scargill, and Meryl Streep (Jennifer Saunders) as his wife.

Tick-Tock

When the Hangman assumed control of the Night Shift, he encouraged each member to join him in a campaign of terror against Hollywood, pointing to their backgrounds for reasons why they should hate Hollywood.

United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America

The Carpenters found themselves in an unusual alliance with a coalition of other craft unions in Hollywood, the Conference of Studio Unions, led by Herbert Sorrell of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades.

United States House of Representatives elections in Kentucky, 2004

In what some dubbed "Heartland vs. Hollywood," Davis rode a Republican tidal wave to victory, defeating Clooney by a fair margin.

Venus Ramey

She was wooed by Hollywood in 1947, but dissatisfied with show business, she returned home to her Eubank, Kentucky tobacco farm (which she has maintained for over 50 years) in Pulaski County, Kentucky.

Vittorio Moroni

Among the short films made, Eccesso di zelo (Too Much Zeal) (1997) won awards at many festivals - including the Nanni Moretti’s Sacher Silver Award and Universal Studios Award, which allowed Moroni to make a masterclass at the studios of Universal Pictures in Hollywood.

Wilhelm Friedrich Mittrich

According to Der Spiegel, ODS paid € 6.8 million for exclusive licenses to Hollywood's film studios.

Will H. Hays

After a year in office, he resigned to become the choice of the Hollywood movie studios to become the first president of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (MPPDA) (1922–45).

Wojeck

Although it was one of the highest-rated shows on Canadian television in its time, only 20 episodes of the series were made, because Vernon was lured to Hollywood by the promise of more money than the CBC could offer.


Ace Atkins

As a Pinkerton Agency detective, Hammett investigated the rape and manslaughter case against early Hollywood star Roscoe Arbuckle, one of the most sensational trials of the 20th Century.

Al-Qadim

Thematically, the land of Zakhara is a blend of the historical Arabian Empire, the stories of legend, and a wealth of Hollywood cinematic history.

Alvin Colt

Among his screen credits are costume designs for the films Top Banana, Stiletto and Li'l Abner and for the TV productions of The Enchanted Nutcracker, Kiss Me Kate, The Adams Chronicles, CBS: On the Air, Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood and many years of the Tony Awards.

Blood of the Innocent

Breck Eisner is set to direct the upcoming Hollywood film adaptation.

Cal Tjader Plays Harold Arlen

He swipes string-section sounds (icy and twangy by turns) from the moderns, steals chords from Bartók's string quartets, throws in some Hollywood soundtrack stuff, conks on the bare piano strings, and fools around with counter-rhythms.

Characters in Molly Moon

He was later seen with Mrs. Trinklebury that November, and went out for dinner with the main characters of the series to a French restaurant, along with the rest of the famous Hollywood stars.

Costume jewelry

If you admired a necklace worn by Bette Davis in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex, you could buy a copy from Joseff of Hollywood, who made the original.

Culmore

The Hollywood feature film, "L.A. Story", starring Steve Martin and Sarah Jessica Parker is, according to Martin in "Born Standing Up", partly based on an Irish traditional song, The Maid Of Culmore.

David Chappe

After the sale of Gale Force Chappe continued to write original screenplays, novels, became a re-writer for Hollywood action films, and wrote the production draft of the 1999 film Beowulf.

David Sheehan

In the 1980s, while at NBC, Sheehan was the first local entertainment reporter to host and produce his own series of network specials, including “Macho Men of the Movies” (with Clint Eastwood, Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger) and “Hollywood’s Leading Ladies” (with Julia Roberts, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sharon Stone and Barbra Streisand).

Duane Thompson

In 1925, she was one of thirteen girls selected as "WAMPAS Baby Stars" alongside future Hollywood legend June Marlowe.

Eilat International Film Festival

Guests who have attended the festival include, American actress Valerie Harper, Oscar winner Ari Sandel, cinematographer Adam Greenberg, TV director Jeremy Kagan, leading Hollywood producers Avi Lerner and Dan Dimbort and additionally a host of Israeli leading industry professionals and celebrities.

Exclusive First Editions

Gilbow was also chosen as the brand under which a series of White Star Line ocean liners were produced, the models were issued between 1998 & 2000 and depicted the Titanic, Britannic and Olympic liners in various guises, these models no doubt came about because of the huge success of the Titanic Hollywood movie released in the late 1990s.

Fernie Alpine Resort

During spring 2009, Fernie Alpine Resort was temporarily transformed into the fictional Kodiak Valley ski resort, circa 1986, for exterior location shots for the Hollywood film Hot Tub Time Machine.

Frima Studio

It is from these premises that the production of Flash games for Hollywood brands such as Harry Potter and Looney Tunes allowed the business to develop and make a name for itself.

Gerald Lepkowski

In 2002 he landed the lead role in the award-winning Scottish romantic comedy film, American Cousins, starring alongside Shirley Henderson, Danny Nucci and Hollywood stars Dan Hedaya and Vincent Pastore.

Henry Davis Sleeper

Isabella Stewart Gardner commissined work from him; Henry Francis du Pont engaged his assistance with the big new wing of the family's massive Delaware house, Winterthur, now a famed museum of American decorative arts; he designed for Hollywood stars Joan Crawford and Fredric March.

History of VFX in Indian Films

The recent film "Krrish" had hollywood vfx supervisor Craig Mumma and was completely executed in India by Prasad EFX.

Hollywood and Vine

Later Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, the astronauts of the first lunar landing mission Apollo 11, were awarded television stars for coverage of the mission, and given the places of honor at the exact corners of Hollywood and Vine.

Hollywood Trials

The series followed ten Irish actors trying to break into Hollywood.

Howard Browne

In Hollywood, Browne wrote for television shows including Maverick, Ben Casey, and The Virginian.

Jack Palladino

In April 2009, Australian businessman Peter Holmes à Court admitted in the NSW Supreme Court that the Hollywood actor Russell Crowe had hired Palladino & Sutherland to investigate opposition to the planned takeover of the South Sydney Rabbitohs.

Jonathan Price

ÆSOPERA (libretti by Jeff Goode, Jan Michael Alejandro, and the composer), Hollywood, SCLT (2013)

Josh Altman

Altman specializes in the Platinum Triangle (Beverly Hills, Bel Air, and Holmby Hills) and the Sunset Strip and Hollywood Hills luxury housing market.

Maa Nanna Chiranjeevi

The film is a remake of 2006 Hollywood Hit film The Pursuit of Happyness, starring Will Smith and his son Jaden Smith.

Matador, Texas

Stanley Rose, famous Hollywood bookseller of the 1930s, was born in Matador.

Mazda RX-7

Mazda introduced a convertible version of the RX-7 in 1988 with a Naturally aspirated engine — introduced to the US market with ads featuring Hollywood actor James Garner, at the time featured in many of Mazda's television advertisements.

Mistress Nell Gwyn

The year of its publication, the novel was adapted for the silent film Nell Gwyn, a prestige production directed by Herbert Wilcox for which the Hollywood actress Dorothy Gish was brought over to Britain to play Gwyn.

Ned Scott

Ned Scott arrived in Hollywood in February, 1935 and took up residence with Fred Zinnemann, Henwar Rodakiewicz and Gunther von Fritsch in a studio apartment complex at 7900 Honey Drive, North Hollywood.

Prakash Mehra

The movie was to include Hollywood actors such as Charles Bronson among others, but the project though funded heavily initially, never came to fruition.

Ranald Graham

In 1974 Graham wrote the screenplay for the horror film Shanks, directed by "Hollywood B-movie veteran" William Castle and starring Marcel Marceau.

Rick Hurst

Richard Douglas "Rick" Hurst (born January 1, 1946) an American actor who portrayed Deputy Cletus Hogg, Boss Hogg's cousin, in the 1980 to 1983 seasons of The Dukes of Hazzard and most recent The Dukes of Hazzard Reunion in 1997 and Hazzard in Hollywood in 2000.

Roger Bean

In 2007, The Marvelous Wonderettes received the Los Angeles Ovation Award for Best Musical Intimate Theatre, and played a record-setting 18 months at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood, CA.

Rudy Robles

Producer Samuel Goldwyn reportedly discovered and gave him the screen name Rudy Robles, whilst he was working as a bellhop at The Beverly Hills Hotel in Hollywood.

Ryan Kahn

As an avid music fan, Ryan spends his free time playing bass in a Los Angeles based band, The Night Riders which has headlined on Hollywood’s world famous Sunset Strip.

Seminole Warriors Boxing

Launched in 2003 and based in Hollywood, Florida, the company amassed veterans like Oliver McCall, Lance Whitaker, and prospects like Danny O'Connor, Roman Greenberg, Wilmer Vasquez, Carl Davis Drummond and Jonathan González.

Shanghai Girls

The sisters' story is interrelated with critical historical events, famous people, and important places—the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Battle of Shanghai, internment at Angel Island, Los Angeles Chinatown, Hollywood, World War II, the Chinese Exclusion Act, McCarthyism, etc.

Steal This Film

Material found in Steal This Film includes the music of Can, tracks "Thief" and "She Brings the Rain"; clips from other documentary interviews with industry and governmental officials; several industry anti-piracy promotionals; logos from several major Hollywood studios, and sequences from The Day After Tomorrow, The Matrix, Zabriskie Point, and They Live.

Steal This Record

Mixed by Chris Lord-Alge at Image Recording, Inc. in Hollywood, California

Sternocleidomastoid muscle

"Even C-3PO has it, in the form of little pistons on his neck. Watch Star Trek: The good guys always have them, and the bad guys don't. It's a classic alien designer trick," notes biologist and Hollywood anatomy consultant Stuart Sumida.

Sun Valley Serenade

The film became a Hollywood hit, and served as a recruiting effort for the elite ski corps of the 10th Mountain Division stationed at Camp Hale in Colorado.

The Cripple of Inishmaan

1934, the inhabitants are excited to learn of a Hollywood film crew's arrival in neighbouring Inis Mór to make a documentary about life on the islands.

The Desert Spear

It has been confirmed that the Demon Cycle has been optioned for film production by the major Hollywood director Paul W. S. Anderson and longtime producing partner Jeremy Bolt, the duo behind the Resident Evil film franchise.

The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood

The Happy Hooker Goes to Hollywood (also called The Happy Hooker Goes Hollywood) is a 1980 film starring two-time Bond girl Martine Beswick, Chris Lemmon, Adam West and Phil Silvers.

The New Dick Van Dyke Show

Van Dyke was living in Cave Creek, Arizona at the time and did not want to move back to Hollywood, so the network agreed to film the show at Southwestern Studio on Stage 1 in nearby Carefree, Arizona.

Vineland

Vineland may be a play on the word "Hollywood", a reference to the first Viking settlement in North America, Vinland, or a reference to Andrey Vinelander, a character in Vladimir Nabokov's Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle.