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82 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.

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.

Andrew Stein

On May 27, 2010, Stein was indicted and arrested for lying about his involvement during the investigation of the multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme involving Ken Starr, a financial advisor to various Hollywood celebrities.

Antonella Barba

Nevertheless, the judges praised her performance and liked it better than her friend Amanda's performance; eventually both received golden ticket passes to Hollywood.

ASIFA-Hollywood

Many branches of ASIFA exist throughout the world; in the US there are chapters in San Francisco, New York City, Atlanta, Seattle, Washington, the Detroit area, and others, while internationally, organizations exist in Annecy, France, in Italy, and Japan.

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.

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.

Broken Springs

Broken Springs had its world premier on June 4, 2010 in Hollywood at the Dances With Films festival on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

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.

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 M. Jones

He was a German prisoner of war for two and a half years — helping with the escape attempt described in the book Great Escape, which was later the subject of a Hollywood film.

Dean Chance

The 1962 campaign would be notable for the Angels as Chance and fellow phenom Bo Belinsky would team on both the mound and in the Hollywood social circles, much to the enjoyment of the Los Angeles beat writers and the consternation of manager Bill Rigney and the rest of the Angels' front office.

Earl Hofmann

Earl and Jean Hofmann lived in a house and studio they built in Hollywood, Maryland, not far from Leonardtown, Maryland.

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.

Fortunino Matania

Matania was also recommented to Hollywood director Cecil B. DeMille and produced a number of paintings of Rome and Egypt from which authentic designs could be made for the movie The Ten Commandments.

Gabriele Muccino

He is currently making a switch to directing Hollywood films after L'ultimo bacio won the Audience Award for World Cinema at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival bringing him to the attention of the American film industry.

George M. Odom

During his career, George Odom operated a public stable whose clients over the years included Robert L. Gerry, Sr., Marshall Field III, and Hollywood film mogul Louis B. Mayer who owned Odom's most famous runner, Busher, a future Hall of Fame filly who was voted 1945 American Horse of the Year honors.

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.

Herbert Lichtenfeld

While Wolfgang Petersen moved to the cinema and today works successfully in Hollywood, Lichtenfeld remained a writer for television.

Highter's Heath

South of Maypole Lane the area is often referred to as Hollywood, after the adjacent village in Worcestershire, whilst to the north the boundary with Warstock (and the wider B14 moniker of Kings Heath) is undefined.

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 Trials

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

Hollywood, County Wicklow

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

Hollywood's Comedy Nights

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

Hollywood/I Am the Resurrection

The artwork also resembles the artwork of The Stone Roses' artwork for their I Am the Resurrection single.

Ish Amitoj Kaur

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

Jacek Yerka

In 1990, Yerka received a contract with Hollywood producer Renee Daalder to design figures, monster-machines and surreal landscapes for the science fiction film Strawberry fields.

Jack Dempsey vs. Tommy Gibbons

Because of the California economy and the influence of the Hollywood film industry, many people traveled west with dreams of becoming rich and famous.

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.

Joe Medjuck

Joseph Medjuck (born February 17, 1943) is a Canadian-born film producer in Hollywood.

Kedok Ketawa

The critic-cum-screenwriter Saeroen, writing for Pemandangan, praised the film, especially its cinematography; he compared it to imported Hollywood films.

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.

Kilteevan

The Hollywood actor Tom Cruise can trace his roots back to Kilteevan through his real surname, Maypother.

Kyrgyzstan–United States relations

Hollywood movies such as Borat have tended to portray this region of the world as backwards or undeveloped; Кyrgyzs who served in the Soviet government or military remember the U.S. as the Cold War enemy.

Lefty Gomez

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

Live at the Aquarius Theatre: The Second Performance

Live at the Aquarius Theater: The Second Performance is a double live album of the band The Doors, released as a double CD recorded live on the Aquarius Theatre in Hollywood on 21 July 1969.

Mamee Double-Decker

Hollywood Pulpy Orange is a orange juice from Mamee-Double Decker was launched on 1 December 2012.

Marie-Hélène de Rothschild

Marie-Hélène took charge of refurbishing the huge château, making it a place where European nobility mingled with musicians, artists, fashion designers and Hollywood movie stars at grand soirées.

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.

Mid-air retrieval

The Genesis mission returned a sample of solar wind that was so delicate that it would have been damaged by a parachute landing, so a mid-air retrieval using helicopters flown by Hollywood stunt pilots contracted by NASA was planned.

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."

Moore Brothers

The Moore Brothers were three Irish born brothers who became famous in the motion picture business in early Hollywood.

Motley County, Texas

Taylor includes in the mural Quanah Parker at Roaring Springs, Judge Henry H. Campbell in his dugout prior to the establishment of the Matador Ranch, Dude Barton, an honoree of the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, and Shannon Davidson, a long-distance rider who won a Hollywood movie contract.

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.

Noel's Saturday Roadshow

These 'locations' were in fact elaborate studio sets dressed to resemble each week's location, such as the North Pole, a space station, Hollywood, or Niagara Falls.

Nosson Zand

After further gigs and performance with Matisyahu, in 2007 he went to Hollywood to play the lead role in Song of David a movie about a young Hasid who is studying to become a rabbi in a Los Angeles yeshiva.

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.

Paulo Vitor Damo da Rosa

At Pro Tour Hollywood he reached the quarterfinal, losing to eventual player of the year Shuhei Nakamura.

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.

Ponderosa Ranch

The stairs led nowhere, as the "bedrooms" were actually located on a sound stage in Hollywood.

Pradeep Kumar Majhi

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

Randal Malone

Malone was born as the sole living heir to a tobacco farming empire dating back to the early 19th century, but he was more attracted to working in show business and Hollywood than managing the family industry in Kentucky.

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.

Rick Sylvester

Rick Sylvester (Born April 3, 1942) is a climber and was a Hollywood stuntman, most famous for his BASE jump using skis and a Union Flag parachute from Canada's Mount Asgard for the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me in July 1976.

Sari Maritza

She made the German-UK film Monte Carlo Madness in Germany in 1932 before travelling to Hollywood, but her few films there for Paramount Studios and RKO Radio Pictures were poorly received.

Shootout on Juneau Wharf

At The Magic Castle nightclub, in Hollywood, California, July 8 is the annual Soapy Smith Party, complete with costume contests, charity gambling, and magic shows to memorialize the day of the shootout.

Sophia Choi

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

Sports memorabilia

There is also a boxing glove signed by Sullivan, Johnson, Ruth and many Hollywood stars and American Presidents that has sold for a lot of money before.

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 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.

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.

Tommy Tang

After emigrating to the U.S., Tang took a day job as chef and manager at a small Thai restaurant in Hollywood, California.

Tony Richards

With fellow band mates Don Costa (W.A.S.P./M80), Mark Kendall (Great White), and Jack Russell (Great White), they regularly played the most popular heavy metal clubs in Hollywood and LA such as the Troubador, Roxy Theatre, Whisky a Go Go, and Starwood Club.

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.

Vasyl Yemetz

Yemetz settles in Hollywood and starts work in 1945 on constructing a chromatic concert bandura.

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.

Vishal Kanoi

Under the tutelage of Frank Hatchett, Hollywood's ace choreographer for four months, Vishal got the rare and golden opportunity of performing solo at the annual Student Showcase event at Broadway in 2006 which spearheaded his journey as an entrepreneur in the entertainment field and landed him on the cover page of India Today's Kolkata edition in August 2006.

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.

Whitlocks End railway station

It is also located a short walk from the Majors Green area of Worcestershire, and is a short bus ride away from the new village of Dickens Heath.

Wilhelm Friedrich Mittrich

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

Xavier Ruiz

In 2005, he also directed the documentary Swiss Made in Hollywood, which relates the actual experiences of three young Swiss people who try to build their career in Hollywood.


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.

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.

Ambre Hammond

Lalo Schifrin, a renowned Hollywood film score writer has composed a double concerto for Ambre Hammond and trumpeter James Morrison which was premiered on 19 July 2007 at the Sydney Opera House with the Sydney Symphony; the concert was later broadcast on ABC Television.

Ann May

She practiced dancing with modern dance pioneer and choreographer, Ruth St. Denis, on the front lawn of May's Hollywood home.

Blood of the Innocent

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

Bugle Call Rag

The song appears in several Hollywood films, including The Big Broadcast of 1937, Orchestra Wives (1942), Stage Door Canteen (1943), The Benny Goodman Story (1956) and The Aviator (2004).

Charles Gordone

His acting credits included Brother Jerro in "The Trials of Brother Jerro Bohem," Hickey in "Of Mice and Men," and The Valet in Jean Genet's The Blacks (1961–1966) alongside of James Earl Jones, Maya Angelou, Cicely Tyson, and many other Black actors who went on to change Hollywood.

Coastal Studios

The company has previously provided ADR work for Hollywood films and television in the 1990s such as Batman & Robin, The Lion King, and Dawson's Creek.

Cosmix

However, a wave of or-suffixed action/horror Hollywood blockbusters and B-movies spread in France in the 1980s including Exterminator, Terminator, and Predator.

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).

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.

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.

Harry von Zell

Von Zell delivered the commentary on Celebrity Golf, a series of half-hour, nine-hole golf matches made in 1960 with Sam Snead taking on Hollywood celebrities at Los Angeles golf courses such as Woodland Hills and Lakeside Country Club.

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.

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.

Last Summer in the Hamptons

Proskurov has been the site of an intimate outdoor theatrical performance for many summers, and the family (and Helena's interns) are preparing the final details of the show when successful Hollywood actress Oona Hart (Victoria Foyt) arrives.

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.

Lynn Isenberg

Ambitions to write and produce Hollywood mainstream movies propelled Isenberg to Los Angeles where she added producer credits on "I Love You to Death" (Kevin Kline, Keanu Reeves) and "Youngblood" (Rob Lowe, Cynthia Gibb).

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.

Mir Zafar Ali

Ali has worked on visual effects and graphics in many Hollywood movies, including The Day After Tomorrow, X-Men (in which he was primarily in charge of the character Banshee as effects technical director), Stealth, Monster House, The Golden Compass, The Incredible Hulk, The Mummy and Aliens in the Attic.

MotorStorm: Apocalypse

After watching the title sequence for Smokin' Aces Alan McDermott from Evolution approached VooDooDog to explore developing a Hollywood block buster title sequence for the game.

Paramount Resources

In addition to its own name, Paramount has several subsidiaries with names resembling those of Hollywood companies, including Fox Drilling, Summit Resources, and Pixar Petroleum.

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.

Ramfis Trujillo

She was an American of Hungarian immigrant parents, who had a short but relatively successful film career in Hollywood, most notably in The Left Handed Gun, opposite Paul Newman.

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.

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.

Sid Meier's SimGolf

Other facilities made available as players progress through the game include a bar, a putting green, a tennis court and homes to parodies of Hollywood stars or other international celebrities, such as William Robins, Bruce Springstone, Pamela Panderson, or Rosie O'Doul.

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

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 Isle of Pingo Pongo

Additionally, it was recently viewed with other films part of the Censored Eleven at the TCM Film Festival in Hollywood on April 24, 2010 as part of a classic film series, presented by Donald Bogle.

The Mary Tyler Moore Hour

Moore announced plans to return in a new sitcom in the fall of 1980, but instead turned to Broadway, where she starred in a revival of Whose Life Is It Anyway? (winning a special 1980 Tony Award for her performance of a role originally played by Tom Conti), and then went back to Hollywood, where she played the emotionally crippled mother in the acclaimed film Ordinary People, directed by Robert Redford.

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.

Theatre Row Hollywood

Theatre Row Hollywood is a popular name for an area of Hollywood, California bounded roughly by La Brea and El Centro Ave and Lexington and Melrose avenues, consisting of approximately 15 theatres.

They Came From Hollywood

They Came From Hollywood (TCFH) was a video game under development by independent studio Octopus Motor for Microsoft Windows that involves the player smashing cities as a monster in the style of 1950s and 1960s monster films.

Triangle of the Sun

This destination got its fame from the 50's and 70's also becoming a favorite of Hollywood stars such as Elizabeth Taylor, Elvis Presley, among others.

Vienna, Georgia

It is the birthplace of the late Georgia governor George Busbee and the late Hollywood film director Vincent Sherman.

Viveka Davis

Discovered at age 11, by Alan Parker in an inner city school in south central Los Angeles, her career spanning 25 years so far has showcased her dynamic talents for drama, comedy, music and dance, won her praise and got the attention of many of the biggest names in Hollywood.