BigDave
Diamond Member
Worst mistake Louise Brooks made was divorcing General Douglas MacArthurAnd all of CaliforniaMaybe Portland can go fuck itself.
And Seattle can watch and do the same.
Except for Benedict Canyon, California because me and Mr. Lucy are buying a house there. I did post about this the other week in a thread in The Lounge about the crazy traffic situation I got into in Los Angeles going from LAX to Benedict Canyon.
Good luck with your new hacienda!
I will only be the second member ever in my family history to own a house in Benedict Canyon. The other one was in the 1920s and he was part of UFA which was the main German film studio and all the big names worked there and they also financed the first I think 5 Alfred Hitchcock films, all Silent.
Anyhow in I think it was 1926 or 1927 my relative was put on a ship and sent to what then was Hollywoodland, I'm not sure if Benedict Canyon was called that back then but he bought a house in that area, he was still with UFA but organising film things with the American Studios mainly what became Paramount Pictures and also MGM for our Directors and Art Directors to do some work in Hollywoodland and also for American's to go and do some work for UFA (our version of the Hollywoodland Studio System would probably have been and still is Babelsberg which is still in operation now, I think it started in 1911/1912 and it is the worlds oldest large scale film studios still in operation as it was when it begin).
The two most famous exchanges in the mid to late 1920s were Louise Brooks to UFA to work with G.W. Pabst who was literally one of our GREATEST film Directors and basically a genius and F.W. Murnau to I can't remember what American studio but he Directed several films in America he was a GREAT Director, he was killed in an auto accident driving along the Pacific Coast Highway in the early 1930s, Greta Garbo who had actually already gone very very weird - just not weird in public yet - she had a Death Mask of F.W. Murnau made and it was said it had pride of place in her house, bizarro stuff.