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In the new historical novel In a Far-Off Land<\/em> <\/a>by Stephanie Landsem, Mina Sinclaire heads to Hollywood hoping to make it big as a movie star. But soon the high price of fame catches up to her. In the post below by Stephanie Landsem, discover five fascinating facts about historical Hollywood you probably didn’t know.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

1. Most Hollywood movies of the 1930s weren\u2019t made in Hollywood.<\/strong> They were made in Culver City. Just ten miles from Los Angeles, Culver City was the home of Ince Studios, Triangle Motion Picture Company, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Paramount Pictures. The two cities\u2014Hollywood and Culver City\u2014continually argued about which could claim billing as \u201cThe Movie Capital of the World.\u201d In 1937, the chambers of commerce for both cities held peace talks at Grauman\u2019s Chinese Theater. They determined that Hollywood would refer to itself as \u201cTinseltown\u201d and Culver City\u2019s slogan would be \u201cHeart of Screenland.\u201d<\/p>\n

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2. Charlie Chaplin was a Hollywood heartthrob.<\/strong> We think of Charlie Chaplin as \u201cThe Tramp\u201d with the oversized shoes and toothbrush mustache, but he was a notorious womanizer. Even at only five feet four inches, women swooned for him, including my heroine, Mina Sinclaire. He was married four times and involved in numerous affairs, paternity suits, and scandals. When he was fifty-four, he married eighteen-year-old Oona O\u2019Neil; he remained married to her for the rest of his life and had eight children with her.<\/p>\n

3. The Hollywood sign began as a very expensive billboard.<\/strong> In 1923, a real estate developer put up a sign to advertise a new upscale development called \u201cHollywoodland.\u201d The sign cost him a whopping $21,000. The original lighted sign blinked\u2014first \u201cHolly,\u201d then \u201cWood,\u201d then \u201cLand.\u201d In 1949, the sign was refurbished and the \u201cLand\u201d portion removed. The sign, which was only supposed to be up for eighteen months, has now endured for almost a hundred years.<\/p>\n

4. The Thomas Ince murder is sometimes considered the unsolved murder of the century and involved so many Hollywood celebrities it could have been an Agatha Christie novel.<\/strong> In 1924, Thomas Ince, a producer and director for Cosmopolitan pictures, went for a lavish cruise on William Randolph Hearst\u2019s yacht, the Oneida<\/em>. Onboard with him were Hearst, Marion Davies (Hearst\u2019s mistress), Louella Parsons, and Charlie Chaplin. Reports of Ince\u2019s death were highly conflicting, with the official death certificate citing acute indigestion. Witnesses disagreed, and rumor circulated that Hearst had found Charlie Chaplin and Marion Davies together, tried to shoot Chaplin, and accidentally shot Thomas Ince in the head. The truth may never be known.<\/p>\n

5. Gossip columnists were the social media influencers of the 1930s.<\/strong> Women such as Louella Parsons, Hedda Hopper, and Alma Whitaker were powerful and influential in Hollywood. They were invited to all the right parties and got much of their information firsthand, but also employed armies of informers in restaurants, hair salons, and studios to pass along tidbits that would make their way into the daily newspaper columns. A columnist could make or break a movie\u2014or a movie career\u2014and no one wanted to be on her bad side. Louella Parsons, who plays a part in In a Far-Off Land<\/em>, was known as \u201cThe Queen of Hollywood Gossip.\u201d<\/p>\n

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