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Variety, New York, September 18, 1929.
Welcoming Marion
At the party given Marion Davies, M-G-M star, at the
Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles, upon her return from Europe –
Louis B. Mayer, M-G-M studio chief; Miss Davies,
Mrs. Mayer and Harry Crocker. Miss Davies was abroad
on an extended vacation.
(...) Photo, Motion Picture Herald, Nov. 28, 1931
& Used by Charles Chaplin
personally and professionally
In a box: It is only just, after twelve years faithful service
in my studios here, that I now say a word
in commendation of the Bell & Howell cameras.
That I am now using thee of them in filming
my latest production, „City Lights,“ is evidence they have
given me entire satisfaction.
With best wishes, I am
Cordially,
Charles Chaplin
(...I Ad with Photo, Moviemakers, Oct. & Nov. 1929.
Moviemakers is the Magazine of the
Amateur Cinema League.
& Ambassador Alexander Moore, Charles Chaplin,
City Lights Set, Los Angeles, 1929, Discovering Chaplin
& Alexander P. Moore, ambassador to Peru, has
returned from a visit to the San Simeon ranch of William R. Hearst
and again is a house guest of Charles Chaplin.
(...) Variety, Sept. 18, 1929
& Alex. Moore Dies (...) Variety, Feb. 19, 1930
& Counts on Coast. As was noted here
Jean de Limur, directing pictures in Hollywood, is a french count.
Which brings in a curious coincidence, for Count
Andre de Limur married a California heiress, daughter of
William H. Crocker, president of the Crocker
National Bank, of San Francisco, and sister of William W.
Crocker, vice-president of the First National Bank,
of San Francisco. This niece of Princess Poniatowski,
of Paris, is a cousin of Harry Crocker, who was
for some years attached to the Charles Chaplin studio. Later
he acted with Marion Davies, and last fall became
the Hearst social contact man connected with the studio.
(...) Variety, March 12, 1930
& Art Takes Its Toll.
Charlie Chaplin is for art at all costs, even at midnight,
and despite cold water.
He and Henry Clive, the artist, who, it seems, was a little
less arty than Chaplin, came to the parting of the ways
simply on this account. They were tremendously good friends
before that.
Chaplin was making scenes for „Bright Lights,“ in which
he was supposed to flounder around in the studio
pool, and Clive was called upon to do some floundering with
him. Clive decided that because of the temperature
of the water in the deep hours of night, his health wouldn‘t
permit it. Then Charlie delivered an ultimatum,
and Clive decreed that the challenge was wholly uninviting.
There is one actor happier as a result of the
little difference. His name is Harry Myers.
(...) Hollywood High Lights by Edwin and Elza Schallert,
Picture Play, Oct., 1929.
The film‘s title is „City Lights,“ not „Bright Lights.“
& Crocker-Chaplin Split
Hollywood, Sept. 10.
Harry Crocker and Charlie Chaplin, long time close
friends as well as studio mates, have parted. Crocker has
resigned from the Chaplin studio, where he has been
for three years in a variety of capacities. The departure leaves
but two of the four members of the story staff with
which City Lights went into production – Henry Bergman and
Carlyle Robinson. Henri Clive retired two months
ago following a difference of opinion regarding the temperature
of the studio pool. The comedian said it was
o.k. for him and thought it should be for Clive as well.
(...) Variety, Sept. 11, 1929
„New Crocker social duties“
Editorial content. „W. R.‘s Social Contact
Los Angeles, Sept. 17.
William Randolph Hearst has appointed Harry
Crocker, former asst. director and actor with Charlie Chaplin,
to act as the Hearst social contact man with studios.
Crocker will oversee entertainment of visiting celebs
who want to take in the studios on a card from W. R.
First of the new Crocker social duties is the dinner staged
by Hearst and Louis B. Mayer tomorrow in honor
of Winston Churchill, British statesman, at the M-G-M studio.“
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City Lights 1930 1931 1932 next previous
