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Motion Picture, New York, January 1930.

United Artists premiere of „Hell‘s Angels“ at Grauman‘s Chinese,

Los Angeles, 1930, postcard

& The Microphone – The Terror of the Studios

      YOU CAN‘T GET AWAY WITH IT IN HOLLYWOOD

(...) Norma Talmadge painted from life by Earl Christy, Photoplay Cover, Dec. 1929

& That Big Opening

      Here we have it – a bird‘s-eye-ful of Hollywood itself gone

movie mad... Sid Grauman putting on two great shows

at once... A four-million-dollar one inside, a sixty-thousand-dollar

one outside... Searchlights burning the sky, planes roaring

and looping above the dazed hordes... Hell‘s Angels!

(...) Photo by H. Harold Fisher,

Motion Picture Classic, Aug. 1930

& A splendid panorama picture of the grounds on which stand

the residences of some of the film colony‘s foremost

members. Those roofs you can see are part of the Chaplin

residence, and, also, Pickfair.

(...) Photo, Talking Screen, June 1930

& The sour looking little gentleman on the

right is none other than one Charles Chaplin, Esq., reported

to be a film comedian. Recall the name? The others

are Anita Murray, and George K. Arthur.

(---) Photo, Photoplay, Dec. 1929

& Grauman‘s Chinese, exteror by night, United Artists premiere

of „Hell‘s Angels,“ Los Angeles, 1930, postcard in color

& And here‘s Hollywood by night – the first night of a new motion picture, which happens to be „Hell‘s Angels“ at Grauman‘s

Chinese Theater. The crowds are waiting for their favorite stars

to arrive.

(...) Photo, Screenland, Oct. 1930

& Grauman‘s Chinese, exterior by night, United Artists

premiere of „Hell‘s Angels,“ Los Angeles

(...) Two photos by Stagg, New Movie, Aug. 1930

& ANGELINA SERIO, McComb, Miss. – No, Clara Bow is not

married. (...) You haven‘t seen Chaplin because he‘s been

doing a movie marathon – making one of those epics that takes

years to complete. It‘s called „City Lights.“

(...) Questions & Answers, Photoplay, Dec. 1929

& Charlie Has The

      Village Guessing

      Puzzling things are happening at the Chaplin studio –

maybe the flowering of an important romance.

      That‘s the theory of some in accounting for the entry of Georgia

Hale as Charlie‘s leading lady in „City Lights.“

      When the picture is two-thirds done little Virginia

Cherrill is displaced by the comedian‘s leading

lady in „The Gold Rush.“

      Did Virginia, a neophyte in pictures, fail to meet

the test? Charlie is too gallant to say so, and she‘s to stay

in a minor part.

      Or did he want Georgia oftener by his side? Not

unlikely, since Charlie has been showing her much attention

of late.   

      Photo. Georgia                                        

(...) Monroe Lathrop, Los Angeles Evening Express,

Nov. 30, 1929.


„This picture had absolutely converted him to sound!“

Editorial content. „Not silent one night: After all Charlie

Chaplin has said against talkies, and after his recent

promise to build his own studio and make only silent pictures,

he stood in the lobby of the Chinese on the opening

night of Hell‘s Angels and declared for the benefit of all and

sundry that this picture had absolutely converted

him to sound!“


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