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Hollywood Babylon
1972 Ashley Phillips
Hollywood: once considered a suburb of sprawling Los Angeles ... destined - perhaps doomed to become its very heart. In 1916, however, it was just a junction of dirt roads - and a scattering of orange groves. If there was sin, it was not to be seen - Scandalous sin that is - for what was going on at a studio on Sunset Boulevard was merely playacting ... a Babylonian orgy involving hundreds, nay thousands of actors and extras portraying the doom of Beishazzar. This passion play, D.W. Griffith's most ambitious epic, was titled Intolerance ... and it set the tone for tinsel town - something to live up to - something to live down. The shadow of Babylon had fallen over Hollywood. Scandal was waiting - just out of camera range.
The gold IT people ... rich beyond dream were idolized and adored by common folk the world over. They were the producers, stars and money lenders to an infant industry. An autograph from any one of them, a lock of hair,
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pubic or other-wise, was valued in mortgages or diamonds.
1916 was quite a year. The horseless carriage came into its own - and the Battle of the Marne stole all the headlines.
A music hall comedian from London proved to be the most brilliant, prolific maker of flicks of the time. He was later destined to become a principal in Hollywood Babylon's most sensational divorce conflicts
Ranch hands, garage mechanics, plumber's helpers, waitresses and shop-girls found themselves propelled to adulation, fame and fortune and not too many could handle the responsibility.
In the early years of Hollywood there were incidents that might be labeled scandalous ...' had they been brought to the attention of the public. They were neatly and expertly covered up and the image of the beautiful people was preserved by bribes and/or blackmail.
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CAST
Jim Gentry
Jane Allyson
Myron Griffin
Cindy Hopkins
Ashley Phillips
Maria Arnold
Uschi Digart
Matt Hewitt
Lloyd Allen
Joe Stinson
Dave Hagle
Jack Laren
Al Ward
Bunny Bronstein
Produced by .......................... L.K. Farbella and Van Guylder
Executive Producer ........................... Marvin Miller
Production Supervisor .......................... Michael Adell
Directed by .......................... Van Guylder
Associate Producer ................... Roger Gentry, Writer, L.K. Farbella
Music by .......................... Allen Alper
Director of Photography .......................... Henning Schellerup
Assistant to the Producer .......................... Budd Costello
Camera Operator .......................... Paul Hipp
Assistant Director .......................... Marland Proctor
Continuity .......................... Maria Lease
Make-up .......................... Dennis Marsh
Hair Stylist .......................... Tino Zacchino
Gaffer .......................... Ron Johnson
Best Boy .......................... Ray Icely
Key Grip .......................... John King
Assistant Cameraman .......................... Glenn Schellerup
Assistant Hair Stylist .......................... Ron West
Assistant Make-up and Wardrobe ............. Kay Schellerup
Production Assistant .......................... Jack Zabarnick
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