#talking screen

Basil Rathbone was making films in Hollywood in 1930 (This Mad World, The Bishop Murder Case, The Flirting Widow, Sin Takes a Holiday, …). What was Hollywood like back then? Below is an aerial photo of Hollywood that appeared in the June 1930 issue of Talking Screen magazine. The street running from the top, through the center to the bottom of the picture, is Hollywood Boulevard. Vine Street…

Robert Montgomery plants a healthy-sized smackeroo on Joan Crawford in a publicity shot for Untamed (1930).

Buster Keaton and William Haines held aloft by Edward Sedgwick, who directed Buster in his MGM features from The Cameraman (1928) to What! No Beer? (1933). Sedgwick, like Buster, had been a child performer in a family vaudeville act, and is credited with discovering Lucille Ball.