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This has occurred for a long time with the earlier films and on Jordan's name page. The person doing this will not stop, in spite of numerous attempts to end his malicious behavior. This goes way back to "wrongful hiring" in 2007 when the person attacking these pages was encountered. He was enabled there (Stella Adler Theatre) and this led to the cyberbullying. See the synopsis on the Hollywood Mouth 3 page and the FAQs on that page.

"Procession of Nobles" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov for the trailer that's on Vimeo. (The earlier trailer has images in it that didn't make it into the final film.)

The revised trailer on IMDb has different music: "Dead Relatives (Instrumental)" by Adam Korelitz (which is from the soundtrack).

On Formosa Avenue at the corner of Santa Monica Blvd. Originally known as the Pickford-Fairbanks Studio, it was later renamed United Artists. Since 1999 it has been known as The Lot. Wuthering Heights, Some Like It Hot, and the original West Side Story were some of the movies filmed here.

A cousin of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, Grand Duchess Marie first learned about India on a tour in 1911. She escaped the revolution in Russia by fleeing to Odessa. She worked for Chanel in Paris and in 1929 moved to New York City, where she met Ouspenskaya. Her brother Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich was one of the assassins of Rasputin; it was through Dmitri that Marie met Coco Chanel.

The roses are named after (in order) Joan Fontaine, Ingrid Bergman, and Ginger Rogers. Joan Fontaine (along with her sister Olivia de Havilland and her mother Lilian, who was one of Ouspenskaya's students) is referred to in the film, as is Ginger Rogers. Bergman was involved in the Rossellini scandal in 1949, which was in the press around the time Ouspenskaya died.

On Sunset Blvd. just before you get to Beverly Hills. The color photo is what it looks like today. Built by the noted architect Paul R. Williams in 1936, the Deco-Moderne building has been designated a historic landmark.

The Santa Fe Chief always left Los Angeles at night in order to go through the desert at the coolest possible time.

In some articles about her they were described as gray, other times as blue.

On Sunset and Highland, across the street from Hollywood High School. They had other locations in the L.A. area--Jordan remembers Curries in Culver Center and on Venice Blvd. in Mar Vista near Venice High School.

The footage starts at 14:28. Times are approximate. 14:33--Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel (south side of Hollywood Blvd). 14:37--Grauman's Chinese Theatre (north side of street). 14:40--Paramount Theatre (now El Capitan); taller building, south side of street. 14:42--Hollywood Hotel, NW corner Hollywood and Highland. 14:43--Rexall Drugs, SW corner Hollywood and Highland. 14:44--First National Bank Building, NE corner Hollywood and Highland. 14:44 (across street)--Bank of America, SE corner Hollywood and Highland. (Max Factor building is in back of B. of A., facing Highland.) 14:46--Hollywood Theatre, south side of street, vertical sign for name of theater sticking up. 14:48--J.C. Penney's department store, NW corner Hollywood Blvd. and McCadden Pl. 14:48--Pickwick Books, NE corner Hollywood and McCadden. 14:49--Hotel Christie; taller building, SW corner Hollywood and McCadden (the McCaddens north and south of Hollywood Blvd. do not run in a straight line). 14:50--Egyptian Theatre and forecourt, south side of street between McCadden and Las Palmas. 14:51--Outpost Building, NW corner Hollywood and Las Palmas. 14:55--Musso & Frank Grill, NW corner Hollywood and Cherokee. 14:59-- Kress department store, south side of blvd., taller building. 15:00--Newberrys five-and-dime store, south side of blvd. (across street from where Whitley Ave. ends). 15:02--Hillview Apartments; small twin towers, north side of Hollywood Blvd. at Hudson. 15:05--Gittelson Building, north side of Hollywood Blvd. at Wilcox. 15:07--Warner Pacific Theatre, NE corner Hollywood and Wilcox. 15:07-- Woolworth's five-and-dime store, across street from Warner Theatre. 15:10--Security Trust and Savings, NE corner Hollywood and Cahuenga. 15:10--Owl Drug/Julian Medical Bldg., SE corner Hollywood and Cahuenga (white tower sticking up). 15:13--Guaranty Bldg., NE corner Hollywood Blvd. and Ivar. Behind Guaranty Bldg. (to north) is the Knickerbocker Hotel on Ivar. 15:13--Nancy's women's clothing (formerly I. Magnin), SE corner Hollywood and Ivar. 15:20--The Broadway Hollywood department store, SW corner Hollywood Blvd. and Vine St. South of the Broadway (in foreground) is the Hollywood Plaza Hotel. 15:26-- Taft Building, SE corner Hollywood and Vine. 15:34--Equitable Building; NE corner Hollywood and Vine, top of screen, diagonally across from the Broadway. 15:38 (parking lot)--Brown Derby restaurant, faces Vine St., white building with sign on roof. 15:38-- Vine St. Theatre, across street from Brown Derby; radio broadcasts (later known as the Huntington Hartford Theatre and later as the Doolittle Theatre). 15:42--Pantages Theatre, NW corner Hollywood Blvd. and Argyle Ave. 15:51--Hollywood Palladium; on Sunset Blvd., large building in foreground. 15:52--NBC Radio, Sunset and Vine (top of screen). 15:58--CBS Radio, to the left of Hollywood Palladium. Note: Many of these buildings are seen at street level in the next segment, starting at 16:01.

She was on Kraft Music Hall (NBC), Stars Over Hollywood (an anthology program on CBS), and a program for Flag Day in 1942 (with Charles Boyer, Nazimova, Peter Lorre, and Thomas Mitchell on NBC). As referred to in the film, she also did a broadcast for the military from an air base in Victorville.

Margo married Eddie Albert, who had also studied with Ouspenskaya, in 1945. In addition to appearing on the stage and in movies, she founded the Plaza de la Raza, a cultural center for arts and education in East L.A., and this was where the photo was taken.

Yes, Mildred Dunnock played Elvis's mother in his first movie, Love Me Tender. Like Ouspenskaya, Mildred Dunnock was nominated twice for an Academy Award in the supporting actress category--for Death of a Salesman in 1951 and Baby Doll in 1956.

Yes, they were both attending the Edinburgh Festival in 1965 and were photographed backstage at the Royal Lyceum Theatre.

On Melrose and Gower in Hollywood. Ouspenskaya filmed Love Affair and Tarzan and the Amazons at RKO.

Bette Davis, Greta Garbo, John Wayne, Greer Garson, James Stewart, costume designer Adrian, Rosalind Russell, Henry Fonda, Ray Milland; in 1940 Orson Welles rented a guest cottage for Herman J. Mankiewicz so he could write Citizen Kane without distractions.

On Wilshire Blvd., one block east of La Cienega.

The car pictured in the film is a 1935 Duesenberg.

In 1972. The nightclub opened in 1940 and closed in 1957. Patrons included Marilyn Monroe, Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra, Ava Gardner, Lucille Ball, Joan Crawford, Ginger Rogers, Marlene Dietrich, Cary Grant, Judy Garland, Lana Turner, Gary Cooper, and Claudette Colbert.

Opened in 1927, on Vine St. north of Hollywood Blvd., it was originally used for plays and revues, then for radio broadcasts (The Bob Hope Show, My Favorite Husband with Lucille Ball). In the 1950s and '60s it was used as a TV studio (This Is Your Life, The Lawrence Welk Show, The Hollywood Palace, The Merv Griffin Show). In the early 2000s it became a nightclub and music venue. Capitol Records (built in 1956) is across the street.

A still of the house that Ouspenskaya rented for her second school in Hollywood is shown at 46:12. In the Sunset Boulevard footage, which starts at 46:30, the tower on the left in the background is the Hollywood Athletic Club. Crossroads of the World is at 46:41-46. Built in 1936, this was America's first outdoor shopping mall. Tenants included a Bit O'Sweden restaurant, a barbershop, a flower shop, a cigar store, a chocolate shop, and a dress store. Alfred Hitchcock rented one of the offices, which were on the second floor. At 47:25 streetcar tracks cross Sunset Blvd. at Highland. (A streetcar line ran north and south on Highland Ave.) Curries Ice Cream is the building on the left at 47:32-37. Hollywood High School is on the left at 47:46-48:05. Tiny Naylor's drive-in (at La Brea) appears on the left at 48:24-29. Just after the pencils insert, the steps leading to Ouspenskaya's school can be seen at 49:18-23. Streetcar tracks cross Sunset at Gardner St. (49:53-55). Near La Brea Ave., the Hollywood Blvd. streetcar tracks turned and ran at a southwest diagonal (the Gardner Diagonal), crossing Sunset Blvd. and continuing to Santa Monica Blvd. The tracks ran down the median of Santa Monica Blvd. into Beverly Hills, and kept going to the beach at Santa Monica. (Most of the streetcars in Los Angeles were gone by the mid-1950s.)

Ten, and they vary in size. Jordan remembers seeing the condo conversion going on in 2006.

Nine, and they vary in size. The building was built in 1939 and renovated in 2002, but the exterior looks similar to when Ouspenskaya lived there.

Loretta Young and Jean Hersholt.

Yes, the Ralphs market is at the same location on Sunset Blvd., but the newer building was moved back from the street.

Their concept was to rent instead of sell equipment that was only needed on a temporary basis. Abbey Rents was in the L.A. area from the mid-1930s to the mid-1990s. They specialized in party supplies like chairs, tables, and tents and in medical equipment such as wheelchairs and hospital beds.

Santa Monica, looking south toward Crystal Pier, which was also known as Bristol Pier. Crystal Pier was at the end of Hollister Ave. in Ocean Park. In the photo, the longer Ocean Park Pier with its amusement arcades, ballrooms, and roller coaster is in the distance. Ocean Park Pier was turned into Pacific Ocean Park (P.O.P.) in 1958; the goal was to compete with Disneyland, but it closed in 1967 and was demolished in 1975.

Natasha Lytess, who was Marilyn's acting coach in Los Angeles. They met when Marilyn was making "Ladies of the Chorus" at Columbia and Lytess was the studio's acting coach. Lytess had formerly been on the staff at the Max Reinhardt school, located at Wilshire and Fairfax. One of her students at the school was Marlene Dietrich's daughter Maria. After the Reinhardt school became the Geller Workshop, Dietrich's daughter (later known as Maria Riva) stayed on as a teacher. (Elizabeth Taylor's mother brought her son to Maria Riva for private coaching, hoping to get him into movies, but he didn't like acting and later became a marine biologist.) In the mid-1950s Marilyn attended classes at the Actors Studio in New York (under the direction of Lee Strasberg), and Strasberg's wife Paula became Marilyn's on-set acting coach. The Strasbergs had been students of Maria Ouspenskaya and Richard Boleslavsky at the American Laboratory Theatre in New York. Paula Strasberg's coaching cues for Marilyn's character in "The Misfits" were right out of the American Laboratory Theatre--you are a soggy cracker, you are sipping a Coca-Cola, you are enjoying a bubble bath.

On Cahuenga, just south of Sunset Blvd. A four-story parking structure is on the site now.

An office building on the Southeast corner of Hollywood & Vine, the Taft Building opened in 1924. Tenants during Ouspenskaya's era were doctors, dentists, lawyers, talent agents (including Charles K. Feldman, who represented Edward G. Robinson, Greta Garbo, Charles Boyer, Gary Cooper, Irene Dunne, Marlene Dietrich, and John Wayne), the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Photoplay magazine, the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (union headquarters), and Willie Bioff of the mob.

The Hollywood location, which opened in 1937, was just north of Hollywood Blvd. on Vine Street. They were a chain with other locations on S. Vermont, S. Crenshaw, the Miracle Mile (Wilshire Blvd.), Beverly Dr. (Beverly Hills), and in Van Nuys. The Hollywood building had been the Hollywood post office, which moved to a new building on Wilcox (still in use). They were known for their quality food (hot turkey sandwiches, fried chicken) at low prices. The Hollywood location had many actors as clientele (Burt Lancaster, Billy Barty, Rita Moreno). The building on Vine St. was damaged during a fire in 1990 and then demolished.

Gene Tierney.

It lasted into the 1980s, and was replaced by a strip mall. Located on the northwest corner of Sunset and La Brea, Tiny Naylor's had many movie star patrons. The Naylor family also owned the Du-Par's chain of restaurants.

In 1938 four acres on the Vine Street hill were donated to the Vedanta Society so the temple could be built. Like Ouspenskaya, Elvis Presley was a member of the Self-Realization Fellowship; Elvis often visited the Vedanta Society grounds in the late 1960s and early '70s. One of the monks told Jordan that Elvis would sit in a car on the street or in the parking lot (Elvis meditated for 30 minutes a day). Elvis also visited the Fellowship's Lake Shrine on Sunset Blvd. in Pacific Palisades; the Meditation Garden at Graceland was inspired by its grounds. One of Elvis's favorite books was The Autobiography of a Yogi (the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda). Beatle George Harrison was also influenced by the spiritual teachings of Yogananda. Paramahansa Yogananda conducted Ouspenskaya's funeral at Pierce Bros. Hollywood Chapel on Santa Monica Blvd. The yogi eulogized Ouspenskaya (about 150 people attended the service) and alternated spoken and chanted prayers.

In 1927. Before that it was the estate of actress Alla Nazimova. Some of the residents included Humphrey Bogart, Orson Welles, Frank Sinatra, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton, Ginger Rogers, Errol Flynn, Tallulah Bankhead, John Barrymore, Tyrone Power, Greta Garbo, Igor Stravinsky, Eartha Kitt, Laurence Olivier, and Ava Gardner. (In 1928 Nazimova sold her interest in the property and moved to New York; ten years later she returned to Hollywood and lived in one of the villas at the hotel.)

The El Cabrillo was one of many Greta Garbo residences (in the late 1920s). Ann Harding, a star of early Talkies, lived in one of the front units when she first came to Hollywood. The head of the make-up department at Warner Brothers, Perc Westmore, was another resident; also actor/director Lowell Sherman, Stevie Wonder (early in his career), and female impersonator Divine.

Geraldine Page, Rip Torn, George C. Scott, Julie Harris, Montgomery Clift, Lee Grant, Gene Hackman, Ben Vereen, Eli Wallach. Warren Beatty lived here when he first came to Hollywood; Sal Mineo later in his career; James Cagney, Mickey Rooney, and Ronald Reagan in the 1930s.

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