Wholesale Tales of Hollywood Through Time

“Hooray for Hollywood,” the 1937 anthem by Johnny Mercer for Hollywood Hotel, captures the illusion of fame as star wannabes flock to Hollywood in a booming vocal number: ♫ “Hooray for Hollywood, that screwy, bally hooey Hollywood, where any office boy or young mechanic, can be a panic, with just a good-looking pan …!” ♫ In 1887, a sun-drenched village in California discovered “stardom,” surpassing any other village in lore. Tales of Hollywood Through Time connects the past with the present through yellowed archival photos and contemporary photography by Frank Muzzy. It provides visual storytelling—the closest tool for time travel among orange groves & oil wells during the nurturing era of cinema in the twentieth century. “Hollywood” is a global name of a clichéd dream factory or the nightmare of a realized wish. Both sides of the coin are beautifully packaged from the mountains to the sea in glorious technicolor & cinemascope.