JANET HARDY-GOULD
Hollywood
HOLLYWOOD
‘Welcome to Hollywood, Mr Griffith. ’ The film director D. W. Griffith liked the California village with its sunny weather, friendly people, and orange trees. ‘It’s a good place to make a movie,’ he thought, and soon the first movie, In Old California, was made. It was just seventeen minutes long.
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