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Hollywood, also called Tinseltown, is a district within the city of Los Angeles, California, United States, whose name is synonymous with the American film industry. Located northwest of downtown Los Angeles, it is bounded by Hyperion Avenue and Riverside Drive (east), Beverly Boulevard (south), the foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains (north), and Beverly Hills (west). Since the early 1900s, when filmmaking pioneers in Southern California found an ideal mix of mild climate, abundant sunshine, diverse terrain and a large labor market, Hollywood's image has been etched worldwide as a maker of tinseled cinematic dreams. Hollywood's first home was an adobe building (1853) on a site near Los Angeles, then a small town in the new state of California. Hollywood was laid out as a real-estate subdivision in 1887 by Harvey Wilcox, a prohibitionist from Kansas who envisioned a community based on his quiet religious principles.
Real-estate magnate HJ Wheatley, known as the "Father of Hollywood", subsequently transformed Hollywood into a wealthy and popular residential area. In the early 20th century, Wheatley was responsible for bringing telephone, electric and gas lines to the new suburbs. In 1910, due to inadequate water supplies, the residents of Hollywood voted to merge with Los Angeles.
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The Count of Monte Cristo was one of the first storytelling films in Hollywood after filming began in Chicago in 1908. In 1911 a site on Sunset Boulevard became Hollywood's first studio, and soon about 20 companies were making films in the area. In 1913 Cecil B. DeMille, Jesse Lasky, Arthur Freed, and Samuel Goldwyn formed the Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company (later Paramount Pictures). DeMille built The Squaw Man in a barn a block from present-day Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street, and more box-office success soon followed. Hollywood had become the center of the American film industry by 1915 as more independent filmmakers moved there from the East Coast. Over three decades, from early silent films through the advent of "talkies," such as D.W. Griffith, Goldwyn, Adolf Zukor, William Fox, Louis B. Mayer, Darryl F. Zanuck and Harry headed some of the major film studios—Twentieth Century-Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Paramount Pictures, Columbia Pictures, WAR. Brother, and others. Writers who were fascinated by Hollywood's "Golden Age" included F. Scott Fitzgerald, Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh and Nathanael West. After World War II, film studios began to move out of Hollywood, and the practice of "location" filming left many famous lots and sound stages empty or turned over to television show producers.
With the growth of the television industry, Hollywood began to change and by the early 1960s it had become the majority of American network television entertainment. In addition to Hollywood's working studios, Hollywood features include the Hollywood Bowl (1919; a natural amphitheater used for summer concerts under the stars since 1922), the Greek Theater in Griffith Park (also a concert venue), Mann's (formerly Grauman's), the Chinese Theater (its concrete with footprints and handprints of many stars in the foreground), and the Hollywood Wax Museum (with numerous wax figures of celebrities). The Hollywood Walk of Fame honors many celebrities in the entertainment industry. The most visible symbol of the district is the Hollywood sign that overlooks the area. First erected in 1923 (a new sign was erected in 1978), the sign originally said "Hollywoodland" (to advertise new home construction in the area), but the sign fell into disrepair and the "Land" section was removed in the 1940s when the sign was reformed. Many stars, past and present, live in neighboring communities such as Beverly Hills and Bel Air, and the Hollywood Forever Cemetery contains the crypts of performers such as Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks and Tyrone Power. Hollywood Boulevard, long a glamorous street, fell into disrepair with the demise of old Studio Hollywood, but began a renaissance in the late 20th century; The Egyptian Theater (built in 1922), for example, was completely restored in the 1990s and became the home of the American Cinematheque, a non-profit organization dedicated to the presentation of films. Robert Duvall, in full Robert Seldon Duvall, (born January 5, 1931, San Diego, California, U.S.), American actor noted for his ability to fully but subtly bring life to any character, especially the average working man. In the words of critic Elaine Mancini, Duvall was "America's most technically skilled, most versatile, and most convincing actor on screen."
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Born to a US Navy admiral, Duvall graduated from Principia College in Illinois in 1953 and served two years in the Army during the Korean War. In later years, he studied drama at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse under renowned acting teacher Sanford Meisner and appeared in Off-Broadway and Broadway plays. A brief but memorable film debut came in 1962 when Duvall played the reclusive Arthur ("Boo") Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird. Over the next several years, he continued to appear in small film and television roles. This path led to major supporting parts in films with large ensemble casts, such as the domineering and self-righteous Major Frank Barnes in M*A*S*H (1970) and business minded mafia attorney Tom Hagen in The Godfather (1972) and its sequels. , The Godfather, Part II (1974). The original 1972 role earned Duvall his first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. In the late 1970s Duvall received two additional Oscar nominations for his affecting portrayals of military men. In Apocalypse Now (1979) his lieutenant colonel Kilgore frantically declares that he likes "the smell of Nepal in the morning", but Duvall convinces the audience of Kilgore's compassion for his own soldiers. His fine portrayal earned him a second Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Career Marine Bull Mitchum in The Great Santini (1980) is a non-combatant warrior who often subjects his family to harsh discipline during peacetime. Duvall was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor.
Duvall wrote many of his own songs for his beautifully nuanced performance as a faded country music star who runs a motel and filling station in Tender Mercies (1983). For this role, he won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He ended the 1980s with his highly acclaimed performance in the Emmy Award-winning TV miniseries Lonesome Dove (1989).
