Hollywood had become the centre of the American film industry by 1915 as more independent filmmakers relocated there from the East Coast. DeMille produced The Squaw Man in a barn one block from present-day Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street, and more box-office successes soon followed. DeMille, Jesse Lasky, Arthur Freed, and Samuel Goldwyn formed Jesse Lasky Feature Play Company (later Paramount Pictures). In 1911 a site on Sunset Boulevard was turned into Hollywood’s first studio, and soon about 20 companies were producing films in the area. In 1908 one of the first storytelling movies, The Count of Monte Cristo, was completed in Hollywood after its filming had begun in Chicago. In 1910, because of an inadequate water supply, Hollywood residents voted to consolidate with Los Angeles. At the turn of the 20th century, Whitley was responsible for bringing telephone, electric, and gas lines into the new suburb. Whitley, known as the “Father of Hollywood,” subsequently transformed Hollywood into a wealthy and popular residential area. 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 sober religious principles. The first house in Hollywood was an adobe building (1853) on a site near Los Angeles, then a small city in the new state of California. Since the early 1900s, when moviemaking pioneers found in southern California an ideal blend of mild climate, much sunshine, varied terrain, and a large labour market, the image of Hollywood as the fabricator of tinseled cinematic dreams has been etched worldwide. Lying 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). Hollywood, also called Tinseltown, district within the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S., whose name is synonymous with the American film industry. In 1949, because the sign had been damaged (the H fell over), it was repaired to read “Hollywood.” Learn more. However, the sign did not read “Hollywood” but “Hollywoodland” its purpose was advertising real-estate development in the area. The iconic Hollywood sign was originally erected in 1923.

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