The Roaring Twenties Blog

A Snapshot of Life in the 1920's

Home

Archive for the 'Movies' Category

Movie Star Salaries Reduced – 1927

CUTTING MOVIE SALARIES, perhaps 25 per cent., creates a universal sensation, because through the films everybody seems to be personally acquainted with movie stars.
Similar cuts in salaries of the officers of producing companies, say down to $150,000 a year for presidents, attract some- what less attention, altho that is part of the policy of retrenchment [...]

Read More »

1929 Movie “Hallelujah”

HUNDREDS OF PLANTATION HANDS were gathered on the bank of a Southern river to take part in a scene of exhortation and baptism. Converts in white robes were marshaled in long lines to wait for the ecstatic privilege of wading out into midstream one by one, and receiving the baptismal rite. Meanwhile the evangelist, a [...]

Read More »