Overview
Too few know of the screen legends from Ohio and the outsized impact the state had in establishing Hollywood as the filmmaking capital of the world.
Hollywood and Ohio are much closer than one might assume. Indeed, it could be argued that Hollywood is Ohio’s offspring. The original settlement was founded as a Christian community by a young lady from Ohio. That community was pushed aside when the fledgling New York City movie industry relocated to California to find refuge from Ohio’s own Thomas Edison and his monopoly on motion picture production. Native Ohioans such as Lillian Gish, Theda Bara and Clark Gable also stepped into the early Hollywood spotlight. And the movie industry truly became that—an industry—when the Warner Brothers from Youngstown introduced sound to films, making movies a significant form of entertainment worldwide.
Author Conrade C. Hinds unspools the deep and little-known connection between Hollywood and the Buckeye State.
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