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About the Museum Did You Know?

The Hollywood Museum, the official museum of Hollywood, has the Fun facts from the Hollywood Museum
most extensive collection of Hollywood memorabilia in the world.
The museum, featuring four floors of breathtaking exhibits, is home to … Ricky and Lucy Ricardo had
more than 10,000 authentic show biz treasures – one of a kind costumes, Franciscan Earthenware “Ivy” in their
props, photographs, scripts, stars’ car collections and personal artifacts, T.V. apartment? Their dishes were made
posters, and vintage memorabilia from favorite films and TV shows. The by Gladding, McBean, & Co. which
museum also showcases the history of Hollywood and the Hollywood started production of this popular din-
Walk of Fame. Visit the largest collection of costumes, props, posters and nerware in 1948, and Lucy had it in her
photographs Hollywood has to offer! Click here for more information. “kitchen” when I Love Lucy debuted on
June 15, 1951. Apparently, she loved the
Location, Location, Location: dishware so much that it was used in her
The Max Factor Building 1956 film Forever Darling co-staring
Desi Arnaz and James Mason.

Maksymilian … When actress/singer Dorothy Dandridge
Faktorowicz (1877-1938), auditioned for the coveted role of Carmen
also known as Max Factor Jones in a prestigious big-budget film with
Sr., was a Polish-American an all-African American cast, the director
businessman, entrepre- turned her down. He said she was too lady-
neur, beautician, and like and refined. Angry, she drove over to the
inventor. As a founder of Max Factor Building, where she was made
the cosmetics giant Max up to look like the saucy character. She
Factor & Company, he largely developed the modern cosmetics industry in marched back into the director's office and
the United States. immediately got the job. She was a sensation.
Factor came to the U.S. in 1904 as antisemitism was rising in the Russian
Empire. He had already developed a line of rouges and creams, which he … The actor Rod Taylor, best known for his
presented at the 1904 World’s Fair under the new name “Max Factor.” His roles in Hitchcock’s The Birds, The Time
partner stole everything, leaving Factor to fend for himself. Thanks to his Machine, and Hotel, had been in retirement
family, he was able to recover and opened a barber shop. for years when Quentin Tarantino
In 1908, Factor moved his family to L.A. where he built his business and offered him the role of Prime
became the authority on the use of cosmetics in filmmaking. Virtually all of Minister in 2009’s Inglorious
the major movie actresses were regulars at the Max Factor beauty salon. His son, Bastards? Apparently, Taylor
Frank, suggested using the term “make-up” as a noun and the term took off. suggested Albert Finney would be a
While traveling in Paris in 1938, he received a note demanding money in better choice, but Tarantino insisted,
exchange for his life. The police were unsuccessful in their attempt to arrest and Taylor accepted the role, which
the culprit, and Factor returned to the U.S. quite shaken and took to his bed. was to be his last.
He passed away at the age of 60 that same year.
… Who played Cousin Itt in The Adams
A Museum is Born Family? Felix Silla, who also played an Ewok

The Max Factor Cosmetics Company (including the building) was sold to in 1983’s Star Wars: Episode VI – The Return
the Hollywood Museum in 1994. It took nine years to restore the Max of the Jedi and started his professional career
Factor Building to its original grandeur, and The Hollywood Museum in 1955 when he joined Ringling Bros. and
opened in 2003. The ground floor houses many original displays from the Barnum & Bailey Circus. He was a trapeze
old Max Factor Make-up Studio with one room for blondes (used by Marilyn artist, bareback horse rider, and a stuntman
Monroe) and another for redheads (Lucille Ball). There are three more floors in Hollywood!
filled with exhibits, totaling more than 35,000 square feet of exhibit space.
On the Hollywood Museum’s ground floor can be found the historic … Margaret Hamilton and Toto (real
lobby, plus the restored Max Factor make-up rooms, a gallery featuring more name Terry) worked so well together
than 1,000 black and white photos, Cary Grant’s Rolls Royce, Planet of the in The Wizard Of Oz that they
Apes, Jurassic Park, a tribute to Judy Garland and The Red Shoes. The second reteamed in a movie called Twin Beds
and third floors are devoted exclusively to costumes worn by famous stars in in 1942! Hamilton also worked with
famous films, corresponding props, and posters as well as a wealth of Oscar the Grouch on episode #0847
Hollywood memorabilia ranging from the earliest Technicolor film ever shot of Sesame Street, 1976. The episode
to the gold Cadillac from Dreamgirls. was infamous for its negative reception among kids and
Find out more at thehollywoodmuseum.com parents, which led it to be banned for over forty years.
Until 2022, the episode was considered lost media.
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