Hollywood

Janet Hardy-Gould

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A level 1 Oxford Bookworms Library graded reader. Written for Learners of English by Janet Hardy-Gould.

Hollywood – nine big white letters against the Hollywood Hills. Every year millions of people come from all over the world and look up at this famous sign. Why do they come? They come to see the stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and to see the hand and foot prints outside Grauman's Chinese Theatre. They come to visit Universal Studios, and perhaps to see a movie star or two. Most of all, they come to be in the most famous place in movie history – exciting, wonderful Hollywood!

JANET HARDY-GOULD

Hollywood

HOLLYWOOD

�Welcome to Hollywood, Mr Griffith.’ The film director D. W. Griffith liked the California village with its sunny weather, friendly people, and orange trees. �It’s a good place to make a movie,’ he thought, and soon the first movie, In Old California, was made. It was just seventeen minutes long.

Just over a hundred years later, Hollywood is a very different place, but it’s still the home of the movies for millions of people. Hollywood means the stars, from Charlie Chaplin to Brad Pitt, from Vivien Leigh to Penélope Cruz. It means the Oscars, the big film studios, Disney, Hitchcock, and Spielberg. And even today, with films on DVD and on the Internet, Hollywood’s exciting story still goes on.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Cover image: Getty Images (Anne Bancroft and Sidney Poitier at the 1964 Academy Awards/Julian Wasser/Time Life Pictures)

Maps by: Peter Bull pp.2, 37

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