Tagged: Vitagraph
Flatbush Movie History
This neo-Tudor house on the corner of Ditmas Ave and Rugby Street was once owned by the world’s first movie star Mary Pickford and her husband Douglas Fairbanks, with whom she started United Artists (along with Charlie Chaplain). Flatbush was the first “Hollywood” in the US, so I assume they wanted to be central to the biz. Vitagraph Studios was on Avenue M near E. 14th/15th Streets. Founded in 1897, it’s a condo now, known as “The Vitagraph”.
