{"id":17815,"date":"2025-12-02T20:20:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T04:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=17815"},"modified":"2025-12-02T20:20:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T04:20:41","slug":"walk-of-fame-movies-the-devils-needle-and-norma-talmadge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/02\/walk-of-fame-movies-the-devils-needle-and-norma-talmadge\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk of Fame Movies: The Devil&#8217;s Needle and Norma Talmadge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/the-devils-needle-2.jpg\" alt=\"Norma Talmadge in The Devil's Needle\" class=\"wp-image-17819\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/the-devils-needle-2.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/the-devils-needle-2-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/the-devils-needle-2-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/the-devils-needle-1.jpg\" alt=\"Tully Marshall, Marguerite Marsh, and Norma Talmadge in The Devil's Needle\" class=\"wp-image-17818\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/the-devils-needle-1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/the-devils-needle-1-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/the-devils-needle-1-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Things I learned from this movie:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Don&#8217;t take medical advice from a model<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If you get hooked on drugs, just go work on a farm for a bit and you&#8217;ll be cured.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The most interesting part of this movie was seeing how the restoration team dealt with the degraded film stock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/norma-talmadge.jpg\" alt=\"Composite picture. On the left, a mockup of Norma Talmadge's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On the right, a black and white portrait photo of Norma Talmadge.\" class=\"wp-image-17817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/norma-talmadge.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/norma-talmadge-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/norma-talmadge-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Norma Talmadge (1500 Vine Street) was one of the top silent film stars. Like many other actors, her popularity fell with the rise of talkies. Unlike many others, she had saved a ton of money and was happy to get out of the public eye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever driven down Talmadge Street in Los Feliz and wondered who it was named after, now you know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s poster makes a morality tale about drug abuse look like a rom-com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Devils-Needle-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17816\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Devils-Needle-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Devils-Needle-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Devils-Needle-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/The-Devils-Needle.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you&#8217;re saying I should NOT steal drugs and shoot them into my arm? Whatever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63,20,359],"tags":[350,357,78,10,358],"class_list":["post-17815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-photoshop","category-watch-of-fame","tag-fake-posters","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-photoshop","tag-walk-of-fame"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17824,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17815\/revisions\/17824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}