{"id":18355,"date":"2025-12-06T19:53:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T03:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=18355"},"modified":"2025-12-06T19:53:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T03:53:59","slug":"walk-of-fame-movies-lights-of-new-york-and-helene-costello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/06\/walk-of-fame-movies-lights-of-new-york-and-helene-costello\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk of Fame Movies: Lights of New York and Helene Costello"},"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\/lights-of-new-york-1.jpg\" alt=\"Cullen Landis and Helene Costello in Lights of New York.\" class=\"wp-image-18357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lights-of-new-york-1.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lights-of-new-york-1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lights-of-new-york-1-768x483.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\/lights-of-new-york-2.jpg\" alt=\"Helene Costello, Wheeler Oakman, and Gladys Brockwell in Lights of New York\" class=\"wp-image-18358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lights-of-new-york-2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lights-of-new-york-2-300x38.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lights-of-new-york-2-768x96.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Lights of New York is the first &#8220;all-talking&#8221; picture. Other movies had synchronized sections, but this is the first one that synchronized the whole movie. It&#8217;s a pretty terrible movie, but that&#8217;s no surprise. Most of the effort probably went into capturing sound, and it was probably very expensive to do multiple takes or camera angles; it&#8217;s full of stiff, unbroken scenes.  <\/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\/helene-costello.jpg\" alt=\"Composite picture. On the left, a mockup of Helene Costello's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On the right, a black and white portrait photo of Helene Costello.\" class=\"wp-image-18359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/helene-costello.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/helene-costello-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/helene-costello-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Helene Costello (1500 Vine Street) is another casualty of the jump from silent films to talkies.  She&#8217;s buried in an unmarked grave somewhere in Calvary Cemetery, one of the oldest cemeteries in Los Angeles. And she wasn&#8217;t related to Lou Costello, but he claimed he changed his last name to Costello to honor her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today&#8217;s fake poster is based on one from a different story of New York.<\/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\/lights-of-new-york-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A fake poster for Lights of New York mimicking the poster for Escape from New York.\" class=\"wp-image-18356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lights-of-new-york-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lights-of-new-york-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lights-of-new-york-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lights-of-new-york.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York is apparently a rough place to be a barber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18357,"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":[161,63,359],"tags":[350,357,78,10,358],"class_list":["post-18355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","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\/18355","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=18355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18361,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18355\/revisions\/18361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}