Hollywood the weather was ideal and there was quick access to various settings. Los Angeles became the capital of the film industry in the United States. The mountains, plains and low land prices made Hollywood a good place to establish film studios. Director D. W. Griffith was the first to make a motion picture in Hollywood. His 17-minute short film "In Old California" (1910) was filmed for the Biograph Company. Although Hollywood banned movie theaters—of which it had none—before annexation that year, Los Angeles had no such restriction. The first film by a Hollywood studio, Nestor Motion Picture Company, was shot
Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood film. On January 31, 2013, it was announced that Julia Stiles will star as screenwriter Frances Marion. The cast also includes Michael Pitt as Owen Moore, Pickford's first husband, James Wirt as Charlie Chaplin and David Strathairn as director D.W. Griffith. The film has been in production since early 2013. In July 2017, the producers of the movie let the rights to film Whitfield's book expire. Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood Pickford: The Woman Who Made Hollywood is a 1997 biography of actress Mary Pickford (1892–1979) written by Eileen Whitfield. The book took ten years to complete and was