Hollywood Sign Los Angeles during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the sign became an internationally recognized symbol and was left there. Over the course of more than half a century, the sign, designed to stand for only 18 months, sustained extensive damage and deterioration. During the early 1940s, Albert Kothe (the sign's official caretaker) caused an accident that destroyed the letter "H". Kothe, driving while inebriated, was nearing the top of Mount Lee when he lost control of his vehicle and drove off the cliff directly behind the "H". While Kothe was not injured, his 1928 Ford Model A was destroyed, as
Hollywood on the Tiber epics began to decline following the commercial failure of "The Fall of the Roman Empire" (1964), although films in other genres such as David Lean's "Doctor Zhivago" (1965) continued to be profitable. In 2009 a documentary film "Hollywood on the Tiber" was released. It portrays Cinecittà and the various stars who worked there between 1950 and 1970. Hollywood on the Tiber Hollywood on the Tiber is a phrase used to describe the period in the 1950s and 1960s when the Italian capital of Rome emerged as a major location for international filmmaking attracting a large number of foreign productions to