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This fold-out postcard sent in May of 1927 from Los Angeles to Bay City, Michigan includes 27 pictures of movie stars' homes in Hollywood, California. The front and back covers depict Mary and Douglas Fairbanks's home. The third photograph, from top to bottom, depicts the homes of Charlie Chaplin, Rudolph Valentino, Harold Lloyd, Wm. S. Hart, Gloria Swanson, Charles Ray, Jackie Coogan, Anita Stewart, Pola Negri, and Hoot Gibson. The fourth photo, from top to bottom and left to right (excluding the first home because it is cut off) depicts the homes of Norma Talmadge, Betty Compson, Douglas MacLean, Antonio Moreno, Julian Elting, Sessue Hayakawa, Bryant Washburn, Wallace Reid, the Nazimovas, Elliot Dexter, Warren Kerrigan, Tom Mix, Will Rogers, and Theodore Roberts.
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