October 26, 1929: There Goes the Neighborhood

The Roaring Twenties went out with a bang around Malibu: The year 1929 was a big one locally and in the bigger picture. Al Jolson in The Jazz Singer in 1927 sparked the transition from silent movies to talkies, and that shook up the world of motion pictures and set a lot of Hollywood people on edge—much as the internet is doing now to ...