"Forgotten Movie Theater Pioneer:  Alexander Pantages & Immigrant Hollywood", authored by Lagos G. Taso.  Published in the Journal of Modern Hellenism 32 (2016):  96-114 Here is an excerpt from the article: "Alexander Pantages was an unlikely motion picture theater pioneer and mogul. Born on the Greek island of Andros sometime between 1867 and 1875, Pantages’s meteoric rise in the motion picture exhibition business beginning in 1902 seems like a fairy-tale. Then suddenly in 1929 it all crashed down when he was accused of sexually assaulting a seventeen-year-old dancer. In between Pantages established his business with a keen focus on customer satisfaction, attention to detail, and building grand, ornate theaters. He was, by all accounts, one of the greatest film theater owners in the country at the time, a true film theater pioneer, yet today, he is hardly remembered by most Americans, including Greek Americans.  Pantages as an historical figure present...

THE ENDURING IMAGE OF GREEK-AMERICANS IN HOLLYWOOD CINEMA Published in The National Herald, June 24-30, 2017 Issue Authored by Steve Frangos TNH Staff Writer ------------------------------ We are excited to announce that  The National Herald  has given Hellenic Genealogy Geek the right to reprint articles that may be of interest to our group.  ------------------------------ ----------------------- The Greek American Image in American Film is the guiding theme throughout the latest Journal of Modern Hellenism (JMH), Volume 32 (2016). It is available online at journals.sfu.ca/jmh Volume editor and TNH columnist Dan Georgakas has, once again, gathered a series of researchers to produce a common-themed series of eleven articles dealing explicitly with a specific aspect of Greek-American cultural history. As with the other volumes and books instigated and edited under Georgakas' direction, this collection of essays is, now, the “go-to...

Issue Vol. 32 / 2016 of the Journal of Modern Hellenism was published entirely on the subject of the GREEKS OF HOLLYWOOD.  This looks so interesting.  I haven't had time to read it myself, but plan on doing so over the next week.  Enjoy it! READ THE ENTIRE JOURNAL FOR FREE -  http://journals.sfu.ca/jmh/index.php/jmh ARTICLES The Greek American Image in American Film:  Creation of a Filmography by Barbara Saltz From "Other" to "One of Us":  The Changing Image of Greek Americans in American film:  1943-1963 by Dan Georgakas The Hollywood Films of Irene Papas by Gerasimus Katsan Before and Beyond America America by Stathis Giallelis And the Winner is Olympia Dukakis by Elaine Thomopoulos Working Through and Against Convention:  The Hollywood Career of A. I. Bezzerides by Yiorgos Kalogeras Creating Images for Hollywood Classics by Vicki James Yiannias Forgotten Movie Theater Pioneer:  Alexander Pantages and Immigrant Hol...