The Stolen Screen Part 4: (William Desmond Taylor & Mary Miles Minter)

Murder and Rivalry Imagine an Ethnic American pioneer, rifle in hand, crossing the untamed wilderness of the Ohio Valley in 1789, his calloused fingers gripping the stock as he fends off Shawnee warriors to carve out a homestead for his posterity. Blood spills on virgin soil, not for personal glory, but to secure a covenant …

The Stolen Screen Part 3: (Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle)

How the Hollywood Mafia Framed and Destroyed a Keystone Giant to Consolidate Power Imagine an Ethnic American pioneer—a free White person of good moral character, as enshrined in the 1790 Naturalization Act—forging a homestead from untamed wilderness. He rises before dawn, clears forests with calloused hands, fends off threats from hostile forces, and builds a …

The Stolen Screen: Part 2 (Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand)

(Part 1 of “The Stolen Screen” is here ) The Keystone Architects In the rugged frontiers of America’s founding era, our Ethnic American forbearers—free White persons of good moral character, descendants of Europe’s hardy stock—conquered a savage wilderness with sheer grit and unbreakable resolve. They felled ancient forests, spanned roaring rivers, and erected sturdy homesteads …

The Stolen Screen: How Gangsters Hijacked Hollywood from Ethnic Americans

The Patent Theft and the Nickelodeon Takeover Picture this: a shadowy cabal of immigrant opportunists, fresh from the gritty streets of New York’s nickelodeon dens, plotting to seize an entire industry born from the genius of a true American inventor. Whispers of stolen patents echo through dimly lit backrooms, leading to a trail of scandals, …