Watson Exhibit at Heritage Museum
87 Years of the "First Family of Hollywood"
is an exhibit from the archives of the Watson family currently on display at the Hollywood Heritage Museum in the Lasky-DeMille Barn. From 1912 through 1999 the Watsons worked in over 1,000 motion pictures, eventually receiving a star on Hollywoods Walk of Fame in April 1999.The exhibit includes various items including: motion picture scripts from such films as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington and Boys Town, early Screen Actors Guild (SAG) membership cards, the bound biographical script from This is Your Life with Ralph Edwards, mechanical effects equipment from Black Pirate and The Thief of Bagdad (1924), letters from Frank Capra and Bette Davis, and hundreds of other pictures and mementos of the Watsons with various stars of the Golden Age.