Born in Meath, Made in Hollywood

Born in Meath, Made in Hollywood

A 1-hour radio documentary for LMFM Radio

Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television Licence Fee

Born in Meath, Made in Hollywood, a new radio documentary by Little Road Productions Ltd., will broadcast at 12noon on Monday December 26th 2022 on LMFM Radio.

Only 13 actors of Irish descent boast stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and very few realise that 3 of those were brothers (Owen, Matt and Tom Moore) who hailed from Fordstown, Co. Meath and who were stalwarts of the early Hollywood film industry, between them boasting over 600 Hollywood film credits. This one-hour radio documentary retells the story of the journey of the Moore Brothers from a small boreen in Co. Meath to Hollywood film stars, along with their contribution to the Golden Age of Hollywood.

When the Moore family, father Tom, mother Rosanna (nee Carry) and their then four children Tom (13), Owen (10), Matt (8) and Mary emigrated to the US as steerage passengers on the SS Anchoria in May 1986, little did they know that their journey would take all of their children to the silver screens of Hollywood while three of them would make such a mark on the film industry that they would have their own stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Tom and Rosanna’s journey to find a better life in the USA took them through the inspection channels of Ellis Island and initially on to Toledo, Ohio, where their fifth child Joe was born. Not long after, teenagers Tom and Owen, sensing that their future lay on the stage and not in the country fields of Ohio, ran away to join a travelling theatre company. They were both seasoned stage performers by the time the Hollywood motion picture industry kicked off in 1908 and both made their movie debuts that year - Owen in ‘The Guerrilla’ and Tom in ‘The Christmas Burglars’, filmed at the Biograph Studios run by the now infamous D. W. Griffith.

Using interviews with Turtle Bunbury, broadcaster, historian and author, who featured the brothers in his recent book ‘The Irish Diaspora’, and Dr. Ruth Barton, Professor of Film Studies at Trinity College Dublin, along with on location commentary from local historians Stephen Ball and Kenny Timmons, the documentary uncovers the story of these siblings who were household names across the US by the mid 1920s, known as the Roaring Twenties, and became as well known as the other Hollywood elite of the Golden Age, starring alongside names like Mae West and Cary Grant.

The documentary was funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland with the Television Licence Fee

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