Easter Echoes: Alice Gentle’s Song

This vintage reel, Easter Services from Hollywood, California / Opera Star Alice Gentle Sings, captures a sacred Hollywood moment circa the late 1920s. Renowned mezzo-soprano Alice Gentle, famed for La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera, lends her rich voice to Easter services. Likely filmed or recorded in a grand church or studio, it blends spiritual reverence with operatic splendor, offering a unique glimpse of faith and artistry in the burgeoning film capital during the silent-to-sound transition.