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Lillian Gish Silent Film Stardom
1,042 wordsThe history of the great talent Lillian Gish is immeasurable. She has acted in more productions per decade then anyone else in this century. She has been in one hundred and five films alone, thats not counting all the on stage productions she has performed in. The amazing talents of this once beautiful young actress can be seen in any of her early silent films too. Way Down East and Orphans of the Storm are two of her earlier films that portray her exquisite skills. Yet none of this would be kno...
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United States And Canada Hannibal Lecter
773 wordsNorth American moviegoers were hungry for Hannibal the Cannibal at the weekend. "Hannibal, " a thriller starring Sir Anthony Hopkins in a long-awaited follow-up to the 1991 hit "The Silence of the Lambs, " grossed a record-breaking $ 58 million in its first three days of release in the United States and Canada, according to studio estimates issued on Sunday. If the numbers hold when final data are issued on Monday, "Hannibal" will replace 2000 's "Mission: Impossible II" ($ 57. 9 million) as the...
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Buster Keaton Prentice Hall
2,324 wordsBuster Keaton "No man can be a genius in slap shoes and a flat hat. " Buster Keaton. First of all one needs to remember that Joseph Frank (Buster) Keaton was born into a family of vaudevillians. Joseph, his father, did an eccentric dance act and his mother, Myra, danced and played the saxophone. He was the oldest of three siblings; he had one brother, Harry (Jingles), and a sister, Louise, both of whom would later appear with the rest of his family in some of his movie shorts. Buster joined his ...
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Buster Keaton Warner Bros
4,657 wordsIn 1927 Warner Bros. released The Jazz Singer, a silent drama with sound sequences in which Al Jolson sang and spoke. The film was a hit, and within two years American cinema shifted irreversibly to talking films. At first everyone was planted around the microphone, but even as the technology improved, sound still slowed down the onscreen tempo because of the greater detail and realism which it brought to action. This change helped the dramatic players of silents, most of whom had equal or great...
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Theme Parks Disney World
540 wordsDisney World is seen as an artificial, programmed environment in the eyes of Susan Willis, a Duke University English professor (84). To her, the practice of amusement seems as catastrophic as the end of mankind. I disagree and believe that there is nothing wrong with amusement. In the words of Aristotle, " But to amuse oneself? seems right, for amusement is a sort of relaxation, and we need relaxation because we cannot work continuously" (Cahn, 124). Disney World offers venues for rela...
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William Randolph Hearst Wanted To Make
1,209 wordsWilliam Randolph Hearst &# 038; Marion Davies: The Truth of their Relationship Things are not always as they seem. People who are always in the public eye often have their live stereotyped because they are rich and famous. This was the case with William Randolph Hearst and Marion Davies. Many people believed that because of his power and money she was using him to advance her career and that the relationship would not last due to the 34 -year age difference between them. The truth is that their ...
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Film And Television Disney Mgm Parks
588 wordsJaws Vs. Drew Carey The Final Cut Mom, can we go to Florida is a common phrase heard when school is out. Deciding where to go and what to see is a very hard decision for cash strapped parents. Picking one park is even harder when they are both five minutes apart from each other. When you want to see top amusement parks, you have a choice of two of the biggest names in the Industry, Disney-MGM or Universal. Both parks offer a different experience, yet they started with the same goal in mind, ente...
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Judy Garland Sleeping Pills
1,072 wordsJudy Garland Judy Garland was one of the most talented actress / singers of the 1940 s. Judy received a special Academy Award and was nominated for two others. She stared in thirty of her own television shows which earned ten Emmy Award nominations. She also received five Grammys for her dozen record albums. Perhaps it was her stardom that ended her life early, Judy died of an overdose of sleeping pills just two weeks after her forty-seventh birthday. It was determined an accidental death, but c...
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Marlon Brando Buster Keaton
2,876 wordsThe history of the illustrious film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, more commonly known as MGM, begins with Marcus Loew, a first-generation American and son of Austrian immigrants, who began purchasing penny arcades in 1905 with his business partner, Adolph Zukor. They were soon buying up motion-picture theaters, and by 1912, when Zukor struck out to form the production company Famous Players (which eventually became Paramount), Loew had his own business, Loew&# 39; s Theatrical Enterprises, which o...
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D W Griffith Buster Keaton
6,372 wordsWhile films made during cinema&# 39; s early days may appear archaic, awkward, or even unintentionally funny to some modern viewers, they were part of a revolution in entertainment that was never before equaled and perhaps may never be equaled again. Later innovations such as television and the internet (so far more of an information medium than an entertaining one) owe their acceptance, if not their very existence, to the initial discovery that people are endlessly fascinated when a narrative s...
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