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North By Northwest Alfred Hitchcock
642 wordsNorth by Northwest North by Northwest was created in 1959. It is an exciting, classic Alfred Hitchcock caper thriller. The box-office hit film is one of the most entertaining movies ever made and one of Hitchcock's most famous suspense / mystery stories that were created during his entire career. The quick-paced, glamorous espionage thriller contains a tongue-in-cheek odyssey away from the city. One of the films posters advertised: Only Cary Grant and Alfred Hitchcock ever gave you so much suspe...
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Marlon Brando Rita Hayworth
3,086 wordsColumbia Pictures originated with a man whose coarseness and bullying earned him such unloving nicknames as 34; Harry The Horror, 34; 34; White Fang, 34; and 34; His Crudeness 34; : Harry Cohn. The New York-born son of Jewish immigrants, Cohn worked throughout the teens at numerous jobs, in and out of the entertainment industry. By 1918 he was an assistant to Carl Laemmle, the founder of Universal, who also employed Harry 39; s older brother Jack. The Cohn's left Universal in ...
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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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Buster Keaton Cary Grant
2,315 wordsThe Meaning of Chow (Its In His Mouth) Ultimately, it comes down to his mouth. Chow Yun-Fat is the coolest movie actor in the world today, and the only way I can explain this is to talk about his mouth. He does cool things with his mouth. Smoking cigarettes is no longer an emblem of cool in the USA, but Chow does wonders with cigarette smoke in Prison On Fire. Director Ringo Lam understands this; like most of the great Hong Kong directors, he loves using slow motion and freeze frames to pinpoint...
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Hartford Connecticut Cary Grant
782 wordsKatharine Hepburn Kathrine Hep, the winner of more acting awards than any other actress in history, is a very dynamic woman. She was born in Hartford Connecticut, on May 12, 1907. She wass the second oldest child of six. Kate, as she was called by her family members, had two sisters, Peg and Marion, and three brothers, Tom, Dick, and Bob. She attended Bryn Mawr college in Connecticut. She majored in acting. During her senior year at Bryn Mawr, Katharine met Ludlow Open Smith. That was 1927. In 1...
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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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