He still used many elements from the " primitive " style of movie-making that predated classical Hollywood's continuity system, such as frontal staging, exaggerated gestures, minimal camera movement, and an absence of point of view shots.

Todd Berliner says that seventies cinema resists the efficiency and harmony that normally characterize classical Hollywood cinema and tests the limits of Hollywood's classical model.

The film premiered at Hollywood's Paramount theater in May 1955, under the title Bride of the Atom.

He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors and he epitomized the group of filmmakers known as the New Hollywood, that includes Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick, Robert Altman, Woody Allen, William Friedkin, Philip Kaufman and George Lucas, who emerged in the early 1970s with unconventional ideas that challenged contemporary film-making.

2011 saw the release of Michel Hazanavicius ' The Artist, a silent film shot in black and white that reflected on the end of Hollywood's silent era.

The film is based on the life of the silent screen icon Rudolph Valentino, known as the Hollywood's first " Great Lover ".

The film led Roger Ebert to call Reiner " one of Hollywood's very best directors of comedy ", and said that it was " most conventional, in terms of structure and the way it fulfills our expectations.

Under the influence of the American Office of War Information, the film attempted to undermine Hollywood's prewar depiction of England as a glamorous bastion of social privilege, anachronistic habits and snobbery in favour of more democratic, modern images.

Bogdanovich, drawing from his encyclopedic knowledge of film history, authored several critically lauded books, including Peter Bogdanovich's Movie of the Week, which offered the lifelong cinephile's commentary on 52 of his favorite films, and Who The Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors and Who the Hell's in It: Conversations with Hollywood's Legendary Actors, both based on interviews with directors and actors.

When the film was released, it received mixed reviews, particularly about its controversial content, but Lombard's performance was hailed as the perfect send off to one of 1930s Hollywood's most important stars.

The film was the first musical released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and was Hollywood's first all-talking musical.

Chaplin's film followed only a few months after Hollywood's first parody of Hitler, the short subject You Nazty Spy by the Three Stooges, although Chaplin had been planning it for years before.

Greta Garbo ( 18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990 ), born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, was a Swedish film actress and an international star and icon during Hollywood's silent and classic periods.

In Slant Magazine's four-out-of-four-star review, Eric Henderson rejects the " so-bad-it's-good " interpretation and lauds the film as " one of the most honest satires of recent years ", stating that the film targets Hollywood's " morally bankrupt star-is-born tales.

McQueen played the lead in the next big Sturges film, 1963's The Great Escape, which gave Hollywood's depiction of the otherwise true story of an historical mass escape from a World War II POW camp, Stalag Luft III.

Their agent, Abby Greshler, negotiated for them one of Hollywood's best deals: although they received only a modest $ 75, 000 between them for their films with Wallis, Martin and Lewis were free to do one outside film a year, which they would co-produce through their own York Productions.

Because it dealt with the taboo subject of " narcotics ," Hollywood's Production Code refused to grant a seal of approval for the film, and it was released without the MPAA's seal of approval.

The film became one of mainstream Hollywood's few attempts at a comedic " gay movie " of its era, and was widely noted at the time for a 10-second kiss between Kevin Kline and Tom Selleck.

The latter two were both Silent films but had sound effects and music added to their soundtracks as part of Hollywood's transitional phase of technology following the success of the Sound film The Jazz Singer.

A popular star during Hollywood's Golden Age, he is best remembered for his roles as gangsters, such as Rico in his star-making film Little Caesar and as Rocco in Key Largo.

It was one of the so-called Little Three among the eight major film studios of Hollywood's Golden Age.

After a decade of roles in Australian TV shows and films, Bana gained Hollywood's attention by playing the role of American Delta Force Sergeant Norm " Hoot " Hooten in Black Hawk Down ( 2001 ), the lead role as Bruce Banner in the Ang Lee directed film Hulk ( 2003 ), Hector in the movie Troy ( 2004 ), the lead in Steven Spielberg's Munich ( 2005 ), and the villain Nero in the science-fiction film Star Trek ( 2009 ).

The film was directed by William Desmond Taylor, whose later, unsolved, murder became one of Hollywood's biggest scandals.

David Sterritt of the Christian Science Monitor called the film " a fine example of Hollywood's love-hate attitude toward timely and controversial subject matter.

Among Hollywood's most celebrated directors of the era, arguably none worked more often in a noir mode than Preminger — his other classic noirs include Fallen Angel ( 1945 ), Whirlpool ( 1949 ), Where the Sidewalk Ends ( 1950 ) ( all for Fox ) and Angel Face ( 1952 ).

In 1936, Colbert signed a new contract with Paramount Pictures, which required her to make seven films over a two-year period, and this contract made her Hollywood's highest paid actress.

During this period, Loy was one of Hollywood's busiest and highest paid actresses, and in 1937 and 1938 she was listed in the annual " Quigley Poll of the Top Ten Money Making Stars ", which was compiled from the votes of movie exhibitors throughout the U. S. for the stars that had generated the most revenue in their theaters over the previous year.

According to Byman, " there were no fewer than ninety-six " other companies in competition during that period, and included some of Hollywood's biggest names: Frank Capra, John Ford, William Wyler, Howard Hawks, Leo McCarey, and George Stevens.

Given Hollywood's reluctance to hire Asian actors for substantial roles during that period ( with only a few reluctant exceptions, such as Anna May Wong, Sessue Hayakawa, and Philip Ahn ), he portrayed a variety of Asian characters in several movies before being offered the leading role in the 1929 film, The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu as the first onscreen portrayal of the title character.

Her Superman fame has obscured the fact that Coates was one of Hollywood's most dependable actresses of the period.

Liverpool is Frankie Goes to Hollywood's second and last studio album, released in October 1986 ( see 1986 in music ).

To this day, the scene is attacked by critics as an ugly male-chauvinist fantasy, claiming it serves as an example of Peckinpah's ( and Hollywood's ) debasing of women.

Known for his transatlantic accent, debonair demeanor and " dashing good looks ", Grant is considered one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men .< ref > McMann 1996, p. 271, n. 13.

Spike is also featured in Forbes magazine's " Hollywood's Most Powerful Vampires " list along with Angel.

* Dennie Gordon-Born and raised in Robbinsdale, MN, Dennie ( Denise ) is one of Hollywood's most versatile directors.

Hollywood's Hardbodies is set away from the historical downtown Main Street area atop of Sykes Hill.

It is also popularly known as the Hays Code, after Hollywood's chief censor of the time, Will H. Hays.

News magazine Life observed in a 1940 article: " Next to Garbo, Jean Arthur is Hollywood's reigning mystery woman ".

Jack Shaheen, a critic of Hollywood's portrayal of Arabs, believes that " the studio feared financial and possibly political hardships if they made the film's hero Arab ", and claimed that " If no attempt is made to challenge negative stereotypes about Arabs, the misperceptions continue.

In his review for the Los Angeles Times, Kenneth Turan wrote, " But the ringmaster of this circus, the man without whom nothing would be possible, is director De Bont, who now must be considered Hollywood's top action specialist.

At first the Chief ( Sid Caesar ), who is in danger of losing the studio to the ( literally ) rabid and greedy New York conglomerate Engulf & Devour ( Harold Gould and Ron Carey ), rejects the idea, but Funn convinces him that if he can get Hollywood's biggest stars to be in the film, he could save the studio.

It is well known as Hollywood's leading talent agency and it has numerous famous entertainment-industry clients.

Jaws is regarded as the first film of New Hollywood's ' blockbuster era ' with its current meaning, implying a film genre.

Today, it is noted as a home to affluent residents, many of whom work as part of nearby Hollywood's film industry.

In a fashion reminiscent of Hollywood's movie-making process, the building is " dressed " before the ceremony, including a different sign ( though not always ), red drapery to hide all the storefronts, and the famous red carpet running up to the Staircase.

He was Hollywood's first Western megastar and is noted as having helped define the genre for all cowboy actors who followed.

Haines's life story is told in the 1998 biography Wisecracker: The Life and Times of William Haines, Hollywood's First Openly Gay Star by William J. Mann, and his designs are the subject of Peter Schifando and Haines associate Jean H. Mathison's 2005 book Class Act: William Haines Legendary Hollywood Decorator.

She has been watching television signals from Earth and is obsessed by movies, especially from Hollywood's Golden Age.

St. Elmo's Fire is so depressing a portent of Hollywood's teen sycophancy because it not only devotes itself to stupid kids, it accepts their view of the world without any real criticism .... The sole survivor of the general disaster is Ally Sheedy, who manages to make something charming out of the yup petulance.

The Lasky-DeMille Barn is one of Hollywood's first film studios and a designated California State Historic Landmark.