By the mid-twenties the British film industry was losing out to heavy competition from Hollywood, the latter helped by having a much larger home market-in 1914 25 % of films shown in the UK were British, but by 1926 this had fallen to 5 %.

In Hollywood, Manheim is disheartened to learn that Catherine " Kit " Sargent, a novelist and screenwriter he greatly admires, has fallen for Sammy's charms.

This included the still controversial blacklist of actors, writers and directors in Hollywood who had been Communists or who had fallen in with Communist-controlled or influenced organizations in the pre-war and wartime years.

It was with this last plan in mind that Clair and his family, along with Julien Duvivier, departed for America, but by the time he reached New York the project had already fallen through and he went straight on to Hollywood where several studios were interested in employing him.

When he returned to Hollywood in the mid 1950s his old style of glamour had fallen from favour.

He helped Blue put together a tour, during which they opened at a few Crosby and Nash shows in November 1973 and in opening the Roxy Theater in Hollywood, California for Neil Young and the Santa Monica Flyers .– Felder replaced David Lindley ( who had fallen ill ) in the Crosby Nash band.

Through consciousness of the means of production and opposition of sexist ideologies, films made by women have the potential to posit an alternative to traditional Hollywood films.

Thematically, film noirs were most exceptional for the relative frequency with which they centered on women of questionable virtue — a focus that had become rare in Hollywood films after the mid-1930s and the end of the pre-Code era.

True Hollywood Story profile of Hefner revealed that Mildred allowed him to sleep with other women, out of guilt for her infidelity and in the hopes that it would preserve their marriage.

John Belton identified four narrative elements of the war film within the context of Hollywood production: a ) the suspension of civilian morality during times of war, b ) primacy of collective goals over individual motivations, c ) rivalry between men in predominantly male groups as well as marginalization and objectification of women, and d ) depiction of the reintegration of veterans.

She was also one of the first women to enlist in the Marine Corps, was a founder of the successful " Hollywood Playhouse " for aspiring actors and actresses on the RKO set, and a founder of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals.

Dr. Nick has a medical degree from " Hollywood Upstairs Medical College ", where he apparently spent much of his time using his ability to acquire prescription drugs in the 1970s to impress a succession of attractive women who were typically taller than him.

The Valley's proximity to Hollywood and prevalence of Jewish American women among both the demographic and the LA media machine helped give the stereotype large exposure to the rest of the world.

In November 1933, Bow described the Hollywood years as a French Revolution picture, where " women are hollering and waving pitchforks twice as violently as any of the guys ... the only ladies in sight are the ones getting their heads cut off ".

In past Hollywood films it was common for men to double for women and White American stunt performers to double for African-American performers.

Both before and after his marriage, Prince George had a string of affairs with both men and women, from socialites to Hollywood celebrities.

In addition to Lena Horne, Scott was one of the first African-American women to garner respectable roles in major Hollywood pictures.

Hollywood stuntwoman Alice Van-Springsteen ( 1918-2008 ) also rode as a jockey and was one of the first women ever to receive a trainer's license for thoroughbred horses.

This made her the first woman to head a major studio, and one of the most powerful women in Hollywood at the time.

The movie gained notoriety for featuring several sex scenes-in particular, one involving a man and two women simultaneously-that were more explicit than is typically seen in mainstream, big-budget Hollywood movies.

Luro basked in the publicity surrounding his racing success, associating with the rich and famous including Hollywood stars such as Bing Crosby while his dashing personality and good looks saw him dating some of society's most glamorous women.

The group would later move to Hollywood, California where they were featured in " Once Upon Her Time ," a TV program about women in the ' 80s which aired on the Lifetime Cablevision Network.

At the launch event, in what is now North Hollywood, a crowd of men and women, dressed in the attire of the era, eagerly awaited the display of the film stages, daredevil stunt pilots and silent-film idols, as well as the movie cameras Laemmle had brought along.

Both women repeatedly denied the stories and attempted to dispel "... the myth that women, especially blondes and brunettes, can ’ t get along in Hollywood.

In her films The Bigamist and The Hitch-Hiker Lupino was able to reduce the male to the same sort of dangerous, irrational force that women represented in most male-directed examples of Hollywood film noir.

Matters changed when she was named one of the four most beautiful women in Hollywood, along with Hedy Lamarr, Ingrid Bergman and Gene Tierney in a 1944 edition of Look magazine.

As part of the ongoing " Investigation of the National Defense Program ", on August 4, 1947 the subcommittee called Roosevelt and Meyer to testify about the Hollywood and Manhattan parties and women that Meyer had arranged and paid for.

In a letter to the city's Recreation and Park Board on Monday, commission officials wrote that they were " appalled " by the board's approval of the alterations and that " the action your board has taken is offensive to Los Angeles women and is not within your role as custodian and guardian of the Hollywood sign.

Situations often take the characters to other destinations, including New York City, Washington, D. C., Hollywood, tropical islands, the Moon, Mars, and some purely fanciful worlds of Capp's invention.

This factor is a natural outcome of Hollywood script development which wishes to highlight one or two major characters which can be played by major stars, and thus a good way of marketing the movie is established but that rings false upon examination.

The novel was written in contemporary English for a mass audience, in the same way that mainstream Hollywood movies depicting the Second World War commonly depict German characters talking in English.

's True Hollywood Story, Marshall lauded the concept, but lamented that by the time each of the characters was introduced, very little of the show's half-hour format was left for actual gameplay.

Hailey said he detached himself from his plots and characters once a book had been sold to Hollywood.

The opening shot is discussed briefly in the opening shot of Robert Altman's 1992 film, The Player, by two characters who work for a fictional Hollywood studio, as the longest opening tracking shot in history.

Eventually, the WGA awarded Henkin credit, and Levinson himself threatened to quit the Guild, claiming that David Mamet wrote every line of dialogue, as well as creating the characters of Motss and Schumann, and originating most of the scenes set in Hollywood and all of the scenes set in Nashville.

** List of fictional characters with stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

* Nickelodeon Blast Zone was an area in Universal Studios Hollywood that featured attractions centered on Nickelodeon characters and themes.

There has been much debate as to which real-life Hollywood legends are represented by the film's characters.

Each man plays a Hollywood archetype — self-absorbed multi-Oscar-winning Aussie method actor Kirk Lazarus ( Downey ), aging action hero desperately looking to reinvent himself as a serious actor ( Stiller ), and overweight heroin-addicted self-destructive comic best known for portraying multiple characters in a franchise of comedies about a family that farts in every film ( Black )— as they star in an extremely expensive Vietnam-era film called Tropic Thunder.

In one scene of the novel Expiration Date by Tim Powers, the main characters are evading the antagonists of the novel by hiding in Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Despite his trademark portrayal of happy, well-adjusted characters, Young's bitterness towards Hollywood casting practices never diminished, and he suffered from depression and alcoholism, culminating in a suicide attempt in January 1991.

" Another episode of The Simpsons, in which the origins of the cartoon characters Itchy & Scratchy are explored, parallels some of the disputed history Felix's creation set forth above, and includes a spoof film entitled Manhattan Madness, presented as the first Itchy & Scratchy cartoon, supposedly from 1919, that is similar in style to " Felix in Hollywood " and other early Felix animations.

While their characters were less significant, well-known actors who played cameos in the programme included Joan Sims, best known for her numerous roles in the Carry On films, who guest-starred in the feature-length episode " The Frog's Legacy " as an aunt of Trigger and old friend of Del's late mother ; future Hollywood star David Thewlis, who played a young wannabe musician in " It's Only Rock and Roll "; John Bardon, who played the role of Jim Branning in the soap opera " EastEnders ", as the supermarket security officer in " The Longest Night ".

Woody and Winnie both appear as costumed characters at Universal Orlando, Universal Studios Japan, Universal Studios Hollywood and Universal Studios Singapore.

The film concludes with a long montage of racially insensitive and demeaning clips of black characters from Hollywood films of the first half of the 20th century.

Recurring callers included inventor Alex Chiu as well as the fictional characters Johnny O ' Banion ( portrayed by co-writer / producer Stewart Engesser ), a Hollywood reporter and former Loni Anderson paramour, and karate master Rickey Kang ( also played by Spieden ).

Although ostensibly set in the Kentucky mountains, situations often took the characters to different destinations — including New York City, Washington, D. C., Hollywood, the South American Amazon, tropical islands, the Moon, Mars, etc.

I'm just Lupe ", Vélez developed a public reputation as The Hot Baby of Hollywood, and found herself in roles portraying " half-castes " and exotic characters.

The duo are featured characters at both of Disney's Muppet * Vision 3D at Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disney California Adventure Park as audio-animatronic Muppets helping Bean Bunny escape the theater and, of course, heckling the show.

However, mutant animals make characters that are in general much weaker than standard heroes, as the TMNT supplement Turtles Go Hollywood noted.

The characters realise they can all be friends, and Bugsy and Blousey leave for Hollywood.

The studio soon grew to include six buildings that have become well known in Hollywood --- in true Klasky Csupo style, the exterior walls of the buildings are decorated with large murals of its characters.

In the Ratz strip in the Beano Annual 2009, Herman, one of the main characters, goes off to Hollywood.