Many Hollywood films manage somehow to be authentic, but not realistic.

Hollywood films such as From This Day Forward ( 1946 ), set in Highbridge, occasionally delved into Bronx life.

In 1965, she appeared as herself in the Hollywood production Dear Brigitte ( 1965 ) starring James Stewart, one of the few American films in which she appeared.

In the 1970s, De Palma went to Hollywood where he worked on bigger budget films.

If Chins Could Kill ... was published in 2002 and follows Campbell's career to date as an actor in low-budget films and television, providing his insight into " Blue-Collar Hollywood ".

By the time The Circus was released, Hollywood had witnessed the introduction of sound films.

And later ten films by the Pat Sullivan Studio from 1918 – 1919, which would later use the ' Charlie / Charley ' gestures to create Felix the Cat, the character made one later appearance in one of Felix's 1923 cartoons " Felix in Hollywood ".

He is most widely known in Hollywood for having written, directed and starred in several improvisational " mockumentary " films that feature a repertory-like ensemble cast.

A 1954 article by Truffaut attacked La qualité française (" the French Quality ") and was the manifesto for ' la politique des Auteurs ' which Andrew Sarris later termed the auteur theory — resulting in the re-evaluation of Hollywood films and directors such as Alfred Hitchcock, Howard Hawks, Robert Aldrich, Nicholas Ray, Fritz Lang and Anthony Mann.

Most of his films have been at least partially financed by Telefilm Canada, and Cronenberg is a vocal supporter of government-backed film projects, saying " Every country needs system of government Grant ( money ) | grants in order to have a national cinema in the face of Hollywood ".

The scholar Kenneth Billingsley found that Trumbo wrote The Daily Worker about films which he said communist influence in Hollywood had prevented from being made: among them were proposed adaptations of Arthur Koestler's anti-totalitarian works Darkness at Noon and The Yogi and the Commissar, which described the rise of communism in Russia.

In contrast, Technicolor concentrated primarily on getting their process adopted by Hollywood studios for fictional feature films.

With a legendary Hollywood " girl next door " image, and capable of delivering comedy and romance as well as heavy drama, she appeared in 39 films, released 29 albums, spent 460 weeks in the Top 40 charts and eventually became one of America's most beloved entertainers.

* Danny Kaye has three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his work in music, radio, and films.

What became known as the popular ' classical Hollywood ' style of editing was developed by early European and American directors, in particular D. W. Griffith in his films such as The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance.

French New Wave films and the non-narrative films of the 1960s used a carefree editing style and did not conform to the traditional editing etiquette of Hollywood films.

In 1926, Hollywood studio Warner Bros. introduced the " Vitaphone " system, producing short films of live entertainment acts and public figures and adding recorded sound effects and orchestral scores to some of its major features.

In the U. S., a post-WW2 tendency toward questioning the establishment and societal norms and the early activism of the Civil Rights Movement was reflected in Hollywood films such as Blackboard Jungle ( 1955 ), On the Waterfront ( 1954 ), Paddy Chayefsky's Marty and Reginald Rose's 12 Angry Men ( 1957 ).

Many British films are co-productions with American producers, often using both British and American actors, and British actors feature regularly in Hollywood films.

Many successful Hollywood films have been based on British people, stories or events, including Titanic, The Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean and the ' English Cycle ' of Disney animated films.

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 %.

Japanese cinema later became one of the main inspirations behind the New Hollywood movement of the 1960s to 1980s.

By the end of the 1980s, most major Hollywood studios were utilizing their services.

The modern Hollywood blockbuster is the most popular film format from the 1980s.

For the first time since the late 1980s, Queen's catalogue will have the same distributor worldwide, as their US home, Hollywood Records, is currently distributed by Universal ( for a time in the late 1980s, Queen was on EMI-owned Capitol Records in the US ).

The 1980s would see the action film take over Hollywood to become a dominant form of summer blockbuster ; literally " the action era " popularized by actors such as Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis and Chuck Norris.

His fame as a comedy film actor was later heightened by success in hit Hollywood films such as Foul Play, 10 with Bo Derek and Arthur in the late 1970s and early 1980s, respectively.

Hawn's career slowed down after leaving Hollywood in the late 1980s, but revived somewhat in 1990 with the action comedy Bird on a Wire, a critically panned but commercially successful picture that paired Hawn with Mel Gibson.

A variation on the 1980s syndicated series ' endgame was added to Hollywood Squares in September 2002 and remained until the series ended in June 2004.

In 2008, the documentary film celebrating the romps of the Australian New Wave of 1970s and 1980s low-budget cinema: Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!

The Spitfire Boys were mainly notable for including in their line-up Peter Clarke, who went on to drum for The Slits and later Siouxsie and the Banshees ( as well as marrying Siouxsie of the Banshees ) as Budgie, and Paul Rutherford, later better known for being a member of 1980s pop band Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

After his marriage, he worked as an actor in Hollywood, with supporting roles in Western movies, a writer and, by the 1980s, as a spiritual guru under the name Sun Bear.

Farr endorsed the U. S. Mars bar in commercials during the 1980s and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1985.

The story ( which may be apocryphal ) goes that, in the 1980s, during a meeting with a young Hollywood executive, Zinnemann was surprised to find the executive didn't know who he was, despite having won four Academy Awards, and directing many of Hollywood's biggest films.

In the early 1980s, Hollywood films and songs portrayed the female-dominated mall lifestyle in the San Fernando Valley.

West Hollywood, with a gay male population of about 41 %, has been disproportionately affected by the HIV / AIDS epidemic which has ravaged its gay male population since the early 1980s.

When that series ended its six-season run in 1978, Wallace began three decades of television appearances as a game show panelist, on shows such as Hollywood Squares, Password Plus and its 1980s spin-off Super Password, Whew !, the 1980s version of Crosswits, Hot Potato, Body Language, The $ 25, 000 Pyramid, Double Talk, Win, Lose or Draw, To Tell the Truth and Match Game.

She came to fame during the 1980s, after roles in the Hollywood films Body Heat, Peggy Sue Got Married, Romancing the Stone, The War of the Roses, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Serial Mom and Prizzi's Honor.

The real commercial boom of Brazilian rock was in the 1980s, with many bands and artists like Blitz, Gang 90, Barão Vermelho, Legião Urbana, Engenheiros do Hawaii, Titãs, Kid Abelha, Paralamas do Sucesso, and many others, and festivals like Rock in Rio and Hollywood Rock.

ZTT enjoyed considerable success in the 1980s with the composer Andrew Poppy, bands such as Propaganda, Art of Noise, and the chart-topping Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

Over the years, the label has continued to dip into its well of 1980s material by constantly reissuing material by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Propaganda and Art of Noise in various formats-from remix albums, to straight reissues.

During the 1980s, Orion's output included Woody Allen films, Hollywood blockbusters such as the first Terminator and the RoboCop films, comedies such as Throw Momma from the Train, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Something Wild and the Bill & Ted films, and best picture Academy Award winners Amadeus, Platoon, Dances with Wolves, and The Silence of the Lambs.

He became a familiar face as a supporting actor in many 1980s Hollywood comedies, including Midnight Run, Taking Care of Business, Seems Like Old Times, The Great Muppet Caper, The Woman in Red, The Lonely Guy, Ishtar and The Couch Trip.

His Hollywood film roles of the 1980s usually saw him cast as uptight, bland and world-weary white collar professionals, such as a psychiatrist having a nervous breakdown ( The Couch Trip ), a health conscious accountant ( Midnight Run ), an ineffectual advertising executive ( Taking Care of Business ) and a lonely socially awkward nerd The Lonely Guy.