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

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For many years he simultaneously produced the daily strip, a weekly syndicated newspaper column, and a 500-station radio program ...." He ran the Boston Summer Theatre with The Phantom cartoonist Lee Falk, bringing in Hollywood actors such as Mae West, Melvyn Douglas and Claude Rains to star in their live productions.
His production company, Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, was the most successful and innovative star-driven independent production company in Hollywood of the 1950s, making movies such as Marty ( 1955 ), Trapeze ( 1956 ), and Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ).
Although she had no experience in cinema, she took summer courses at the University of Southern California and received personal instruction from Hollywood specialists, such as Rudolph Sternad.
Some elements are associated with fame, such as appearing on the cover of Time, being spoofed in Mad, having a wax statue in Madame Tussauds, or receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
After Trumbo and the others were blacklisted, some Hollywood actors and directors, such as Elia Kazan and Clifford Odets, agreed to testify and to provide names of fellow communist party members to Congress.
From 1955 onwards, the works of directors of the so-called Polish Film School had a great influence on the contemporary trends such as French New Wave, Italian neorealism or even late Classical Hollywood cinema.
It is this branch of criticism that gives us such categories as the classical Hollywood cinema, the American independent movement, the New American independent movement, the new queer cinema, and the French, German, and Czech new waves.
Directors such as Fritz Lang, Robert Siodmak, and Michael Curtiz brought a dramatically shadowed lighting style and a psychologically expressive approach to visual composition, or mise-en-scène, with them to Hollywood, where they would make some of the most famous of classic noirs.
Movies of his such as 20, 000 Years in Sing Sing ( 1932 ) and Private Detective 62 ( 1933 ) are among the early Hollywood sound films arguably classifiable as noir — scholar Marc Vernet offers the latter as evidence that dating the initiation of film noir to 1940 or any other year is " arbitrary ".
Kelly continued to make some film appearances, such as Hornbeck in the 1960 Hollywood production of Inherit the Wind.
Groucho's radio life was not as successful as his life on stage and in film, though historians such as Gerald Nachman and Michael Barson suggest that, in the case of the single-season Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel ( 1932 ), the failure may have been a combination of a poor time slot and the Marx Brothers ' returning to Hollywood to make another film.
The Hollywood directors and producers sometimes found ample opportunity for audience exploitation, with gimmicks such as 3-D and " Percepto " ( producer William Castle's pseudo-electric-shock technique used for The Tingler, 1959 ).
Jaws is often credited as being one of the first films to use traditionally B movie elements such as horror and mild gore in a big-budget Hollywood film.
While the low volume of business conducted by Universal in Germany made such threats largely hollow, the State Department, under pressure from the Hollywood Anti-Nazi League and the Screen Actors Guild, stepped in and the German government backed down.
Hollywood casino is also built on land as the " riverboat " casinos are no longer such.
Hollywood films, such as Hellzapoppin ' and A Day at the Races began featuring the Lindy Hop in dance sequences.
Hollywood was said to be a hotbed of Jewish bias, and films such as Charlie Chaplin ’ s The Great Dictator were offered as proof.
Hollywood has also participated in the genre with actors such as Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Steven Seagal, Brandon Lee ( son of Bruce Lee ), Wesley Snipes, Gary Daniels, Mark Dacascos, and Jason Statham.
Musical stars such as Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers were among the most popular and highly respected personalities in Hollywood during the classical era ; the Fred and Ginger pairing was particularly successful, resulting in a number of classic films, such as Top Hat ( 1935 ), Swing Time ( 1936 ) and Shall We Dance ( 1937 ).
Some musicals released in the New Hollywood period experimented with the form, such as Bugsy Malone and Lisztomania.

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' Clarence Brown: From Knoxville to Hollywood and Back '.
From his " Acker-mini-mansion " in Hollywood, he had entertained and inspired fans weekly with his collection of memorabilia and his stories.
From 1933-1947 Hollywood produced three talking films: Fighting with Kit Carson, a serial ( 1933 ), revised as a single movie: The Return of Kit Carson ( 1947 ); Overland with Kit Carson ( 1939 ); and Kit Carson ( 1940 ), starring Jon Hall in the title role.
* From Russia to Hollywood: The 100-Year Odyssey of Chekhov and Shdanoff ( 1999 ) ( documentary )
* 1977: Jazz vocalist Lorez Alexandria recorded an uptempo version for her album From Broadway To Hollywood which subsequently became popular on the UK jazz dance and soul scenes, eventually being rereleased as a 7 inch single on Jazzman Records in 2000.
Despite arguments that realism cannot be achieved in reality shows because the outcomes may or may not have been scripted, Geoff King argues in his book, Spectacle of the Real: From Hollywood to Reality TV and Beyond that even though the contestants are in a fabricated setting and the situation has been set up for a certain outcome, as in real love shows such as The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, these contestants still harbor feelings that make their participation in the show real to them.
" From there the Oracle site posits " The Center of the Hollywood Universe " as being the person with the lowest average personality number.
" From almost the beginning, Hollywood also got in on the action and produced a number of extremely lurid hippie exploitation films masquerading as cautionary public service announcements, but which were in fact aimed directly at feeding a morbid public appetite while pretending to take a moral stance.
From that point onward nearly every home video release by Hollywood featured a Dolby-encoded linear stereo audiotrack.
From October 31, 1983 to July 27, 1984, Jon " Bowzer " Bauman of Sha Na Na hosted the Hollywood Squares segment of Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour, a joint production of Mark Goodson Productions ( owners of the Match Game format ) and Orion Television, which obtained the rights to Hollywood Squares upon acquiring the Filmways production company.
From the early days of her career, Garbo avoided the social functions in Hollywood, preferring to spend her time alone or with friends.
From the time he joined the Party until leaving it in the early 1950s, Hay taught courses in subjects ranging from Marxist theory to folk music at the " People's Educational Center " in Hollywood and later throughout the Los Angeles area.
From 1992 to 1993, despite numerous offers from Hollywood that came in the wake of her success — including the lead role in Indecent Proposal — Jacob focused on smaller French films.
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From 1938, Ellery spends some time working in Hollywood as a screenwriter ( in The Four of Hearts and The Origin of Evil ), and solves cases with a Hollywood setting.
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His first major Hollywood role was in From Dusk till Dawn, directed by Robert Rodriguez.
From November 1952 to January 1953, Douglas starred in the DuMont detective show Steve Randall ( Hollywood Off Beat ) which then moved to CBS.
Rin Tin Tin was the recipient of the 2011 American Humane Association Legacy award and was honored by the Academy of Arts and Sciences in a special program, Hollywood Dogs: From Rin Tin Tin to Uggie, on June 6, 2012, at the Samuel Goldwin Theatre.
From this success he became one of the wealthiest and most influential figures in early Hollywood.
Jimmy Dorsey appeared in a number of Hollywood motion pictures, including That Girl From Paris, Shall We Dance, The Fleet's In, Lost in a Harem with Abbot and Costello, I Dood It, and the bio-pic with his brother Tommy, The Fabulous Dorseys in 1947.

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