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 ).

Her top billing reflected her status in Hollywood, and the film was popular with audiences and critics.

CBS west coast headquarters reflected its industry stature while hosting its top Hollywood talent

Being the son of a successful Hollywood producer, Schulberg had an insider's viewpoint on the true happenings of Hollywood, and his literature and film reflected this.

Moreover, some Night Ranger fans perceived the band's Hollywood flirtations as evidence of " selling out ", reflected by a slight decline in album sales for Big Life.

After returning to Hollywood, Wong reflected on her year in China and her career in Hollywood: " I am convinced that I could never play in the Chinese Theatre.

She lectured at MOMA again in June, 2008, presenting " Saucy Gamine, Reluctant Penitent, and Glorious Victor ," a review of her aunt's roller coaster ride in Hollywood as reflected in three of her films.

From the ground, the contours of the hills give the sign its " wavy " appearance, as reflected in the Hollywood Video logo, for example.

In 1905, the Los Angeles and Pacific Railway, successor to the Pasadena and Pacific, built a new branch northwest along Sunset Boulevard from Sanborn Avenue as a shortcut to its existing line on Hollywood Boulevard, forming the junction that is still reflected in the existing street configuration.

Despite the many Hollywood elements, Aeneas has received little interest from the film industry.

Although the European film industry was then in its ascendancy, Bardot was one of the few European actresses to have the mass media's attention in the United States, an interest which she did not reciprocate by rarely, if ever, going to Hollywood.

He wrote a treatment combined with elements of a shooting script and this generated a lot of interest in Hollywood.

Having developed an interest in acting, he left the Highland Light Infantry, travelled to Hollywood and had several minor roles in film.

During her long career, she made a total of 73 films, and was best known as Fred Astaire's romantic interest and dancing partner in a series of ten Hollywood musical films that revolutionized the genre.

As a teenager, Rogers thought of becoming a schoolteacher, but with her mother's interest in Hollywood and the theater, her early exposure to the theater increased.

Upon his return from World War II, Briggs showed no interest in continuing his incipient Hollywood career.

As Putnam had already sold his interest in the New York based publishing company to his cousin, Palmer, following the fire the couple decided to move to the West Coast where Putnam took up his new position as head of the editorial board of Paramount Pictures in North Hollywood.

The availability of Bakshi's work on the Internet sparked a resurgence of interest in his career, resulting in a three-day American Cinematheque retrospective held at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood and the Aero Theater in Santa Monica, California, in April 2005.

In order to come up with his ' war ', he contacts a Hollywood producer named Stanley Motss ( Hoffman ), who brings in a series of specialists who help construct a theme song, build up interest, and fake some footage of an orphan in Albania.

She made a successful transition to Hollywood, appearing in Personal Affair ( 1953 ) starring Gene Tierney and in The Court Jester ( 1956 ) as Danny Kaye's love interest.

Later shows built a tight theme, sometimes acting as a metaparody — such as the Emmy-winning " Moral Majority " episode where advertisers and special interest groups forced significant changes to SCTV's programming ; " Zontar ", a parody of the Larry Buchanan film Zontar, The Thing from Venus which featured an alien race seeking to kidnap SCTV's on-air talent for " a nine-show cycle plus three best-ofs " ( which was the actual deal NBC worked out with SCTV that season ); and an ambitious parody of The Godfather featuring an all-out network war over pay television between SCTV, CBS, NBC, ABC, and PBS-the last featured mafia-style hits on the sets of The Today Show, Three's Company, and The NFL Today as well as an extended sequence with guest star John Marley as an off-beat Leonard Bernstein, spoofing his Godfather role of Hollywood mogul Jack Woltz.

The movie launched Yates ' Hollywood career after it attracted the interest of Steve McQueen who got the British director to make his next feature, Bullitt.

Concurrent with the succès de scandale, both Buñuel and the film's leading lady, Lya Lys, received offers of interest from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and traveled to Hollywood at the studio's expense.

Dolly Parton was the only modern Hollywood actress Meyer ever expressed interest in working with.

" Berg even called the film a “ bastardization .” Because of what Salinger's agent later called "' a terrible movie ' made in the 1950s " of one of his stories, the author never again relinquished control of his work to Hollywood filmmakers, despite persistent interest in adapting his most famous work, The Catcher in the Rye, for the screen.

Clampett was born and raised not far from Hollywood, and early on expressed an interest in animation and puppetry.

The film's success attracted Hollywood interest, and Van Sant was briefly courted by Universal ; the courtship ended after Van Sant pitched a series of project ideas ( including what would later become Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho ) that the studio declined to take interest in.

The show helped revive and maintain interest in novelty hits from the 1950s and 1960s that received scant airplay on mainstream pop or oldies radio stations, including " Alley Oop " by the Hollywood Argyles, " The Ballad of Irving " by Frank Gallop, " The Battle of Kookamonga " by Homer and Jethro, " Monster Mash " by Bobby " Boris " Pickett, " Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah ( A Letter from Camp )" by Allan Sherman, " I Want My Baby Back " by Jimmy Cross, and " They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!

In his entry on Burn Hollywood Burn for his " My Year Of Flops " Column, pop culture critic Nathan Rabin sarcastically commented that Hiller's decision to use the Alan Smithee credit was " very transparently not a stupid, stupid gimmick to raise interest in a terrible film.

Foreman had been a member of the Communist Party ten years earlier, but declined to " name names " and was branded an " un-cooperative witness " by HUAC, and then blacklisted by the Hollywood companies, after which he sold his interest in the company.

She is a film buff with a special interest in the Golden Age of Hollywood — in particular the 1940s — and the writings of real-life film critic Parker Tyler.

In the early 1930s de Acosta developed an interest in Hinduism and was encouraged to seek out Indian mystic Meher Baba when he arrived in Hollywood.

That picture of the American prairie is as indelibly fixed in the memory of those who have studied the conquest of the American continent as any later cinema image of the West made in live-oak canyons near Hollywood.

The radio broadcast of the September 8, 1937 Hollywood Bowl George Gershwin Memorial Concert, in which An American in Paris, also conducted by Shilkret, was second on the program, was recorded and was released in 1998 in a two-CD set.

The film satirizes the racism obscured by myth-making Hollywood accounts of the American West, with the hero being a black sheriff in an all-white town.

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.

The name " Bollywood " is a portmanteau derived from Bombay ( the former name for Mumbai ) and Hollywood, the center of the American film industry.

They released a concert DVD in 2004 on Hydra Records, played the Viper Room in West Hollywood in 2005, and performed at Dick Clark's American Bandstand Theater in Branson, Missouri in 2006-07.

Hollywood Cartoons: American Animation in Its Golden Age.

* 1993 – Irving " Swifty " Lazar, American Hollywood talent agent ( b. 1907 )

While originally conceived and edited for American television ( and announced in an advertisement by NBC in the Tuesday, July 9, 1963 issue of The Hollywood Reporter ), the production was re-edited for a British theatrical run before the American television debut.

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.

The American industry, or " Hollywood ", as it was becoming known after its new geographical center in California, gained the position it has held, more or less, ever since: film factory for the world, exporting its product to most countries on earth and controlling the market in many of them.

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

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.

The term film noir, French for " black film ," first applied to Hollywood films by French critic Nino Frank in 1946, was unrecognized by most American film industry professionals of that era.

His grandson, Frank Capra III, is a Hollywood director and worked as an assistant director in the 1995 film The American President, which referred to Frank Capra in the film's dialogue.

According to Moodysson, the problem with the original title started when the film was Sweden's candidate for the Academy Awards, though it was eventually not chosen as a nominee: the Hollywood industry magazine Variety refused to run an advertisement for a film with that title, and thus American distributor Strand Releasing asked for a new title to be chosen.

During this period, his visual style simplified ( owing in part to the constraints of the Hollywood studio system ) and his worldview became increasingly pessimistic, culminating in the cold, geometric style of his last American films, While the City Sleeps ( 1956 ) and Beyond a Reasonable Doubt ( 1956 ).

Lang found it harder to find congenial production conditions in Hollywood and his advancing age left him less inclined to grapple with American backers.

The Hollywood on the Tiber phenomenon of 1958 in which American studios profited from the cheap studio labour available in Rome provided the backdrop for photojournalists to steal shots of celebrities on the via Veneto.

The American version of the film featured Hollywood actor Raymond Burr reprising his character Steve Martin, from the film Godzilla, King of the Monsters !.

Although he is known today for his performances in Singin ' in the Rain and An American in Paris, he was a dominant force in Hollywood musical films from the mid 1940s until this art form fell out of fashion in the late 1950s.