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 %.

When Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen began their collaboration in 1940, Mercer, like Arlen, had several substantial film songs to his credit, among them `` Hooray For Hollywood '', `` Ride, Tenderfoot, Ride '', `` Have You Got Any Castles, Baby??

However, Entertainment Weekly gave the film a " C +" rating and wrote, " This spoofy cast of thousands looks a little too much like a crew of bland Hollywood extras.

Patterson claimed to have screened the film for unnamed technicians " in the special effects department at Universal Studios in Hollywood ... Their conclusion was: ' We could try ( faking it ), but we would have to create a completely new system of artificial muscles and find an actor who could be trained to walk like that.

Though some deplore the name, arguing that it makes the industry look like a poor cousin to Hollywood, it has its own entry in the Oxford English Dictionary.

They made him a minor, off-beat celebrity in Los Angeles and around Hollywood, and his friendship with old show-business types like Mae West and rising fringe celebrities like Korla Pandit made Criswell an entertaining presence at parties.

He cites as examples Hollywood coverage and the use of language in publications like Empire Magazine, as well as blockbuster dominance in multiplexes, but he also notes that this is an industrial matter: " The Full Monty was entirely financed and distributed by one of the US majors, Twentieth Century Fox, The praise went to Britain, but all the film ’ s profits went to America.

Hollywood also paid attention, consulting writers like PHASE 2 as it depicted the culture and gave it international exposure in movies like Beat Street ( Orion, 1984 ).

These microphones are not hidden in the wrestlers ' clothing, like with most Hollywood acting, but are held in the wrestlers ' hands, and physically held up against their mouth, like a field reporter.

Most notably, the rap rock genre became popular in the late 1990s, with bands like Rage Against the Machine, KoRn, Sublime, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park and, most recently, Hollywood Undead gaining worldwide popularity by furthering Run – D. M. C.

In 2012, Nick at Nite launched a primetime soap opera, Hollywood Heights that airs episodes five nights a week from Monday-Friday, like a daytime soap opera, instead of one episode a week like a regular primetime soap opera.

He is best known for directing critically acclaimed commercial Hollywood films like Out of Sight, Erin Brockovich and Traffic, and the remake of Ocean's Eleven.

The innovative nature of science fiction means that new shows cannot rely on predictable market-tested formulas like legal dramas or sitcoms ; the involvement of creative talent outside the Hollywood mainstream introduces more variables to the budget forecasts.

" I knew I wanted Kramer to think of watching the operation like going to see a movie ", explained Seinfeld writer / producer Andy Robin in an interview published in the Hollywood Reporter.

The typical Spaghetti Western team was made up of an Italian director, Italo-Spanish technical staff, and a cast of Italian, Spanish, German and American actors, sometimes a fading Hollywood star and sometimes a rising one like the young Clint Eastwood in three of Sergio Leone's films.

With the sound era, films like All Quiet on the Western Front ( 1930 ) ( and its much darker German counterpart Westfront 1918 ), Howard Hawks ' Road to Glory ( 1936 ) and Grand Illusion ( 1937 ), focused on the futility of war for non-American soldiers whilst Hollywood produced American soldiers featuring in World War I comedies such as Buster Keaton's Doughboys ( 1930 ) and Wheeler & Woolsey's Half Shot at Sunrise ( 1930 ), or exciting tales of the U. S. Marine Corps putting down rebellions in Central America, China, and the Pacific Islands in films like Frank Capra's Flight ( 1930 ), The Leathernecks Have Landed ( 1936 ) and Tell it to the Marines ( 1926 film ).

Hollywood films in the 1950s and 1960s were often inclined towards spectacular heroics or self-sacrifice in films like Sands of Iwo Jima ( 1949 ), Halls of Montezuma ( 1950 ) or D-Day the Sixth of June ( 1956 ).

It was a major influence on the New Romantics in Britain, acts like Adam Ant and Flock of Seagulls extended it, and its androgyny and sexual politics were picked up by acts including Culture Club, Bronski Beat and Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

As a result, when the time came to make his solo directorial debut with The Colossus of Rhodes ( Il Colosso di Rodi, 1961 ), Leone was well-equipped to produce low-budget films which looked like larger budget Hollywood movies.

In 2011 The Telegraph reported the most sought after body parts of the rich and famous revealed by two Hollywood plastic surgeons who carried out a survey among their patients to build up the picture of what the perfect woman would look like.

" Film historians have recognized the soundtrack " as a landmark – the first significant Hollywood film music by African Americans comprising non-diegetic music, that is, music whose source is not visible or implied by action in the film, like an on-screen band.