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Hollywood and stock
After the stock market crash of 1929, stage production dropped off sharply, and many of the more photogenic actors headed for Hollywood.
Former Stars and Stripes staffers also include 60 Minutes ’ Andy Rooney and Steve Kroft, songwriter and author Shel Silverstein, comic book illustrator Tom Sutton, author Ralph G. Martin, painter and cartoonist Paul Fontaine, author and television news correspondent Tony Zappone, cartoonist Vernon Grant ( A Monster Is Loose in Tokyo ), Hollywood photographer Phil Stern and the late stock market reporter and host of public television's Wall Street Week, Louis Rukeyser.
Hart, on a journey from Hollywood to New York in 1931, was inspired to write a play about an American family's difficulties, over 30 years, coping with the challenges of life in the 20th century, beginning with their innocence and optimism at the beginning of the century to the dashed hopes caused by the stock market crash of 1929.
Born John Cecil Pringle in Logan, Utah, to stock company actor parents, he struggled through a childhood of abuse and neglect before moving to Hollywood as a teenager.
After the stock market crash in October 1929 reduced work opportunities in New York, Tiomkin and his wife moved on to Hollywood, where she was hired to supervise dance numbers in MGM movie musicals.
A member of Cecil B. DeMille's stock company and later John Ford's company, he was one of the most prolific character actors in Hollywood history.
Hoping to enhance her reputation as a serious actress, she left Hollywood in 1937 to do summer stock in Westchester, New York.
It was initially filmed by both Howard A. Anderson and Linwood G. Dunn at Dunn's Film Effects of Hollywood facility, who also re-filmed later more-elaborate models of the ship, generating a variety of stock footage that could be used in later episodes.
Characters burst into song ( courtesy of composer and lifelong Demy-collaborator Michel Legrand ); iconic Hollywood imagery is lovingly appropriated as in the opening scene with the man in a white Stetson in the Cadillac, daringly set to Beethoven's " Seventh Symphony "); plot is dictated by the director's fascination with fate, and stock themes of chance encounters and long-lost love ; and the setting, as with so many of Demy's films, is the French Atlantic coast of his childhood, specifically the seaport town of Nantes.
They sold stock in the team to movie stars, movie moguls, and Hollywood civic leaders.
" Hollywood, big on ballyhoo but short on real self-respect, failed to transfer the nitrate negative to safety stock, and modern prints of The Power and the Glory are tattered remnants.
They sold stock in the team to movie stars, movie moguls, and Hollywood civic leaders (" the Hollywood Stars owned by the Hollywood stars ").
Crawford had a key role in the early career of Victoria Jackson of Saturday Night Live fame ; after appearing together in a summer stock production of " Meet Me in St. Louis ," he presented her a one-way airline ticket to California and encouraged her to pursue a Hollywood career.
The Hollywood Casino 400 is the current incarnation of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas.
By the age of nine she was doing summer stock, and Hollywood came calling at age ten, though her mother rejected the advances, saying she wanted her to be an actress, not a child star.
The building stock consists of a healthy, wide mix of age and condition, with mostly two-level retail buildings along Hollywood Boulevard and two-to six-level apartment buildings on the interior.
By 1954, the networks used more raw film stock for kinescopes than all of the Hollywood film studios combined, spending up to $ 4, 000 per half hour.

Hollywood and market
The Hollywood studios at first viewed the television as a threat, and later as a commercial market.
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.
Rocky Horror is the first film from a major Hollywood studio to be in the midnight movie market.
Conventional wisdom holds that SGI's core market has traditionally been Hollywood visual effects studios.
When the Los Angeles Dodgers displaced the Hollywood Stars PCL team, they moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, taking away the Pioneer League's largest market.
Hagen built up his business making Quota quickies for major American studios who were required by law to produce a certain number of British films each year in order to be allowed to release their expensive Hollywood pictures into the lucrative British market.
Ben Shapiro, author of Primetime Propaganda: The True Hollywood Story of How the Left Took Over Your TV, argues that Hollywood has overemphasized the importance of the 18-49 market for advertisers.
Seminole Beef is currently served at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino restaurant in Hollywood, Florida, but the Tribe ultimately plans to market the beef to Indian casinos, restaurants, hotels, military bases, and supermarkets throughout the country.
The company came in last in market share among the major Hollywood studios, after the 17 films it released notched less than five percent of domestic box office revenues, pulling in just $ 60 million.
Mazda introduced a convertible version of the RX-7 in 1988 with a normally aspirated engine — introduced to the US market with ads featuring Hollywood actor James Garner, at the time featured in many of Mazda's television advertisements.
After the success of the movie The Warriors, Hollywood looked to take the youth gang concept and market it to TV.
The Hollywood Stock Exchange, a virtual market game established in 1996 and now a division of Cantor Fitzgerald, LP, in which players buy and sell prediction shares of movies, actors, directors, and film-related options, correctly predicted 32 of 2006's 39 big-category Oscar nominees and 7 out of 8 top category winners.
The current promotion, NWA Championship Wrestling from Hollywood is broadcast in the Southern California television market on KDOC, NWA Main Event, Tennessee, Mike Porter
The film had been turned down by all the Hollywood studios because it tried to capture the Generation X market like Singles, which was not a box office success.
The Hollywood Stock Exchange is considered a good example of a prediction market.
The distribution networks for Canadian movie theatres are largely controlled by the American studio system, and Canada is in fact the only non-U. S. country that is considered part of the domestic market by Hollywood studios.
Roger Ebert compared the film to Like Father, Like Son, also released in 1987, in that it was an " example of the newest Hollywood genre, the Generation Squeeze, in which plots artificially combine adult and teenage elements " in order to attract the latter to the movie theater while attracting enough of an adult audience for the success of the rental market.
Lewis had been producing low-budget nudie films for several years but the market for such fare was losing ground to Hollywood, which was beginning to occasionally show nudity in its films.
Project A marked Chan's return to Asian cinema after his first attempt to break into the Hollywood market with a small role in The Cannonball Run and a starring role in the unsuccessful Battle Creek Brawl.

Hollywood and HSX
The Hollywood Stock Exchange, or HSX, is a web-based, multiplayer game in which players use simulated money to buy and sell " shares " of actors, directors, upcoming films, and film-related options.
The technology that drives the Hollywood Stock Exchange is the Virtual Specialist technology invented by HSX co-founders and the exchange's creators Max Keiser and Michael R. Burns, who were awarded a in 1999 for the invention.
She also worked for the game Hollywood Stock Exchange ( HSX ).

Hollywood and share
Davis and Joan Crawford played two aging sisters, former actresses forced by circumstance to share a decaying Hollywood mansion.
To share the increasing cost of film production, Coke brought in two outside investors whose earlier efforts in Hollywood had come to nothing.
Felix and Charlie Chaplin share the screen in a memorable moment from " Felix in Hollywood " ( 1923 ).
The town seemed to attract its fair share of celebrity openings, with shops and businesses opened by Frankie Vaughan, Benny Hill, Terry-Thomas, and the new cinema was opened by Hollywood star Lauren Bacall.
* " Belleville had its share of fame: Nice guy Clint Walker became Hollywood hunk " by Jaime Ingle-News-Democrat ( Wednesday, June 18, 2008 )
Although L. A .' s Wrigley Field seemed to get the lions ' share of Hollywood screen time, Gilmore Field also had its moments on celluloid.
It is an accurate portrayal of my life and the people who share it with a little Hollywood magic thrown in ," DuBois has said.
In addition, Jimmy and his siblings have sold over 100 million records and share 51 gold and platinum recordings along with numerous other prestigious awards and honors, including a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Winston Groom's price for the screenplay rights to his novel Forrest Gump included a share of the profits ; however, due to Hollywood accounting, the film's commercial success was converted into a net loss, and Groom received nothing.
They share fame and success until their fighting involving Stewie thinking Olivia was the one that was flat breaks up the act ; Olivia goes on to greater fame and finally she gets to go to Hollywood ( kissing Stewie goodbye before she leaves ), but Stewie, because of Olivia's quitting, starts to lose fame and drops back, which causes him to lose touch with reality.

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