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Hollywood and studios
In contrast, Technicolor concentrated primarily on getting their process adopted by Hollywood studios for fictional feature films.
Conversely, BBC critic Mark Kermode believes that " the movie industries of Britain and America are inextricably intertwined ", citing numerous examples of how Hollywood provides work to British production staff and studios, whilst Britain enables Hollywood to base their prestigious productions at UK studios.
Detour ( 1945 film ) | Detour ( 1945 ) cost $ 117, 000 to make when the biggest Hollywood studios spent around $ 600, 000 on the average feature.
Edgar G. Ulmer spent almost his entire Hollywood career working at B studios — once in a while on projects that achieved intermediate status ; for the most part, on unmistakable Bs.
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.
He used his position on the board of directors of the Writers Guild of America, West on a number of occasions to mediate disputes between unions and the Hollywood studios, and although he was frequently accused by some on the right of championing the unions, he was valued by the studios as an effective mediator.
Many Hollywood studios were recruiting stage actors and directors that they believed were better suited for sound films.
" As a result, he was not the most popular of actors, and some in the Hollywood community shunned him privately to avoid trouble with the studios.
" When they tried to sell it to various Hollywood studios, they were told that the film would not work.
Frankenheimer and producer George Axelrod bought Richard Condon's 1959 novel after it had already been turned down by many Hollywood studios.
Before UA's creation, Hollywood studios were vertically integrated, not only producing films but forming chains of theaters.
By the end of the 1980s, most major Hollywood studios were utilizing their services.
* 1947 – Red Scare: The " Hollywood Ten " are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
She had better luck at other studios in Hollywood, appearing in supporting roles in a string of films, including Abe Lincoln in Illinois ( as Mary Todd Lincoln ), Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet ( as Mrs. Ehrlich ) and Action in the North Atlantic, in the early 1940s.
Conventional wisdom holds that SGI's core market has traditionally been Hollywood visual effects studios.
* All television and movie studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California.
Many of the stories take place in the semiarid landscapes of the American Southwest and Northern Mexico, so a popular setting was the Tabernas Desert in the Province of Almeria in southeastern Spain, at the studios of Texas Hollywood, Mini Hollywood, and Western Leone.
Though trouble in Southeast Asia was shown in Jack L. Warner's Brushfire ( 1961 ), and Marshall Thompson's A Yank in Viet-Nam ( 1964 ) and To the Shores of Hell ( 1966 ), the major Hollywood studios refused to make any Vietnam War films with the exception of John Wayne's The Green Berets based on the best-selling book by Robin Moore and using the theme song " Ballad of the Green Berets ".

Hollywood and at
`` Then I return to the United States for engagements at the Hollywood Bowl and in Philadelphia '', he added.
For indeed it seemed incredible that anyone could go on committing murder for ten years and not get caught at it, even in Hollywood.
Anyone interested in attending the meeting may have reservations with Mrs. John Whelan at the Hollywood Public Library.
The first Academy Awards ceremony was held on May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor the outstanding film achievements of the 1927 / 1928 film season.
The first awards were presented on May 16, 1929, at a private brunch at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel with an audience of about 270 people.
Then, sculptor George Stanley ( who also did the Muse Fountain at the Hollywood Bowl ) sculpted Gibbons's design in clay and Sachin Smith cast the statuette in 92. 5 percent tin and 7. 5 percent copper and then gold-plated it.
Allan Dwan has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6263 Hollywood Boulevard.
* 1927 – Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford become the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
* Army of Darkness at Hollywood Teen Movies
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.
In 1970, De Palma left New York for Hollywood at age thirty to make Get To Know Your Rabbit, starring Orson Welles and Tommy Smothers.
Dating back to 1932, " Tollywood " was the earliest Hollywood-inspired name, referring to the Bengali film industry based in Tollygunge, Calcutta, whose name is reminiscent of " Hollywood " and was the center of the cinema of India at the time .< ref name = Sarkar >
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.
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Lancaster has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6801 Hollywood Boulevard.
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.
In 1961, Bixby was in the musical The Boy Friend at the Detroit Civic Theater, returning to Hollywood to make his television debut on an episode of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
In Hollywood, a screening of a restored version of How to Make Movies was held at his former studio, and in Japan, he was honoured with a musical tribute.
Chaplin's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6751 Hollywood Blvd.
Although there are conflicting dates as to when they met ( some sources state that they met in January 1989 at the Satyricon nightclub ), Love stated that the two first encountered one another in January 1988 at a Dharma Bums show where she was doing a spoken word performance, and Erlandson stated that both he and Love were formally introduced to Cobain in a parking lot after a Butthole Surfers concert at the Hollywood Paladium in 1991.

Hollywood and first
The " H-H-L " team impressed Hollywood with its success ; as Life wrote in 1957, " fter the independent production of a baker's dozen of pictures it has yet to have its first flop ... ( They were also good pictures.
DeMille was one of the first directors in Hollywood to become a celebrity in his own right.
Biograph's In Old California ( 1910 ) was the first film shot in Hollywood, California.
Enter the Dragon was the first Chinese martial arts film to have been produced by a major Hollywood studio – Warner Bros. and was produced in association with Golden Harvest and Lee's Concord Production Company.
Most obviously, the musical film was born ; the first classic-style Hollywood musical was The Broadway Melody ( 1929 ) and the form would find its first major creator in choreographer / director Busby Berkeley ( 42nd Street, 1933, Dames, 1934 ).
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.
In addition to the aforementioned, other directors associated with top-of-the-bill Hollywood film noirs include Edward Dmytryk ( Murder, My Sweet, Crossfire )— the first important noir director to fall prey to the industry blacklist — as well as Henry Hathaway ( The Dark Corner, Kiss of Death ) and John Farrow ( The Big Clock, Night Has a Thousand Eyes ).
* 1960 – The first eight brass star plaques are installed in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
" George Sidney, President of the Directors Guild, stated that " This is the first time in the history of Hollywood, that the city of Los Angeles has officially recognized a creative talent.
Kelly was a lifelong supporter of the Democratic Party which occasionally created difficulty for him as his period of greatest prominence coincided with the McCarthy era in the U. S. In 1947, he was part of the Committee for the First Amendment, the Hollywood delegation which flew to Washington to protest at the first official hearings by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
He arrived in Hollywood in February 1929, and his first assignment was to coach the cast of River of Romance to speak with an acceptable Southern accent.
Cukor had declined to direct the earlier film because it was too similar to his 1932 What Price Hollywood ?, but the opportunity to direct his first Technicolor film, first musical, and work with screenwriter Moss Hart and especially Garland appealed to him, and he accepted.
They quickly made friends with Hollywood insider ( and fellow Ivy Leaguer ) Allan Dwan, but Hawks landed his first important job when he used his family's wealth to loan money to studio head Jack Warner.
The crash was the first major on-set accident in Hollywood history and made national news.
Hollywood dramas used horror themes, including versions of The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1923 ) and The Monster ( 1925 ) both starring Lon Chaney, the first American horror movie star.
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.
* Louise Lovely, the first Australian motion picture actress to find success in Hollywood
Quite contrary to the Hollywood norm, it was his first affair with a leading lady.

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