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Hollywood is a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., situated northwest of Downtown. Due to its fame and identity as the historical center of movie studios and stars, the word "Hollywood" is often used colloquially to refer to the American film industry. Today much of the movie industry has dispersed into surrounding areas such as Burbank and the Westside, but significant ancillary industries (such as editing, effe ...

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Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 - January 21, 1959) was one of the most successful filmmakers during the first half of the 20th century. Born in Ashfield, Massachusetts to a Dutch father who was a lay Episcopalian minister and a Sephardic Jewish mother who was born in England, DeMille directed hundreds of silent films, including Paramount Pictures' first production: The Squaw Man (1914), before coming into huge popularity during the late 1910s and early 1920s, when he reached the apex of his popularity with such fi ...

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Darla Hood (November 8, 1931 – June 13, 1979) was an American child actress. She was born Darla Jean Hood in Leedey, Oklahoma, the only child of James Claude Hood and Elizabeth Davner. Her father worked in a bank and her mother was a music teacher. Her mother started her in singing and dancing at an early age, taking her to lessons in Oklahoma City. Just after her third birthday, she was taken to New York City where she was seen by Joe Rivkin, a casting director for Hal Roach Studios, who arranged a screen test. She was then taken to Culver City, Cal ...

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Hollywood is a district of the city of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., situated northwest of Downtown. Due to its fame and identity as the historical center of movie studios and stars, the word "Hollywood" is often used colloquially to refer to the American film industry. Today much of the movie industry has dispersed into surrounding areas such as Burbank and the Westside, but significant ancillary industries (such as editing, effe ...

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He was also noticed by Joan Crawford who began to date him. On June 3, 1929, in Saint Malachy's Roman Catholic Church in Manhattan, New York, Crawford and Fairbanks married. He went on a delayed honeymoon to England, where he was entertained by Noel Coward and George, Duke of Kent. He became active in both society and politics, but Crawford didn't enjoy either of these, and they were divorced in May 1933. Fairbanks starred in several pictures with Loretta Young. With Little Caesar, Outward Bound, Gunga Din and The Dawn Patro ...

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Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Fairbanks Jr. - Birth, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. - Hollywood, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. - First marriage, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. - Second marriage, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. - World War II, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. - Death, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. - Legacy, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. - Trivia, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. - Filmography

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He was born in Nevada, Missouri, the son of the Canadian-born actor, Walter Huston. He began his film career as a screenwriter and made films mainly from proven books or plays. The six foot two inch (188 centimeters), rail-thin director also acted in a number of films, with distinction in Otto Preminger's The Cardinal and in Roman Polanski's Chinatown. In 1941, Huston was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay for The Maltese Falcon and again in 1948 for The Treasure of the Sierra MadreSee also:

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On May 13, 1922, in Mexicali, Mexico, Valentino married costume designer and art director Natacha Rambova. This resulted in him being jailed for bigamy, since his divorce from Acker was not finalized. California law at the time required that divorcing couples wait a full year after a divorce before remarrying. Valentino and Rambova remarried a year later. Blood and Sand, released in 1922, and co-starring Lila Lee and the popular silent screen vamp Nita Naldi, further established Valentino as the leading male star of the time. H ...

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Born Jeanne de La Fonte in Lille, Nord, France, she was the daughter of circus artists and who, by age five, was performing in the circus with her parents. In her teen years she began acting in minor stage productions and toured Europe with her troupe. She was performing in Russia when World War I broke out and fled to London. From there, she went on to New York City where she continued to work in the theatre until the opportunity ...

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In 1963, Riddle joined Sinatra's newly-established label Reprise Records. Much of his work in the 1960s and 1970s was for film and television, including his hit theme song for Route 66, steady work arranging episodes of Batman and other television series, and the scores of several motion pictures including the Rat Pack features Robin and the Seven Hoods and the original Ocean's Eleven. In the latter half of the 1960s, the partnership between Riddle and Frank Sinatra grew more distant as Sinatra began increa ...

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Eleanor Torrey Powell was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. A dancer since childhood, she was discovered at the age of 11 by the head of the Vaudeville Kiddie revue, Gus Edwards. When she was 17, she brought her graceful, athletic style to Broadway, where she starred in various revues and musicals. During this time, she was dubbed "the world's greatest tap dancer" due to her machine-gun footwork, and in the early 1930s appeared as a background performer in a couple of early, inconsequential musical films. See also:

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He next joined an operetta company that soon disbanded in Utah; from there he reached San Francisco, where he met the actor Norman Kerry, who convinced him to try a career in cinema, still in the silent movie era. After small parts in a dozen films, in 1919 he married, for a few years, Jean Acker (1893-1978), a part-Cherokee film starlet who was a lesbian. The marriage was reportedly never consummated: Acker locked Valentino out of their hotel room on their wedding night, and despite Valentino's efforts at a reconciliation the two separ ...

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Rudolph Valentino, Rudolph Valentino - Childhood and youth, Rudolph Valentino - The New York years, Rudolph Valentino - The Hollywood years, Rudolph Valentino - Illness and death, Rudolph Valentino - Aftermath, Rudolph Valentino - Filmography

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She was born Vera Jane Palmer in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, the only child of Herbert William Palmer (1904-1936) and Vera Jeffrey Palmer (1903-2000). It is not clear if her parents, both Palmers, were distant cousins. The maiden name of Jayne's maternal grandmother was Jeffrey. When Jayne was three years old, her father, a lawyer, suddenly died of a heart attack. After his death, her mother worked as a school teacher to support them. In 1939, Vera married Harry Lawrence "Tex" Peers (1916-1997), and the family moved to Dallas, Tex ...

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He was born Ladislav (László) Löwenstein into a Jewish family in Rózsahegy/Rosenberg, Austria-Hungary, now Ružomberok, Slovakia. He began acting on stage in Vienna, Austria; Breslau, Germany; and Zürich, Switzerland. In the late 1920s he moved to Berlin where he worked with German playwright Bertolt Brecht. Lorre became famous when Fritz Lang cast him as a child killer in his 1931 film M. When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, the Jewish Lorre took refuge first in Paris and then London where he played a c ...

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Mel Blanc - Early years and radio work. Born in San Francisco, California, he grew up in Portland, Oregon, attending Lincoln High School. At 16 he changed the spelling of his last name. Blanc was working as a voice actor in radio when his ability to create voices for multiple characters first attracted attention. He was a regular on the Jack Benny Program in various roles, including Benny's automobile (a Maxwell in desperate need of a tune up), violin teacher Professor LeBlanc, Polly the Parrot, ...

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Mel Blanc, Mel Blanc - Biography, Mel Blanc - Early years and radio work, Mel Blanc - Animation voice work during the Golden Age of Hollywood, Mel Blanc - Voice work for Hanna-Barbera, Mel Blanc - Later career and passing, Mel Blanc - List of characters and the year he first voiced them, Mel Blanc - Reference

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In 1853, one adobe hut stood on the site that became Hollywood. By 1870, an agricultural community flourished in the area with thriving crops. In the 1880s, Harvey Henderson Wilcox of Kansas, who made a fortune in real estate even though he had lost the use of his legs due to typhoid fever, and his wife, Daeida, moved to Los Angeles from Topeka. In 1886, Wilcox bought 160 acres (0.6 km²) of land in the countryside to ...

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Capitol albums 1953 Songs For Young Lovers 1954 Swing Easy! 1955 In the Wee Small Hours 1956 Songs For Swingin' Lovers 1957 Close To You 1957 A Swingin' Affair! 1958 Sinatra Sings For Only The Lonely 1960 Nice'n'Easy 1961 Sinatra’s Swingin’ Session!!! Reprise albums 1963 The Concert Sinatra 1963 Sinatra’s Sinatra 1964 Sinatra Sings...Academy Award Winners 1966 Moonli ...

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Mansfield had three husbands - Paul Mansfield (married May 10, 1950-divorced 1958); actor and bodybuilder Mickey Hargitay (married January 13, 1958-divorced 1964); and director Matt Cimber (married September 24, 1964-divorced 1966). She and Paul had one child, Jayne-Marie Mansfield (born November 8, 1950); she and Mickey had three children, Miklós Jeffrey Hargitay (born December 21, 1958), Zoltan Anthony Hargitay (born August 1, 1960) and Mariska Magdolina Hargitay (born January 24, 1964); and she and Matt had one child, Antonio Raphael Ottav ...

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Verve albums 1959 Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook 1962 Ella Swings Gently with Nelson 1962 Ella Swings Brightly with Nelson Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook 1964 Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Songbook Pablo albums 1982 The Best Is Yet to Come ...

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A serious problem for Hollywood since the 1960s has been its attractiveness for desperate runaways. Every year, hundreds of runaway adolescents flee broken homes across North America and flock to Hollywood hoping to become movie stars, as portrayed by the lyrics of the Burt Bacharach song Do You Know the Way to San Jose "All the stars /That never were /Are parking cars / And pumping gas." They soon discover they have extremely slim chances of competing against professionally trained actors and end up sinking into homelessness, which is a severe ...

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