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Encyclopedia - 1927: Encyclopedia - 1927
1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). 1927 - Events. January 1 - Cristero War erup...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Catherine Howard: Encyclopedia - Catherine Howard
Catherine Howard (1520/1525? - February 13, 1542) was the fifth queen consort of Henry VIII of England 1540-1542, sometimes known as "the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carmen: Encyclopedia - Carmen
Carmen is a French opera by Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Meilhac and Halévy, based on the novel by Prosper Mérimée. The ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cimetière De Montmartre: Encyclopedia - Cimetière De Montmartre
Cimetière de Montmartre is a famous cemetery located at 37 Avenue Samson, in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, France. Cemeteries had be...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cimetière De Passy: Encyclopedia - Cimetière De Passy
The Cimetière de Passy is a famous cemetery located at 2, rue du Commandant Schœlsing in Passy, in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. In...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Brian Donlevy: Encyclopedia - Brian Donlevy
Brian Donlevy (born Waldo Bruce Donlevy on February 9, 1901 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA; died April 6, 1972 in Woodland Hills, California, US...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charlie Chaplin: Encyclopedia - Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr., (April 16, 1889 – December 25, 1977) was a British born, later American naturalized, actor, the most ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zasu Pitts: Encyclopedia - Zasu Pitts
ZaSu Pitts (January 3, 1894–June 7, 1963) was a United States movie actress. In many of her film credits and contemporary articles, her...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Antonin Artaud: Encyclopedia - Antonin Artaud
By category Medieval 16th Century - 17th Century 18th Century -19th Century 20th Century - Contemporary Chronological list Writers by cat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Helen Keller: Encyclopedia - Helen Keller
Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was a deafblind American author, activist and lecturer. Helen Keller was born in Tusc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dramatic Portrayals Of Jesus: Encyclopedia - Dramatic Portrayals Of Jesus
Various authors and filmmakers have created dramatic portrayals of Jesus and his life. Many wanted to portray an accurate depiction of wh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Divine Comedy: Encyclopedia - The Divine Comedy
The Divine Comedy (in Italian "Comedia" or "Commedia", later christened "Divina" by Giovanni Boccaccio), written by Dante Alighieri betwe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1924: Encyclopedia - 1924
1924 (MCMXXIV) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). 1924 - Events. 1924 - January. January 7 - Grea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alfred Hitchcock: Encyclopedia - Alfred Hitchcock
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock KBE (August 13, 1899 – April 29, 1980) was a British-born film director and producer, closely associated wi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sound Effect: Encyclopedia - Sound Effect
For the album, see Sound Affects. Sound effects or audio effects are artificially created or enhanced sounds, or sound processes used to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinderella: Encyclopedia - Cinderella
Cinderella is a popular fairy tale; embodying a classic folk tale myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward, which received lit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Anne Of Green Gables: Encyclopedia - Anne Of Green Gables
Anne of Green Gables is a children's book written by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery; it was first published in 1908. Montgomery fou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Body And Soul 1924 Film: Encyclopedia - Body And Soul 1924 Film
Filmed in 1924, Body and Soul is the best-known silent film of pioneer African-American filmmaker Oscar Micheaux. In it, Paul Robeson, th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Battleship Potemkin: Encyclopedia - The Battleship Potemkin
The Battleship Potemkin or Battleship Potemkin (Russian: Броненосец «Потёмкин», Bronenosets Potyomkin), sometimes The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Westwood Los Angeles California: Encyclopedia - Westwood Los Angeles California
Westwood is a district in western Los Angeles, California. Developed by the Janss family in the 1920s, it is best known as the home of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Walt Disney: Encyclopedia - Walt Disney
Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966), was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, and an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Verdens Undergang: Encyclopedia - Verdens Undergang
Verdens Undergang was a Danish silent film that was released in 1916. The story was written by Otto Rung and the film was directed by Aug...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culver City California: Encyclopedia - Culver City California
The city of Culver City is a city in western Los Angeles County, California. As of the 2000 census, the city had a population of 38,816. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Randolph Hearst: Encyclopedia - William Randolph Hearst
William Randolph Hearst (April 29, 1863 – August 14, 1951) was an American newspaper magnate, born in San Francisco, California. Willia...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Seventh Heaven: Encyclopedia - Seventh Heaven
Seventh Heaven is a 1927 silent film that was one of the first films to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture (then called ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Birth: Encyclopedia - Birth
Birth is the process in animals by which an offspring is expelled from the body of its mother. Different forms of birth are ovipary, vivi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Western Genre: Encyclopedia - Western Genre
The Western is an American genre in literature and film. Westerns are art works – films, literature, sculpture, television and radio sh...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Suicides: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Suicides - Alphabetical
List of suicides - A. Johnny Ace, (1954), singer George Washington Adams, (1829), son of John Quincy Adams, jumped off a boat Robert A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Malayalam Cinema: Encyclopedia Ii - Malayalam Cinema - History Of Malayalam Cinema
Malayalam cinema - Early Era. The first Malayalam movie was released in 1928. It was a silent film titled Vigathakumaran, produced and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Randolph Hearst: Encyclopedia Ii - William Randolph Hearst - Business
William studied at Harvard University (1882–1885), but was expelled for sending faculty members chamber pots with the recipient's pictu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Robin Hood: Encyclopedia Ii - Robin Hood - The Robin Hood Legend
The stories relating to Robin Hood are apocryphal, verging on the mythological. The modern image widely held today contrasts in many ways...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Music Video: Encyclopedia Ii - Music Video - History Of Music Videos
Music video - Early precedents. Sergei Eisenstein's 1938 film Alexander Nevsky, which features extended scenes of battles choreographed...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Metropolis 1927 Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Metropolis 1927 Film - Plot
The film is set in the year 2026, in the extraordinary Gothic skyscrapers of a corporate city-state, the Metropolis of the title. Society...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Paul Strand: Encyclopedia Ii - Paul Strand - Exile From Mccarthyism
In June 1949 Strand left the United States to present Native Land at the International Film Festival in Marianske Lazne, Czechoslovakia. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Media Of New York City: Encyclopedia Ii - Media Of New York City - Newspapers
New York City boasts over forty daily newspapers in several different languages, including such national heavyweights as the Wall Street ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Mad Scientists: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Mad Scientists - Before 1945
List of mad scientists - Novels. Dr. Faust, figure of novels and plays (e.g. by Christopher Marlowe and J.W. von Goethe), based on a r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Helen Keller: Encyclopedia Ii - Helen Keller - Biography
Helen Keller - Childhood. Keller was born at an estate called Ivy Green, on June 27, 1880, to parents Captain Arthur H. Keller and Kat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Renée Adorée: Encyclopedia Ii - Renée Adorée - Biography
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...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Science Fiction: Encyclopedia Ii - Science Fiction - Definition And Scope
On SF Main SF Article History of SF SF's Golden Age Speculative fiction Cyberpunk Hard SF Soft SF Space opera More subgenres... Comp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Safety Last: Encyclopedia Ii - Safety Last - Plot
Most of the film's plot is a setup for the stunts of the final sequence. Lloyd plays a department store clerk who wants to move ahead in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Intolerance Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Intolerance Film - Background
One of the most spectacular films of all time, Intolerance was a colossal undertaking filled with monumental sets, lavish period costumes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Harrison Ford: Encyclopedia Ii - Harrison Ford - Biography
Ford was born in Chicago, Illinois. His mother, Dora Nidelman (born 1917 in New Jersey to Harry Nidelman and Anna Lifschutz) was Jewish; ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battleship Potemkin Uprising: Encyclopedia Ii - Battleship Potemkin Uprising - History
In 1905 The Central Committee of the Social Democratic Organization of the Black Sea Fleet started preparations for a simultaneous crew u...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fatty Arbuckle: Encyclopedia Ii - Fatty Arbuckle - Scandal
At the height of his career, Arbuckle was under contract to Paramount Studios for $1 million a year, the first such official salary paid ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gloria Swanson: Encyclopedia Ii - Gloria Swanson - Marriages
To understand the Swanson at the height of her fame and popularity, one only needs to read this oft-repeated telegram she sent to her stu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jill Tracy: Encyclopedia Ii - Jill Tracy - Discography:
Jill Tracy - Albums:. Quintessentially Unreal (1996) Diabolical Streak (1999) Into The Land of Phantoms (2002) Jill Tracy - Comp...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Musical Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Musical Film - Musicals Of The Classical Sound Era
The 1930s, 40s and 50s are often considered the golden age of the musical, when the genre's popularity was at its height. Musical film -...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ithaca New York: Encyclopedia Ii - Ithaca New York - History
The inhabitants of the Ithaca area at the time of European expansion were the Sapony and Tutelo Indians, dependent tribes of the Cayuga I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Rocky And Bullwinkle Show: Encyclopedia Ii - The Rocky And Bullwinkle Show - History
The series, inspired by an original property called "The Frostbite Falls Revue," was created by Jay Ward and Alex Anderson, who had previ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Deaf People: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Deaf People - Important Historical Figures In Deaf History And Culture
The idea that a person who was deaf could achieve a notable or distinguished status was not common until the latter half of the 18th cent...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nancy Reagan: Encyclopedia Ii - Nancy Reagan - First Lady Of The United States
As First Lady, Nancy Reagan attracted controversy early on by announcing the purchase of $200,000 worth of new china for the White House ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lady Windermere's Fan: Encyclopedia Ii - Lady Windermere's Fan - Synopsis
Lady Windermere's Fan - Act I. The play opens in the morning room of the home in London that Lady Windermere shares with her husband. I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mission San Juan Capistrano: Encyclopedia Ii - Mission San Juan Capistrano - Mission History
Mission San Juan Capistrano - The Spanish Mission Era 1776 – 1820. The Mission site was chosen as a logical halfway point between San...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Western Genre: Encyclopedia Ii - Western Genre - Western Films
A genre in which description and dialogue are lean, and the landscape spectacular, is well suited to a visual medium. Early Westerns were...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ithaca New York: Encyclopedia Ii - Ithaca New York - History
The inhabitants of the Ithaca area at the time of European expansion were the Sapony and Tutelo Indians, dependent tribes of the Cayuga I...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Fantômas: Encyclopedia Ii - Fantômas - The Mexican Comics
During the 1970s the Mexican comics company Editorial Novaro produced a Fantomas comic book series that was popular throughout Latin Amer...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Zasu Pitts: Encyclopedia Ii - Zasu Pitts - Career
Pitts debuted in silent film in 1917, in a number of roles including that of Becky in The Little Princess. Perhaps her most famous early ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Hunchback Of Notre Dame: Encyclopedia Ii - The Hunchback Of Notre Dame - Plot Summary
The work is divided into eleven books each consisting of two to eight chapters. The Hunchback of Notre Dame - Book one. The reader is i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - William Randolph Hearst: Encyclopedia Ii - William Randolph Hearst - Business
William studied at Harvard University (1882–1885), but was expelled for sending faculty members chamber-pots with the recipient's pictu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Le Voyage Dans La Lune: Encyclopedia Ii - Le Voyage Dans La Lune - Plot
A group of astronomers decide to go to the Moon, so they build a space capsule in the shape of a bullet, and a huge cannon to shoot it in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Las Vegas New Mexico: Encyclopedia Ii - Las Vegas New Mexico - Demographics
As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there are 14,565 people, 5,588 households, and 3,559 families residing in the city. The population density i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Westwood Los Angeles California: Encyclopedia Ii - Westwood Los Angeles California - Attractions
A center of movie-going on the Westside and the site of many movie premieres, Westwood is home to several vintage movie theaters, includi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Santa Claus: Encyclopedia Ii - Santa Claus - Origins
The modern Santa Claus is thought to be a composite character made up from the merging of quite separate figures. Santa Claus - Ancient ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Walt Disney: Encyclopedia Ii - Walt Disney - 1920-1936: Early Years In Animation
Walt Disney - Kansas City animation studios. Disney returned to the USA, moved to Kansas City and, with Ub Iwerks, formed a company cal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pet Shop Boys: Encyclopedia Ii - Pet Shop Boys - Before Pet Shop Boys
Neil Francis Tennant was born in North Shields, Northumberland. While at school, Tennant played in a group in Newcastle called Dust. Thei...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Suicides: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Suicides - Alphabetical
List of suicides - A. Johnny Ace, (1954), singer George Washington Adams, (1829), son of John Quincy Adams, jumped off a boat Robert A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Battleship Potemkin: Encyclopedia Ii - The Battleship Potemkin - Film Style And Content
Deliberately written as a revolutionary propaganda film, Eisenstein used this film to test his theories of "montage". The revolutionary R...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Santa Claus: Encyclopedia Ii - Santa Claus - Origins
The modern Santa Claus is thought to be a composite character made up from the merging of quite separate figures. Santa Claus - Ancient ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Musical Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Musical Film - Musicals Of The Classical Sound Era
The 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s are often considered the golden age of the musical, when the genre's popularity was at its height. Musical f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Birth Of A Nation: Encyclopedia Ii - The Birth Of A Nation - Plot Summary
The film was presented in two parts divided by an intermission. Part one depicts pre-Civil War America introducing two juxtaposed familie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tom Mix: Encyclopedia Ii - Tom Mix - Early Years
Born Thomas Hezikiah Mix into a relatively poor logging family in Mix Run, Pennsylvania, about 40 miles (60 km) north of State College, P...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - James Wong Howe: Encyclopedia Ii - James Wong Howe - Life And Work
James Wong Howe - Early life. Howe was born Wong Tung Jim in Canton (now Guangzhou), China in 1899. His father Wong Howe moved to Ameri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jack Cardiff: Encyclopedia Ii - Jack Cardiff - Cinematography
In 1935 Cardiff graduated to camera operator and occasional cinematographer, working mostly for London Films. He was the first to shoot a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari: Encyclopedia Ii - The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari - Plot Overview
The film tells the story of the deranged Doctor Caligari and his faithful somnambulist Cesare and their connection to a string of murders...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Panait Istrati: Encyclopedia Ii - Panait Istrati - Early Life
Born in Brăila, Israti was the son of the laundress Joiţa Istrate and of a Greek smuggler (Panait never met him). He studied in primary...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Battleship Potemkin Album: Encyclopedia Ii - Battleship Potemkin Album - About The Project
In April 2003, Philip Dodd, director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, approached Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe and suggeste...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clara Blandick: Encyclopedia Ii - Clara Blandick - Acting
She moved from Boston to New York City and began pursuing acting as a career. Her first professional appearance came in 1901, when she wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dramatic Portrayals Of Jesus: Encyclopedia Ii - Dramatic Portrayals Of Jesus - Motion Pictures
Dramatic portrayals of Jesus - Motion pictures. Dramatic portrayals of Jesus - Based on Biblical accounts. Il vangelo secondo Matteo (...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1927: Encyclopedia Ii - 1927 - Events
1927 - January-March. January 1 - Cristero War erupts in Mexico when pro-Church rebels attack secular-minded government January 7 - F...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Battleship Potemkin: Encyclopedia Ii - The Battleship Potemkin - Film Style And Content
Deliberately written as a revolutionary propaganda film, Eisenstein used this film to test his theories of "montage". The revolutionary R...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Walt Disney: Encyclopedia Ii - Walt Disney - 1920-1936: Early Years In Animation
Walt Disney - Kansas City animation studios. Disney returned to the USA, moved to Kansas City and, with Ub Iwerks, formed a company cal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Helen Keller: Encyclopedia Ii - Helen Keller - Biography
Helen Keller - Childhood. Keller was born at an estate called Ivy Green, on June 27, 1880, to parents Captain Arthur H. Keller and Kat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Culver City California: Encyclopedia Ii - Culver City California - History
Culver City was founded by Harry Culver in 1913, and the city was incorporated in 1917. The first film studio in Culver City was built by...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sunset Boulevard 2006 Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Sunset Boulevard 2006 Film - Cast
So far only Glenn Close has been confirmed, playing the role of Norma Desmond, which she previously performed on Broadway, winning a Tony...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charlie Chaplin: Encyclopedia Ii - Charlie Chaplin - Biography
Charlie Chaplin - Early Childhood. He was believed to have been born on April 16, 1889, although as the book Passport to Hollywood:Film...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde: Encyclopedia Ii - The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde - In The Arts
There have been dozens of major stage and film adaptions, and countless references in popular culture. The very phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Golden Age Of American Animation: Encyclopedia Ii - The Golden Age Of American Animation - The Early Years
The motion picture industry had been shaken to its roots with the introduction of sound film in 1927, and two years later a similar revol...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - City Lights: Encyclopedia Ii - City Lights - Plot
The plot concerns Chaplin's Tramp, broke and homeless, falling in love with a poor blind girl (Virginia Cherrill) who mistakes him as a m...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Carmen: Encyclopedia Ii - Carmen - History
Du Locle, the artistic director of the Opéra-Comique commissioned Bizet to write an opera based on the Mérimée's novel in early 1873 t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Harold Lloyd: Encyclopedia Ii - Harold Lloyd - Early Life Entry Into Films
Lloyd, born in Burchard, Nebraska, had moved west with his family after his father failed in numerous business ventures. He had acted in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Charlie Chaplin: Encyclopedia Ii - Charlie Chaplin - Biography
Charlie Chaplin - Early Childhood. He was born in Walworth, London, England to Charles Chaplin, Sr. and Hannah Harriette Hill, both Mus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Impostors: Encyclopedia Ii - The Impostors - Plot Details
Arthur (Tucci) and Maurice (Platt), two out-of-work actors, scrape a living by petty swindles and practice their acting technique wheneve...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Man In The Iron Mask Film: Encyclopedia Ii - The Man In The Iron Mask Film - Movies
The Man in the Iron Mask film - 1929. The 1929 silent version, titled The Iron Mask, was the last silent film produced by, and starring...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - The Manxman: Encyclopedia Ii - The Manxman - The Plot
The film tells the story of two childhood friends, a poor fisherman Pete Christian, played by Carl Brisson, and a lawyer Philip Quillian,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Catherine Howard: Encyclopedia Ii - Catherine Howard - The Rise And Fall Of Catherine Howard
It is hard to say precisely when Catherine was born, although it seems fair to say that it was at some point between 1520 and 1525. She w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cleopatra Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Cleopatra Film - 1963 Film
Produced by Walter Wanger, the 1963 film won Academy Awards for cinematography, art direction, costumes, sets, and special effects. It wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Tillie's Punctured Romance 1914 Film: Encyclopedia Ii - Tillie's Punctured Romance 1914 Film - Plot
Chaplin plays a womanizing city man who meets Tillie (played by Dressler) in the country after a fight with his girlfriend. When he sees ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Dorothy Gibson: Encyclopedia Ii - Dorothy Gibson - Film Career
Represented by top theatrical agent Pat Casey, Dorothy Gibson entered movies in early 1911, joining the Independent Motion Picture (IMP) ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wallace Reid: Encyclopedia Ii - Wallace Reid - Biography
Born William Wallace Reid into a show business family, his mother Bertha Westbrook was an actress and his father, Hal Reid, worked succes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Cinderella: Encyclopedia Ii - Cinderella - Discussion
The glass slipper is unique to Perrault's version; in other versions of the tale it may be made of other materials (in the version record...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Richard Simonton: Encyclopedia Ii - Richard Simonton - Double Life
During his lifetime, Richard Simonton maintained a double life, as a highly successful businessman and as a participant in the Los Angele...   » Read the article