At the beginning of the 20th century in America pioneer film-makers --- looking for sunny lands --- left their studios and moved from the eastern maritime region to South-California, where 350 sunny days were guaranteed per year.
The story of movies began in an other continent: It was in Europe, in Paris that Auguste and Louis Lumiére--- after several years of experimenting--- showed a film on the screen for the first time (on 28th of Dec. 1895.), for a paying audience. However the first film- making companies were founded in America and the new industry soon took wings in Hollywood.
One of the first companies, the United Artists, was founded by Douglas Fairbanks ---the fearless hero of silent films--- and his wife Mary Pickford and in a short time they were said to be the uncrowned king and queen of Hollywood. In the 1920s many of the most popular movie stars, such as Buster Keaton, Rudolph Valentino and Gloria Swanson joined the United Artists.
During the following decades there were revolutionary changes in the Hollywood -centered films. When the sound and the colour film appeared, companies began to pour out the most variuos kinds of films: musicals, westerns, cartoons, romantic stories, comedies, gengster and horror films .
The film starts speaking.
There were attempts to make a reliable sound film-technique from the beginning of the 20th century. On 6th of Oct. in 1927,in the Warner theatre, in New York the gathering audience was looking forward to see the first American sound film, the Jazz Singer, with Al Johnson starring in it . Though only a part of the film was sound, it had a great success.
The first film that had sound from the beginning to the and was made in1928, in Hollywood. It was the Lights of New York. (The next year Alfred Hitchock directed the1st English sound film, the Blackmailing.) .
Let's dance!.
After the sound film had appeared, a lot of cheerful musicals were made.
Hollywood. ... The name Hollywood predated the arrival of movies. ... These movies demanded attention. ... The 1930's and 1940's have been described as "The Golden Age of Motion Pictures". ... No matter where you were in the world, if you wanted to produce movies, you went to Hollywood, no questions asked. ...
Tom, one of her brothers committed suicide at age 14. ... After many play performances, she began creating movies. Kate starred in five movies from 1932 to 1934. ... Things weren't better in Hollywood. ... She accepted and did "The Glass Menagerie," "On Golden Pond", and "Corn is Green." ...
The Graduate In 1998 the American Film Institute awarded The Graduate by including the movie in the "100 Greatest American Movies." ... The Graduate also collected Golden Globe Awards (1968), and the New York Film Critics Circle (1967). ... The Graduate presented then the new alternative of how Hollywood movies should be made. ... So it finally came down to Anne Bancroft who had already played in some comedy movies such as The Miracle Worker. ... This way ending was also a novelty for Hollywood filming. ...
Scott Fitzgerald, the phrase, "The Jazz Age," was also used to describe the Roaring Twenties. ... At this time, Hollywood flourished in the motion picture industry. The price of movies decreased and allowed for larger audiences. ... The 1920s was also called the Golden Twenties because it became a golden age of widespread growth and economic prosperity in America. ...
Kate then become very shy around girls her age, and was schooled at home. ... When she returned to Hollywood things did not get much better. ... She quickly bought the film rights, and so was able to negotiate her way back to Hollywood on her own terms. ... Hepburn moved into middle-aged spinster roles, receiving her fifth Oscar nomination for the film. ... Her movies where classics and her style phenomenal. ...
During this time, the Jazz Age, flappers went about clad in short skirts, bobbed hair and turned-down hose. ... Flappers danced in bars and about attempting to make their way onto the Hollywood big screens by having their talents discovered. ... She eventually filmed her movies with paramount pictures and became a flapper sex symbol of her time. By capturing the Ameerican spirit of the Jazz age the flappers rebelled and proved that they were just as righteous and deserving as anyone else and their talents and new style would be adopted, used and not forgotten. ... Her golden rule is plain e...
Marilyn Monroe realized this at a young age. ... She was married to Jimmy Dougherty at a young age. ... Her Hollywood status had got to her. ... As the scripts piled up, she stared in more and more movies. ... All of her acting really paided off, she won world film favorite at the Golden Globes in 1962. ...
This position won her national exposure for the first time, and caught the attention of Hollywood. ... By the end of the decade, she had been in forty-three films and was known as "Queen of the B Movies" (American Masters). ... Together, they pushed television into its golden years, with the creation of the I Love Lucy show (American Masters). ... The next year, at the age of 75, she debuted Life With Lucy, a half hour comedy series. ... Lucy was buried in Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles, California. ...