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The year 1930 is the start of "the golden age of Hollywood", which through at least the 1940s. The studio system was at its height in the 1930s, studios having great control over a film's creative decision. This included the creation of the Hays Code, which was the first large scale attempt at organized censorship of Hollywood films.
She made her screen debut in 1930 in a B-movie, Bed and Breakfast, and acted in a succession of films in the 1930s, most famously Blossom Time with Richard Tauber in 1934. [9] She also performed in several West End shows and in 1935 she joined the repertory company at the Liverpool Playhouse .
Garbo in her first sound film Anna Christie (1930). In late 1929, MGM cast Garbo in Anna Christie (1930), a film adaptation of the 1922 play by Eugene O'Neill, her first speaking role. The screenplay was adapted by Frances Marion, and the film was produced by Irving Thalberg and Paul Bern. Sixteen minutes into the film, she famously utters her ...
Marie-Madeleine Bernadette O'Carroll (26 February 1906 – 2 October 1987) [1] was an English actress, popular both in Britain and in America in the 1930s and 1940s. At the peak of her success in 1938, she was the world's highest-paid actress.
Hollywood Girl: The Peg Entwistle Story (2017) is a short film based on the last day of Peg Entwistle's life. [32] Dory Previn sang about Entwistle in the song "Mary C. Brown and the Hollywood Sign," on her 1972 album of the same name. Jakko Jakszyk's song "Damn This Town" (from his 1995 album Mustard Gas and Roses) mentions Entwistle and her ...
The woman's films that were produced in the 1930s during the Great Depression have a strong thematic focus on class issues and questions of economic survival whereas the 1940s woman's film places its protagonists in a middle- or upper-middle-class world and is more concerned with the characters' emotional, sexual, and psychological experiences.
Michael Robbins (1930–1992) Anton Rodgers (1933–2007) Patsy Rowlands (1931–2005) David Ryall (1935–2014) Andrew Sachs (1930–2016) Nadim Sawalha (born 1935) Prunella Scales (born 1932) Leslie Schofield (born 1938) Janette Scott (born 1938) Barbara Shelley (1932–2021) Carole Shelley (1939–2018) Derrick Sherwin (1936–2018) Joan ...
British silent film actresses (4 C, 14 P) Pages in category "British film actresses" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 557 total.