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This is a change that had begun with works like the long D. W. Griffith epics of the mid-1910s and became the primary style by the 1920s. In Hollywood , numerous small studios were taken over and made a part of larger studios, creating the studio system that would run the American, Spanish, and Polish pool, open to the public film making until ...
The star system was the method of creating, promoting and exploiting stars in Hollywood films from the 1920s until the 1960s. Movie studios had selected promising young actors and glamorise and create personas for them, often inventing new names and even new backgrounds.
The Flapper is a 1920 American silent comedy film starring Olive Thomas. Directed by Alan Crosland , the film was the first in the United States to portray the " flapper " lifestyle, which became a cultural craze or fad in the 1920s.
Title Director Featured Cast Genre Note 813: Charles Christie, Scott Sidney: Wedgwood Nowell, Ralph Lewis, Wallace Beery, Laura La Plante: Mystery: FBO: The Adorable Savage: Norman Dawn
King of the Roaring 20s: The Story of Arnold Rothstein is a 1961 American, biopic, drama, crime film directed by Joseph M. Newman, produced by Samuel Bischoff and starring David Janssen, Dianne Foster, Diana Dors and Jack Carson. [1]
Felix the Food Controller (April 11, 1920) Felix the Pinch Hitter (April 18, 1920) Foxy Felix (May 16, 1920) A Hungry Hoodoo (June 6, 1920) The Great Cheese Robbery (June 13, 1920) Felix and the Feed Bag (July 18, 1920) Nifty Nurse (August 22, 1920) The Circus (September 26, 1920) My Hero (October 24, 1920) Felix the Landlord (November 21, 1920)
The Penalty. As described in a film magazine, [3] Blizzard (Chaney), the legless crime boss of the Barbary Coast underworld, is possessed of two ambitions. One is to get revenge upon Dr. Ferris (Clary), whose blunder during a childhood operation resulted in Blizzard's legs being hastily and unnecessarily amputated; the other is to rally the Reds in his organization and loot the city of San ...
The theater operated as a first-run movie theater continuously for 78 years before closing. It was the headquarters for Syndicate Theatre's cinema network from 1936-2000. Saved from demolition by historic preservation group Franklin Heritage Inc., the theater shows classic movies and hosts concerts as the group restores the Artcraft and other ...