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1. Unconventional young woman, often from a middle-class background, typically in her late teens or early twenties, defied her parents' wishes by embracing a bold, unconventional lifestyle with short bobbed hair, revealing outfits, lipstick, and a free-spirited attitude; Flappers are associated with the Jazz Age of the 1920s [170]
Gallagher and Shean, a popular vaudeville act of the 1920s. Though vaudeville lasted into the 1930s, its popularity waned because of the rise of motion pictures. Some failed to survive the transition to movies and disappeared. By the 1920s, double acts were beginning to attract worldwide fame more readily through the silent era.
1920: One Week: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton: Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely: United States: Short film: Easy to Get: Walter Edwards: Marguerite Clark and Harrison Ford: United States: The Life of the Party: Joseph Henabery: Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle: United States: Pollyanna: Paul Powell: Mary Pickford: United States: The Round Up: George Melford ...
By Serge Stevens The comedy team is a sacred show-business relationship. From the beginning of time, when Eve asked Adam if he wanted a bite to eat, having two or more characters deliver the jokes ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:1920 films. It includes 1920 films that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. This category is for comedy films released in the year 1920 .
ZaSu Pitts (/ ˈ s eɪ z uː ˈ p ɪ t s /; [1] January 3, 1894 [a] – June 7, 1963) was an American actress who, in a career spanning nearly five decades, starred in many silent film dramas, such as Erich von Stroheim's 1924 epic Greed, along with comedies, before transitioning successfully to mostly comedy roles with the advent of sound films.
As early as 1914, Sennett shifted the Keystone Cops from starring roles to background ensemble in support of comedians such as Charlie Chaplin and Fatty Arbuckle.. The Keystone Cops served as supporting players for Chaplin, Marie Dressler and Mabel Normand in the first full-length Sennett comedy feature Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914); Mabel's New Hero (1913) with Normand and Arbuckle ...
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