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Paramount Famous Lasky [27] The Benson Murder Case: Frank Tuttle: William Powell, Paul Lukas, Natalie Moorehead: Mystery melodrama: Paramount Famous Lasky [28] Beyond the Law: J. P. McGowan: Robert Frazer, Louise Lorraine, Lane Chandler: Western Rayart [29] Beyond the Rio Grande: Harry Webb: Jack Perrin, Franklyn Farnum, Charline Burt: Western ...
Esther Jane Williams (August 8, 1921 – June 6, 2013) was an American competitive swimmer and actress. She set regional and national records in her late teens on the Los Angeles Athletic Club swim team.
AFI defines an "American screen legend" as "an actor or a team of actors with a significant screen presence in American feature-length films (films of 40 minutes or more) whose screen debut occurred in or before 1950, or whose screen debut occurred after 1950 but whose death has marked a completed body of work."
Many full-length films were produced in the 1930s. Sound films ("talkies") were a global phenomenon by the early 1930s. Advances in color film included Technicolor and Kodachrome. The year 1930 is the start of "the golden age of Hollywood", which through at least the 1940s.
Among the studio's most notable films are Cimarron (winner of the 1931 Academy Award for Best Picture), King Kong (1933), Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946—the studio's only other Academy Award for Best Picture), and what some people consider the greatest film of all time, 1941's ...
2. 'Love and Basketball' Meet Monica (Sanaa Lathan) and Quincy (Omar Epps), two childhood friends who share the same competitive dream: to become a professional basketball player.
Thirteen Women is a 1932 American pre-Code psychological thriller film, produced by David O. Selznick and directed by George Archainbaud. It stars Myrna Loy , Irene Dunne and Ricardo Cortez . The film is based on the 1930 bestselling novel of the same name by Tiffany Thayer and was adapted for the screen by Bartlett Cormack and Samuel Ornitz .
She would appear in several other films directed by Sternberg, including Dishonored (1931), Blonde Venus (1932) and Shanghai Express (1932). Dietrich and Sternberg's last two film collaborations, The Scarlet Empress (1934) and The Devil Is a Woman (1935)—the most styled of their collaborations—were their least successful at the box office.