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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."
Terence E. Kilburn [1] (born 25 November 1926), known for his acting work prior to 1953 as Terry Kilburn, is an English-American actor.Born in London, he moved to Hollywood in the U.S. at the age of 10, and is best known for his roles as a child actor during the Golden Age of Hollywood, in films such as A Christmas Carol (1938) and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) in the late 1930s and the early 1940s.
Clark had the lead in the 1944 short film I Won't Play with Janis Paige, which received the 1945 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). [9] Clark supported Morgan in God Is My Co-Pilot (1945) and Garfield in Pride of the Marines (1945). Exhibitors voted Clark the 16th most popular star at the US box office in 1945. [10]
Here is a look at the careers of 40 of the most prolific actors in Hollywood — and what they looked like when they were in their 20s: Tom Hanks was cast in a slasher film at age 23. Tom Hanks in ...
The B movie, whose roots trace to the silent film era, was a significant contributor to Hollywood's Golden Age of the 1930s and 1940s. As the Hollywood studios made the transition to sound film in the late 1920s, many independent exhibitors began adopting a new programming format: the double feature.
On the awards front, Murphy was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in "Dreamgirls" and won the Golden Globe for the same film. Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic // Getty Images #26.
(lists all studio theatrical shorts of the 1930s and 40s) Koszarski, Richard (2008). Hollywood On the Hudson: Film and Television in New York from Griffith to Sarnoff. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9780813542935. Lahue, Kalton C. (1966). Word of Laughter – The Motion Picture Comedy Short 1910-1930. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 0806112549.
George Karl Wentzlaff, whose stage name was George "Foghorn" Winslow (May 3, 1946 – June 13, 2015), was an American child actor of the 1950s known for his stentorian voice and deadpan demeanor. He appeared in several films, opposite such stars as Marilyn Monroe , Jane Russell , [ 1 ] Cary Grant , Ginger Rogers , Dean Martin , and Jerry Lewis ...