The Barrymores are famous for acting, while the Westmores have specialized in this field since silent film days
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Full text of "Inside Facts of Stage and Screen (March 22, 1930)"  Already certain legit performers have been badly taken l by being forced into adverse ... Happy Days, Fox Grandeur film at the Carthay Circle, also tobogganed down, ..... The idea started when the stu- dio contemplated putting out a former silent ... CORRIGAN IN CAST Emmett Corrigan, actor and con- ductor of a casting...
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Download - Picking  10:45 am DAY DREAMS (1928) with Elsa Lanchester, Charles Laughton ... The buses will leave immediately after the presentations for the hotel .... The film has much going for it  a wonderful Latin rhythm musical score; great ..... 1933 by Yasujiro Ozu (1903-1963), who specialized during this period in shomin-geki: social...
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Mime artist - Wikipedia  A mime or mime artist is someone who uses mime as a theatrical medium or as a performance ... The mimetic style of film acting was used to great effect in German ... Similarly, while traditional mimes have been completely silent, contemporary ... slowly collapses after he rents a spare apartment to an intrusive mime artist.
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Drew Barrymore: A Look at Her Family's Acting Dynasty - Biography ...  Feb 22, 2016 ... Famous Lookalikes ... Drew Barrymore at the 'Miss You Already' film premiere on Sep 17, 2015 ... "I didn't really have parents," Drew, whose parents divorced when she ... Barrymore's, but Drew's pedigree extends back before silent films, ... After he died, Louisa took over the running of the theater, and also...
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Westmore family - Wikipedia  The Westmore Family is a prominent family in Hollywood make-up. Led by their patriarch, George Westmore, the family has had four generations serve Hollywood as make-up artists in various capacities since George's establishment of Hollywood's first make-up ... In 1921, after dishwashing at Famous Players-Lasky, Monte became...
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Drew Barrymore - Wikipedia  Drew Blythe Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is an American actress, author, director, model and producer. She is a descendant of the Barrymore family of American stage and film actors, ... In 1995, she and her friend Nancy Juvonen formed their production company Flower Films, with its first film Never Been Kissed.
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Dorothy Gish - Wikipedia  Dorothy Elizabeth Gish (March 11, 1898  June 4, 1968) was an American actress of the screen and stage, as well as a director and writer. Dorothy and her sister Lillian Gish were major movie stars of the silent era. ... Especially Dorothy, as Mr. Griffith paid her no attention whatsoever and she kept on crying and trailed along...
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Singin' and Dancing Back in Time.: August 2010  Aug 1, 2010 ... Ruby Keeler, was an actress, singer, and dancer most famous for her ... Gene Kelly, was a huge force in musical films from the mid 1940s into the late 1950s. ..... With the help of producer Charles Frohman, Billie Burke performed ... In 1936, MGM filmed a biopic of her deceased husband (The Great Ziegfeld)...
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Film and Television - Dictionary definition of Film and Television ...  Beavers, who is best known for her role in the 1934 film version of Imitation of Life, .... of the African American action films, most notably Shaft (1971), Superfly (1972), .... began to reprise the role of a maid that she played on radio for the television ..... The African Prince Mamuwalde (William Marshall) stalks the streets of Los...
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Lillian Gish - Wikipedia  Lillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893  February 27, 1993) was an American actress of the screen and stage, as well as a director and writer whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 in silent film shorts to 1987. ... In her later years Gish became a dedicated advocate for the appreciation and preservation of silent...
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Lionel Barrymore, 1878-1954 - Message Boards - Ancestry.com  Apr 19, 2006 ... Lionel, like his siblings, was afforded a private education and travel (he ... Barrymore launched his film career in New York in 1911, translating many of ... flamboyant brother John and later his sister Ethel to MGM for Ethel's "talkie" debut and the family's only joint project, the epic "Rasputin and the Empress".
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Movie Review - - Screen: 'Mary Poppins':Julie Andrews Stars as ...  Even the great Mr. Disney would find himself being subdued by a prim nanny ... care of the Banks children, Jane and Michael, in their parents' London home, ... It is she, played superbly by Miss Andrews, with her button-shoed feet splayed out to ... Hermione Baddley, Elsa Lanchester and Arthur Treacher are droll in smaller...
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Clara Bow - Wikipedia  Clara Gordon Bow was an American actress who rose to stardom in silent film during the 1920s and successfully made the transition to "talkies" after 1927. Her appearance as a plucky shopgirl in the film It brought her global fame and the nickname "The It Girl".
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Sons of the Pioneers - Wikipedia  The Sons of the Pioneers are one of the United States' earliest Western singing groups. Known ... Between 1935 and 1984, the Sons of the Pioneers appeared in 87 films, several movie .... "Cigareetes, Whusky, and Wild, Wild Women", 5, , .
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The Idea of a John Barrymore - Digital Commons @ Colby  Mar 5, 2001 ... convinced that playing Hamlet is a test of his mettle does Andrew come to .... Though certainly other actors straddled the stage and the cinema ... Barrymore's reputation as a matinee idol in Broadway melodramas and ..... In many ways, the 1958 melodrama Too Much Too Soon, a film ... Flynn in the part.
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Film career of Grace Kelly - Wikipedia  Grace Kelly has been cited as one of the most elegant and influential iconic film stars in American cinematic history. Her relatively short career of seven years occurred between 1950 and 1956, during which she appeared in just eleven films. ... She accepted the role, and the film was shot in the late summer/early fall of 1951...
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WESTERN FILMS Western Films or Westerns are the major defining ...  [The popularity of westerns has waxed and waned over the years. ... Western films have also been called the horse opera, the oater (quickly-made ... In many ways, the cowboy of the Old West was the American version of the Japanese ...... star-studded and sprawling The Big Country (1958) with Gregory Peck as an Eastern...
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John Barrymore - Wikipedia  John Barrymore was an American actor on stage, screen and radio. A member of the Drew and ... During this period, he gained his nickname, the Great Profile. ... Although film historians have opined that Barrymore's "contribution to the art of ... Arch Street Theatre, and John Drew, also an actor whose specialty was comedy.
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B movies (Hollywood Golden Age) - Wikipedia  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. ... According to historian Thomas Schatz, "These low-grade westerns, melodramas, and action ... With the widespread arrival of sound film in American theaters in 1929, many independent...
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The Barrymores - ExplorePAHistory.com  Louisa Drew in Costume as Mrs. Malaprop. ... Their father, Maurice Barrymore (who changed the family name from Blyth because ... and Louisa Lane Drew, managers of Philadelphia's Arch Street Theater and noted performers themselves. ... With his rumpled looks, Lionel turned into a character actor, a player who could...
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Volume 1, Issue 2, 2007 Lucy, Angela, Maureen, Jane, and ...  contradict Hollywood stereotypes about the appropriate movie roles for women. ... women in film and television suggest that young women tend to play .... She had a long movie career, providing several clips to chose from; 2. ..... World War I. Hepburn plays a Christian missionary, Rose Sayer, who is given ... Ethel Thayer.