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Family dynasties are a grand tradition in Hollywood. Below are a list of clans of famous actors, directors, writers, and producers who were related to each other. The criteria for this list is how much talent the combined members of the family had and how many generations the dynasty spanned. 10. The Reitman Dynasty Members: Ivan, [...]
Posted by Orrin Konheim on Monday, January 9, 2012 at 12:01 am
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Contrary to parental warnings, the lack of a high school diploma does not necessarily doom one to minimum wage drudgery. A surprising number of Silver Screen Legends forwent education and began early careers, although not necessarily in acting. Most were not plucked from obscurity, forced to abandon instruction and thrust into the limelight by their [...]
Posted by Suzy Duvall on Friday, December 30, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Education, Movies, People · Tagged Al Pacino, American film directors, Charles Chaplin, Cinema of the United States, Clark Gable, greta garbo, Henry Fonda, highschool dropouts, Humphrey Bogart, Joe DiMaggio, Julie Edwards, Lilies of the Field, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Mary Pickford, Norma Jean Baker, Shirley Temple, Sidney Poitier
Today, when most people hear the words “silent comedy” they probably think of things like Charlie Chaplin’s silhouette framed in the sunset or twinkly piano music playing over barely decipherable grainy images and, perhaps, people getting kicked up the arse. A lot. However, behind the music and hand-cranked camera shots lie something else entirely, for [...]
Posted by Kevin Forde on Friday, October 14, 2011 at 12:01 am
Filed under Movies, People · Tagged Actor, Adolph Zukor, America, Another Fine Mess, Ben Turpin, Buster Keaton, Charles Chaplin, charlie chaplin, Comedy films, D.W. Griffith, Douglas Fairbanks, Entertainment, Entertainment_Culture, film, Fred Karno, Georgia, Girl Shy, Gladys Marie Smith, Hal Roach, Hal Roach studio, Larry Semon, Laurel and Hardy, Mabel Normond, Mack Sennett, Mary Pickford, Modern Times, Movies, Oliver Hardy, Ollie Hardy, Our Hospitality, Outwitting Dad, Roscoe Arbuckle, Rudolph Valentino, Saps at Sea, Silent comedy, Silent film, silent movies, Slapstick, Speedy, Stan Laurel, stuntman, The Freshman, The General, The Gold Rush, The Kid, The Kid and Modern Times, The Tramp, The Wizard of Oz, West Point Mississippi, William Desmond Taylor, Zera
