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Film History Part II 1/2

Film History Part II 1/2. A continuation …. MGM. The company went through several name changes, partnerships and re-partnerships Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg were two big names involved in this company. The MGM lion roared for the first recorded and viewed in a film in 1928

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Film History Part II 1/2

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  1. Film History Part II 1/2 A continuation …

  2. MGM • The company went through several name changes, partnerships and re-partnerships • Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg were two big names involved in this company. • The MGM lion roared for the first recorded and viewed in a film in 1928 • The Big Parade (1925) • Broadway Melody (1929) • Grand Hotel (1932) • Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) • Gone with the Wind (1939) • The Wizard of Oz (1939)

  3. Other MGM productions • Tarzan films • Tom and Jerry Cartoons • Stars: • Greta Garbo • Clark Gable • Spencer Tracy

  4. Garbo, Gable, Tracy

  5. Fox Film (1912) . . . 20TH - Century Fox (1935) • Originally founded by William Fox • Known for B-westerns • Once 20th – Century Fox, Became famous for Shirley Temple films in the mid-30s and Betty Grable musicals in the 40s

  6. Temple, Grable

  7. Little Three Studios • Lacked one element of vertical integration: they did not own their own theatres • Universal Pictures • W.C.Fields, Abbott and Costello, Flash Gordon and Woody Woodpecker • United Artists • Formed in 1919 by Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin and D.W. Griffith • Columbia Pictures • Founded in 1920 by Jack and Harry Cohn and Joseph Brandt • Rita Hayworth films, Batman serials

  8. View - Charlie Chaplin

  9. The Movie Palace • Major studios built luxurious ‘picture palaces’ designed for an orchestra to play along with the projected films. • First opened in New York City in 1914 • Roxy Theatre opened in NYC in 1927 seating 6,200. • Cost about $10 million to build! • Unsurpassed until Radio City Musical Hall opened five years later!

  10. Before the movie palace . . .

  11. The Roxy

  12. Radio City Music Hall

  13. Grauman’s theatres • Sid Grauman built server movie palaces in Los Angeles during this time period • Million Dollar Theater (Feb 1918, 2,345 seats) • Egyptian Theatre (1922, 1,760 seats) • Chinese Theater (May 1927, 2,258 seats) • Opened with Cecil B. DeMille’s King of Kings • He started the tradition of having stars leave their prints in cement in front of the theater.

  14. Pickfair - the 1st celebrity super couple: Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks • Two of the biggest silent movie stars • “America’s Sweetheart” divorced her husband, Douglas Fairbanks, Sr, divorced his wife and the two wed in March 1920 • A major cultural event AND quite the scandal! • Began the tradition of movie stars moving to the Hollywood hills. • Stayed married until 1935 • Her “bob” hair cut was the first fashion trend to come from moviedom! (1928) • The Taming of the Shrew (1929) the first (and only) film that co-starred both actors. It was a “talkie” version

  15. Other BIG names: • Harold Lloyd, Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, Norma Shearer, John Barrymore, Greta Garbo, Clara Bow • “Sweethearts” Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell were paired in 12 films

  16. Lloyd, Swanson, Valentino, Barrymore, Bow

  17. Cecil B. DeMille • Extravagance! • Huge Budgets • The Ten Commandments (1923) • Till I Come Back to You (1918) • Old Wives for New (1918) • Don’t Change Your Husband (1919) • The Affairs of Anatol (1921)

  18. The Birth of the Talkies • Late 1920s . . .

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