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Hollywood & radio in the 1930’s.

Hollywood & radio in the 1930’s. Hollywood’s “golden age” Clark Gable Marlene D ietrich Greta G arbo & Shirley T emple. Unemployment reached 25% during the Great depression. 60-90 million people went to the movies each week. A movie ticket cost 15 cents

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Hollywood & radio in the 1930’s.

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  1. Hollywood & radio in the 1930’s.

  2. Hollywood’s “golden age” Clark Gable Marlene Dietrich Greta Garbo& Shirley Temple

  3. Unemployment reached 25% during the Great depression. 60-90 million people went to the movies each week. A movie ticket cost 15 cents Snow White was the first feature-length animated film

  4. Why did people continue to go to the movies during the great depression?

  5. Radio was entertainment right in your own home People listened to news, the president, but mostly radio dramas. Daytime radio was aimed at housewives, and the advertisers were household cleaners – hence the term “soap operas.”

  6. George Burns and Grace Allen Jack Benny The Lone Ranger The Green Hornet

  7. Orson Welles – broadcast a radio drama of The War of the Worldsin 1938, and people thought it was real.

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