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- prominent during Hollywood's silent film period and part of its Golden ... Garbo is regarded as one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie ...20 KB (3,159 words) - 16:14, 18 July 2022
- who wrote more than 150 compositions. He was the first African-American to ... and possessed a reactionary attitude towards the mathematical, formulaic music ...8 KB (1,154 words) - 12:14, 8 May 2023
- Donald David Dixon Ronald O’Connor (August 28, 1925 – September ... His fame peaked in the 1950s in a series of movies in which he co ...17 KB (2,571 words) - 17:21, 30 January 2024
- 20, 1893 - March 8, 1971) was an American film actor and producer, most famous ... is best remembered today. Lloyd hanging from the hands of a clock high above ...26 KB (3,880 words) - 09:20, 19 January 2024
- * Chicago Bears (1925) * New York Yankees (1926-1927) * Chicago Bears ... player. He is a charter member of both the College Football Hall of Fame ...15 KB (2,324 words) - 02:25, 8 December 2022
- 12, 1954) was a Russian pioneer documentary film and newsreel director. His ... Białystok, Congress Poland, then a part of the Russian Empire, he Russified ...19 KB (2,880 words) - 15:49, 10 October 2020
- and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along with illustrator ... The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, written in 1900, and produced for stage ...23 KB (3,507 words) - 15:58, 26 September 2023
- poetry, several volumes of short stories, the novel Pomp and Circumstance ... During World War II he entertained the troops but also engaged in ...15 KB (2,261 words) - 02:34, 16 November 2022
- The Marx Brothers were a team of sibling comedians that played in ... After getting their start in vaudeville, the brothers became a successful ...20 KB (3,216 words) - 15:56, 7 November 2022
- February 1, 1966) was an American silent film comic actor and filmmaker ... His career as a performer and director is widely regarded to be among ...28 KB (4,366 words) - 18:53, 22 November 2023
- was a cultural movement that began in the mid-1920s, and is best known ... Magritte was born in Lessines, Belgium, in 1898, the eldest son of ...11 KB (1,775 words) - 04:07, 8 December 2022
- drawn from his wide range of experiences in World War I, the Spanish Civil ... human foibles represented a break with both the prosody and sensibilities ...19 KB (2,931 words) - 19:32, 13 February 2024
- an Academy Award winning Italian-American film director and the creative ... Capra films usually carry a message about the basic goodness of human ...21 KB (3,350 words) - 05:01, 9 April 2024
- Art Deco was a popular international design movement from 1925 until ... Art Deco experienced a decline in popularity during the late 1930s ...22 KB (3,243 words) - 04:01, 15 August 2023
- writer, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest American writers ... Fitzgerald is considered to be the spokesman for the "Lost Generation ...15 KB (2,424 words) - 00:02, 25 March 2024
- Bessie Smith (July, 1892 or April, 1894 – September 26, 1937) was ... Joining the touring company of the legendary Ma Rainey, Smith emerged ...21 KB (3,265 words) - 17:45, 29 September 2023
- based comedy duo who became famous during the early half of the twentieth ... The two comedians worked together briefly in 1919, on The Lucky Dog ...22 KB (3,556 words) - 17:50, 25 October 2022
- Soviet theatrical scenic designer-turned-film director and film theorist ... At times, he was lionized for his film direction and his theories ...36 KB (5,636 words) - 09:58, 26 January 2023
- Scottish novelist, best known for his novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps, and Unionist ... Buchan was the eldest child in the family of four sons and one surviving ...18 KB (2,741 words) - 04:22, 3 August 2022
- nicknamed "Duke," was an American film actor whose career began in ... In the last decades of his career, Wayne transformed into an American ...21 KB (3,062 words) - 16:07, 1 October 2022
- Special effects (abbreviated SPFX or SFX) are used by the film, television ... They are also used when creating the effect by normal means is prohibitively ...30 KB (4,494 words) - 19:11, 7 February 2023
- Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. Order of the British Empire (KBE ... Chaplin was one of the founders of United Artists Studios and he maintained ...32 KB (4,840 words) - 00:37, 5 December 2023
- campaigner for disarmament who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1959 ... manufacturing business and himself served on the London County Council and ...14 KB (1,946 words) - 03:20, 24 November 2022
- Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008) was ... Newman's major film roles include The Hustler (1961), Hud (1963 ...38 KB (5,689 words) - 17:42, 21 November 2022
- The public domain consists of all the creative work to which no exclusive ... For example, the works of William Shakespeare and Edgar Allan Poe ...28 KB (4,097 words) - 17:00, 2 January 2023
- American Academy Award-winning actress of film and theater whose versatility ... At a time when American women were entering the workforce after World ...28 KB (4,036 words) - 10:59, 19 December 2023
- Rachmaninoff is remembered as one of the true artistic geniuses of ... his own works as soloist. He was one of the greatest pianists of his generation ...19 KB (2,901 words) - 10:00, 26 January 2023
- ), 1903–1942) were two Soviet prose authors of the 1920s and 1930s ... reality. They were written and are set in the relatively liberal era in ...13 KB (2,022 words) - 16:19, 12 February 2024
- 27 1902 – December 20 1968) was one of the best-known and most widely ... on real historical conditions and events in the first half of the twentieth ...27 KB (4,116 words) - 07:52, 3 August 2022
- composer and instrumentalist who became the leading exponent of ragtime ... he was undoubtedly familiar) was one of the first American composers to ...20 KB (2,967 words) - 17:29, 25 January 2023
- oriented entertainment that appeared after the American Civil War in the ... Vaudeville was indirectly an outgrowth of the Industrial Revolution ...25 KB (3,760 words) - 14:43, 3 May 2023
- and conducted her scientific career. She was the first woman appointed to teach ... Mme. Curie was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity. Together with ...18 KB (2,796 words) - 04:14, 6 November 2022
- Abraham M. Saperstein (July 4, 1902 – March 15, 1966) was the founder ... Saperstein is also an unsung hero in the area of civil rights. He ...11 KB (1,745 words) - 04:45, 14 June 2023
- His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate (1948) (based ... Cole Porters' songs and thoughts are about the many aspects of ...27 KB (4,506 words) - 22:29, 7 January 2024
- and casino owner who became infamous in the final years of his life, when ... Hughes also gained fame as a record-setting pilot, flying around the ...29 KB (4,496 words) - 19:27, 7 February 2024
- – March 28, 1953) is considered one of the most versatile athletes in ... Thorpe's violation of the amateur rules was a technicality that ...24 KB (3,676 words) - 21:00, 3 April 2024
- of Hollywood by an adoring public throughout the 1930s and 1940s—Hollywood ... His most iconic role was that of Rhett Butler in the 1930 epic film ...25 KB (3,981 words) - 10:42, 19 December 2023
- persona and understated acting style. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor ... Cooper's career spanned 36 years, from 1925 to 1961, and included ...63 KB (9,757 words) - 04:36, 18 April 2024
- a noted and highly accomplished American film director. Although most famous ... Ford was a key figure in the creation of the iconic style of the classic ...32 KB (5,047 words) - 05:09, 3 August 2022
- her work written in close association with the Imagist movement of Ezra Pound ... embrace H.D.'s prolific reading of the Latin and Greek classics, ...19 KB (3,002 words) - 20:24, 24 December 2017
- and entertainer. She is regarded as being the first German actress to become ... as a cabaret singer, chorus girl, and film actress in 1920s Berlin; Hollywood ...31 KB (4,546 words) - 16:02, 6 November 2022
- of United Artists in 1919. She was one of the first Canadian pioneers in ... young ingénues pitted against a cruel world earned her the sobriquet ...32 KB (4,715 words) - 16:13, 7 November 2022
- was a Polish-born British novelist, one of the most important and respected ... Conrad's works draw on the symbolism of the Romantics and the ...22 KB (3,425 words) - 07:21, 10 August 2022
- (July 19, 1893 – April 14, 1930) was among the foremost representatives for ... He was born the third child and only son to his family in Bagdadi ...15 KB (2,007 words) - 20:47, 3 May 2023
- Robert Bernard Altman (February 20, 1925 - November 20, 2006) was ... Altman has frequently been a favorite with most of the best critics ...44 KB (6,977 words) - 03:11, 15 December 2022
- unveiling filled U.S. Capitol." Tulsa World, 2007-06-05 [http://www ... By the mid-1930s, Rogers was beloved by the American people and was ...30 KB (4,512 words) - 12:01, 5 May 2023
- His novels gained him a reputation as one of the most widely read writers of ... Graham Greene, known as a world-traveler, would often seek out adventure ...28 KB (4,089 words) - 10:04, 31 December 2022
- 12, 1893 – April 8, 1981) was one of the main U.S. Army field commanders ... Bradley was the first official Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ...24 KB (3,509 words) - 00:36, 18 November 2022
- newspaper columnist, best known as one of the principle figures in the movement ... 039; poems, written in a style that followed the patterns of everyday speech ...20 KB (3,210 words) - 22:22, 22 October 2022
- actor, director, and producer. He is one of the most famous and revered actors ... Olivier's career as a stage and film actor spanned more than ...43 KB (6,624 words) - 17:52, 25 October 2022
- – July 29, 1983) was a Aragonese Spanish film director, writer, and sometime ... Luis Buñuel was born in Calanda, Teruel in the province of Aragón ...42 KB (7,001 words) - 10:36, 9 March 2023
- Eugene Luther Gore Vidal, born Eugene Louis Vidal, (October 3, 1925 – ... his sarcastic wit and excellent command of the English language to state ...42 KB (5,899 words) - 11:57, 24 January 2023
- September 8, 1949) was a German composer of the late Romantic era, particularly ... M. Abell, Strauss disclosed that he had read the work of the Swedish mystic ...15 KB (2,261 words) - 01:47, 14 December 2022
- Rwanda is a small landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of ... In 1978, the Wildlife Conservation Society began working in the nation ...13 KB (2,009 words) - 02:28, 19 December 2022
- who led a crime syndicate dedicated to the illegal traffic of alcoholic ... By the end of the 1920s, Capone had gained the attention of the Federal ...18 KB (2,835 words) - 04:20, 17 June 2023
- Major general and Lieutenant general in the United States Army Air Forces ... Although convinced that the airborne attack he led against Japan in ...25 KB (3,734 words) - 15:02, 26 September 2023
- The uncertainty principle, sometimes called the Heisenberg uncertainty ... Thus, in quantum physics, the outcome of even an ideal measurement ...26 KB (4,014 words) - 01:33, 3 May 2023
- engineer, innovator, and inventor of the world's first television; ... Baird's work was part of the great advance in technology that ...26 KB (3,809 words) - 02:31, 9 February 2023
- Eric Alfred Leslie Satie (Honfleur, May 17, 1866 – Paris, July 1 ... there appears to have been a brief period in the late 1880s during which he ...29 KB (4,725 words) - 19:27, 13 February 2024
- was an influential and important figure in the development of sports journalism. In 1922 Rice became the first play-by-play announcer carried live ...14 KB (2,078 words) - 14:51, 31 December 2022
- John Ronald Reuel Tolkien Order of the British Empire (January 3, ... Tolkien used fantasy in the same way fabulists have used folk and ...53 KB (8,151 words) - 08:28, 13 March 2024
- B.B. King, born Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 - May 14, 2015) ... King had a a large number of hits in the R&B market in the 1950s ...26 KB (3,986 words) - 05:20, 26 August 2023
- especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt of 1916-1918 during ... Thomas' sensationalized reportage of the Revolt, as well as to Lawrence ...33 KB (5,295 words) - 00:58, 21 April 2023
- The Forbidden City was the Chinese imperial palace from the mid-Ming ... Since 1924, the Forbidden City has been under the charge of the Palace ...44 KB (6,677 words) - 06:19, 1 April 2024
- a Turkish army officer and statesman. He was the founder and until 1934, the ... Atatürk was born in the city of Thessaloníki (Turkish: Selânik ...25 KB (3,912 words) - 02:38, 11 March 2023
- in New York City. Dewey later was elected the Governor of New York and was ... Dewey, a leader of the liberal faction of the Republican party, fought ...21 KB (3,285 words) - 21:07, 30 April 2023
- was an Irish writer, best remembered as the author of the influential ... Marino Crescent—then as now called "The Crescent"—in Clontarf, ...32 KB (4,917 words) - 22:51, 20 November 2023
- States businessman and political figure, and the father of President John F ... He served briefly as the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom ...31 KB (4,705 words) - 00:44, 11 August 2022
- symbolic and allegoric themes that draw the viewer into the same state ... Virtually forgotten for nearly two hundred years, the art critic W ...27 KB (4,136 words) - 07:23, 5 April 2024
- The America’s Cup is the most famous and most prestigious regatta ... During the year of the first World's Fair, American boatbuilders ...31 KB (4,811 words) - 02:52, 24 July 2023
- by Vietnamese artists, from ancient times to the present. Vietnamese art has ... The golden age of Vietnamese art occurred during the Ly dynasty (1010 ...37 KB (5,882 words) - 20:18, 3 May 2023
- A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound ... By the early 1930s, the talkies were a global phenomenon. In the United ...78 KB (11,661 words) - 18:11, 23 February 2023
- and encouraged the use of her middle initial to facilitate this pronunciati ... of novels and short stories set between World War I and World War II that ...39 KB (6,001 words) - 17:27, 30 January 2024
- Following the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the German army opened ... several major offensives along this front. The attacks employed massive artillery ...57 KB (8,515 words) - 17:19, 4 May 2023
- and short story writer. He was one of the most popular authors of his ... itself not in his literary style, but in the themes of his stories, which ...29 KB (4,504 words) - 22:03, 3 May 2023
- she was noted for her many contributions to the entertainment industry. She ... A staple panelist of American game shows, dubbed "the first lady ...54 KB (7,980 words) - 18:02, 29 September 2023
- Romanian playwright and dramatist, one of the foremost playwrights of the ... The 'Theatre of the Absurd' is thought to have its origins ...15 KB (2,272 words) - 04:19, 23 March 2024
- Agatha Mary Clarissa, Lady Mallowan, Order of the British Empire DBE ... Her appeal is so large that Christie is often cited, by the Guinness ...25 KB (3,584 words) - 06:43, 16 June 2023
- Frantz Fanon (July 20, 1925 – December 6, 1961) was a Martinique ... In particular, Les damnés de la terre (The Wretched of the Earth ...17 KB (2,551 words) - 15:25, 6 October 2022
- Broadcasting is the distribution of audio and/or video signals (programs ... The term broadcast was coined by early radio engineers from the mid ...26 KB (3,776 words) - 04:32, 22 November 2023
- [[image:Robert_F._Kennedy_1964.jpg|thumb|right|Robert F. Kennedy in ... Robert Francis "Bobby" Kennedy (November 20, 1925 – June ...28 KB (4,414 words) - 21:27, 16 April 2023
- Frank Lloyd Wright (June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959) was one of the ... and almost mystical love of nature. Like the Arts and Crafts Movement, ...16 KB (2,277 words) - 05:05, 9 April 2024
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a 1900 children's novel written ... It is the first novel in the Oz series of books. A Kansas farm girl ...56 KB (8,538 words) - 21:33, 6 June 2023
- and orator best known for his work in the fields of comparative mythology ... Campbell's recognition of the universality of human stories allows ...35 KB (5,308 words) - 07:20, 10 August 2022
- 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961), nicknamed "The Georgia Peach," was a ... Cobb also received the most votes of any player on the 1936 inaugural ...28 KB (4,394 words) - 20:36, 4 January 2024
- The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced ... musical score, and memorable characters, The Wizard of Oz was considered ...117 KB (17,054 words) - 12:48, 4 June 2023
- was a Catalan Spanish artist and one of the most important painters of ... in the town of Figueres, in the Empordà region close to the French ...38 KB (5,792 words) - 01:13, 21 April 2023
- Several railways had been built in the mountainous regions of India ... The collective designation refers to the current project by the Indian ...33 KB (4,994 words) - 17:47, 10 November 2022
- Baseball who later served as a spy for the Office of Strategic Services ... successful appearances as a contestant on the radio quiz show Information ...35 KB (5,251 words) - 19:35, 27 April 2024
- The Panchatantra Panachatantra translated from the Sanskrit by Arthur ... or The Lights of Canopus (in Persian) The Lights of Canopus, described ...24 KB (3,634 words) - 06:28, 18 November 2022
- Rabindranath Tagore in Kolkata, c. 1915, the year he was knighted by Charles ... reshaped Bengali literature and music in the late ninteenth and early twentieth ...50 KB (7,214 words) - 16:18, 7 December 2022
- The Armenian Genocide—also known as the Armenian Holocaust, Great ... Most Armenians, Russians, and West Europeans believe that the massacres ...48 KB (7,401 words) - 03:50, 15 August 2023
- Shanghai, situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta, is China ... and parking lots for automobiles, north of the foreign concessions. During ...46 KB (6,727 words) - 19:55, 21 April 2023
- cultural anthropologist, a pioneer of the feminist movement in America ... her Anglican Christianity and an emphasis on the importance of early childhood ...26 KB (3,818 words) - 03:56, 6 November 2022
- of Bengali poetry. He is popularly known as the Bidrohi Kobi — Rebel Poet ... with theatrical groups. After a stint in the British Indian Army, Nazrul ...34 KB (5,210 words) - 22:44, 14 September 2023
- The United Mexican States, or simply Mexico, is a country located ... Covering almost two million square kilometers, Mexico is the fifth ...57 KB (8,268 words) - 10:36, 10 March 2023
- superhero widely considered to be one of the most famous and popular such ... and an American cultural icon.Les Daniels. Superman: The Complete ...61 KB (9,123 words) - 13:55, 28 April 2023
- 2, 1876 – October 9, 1958), reigned as the 260th Pope, the head of the ... Pius is one of the few popes in recent history to exercise his right ...51 KB (7,678 words) - 20:42, 9 April 2023
- and mathematician, working mostly in the twentieth century. He and ... Russell was born at the height of Britain's economic and political ...75 KB (11,466 words) - 17:25, 29 September 2023
- Malcolm X (May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965) (Born Malcolm Little; ... #039;s shortcomings and hypocrisies, he made the majority understand that maintaining ...49 KB (7,838 words) - 06:35, 5 November 2022
