Search results for "Road to Life (1931 film)" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Prohibition agent, famous for his efforts to enforce Prohibition in Chicago ... the repeal, states still had the right to enforce their own laws concerning ...
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  • Fascinated with moving pictures early in his life and foresaw their ... == Early Life == Warner was one of twelve children born to Benjamin ...
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  • being the young Robert Johnson, who went on to become legendary. James recorded for Paramount Records in 1931, but, like several other ...
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  • that played in vaudeville, stage plays, film and television. The brothers ... Animal Crackers (1930), Monkey Business (1931), Horse Feathers (1932), and ...
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  • The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( ... of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held on the island ...
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  • as a big band singer. In 1936, she moved to Hollywood, where she signed ... She is best remembered for having appeared in the Road to... movies ...
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  • and motion picture grosses from 1934 to 1954 and the emergence of rock ... Also a very popular film star, Crosby won an Academy Award as Best ...
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  • models for the attitude that has come to be known as "attitude ... quot;Hopewell and Aim" off Great Mills Road, St. Mary's County, in ...
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  • whose work brought home the realities of life in distant lands to those ... during the First Indochina War in 1954. His life had been given to bring home ...
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  • name in his engineering career, in order to protect his engineering career ... Born in Somerset Road, Ealing, London, he was educated at the Dragon ...
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  • belles." She was the first non-American to win a "Best Actress" ... 20 films, most of them in the 1930s. Her life was marked by two marriages ...
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  • at the time, Hayworth is now widely regarded to be one of the first Hispanic ... in Gilda considered by some the most famous film scene ever. She often combined ...
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  • media from vaudeville, and Broadway, to radio, television, and movies. shows, performed live and later televised, to honor the American Military ...
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  • as a top radio and television star from 1937 to 1971. Skelton's show business ... in 1951, 1956, and 1960/61. He was named to the Academy of Television Arts ...
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  • was an American dancer, actor, singer, film director, Film producer, and ... Rain, he dominated the Hollywood musical film from the mid 1940s until its ...
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  • outstanding influence in the development of film acting. Since her international ... Sweetheart." Pickford was the first to adapt acting for the screen ...
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  • who was one of the leading literary figures to employ naturalism in his writings ... The censorship lasted well past his death, as Dreiser did not live ...
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  • a noted and highly accomplished American film director. Although most famous ... the classic Hollywood movie. His work helped to create the American mythology ...
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  • James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 - September 30, 1955) was an American ... 30, 1955, Dean became the first actor to receive a posthumous Academy ...
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  • (1947), and East of Eden (1952), went on to become Hollywood films (some ... migrant laborers and has been compared to Harriet Beecher Stowe's ...
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  • sight and sound) about cultures and events to people throughout the world. ... Even Baird's conversion to agnosticism while living at home does ...
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  • American actor. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Bogart the ... Bogart popularized the "natural" style while creating a ...
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  • withstand the test of time. They continue to be best sellers and favorites ... Royalties from the Pooh characters help to fund an artist-in-residence ...
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  • in the world, although he did not act in a film for another four years, instead ... Terrence Stephen McQueen was born to a single mother on March 24, ...
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  • ), the name of a film Indian musical comedy film directed by Rajkumar ... cms Gandhigiri, a cool way to live]. Times Internet Limited ...
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  • readership during what is sometimes referred to as the "public enemy era ... their bank robberies, Clyde Barrow preferred to rob small stores or gas stations ...
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  • his antisemitism, his books retain an appeal to lovers of adventure and intrigue ... == Early life == Buchan was the eldest child in the family of four ...
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  • for children. In 2017, she was calculated to be the world's 18th most ... pregnant, causing a local scandal. She moved to the capital city of Stockholm ...
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  • of corruption and favoritism that did little to place his state on the road ... child after his parents' death. He went to school in the Scottish Mission ...
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  • States in 1940 because of her opposition to Nazi Germany and the German ... Her best-known work is Kristin Lavransdatter, a trilogy about life ...
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  • A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound ... cultural/commercial systems. In Europe (and, to a lesser degree, elsewhere ...
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  • Mumford regarded human relationships to be the foundation of a thriving ... == Life == Lewis Mumford was born on October 19, 1895 in Flushing, ...
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  • traveler, would often seek out adventure to fuel his stories and experience ... Graham Greene was the fourth born child to Charles Henry and Marion ...
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  • According to the traditional view of Thrall and Hibbard (first published ... class. They get by with wits and rarely deign to hold a job. ...
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  • from the theremin are amplified and sent to a loudspeaker. ... Abram Fedorovich Ioffe asked Theremin to come to his newly founded ...
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  • He served as Governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and as a U.S. senator ... corporations and individuals of great wealth to curb the poverty and crime ...
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  • as well as the classic 1939 live-action film. last = Twiddy | first ... and the 1902 Broadway musical prompted Baum to write thirteen additional Oz ...
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  • anti-war verse during World War I. He helped to discover another war poet, ... the human dimension, the cost of war to the combatants in both physical ...
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  • a controversial figure since then. Frontier life was often violent. Fortunes ... John Henry "Doc" Holliday was born in Griffin, Georgia, ...
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  • 10, 1985) was an American theater and film director, and theater, radio ... ===Youth and early career (1915 to 1934)=== Welles was born in 1915 ...
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  • company by production volume, in addition to the largest by sales volume ... of the automobile, General Motors has helped to shape the contemporary world ...
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  • the concept of the algorithm and helped to determine the limits of computability ... that it was possible for a computer to simulate all the processes ...
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  • the highest on earth and is often referred to culturally as the "roof ... the highest on earth and is often referred to culturally as the "roof ...
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  • Born into a poor Untouchable community he spent his life fighting ... Just a few months before he died he converted to Buddhism and sparked ...
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  • achieve importance until the British began to develop it as a military cantonment ... the demographics of the city and added to the diversity of the already ...
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  • The term plastic is applied to a wide range of synthetic and semi ... of plastic litter that is not biodegradable. To help solve these problems, ...
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  • marketed under their slogan, "Ideas for Life." Electric Industrial Co., Ltd., in 1917, to manufacture an electric plug ...
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  • accounts suggested a higher death toll of 27 to 150. The town of Rosewood was ... and their descendants all organized to sue the state for having failed ...
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  • and cultural center of the country. Due to its economic output, high standard ... research found a sarcophagus dating to the time of the Visigoth, a ...
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  • that few have equaled, and helped to raise the genre's standards ... relationships. His iconoclastic approach to these themes led to wildly ...
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