Search results for "The Lost World (1925 film)" - New World Encyclopedia
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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
