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Tag Archives: Entertainment industry
David Brown and Steven Spielberg: Through Thick and Thin
Film producer David Brown (1916-2010) began his career in 1951 heading the story department at Twentieth Century Fox. His success began early through his involvement with The Robe, an American Biblical epic film that received an Oscar nomination for Best … Continue reading
Carl Stalling, Music Animator
A chance meeting in the early 1920s at a Missouri movie theater led to some of the most beloved cartoons ever created. Carl Stalling was improvising on the organ while accompanying a silent film. A young Walt Disney was in … Continue reading
Posted in cartoons, Composers, Film Music, motion picture history, music, Pop Culture, popular culture, television history, Uncategorized
Tagged Animated Films, Carl Stalling, Cartoon Scoring, Entertainment industry, Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies, movie history, Music Scores, popular culture, Silly Symphonies
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Mary O’Hara: “My Heart is in Wyoming”
Could successful screenwriter and socialite Mary O’Hara exchange her glitzy lifestyle for that of a Wyoming ranch wife? Her friends didn’t think so. But by 1930 Mary had hit her mid-forties and was fed up with her gilded life. She … Continue reading
Posted in Authors and literature, Biography and profiles, Children's literature, Local history, motion picture history, popular culture, Uncategorized, Western history, women's history, writers and poets, Wyoming history
Tagged Entertainment industry, Film Adaptations, Green Grass of Wyoming, Mary O'Hara, My Friend Flicka, popular culture, Screenwriter, Thunderhead
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Terror in the Theater – Fifties Fears
Science fiction films of the 1950s commonly expressed several themes: fear of technology leading to unintended consequences; invasion of the planet by aliens; and the effects of atomic radiation. Because science fiction movies were not constrained by reality, more imaginative … Continue reading
Posted in Cold War, Fantasy, Horror, motion picture history, Politics, Pop Culture, popular culture, science fiction, Uncategorized
Tagged Cold War, Entertainment industry, film history, Forrest Ackerman, Forrest J. Ackerman, movie posters, popular culture, science fiction, science fiction movie
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Documenting Women’s Roles in Hollywood
Film and television entertains us all and are significant to American culture. Whether through comedy, drama, or music, perspectives of our culture can be studied by observing what entertained us in the past. The American Heritage Center’s vast entertainment collections … Continue reading
Living the Reel Life: The Journey of Child Actor Dick Moore
Born John Richard Moore, Jr., “Dickie” made his silver screen debut at eleven months old when he portrayed the infant Francois Villon (fifteenth-century poet and scoundrel) in the silent film The Beloved Rogue (1927). Cast for his resemblance to the … Continue reading
Television Magic: Exploring the Work of Robert Wynn
Robert (a.k.a. Bob) Wynn produced and directed more than 60 television shows and specials from the 1960s to the 1990s. Born in 1932 in St. Louis, Missouri, Wynn began his career as a radio broadcaster in the 1950s. He was … Continue reading
Rapid Rewind: Three Quick Picks from The Art Linkletter Show
Step into the TV time machine with us as we uncover a few fun scripts and sketches from The Art Linkletter Show. You know, the one with the sneaky candid camera moments and the panel of judges making wild guesses. … Continue reading