American actors

I went and saw the play “Charoloett’s Webb” on Saturday at 2:00 P.M. In my opinion, the play was spectacular. To start off evalulating the play, I want to ask three questions: What were the performers trying to accomplish, how well did they accomplish their goal, and was it worth doing? I think that the performers were trying to accomplish portraying the characters in the book appropriatly. I think that the spider,(Charolette) the rat, (Templeton) Fern(Wilbur’s friend) her brother Avery, and all…

Dear Mr.Cranston, the movie trumbo is an exciting and thrilling film. Before seeing the film I knew little on the McCarthy era or the Hollywood 10. The film perfectly conveyed the ideals of each party down to the effects on their families and careers. Not only does the film express the oppression faced by the hollywood 10 but, it also relates to many instances such as the crucible that we will be researching soon. Each character embodies different traits that are accompanied with the trials. The…

Congratulations to Viola Davis for being the first ever African American woman to receive 3 Oscars Nominations. Viola Davis is nominated for “Best Supporting Actress”, “Best Picture”, and “Adapted Screenplay” for her hit movie “Fences” starring Denzel Washington. The film Fences, which was directed by Denzel Washington was adapted from the 1983 play by August Washington, focuses in on the experiences of Troy and Rose Maxon in Pittsburg during the 1950’s. "Thank you to the Academy for…

The movie, The Hound of the Baskervilles, directed by David Attwood included renditions that made the feature more dramatic than the novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Both depictions are very similar, but are different in multiple ways. These differences, in my perspective, make the movie more dramatic and action filled. These traits make the movie more enjoyable to me. Attwood includes many developments that make the movie more thrilling than the novel. In my opinion, the novel Hound…

The movie got a Best Picture nomination. The next year Capra worked with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert on the comedy “It Happened One Night”. The movie received five Oscars – Best Director, Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Actress. Capra went on to win a second Oscar for Best Director for the movie “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town” starring Gary Cooper in 1936. In 1938 he got a third Best Director Oscar for “You Can’t Take It With You” starring James Stewart, Jean Arthur…

Bubble, Melancholia, and Whitey were all released in day-and-date format, but that is not their only point of similarity. To begin, Bubble and Whitey both lack star studded casts. For Bubble this choice was likely made for two reasons; amateur actors gave a more authentic feel to the town about a small town, and it was an experimental film that did not need to specifically do well. Soderbergh had already been promised a contract for several additional films no matter the outcome of the first.…

The Maltese Falcon is the first movie directed by John Huston who in his illustrious career was nominated for 15 Oscars. The beauty of the film is that there is not a single waste line nor a single waste shot nor a single waste performance. Everything is so perfect & each character is very well developed. I felt Huston has filtered the movie like water, over & over, until it became so perfect. The performances in the movie were of the highest order. Brigid O'Shaughnessy is not your typical…

Edward Scissorhands is a romantic dark fantasy film about an inventor who creates an artificial man called Edward. The inventor sadly dies before he finished making Edward, leaving him with scissors for hands. Edward is later found by Peg Boggs who takes him in to her suburban family. He soon falls in love with Peg’s teenage daughter, but little does he know that this would cause so much drama and upset for himself and the people he became to love. The film was made in 1990 by the director Tim…

Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American singer, actress, and vaudevillian. She was renowned for her contralto vocals[1][2] and attained international stardom that continued throughout a career spanning more than 40 years as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist, and on concert stages.[1] Garland began performing in vaudeville with her two older sisters and was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a teenager. There, she made…

cost six pence. Actors had a severely limited amount of time to prepare their parts, resulting in them using “standardized” acting. During the Elizabethan era players were considered social outcasts. Acting was not considered a socially acceptable profession and the establishment found play watching unproductive (Gurr). At the time playwrights could be jailed if their plays were too controversial in nature. Women were not allowed to be actors at the time, thought the first female actor took to…