Claudette Colbert

Jon Stewart is a comedian who worked on The Daily Show, which recently ended, and others. In the Daily Show, a lot of work, research, and other things had to be done before the show aired each night. That required a whole team to help with the many tasks. Jon Stewart appears to be a nice and humorous person on the television, but he is not the same towards his writers and other staff. He has a low temper, and sometimes takes it out on them. “A staffer recalls the time when Stewart’s temper got…

Natalie Stroud and Ashley Muddiman conduct an experiment on the public’s selection of political news, evaluating the influences of satirical and serious news on people’s partisan views. Stroud and Muddiman argue that the tendency for citizens to obtain and select political information agreeing with their predispositions has been widely demonstrated. The experiment examines if exposure to satirical news affects partisan tolerance compared with serious news. The results of the experiment…

“By the beginning of its second season, Saturday Night Live was the talk of television, a national sensation both hot and cool, and the first hit any network ever had at eleven-thirty on Saturday night” (Shales, Miller, 95). From young adults to the senile, Saturday Night Live has had people laughing for nearly forty-one years! This weekly show will go down in television history as one of the most iconic productions of the twentieth and twenty-first century. With every great show comes a great…

Thursday at 11:30pm, The Colbert Report, a television show, is a satire news show that displays an easier to understand form of news. The Colbert Report is a parody of the news show The O’Reilly Factor which takes on current controversial political issues. The star of The Colbert Report is Stephen Colbert. He plays a character on the show who is silly and sarcastic. The Colbert Report makes its viewers act, makes them think, and entertains them. The viewers of The Colbert Report want to act…

mercantilism to increase the nation export and Russia try to westernized their nation to be like those in Europe. France biggest problem during the rule of Louis XIV is financial problem due to all the war the monarch wage. Louis assign Jean-Baptiste Colbert for the job and he shown he was the right man because under his leadership as secretary of financial France was able to be self sufficient and have better communication after the build of…

Following the introduction of sound in the late 1920’s, the film industry flourished, and multiple genres took their place in the forefront of the industry, including gangster, horror, and western films (Dixon & Foster 90-91). One genre of film that started in the early 1930s and became popular until the late 1940s was the “screwball comedy”, which contained elements consisting of comedy and romance (Dixon & Foster 99-100). It was “characterized by social satire, comedic relief through zany,…

Erika L. Doss’ article “Images of American Women in the 1930s: Reginald Marsh and Paramount Picture” discusses the stark dissimilarity between the lives and characters of women in Hollywood films and American women struggling through the Great Depression. Reginald Marsh’s painting Paramount Picture illustrates the stark disparity between the depictions of women in movies and in real life during the Great Depression. The women in the films of the 1930s were portrayed as unattainably perfect women…

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…

One of the significant values of genre in film is that genre, as Dr. Casper has noted, is used to “sugarcoat the pill” of challenges in human life, and the romantic comedy genre follows this value (Casper, 260). Comedy, as a whole, reveals the “fragmentation of man” in a digestible, enjoyable manner for audiences. Romantic comedies, specifically, reveal the fragmentation of each partner in a relationship and the fragmentation of the relationship. Throughout the history of film, romantic comedies…

Hopwood). Capra turned to work and became a workaholic in order to cope with the tragedy. His wife turned to drinking. During the production of “Long Pants”, Capra had a conflict with Langdon. The screenwriter, Arthur Ripley, had a “dark sensibility that did not mesh well with that of the more optimistic Capra, and Harry Langdon usually sided with Ripley” (Jon C. Hopwood). The picture fell behind schedule and went over budget and since Langdon was paid a fixed fee for each film, it represented a…