Douglas Fairbanks

“Best to remember Mary Pickford as her fans did: Part Eve, part angel, total evangelist for the blooming art of cinema.” Based on the quote by Richard Corliss, Mary Pickford was said to be a natural actress for all types of acting and an admiration to all who have watched her preform over the years. Since Mary Pickford was one of the very first stars of early cinema, she helped show people what movies can really bring to people and that they are not just a simple fad that will go out of style…

companies they did not have their own theaters. United Artist was considered a studio though it mainly focused on the distribution. United Artist was founded in 1919 by such names as Charlie Chaplin (comedy star), Mary Pickford and her husband Douglas Fairbanks(the popular film stars) and D.W Griffith the director. They were the leading filmmakers of their era. The company also handled the distributions of the films. United Artist was the first major production studio to be controlled by the…

Ray Douglas Bradbury was a novelist, short story writer, essayist, poet, playwright, lecturer, visionary, and screenwriter. In August 22, 1920, he was born in Waukegan, Illinois, United States. His father, Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, was a lineman for telephone and power utilities as well as a technician; His mother, Esther Marie Moberg Bradbury (nee Moberg) was a swedish immigrant. Ray Bradbury was the third son of the family (Shelokhonov). His middle name, Douglas, was given to him by his…

Movies were America’s form of visual entertainment before the invention of TV. Today, movies are seen as a lucrative and popular media industry. However, movies make less money than newspapers, television, and publishing. They are expensive, and they do not promise a return of profit. The technology behind movies had a long evolution. It first started with the invention of the photographic gun camera. This camera was used by Etienne- Jules Marey and Edward Muybridge. These men worked on…

explaining history, and that relativism ends up removing any sense to criticizing culture at all. In terms of grand theories, Bottomore points to postmodern historians construct difficult language or jargon in their attempt to explain and construct the narratives in history (8), all of which service a singular conception of history based on a theoretical framework. This singular conception derived from one supposedly valid interpretation is so pervasive in the construction of history that…

Year 1928 and 1929 were important years for Los Angeles born Chinese actress Anna May Wong. News reports about her Hollywood movies were decreased, instead, according to an American gossip columnist visiting Europe during Wong’s tenure, she was “acclaimed by nobility” in several European newspapers (Petersen, 2014). Severely limited by the noxious roles she was offered in Hollywood, which misrepresented Asian women, Wong left United States to Europe (Vechten, 2003). She then spent two years in…

Sir Charlie Chaplin was a great actor and film producer during his time, and one of the all time greatest. Hannah and Charles Chaplin got married and had two kids. One was named Charlie and one named Sydney, Sydney was older than Charlie. [1]Charlie Chaplin was born in London, England, April 16th, 1889. He lived his life like a normal kid, but one day when he was ten tragedy struck. Charlie’s father straight up ditched them and provided no more support for the Chaplin family anymore. One day…

Louis Vuitton, French entrepreneur and fashion designer, was born on August 4th, 1821 in Anchay, Jura, France. Vuitton descended from a working-class family of joiners, carpenters, farmers and milliners (Bio.com). At the age of 10, his mother died and his father remarried. According to bibliography.com, “Vuitton’s new stepmother was as severe and wicked as any fairy-tale Cinderella villain. A stubborn and headstrong child, antagonized by his stepmother and bored by the provincial life in Anchay,…

The 1920’s saw a big boom in the entertainment industry. After World War 1 many Americans had money to blow and turned to entertainment as a way to spend their extra cash. Music, movies, radios, plays, and sports all became popular forms of mass entertainment during this time period. Music was a big part of the Roaring Twenties. In fact, the Roaring Twenties is also known as the Jazz Age. Jazz became big after New Orleans closed its ports and most musicians had to move north to find work.…

“The soul that is within me no man can degrade” –Frederick Douglass. The statement by Frederick Douglass shows off the type of man he was, who believed that no matter the pain, torture, and mistreatment it is important to continue with your beliefs and strive to make equality reign. Slavery, a main cause for discrimination, was one of the elements that Douglass fought against during his lifetime. Within the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, the author, Frederick Douglass explains his…