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the movies belonged to the biggest studios in Hollywood that made them (Classic Hollywood Central Editors, 2011). The ‘Big Five’ created the studio system to ensure they made the most profit. The ‘Big Five’ consisted of 20th Century Fox, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Paramount, Warner Bros., and RKO Radio. There were three smaller studios close behind: Universal, Columbia, and United Artists (the Little Three). One of the ways the ‘Big Five’ made a lot of profit was through block booking. Block…

similar to his. Feuding families to having a “Friar” or some type, a lot of the story from Masuccio really falls in place as Shakespeare. The place where Juliet is buried was not famous until a movie titled Romeo and Juliet made by Metro Goldwyn Mayer,…

WW I she worked as a nurse and continued to write. Finally she had a published novel in 1939 titled “Promise of Love” which was based on her nursing experiences. Her next novel “Return to Night” about a talented doctor, won her the $150,000 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Prize.…

market factors,” by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, oligopoly has been the driving force of the American Motion Picture Industry since as early as the 1920s. Dominating the industry was the “Big Five”: Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox (Fox), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Warner Bros, and Radio Keith Orpheum (R.K.O. Pictures). Together with the “Little Three”: Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures and United Artists, they successfully reigned the industry, producing 90% of American Film…

Leading up until the 1940’s during the Golden Age of Hollywood, the studio system ruled the film industry. The big studios such as Paramount, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, and RKO Radio Pictures owned their own theaters and controlled what was played at them. However due to many reasons, both the Golden Age of Hollywood and the studio system would come to an end. In 1948, the US Supreme Court issued a decision in the U.S. vs. Paramount Pictures antitrust lawsuit.…

The Paramount decision and the Hollywood blacklist were two pivotal events that were a product of the Golden Age of Hollywood. Both of these episodes had the ability to redirect the course of film making within Hollywood and the United States. In many ways, both of these events are cornerstone contributions that changed the course of filmmaking. The Paramount decision, also known as United States v. Paramount Pictures, was a landmark decision made by the supreme court. The court came to the…

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 more than two dozen films, including nine with Mickey Rooney and her most iconic role as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (1939). Other notable credits at MGM included Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), The Harvey…

She hit it big with her first on-screen appearance in George White's 1936 Scandals and from then on went to dance in an abundance of Hollywood movies. Although she was unsure to the idea of performing on the silver screen, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer accepted her unreasonable salary demands and so she accepted their contract. This was to the benefit of the both of them, as in the late 1930s MGM was going bankrupt, but Eleanor Powell's films (such as Broadway Melody of 1936) were so profitable…

sisters were Suzanne Gumm and the other sister was Mary Jane Gumm. Garland began performing at age of two. She performed dance acts with her sisters.They were known as the Gumm sisters. In 1936 at age of thirteen, Judy signed a contract to Metro-Goldwyn Mayer (MGM). Later that year, Garland appeared in “Pigskin Parade,” as the girl next door. This was the start of a big thing. Garland did many more musicals. In 1937 she did Broadways of Melody”as Betty Clayton. In 1939, she did the “Wizard of…

The movie Shaft (1971) directed by the Afro American director Gordon Parks and produced by the MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) a Hollywood production society. This movie exposes “a private detective who challenged the traditional, white-dominated New York police system” (Rhines, 1996, p44). This movie grossed $11 million at the box office with an initial budget of…