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obstacles at every turn, regardless of whether they were from the environment, animals, or people. This wonderful story captured the hearts and minds of its readers from the book’s publishing in 1900 up until today. This universal appeal prompted Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) to create a movie version…

Francis Scott Fitzgerald Francis Scott Fitzgerald is a famous writer who was born in the 1890’s and became famous during the 1920s, but lived a terrible life after his popularity wore off and The Great Depression hit. Fitzgerald was born on September 24th of 1896, in Saint Paul, California. He had Irish blood in him, but he was born an American. F. Scott Fitzgerald was a writer of his own time, his career followed the pattern of his nation, booming in the 1920s but dying out once The Great…

Elizabeth Taylor: The Woman Who Had A Passion For Life Most people know her for her “violet eyes”, or her eight marriages, yet don’t take the time to appreciate her contribution and inspiration to more than just young women. In Elizabeth Taylor’s 60 year career, she was able to attract many people’s attention and become an inspiration to a countless number of people through having starred in over 50 films, having been a nominee of five Academy Awards for Best Actress and awarded two, and…

Grace Kelly: An Iconic Actress Acting her way through her success, Grace Kelly, an American actress, caught her audience’s attention with her direct symbol of excitement in the film The Country Girl (Gevinson 659). She was known for all the shows she was in. Kelly changed the acting communities by her various performances and created the iconic characters that she was known for. After retiring her profession, she continued to help America through her fame. Grace Kelly, a talented American…

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced the American musical fantasy film, The Wizard of Oz in 1939. Victor Fleming directed The Wizard of Oz, and was the first to direct a film with Technicolor using a 3-strip color process. All movies at this time were filmed in black and white, so The Wizard of Oz was a sure crowd pleaser because of its color experience. It was said that the commercial for The Wizard of Oz was shown in black in white, so that moviegoers could experience the first ever color movie with a…

I then turned to address Grandpa. “Anyways, having spent time with Mom and Dad in several hotels during the early part of my childhood, I remember the food wasn’t exactly cheap. Could the same get said for your Savoy dinner?” Grandpa replied that—provided he recalled the price—it cost over twenty dollars, which was a fortune back then. That may not seem like much today, even to the average American worker, but converted for 2009 inflation that one meal would have cost $165.03. Ouch. “What…

Before the 1940s, Hollywood and the Studio System, was one that carried the American Film Industry to new heights and brought on different visions from aspiring filmmakers and film companies. What was once just a convenient place to escape the grasp and control of The Trust, became the place to be during the 1920s. Hollywood was thriving with the system it created. The Big Five film companies created movies that made those years the Golden Age of Hollywood. But of course a system that gave the…

Block (1910 -1986) and Allen Adler (1916 - 1964) wrote the story for Forbidden Planet. “They came up with the idea for something called Fatal Planet as a potential project for one of the B-movie studios” (TCM). Once the idea was pitched to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), they instantly realized the film’s potential went beyond the B-movie variety, “to everybody’s surprise, the studio decided to make this their first science fiction film and budgeted the film at $1 million, later expanding it to…

Legally Blonde (Kidney, Platt & Luketic, 2001) follows a young woman, Elle Woods as she tries to win her boyfriend back. When we meet Elle, she is a sorority girl who recently graduated with a 4.0 QCA in fashion. She believes her boyfriend; Warner Huntington III is going to purpose. Unfortunately, he breaks up with her as he doesn’t think she is appropriate for his lifestyle when he’s tries to pursue his political goals. In order to try and prove to Warner she is intelligent enough, she enrols…

Who doesn’t enjoy a nice party? Weather it’s a gathering of you and your close friends or the biggest house party you can only experience in theaters. Now picture yourself in the “Roaring Twenties”. Imagine luxurious mansions, hollow bottles of alcohol spread all around the side tables. Smoking, flirting, being drunk, letting go, this was the “Roaring Twenties”. The Roaring Twenties began in 1920’s. Three components made up this decade: Alcohol Prohibition, Flappers, and the Jazz Age. Each…