Excellent work! Charlie Chaplin's famous character was known as Charlot in countries such as Spain, Italy, France or Portugal.
Now, let's continue with the next section: Hollywood's Golden Age
Hollywood's Golden Age
(1930 - 1960)
The first movie incorporating dialogue, was The Jazz Singer (1927). If you look at the picture, you'll notice that he is painted in black, with a white mouth. This was popular in that time to represent black people. Unfortunately, the Hollywood of that time was racist, and few black people could be actors.By the early 1930s, nearly all movies were presented with sound and by the mid-1930s many were in full colour too. The use of sound and Technicolor began the Golden Age of Hollywood in the 1930’s.
Gone With The Wind (1939) and The Wizard of Oz (1939) are the greatest films of this period. Maybe you know this song:
The Hollywood studios began to produce films which belonged to specific genres:
-Westerns: Stagecoach (1939), My Darling Clementine (1946).
-Horror films: Frankenstein (1931), Bride Of Frankenstein (1935).
-Gangster films: The Public Enemy (1931), Scarface (1932).
-Comedies: Bringing Up Baby (1938), It Happened One Night, (1934)
During the 1940's, the most important film was Orson Welles' Citizen Kane (1941). He made it when he was just twenty-six years old, (however, if you take a look at the picture, he looks older) and he also acted in it. In fact, he had the leading role. During World War II, Walt Disney produced animated films such as Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs (1937), which was the first animated film which got an Oscar (well, eight, one for Snow White and seven small ones for each of the dwarfs), Pinocchio (1940), Dumbo (1941), and Bambi (1942).
After the World War II, black and white movies became popular again. They were known as Film Noirs and included detectives, femmes fatales, and crimes. Classic Films Noirs include Billy Wilder's Double Indemnity (1944), and John Huston's The Asphalt Jungle (1950). Humphrey Bogart was the Noir detectives Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon (1941) and Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep (1946). Bogart was perhaps the biggest star of the 1940s, and also appeared in the romantic film Casablanca (1942).
The 1950s were full of science-fiction B-movies, such as The Incredible Shrinking Man (1956), and Invasion Of The Body-Snatchers (1956). There are many more examples of these films, about deadly alien invasions and monsters awakened and/or mutated.
During this decade there were also famous musicals such as Meet Me In St Louis, and, most famously, Singin' In The Rain (1952), considered the greatest musical film ever made. It was a comedy about Hollywood's transition to sound in the 1920s. I'm sure you have heard its main theme before:
Oooops!! It seems that is the wrong one! Compare it with the original version:
Alfred Hitchcock went from London to Hollywood in the 1940s and directed his most famous films during the 1950s: Rear Window (1956), and Vertigo (1958). Hitchcock's greatest film, the shocking Psycho (1960) influenced films such as Wes Craven's Scream (1996). In this photo, he is advertising his film The Birds (1963) The greatest star of the decade was undoubtedly Marilyn Monroe, perhaps the last Hollywood sex symbol. Her most famous works are Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) and Some Like It Hot (1959).
The introduction of CinemaScope (widescreen) could be seen in biblical films such as Ben-Hur (1959) and The Ten Commandments (1956).
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