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The Kid:
-Director would keep the camera off for days or weeks until he came up with the next idea.
-Coogan became child star for the next decade of silent film after the kid, last appearance was as uncle fester.
-Robert Downey Jr played Charlie Chaplin in a remake.
-Charlie Chaplin had problems with womanizing and adultery.
-Marx brother born in new York city late 19th century. Became famous in 1920s.
-Groucho known for Greece paint moustache and eyebrows and his whit.
Duck Soup:-Morrow (English) and Hardy (American) started as silent comedians, one of the rare duos that made it from silent to sound.
Casablanca:-Best years of our lives won best picture, about a movie where someone loses his arm
-From here to eternity
-The great dictator
-Humphrey bogart and Michael courtiz (mad Hungarian) director. Ingred Burgman was the girl, notice how they look at his eyes.
-Humphrey bogart won an academy award for the African Queen.
-He died of cancer in 1957, a lot of smoking in these older movies.
-Based on a never produced play called everyone comes to Ricks.
-Everything in the film is a studio picture nothing was acc shot in Casablanca.
-A lot of European people immigrated to the US to film this movie during the war and this was their way out.
-Greatest romantic drama ever made.
-Film was shot in sequence, almost creating the movie as they went along.
-Julius, the pianist plays “as time goes by” became iconic because of the movie.
-Producer was Harold Wallis, brought Elvis Presley to Hollywood.
-It was the highest grossing film in 1942.
-Leonard called it the best Hollywood movie of all time.
White heat:-Raul walsh started as a silent actor, directed white heat
-Raul left his home at 15 when his mother died, by accident landed in show business because he could write books.
-For 50 years Walsh made movies of Irish fantasies, his heroes like him had no education.
-Walsh’s heroes incarnate the miseries of first generation Irish Americans like himself. He liked to see his characters fight from the bottom
-Cagney who was Irish catholic survived on the streets when he was young, he grew up with people in his youth who he emulated in movies.
-He became a stage actor much to his dislike because he got nervous.
-He was in a play that got sold to warner brothers called sinners holiday with one condition they had to keep Cagney and his partner.
-Scene in public enemy where he takes a grapefruit and shoves it in his gf face.
-His true love was song and dance, featured in yankee doodle dandy, won an academy award for best actor.
-Film making was putting bread on the table.
-Plays Cody Jarett in white heat, he added the headaches for the character and motherly side.
-When it came out it was considered extremely violent.
-End of the great warner brothers gangster era, did go outside confines of studio into LA.
-Cagney came out of retirement after 25 years to film Rag time.
Double Indemnity:-Classic period 1941-1958
-4 different things, during war and post war society changed most young men were drafted and society wasn’t beautiful it was corrupt, films started going into realistic areas as supposed to staying in the studio, Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang all German directors came from Germany when Hitler took over and had expressionistic background.
-Film was very different style to Hollywood, people in deep focus and high contrast lighting, lots of mirror work.
-No happy ending.
-lots of first person narrative and flashbacks, psychological conflict, bleak endings.
-Fem fetal
-James M Kane who wrote this also wote a book called the postman.
-Directed by Billy Wilder who wanted to be better than Alfred Hitchcock.
-Frtiz Lang wrote the women in the window.
-French discovered film noire in 1945 by Nino Frank
-Chandler who was a screen write was an alcoholic.
-Barbara Stanwick was the highest payed actor at the time, didn’t want to do the movie but she was convinced.
-Edward G Robinson nominated for best supporting actress.
True Grit:-Western was the golden age for Hollywood but not for non-white actors.
-Good guys wear white hat and bad black, racist
-King of western genre in westerns was John Forn, won most of his Oscars for non-western movies.
-Gene Audrey and Roy Rogers were in singing westerns.
-One studio in Hollywood that churned out westerns was republic pictures, B films therefore low budget, usually in black and white.
-Serial westerns such as lone ranger.
-Westerns came into their own in 1939, spaghetti westerns made in Italy.
-Gun smoke and bananza longest running tv shows in history
-Westerns tried to glamorise the life of westerns in the US
-The man who shot liberty, john forn loved shooting his films in moument valley Utah.
-One star synonymous with war and western movies was John Wayne. Born in Iowa went to USC to play football.
-Big break in stage coach in 1939.
-Flying tigers was his first war film
-A lot of big stars left the studio to fight in the war.
-Wayne was subject of some twitter hate because in 1971 playboy magazine he came across as a white supremacist.
-True Grit adapted from a novel, Wayne was uncomfortable wearing an eyepatch for the movie (he could see through the patch).
-Shot in mostly Colorado
-Directed by Henry Hathaway, directed a lot of movie with Jerry Cooper and John Wayne.
-Wayne won best actor for true grit
-Barbara strisen won academy award same year.