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  1. Challenge to Hollywood

    Date released
    1945
    Series name
    The March of Time 11th Year
    Issue no
    5
    NoS ID
    352260
    Story no
    1 / 1

    The March of Time synopsis: As in England, war time has brought to the U.S. cinemas a greater wave of prosperity than has ever before been experienced, but in spite of this unprecedented boom Hollywood’s...

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  2. Big Knife, The

    Director
    Robert Aldrich
    Subject
    Drama; Film studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 107 minutes), £15.99

    THE BIG KNIFE, adapted from Clifford Odets’s gripping play, is a dark, cynical probing of the film industry’s behemoth studio system. When matinee idol Charlie Castle (Jack Palance) refuses to renew his...

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  3. Life Begins at Eight-Thirty (1942 Film)

    Director
    Irving Pichel
    Producer
    Nunnally Johnson

    Feature film. Kathy (Lupino) lives in a cramped New York flat with her father Madden Thomas (Woolley), a celebrated and cynical actor brought down by drink. Lame from an early age, and feeling trapped with...

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  4. What is Women's Film History?

    Date
    7 Dec 2011, 15:26
    Author
    bufvcsergio
    Post Type
    BUFVC Article

    Women’s Film History Network-UK/Ireland is an emerging organization open to anyone committed to investigating women's film history from its early days to the recent past. About the author: Professor...

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  5. Producer, The (1966 Television)

    Series
    Gilligan’s Island
    Director
    Ida Lupino

    US sitcom about a group of seven castaways. Famous Hollywood producer Harold Hecuba, (Silvers, the guest star) arrives on the island. To impress him the castaways mount a musical version of Hamlet. The play...

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