Hollywood in its "Golden Age"
There was once a time in Hollywood when the stars were truly "larger than life" both on the screen and off. An era where the greatest dramas, comedies, and tragedies were best performed behind the scenes. It is a time when the studios controlled all of Hollywood. The "Golden Era" is when the faces on screen became icons. This was the "Golden Era" of Hollywood and it is best lived through The MGM Story by John Douglas, Hollywood Hoopla by Robert Sennet, When the Stars went to War by Roy Hopes and Merchant of Dreams by Charles Higham. These four books are the ones that help to provide facts and not tales on how the Hollywood before was really all about. Hollywood itself began with a man named D.W. Griffith. He created a Hollywood masterpiece in 1915 with Hollywood's first motion picture, "The Birth of a Nation." This movie completely stunned audiences around the world and assisted in created a completely new world: The world of Motion Pictures. "The Birth of Nation," as described in Merchant of Dreams stated that the film helped to establish the Motion Pictures Industry as an art form for the world. (Higham, "Merchant of Dreams," 12) With the emergence of Motion Pictures, five major studios:
Still, these few stars truly made Hollywood "Golden. This involved testing 1,400 unknowns and half of the actresses in Hollywood. The once stars of the 30's and 40's seem to be loosing touch with the post-war audience. what he remembers the most of WWII and it is likely he will remember Veronica Lake's peek-a-boo bang, Betty Grable's fanny, Marlene Dietrich's legs, Lana Turner's sweater or June Allyson's girl next-door persona. New actors and actresses began to emerge such as, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Grace Kelly, Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Kim Novak, Elizabeth Taylor, and Marlon Brando. Twentieth Century Fox, MGM, Paramount, RKO, and Warner Brothers would in little time come to own Hollywood and combined, help to create the "Golden Era. She was married to the "King of Hollywood" Clark Gable and they were known as America's favorite couple. ' "Well, I thought to myself, Orson's done it again. puts it, " Somehow it's better to be fighting for Lana Turner than it is to be fighting the Nazis. Selznick decided it was best that the public choose the two movie stars that they wanted to play Rhett Butler and Scarlet O'Hara. Monroe became the most famous international sex symbol of the 20th Century. By 1927, even though silent films had created a new medium for entertainment.
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