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Singing In The
RainStudio & StarSystemHollywood:1930s to
1950s
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s or ca
ContextFirst steps in bursting of sound cinema United States, mid to late 20sFirst feature film presented as a talkingmovie was The Jazz Singer (1927)
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Evolution of musical genre linked to each
decades tendencies and fashion
Common factor combination of
dramatic performances + songs
Theatre vs movies?
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Singin in the Rain MGM studios creative
pinnacle, the 50s (magic of colours on screen,
sound and successful performers)
Blooming of bigger studios taking over the
Hollywood film industry
Film production and exhibition not affected by
post-war
Television competition and alternative
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The StudioSystem
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The Big FivePARAMOUNTPICTURESFounded in 1912 by Adolph Zukor
First to introduce Block Booking
Directors:
J. Von Stenberg: The Dock of NY
1928
E. Lubitsch: Trouble in Paradise
1932C. B Demille: This Day and Age 1933
Stars:
Marlene Dietrich
Cary Grant
The Marx BrothersBob Hope
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METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYERDirectors:
King Vidor: La Bohem 1926
Erich Von Stroheim: The Merry Widow 1925
Tod Browning: Freaks 1932
Victor Seastrom: The Wind 1928
Stars:
Robert Montgomery
Greta GarboJohn Gilbert
Clark Gable
Founded in 1924 when Marcus
Loew merged Loews Inc., with
Metro Pictures Corp, Goldwyn
Pictures Corp. and Louis B.
Mayer Pictures
The studio with
most importance
during the30s
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RKO PICTURESFounded in 1929 after a merge
between Keith-Albee-Orpheum
theaters (KAO) and the JosephP. Kennedys Film Booking
Offices of America (FBO)under
the management of Radio
Corporation of America (RCO).
Only produced talkiestakingadvantage of the inherited audio
technology. (R.C.A photophone)
Directors:
Orson Welles: The Magnificent Ambersons 1942
Jacques Tourneur: I walked with a zombie 1943
Merian C. Cooper: She 1935
Irving Pichel: The Most Dangerous Game 1932
Although producing numerous musicals starring Fred Astaire and
Ginger Rogers in the30s and two of the most famous films in moving
image history: King Kong (1933) and Citizen Kane (1941), RKO
Pictures was dissolved in 1957 after being bought by the General Tireand Rubber company.
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WARNERBROTHERSFounded in 1923 by the, ironically
uncreative, Warner brothers (Harry,Albert, Sam & Jack)
First studio to release a feature
lengthtalkie: The Jazz Singer
1927
Directors:
Michael Curtiz: Casablanca 1942
William Wellman: The Public Enemy
1931
Raoul Walsh: The Roaring Twenties
1939
Mervyn LeRoy: Little Caesar 1930
Stars:
Humphrey Bogart
James Cagney
Barbara Stanwyck
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20TH CENTURYFOXFounded in 1935 due to the merger
of a distribution and a productioncompany.
Famous for the production of
musicals and biographical movies.
Directors:
John Ford: Young Mr. Lincoln
1939
David Butler: The littlest Rebel
1935
Anatole Litvak: The snake Pit
1948
Stars:
Shirley Temple
Janet Gaynor
Henry FondaBetty Grable
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Star System
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During the studio era talent worked under long exclusive
contracts.
The performers were issued new clean identities on which to build
their careers were moral values were of great importance.
Movies were specifically designed for each star in which certain
genres predominated.
Stars were there for the audience to relate to. (reaction shots)
DECLINE -> Olivia de Havilland
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Singin in the Rain (1952)Awards:Best Secondary
Actress, Jean Hagen
(Nomination)
Best Original
Soundtrack
(Nomination)
Director:Stanley Donen
with Gene Kelly.
Cast:Gene KellyDonald OConnor
Debbie Reynolds
Jean Hagen
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Gene KellyGene Kelly Studio of Dancing (1932)
Broadway
Pal Joey (1940)
From For me and
my gal to Les
Girls
Hollywood: Working for MGM
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The bad and the
beautiful (1952)
The day of the Locust
(1975)
The last Tycoon (1976)