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  Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Norma Shearer
Born in Montreal, Quebec, she was one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood.
Starting as a film extra in 1920, she was already a popular star when she married MGM's second-in-command Irving Thalberg in 1927.
She has a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6636 Hollywood Blvd.
www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/no/Norma_Shearer   (199 words)

  
  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Canadian culture   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A number of Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood significantly contributed to the creation of the motion picture industry in the early days of the 20th century.
The Canadian Maritimes protrude eastward from the southern coasts of Quebec.
The use of the maple leaf as a Canadian symbol dates back to the early 18th century, and is depicted on its current and previous flags, the penny, and on the coat of arms.
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 Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Hollywood and the development of its motion picture industry owes no small part of its success to a number of Canadians.
Several of these Canadian pioneers achieved enormous wealth and worldwide fame such as Louis B. Mayer and Mary Pickford who were, in their day, the most powerful personalities in Hollywood and two individuals who are unsurpassed in their contributions to the development of the motion picture industry.
Today, many Canadians have found fame and fortune in Hollywood, but these pioneers who traveled south when Hollywood was still in its infancy made a lasting impact on the shape and future of the motion picture industry.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Canadian_pioneers_in_early_Hollywood   (1045 words)

  
 Florence Lawrence
She was one of several Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood who made their way to Hollywood, attracted by the rapid growth of the fledgling motion picture business.
During these formative years in Hollywood, silent screen actors were just faces because studio owners refused to list the names of the film's cast members, fearing that fame might lead to demands for higher wages.
D.W. During these formative years in Hollywood, silent screen actors were just faces because studio owners refused to list the names of the film's cast members, fearing that fame might lead to demands for higher wages.
www.pressarchive.net /libpa/Florence_Lawrence   (2304 words)

  
 Mary Pickford - Biography and Photo
Mary Pickford was an Academy Award-winning Canadian-born motion picture star and co-founder of United Artists, known as "America's Sweetheart," "Little Mary" and "the girl with the golden curls." She was one of the first Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood and one of film's greatest pioneers regardless of nationality or background.
And, as silent film's most important performer and producer, her contract demands were central to shaping the Hollywood industry.
Other alcoholics in the family included her first husband, Owen Moore; her mother Charlotte; and her younger siblings, Lottie and Jack.
www.canadiancontent.net /people/actors/Mary-Pickford.html   (304 words)

  
 The True North, Strong and Meek
Virtually no Canadian voice of the past is left unheard and readers are presented with a decent overview of animation beyond the National Film Board of Canada.
As an equivalent, imagine overlooking the contributions of Atom Egoyan, Denys Arcand and other Canadian filmmakers in favour of James Cameron, Jim Carrey and Pamela Anderson who, while all Canadian, have contributed nothing to the Canadian cultural landscape except for a birth certificate.
Understandably selling a book on Canadian animation to a general audience is a tough task that needs glossy pictures, an easy to read style, a loopy, "cartoony" cover, and proof that we’ve been accepted by focusing on Canadians who have made it in Hollywood.
www.awn.com /mag/issue5.01/5.01pages/robinsoncaper.php3   (881 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal
Hollywood and the development of its motion picture industry owes no small part of its success to a number of Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood.
Several of these Canadian pioneers achieved enormous wealth and worldwide fame, such as Louis B. Mayer and Mary Pickford who were, in their day, two of the most powerful personalities in Hollywood.
From the late 1920s to the mid-1930s, Canadian female actresses were amonst the greatest box office draws.
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 Allan Dwan
Allan Dwan, born Joseph Aloysius Dwan (April 3, 1885 - December 28, 1981), was a pioneering film director, producer and screenwriter.
Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, his family moved to the United States when he was 11 years of age.
Soon, a number of film companies worked there year-round and in 1911, Allan Dwan moved to Hollywood where the city’s first permanent movie studio was been built.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/al/Allan_Dwan.html   (446 words)

  
 CalendarHome.com - Charles Christie - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In Hollywood, California, they made enough money working in films to purchase a property at 6724 Hollywood Boulevard and set up their own Christie Film Company to make comedy movies.
By 1922, the brothers were so successful that they built the Christie Hotel, Hollywood's first luxury hotel featuring such extravagances as private baths.
He is interred in the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Hollywood, California.
encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Charles_Christie   (268 words)

  
  Berton, Pierre
From the late 1950s to the early 90s, he was a staple of Canadian TV as host of his own shows or as a panelist.
In turning to the WAR OF 1812 in The Invasion of Canada (1980) and Flames Across the Border (1981) Berton again dealt with events large enough to contain his heroic vision of what the past should be, and the smell of gunpowder quickened his pace without leading to narrative excesses.
Berton returned to the writing of popular history, with The Promised Land (1984), a history of the settling of the Canadian West, and his hugely successful Vimy (1986), an examination of the WWI battle in which the Canadian Corps took VIMY RIDGE in April 1917.
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0000707   (541 words)

  
 Station Information - Raymond Massey
Early in Massey's career, Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert Todd Lincoln (1843-1926), heard Massey perform and was struck by the close similarity of Massey's speaking voice to that of his father.
Despite being Canadian, Massey became famous for his quintessential American roles, as Abraham Lincoln in 1940's Abe Lincoln in Illinois (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor), in 1941's Santa Fe Trail, in which he played abolitionist John Brown, and as Lincoln again in 1962's How the West Was Won.
He rejoined the Canadian Army during World War II, and was wounded and invalided out in 1943.
www.stationinformation.com /encyclopedia/r/ra/raymond_massey.html   (344 words)

  
 PeterWatkins_Statement3
The powerful and realistic 'acting' by the young cast, the way certain expressions of bewilderment are held, the determination of the children to act for the good of others in the face of appalling odds, all work to transcend the normal application of the Monoform.
I often compare the Hollywood narrative structure to a roller-coaster, on which the feelings of the audience are carefully positioned, for a predetermined and carefully guided journey.
Hollywood film producers, and TV executives who commission documentary films, use the narrative structure for exactly the same reason: to distract, and to lead the audience by the nose.
www.mnsi.net /~pwatkins/hollywood.htm   (6579 words)

  
  CANADIAN GUN CONTROL: SHOULD THE UNITED STATES LOOK NORTH FOR A SOLUTION TO ITS FIREARMS PROBLEM?   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Also note: the endnotes contain links to Canadian firearms statutes; the on-line edition of the statute may not necessarily include the exact wording of the present statute, and the on-line edition may also be somewhat different from the section of the statute in effect in 1991.
Evaluating gun use in Canada in the early 1970s, before the new law was enacted, researchers Stenning and Moyer found that "[c]ontrary to popular belief, accidental firearms deaths are quite rare in Canada."[200] Teenage males aged fifteen to nineteen were the largest victim group.
[248] When Canadians were asked whether they would comply with a number of hypothetical laws such as a public ban on smoking, a prohibition on alcoholic beverages, firearms registration, or a handgun surrender law, they showed a much higher expectation of voluntary compliance than their southern neighbors.
www.davidkopel.com /2A/LawRev/Canadian_Gun_Control.htm   (15506 words)

  
 Muskoka Awakening - The New Era
Early pioneers began to take in lodgers and some of the more astute landowners realized that there was tourist gold at their doorstep.
A boon to the larger towns of Muskoka are the growing number of active early retirees who are selecting these towns to live in as they dispose of their large city homes and seek the peace of a country setting within a few hours of city life.
Today the seasonal property owners are moving to winterize their properties as it becomes apparent that life in Muskoka no longer ends at Thanksgiving but is transformed by a new beauty and solitude in the winter and spring.
www.traveltomuskoka.com /muskoka2.htm   (632 words)

  
 Canadian Cinema Essays| Canadian Cinema Dissertations   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Although Canadian films have often received critical praise, and the National Film Board has won more Academy Awards than almost any other institution (for both their animation and documentary work), it is almost a national joke that Canadian films fail to make back their production costs at the box office.
Most Canadians who want to make a living in television or movie work often face the inevitable choice of moving to Los Angeles in order to be near producers, directors and casting agents.
Canadian film tends to be more director-driven than star-driven, and has much more in common with the European auteur model of filmmaking than with the Hollywood star system.
www.geography.degree-essays.com /canadian-cinema-essays.html   (2635 words)

  
 Louis B. Mayer Summary
Others saw their careers cut off because of some perceived or actual slight to the great mogul.
That Mayer was widely reviled in the Hollywood of his time as a crass, cruel vulgarian does not diminish one whit from his influence on the history of film.
Although he had a reputation for ruthless expediency and allegedly narrow views about what subjects were suitable topics for motion pictures, Katharine Hepburn referred to him as a "nice man" (she personally negotiated many of her contracts with him).
www.bookrags.com /Louis_B._Mayer   (2864 words)

  
 Conventions of Sound in Documentary
Hollywood directors shoot individual shots one at a time under optimal conditions, while documentary filmmakers often shoot entire scenes in one long take in unpredictable situations.
Hollywood studios developed elaborate means of maintaining continuity through supervision of scripts, props, lighting, performance, and shooting style, means typically unavailable to documentary filmmakers.
That was the other time that we wrenched the convention of not telling you, was by telling you up front that she was driving down to speak to her brother to tell about the divorce.
www.dartmouth.edu /~jruoff/Articles/ConventionsofSound.htm   (7013 words)

  
 Aviation Pioneers -- Aviation: From Sand Dunes to Sonic Booms: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
While Earhart, Hughes, and others pushed themselves and their airplanes to their limits in pursuit of trans-global records, other intrepid aviators were testing their own limitations while exploring the harshest and most remote areas of the world, the polar regions.
As aviators were exploring the most extreme reaches of the Earth during the 1920s and 1930s and setting records in the process, other pilots were establishing their own series of records at the major air racing trophy contests of the period.
Aviation pioneers of the later 20th century: Chuck Yeager and the X-1 research airplane that broke the sound barrier and the Voyager, below, returning from her around the world flight, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager (no relation).
www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/aviation/pioneers.htm   (3170 words)

  
 The Canadian Blog Exchange - History::Cultures and Places
Canadians are not generally regarded as a people attached to their heritage, so the opportunity to dust off pieces of Canadian history is there for us to discover.
While going through the list of Canadian names on various web sites dedicated to the silent film era, the one thing that caught my attention was how this presence and influence seemed disproportionate to Canada's tiny population, which grew from 7 million in 1910 to 10 million in 1930.
Hollywood Boulevard could have been any Main Street in America." With this, Hollywood was hardly a romantic and opulent place in its infancy.
canconv.boundbygravity.com /ViewCategory.php?cat=144   (1731 words)

  
 Film - Film-Flam
Early motion pictures were static shots that showed an event or action with no editing or other cinematic techniques.
New Hollywood, French New Wave and the rise of film school educated, independent filmmakers were all part of the changes the medium experienced in the latter half of the 20th Century.
Other regional centers exist in many parts of the world, and the Indian film industry (primarily centered around "Bollywood") annually produces the largest number of films in the world.
www.film-flam.com /wiki/index.php?title=Film   (3607 words)

  
 Mary Pickford: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
Mary Pickford (April 8, 1892 - May 29, 1979) was a motion picture star, known as "America's Sweetheart" and "the girl with the curl." She became one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood.
Mary Pickford died on May 29, 1979 holding dual U.S./Canadian citizenship and is buried in the Garden of Memory of the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, California, USA.
She has a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6280 Hollywood Blvd.
www.encyclopedian.com /ma/MaryPickford.html   (552 words)

  
 Canadian Culture in Canada
One bone of contention in the effort to understand Canadian culture revolves around the fact that Canada is bilingual; there is little reason to question the distinct identity of the English- and French-speaking peoples of Canada.
A good number of Canadian pioneers in the early Hollywood days contributed significantly to the establishment of the movie industry in the early days of the 20th century.
According to Nationmaster.com, "Canadians are stereotyped by other nationalities as being nice, but rather dull-'decaffeinated Americans' being one description, while the definition of a Canadian as 'an American with healthcare and no gun' is another.
www.softlandings.com /canada/canadian-culture.php   (464 words)

  
 CalendarHome.com - Joe De Grasse - Calendar Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Born in Bathurst, New Brunswick, he was the elder brother of actor Sam De Grasse.
In 1910, he acted in his first motion picture and although he would appear as an actor in 13 films, and write 2 screenplays, his real interest was in directing.
While working in Hollywood for Universal Pictures, Joe De Grasse met and married one of the few female directors working at the time, Ida May Park (1879-1954).
encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Joe_De_Grasse   (233 words)

  
 TigersUnited.com
Our goal is to "Unite" the Tiger enthusiasts, and their organizations not only form our local western groups, but from the US and the world.
Reportedly convinced the factory that his Le Mans race prepared engines should be a 260 cid, not the 289 he used in his own Le Mans cars.
Key racer of early Tiger victories, but never fond of it's handling.
tigersunited.com /history/pioneers.asp   (903 words)

  
 Berton Churchill
In 1919 he was in charge of the New York headquarters during the Equity strike in which fellow Canadian and friend, actress Marie Dressler assumed a major part with him that led to her being fllisted by the producers.
There, his powerful stage voice and commanding presence landed him numerous supporting roles, usually as the stern or pompous character with such roles as a banker, a State Governor, or a land baron.
His body was returned to the west coast to be interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California.
www.ftppro.com /library/Berton_Churchill   (930 words)

  
 Canadian Culture in Canada
Over the years, many Canadians have made enormous contributions to the American entertainment industry, although they are most often not recognised as Canadians.
According to Nationmaster.com, "Canadians are stereotyped by other nationalities as being nice, but rather dull-'decaffeinated Americans' being one description, while the definition of a Canadian as 'an American with healthcare and no gun' is another.
A Canadian politician remarked that Canada was supposed to have British government, French culture and American know-how, but instead ended up with French government, American culture and British know-how.
canada.softlandings.com /canadian-culture.php   (464 words)

  
 Norma Shearer
She was one of the Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood.
Starting as a film extra in 1920, she was already a popular star in 1927 when she married MGM's second-in-command Irving Thalberg, with whom she had two children.
She has a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6636 Hollywood Boulevard, and is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, in a crypt emblazoned with the name "Norma Arrouge," next to film star Jean Harlow.
www.ftppro.com /library/Norma_Shearer   (561 words)

  
 Hollywood Advantageous   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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