Lamour’s onscreen popularity skyrocketed during the 1940s, when she starred alongside Bing Crosby and Bob Hope in the Road to … comedy series. Lamour starred in dozens of pictures and has not one, but two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contributions to both radio and cinema.
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Why Watch It? Lamour is one of those classic movie stars who made a big impact on the industry, but who, for some reason, has been since overshadowed by the Joan Crawfords and Bette Davises. Shortly after their nuptials, the couple’s marriage is tested when Skid runs into an old fling, Anita Alvarez, played by Dorothy Lamour. Swing High, Swing Low (1937): This romance, directed by Mitchell Leisen - Hold Back the Dawn (1941) and To Each His Own (1946) - stars Carol Lombard as singer Maggie King and Fred MacMurray as musician Skid Johnson. The “You’re All the World to Me” solo, where he literally dances off the walls, is one of Astaire’s most famous routines. Why Watch It? While Astaire was most often partnered with all-time babe Ginger Rogers, he made several musicals with other leading ladies like Rita Hayworth, Cyd Charisse, and Powell. But their plans take a detour when Ellen meets Lord John Brindale (Peter Lawford) and Tom meets Anne (Sarah Churchill). Royal Wedding (1951): Fred Astaire and Jane Powell star as siblings Tom and Ellen Brown, who have a hit Broadway show that ends up getting booked in London amid the festivities of Princess Elizabeth’s upcoming wedding. Her next film would be Singin’ in the Rain (1952). Imperium isn’t the most notable Technicolor film - it lost more than $1 million the box office - it has an all-star cast, including a young Debbie Reynolds. He travels to California to rekindle their romance - only for his duties to get in the way once more. Years pass, and while the prince tends to his father, Frederica becomes a movie star. Oh, and his father is gravely ill, and he must leave at once. Imperium confesses that he’s a - wait for it - European crown prince. The two strike up a romance that’s put on pause when Mr. Imperium (1951): Frederica Brown, played by blonde bombshell Lana Turner, is vacationing at an Italian resort when she not-so-accidentally stumbles into a man who calls himself Mr. That is, until she was cast in Till the Clouds Roll By. Her performance as a scheming cockney maid both earned her an Academy Award nomination and caused her to be typecast in subsequent films because of the financial success she brought MGM. Why Watch It? Dame Angela Lansbury - or Jessica Fletcher, for Murder, She Wrote fans - began her career at the age of 17 while filming the 1944 psychological thriller Gaslight, starring Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, and Joseph Cotton. The story follows a fictionalized Kern (Walker) as he looks back on the early stages of his prominent Broadway career. Till the Clouds Roll By (1946): Based on the life of composer Jerome Kern, Till the Clouds Roll By is a rip-roaring musical starring Judy Garland, Robert Walker, Lena Horne, and Frank Sinatra, just to name a few. To help get you started, here are 30 classic films available, divided by genre. It’s as simple as hitting YouTube and searching a movie’s title. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (1968). But studios during the Golden Age were focused on profit, not preservation, making it easy to lose track of renewal deadlines - meaning many of those forgotten films fell into the public domain.īottom line: The public domain remains one of the most easily accessible - and most underused - resources available for watching silent films, Golden Age hits, and even 1960 horror classics like Francis Ford Coppola’s Dementia 13 (1963) and George A. If properly printed, the copyright lasted for 28 years before it needed be renewed, assuring that the film would remain property of whatever studio owned it. finally signed the Berne Convention Implementation Act, all films distributed after 1909 were required to provide a registered copyright. But not for the United States, which refused to take part in the convention for over 100 years, because it required too many significant changes to their moral rights and copyright formalities. It wasn’t until the Berne Convention of 1886 - an international agreement governing copyright that protects literary and artistic works - that a universal copyright procedure was assembled. In their early years, copyrights (indicated by that © you’ve seen in books, music, movies, and other works) varied from country to country. A free, accessible resource for films, books, and music available to the public, the public domain’s been in existence ever since copyright laws were implemented back in the 18th century.
To some extent, this is true - by way of making it slightly less so, let’s talk about what, exactly, it is. At first glance, the public domain appears to be a deep, intimidating vortex of innumerable media.
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