In the days of silent films, Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939) was the king of dramatic actors. He surged across American motion picture screens performing dangerous stunts such as jumping from one high b...
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Herman Brix, the Olympic shot putter who played Tarzan in a 1935 movie, has died. He was 100.Brix, who used the name Bruce Bennett for many of his movies, died Saturday at Santa Monica-UCLA Medical...
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Herman Brix, an Olympic shot-putting medalist-turned-actor who played Tarzan in a 1930s movie, has died. He was 100.Brix, who used the name Bruce Bennett for many of his movies, died of complicatio...
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Question 1 of 10:The film industry was changed forever when the first ‘talkie’ was released in 1927. What was it called?
Modern Times
The Jazz Singer
Birth of a Nation
The General
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Dec 5 (Reuters) - Following are some of the major
events to have occurred on December 12 in history: 1913 - Leonardo Da Vinci's painting "Mona Lisa" was
recovered in Florence two years after it ha...
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hollywood loves a comeback
story, so industry insiders are closely watching Friday's debut
of political drama "Lions for Lambs" and the return of storied
film studio United...
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Lions for Lambs," the
star-studded first film from United Artists since Tom Cruise
and his longtime producing partner took over the fabled studio,
has so far generated mor...
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - United Artists, the film
production house backed by Tom Cruise, broke with parent studio
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc Monday to reach a deal enabling
striking Hollywood writers ...
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Pirate films are almost as old as movies themselves. There was Douglas Fairbanks as "The Black Pirate" in 1926. Errol Flynn was "Captain Blood" in 1935. In 1952, Burt Lancaster became "The Crimson ...
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Douglas Fairbanks
Olympian and actor Herman Brix dies
