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80 relations: Academy Award for Best Production Design, Academy Awards, AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals, Africa (film), Al Rinker, American Film Institute, Bill Nolan (animator), Billy Rose, Bing Crosby, Bix Beiderbecke, Broadway (1929 film), Broadway theatre, Bulldog Drummond, Busby Berkeley, Cabaret, Cape Town, Carl Laemmle Jr., Charles MacArthur, Contortion, Crooner, Eddie Lang, Ferde Grofé, Frankie Trumbauer, George Gershwin, Grand Canyon Suite, Great Depression, Hal Mohr, Harry Barris, Herman Rosse, Hollywood, Jack Yellen, Jeanette Loff, Joe Venuti, John Boles (actor), John Murray Anderson, Kurt Cobain, Laura La Plante, Library of Congress, List of early color feature films, Lost film, Loudspeaker, Mabel Wayne, Melting pot, Mildred Bailey, Milton Ager, Mississippi Mud, Multiple-language version, National Film Registry, Nell O'Day, New York City, ..., Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, Paul Whiteman, Pre-Code Hollywood, Punch line, Ray Rennahan, Revue, Rhapsody in Blue, Roxy Theatre (New York City), Sadomasochism, Sally (1929 film), Sketch comedy, Song of the Dawn, Sound stage, Soundtrack, South Africa, Technicolor, The Broadway Melody, The Criterion Collection, The Jazz Singer, The Love Parade, The Rhythm Boys, The Vagabond King (1930 film), Turquoise (color), Universal Pictures, Vaudeville, Virtuoso, Walter Lantz, Wilbur Hall (musician), William T. Kent, Woody Woodpecker. Expand index (30 more) »
Academy Award for Best Production Design
The Academy Award for Best Production Design recognizes achievement for art direction in film.
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Academy Awards
The Academy Awards, also known as the Oscars, are a set of 24 awards for artistic and technical merit in the American film industry, given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), to recognize excellence in cinematic achievements as assessed by the Academy's voting membership.
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AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals
Part of the AFI 100 Years… series, AFI's Greatest Movie Musicals is a list of the top musicals in American cinema.
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Africa (film)
Africa is a 1930 Walter Lantz cartoon short featuring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
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Al Rinker
Al Rinker (December 20, 1907 – June 11, 1982) was an American musician who began his career as a teen performing with Bing Crosby in the early 1920s in Spokane, Washington in various musical groups.
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American Film Institute
The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.
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Bill Nolan (animator)
William "Bill" Nolan (June 10, 1894 – December 6, 1954) was an American animated cartoon writer, animator, director, and artist.
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Billy Rose
Billy Rose (born William Samuel Rosenberg, September 6, 1899 – February 10, 1966) was an American impresario, theatrical showman and lyricist.
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Bing Crosby
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby Jr. (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977)Giddins 2001, pp.
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Bix Beiderbecke
Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 – August 6, 1931) was an American jazz cornetist, pianist, and composer.
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Broadway (1929 film)
Broadway is a 1929 film directed by Paul Fejos from the play of the same name by George Abbott and Philip Dunning. It stars Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, Paul Porcasi, Robert Ellis, Merna Kennedy and Thomas E. Jackson. This was Universal's first talking picture with Technicolor sequences. The film was released by the Criterion Collection on Blu-ray and DVD in 2012, with Paul Fejo's Lonesome.
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Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre,Although theater is the generally preferred spelling in the United States (see American and British English spelling differences), many Broadway venues, performers and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre.
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Bulldog Drummond
Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond is a British fictional character, created by H. C. McNeile and published under his pen name "Sapper".
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Busby Berkeley
Busby Berkeley (born Berkeley William Enos; November 29, 1895 – March 14, 1976) was an American film director and musical choreographer.
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Cabaret
Cabaret is a form of theatrical entertainment featuring music, song, dance, recitation, or drama.
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Cape Town
Cape Town (Kaapstad,; Xhosa: iKapa) is a coastal city in South Africa.
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Carl Laemmle Jr.
Carl Laemmle Jr. (born Julius Laemmle; April 28, 1908 – September 24, 1979) was an American businessman and heir of Carl Laemmle, who had founded Universal Studios.
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Charles MacArthur
Charles Gordon MacArthur (November 5, 1895 – April 21, 1956) was an American playwright, screenwriter and 1935 winner of the Academy Award for Best Story.
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Contortion
Contortion (sometimes contortionism) is a performance art in which performers, contortionists, showcase their skills of extreme physical flexibility.
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Crooner
Crooner is an American epithet given primarily to male singers of jazz standards, mostly from the Great American Songbook, backed by either a full orchestra, a big band or a piano.
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Eddie Lang
Eddie Lang (October 25, 1902 – March 26, 1933) is known as the father of jazz guitar.
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Ferde Grofé
Ferde Grofé (March 27, 1892 April 3, 1972) was an American composer, arranger, pianist and instrumentalist.
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Frankie Trumbauer
Orie Frank Trumbauer (May 30, 1901 – June 11, 1956) was one of the leading jazz saxophonists of the 1920s and 1930s.
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George Gershwin
George Jacob Gershwin (September 26, 1898 July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist.
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Grand Canyon Suite
The Grand Canyon Suite is a suite for orchestra by Ferde Grofé, composed between 1929 and 1931.
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Great Depression
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.
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Hal Mohr
Hal Mohr, A.S.C. (August 2, 1894 in San Francisco – May 10, 1974 in Santa Monica, California) was a famed movie cinematographer.
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Harry Barris
Harry Barris (November 24, 1905 – December 13, 1962) was an American popular singer and songwriter, and is one of the earliest singers to use "scat singing" in recordings.
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Herman Rosse
Hermann Rosse (1 January 1887 – 13 April 1965) was a Dutch-born American architect, painter, theatrical designer, and art director.
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Hollywood
Hollywood is a neighborhood in the central region of Los Angeles, California.
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Jack Yellen
Jack Selig Yellen (Jacek Jeleń; July 6, 1892 – April 17, 1991) was an American lyricist and screenwriter.
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Jeanette Loff
Jeanette Loff (born Janette Clarinda Lov; October 9, 1906 – August 4, 1942) was an American actress and singer.
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Joe Venuti
Giuseppe "Joe" Venuti (possibly September 16, 1903 – August 14, 1978) was an Italian-American jazz musician and pioneer jazz violinist.
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John Boles (actor)
John Boles (October 28, 1895 – February 27, 1969) was an American singer and actor best known for playing Victor Moritz in the 1931 film Frankenstein.
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John Murray Anderson
John Murray Anderson (September 20, 1886 – January 30, 1954) was a theatre director and producer, songwriter, actor, screenwriter, dancer and lighting designer, who made his career in the United States, primarily in New York City and Hollywood.
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Kurt Cobain
Kurt Donald Cobain (February 20, 1967 – April 5, 1994) was an American singer, songwriter, and musician.
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Laura La Plante
Laura La Plante (November 1, 1904 – October 14, 1996) was an American actress, primarily known for her work in the silent film era.
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Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.
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List of early color feature films
This is a list of early feature-length color films (including primarily black-and-white films that have one or more color sequences) made up to about 1936, when the Technicolor three-strip process firmly established itself as the major-studio favorite.
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Lost film
A lost film is a feature or short film that is no longer known to exist in any studio archives, private collections, or public archives, such as the U.S. Library of Congress.
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Loudspeaker
A loudspeaker (or loud-speaker or speaker) is an electroacoustic transducer; which converts an electrical audio signal into a corresponding sound.
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Mabel Wayne
Mabel Wayne (July 16, 1890 – June 19, 1978) was an American songwriter.
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Melting pot
The melting pot is a monocultural metaphor for a heterogeneous society becoming more homogeneous, the different elements "melting together" into a harmonious whole with a common culture or vice versa, for a homogeneous society becoming more heterogeneous through the influx of foreign elements with different cultural background with a potential creation of disharmony with the previous culture.
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Mildred Bailey
Mildred Bailey (born Mildred Rinker; February 27, 1903 – December 12, 1951) was a popular and influential Native American jazz singer during the 1930s, known as "The Queen of Swing", "The Rockin' Chair Lady" and "Mrs.
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Milton Ager
Milton Ager (October 6, 1893 – May 6, 1979) was an American composer.
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Mississippi Mud
"Mississippi Mud" is a 1927 song written by Harry Barris, first sung by Bing Crosby as a member of Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys.
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Multiple-language version
A multiple-language version film, often abbreviated to MLV, is a film, especially from the early talkie era, produced in several different languages for international markets.
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National Film Registry
The National Film Registry (NFR) is the United States National Film Preservation Board's (NFPB) selection of films deserving of preservation.
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Nell O'Day
Nell O'Day (September 22, 1909 – January 3, 1989) was an accomplished American equestrian and B-movie actress of the 1930s and 1940s.
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New York City
The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.
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Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (also known as Oswald the Rabbit or Oswald Rabbit) is an anthropomorphic rabbit and animated cartoon character created by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney for funny animal films distributed by Universal Studios in the 1920s and 1930s, serving as the Disney studio's first animated character to feature in their own series.
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Paul Whiteman
Paul Samuel Whiteman (March 28, 1890 – December 29, 1967) was an American bandleader, composer, orchestral director, and violinist.
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Pre-Code Hollywood
Pre-Code Hollywood refers to the brief era in the American film industry between the widespread adoption of sound in pictures in 1929LaSalle (2002), pg.
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Punch line
A punch line (punch-line or punchline) concludes a joke; it is intended to make people laugh.
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Ray Rennahan
Ray Rennahan, A.S.C. (May 1, 1896 – May 19, 1980) was a movie cinematographer.
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Revue
A revue (from French 'magazine' or 'overview') is a type of multi-act popular theatrical entertainment that combines music, dance, and sketches.
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Rhapsody in Blue
Rhapsody in Blue is a 1924 musical composition by American composer George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band, which combines elements of classical music with jazz-influenced effects.
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Roxy Theatre (New York City)
The Roxy Theatre was a 5,920 seat movie theater located at 153 West 50th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues, just off Times Square in New York City.
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Sadomasochism
Sadomasochism is the giving or receiving pleasure from acts involving the receipt or infliction of pain or humiliation.
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Sally (1929 film)
Sally is a 1929 American pre-Code film.
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Sketch comedy
Sketch comedy comprises a series of short comedy scenes or vignettes, called "sketches", commonly between one and ten minutes long.
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Song of the Dawn
"Song of the Dawn" was a 1930 song, first introduced in the musical film King of Jazz.
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Sound stage
In common usage, a sound stage is a soundproof, hangar-like structure, building, or room, used for the production of theatrical film-making and television productions, usually located on a secured movie or television studio property.
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Soundtrack
A soundtrack, also written sound track, can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded sound.
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South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
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Technicolor
Technicolor is a series of color motion picture processes, the first version dating from 1916, and followed by improved versions over several decades.
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The Broadway Melody
The Broadway Melody, also known as The Broadway Melody of 1929, is an American pre-Code musical film and the first sound film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture.
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The Criterion Collection
The Criterion Collection, Inc. (or simply Criterion) is an American home video distribution company which focuses on licensing "important classic and contemporary films" and selling them to film aficionados.
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The Jazz Singer
The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American musical film.
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The Love Parade
The Love Parade is a 1929 American pre-Code musical comedy film, directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, involving the marital difficulties of Queen Louise of Sylvania (MacDonald) and her consort, Count Alfred Renard (Chevalier).
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The Rhythm Boys
The Rhythm Boys were a male singing trio consisting of Bing Crosby, Harry Barris and Al Rinker.
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The Vagabond King (1930 film)
The Vagabond King is a 1930 American Pre-Code musical operetta film photographed entirely in two-color Technicolor.
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Turquoise (color)
Turquoise is the name of a blue color, based on the gem of the same name.
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Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures (also known as Universal Studios) is an American film studio owned by Comcast through the Universal Filmed Entertainment Group division of its wholly owned subsidiary NBCUniversal.
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Vaudeville
Vaudeville is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment.
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Virtuoso
A virtuoso (from Italian virtuoso or, "virtuous", Late Latin virtuosus, Latin virtus, "virtue", "excellence", "skill", or "manliness") is an individual who possesses outstanding technical ability in a particular art or field such as fine arts, music, singing, playing a musical instrument, or composition.
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Walter Lantz
Walter Benjamin Lantz (April 27, 1899 – March 22, 1994) was an American cartoonist, animator, film producer, director and actor best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker.
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Wilbur Hall (musician)
Wilbur Francis Hall, sometimes billed as Willie Hall (November 18, 1894 – June 30, 1983), was a United States trombonist, violinist, and entertainer.
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William T. Kent
William Thomas Kent (April 29, 1886 - October 5, 1945) was an American stage actor who later appeared in sound films.
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Woody Woodpecker
Woody Woodpecker is an anthropomorphic animated woodpecker who appeared in theatrical short films produced by the Walter Lantz animation studio and distributed by Universal Pictures during the Golden age of American animation.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Jazz
