History of Cinema

Happy birthday Chris Evans! 

Happy Birthday, Peter Hayden Dinklage (June 11, 1969)

(Fonte: ohne-dich)

trixiedelight:

_{Happy Birthday Judy Garland!}

_{(June 10, 1922-June 22, 1969)}

_{The finest all-around performer we ever had in America was Judy Garland. There was no limit to her talent. She was the quickest, brightest person I ever worked with.}

_{-Gene Kelly}

trixiedelight:

_{Happy Birthday Judy Garland!}

_{(June 10, 1922-June 22, 1969)}

_{The finest all-around performer we ever had in America was Judy Garland. There was no limit to her talent. She was the quickest, brightest person I ever worked with.}

_{-Gene Kelly}

Film Noir (from the French meaning Black Film) is a genre of cinema that emerged during the early 1940s and continued until the late 1950s. It is characterised by it’s distintive stylisation of cinematography and it’s focus on crime, mystery and sex. Taking many cues from early German expressionism, Film Noir offered an immersive thematic experience that was very different to that of other contemporary melodramas. Several techniques and plot devices came to define the genre, including voiceovers, the inventive use of light and shadow, the protagonist’s need to seek out some truth, and the famed ‘femme fatale’ figure. 

(Fonte: haroldlloyds)

harlow-jean:

Jean Harlow (March 3, 1911 — June 7, 1937)

  The day that she died, Spencer Tracy wrote in his diary, “Jean Harlow died today. Grand gal.” One of the MGM writers later said: ”The day Baby died there wasn’t one sound in the commissary for three hours.”  MGM closed down on the day of Harlow’s funeral on June 9. She was buried in the gown she wore in Libeled Lady, and in her hands she held a white gardenia and a note in which William Powell had written: ”Goodnight, my dearest darling.”