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Joseph Jefferson's Impact On The Entertainment Industry

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Joseph Jefferson’s career consist of quite a collection works , that powerfully but positively impacted the entertainment industry during his time. Joseph Jefferson was one of the greatest in his field during his lifetime and is still respected today by some for his great works, appearances, and contributions to the entertainment industry. Joseph was born into entertainment because of his father being an actor, so he was a natural, born with excellent acting and performing skills. He led a great successful life leaving behind an extraordinary legacy behind as this paper will go in depth about. To explain not only his personal family life, including both him growing up and the family he was the head of. It’ll also focus on the wonderful contributions …show more content…

With the technology they had at the time Joseph effectively used his gifted talents in the way of acting to but on amusing and enjoyable works of art for people of all ages to partake in and enjoy. Short scenes were necessitated by the very crude motion picture photography of the day. There was no sound, and no title cards. The performers worked in pantomime. Joseph was an extremely likeable guy because of both his works and just in how approachable he was, he was unlike actors today and took time to not only acknowledge his fans but to also interact with them on more of a friendly personal level. He was so likable that people would flock to his shows, plays, and performances not only for his well known “Rip Van Winkle” but just to see him perform because they liked him and enjoyed his warm presence.Joseph was so friendly and approachable mainly because he was such a humble person he wouldn't just rub his extraordinary skills and plays and accomplishments in people's faces, he would sit down and chat and joke with his fans and admirers. While sitting down with fans they would compliment him and say things like, “hey your works are amazing I really enjoy them and wish I could be as great and accomplish something similar”. Instead of letting it go to his head though and boast about himself, he would continue being humble and say of their nothing really and inspire others saying they could make arts just as well as he could if they tried. His actions of kindness and humbleness, made people drawn to him and would literally bring people out of their houses just to see his performances. Jefferson was also a great role model because of his personality and his actions, so much so that a fellow actor even said that he set the standard for their line of work. This caused him and many others to both respect and look up to

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