Olivia de Havilland

Happy July 1st everyone! I decided to carve out a bit of the day today to compose a celebratory post in honor of Ms. Olivia deHavilland's 99th birthday. url In doing my little bits of "research," I surprised myself in that I discovered that to date, I have never really put together a write up exclusively about one of my favorite actresses of the "classic" Hollywood era. Now is great as time as any, right? So, in addition to the films I have already covered, which include ... Adventures of Robin

of women and children by taking the food from Much (Herbert Mundin) that he catches and gives it to the hungry people in the town even though it is illegal to hunt the king's meat. Then he also protects the women by not harming Maid Marian (Olivia de Havilland) when they capture the legion of Prince John’s men. These examples give the audience an understanding that the bandits are actually the good guys because villains are savages and mean to the helpless but as we can see, they are the heroes in

Henry James’s novel, Washington Square, was the inspiration for both movies: The Heiress by William Wyler, and Washington Square by Agnieszka Holland. Although these films did not follow James’s novel precisely, they still capture the audience and show self-development for main character Catherine. Laurence Raw and Karen Michele Chandler each wrote articles regarding the film adaptations in comparison to Washington Square. In Raw’s article “Reconstructing Henry James: The Heiress”, he analyzes scenes

Gone with the Wind is a 1939 movie directed by Victor Fleming and starring Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, and Olivia De Havilland. The film follows the life of Scarlett O’Hara (Leigh), a young Georgian woman, and her pursuits of romance and wealth during the Civil War and Reconstruction. She faces the challenges of rebuilding her family’s plantation and finding love while the man she wants to pursue already married. This film falls into the genres of historical and romance. Historical films are characterized

The film industry, like all industries, is an economical institution that strives to make money out of their creative projects. In the early years of Hollywood, studios were still trying to figure out methods that would turn the most profit. Vertical integration allowed companies included in the Big Five to produce, distribute, and exhibit their own films, but they needed to find a way to maintain the public’s interest of attending theater viewings. The strategy of packaging their actors’ “personas”

Sibling rivalry and behaviors Perhaps, almost parents want their children to live in harmony and get along well with each others. However, sibling rivalry, or competitive feelings and actions occurring among the children, seems to be something unavoidable in family life. Many people says that sibling rivalry is harmful and has a lot of cons while a number of people believe that it has positive impacts on children’s development and social relationships. Actually, sibling rivalry has both advantages

Cultural Report: Hollywood 1900-1940 Since even before its inception, the idea of “Hollywood” has been consistently concerned with a single underlying concept: spectacle. The earliest movies belonged to what film historians like Tom Gunning call a “cinema of attractions.” Primitive films, the earliest shorts from the late 1890s to the early 1900s, were directed at an audience looking for a new form of entertainment. The first films were screened as the final attraction of a vaudeville show

free state or a slave state. One of the key personalities of the abolitionists was the radical John Brown, who inflicted violence on pro-slavery citizens of Kansas and Missouri. The film, Santa Fe Trail, released in 1940, starring Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, and Raymond Massey as John Brown, is an effective pro-American film that presented John Brown as a fanatical madman committing unjust and illegal violent acts, with murder and mayhem, on behalf of the abolitionists that precipitated the American

Howard Hughes, a man of stature, an innovator of planes and movies; he seemed to have it all. But with his far from copacetic mental health, his life was consistently crippled by his reclusiveness and inner anguish; both mentally and physically. He had tremendous OCD and agoraphobia that constantly plagued him. For example, while directing "The Outlaw", Hughes became obsessed about a very small flaw in one of Jane Russell's blouses, nitpicking about the seams in the fabric. He apparently was so upset

An Analysis of the film Gone With the Wind Catherine M. Piraino ENG 225 INRO TO FILM Instructor Pal December 17, 2012 An Analysis of the film Gone with the Wind Rarely has a film impacted an audience and held the test of time as the film Gone with the Wind. I have always been curious if director, Victor Fleming and producer, David O. Selznick and screenplay writer, Sidney Howard knew what they were creating a masterpiece and how this film would have such an enormous impact on audiences