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There's no business like show business.

Irving Berlin

There's No Business Like Show Business

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Hollywood Show business

Speaker

Ethel Merman

Author

Irving Berlin

Source

There's No Business Like Show Business

Medium

Song

Genre

Great American songbook

Language

English

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Berlin, Irving. "There's No Business Like Show Business." Annie Get Your Gun. Performed by Ethel Merman. 1946, Imperial Theatre, New York City, NY, USA, act 1.

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Not even the Church is so powerfully equipped to serve the public psychologically as is the motion-picture company.

William Moulton Marston

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Entertainment Hollywood Decline of religion The Church

Author

William Moulton Marston

Source

New York University Daily News

Language

English

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

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Marston, William Moulton. Quoted in "Professor to Cure Scenarios with Wrong Emotional Content: Dabbled in Movies While at Harvard; Now Sought by Hollywood with Offer of Favorable Contract" written by Henry W. Levy. New York University News, 8 Jan. 1929.

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There are only three ages for women in Hollywood - Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.

The First Wives Club

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Hollywood Patriarchy

Speaker

Elise Elliot Atchison

Actor

Goldie Hawn

Source

The First Wives Club

Medium

Film

Genre

Comedy (film) Comedy

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

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The First Wives Club. Directed by Hugh Wilson, Paramount Pictures, 1996.

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A trip through a sewer in a glass-bottomed boat.

Wilson Mizner

On Hollywood.

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Hollywood

Speaker

Wilson Mizner

Source

The Legendary Mizners

Genre

Biography

Language

English

Time

1953 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Mizner, Wilson. Quoted in The Legendary Mizners, written by Alva Johnston. Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953, ch. 4.

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South Sea natives who have been exposed to American movies classify them into two types, "kiss-kiss" and "bang-bang."

Hortense Powdermaker

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Hollywood American culture

Author

Hortense Powdermaker

Language

English

Time

1950 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Powdermaker, Hortense. Hollywood, the Dream Factory: An Anthropologist Looks at the Movie-Makers. Little, Brown and Company, 1950, introduction.

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For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno and the hide of a rhinoceros.

Ethel Barrymore

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Hollywood Patriarchy Women

Speaker

Ethel Barrymore

Source

The Theatre in the Fifties

Language

English

Time

1953 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Barrymore, Ethyl. Quoted in The Theatre in the Fifties, written by George Jean Nathan. Alfred A. Knopf, 1953.

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Television. That's where movies go when they die.

Bob Hope

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TV vs. movies TV Movies Hollywood

Author

Bob Hope

Source

1953 Oscars Opening Monologue Oscars Opening Monologue

Medium

TV program

Language

English

Time

1953 1950s 20th century

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Citation

Hope, Bob. "Opening Monologue." Oscar Awards Ceremony. 19 Mar. 1953, Pantages Theatre, Hollywood, CA, USA.