THE GOLDEN AGE OF HOLLYWOOD ( 1 940-

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A Brief History of Film
The 1940s
When movies truly became true works of art
A time of great movie stars
Katharine Hepburn
(4 Oscars, 12 nominations)
Cary Grant
(most handsome man in Hollywood)
Humphrey Bogart
(biggest movie star in the world)
Ingrid Bergman
(respected and brilliant Swedish actress)
And great movies
Casablanca (1942)
The 1950s
The age of the rebel and the sexpot
Movies became a little more racy
A new era of stars were born
Marilyn Monroe
Marlon Brando
James Dean
Grace Kelly
And movies began to
tackle new issues
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
The 1960s
Hollywood
Big Spectacles
Lawrence of Arabia
James Bond movies
The Sound of Music
My Fair Lady
Oliver!
Mary Poppins
West Side Story
Alfred Hitchcock
Vertigo (1958)
Psycho
The Birds
Spaghetti Western
The Good, The Bad and
The Ugly
Once Upon a Time in
the West
The Magnificent Seven



Experimental
Stanley Kubrick
2001: A Space Odyssey
Lolita
Dr. Strangelove or: How I
Learned to Stop Worrying
and Love the Bomb
Spartacus
Questioning the Norm
Bonnie and Clyde
Easy Rider
Faces
In the Heat of the Night
Midnight Cowboy
Rosemarys Baby
The Graduate
Rise of the Foreign Film
Akira Kurosawa
Frederico Fellini