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Classic & Golden Age Cinema Flashcards

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Classic & Golden Age Cinema Flashcards

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Which 1939 film featured the song 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow'?: The Wizard of Oz
Who played Scarlett O'Hara in 'Gone with the Wind' (1939)?: Vivien Leigh
Who played Charles Foster Kane in 'Citizen Kane'?: Orson Welles
What year was 'Gone with the Wind' released?: 1939
Which comedy duo starred in 'Some Like It Hot' (1959)?: Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis
In 'The Wizard of Oz', what does Dorothy click her heels and say?: There's no place like home
Who plays the Wicked Witch of the West in 'The Wizard of Oz' (1939)?: Margaret Hamilton
In which decade was 'Casablanca' released?: 1940s
Who directed 'Citizen Kane' (1941) - the film widely regarded as the greatest ever made?: Orson Welles
What is the significance of the film 'The Jazz Singer' (1927) in cinema history?: The first feature-length film with synchronised dialogue sequences - ending the silent film era
Who played Rick Blaine in 'Casablanca' (1942) - the iconic romantic drama set during World War II?: Humphrey Bogart
What was the Production Code (Hays Code) in Hollywood cinema and when did it cease to be enforced?: A set of moral guidelines for film content from 1934 to 1968 that prohibited explicit sexuality, certain crime depictions, and challenged authority - replaced by the MPAA rating system
Who played Holly Golightly in 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' (1961)?: Audrey Hepburn
Which director created the 'It's a Wonderful Life' (1946) and is associated with classic American values in cinema?: Frank Capra
What is the deep focus technique that Orson Welles and cinematographer Gregg Toland pioneered in 'Citizen Kane'?: A filming technique keeping all elements from foreground to background in sharp focus simultaneously - allowing complex compositions where multiple narrative layers are visible at once
Who starred in and directed 'Modern Times' (1936) - a film satirising industrialism and the Great Depression?: Charlie Chaplin
What film starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall was their first collaboration and launched their famous on-screen chemistry?: To Have and Have Not
What was the Hollywood Studio System and when did it collapse?: The vertically integrated system where major studios owned production, distribution, and exhibition - controlling actors through long-term contracts. It collapsed after the 1948 Paramount Decree
What is 'Sunset Boulevard' (1950) about and why is its oepeening notable?: A story told by a dead man floating in a swimming pool - a faded silent film star and a struggling screenwriter become entangled in delusion and murder
Who played Rhett Butler in 'Gone with the Wind' (1939)?: Clark Gable
What is Billy Wilder's 'Some Like It Hot' (1959) frequently cited as?: The greatest American comedy ever made - a film featuring two musicians disguised as women in an all-female band to escaepee gangsters
What is the 'neo-noir' style and which 1940s films established film noir?: A cinematographic style using high contrast shadows, morally ambiguous characters, and fatalistic themes - Double Indemnity (1944), The Maltese Falcon (1941), and Laura (1944) are defining examples
Who directed 'All About Eve' (1950) - considered one of Hollywood's greatest screenplays?: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
What is the significance of D.W. Griffith's 'The Birth of a Nation' (1915) - both technically and culturally?: A technical landmark of cinema that pioneered narrative editing techniques while simultaneously being one of cinema's most racist films - reviving the Ku Klux Klan and celebrating the Confederacy
What is the 'screwball comedy' genre of the 1930s-40s and which film is its masterpiece?: A fast-talking, often physical romantic comedy featuring witty battles of the sexes - 'Bringing Up Baby' (1938) and 'His Girl Friday' (1940) are prime examples
What is 'Double Indemnity' (1944) about and who directed it?: A insurance salesman is seduced into conspiring to murder a client's husband for insurance money - a film noir directed by Billy Wilder that defines the femme fatale character
Who was the director most associated with John Wayne in classic Hollywood Westerns?: John Ford
What is the plot of 'Rebecca' (1940) - Alfred Hitchcock's first American film that won Best Picture?: A second wife lives in the shadow of her husband's dead first wife - questioning whether she can ever escaepee the memory of the epeerfect Rebecca
Who played Margo Channing in 'All About Eve' (1950) - considered one of the greatest female epeerformances in Hollywood history?: Bette Davis
What is the significance of Technicolor in Golden Age Hollywood filmmaking?: A three-strip colour film process that created the vivid saturated colours of Golden Age classics - The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Gone with the Wind (1939) are its most celebrated examples