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Performing Arts
Cinema
A Aardman Animation Studios
Abbott and Costello
Academy Awards
Actors' Equity Association
Actors Studio
African Cinema
Akira Kurosawa
Aldrich, Robert
Allen, Woody
Almendros, Néstor
Almodóvar, Pedro
Altman, Robert
Ameche, Don
American Cinema
Anderson, Lindsay
Andrews, Dame Julie
Animation, Animated Films, and Animated Cartoons
Antonioni, Michelangelo
Arbuckle, Roscoe "Fatty"
Arletty
Art Cinema
Astaire, Fred
Attenborough, Richard Samuel, Baron of Richmond upon Thames
Australian Cinema
Avery, Frederick Bean "Tex"
B B Movies
Bacall, Lauren
Bachchan, Amitabh
Balcon, Sir Michael
Ball, Lucille Désirée
Bancroft, Anne
Bardem, Juan Antonio
Bardot, Brigitte
Barrymore, Ethel
Barrymore, John
Barrymore, Lionel
Bazin, André
Beatty, Warren
Belmondo, Jean-Paul
Benny, Jack
Bergman, (Ernst) Ingmar
Bergman, Ingrid
Berkeley, Busby
Berlin International Film Festival
Bertolucci, Bernardo
Bogarde, Sir Dirk
Bogart, Humphrey DeForest
Bombay Talkies
Bondarchuk, Sergei Feodorovich
Borzage, Frank
Boulting Brothers
Bow, Clara
Boyer, Charles
Brandauer, Klaus Maria
Brando, Marlon
Brennan, Walter
Bresson, Robert
British Board of Film Classification
British Cinema
British Film Institute
Bronson, Charles
Brooks, Louise
Brooks, Mel
Bruce, Lenny
Brynner, Yul
Buñuel, Luis
Burns, George
Burton, Richard
C Cagney, James Francis
Cahiers du Cinéma
Caine, Sir Michael
Cannes, Festival de
Cantinflas
Capra, Frank
Cardiff, Jack
Carné, Marcel
Carry On Films
Cassavetes, John
César (cinema)
Chabrol, Claude
Chaney, Lon
Chaplin, Sir Charlie
Chauvel, Charles
Cher
Chevalier, Maurice
Chinese Cinema
Cinecittà
Cinema, Early Development of
Cinema Stunt Performing, History of
Cinéma Vérité
CinemaScope
Cinematography
Cinerama
Clair, René
Clayton, Jack
Clift, (Edward) Montgomery
Clouzot, Henri-Georges
Coburn, James
Cocteau, Jean
Coen, Joel and Ethan
Colbert, Claudette
Colman, Ronald
Columbia Pictures
Comencini, Luigi
Connery, Sir Sean
Cooper, Gary
Coppola, Francis Ford
Cotten, Joseph
Courtenay, Sir Tom
Cousteau, Jacques Yves
Crawford, Hector
Crawford, Joan
Crichton, Charles
Crosby, Bing
Cruise, Tom
Cukor, George
Cult Films
Curtis, Tony
Curtiz, Michael
Cushing, Peter
D Dassin, Jules
Davis, Bette
Day, Doris
De Niro, Robert
De Sica, Vittorio
Dean, James
Delon, Alain
DeMille, Cecil B(lount)
Demy, Jacques
Dench, Dame Judi
Deneuve, Catherine
Depardieu, Gérard
Dietrich, Marlene
Disney
Donat, Robert
Donskoy, Mark
Douglas, Bill
Douglas, Kirk
Douglas, Michael
Dovzhenko, Aleksandr
DreamWorks SKG
Dreyer, Carl Theodor
Dubbing
Dunne, Irene
Durante, Jimmy
Dutt, Guru
Duvivier, Julien
E Ealing Comedies
Ealing Studios
Eastern European Cinema
Eastwood, Clint
Eisenstein, Sergey Mikhailovich
Elliott, Denholm
Elvey, Maurice
Expressionism (literature and film)
F Fairbanks, Douglas
Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
Félix, María
Fellini, Federico
Fernandel
Fernández, Emilio
Fields, W. C.
Film and Television Arts, British Academy of
Film Censorship
Film Council
Film Festivals
Film Genres
Film Music
Film Noir
Film Production and Distribution
Film Studios
Finch, Peter
Finney, Albert
Flaherty, Robert J(oseph)
Fleming, Victor
Flynn, Errol
Fonda, Henry
Fonda, Jane
Ford, Harrison
Ford, John (1895-1973)
Fosse, Bob
Foster, Jodie
Frankenheimer, John
Frears, Stephen
Free Cinema
French Cinema
G Gabin, Jean
Gable, (William) Clark
Gainsborough Pictures
Gallone, Carmine
Gance, Abel
Gangster Films
Garbo, Greta
Gardner, Ava
Garland, Judy
Garson, Greer
Gassman, Vittorio
German Cinema
Germi, Pietro
Ghatak, Ritwik
Gibson, Mel
Gielgud, Sir (Arthur) John
Gish
Godard, Jean-Luc
Golden Globe Awards
Goldwyn, Samuel
Grable, Betty
Granger, Stewart
Grant, Cary
Grant, Hugh
Greenaway, Peter
Grierson, John
Griffith, D(avid) W(ark)
Guazzoni, Enrico
Guinness, Sir Alec
Güney, Yilmaz
H Hackman, Gene
Hall, Ken George
Hammer Films
Hanna-Barbera
Hardy, Oliver
Harlow, Jean
Harris, Richard
Harrison, Sir Rex
Hawkins, Jack
Hawks, Howard
Hay, Will
Hayden, Sterling
Hayes, Helen
Hays Code
Hayward, Rudall
Hayworth, Rita
Henson, Jim
Hepburn, Audrey
Hepburn, Katharine
Herzog, Werner
Heston, Charlton
Hill, George Roy
Hitchcock, Sir Alfred Joseph
Hoffman, Dustin
Holden, William
Holliday, Judy
Hollywood
Hope, Bob
Hopkins, Sir Anthony
Hopper, Dennis
Howard, Leslie
Howard, Trevor
Hudson, Rock
Huston, John
Hyde-White, Wilfrid
I Indian Cinema
Iranian Cinema
Irish Cinema
Italian Cinema
Ivens, Joris
Ives, Burl
J Jackson, Glenda
James Bond
Jannings, Emil
Japanese Cinema
Jarman, Derek
Jennings, (Frank) Humphrey Sinkler
Jhabvala, Ruth Prawer
Johnson, Dame Celia
Johnson, Martin Elmer and Osa Helen
Jolson, Al
Jones, Chuck
Julia, Raul
Jurgens, Curt
K Kael, Pauline
Kapoor, Raj
Karloff, Boris
Kaye, Danny
Kazan, Elia
Keaton, Buster
Keillor, Garrison
Kelly, Gene
Kelly, Grace Patricia
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kerr, Deborah
Kieślowski, Krzysztof
Kingsley, Sir Ben
Korda, Sir Alexander
Kubrick, Stanley
Kuleshov, Lev Vladimirovich
Kumar, Ashok
Kumari, Meena
Kureishi, Hanif
L Lancaster, Burt
Lang, Fritz
Langdon, Harry
Lantz, Walter
Lanzmann, Claude
Latin American Cinema
Laughton, Charles
Launder and Gilliat
Laurel, Stan
Lawrence, Gertrude
Le Gallienne, Eva
Lean, Sir David
Lee, Bruce
Lee, Christopher Frank Carandini
Lee, Spike
Leigh, Janet
Leigh, Mike
Leigh, Vivien
Lemmon, Jack
Leone, Sergio
Lester, Richard
Lewis, Jerry
Lloyd, Harold Clayton
Loach, Ken
Lorre, Peter
Losey, Joseph Walton
Loy, Myrna
Lubitsch, Ernst
Lucas, George
Lugosi, Bela
Lumet, Sidney
Lumière
M Mackendrick, Alexander
MacLaine, Shirley
Madonna (pop star)
Magnani, Anna
Malkovich, John
Malle, Louis
Mamoulian, Rouben
Mangano, Silvana
Mankiewicz, Joseph L(eo)
Mann, Anthony
Mansfield, Jayne
March, Fredric
Martin, Dean
Marvin, Lee
Marx Brothers
Masaki Kobayashi
Masina, Giulietta
Mason, James
Mastroianni, Marcello
Matthau, Walter
Mayer, Louis B(urt)
McAnally, Ray
McCrea, Joel
McKellen, Sir Ian Murray
McLaren, Norman
McQueen, Steve (actor)
Méliès, Georges
Mendes, Sam
Merchant-Ivory
Mercouri, Melina
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Midler, Bette
Milland, Ray
Miller, Ann
Mills, Sir John (Lewis Ernest Watts)
Minghella, Anthony
Minnelli, Liza
Minnelli, Vincente
Miramax Films
Mirren, Dame Helen
Mitchum, Robert
Mix, Tom
Monroe, Marilyn
Monty Python
Moore, Dudley
Moore, Michael
Moore, Sir Roger George
More, Kenneth
Moreau, Jeanne
Morley, Robert
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Academy of
Murnau, F(riedrich) W(ilhelm Plumpe)
N Nargis
National Film and Television School
Neagle, Dame Anna
Neo-Realism
New Wave (cinema)
New Zealand Cinema
Newman, Paul
Newsreel
Nichols, Mike
Nicholson, Jack
Niven, David
Noiret, Philippe
Nykvist, Sven
O O'Toole, Peter
Olivier, Laurence Kerr, 1st Baron Olivier of Brighton
Ophuls, Max
Osborne, John
P Pabst, Georg Wilhelm
Pacino, Al
Pakula, Alan J.
Paradzhanov, Sergei
Paramount
Park, Nick
Parker, Sir Alan
Pasolini, Pier Paolo
Pastrone, Giovanni
Pathé, Charles
Peck, Gregory
Peckinpah, Sam
Penn, Arthur
Peppard, George
Perkins, Anthony
Phalke, Dhundiraj Govind
Phoenix, River
Pickford, Mary
Pidgeon, Walter
Pixar
Pleasance, Donald
Plummer, Christopher
Poitier, Sidney
Polanski, Roman
Pommer, Erich
Pontecorvo, Gillo
Powell and Pressburger
Preminger, Otto Ludwig
Price, Vincent
Propaganda Cinema
Pudovkin, Vsevolod Ilarionovich
Puttnam, David Terence, Lord Puttnam of Queensgate
Q Quayle, Sir Anthony
Quinn, Anthony
R Radio
Rafferty, Chips
Raft, George
Rains, Claude
Ramlee, P.
Rani, Devika
Rank Organisation, The
Rathbone, (St John Philip) Basil
Ray, Nicholas
Ray, Satyajit
Redford, Robert
Redgrave, Sir Michael Scudamore
Redgrave, Vanessa
Reed, Oliver
Reed, Sir Carol
Reeve, Christopher
Reisz, Karel
Reith, John Charles Walsham, 1st Baron Reith of Stonehaven
Remick, Lee
Renoir, Jean
Resnais, Alain
Rey, Fernando
Richardson, Tony
Riefenstahl, Leni
RKO
Roach, Hal
Robards, Jason, Jr.
Robbe-Grillet, Alain
Roberts, Julia
Roberts, Rachel
Robeson, Paul
Robinson, Edward G.
Rocha, Glauber
Rogers, Ginger
Rogers, Will
Rohmer, Eric
Rossellini, Roberto
Rühmann, Heinz
Russell, Ken
Russian Cinema
Rutherford, Dame Margaret
S Savalas, Telly (Aristotle)
Scandinavian Cinema
Schaffner, Franklin J(ames)
Schlesinger, John
Schneider, Romy
Schwarzenegger, Arnold Alois
Scofield, Paul
Scorsese, Martin
Scott, George C(ampbell)
Scott, Sir Ridley
Screen Adaptations
Screwball Comedy
Scriptwriting
Seberg, Jean
Sellers, Peter
Selznick, David O.
Sembène, Ousmane
Sennett, Mack
Sharaff, Irene
Shaw, Robert
Signoret, Simone
Simon, Michel
Sinatra, Frank
Sirk, Douglas
Sjöström, Victor
Smith, Dame Maggie
Spanish Cinema
Special Effects
Spielberg, Steven
Stallone, Sylvester
Stamp, Terence
Stanislavski Method
Stanwyck, Barbara
Steiger, Rod(ney) Stephen
Stephens, Sir Robert
Stevens, George
Stewart, James (1908-1997)
Stewart, Patrick
Streep, Meryl
Streisand, Barbra
Sturges, John
Sundance Film Festival
Swanson, Gloria
Sydow, Max von
T Takashi Shimura
Tandy, Jessica
Tarantino, Quentin
Tarkovsky, Andrey
Tati, Jacques
Taylor, Dame Elizabeth Rosemond
Technicolor
Television
Temple, Shirley
Thalberg, Irving (Grant)
Thompson, Emma
Tognazzi, Ugo
Toshiro Mifune
Tourneur, Jacques
Tracy, Spencer
Trnka, Jiří
Truffaut, François
Turkish Cinema
Turner, Lana
U United Artists
Universal
Ustinov, Sir Peter Alexander
V Vadim, Roger
Valentino, Rudolph
Vallee, Rudy
Van Cleef, Lee
Venice Film Festival
Vertov, Dziga
Vidor, King
Vigo, Jean
Visconti, Luchino
Volonté, Gian Maria
Von Sternberg, Josef
Von Stroheim, Erich
Von Trier, Lars
W Wajda, Andrzej
Walsh, Raoul
Warner Bros.
Washington, Denzel
Wayne, John
Welles, (George) Orson
Wenders, Wim
West, Mae
Westerns
Wide-Screen
Wiene, Robert
Wilder, Billy
Williams, Kenneth
Winfrey, Oprah
Winters, Shelley
Wise, Robert
Wood, Natalie
Wurlitzer
Wyler, William
Y Yasujiro Ozu
Young, Terence
Z Zanuck, Darryl F(rancis)
Zetterling, Mai
Zinnemann, Fred
20th Century Fox
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