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    The Immigrant is a 1917 American silent romantic comedy short written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. The film stars Chaplin's Tramp character as an...
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  • 1917 in film was a particularly fruitful year for the art form, and is often cited as one of the years in the decade which contributed to the medium the...
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  • or variants may also refer to: The Immigrant (1915 film), a feature film produced by Jesse Lasky The Immigrant (1917 film), a comedy short written and directed...
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    list of American films of 1917 is a compilation of American films released in 1917. 1917 in the United States "The Babes in the Woods (1917) – Overview"....
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    Molly Malone (actress) (category American film actresses)
    Secret (1917) The Pulse of Life (1917) The Soul Herder (1917) The Rescue (1917) The Lure of the Circus (1918) A Woman's Fool (1918) Hell Bent (1918) The Scarlet...
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    Valeska Suratt (category American film actresses)
    she made The Immigrant followed by The Straight Way (1916), Jealousy (1916), The Victim (1916), The New York Peacock (1916), and She (1917). She performed...
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    Edna Purviance (category American film actresses)
    English immigrant Louisa Wright Davey and American vintner to the western mining camps Madison (Matt) Gates Purviance. When she was three, the family moved...
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    Nuts (1917) Cupid's Rival (1917) The Villain (1917) There is a lack of information on this film. It is unknown if Billy is playing the Tramp. The Millionaire...
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  • crime film Black Hand (1950 film), an American film noir, starring Gene Kelly as an Italian immigrant fighting the Black Hand extortion racket The Black...
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    Albert Austin (category English male film actors)
    shorts. Among other things, he assisted Chaplin in developing the plot of The Adventurer (1917). However, he only received screen credit as a collaborator...
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    Eric Campbell (actor) (category 1917 deaths)
    Campbell (26 April 1879 – 20 December 1917) was an English actor. He was a key member of Charlie Chaplin's film ensemble, invariably playing an intimidating...
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  • Name '1917' Best Picture for 2019". Focus Daily News. Retrieved December 27, 2019. Kohn, Eric (December 16, 2019). "2019 Critics Poll: The Best Films and...
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  • producing films in 1916. In 1917, the company acquired the first of the Elstree Studios in Borehamwood from the Neptune Film Company. During the silent era...
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  • heard at the beginning and end of the film. Also included are vintage clips dealing with the Statue of Liberty from the films The Immigrant (1917), Mr. Smith...
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    in films into the 1950s. Between 1930 and 1950, she participated in 39 sound films in smaller roles. She played the role of the Swedish immigrant mother...
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  • United States. The Naturalization Act of 1906, required immigrants to learn English in order to become citizens. The Immigration Act of 1917 defined aliens...
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  • page indexes the individual year in film pages. Each year is annotated with its significant events. 19th century in film 20th century in film: 1900s – 1910s...
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    Leo Gorcey (category 1917 births)
    City on June 3, 1917, the son of Josephine (née Condon), an Irish Catholic immigrant, and Bernard Gorcey, a Russian Jewish immigrant. Both were vaudevillian...
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  • HIAS (founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society) is a Jewish American nonprofit organization that provides humanitarian aid and assistance to refugees...
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    the film's in which Chaplin starred have been added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry: Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914), The Immigrant (1917)...
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    Henry Bergman (category American male film actors)
    Chaplin shorts and later features, including The Pawnshop, The Immigrant, A Dog's Life, The Gold Rush, The Circus, and City Lights. Bergman's last on-screen...
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    United States has by far the highest number of immigrants in the world, with 50,661,149 people as of 2019. This represents 19.1% of the 244 million international...
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  • Bashir Salahuddin (category American male film actors)
    leading role in The 24th, a film about the all-black Twenty-Fourth United States Infantry Regiment and the Houston Riot of 1917. The film is co-written...
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  • Women (1917 film) Little Women (1918 film) Little Women (1933 film) Little Women (1949 film) Little Women (2018 film) Little Women (2019 film) "Little...
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  • aspects of the Cuban dialect and pronunciation. Before the events of the film, Tony grew up in a poor Havana neighborhood of Spanish immigrants, his maternal...
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  • The history of film chronicles the development of a visual art form created using film technologies that began in the late 19th century. The advent of...
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  • The following tables list films released in 2013. Three popular films (Top Gun, Jurassic Park, and The Wizard of Oz) were re-released in 3D and IMAX. Cleopatra...
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    National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 1917, during World War I, in the central...
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    Mae Costello (category American film actresses)
    (born 1855), a Bavarian immigrant. As a teenager, she began performing in stage productions in stock theater companies throughout the United States. In 1902...
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  • Nathan Davis (actor) (category 1917 births)
    Davis (May 22, 1917 – October 15, 2008) was an American film and television actor. He was featured in Holes, Chain Reaction, Flowers in the Attic, Stony...
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