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    William Nicholas Selig (March 14, 1864 – July 15, 1948) was a vaudeville performer and pioneer of the American motion picture industry. His stage billing...
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    Lubitsch / Claude Jarman Jr. (1946) James Baskett / Thomas Armat, William Nicholas Selig, Albert E. Smith, and George Kirke Spoor / Bill and Coo / Shoeshine...
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    Lubitsch / Claude Jarman Jr. (1946) James Baskett / Thomas Armat, William Nicholas Selig, Albert E. Smith, and George Kirke Spoor / Bill and Coo / Shoeshine...
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    Lubitsch / Claude Jarman Jr. (1946) James Baskett / Thomas Armat, William Nicholas Selig, Albert E. Smith, and George Kirke Spoor / Bill and Coo / Shoeshine...
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    Redford Sr. (1914–1991), an accountant. He has a paternal half-brother, William. Redford is of Irish, Scottish, and English ancestry. His patrilineal...
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    minimize her curves. This may be erroneous, as historians Jay Scarfone and William Stillman clarify that at the time Garland was an anti-smoker and was allowed...
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    Blake Edwards (born William Blake Crump; July 26, 1922 – December 15, 2010) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. Edwards...
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    Lubitsch / Claude Jarman Jr. (1946) James Baskett / Thomas Armat, William Nicholas Selig, Albert E. Smith, and George Kirke Spoor / Bill and Coo / Shoeshine...
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    feature was The Savage Innocents (1960) with Anthony Quinn for director Nicholas Ray. With his then wife Sian Phillips he did Siwan: The King's Daughter...
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    interpreted by Hobart Bosworth. The film was produced by William Nicholas Selig for his company, Selig Polyscope Company. Distributed by the General Film Company...
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    Lubitsch / Claude Jarman Jr. (1946) James Baskett / Thomas Armat, William Nicholas Selig, Albert E. Smith, and George Kirke Spoor / Bill and Coo / Shoeshine...
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    Lubitsch / Claude Jarman Jr. (1946) James Baskett / Thomas Armat, William Nicholas Selig, Albert E. Smith, and George Kirke Spoor / Bill and Coo / Shoeshine...
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    Lubitsch / Claude Jarman Jr. (1946) James Baskett / Thomas Armat, William Nicholas Selig, Albert E. Smith, and George Kirke Spoor / Bill and Coo / Shoeshine...
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    factory, while his mother worked as a seamstress. His older brother John William Elias Leach died of tuberculous meningitis two days before his first birthday...
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  • artifact in the Lone Wolf gamebooks The Moonstone (1909 film), by William Nicholas Selig, probably lost The Moonstone (1915 film), by Frank Hall Crane The...
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    While there, Cooper and his brother lived with their father's cousins, William and Emily Barton, at their home in Houghton Regis. Cooper studied Latin...
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    Loden's Wanda, which was filmed and edited by one of Pennebaker's protégés, Nicholas Proferes, and even acclaimed satires such as Tim Robbins' Bob Roberts....
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    Lubitsch / Claude Jarman Jr. (1946) James Baskett / Thomas Armat, William Nicholas Selig, Albert E. Smith, and George Kirke Spoor / Bill and Coo / Shoeshine...
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    National Pictures, of which Stanley owned one-third. In a bidding war with William Fox, Warner Bros. bought more First National shares on September 13, 1928;...
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    1901–1969), a secretary who later legally changed her surname to Bacal, and William Perske (1889–1982), who worked in sales. Both of her parents were Jewish...
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    Princess. William Morrow and Company, Inc. p. 341. ISBN 978-0-688-06051-0. Edwards, Anne (1988). Shirley Temple: American Princess. William Morrow and...
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    Lubitsch / Claude Jarman Jr. (1946) James Baskett / Thomas Armat, William Nicholas Selig, Albert E. Smith, and George Kirke Spoor / Bill and Coo / Shoeshine...
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    short of financial expectations at the box office. In 1928 film executive Nicholas Schenck arranged a deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for Keaton's services...
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    Lorna Erickson (Merry Anders), sets him up to be robbed by her paramour (William Bryant). Highly regarded within the industry, Bellamy served four terms...
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    Archived from the original on December 21, 2021 – via www.youtube.com. Ewald, William (December 5, 1957). "TV Gives Margaret O'Brien Chance To Get Out Of The...
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    classmates because of his size. At age nine, he saw Anything Goes with William Gaxton, Ethel Merman and Victor Moore at the Alvin Theater. After the show...
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    gave full rein to Kelly's athleticism. It features Kelly's work with the Nicholas Brothers—the leading black dancers of their day—in a virtuoso dance routine...
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    Schlee, who was introduced to her by his wife, fashion designer Valentina. Nicholas Turner, Garbo's close friend for 33 years, said that, after she bought...
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    box office flop and at the time not well received critically—director Nicholas Ray himself was dissatisfied with it. She next had a role as a wealthy...
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    of the Arts". Deadline Hollywood Daily. Retrieved July 18, 2009. Ebsen, William Amarteifio (June 11, 2013). Humanity and the Nature of Man. AuthorHouse...
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