• Inspiration is a 1931 American pre-Code Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer romantic melodrama film adapted by Gene Markey from the Alphonse Daudet novel Sappho (1884)...
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  • healthcare social network Inspiration (1915 film), starring Audrey Munson Inspiration (1931 film), starring Greta Garbo Inspiration (1948 film), directed by Karel...
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    Dracula is a 1931 American pre-Code supernatural horror film directed and co-produced by Tod Browning from a screenplay written by Garrett Fort and starring...
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  • An inspiration for the James Bond spy novels may have come from the writings of William Le Queux, who wrote related novels between 1891 and 1931; inspiration...
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  • Mädchen in Uniform ("Girls in Uniform") is a 1931 German romantic drama film based on the play Gestern und heute (Yesterday and Today) by Christa Winsloe...
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  • and noted growing up in tornado alley as inspiration. In preparation for Twisters, he revisited the original film; Spielberg's Jaws (1975) and War of the...
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  • The film draws inspiration from James Whale's 1935 film Bride of Frankenstein, itself adapted from Mary Shelley's 1818 novel Frankenstein. The film is...
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  • The Champ is a 1931 American pre-Code film starring Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper and directed by King Vidor from a screenplay by Frances Marion, Leonard...
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    religious or folk beliefs. Horror films have existed for more than a century. Early inspirations from before the development of film include folklore, religious...
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  • Alice in Wonderland (1931) is an independently made black-and-white Pre-Code American film based on Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...
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  • an inspiration, Oppenheimer makes it clear that once this type of power is unleashed, it is bound to be used again." Despite praising the film's themes...
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    Frankenstein in 1931, The Black Cat was the biggest box-office hit of 1934 for Universal Pictures, and it was the first of eight films (six of which were...
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  • during the film industry's transition to sound. After further analysis of period films for inspiration, chiefly the German thriller M (1931), Blaschke...
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  • (Dracula, 1931) and Boris Karloff (Frankenstein, 1931). Fredric March won an Academy Award for Best Actor in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 1931. Films of this...
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    hit 1931 film Dracula and 1932's Murders in the Rue Morgue, and film historians have found it surprising that he would sign on to a low-budget film by...
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    is never seen. Some film historians believe that the marriage of Barbara Stanwyck and Frank Fay was the film's real-life inspiration. John Bowers has also...
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    in Bombay, was the first film to be shot by an Indian and the first Indian documentary film.[citation needed] From 1913 to 1931, all the movies made in...
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    A list of American films released in 1931. Cimarron won Best Picture at the Academy Awards. 1931 in the United States "The Bachelor Father". "Girl of...
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  • Harry Potter is a film series based on the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling. The series was produced and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures...
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  • Marie Tudor (1912 film) Marigold (1938 film) Marika (film) (1938) The Marionettes (film) (1918) Marius (1931 film) Marius (2013 film) Marjorie Prime (2017)...
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    intentional example of what is now called a neo-noir film; it was likely a source of inspiration for both Melville's Le Samouraï and Scorsese's Taxi Driver...
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    Foxy (Merrie Melodies) (category Film characters introduced in 1931)
    shorts in the Merrie Melodies series, all distributed by Warner Bros. in 1931. He was the creation of animator Rudolf Ising, who had worked for Walt Disney...
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  • characters from the 1897 novel Dracula by Bram Stoker and its 1931 feature film adaption, the film stars Nicholas Hoult, Awkwafina, Ben Schwartz, Shohreh Aghdashloo...
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    [clarification needed] The Pom Pom Girls was the inspiration behind slasher horror films and The Beatniks is a film with "familiar tropes found in straight-up...
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  • version, which was subsequently aired on MTV. The film's haunted ballroom scene served as inspiration for English musician Leyland Kirby to create the...
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  • The Silence of the Lambs is a 1991 American psychological horror thriller film directed by Jonathan Demme and written by Ted Tally, adapted from Thomas...
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    basis for an Egyptian-themed horror film, just as the novels Dracula and Frankenstein inspired their 1931 films Dracula and Frankenstein. Schayer found...
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  • Blonde Inspiration is a 1941 American comedy film directed by Busby Berkeley and written by Marion Parsonnet. The film stars John Shelton, Virginia Grey...
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    The Wreck of the Hesperus (category Poems adapted into films)
    needed] Longfellow combined fact and fiction to create this poem. His inspiration was the great blizzard of 1839, which ravaged the north-east coast of...
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  • ISBN 978-0-7864-8409-6. Fischer, Dennis (January 1, 1991). Horror Film Directors, 1931-1990. McFarland. p. 118. ISBN 978-0-89950-609-8. The original short...
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