• Orphans of the Sky is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988), consisting of two parts: "Universe" (Astounding Science...
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  • of the last survivors of the sinking of Titanic on 15 April 1912. He, along with his brother, Edmond (1910–1953), were known as the "Titanic Orphans",...
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  • The Colored cartoon : Black representation in American animated short films, 1907-1954. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 978-1-61376-119-9...
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  • of orphans. Knocked unconscious, she is saved by a Chinese general warlord who brings her to his palace. When the general falls in love with the naive...
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    Children's Reformatory (category 1907 films)
    1907 French silent short film directed by Charles Decroix, inspired by the eponymous novel by Aristide Bruant. A young orphan is thrown out into the street...
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  • (1964 film) An Ordinary Miracle (1978 film) Orfeu (1999) The Orphan Muses (2000) Orphans (1987) Orphans of the Storm (1921) Orpheus Descending (film) (1990...
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  • The science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein (1907–1988) was productive during a writing career that spanned the last 49 years of his life; the Robert...
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    Barbara Stanwyck (category 1907 births)
    Ruby Catherine Stevens; July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress, model and dancer. A stage, film, and television star, during her 60-year...
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    Margaret Illington (category American silent film actresses)
    played famously by Lillian and Dorothy Gish in D. W. Griffith's 1921 film Orphans of the Storm. Illington married Edward Bowes in 1910 and desired to have...
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  • The Story of Film: An Odyssey is a 2011 British documentary film about the history of film, presented on television in 15 one-hour chapters with a total...
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    Not all films are complete, as some were too damaged to restore in their entirety. The Office Boy's Birthday (1904) A Trip through Palestine (1907) Elephant...
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  • Emmeline's son Early in 1907, lying awake and pondering, not for the first time in my life, on the extraordinary world we live in, the idea came to me of what...
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  • Post script to June 6th posting "...watching Eichman", NYU Orphan Film Project, The Orphan Film Symposium: Archivists, academics, & artists saving, studying...
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    Emerson Romero (category American male silent film actors)
    Cuban-American silent film actor who worked under the screen name Tommy Albert. Romero developed the first technique to provide captions for sound films, making them...
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  • about his existence. One of the first films of this nature was titled A Little Girl Who Did Not Believe in Santa Claus (1907) and involves a well-to-do...
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    film footage for films that are not wholly lost. For a film that was not released before it was rediscovered, the year is when it was produced. The year...
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  • The following is an overview of 1931 in film, including significant events, a list of films released and notable births and deaths. The top ten 1931 released...
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    theatre during the 1910s and 1920s. Both sisters also appeared in two silent films. The sisters, Rózsika Deutsch (later known as Rose or Rosie) and Janka...
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  • Piper – The Good Companions Ralph Richardson – The Ghoul Cesar Romero – The Shadow Laughs Shirley Ross – Bombshell Renée Saint-Cyr – The Two Orphans Marla...
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    Stevens, 1907–1990) was a prolific American actress and dancer who appeared in a total of 95 theatrically released full-length motion pictures. Orphaned before...
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  • Astor family (redirect from Astor Orphans)
    (1879–1952) The Right Hon. William Waldorf Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor (1907–1966) The Right Hon. William Waldorf Astor, 4th Viscount Astor (born 1951) (1) The Hon...
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  • Julián Soler (category 1907 births)
    (born Julián Díaz Pavia; 17 February 1907 – 5 May 1977) was a Mexican film director, actor, and screenwriter of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. In his...
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    five dollars per day for two weeks of outdoor filming in freezing weather.[citation needed] In 1907, she went to work for the Vitagraph Company in Brooklyn...
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    countries with Germanic populations during the World War II. It included the selection of "racially worthy" orphans for adoption and care for children born...
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  • Fred Quimby (category American animated film producers)
    Barbera, the creators of Tom and Jerry. Quimby was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and started his career as a journalist. In 1907, he managed a film theater...
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  • The year 1945 in film involved some significant events. With 1945 being the last year of World War II, the many films released this year had themes of...
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    example, of the 1907 release Ben Hur is offered for $120 ($4,069 USD today), while a colored version of the same 1000-foot, 15-minute film costs $270 ($9...
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  • John Lewis (department store founder) (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    a member of that body, and the successor Metropolitan Borough Council until 1919. From 1901– 1907 he was a member of the London County Council, representing...
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  • Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, also known as The Jungle Book, is a 1994 American adventure film co-written and directed by Stephen Sommers, produced...
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    Memoirs of the World in Ten Fragments, and the nonfiction book The Orphaned Land: New Mexico's Environment Since the Manhattan Project. He is the co-founder...
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