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    Ernst Lubitsch (category Comedy film directors)
    that the other is their secret romantic correspondent. David Thomson wrote: The Shop Around the Corner...is among the greatest of films...This is a love...
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  • Martin Scorsese, Sarah Ferguson, and Timothy Headington, the film stars Emily Blunt, Rupert Friend, Paul Bettany, Miranda Richardson, Harriet Walter, Mark...
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    Howard Hawks (category Film directors from California)
    Thomson, David (November 1994). A Biographical Dictionary of Film (3 ed.). Knopf. p. 322. ISBN 978-0-679-75564-7. Wakeman, John (1987). World Film Directors...
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    visuals conceived in relation to one another from the start. The model for their mutual articulation lay in Brecht's newly formulated principle of the "separation...
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    silent film. Scrooge (1913), starring Seymour Hicks as Scrooge. Hicks also starred in the 1935 adaptation. Produced in Britain by the Zenith Film Company...
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    Jean Renoir (category French male film actors)
    Life and My Films, page 230. Thomson, David (2020). A Light in The Dark. A History of Movie Directors. W&N. p. 48. ISBN 978-1474619844. Thomson, David (2010)...
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    weekend at San Simeon. "Herman told Joe to come to the office of their mutual friend Charlie Lederer.": 144  "Mankiewicz found himself on story-swapping...
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    Orson Welles (category American film editors)
    by flowers on the rural estate of a longtime friend, bullfighter Antonio Ordóñez.: 298–299  David Thomson credits Welles with "the creation of a visual...
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    became acquainted with Samuel Goldwyn. She was introduced through a mutual friend, the Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, cousin to the last tsar of Russia...
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    ranked it as the 29th greatest thriller film of all time in 2001. Kubrick met author Michael Herr through mutual friend David Cornwell (novelist John le Carré)...
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    Clint Eastwood (category American film production company founders)
    (Locke) accompanied by his best friend, Orville Boggs (played by Geoffrey Lewis) and an orangutan called Clyde. The film proved surprisingly successful...
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    Caligari character. Janowitz and Mayer were introduced in June 1918 by a mutual friend, actor Ernst Deutsch. Both writers were penniless at the time. Gilda...
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    dislodged a large rock when finishing their climb. Much to their consternation, the rock almost hit James Thomson and partner E.S. Reynolds as they climbed...
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    David Bowie (category English male film actors)
    October 1990, Bowie and Somali-born supermodel Iman were introduced by a mutual friend. He recalled, "I was naming the children the night we met ... it was...
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  • This is a list of American films released in 1997. The highest-grossing American films released in 1997, by domestic box office gross revenue, are as...
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  • This is a list of American films released in 2001. The highest-grossing American films released in 2001, by domestic box office gross revenue, are as...
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  • This is a list of American films released in 2006. The highest-grossing American films released in 2006, by domestic box office gross revenue, are as...
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    (Julia Roberts) and William (Hugh Grant) declare their mutual love. In 1921, the hotel was used in the film Kipps, based on the novel by H. G. Wells. It also...
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    down the street, men turn their backs and Angels weep in Heaven, and the Devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out.... In 1913 and 1914, a number of newspapers...
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    work on the structure of atoms and molecules was being done. He met J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory and Trinity College, Cambridge. He attended...
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    Noël Coward (category British LGBTQ film directors)
    middle-aged women slowly getting drunk while awaiting the arrival of their mutual lover. Hay Fever, the first of Coward's plays to gain an enduring place...
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    was unimpressed, but Oppenheimer went to Cambridge nonetheless; J. J. Thomson ultimately accepted him on the condition that he complete a basic laboratory...
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    Retrieved 23 February 2018. Richardson, Dorothy (2014) [1915]. Ross, Stephen; Thomson, Tara (eds.). Pointed Roofs. Broadview Press. ISBN 978-1-77048-538-9. Archived...
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    Ethel Waters (category American film actresses)
    magazine Diva in 1997. In 1938, Waters met artist Luigi Lucioni through their mutual friend, Carl Van Vechten. Lucioni asked Waters if he could paint her portrait...
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    over film of the earliest players selected to the team. Belichick was awarded a Sports Emmy in 2021 for his contributions to the series. After mutually parting...
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    King Vidor (category Film directors from Texas)
    Edward Albee use of "What a Dump! And p. 278: "...the film touches on film noir expressionism..." Thomson, 2007: "Vidor and the actress did not get on well...
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    Pauline Kael (category American film critics)
    films in a coffeeshop with a friend and asked her to review Charlie Chaplin's Limelight. Kael dubbed the film "Slimelight" and began publishing film criticism...
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    Irving Thalberg (category Film producers from California)
    studio manager, film historian David Thomson writes that his new job "owed nothing to nepotism, private wealth, or experience in the film industry." He...
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    Casement grew to mistrust imperialism. After retiring from consular service in 1913, he became more involved with Irish republicanism and other separatist movements...
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    This 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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