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    White Shadows in the South Seas is a 1928 American synchronized sound romantic adventure film directed by W.S. Van Dyke and starring Monte Blue and Raquel...
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    W. S. Van Dyke (category Suicides in California)
    White Shadows in the South Seas (1928); its follow-up, The Pagan (1929); Trader Horn (1931), which was filmed almost entirely in Africa; Tarzan the Ape...
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    Norman Hall: Mutiny on the Bounty (1932) Frederick O'Brien: White Shadows in the South Seas (1919) Henry De Vere Stacpoole: The Blue Lagoon (1908) Robert...
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    Van Dyke's White Shadows in the South Seas (1928) and contained many elements which would later evolve into Tabu: A Story of the South Seas. Murnau visited...
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  • the beginning of White Shadows in the South Seas, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's mascot Leo the Lion roars for the very first time, giving voice to one of the...
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    won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for White Shadows in the South Seas presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1930...
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    Raquel Torres (category Mexican emigrants to the United States)
    'Latin-ness'. Torres played a Polynesian beauty in White Shadows in the South Seas (1928), a silent film shot in Tahiti which was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's first...
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    Frederick O'Brien (category American expatriates in Brazil)
    White Shadows in the South Seas, Mystic Isles of the South Seas, and Atolls of the Sun. A movie was made in 1928 of White Shadows in the South Seas....
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    Robert Anderson (silent film actor) (category Danish emigrants to the United States)
    MGM's White Shadows in the South Seas (1928), lushly filmed in Tahiti and the second film to win an Academy Award for Best Cinematography. The film was directed...
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  • Isle of Escape (category American black-and-white films)
    roles in such films as White Shadows in the South Seas at MGM towards the end of the silent era and continued doing so in this early talkie. Dave Wade...
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  • (Hipshot, 2010) Radio Paradise – Mike Cooper in Beirut (Johnny Kafka, 2011) White Shadows in the South Seas (Room40, 2013) Forbidden Delta Planet Blues...
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    several films in the mid-1920s at Warner Bros. Blue portrayed the alcoholic doctor who finds paradise in MGM's White Shadows in the South Seas (1928). Blue...
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  • film White Shadows in the South Seas. The Pagan stars Ramón Novarro. The film has a slight resemblance in story to an earlier Novarro silent, Where the Pavement...
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    Osmond Borradaile), The Mikado (William V. Skall) and The Wizard of Oz (Harold Rosson). In 1957, black-and-white and color films competed in a combined Best...
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  • previous south sea adventures The Pagan and White Shadows in the South Seas. The film is a remake of a 1925 silent film of the same name. Dan Pritchard is...
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  • S. Van Dyke's White Shadows in the South Seas (1928). In 1944 the Argentine Academy of Cinematography Arts and Sciences gave Roberts the "Best Cinematographer"...
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  • List of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films (1924–1929) (category 1920s in American cinema)
    The following is a list of films originally produced and/or distributed theatrically by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and released between 1924 and 1929. Lists...
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    (some of the roars were not of Jackie), first heard via a gramophone record for MGM's first production with sound, White Shadows in the South Seas (1928)...
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    Robert J. Flaherty (category Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society)
    with Zoltan Korda) The Land (1942; made for the U.S. Department of Agriculture) Louisiana Story (1948) White Shadows in the South Seas (1928; uncredited...
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  • Midsummer Night's Dream's awards was a write-in winner. The Cinematography (Black & White) nomination for The Rains Came, included here, was not official...
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  • (1935-1981) (1985) Behind the Scenes: The Making Of... (1990) W. S. Van Dyke's Journal: White Shadows in the South Seas (1927-1928) (1996), edited and annotated...
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    Sadie Thompson (1928) and White Shadows in the South Seas (1928). Boris Karloff filmography List of monster movies "The Sea Bat". American Film Institute...
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  • pre-recorded sound and part or full talking feature films made in the United States and Europe during the transition to sound, between 1926 and 1929. During this...
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  • 2nd Academy Awards (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
    OCLC 37465308. White, Michael (April 28, 1972). "The Actress and the Four-Letter Cliche". The Guardian. London. p. 13. As the elder sister in Broadway Melody...
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    Loew's Valencia Theatre (category Pages using the Kartographer extension)
    with Monte Blue and Raquel Torres inWhite Shadows in the South Seas” plus vaudeville on stage. Along with the other Wonder Theatres, it was equipped...
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  • American actor, Key Largo, White Shadows in the South Seas March 18 – Wanda Hawley, 67, American actress, The Young Rajah, The Midnight Message March 25...
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    November 1928 (category Months in the 1920s)
    adventure romance film White Shadows in the South Seas was released. The film had no dialogue (other than a single instance of the word "hello") but it...
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    Tiki culture (category Culture of the United States)
    slowly and reverently". South Seas genre movies leading up to this period included White Shadows in the South Seas (1928), The Love Trader (1928), and...
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  • The Heart of London (1925) In Search of England (1927) Frederick O'Brien (1869-1932) White Shadows in the South Seas (1919) Mystic Isles of the South...
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    A list of adventure films released in the 1920s. Wollstein, Hans J. "Overview: The Jungle Goddess". AllMovie. Retrieved 2 April 2017....
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