Midterm Flashcards
Modern Times year and studio
1936
United Artists
Modern Times names
Charlie Chaplin → director, producer, writer, little tramp
Paulette Goddard → Ellen
Singin’ in the Rain year and studio
1952
produced → Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
distributed → Loew’s Inc.
Singin’ in the Rain names
Stanley Donen → director
Gene Kelly → director, Don Lockwood
Debbie Reynolds → Kathy Selden
The Public Enemy year and studio
1931
Warner Bros
The Public Enemy names
William A. Wellman → director
James Cagney → Tom Powers
Edward Woods → Matt Doyle
Top Hat year and studio
1935
RKO Radio Pictures
Top Hat names
Mark Sandrich → director
Fred Astaire → Jerry Travers
Ginger Rogers → Dale Tremont
His Girl Friday year and studio
1940
Columbia Pictures
His Girl Friday names
Howard Hawks → director, producer
Cary Grant → Walter Burns
Rosalind Russell → Hildy Johnson
Casablanca year and studio
1942
Warner Bros
Casablanca names
Michael Curtiz → director
Humphrey Bogart → Rick Blaine
Ingrid Bergman → Ilsa Lund
Shadow of a Doubt year and studio
1943
Universal Pictures
Shadow of a Doubt names
Alfred Hitchcock → director
Teresa Wright → Charlotte “Charlie” Newton
Joseph Cotten → Charles “Charlie” Oakley
Spellbound year and studio
1945
United Artists
Spellbound names
Alfred Hitchcock → director
Ingrid Bergman → Dr. Constance Peterson
Gregory Peck → Dr. Anthony Edwardes
The Philadelphia Story year and studio
1940
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
The Philadelphia Story names
George Cukor → director
Cary Grant → C.K. Dexter Haven
Katherine Hepburn → Tracy Lord
Classical style 7 principles
individual talents tightly controlled
storytelling is the primary concern
based in unity → macro and micro unity
realistic in the sense on mimesis
immediatley comprehensible and unambiguous
basic emotional appeal
technique never revealed → “invisible style”
Hitchcock motifs
the ambiguity of guilt and innocence
the transference of guilt from one individual to another
the fascination with a guilty woman
the therapeutic function of obsession and vulnerability
the equation of knowledge and danger
five majors and three minors
Paramount
Loew’s/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (M-G-M)
Fox/20th Century-Fox
Warner Bros
Radio-Keith-Orpheum (RKO)
Universal
Columbia
United Artists
“more stares than there are in heaven”
polish and gloss
sober, restrained and calculated comedies
American middle-class values
M-G-M
sexual savoir-faire with tongue in cheek wit
anarchic, pretension-deflating comedies
Paramount
working man’s studio
hasty and rough
gangster films
Warner Bros
