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Culture of the 1930s
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Clark Gable• Starred as Rhett
Butler in “Gone with the Wind”
• Biggest film star of the 1930s
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W.C. Fields• Comedic actor• Starred in “My Little
Chickadee”• Famous for playing a
lovable curmudgeon
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Errol Flynn
• Starred as the title character in “The Adventures of Robin Hood”
• Considered to be the most handsome man of his time.
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Fred Astaire• Considered by many
to be the best male dancer who ever lived.
• Starred in “The Gay Divorcee” “Top Hat” and “Shall We Dance”
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Basil Rathbone• Starred as Sherlock
Holmes in over a dozen films.
• Played the Sheriff of Nottingham in “The Adventures of Robin Hood”
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The Marx Bros.• Starred in
“Animal Crackers”, “Horsefeathers”, “Duck Soup” and “A Night at the Opera”
• Groucho, Chico, Harpo & Zeppo
• “One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas, I’ll never know.”
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Ginger Rogers• Starred in “The Gay
Divorcee” & “5th Avenue Girl”
• Known for being Fred Astaire’s dancing partner
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Greta Garbo• Starred in “Mata Hari”
and “Anna Karenina”• Born in Sweden 1905• Considered to be one
of the top 5 actresses of all time.
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Bette Davis• Starred in “Of
Human Bondage” and “The Petrified Forest”
• Sued to get out of a studio contract in 1934
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Jean Harlow• Dated Aviator Howard
Hughes and boxing champ Max Baer
• Starred in “Dinner at 8” and “Bombshell”
• Died at 26 of kidney failure.
• Played by Gwen Stefani in the 2005 film “The Aviator”
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Mae West• Starred in “She Done Him
Wrong” and “I’m No Angel”
• Powerful in Hollywood and wrote most of the scripts of the movies in which she starred.
• Born in 1895. Older than most of the actresses of her time.
• Was infamous for her sexual double entendres. “Come up and see me sometime.”
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Shirley Temple• Starred in over a dozen
films in the 1930s• One of the first child
stars.• “Heidi”, “The Little
Colonel”, “The Littlest Rebel”.
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Dracula • Debuted in 1931.• Launched Bela
Lugosi’s career.• Considered to be the
scariest movie of all time when it was released.
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Frankenstein• Debuted in 1932• Launched Boris
Karloff’s career.
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Gone With the Wind• Debuted in 1939• Sold more tickets
than any other film before or since.
• If released today would gross over 1 billion dollars
• One of the first color films.
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King Kong
• Debuted in 1933• Won awards for
special effects• Hitler’s favorite
film.• Remakes made in
1976 and 2005.
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Wizard of Oz
• Debuted in 1939• First color film ever
made.• One of the most
popular films of all time.
• “Lions & Tigers & Bears. Oh my!”
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Joe Louis• “The Brown
Bomber”• Longest reigning
heavyweight champion of the world. 12 years (1937-1949)
• Made 25 consecutive defenses of his title.
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Joe Louis II• Defeated Billy
Conn in 1941.• Conn said, “I’m
going to hit and run.”
• Louis replied-“He can run, but he can’t hide.”
• Ranked as the greatest heavyweight of all time and the 2nd best boxer of all time.
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Seabiscuit• Horse of the Year
1938• Won match race
against war admiral 1938
• Movie made about Seabiscuit 2003
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Salvador Dali• Born in Catalonia
Spain, 1904.• His most famous
painting “Persistance of Memory”
• Painted in 1931.• Pioneered the field
of surrealism.
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Brave New World• Written in 1932 by Aldous
Huxley.• Shocking view of the future
as a dystopia (Anti-Utopia).• Efficiency triumphs over
the human spirit.• “Soma” is consumed to
shield all from pain.• Humans are no longer
born, but cloned.
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The Hobbit• Written by J.R.R. Tolkien• Same author as “Lord of
the Rings”• The adventures of Bilbo
Baggins in which he encounters Gollum/Smeagol
• Bilbo is helped by the magic ring of invisibility, “The Precious”
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John Steinbeck• “Of Mice and Men”-1937.
George and his mentally challenged friend Lenny try to survive as ranch hands during the depression.
• “The Grapes of Wrath”-1939. Tom Joad tries to help his family survive in California after moving from Oklahoma dustbowl during the depression.
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The Good Earth• Written by Pearl S.
Buck-1931• Story of farmer,
Wang Lung and his rise from poverty to wealth in China.
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The Yearling• Marjorie Kinnan
Rawlings-1938• The story of Jody
Baxter and his fawn “Flag”
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Who Goes There?• Written by John Campbell
1938.• Antarctic research team
uncovers a frozen alien in the ice.
• It awakens and hunts down the crew one by one.
• It has the ability to mimic any living creature after consuming them.
• Made into a movie, “The Thing”-1982 with Kurt Russell
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Nausea• Written by John Paul
Sartre-1938• Existentialist
philosophy.• World is meaningless.• Man struggles to define
himself with no objective truth.
• The only purpose of life is to define one’s purpose.