Encyclopedia - Film/Theatre

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Abbey Theatre Abbott and Costello Abbott, George (Francis) ABC Academy Awards Ackermann, Konrad Ernst acrobatics acting actor-manager system Actors Studio Adamov, Arthur Aeschylus afterpiece Albee, Edward (Franklin) Aldrich, Robert Alea, Tomás Gutiérrez Allen, Mel Allen, Steve Allen, Woody Almendros, Nestor

Altman, Robert (B.) Ames, Winthrop Anderson, (James) Maxwell Anderson, Dame Judith Anderson, Lindsay Andreini family Andrews, Dame Julie animé animation Anouilh, Jean (-Marie-Lucien-Pierre) Antonioni, Michelangelo Aristophanes Arledge, Roone Armstrong, Gillian Artaud, Antonin Ashcroft, Dame Peggy Atsumi Kiyoshi Attenborough, Sir David (Frederick) auteur theory Autry, (Orvon) Gene

Ayckbourn, Sir Alan Béjart family Büchner, Georg Bacall, Lauren Bachchan, Amitabh Bailey, Pearl (Mae) Baird, Bil and Cora Baker, Josephine Ball, Lucille (Désirée) Bankhead, Tallulah (Brockman) Bara, Theda Baraka, (Imamu) Amiri Barber, Red Bardot, Brigitte Barnum, P(hineas) T(aylor) Barrault, Jean-Louis Barrie, Sir James (Matthew) Barrymore family Baylis, Lilian (Mary) BBC

Beatty, (Henry) Warren Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumont, Francis Beckett, Samuel (Barclay) Beery, Wallace (Fitzgerald) Behrman, S(amuel) N(athaniel) Belasco, David Belmondo, Jean-Paul Bennett, Alan Bennett, Michael Benny, Jack Bentley, Eric (Russell) Bergen, Edgar Bergman, (Ernst) Ingmar Bergman, Ingrid Berkeley, Busby Berle, Milton Bernhardt, Sarah Bertolucci, Bernardo Betti, Ugo

Bhasa Blanc, Mel(vin Jerome) Bob and Ray Bochco, Steven (Ronald) Bogarde, Sir Dirk Bogart, Humphrey (DeForest) Boguslawski, Wojciech Bollywood Boorman, John Booth, Edwin (Thomas) Borge, Victor Boucicault, Dion Bow, Clara Bowes, Edward Boyer, Charles Brando, Marlon, (Jr.) Brecht, Bertolt Bresson, Robert Brice, Fanny broadcasting

Broadway Brook, Sir Peter (Stephen Paul) Brooks, James L. Brooks, Louise Brooks, Mel Browning, Tod Bruce, Lenny Buñuel, Luis Burbage, Richard burlesque show Burnett, Carol Burns, George Burns, Ken(neth Lauren) Burton, Richard cabaret Caesar, Sid Cagney, James Calderón de la Barca, Pedro Campbell, Mrs. Patrick Campion, Jane

Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC) Cannes Film Festival Capra, Frank Carné, Marcel Carson, Johnny Cassavetes, John Castro y Bellvís, Guillén de catharsis CBS Television Network Chabrol, Claude Chaikin, Joseph Chaney, Lon Chaplin, Charlie Chayefsky, Paddy Chekhov, Anton (Pavlovich) Chevalier, Maurice Child, Julia chorus chronicle play Cibber, Colley

cinéma vérité cinematography circus civic theatre Clair, René claque Clark, Dick Claudel, Paul (-Louis-Charles-Marie) Cleese, John (Marwood) Clift, (Edward) Montgomery Close, Glenn clown Clurman, Harold (Edgar) CNN Coen, Joel and Ethan Cohn, Harry Colbert, Claudette Colman, Ronald (Charles) Columbia Pictures Entertainment, Inc. Comédie-Française

Comden, Betty conjuring Connelly, Marc(us Cook) Connery, Sir Sean Cooper, Dame Gladys Cooper, Gary Coppola, Francis Ford Corman, Roger (William) Corneille, Pierre Cornell, Katharine Cosby, Bill Costa-Gavras, Constantine Covent Garden Coward, Sir Noël (Peirce) Craig, (Edward Henry) Gordon Crawford, Cheryl Crawford, Joan Cronenberg, David Cronkite, Walter (Leland, Jr.) Cronyn, Hume

Cruise, Tom Cukor, George (Dewey) Curtis, Tony Curtiz, Michael Cushman, Charlotte (Saunders) Dürrenmatt, Friedrich Davis, Bette Day, Doris de Havilland, Olivia (Mary) De Laurentiis, Dino De Niro, Robert De Sica, Vittorio Dean, James (Byron) DeMille, Cecil B(lount) Dench, Dame Judi(th Olivia) Deneuve, Catherine Depardieu, Gérard Devrient family Dietrich, Marlene directing

disc jockey (DJ) Disney Co. Disney, Walt(er Elias) documentary domestic tragedy Donen, Stanley Douglas, Kirk Douglas, Michael Draper, Ruth Dressler, Marie Drew family Dreyer, Carl Theodor Drury Lane Theatre Dunaway, (Dorothy) Faye Durante, Jimmy Duse, Eleonora Eastwood, Clint(on) Edinburgh Festival Edwards, Blake Eisenstein, Sergey (Mikhaylovich)

Eisner, Michael (Dammann) Emmy award epic theatre Etherege, Sir George Euripides Evans, Dame Edith (Mary) Evans, Maurice (Herbert) Fairbanks, Douglas Farnsworth, Philo T(aylor) Fassbinder, Rainer Werner Fellini, Federico Feydeau, Georges (-Léon-Jules-Marie) Field, Sally Fields, Dame Gracie Fields, W.C. film noir film theory Finney, Albert Flaherty, Robert (Joseph) Fleischer brothers

Flynn, Errol (Leslie Thomson) Fo, Dario Folies-Bergère Fonda, Henry (Jaynes) Fonda, Jane (Seymour) Foote, (Albert) Horton footlights Ford, Harrison Ford, John Forman, Miloš Fornés, Maria Irene Forrest, Edwin Foster, Jodie Fox Broadcasting Co. Fratellini family Freed, Arthur Friel, Brian Friendly, Fred W. Frost, Sir David (Paradine) Fry, Christopher

Fugard, Athol (Harold Lannigan) Gabin, Jean Gable, (William) Clark Galli Bibiena family game show Gance, Abel Garbo, Greta Gardner, Ava (Lavinia) Garland, Judy Garrick, David Garson, Greer Gibson, Mel (Columcille) Gielgud, Sir (Arthur) John Gish, Lillian (Diana) Gleason, Jackie Godard, Jean-Luc Godfrey, Arthur (Morton) Goldoni, Carlo Goldwyn, Samuel Goodson, Mark

Gosden, Freeman F(isher); and Correll, Charles J. Grable, Betty Grand Guignol Grant, Cary Granville-Barker, Harley Gregory, Augusta, Lady Griffin, Merv (Edward) Griffith, Andy Griffith, D(avid) W(ark) Grotowski, Jerzy Group Theatre Guan Hanqing Guare, John Guinness (de Cuffe), Sir Alec Guitry, Sacha Guthrie, Sir (William) Tyrone Guy-Blaché, Alice Gwyn, Nell Habima Hackman, Gene

Hall, Sir Peter (Reginald Frederick) Hanks, Tom Hanna, William (Denby); and Barbera, Joseph (Roland) Hansberry, Lorraine Harlequin Harlow, Jean Harrison, Sir Rex Hart, Moss Hart, William S(urrey) Harvey, Paul Hauptmann, Gerhart (Johann Robert) Hawks, Howard (Winchester) Hayes (Brown), Helen Hays Office Hayworth, Rita Head, Edith Hellman, Lillian (Florence) Henslowe, Philip Henson, Jim Hepburn, Audrey

Hepburn, Katharine (Houghton) Herne, James A. Herzog, Werner Heston, Charlton Hitchcock, Sir Alfred Hoffman, Dustin Hope, Bob Hopkins, Sir Anthony Houdini, Harry Houseman, John Howard, Leslie Howard, Ron Howe, James Wong Hudson, Rock Hurt, John Huston, John Huston, Walter Ibsen, Henrik (Johan) Ichikawa Kon Inge, William (Motter)

Ionesco, Eugène Irons, Jeremy Irving, Sir Henry Itami, Juzo Ivory, James (Francis) Jackson, Glenda Jazeera, Al- jingxi Jones, Chuck Jones, James Earl Jones, Jennifer Jonson, Ben(jamin) juggler kabuki Kael, Pauline Kapoor, Raj Karloff, Boris Kaufman, George S. Kawatake Mokuami Kaye, Danny

Kazan, Elia Kean, Edmund Keaton, Buster Keaton, Diane Keillor, Garrison Keitel, Harvey Kelly, Grace Kerr, Deborah Kiarostami, Abbas Kidd, Michael King, Larry Korda, Sir Alexander Kubrick, Stanley Kurosawa Akira Kushner, Tony Laemmle, Carl Lancaster, Burt(on Stephen) Lang, Fritz Lange, Jessica Langtry, Lillie

Laughton, Charles Laurel and Hardy Lawrence, Gertrude Le Gallienne, Eva Lean, Sir David Lear, Norman (Milton) Lee, Bruce Lee, Gypsy Rose Lee, Spike Leigh, Mike Leigh, Vivien Leighton, Margaret Lemmon, Jack Leone, Sergio Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim Letterman, David Levinson, Barry Lewis, Jerry Liberace Lillie, Beatrice (Gladys)

limelight Lindsay, Howard Linkletter, Art(hur Gordon) little theatre liturgical drama Living Theatre, The Lloyd, Harold Lombard, Carole Loos, Anita Loren, Sophia Lorre, Peter Loy, Myrna Lubitsch, Ernst Lucas, George Lugosi, Bela Lumet, Sidney Lumière brothers Lunt and Fontanne Lupino family Lynch, David

Méliès, Georges MacArthur, Charles (Gordon) MacLaine, Shirley Macready, William (Charles) Maeterlinck, Maurice (Polydore-Marie-Bernard) Magnani, Anna makeup Malle, Louis Mamet, David (Alan) Mamoulian, Rouben Mankiewicz, Joseph L(eo) Marceau, Marcel March, Frederic marionette Marivaux, Pierre (Carlet de Chamblain de) Marlowe, Christopher Martin, Mary (Virginia) Martin, Steve Marx Brothers Mason, James

masque Mastroianni, Marcello Matthau, Walter Mayer, Louis B(urt) Maysles, Al(bert) and David MCA McCrea, Joel (Albert) McKellen, Sir Ian (Murray) McNally, Terrence McNeill, Don McQueen, (Terence) Steve(n) melodrama Menander Merrick, David Meyerhold, Vsevolod (Yemilyevich) MGM Mickey Mouse Middleton, Thomas Mifune Toshiro Milland, Ray

Miller, Arthur Miller, Jonathan (Wolfe) mime and pantomime Minnelli, Vincente minstrel show miracle play Miranda, Carmen Mitchum, Robert (Charles Duran) Mix, Tom Mizoguchi Kenji Molière Monroe, Marilyn Monty Python('s Flying Circus) Moore, Mary Tyler morality play Moreau, Jeanne Morse, Carlton E. Moscow Art Theatre Mostel, Zero motion picture

MTV Murnau, F.W. music hall and variety theatre Muybridge, Eadweard mystery play National Film Board of Canada (NFB) National Public Radio (NPR) NBC network New Wave Newman, Paul newscast Nichols, Mike Nicholson, Jack Nielsen ratings Noh theatre Nykvist, Sven O'Casey, Sean O'Neill, Eugene (Gladstone) O'Toole, Peter (Seamus)

Obraztsov, Sergey Vladimirovich Odets, Clifford Off-Broadway Old Vic Olivier, Laurence (Kerr), Baron Olivier (of Brighton) Ophüls, Max Orton, Joe Osborne, John (James) Ostrovsky, Aleksandr (Nikolayevich) Ozu Yasujiro Paar, Jack Pabst, G(eorg) W(ilhelm) Pacino, Al(fredo James) Page, Geraldine pageant Paley, William S(amuel) Papp, Joseph Pasolini, Pier Paolo Passion play Pastor, Tony

Pathé, Charles PBS Peary, Harold Peck, (Eldred) Gregory Peckinpah, (David) Sam(uel) performance art Perkins, Anthony Phillips, Irna Pickford, Mary Pinero, Sir Arthur Wing Pinter, Harold Pirandello, Luigi Plautus Poitier, Sidney Polanski, Roman Potter, Dennis (Christopher George) Powell, Michael (Latham) Powell, William Power, Tyrone (Edmund) Preminger, Otto (Ludwig)

Price, Vincent (Leonard) Prince, Hal Provincetown Players Punch puppetry Quinn, Anthony (Rudolph Oaxaca) Quintero, José (Benjamín) Racine, Jean (-Baptiste) Rainer, Luise Rathbone, (Philip St. John) Basil Rattigan, Sir Terence (Mervyn) Ray, Nicholas Ray, Satyajit Redford (Jr.), (Charles) Robert Redgrave, Sir Michael (Scudamore) Redgrave, Vanessa Reed, Sir Carol Reiner, Carl Reinhardt, Max Renoir, Jean

repertory theatre Resnais, Alain revue Richardson, Sir Ralph (David) Richardson, Tony Riefenstahl, Leni Ringling Brothers RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. Roach, Hal Robert-Houdin, Jean-Eugène Robinson, Edward G. Roddenberry, Gene Rogers, Fred (McFeely) Rogers, Ginger Rogers, Roy Rogers, Will(iam Penn Adair) Rohmer, Eric Rooney, Mickey Rossellini, Roberto Rostand, Edmond (-Eugène)

Royal National Theatre Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) Ryan, Robert Sarandon, Susan Sardou, Victorien Sarnoff, David Saura (Atarés), Carlos Sayles, John Schlöndorff, Volker Schlesinger, John (Richard) Schnitzler, Arthur Schwarzenegger, Arnold Scofield, (David) Paul Scorsese, Martin Scott, George C(ampbell) Scott, Ridley screenplay Seinfeld, Jerry Sellars, Peter Sellers, Peter

Selznick, David O(liver) Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Sennett, Mack serial Serling, (Edward) Rod(man) Shaffer, Peter (Levin) Shakespeare, William Shaw, George Bernard Shepard, Sam Sheridan, Richard Brinsley (Butler) Sherwood, Robert E(mmet) Shubert Brothers Siddons, Sarah Silvers, Phil Simon, (Marvin) Neil Sirk, Douglas situation comedy Sjöström, Victor Skelton, Red Skinner, Cornelia Otis

slapstick Smith, Dame Maggie soap opera soliloquy Sophocles sound effect Soyinka, Wole special effects Spielberg, Steven stage machinery stagecraft Stanislavsky method Stanislavsky, Konstantin (Sergeyevich) Stanwyck, Barbara Sternberg, Josef von Stevens, George Stewart, Ellen Stewart, James (Maitland) Stone, Oliver Stoppard, Sir Tom

Strasberg, Lee Stratford Shakespeare Festival Streep, Meryl Streisand, Barbra Strindberg, (Johan) August Stroheim, Erich von studio system Sturges, Preston Sullivan, Ed(ward Vincent) Susskind, David (Howard) Swanson, Gloria Sydow, Max von Synge, John Millington talk show Talma, François-Joseph Tanaka Tomoyuki Tandy, Jessica Tarantino, Quentin Tarkovsky, Andrey (Arsenyevich) Tartikoff, Brandon

Tati, Jacques Taylor, Dame Elizabeth (Rosemond) televangelism Tempest, Dame Marie Temple, Shirley Terence Terry, (Alice) Ellen Théâtre National Populaire (TNP) Thalberg, Irving G(rant) theatre Theatre Guild Theatre of Cruelty Theatre of Fact Theatre of the Absurd theatre-in-the-round theatricalism Thompson, Emma Thorndike, Dame (Agnes) Sybil Three Stooges Tirso de Molina

Toland, Gregg Tony Awards Tracy, Spencer (Bonaventure) Tree, Sir Herbert (Draper) Beerbohm Trintignant, Jean-Louis Truffaut, François Turner, Lana Turner, Ted Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp. Ullmann, Liv United Artists Corp. Universal Pictures Ustinov, Sir Peter (Alexander) Vadim (Plemiannikov), Roger Valentino, Rudolph Vallee, Rudy Van Dyke, Dick vaudeville Vega, Lope de ventriloquism

Vicente, Gil Vidor, King (Wallis) Vigo, Jean Visconti, Luchino Voice of America Wallace, Mike Wallack, James William Wallenda, Karl Walsh, Raoul Walters, Barbara Warner Bros. Inc. Washington, Denzel Wasserstein, Wendy Waters, Ethel Wayne, John Webster, John Wedekind, Frank Weiss, Peter (Ulrich) Welk, Lawrence well-made play

Welles, (George) Orson Wellman, William (Augustus) Wenders, Wim Wertmüller, Lina West, Mae Wild West Show Wilder, Billy Wilder, Thornton (Niven) Williams, (George) Emlyn Williams, Tennessee Wilson, August Wilson, Lanford (Eugene) Winfrey, Oprah Wood, Natalie Wyler, William Yiddish drama Zanuck, Darryl F(rancis) Zeffirelli, Franco Zhang Yimou Ziegfeld, Florenz

Zinnemann, Fred