Douglas Elton Fairbanks Sr. was an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in silent films including The Thief of Bagdad, Robin Hood, and The Mark of Zorro, but spent the early part of his career making comedies.
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swashbuckler, actor, mary pickford, old hollywood, robin hood
Remembered as the "It Girl", Bow was one of the most popular actresses of the 1920s. Her physicality and expressiveness made her an instant hit with silent film audiences, with her lead role in the 1927 romantic comedy 'It' being her most popular.
From 1922 to 1933, Clara made 57 films, including almost a dozen "talkies".
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the it girl, silent film, sex symbol, old hollywood movies, old hollywood
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin KBE was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, The Tramp, and is considered one of the most important figures in the history of film.
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charles chaplin, the tramp, hollywood, film, chaplin
Harold Clayton Lloyd Sr. was an American actor, comedian, and stunt performer who appeared in many silent comedy films. Lloyd is considered alongside Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton as one of the most influential film comedians of the silent film era.
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comedian, buster keaton, fatty arbuckle, charlie chaplin, slapstick
Joseph Frank Keaton known professionally as Buster Keaton, was an American actor, comedian, film director, producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer. He is best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy.
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silent film, comedian, actor, buster, hollywood
Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle was an American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. Arbuckle was one of the most popular silent stars of the 1910s and one of the highest paid actors in Hollywood.
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silent film, old hollywood, hollywood, charlie chaplin, comedian
Mary Pickford, was a Canadian-American film actress and producer with a career that spanned five decades. A pioneer in the American film industry, she co-founded Pickford–Fairbanks Studios and United Artists, and was one of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
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actress, celebrity, hollywood, kitten, movie
Bonnie Elizabeth Parker (October 1, 1910 – May 23, 1934) was an American criminal who traveled the Central United States with her lover Clyde Barrow and their gang during the Great Depression, known for their bank robberies.
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famous criminals, notorious, great depression, bonnie and clyde, gangster
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929) was an American Old West lawman and gambler in Cochise County, Arizona Territory, and a deputy marshal in Tombstone. He worked in a wide variety of trades throughout his life and took part in the famous Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, during which lawmen killed three outlaw Cochise County Cowboys
Evelyn Nesbit was an American artists' model, chorus girl, and actress. She is best known for her years as a young woman in New York City, particularly her involvement in a deadly love triangle between railroad scion Harry Kendall Thaw and architect Stanford White, which resulted in White's murder by Thaw in 1906.
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1910s, singer, actress, the gilded age, evelyn nesbit thaw
Lythe and listin, gentilmen,That be of frebore blode; I shall you tel of a gode yeman, His name was Robyn Hode. Robyn was a prude outlaw, Whyles he walked on grounde: So curteyse an outlawe as he was one Was nevere non founde.
Ned Kelly (December 1854 – 11 November 1880)[a] was an Australian bushranger, outlaw, gang leader and convicted police murderer. One of the last bushrangers, he is known for wearing a suit of bulletproof armour during his final shootout with the police.
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kelly gang, bushranger, bushrangers, australian history, death mask
Frederick Bailey Deeming (30 July 1853 – 23 May 1892) was an English-born Australian murderer. He was convicted and executed for the murder of a woman in Melbourne, Australia. He is remembered today because he was suspected by some of being the notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper.
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murderer, serial killer, true crime, murder, crime
Ned Kelly emerged from the forest at Glenrowan behind the police lines in the early morning of June 28th, 1880 in an attempt to get back to his gang at the inn. Dressed in his armour he fought the police for half an hour single-handed before he was brought down by buckshot to his exposed knee.
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australian history, edward kelly, australia, bandit, criminal
Remembered as the "It Girl", Bow was one of the most popular actresses of the 1920s. Her physicality and expressiveness made her an instant hit with silent film audiences, with her lead role in the 1927 romantic comedy 'It' being her most popular.
From 1922 to 1933, Clara made 57 films, including almost a dozen "talkies".
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the it girl, old hollywood, old hollywood movies, sex symbol, silent film
Remembered as the "It Girl", Bow was one of the most popular actresses of the 1920s. Her physicality and expressiveness made her an instant hit with silent film audiences, with her lead role in the 1927 romantic comedy 'It' being her most popular. From 1922 to 1933, Clara made 57 films, including almost a dozen "talkies".
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the it girl, art deco, flapper, hollywood, jazz age
The Roaring Twenties (sometimes stylized as the Roarin' 20s) refers to the decade of the 1920s in Western society and Western culture. ... This period saw the large-scale development and use of automobiles, telephones, films, radio, and electrical appliances in the lives of millions in the Western world.
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history, roaring twenties, vintage, retro, jazz
What happens when you mesh a 1970s burlesque of 1950s science fiction with a 1960s pop art pastiche replicating a panel from a romance comic of the same era? This wonderful frankensteinian mash-up depicting Janet Weiss during the floor show sequence of the Rocky Horror Picture Show
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art, susansarandon, time warp, pastiche, drowning girl
There have been rumours about a haunting at the Sedgewick Hotel in New York for years but now the ugly little spud is making itself known. Chomping away on unattended room service trolleys, this class five full-roaming vapour is a focused, non-terminal, repeating phantasm (real nasty one too) and the boys in grey need to take him down!
Sure, he's a career criminal with a penchant for tall tales and chopping off body parts but he's a lovable rogue. Don't mind the bolt cutters, they're purely for show - trust him.
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tattoos, bolt cutters, mark read, eric bana, chopper
He is "The Ghost Who Walks", "The Man Who Cannot Die" - he is THE PHANTOM! Lee Falk's timeless superhero is one of the first costumed superheroes, inspiring everyone from Superman and Batman to the X-Men. He protects the jungles of Bengalla with his trusty steed Hero, falcon Fraka and wolf Devil, branding friend and foe with his rings.
James Butler Hickok, better known as "Wild Bill" Hickok, was a folk hero of the American Old West known for his work across the frontier as a drover, wagon master, soldier, spy, scout, lawman, gunfighter, gambler, showman, and actor.
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gunslinger, cowboy, deadwood, south dakota, art
From 1963 to the present one hero with many faces has travelled the universe through time and space righting wrongs and saving people from evil. Regeneration has given us many Doctors and here they are in one place!
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christopher eccleston, colin baker, david tennant, jon pertwee, matt smith
Spaced is a British television sitcom written by and starring Jessica Stevenson and Simon Pegg, and directed by Edgar Wright. Here we see Tim, Daisy, Brian, Mike, Marsha and Twist. Perfect for fans of British comedy.
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shaun of the dead, comedy, british, edgarwright, simonpegg
According to legend, Death appears at midnight every year on Halloween. Death calls forth the dead from their graves to dance for him while he plays his fiddle (here represented by a solo violin). His skeletons dance for him until the rooster crows at dawn, when they must return to their graves until the next year.