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Golden Age of Film: Kate Wegehaupt
Golden Age of Film: Kate Wegehaupt
film
Kate Wegehaupt
Background
• Movie Stars
• Production Companies
• Variety of Types
Why so Good?
• Optimistic (not happy)
• Progression
• 1920s Boom to Depression to War
• Didn’t want mirror of real life
• Not completely unrealistic
For Instance...
“Casablanca”
1942
*Big Stars
*Idealistic/Optimistic
Why Watch?
• Test of Time
• Themes (Universal)
• Simplistic (“Good ‘ol days”)
• History
• Current mood
Top Choices
It Happened One Night (1934)