Exam 6: American Cinema in the 1930s

Which of the following is true of the gangster in gangster movies?

What things did the Production Code prohibit in movies?

Ernst Lubitsch was the screen's resident master of the grotesque through the early 1930s.___

What was impossible for director Frank Capra in movies? What was his core message?

Matching -Swing Time ___

Who worked as a successful independently produced director?

The actor that worked successfully in westerns with both Howard Hawks and John Ford was

Matching -The Gold Diggers of 1935 ___

Musical underscoring is what made bad movies "bad" and,as well,often distracted from the emotion a key moment in a movie.___

Matching -Angels with Dirty Faces ___

With what character type was John Ford preoccupied in his movies?

Matching -Camille ___

What quality of speech most characterized how actors spoke in early "talkies"?

Matching -It's a Wonderful Life ___ Garbo and Robert Taylor

Greta Garbo laughed for the first time on film in which movie?

Ben Hecht's writing was embodied in a dynamic,no-nonsense style which helped define 30s comedy and drama.___

What did Mae West possess that made her a "startling apparition"?

The Marx Brothers were more dependent on their writers than quieter,more behavioral comics like Laurel and Hardy.___

All of the following are typical examples of a Frank Capra movie except

In a Busby Berkeley movie the star was really the editor,not the actor and not the camera.___