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For a movie about Hollywood, Babylon has a shocking lack of real-world figures, but here are all five characters that actually existed and how accurate they are in Damien Chazelle's new movie. Babylon is a portrait of Hollywood throughout the 1920s and 1930s, with the film capturing the dark and seedy underbelly of the film industry that existed during the transition from silent pictures to sound. This era was a massive shift for the Hollywood studio system, with it affecting all kinds of major entertainment industry figures, which is why Babylon portrays these five real-life people throughout the course of the film.

Damien Chazelle's massive Hollywood spectacle hit theaters in late 2022, with Babylon being one of the most memorable films of the year. The movie follows Margot Robbie's Nellie Laroy, a silent picture scarlet who rises to the top before things come crashing down as the industry transitions to movies with sound.

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“W. C. Fields And The Termite’S Flophouse”

By Raymond Benson

By 1939, comic superstar W. C. Fields (real name William Claude Dukenfield) had a love-hate relationship with Hollywood. While he was still something of a box office draw and enjoyed immense popularity, Fields’ relationship with the bottle was causing more problems for the actor, and he had lost his contract with Paramount, the home of his earlier talkies. After a resurgence in admiration due to radio broadcasts with ventriloquist Edgar Bergen, Fields signed a new contract with Universal. The first picture out of the gate was a team-up with Fields and Bergen/McCarthy.

You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man can’t be counted among Fields’ best pictures, but it’s entertaining and funny enough. It is arguable that Bergen and McCarthy steal the show based on Bergen’s charm and good looks,...

Buck Rogers In The 25Th Century, the first science fiction comic strip, hit the newspapers in 1929, finally ending its long run in 1967. Writer Phil Nowlan created the character in two Sf pulp stories (published in Amazing Stories) before teaming with artist Dick Calkins on the spin-off strip. Buck Rogers is a former Air Force officer who falls into suspended animation while investigating a strange gas in a mineshaft. He awakens 500 years later to an America that has been conquered by Monguls. Buck meets Wilma Deering, who recruits him to fight the invaders; Dr. Huer, a brilliant scientist who will soon have Buck rocketing to other planets; and Wilma’s brother Buddy. Sometime space pirate “Killer” Kane became Buck’s primary nemesis along with Kane’s sultry assistant Ardala Valmar. No sooner has Buck vanquished the invaders than he, and the Earth, are confronted by the menace of the Tiger Men from Mars.

A new, 4K restoration of "The Wizard of Oz" will screen digitally Monday at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' series "Hollywood's Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939."

Jerry Maren, who portrayed one of the Lollipop Guild members in Munchkinland, will be present for a Q&A before the film.

The pre-show, which will begin at 6:45 p.m., will include videotaped interviews with Margaret Hamilton and Ray Bolger from a 1983 Academy event, the 12th chapter of the 1939 serial "Buck Rogers," starring Buster Crabbe and Constance Moore, and the 1939 winner for Cartoon Short Subject, Walt Disney's "The Ugly Duckling."

The screening marks the public premiere of Warner's 4K digital restoration of the film, which won Oscars for its original score and song "Over the Rainbow."...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will screen Ernst Lubitsch's "Ninotchka," starring Greta Garbo, on Monday July 13 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills as part of its "Hollywood's Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939" series.

Pre-show elements will include the ninth chapter of the 1939 serial "Buck Rogers," starring Buster Crabbe and Constance Moore, and the animated short "The Autograph Hound," featuring Donald Duck.

"Ninotchka" received four Academy Award nominations: best picture, best actress for Garbo, writing (original story) for Melchior Lengyel and writing, screenplay for Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder and Walter Reisch.