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| (Huck Finn 1884) 5 types of humor |
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| Stereotypes, innocence, parity, cleverness, comedy |
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| (Birthday Party 1946) Written by: |
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| (It Happened One Night 1934) Director |
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| Frank Capra - Best known film is "It's a Wonderful Life" |
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| (It Happened One Night 1934) Awards |
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| First film to win all five Major Academy Awards. Possibly first "screw-ball comedy" |
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| (It Happened One Night 1934) Main Actor |
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| Clark Gable - no undershirt, one of the only Hollywood actors to make the same film twice. |
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| (It Happened One Night 1934) Main Actress |
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| Claudette Colbert - best known for her role with Clark Gable. |
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| (The General 1926) Director/Main Actor |
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| Buster Keaton - "the human mop", a remarkable acrobat and athlete |
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| (The General 1926) Main Actress |
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| Marion Mack - appeared in very few films, but she lived until the 1990s. |
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| Famous for "Safety Last". Not as acrobatic, he used camera tricks to make his stunts look more dangerous. |
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| (The Gold Rush 1925) Director/Screenplay/Main Actor |
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| Charles Chaplin - Englishman, never became an American citizen but made all but 2 films in the U.S. His slap-stick comedy appealed to sophisticated/uneducated. Our greatest film artist. |
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| The first really ambitious comedy film, cost $80,000 w/ return of over $2mil in less than 3yrs. Featuring the "little tramp". |
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| Married to Alivia, 6 brothers and sisters, river boat captain, mining camps, San Francisco journalist, lectures around the world |
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| (Huck Finn 1884) Widow Douglas and Miss Watson |
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| Two wealthy sisters who live together in a large house in St. Petersburg and who adopt Huck. |
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| One of Miss Watson's household slaves. |
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| Huck's father, the town drunk and ne'er-do-well. |
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| (Huck Finn 1884) The duke and the dauphin |
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| A pair of con men whom Huck and Jim rescue as they are being run out of a river town. |
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| (Huck Finn 1884) Judge Thatcher |
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| The local judge who shares responsibility for Huck with the Widow Douglas and is in charge of safeguarding the money that Huck and Tom found at the end of Tom Sawyer. |
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| (Huck Finn 1884) The Grangerfords |
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| A family that takes Huck in after a steamboat hits his raft, separating him from Jim. |
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| (Huck Finn 1884) The Wilks family |
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| At one point during their travels, the duke and the dauphin encounter a man who tells them of the death of a local named Peter Wilks, who has left behind a rich estate. |
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| (Huck Finn 1884) Silas and Sally Phelps |
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| Tom Sawyer's aunt and uncle, whom Huck coincidentally encounters in his search for Jim after the con men have sold him. |
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| (Huck Finn 1884) Aunt Polly |
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| Tom Sawyer's aunt and guardian and Sally Phelps's sister. |
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