Cinema of the United States

Some of the people you should know during the earliest era of film history (1872-1903):

• Eadweard Muybridge
• Thomas Edison
• William Kennedy Laurie Dickson
• George Eastman
• Edwin Porter[?]

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Some people you should know during the beginnings of Hollywood (1912-1925)

• D. W. Griffith
• Mary Pickford
• Charlie Chaplin
• Douglas Fairbanks
• Robert J. Flaherty
• Gloria Swanson
• Theda Bara
• Thomas Harper Ince
• Mack Sennett

Other important stuff:

• MPPC
• Independents
• Fox Film Corporation
• Paramount Pictures

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Classic Hollywood Era (1930-1945)

• IMR

Directors:

• Frank Capra
• Howard Hawks
• John Ford
• Orson Welles
• Preston Sturges[?]
• John Grierson

Actors:

• Cary Grant
• Micky Rooney[?]
• Clark Gable
• Edward G. Robinson

Actresses

• Katherine Hepburn
• Carole Lombard
• Elizabeth Taylor
• Shirley Temple

Producers:

other:

• Walt Disney

See also : Film history