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* The ''[[Immortal Iron Fist]]'' story ''Orson Randall and the Death Queen of California''.
* ''[[Singin' in the Rain|Singin in The Rain]]''
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* ''[[I Love Lucy]]''. One season where Ricky goes to Hollywood.
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** [[Surrounded by Idiots]]: A lot of stuff [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|went over their heads]].
* [[Mid-Atlantic Accent]]: Also known as the "Hollywood Accent", this is the semi-British-sounding way of speaking that typifies performances in films of the Golden Age.
* [[The Scrappy]]: A few actors who are beloved today were considered box office poison in the late 30s. A few examples are [[Katharine Hepburn]], [[wikipedia:Mae West|Mae West]], [[wikipedia:Joan Crawford|Joan Crawford]], [[wikipedia:Marlene Dietrich|Marlene Dietrich]] and [[wikipedia:Fred Astaire|Fred Astaire]]. [[Rescued
** [[Ingrid Bergman]], when her affair with [[wikipedia:Roberto Rossellini|Roberto Rossellini]] became public. She became a ''persona non grata'', and theaters refused to show her films.[[Rescued
*** This is hard to believe since Hollywood affairs are the light fodder of tabloids these days, but the Rossellini affair was [[Serious Business|such a big deal]] that Bergman was '''DENOUNCED ON THE FLOOR OF THE SENATE'''.
** Kay Francis also appeared on said list after starring in the now classic Lubitsch film ''Trouble in Paradise" and several films with William Powell in the earlier part of the decade. While she never developed an iconic status in later years the way the people above did, her work is under a rediscovery of sorts, despite the fact that her biography is titled "I Can't Wait to be Forgotten."
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