A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Release Date:
August 31, 1934
Original Title:
Movie Memories
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Hollywood is a town that holds many memories of the movie business and the movies themselves, which has resulted in a town brimming with possibilities and wealth. But the town had very humble beginnings. Part of that history includes the professional lives of the plethora of who are now considered movie stars, such as Mabel Normand, 'Larry Semon', Willard Louis, Rudolph Schildkraut, Barbara La Marr, 'Rudolph Valentino', Dustin Farnum, William Russell, Roy Stewart, Alma Rubens, Frederick A. Thomson, Art Acord, George Beban, Louis Wolheim, George Siegmann, 'Douglas Fairbanks', Mary Pickford, Jack Pickford, Milton Sills, Lon Chaney, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Renée Adorée, Lilyan Tashman, Lew Cody, Alec B. Francis, and Marie Dressler.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.