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Word: biographers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...five when her father died; she revered his memory and refashioned it in dozens of movies about kids grieving for their sainted dead dads. To earn money Mary, Jack and Lottie went onstage. Soon they were in New York City, where, at 17, Mary strode into Griffith's Biograph studio and got a film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The First Movie Star | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...built itself a Potemkin village, complete with a bank, drugstore, barbershop, pool hall, Greyhound bus station, coin-operated Laundromat and quiet residential streets. Several double-wide trailers and late-model automobiles, all seized from real-life crime scenes, sprawl around the town. Even the movie theater, the Biograph, is a monument to real-life crime. Its main attraction, Manhattan Melodrama (starring Clark Gable and Myrna Loy), was showing at the Biograph in Chicago when the bank robber John Dillinger was shot dead outside the theater by FBI agents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hogan's Alley, Virginia Crime Is This Town's Job | 4/30/1990 | See Source »

...Dylan: Biograph (Columbia, 1985). A premature but timely career retrospective of rock's most formidable writing talent, Biograph was also a welcome reassertion of Dylan's primacy. Was great, is great, will be great...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Best of the Decade: Music | 1/1/1990 | See Source »

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