Hollywood Cinema History

Chaplin reports to work at Keystone Studios to launch a legendary film career

Directs Fury, his first American feature film.

Directs The Lady Vanishes, one of the best-known British thrillers from his pre-Hollywood career.

Bergmans first acting role in America came when Hollywood producer David O. Selznick brought her to America to star in Intermezzo: A Love Story, an English language remake of her 1936 Swedish film, Intermezzo

Directs the western film Western Union.

Directs The Woman in the Window.

Directs Ministry of Fear.

Taylor begins filming George Stevens A Place In The Sun. Before Conspirators 1949 release, a Time cover article called her "a jewel of great price, a true star sapphire", and the leader among Hollywoods next generation of stars

Stars in Madame Bovary. Makes his first Hollywood film, Caught

Directs Clash by Night.

Monroe received positive reviews for her performance: The Hollywood Reporter stated that "she deserves starring status with her excellent interpretation", and Variety wrote that she "has an ease of delivery which makes her a cinch for popularity"

Directs The Blue Gardenia.

The second film of the year, musical comedy Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, established her star image as a "dumb blonde". Monroe starred in three films released in 1953, emerging as a major sex symbol and one of Hollywoods most bankable stars.

First movie for Hollywood is "The Silver Chalice"

Signs with Universal-International and begins small film and television roles.

Directs Moonfleet.

Appears in Francis in the Navy during his early period of small studio roles.

Appears in Lady Godiva of Coventry while working under his early studio contract.

Monroe began a new Battle for control over her career and left Hollywood for the East Coast, where she and photographer Milton Greene founded their own production company, Marilyn Monroe Productions (MMP)

Makes an uncredited acting debut as a laboratory assistant in the film Revenge of the Creature.

Appears in the science-fiction film Tarantula during his early Hollywood career.

Directs Beyond a Reasonable Doubt.

Appears in Away All Boats as part of his run of minor film roles.

Takes a supporting role in Never Say Goodbye during his early screen career.

Appears in the western Star in the Dust before his later breakthrough in television westerns.

Appears in The First Traveling Saleslady, another early studio-era film role.

Appears in Ambush at Cimarron Pass, one of his final films before Rawhide made him prominent.

Appears in Lafayette Escadrille, a war film released before his Rawhide breakthrough.

Retuns to Hollywood to star in the musical comedy Lets Make Love, about an actress and a millionaire who fall in love when performing in a satirical play

Stars as an Arizona deputy in Coogans Bluff, directed by Don Siegel.

Stars in the revisionist western Hang Em High with Inger Stevens, Pat Hingle and Dennis Hopper.

Stars in the musical western Paint Your Wagon with Lee Marvin and Jean Seberg.

Stars with Shirley MacLaine in Don Siegel's western Two Mules for Sister Sara.

Stars in The Beguiled, a dark Civil War drama directed by Don Siegel.

Stars in Joe Kidd, a western directed by John Sturges.

Directs Breezy, a romantic drama that does not feature him in the leading role.

Directs and stars in High Plains Drifter, then directs Breezy and returns as Harry Callahan in Magnum Force.

Stars with Jeff Bridges and George Kennedy in the action caper Thunderbolt and Lightfoot.

Directs and stars in The Eiger Sanction, an action thriller set partly on mountain climbs.

Woody Allen stars in "The Front", directed by Martin Ritt, a humorous and poignant account of Hollywood blacklisting during the 1950s

Woody Allen stars in "The Front", directed by Martin Ritt, a humorous and poignant account of Hollywood blacklisting during the 1950s

Directs and stars in The Outlaw Josey Wales, one of his major westerns.

Directs and stars in The Gauntlet with Sondra Locke.

Stars in Every Which Way But Loose, one of his biggest commercial successes.

Stars in Any Which Way You Can and directs Bronco Billy alongside Sondra Locke.

Directs and stars in Firefox, a Cold War aviation thriller.

Directs and stars in Honkytonk Man, a Depression-era musical road drama.

Places his handprints and footprints in cement at Graumans Chinese Theatre.

Stars with Burt Reynolds in the period crime comedy City Heat.

Directs and stars in Pale Rider, reviving the western at the mid-1980s box office.

Directs and stars in Heartbreak Ridge as a veteran Marine sergeant.

Directs Bird, a biographical film about jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker.

Stars in Pink Cadillac, an action comedy released near the end of the 1980s.

Directs and stars in The Rookie with Charlie Sheen.

Directs and stars in White Hunter Black Heart, a film inspired by the making of The African Queen.

Directs and stars in Unforgiven, a revisionist western examining violence and reputation.

Directs A Perfect World, a crime drama starring Kevin Costner.

Stars as a Secret Service agent in the political thriller In the Line of Fire.

Directs and stars in The Bridges of Madison County opposite Meryl Streep.

Directs and stars in Absolute Power, a political thriller about presidential corruption.

Directs and stars in True Crime, a journalism and death-row thriller.

Directs and stars in Space Cowboys with Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland and James Garner.

Directs Mulholland Drive, a nonlinear mystery set around Hollywood and fractured identity.

Directs and stars in Blood Work, a crime thriller based on Michael Connelly's novel.

Receives her star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood, California

Directs and stars in Million Dollar Baby, a boxing drama with Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman.

Directs Flags of Our Fathers, one of two companion films about the Battle of Iwo Jima.

Directs Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima as companion war films.

Directs Letters from Iwo Jima, presenting the battle from the Japanese perspective.

Composes the music for Grace Is Gone, a film written and directed by James C Strouse.

Receives Golden Globe nominations for the Grace Is Gone score and song.

Directs WALL-E for Pixar, combining animation with environmental themes

Stars as Batman in The Dark Knight, one of the year's major films

Directs The Dark Knight, which becomes a major critical and commercial success

Stars as Harvey Milk in the biographical drama Milk

Directs Changeling, a period drama starring Angelina Jolie.

Directs Gran Torino and Changeling, two major late-career films released in 2008.

Directs Invictus, a film about Nelson Mandela and the 1995 Rugby World Cup.

Directs Hereafter, a supernatural drama starring Matt Damon.

Directs J Edgar, a biographical drama about FBI director J Edgar Hoover.

Acts in Trouble with the Curve, one of his rare starring roles for another director in later career.

Directs American Sniper, a war drama based on the memoir of Chris Kyle.

Directs Jersey Boys, adapted from the stage musical about the Four Seasons.

Directs Sully, starring Tom Hanks as airline pilot Chesley Sullenberger.

Directs The 15:17 to Paris, casting the real-life men involved in the train incident.

Directs and stars in The Mule, a crime drama about an elderly drug courier.

Directs Richard Jewell, a drama about the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing investigation.

Directs and stars in Cry Macho, a late-career western road drama.

Writes and directs Babylon, an ensemble drama about Hollywood during the transition to sound cinema.

Directs Juror Number Two, a courtroom drama released in the 2020s.:wq