Chapter 38
The First Golden Age: 1938–1942
Today if you want to get a great education on how to write love stories for film, and you can’t get into film school, or can’t afford one, don’t worry. You can read a book like this one, and screen the best films at home at your own pace. Silent movies were a separate type of creation with Charlie Chaplin leading on the comedy side and Rudolph Valentino on the drama. Around ten years after movies started talking in 1927, we came upon a golden age of movie love stories. A group of writers, directors, and actors came into their prime and gave us many of the greatest love stories ever filmed in half a dozen years. 1938 to 1943 to be exact.
Those years contained Gone With the Wind, Casablanca, Ninotchka, ...
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