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Recent Examples of silver screen
More than a decade after Gone With the Wind’s silver screen debut, O’Connor published a story satirizing the gala’s pageantry.
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Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2025
In her recent book, An Intimate Look at Broadway, Hollywood, and the Age of Glamour, actor Nancy Olsen Livingston opined on the personal tribulations that the former silver screen heroine may have endured in her longest starring role as that of Rainier III’s spouse.
—Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 21 Mar. 2025
Salvaging silver screens: As local movie houses close, residents in smaller U.S. towns are forming nonprofits to save them.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
But now in the 21st century, the unnamed narrator mourns, cinema is less about how to see than what to see, as viewers now rely on personal screens much more than on silver screens for their viewing pleasure.
—The Know, The Denver Post, 9 Mar. 2025
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Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2025
In her recent book, An Intimate Look at Broadway, Hollywood, and the Age of Glamour, actor Nancy Olsen Livingston opined on the personal tribulations that the former silver screen heroine may have endured in her longest starring role as that of Rainier III’s spouse.
—Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 21 Mar. 2025
Salvaging silver screens: As local movie houses close, residents in smaller U.S. towns are forming nonprofits to save them.
—Natasha Frost, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
But now in the 21st century, the unnamed narrator mourns, cinema is less about how to see than what to see, as viewers now rely on personal screens much more than on silver screens for their viewing pleasure.
—The Know, The Denver Post, 9 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for silver screen
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Following the film's financial and creative success, Corenswet is expected to reprise his role in a potential sequel, the actor revealed via Vanity Fair in June.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
20 July 2025
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The couple's former co-star Jennifer Love Hewitt also returned to play the original film's protagonist, Julie James.—
Ashley Hume,
FOXNews.com,
20 July 2025
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Podcasting company Kaleidoscope is looking to produce more original shows and turn titles from its audio content library into Hollywood movies and TV series after raising $5 million in a Series A funding round.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
14 July 2025
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With this new ending, the play had a Broadway run of 200 performances, a national tour of 600 performances, and was adapted into a successful movie by Paramount.—
Deborah Williams
July 14,
Literary Hub,
14 July 2025
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Bringing together wildlife filmmaking with reality competition is unusual.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
14 July 2025
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In filmmaking, Glasgow is often used as a stand-in for NYC, which is easier to film in than actual NYC.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
14 July 2025
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Space 11 is following in the steps of film producers like Imax, which has developed proprietary cameras to shoot its own big screen documentaries in outer space over the decades.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
10 July 2025
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The movie marks the first big screen role in five years for Martelli, who also enjoyed acclaim for her feature directorial debut 1976 in 2022.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
8 July 2025
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“Silver screen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/silver%20screen. Accessed 24 Jul. 2025.
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