motion pictures
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Yet her fame derives not from directing, but rather from acting in more than 200 motion pictures from the mid-1920s until shortly before her death, at age 67, in 1977.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026
In the 100 years since, the glamorous building style - evocative of neon-lit jazz bars and the golden age of big motion pictures - rapidly spread around the world.
From BBC • Nov. 22, 2025
Inductees were selected across five categories: motion pictures, television, live theater and live performance, recording and sports entertainment.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2025
The moments pay homage to one of history’s first motion pictures, a Lumière film of employees leaving a factory.
From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2024
My knowledge of Canuck French derives from motion pictures usually with Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald, and it consists largely of “By gar.”
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
