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Sinclair Lewis
Category: The Lost Generation
Harry Sinclair Lewis was an American writer who published satire criticizing American society. He published novels such as "Arrowsmith" (1925), "Babbitt" (1922), and "It Can't Happen Here" (1935). Lewis was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930.
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Charlie Chaplin
Category: Famous People
Charles Spencer Chaplin, also known as Charlie Chaplin and "The Little Tramp," was a star in the silent film world. His films resonated with people all over the world, and they are still viewed today.
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Rudolph Valentino
Category: Famous People
Rudolph Valentino, also known as Rodolfo Alfonso (or Alfonzo) Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla, was an actor who infatuated women worldwide before and after his unexpected death in 1926. Valentino was an Italian-American who studied agricultural science before he became an actor. His final film, "The Son of Sheik," was his most praised and famous work.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
Category: The Lost Generation
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was an author whose works romanticized and criticized the Roaring 20s. He published works such as "The Great Gatsby," (1925), "The Diamond as Big as the Ritz," (1922) and "The Beautiful and Damned," (1922).
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Duke Ellington
Category: Famous People
Edward Kennedy Ellington, known today as Duke Ellington, was a jazz pianist during the Harlem Renaissance. Ellington and his band would play for over 50 years (spending some time at the Cotton Club) and help to create and shape the jazz genre, specifically big-band jazz.
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Ernest Hemingway
Category: The Lost Generation
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an author and a member of "The Lost Generation," a group of jaded American writers who wrote in the 1920s. Hemingway published famous works such as "The Sun Also Rises" (1926), "A Farewell to Arms" (1929) and "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (1940). Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1954 and the Pulitzer Prize in fiction in 1952 for "The Old Man and the Sea."
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Clara Bow
Category: Famous People
Clara Bow was an actress in the 1920s. The persona she created became the standard which we still follow today for an "It Girl."
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Opening of The Cotton Club of Harlem
Category: Important Events
The Cotton Club was a dance hall operated famous for hiring African American entertainers and staff. While the club was segregated and the customers were almost all white, it provided a music venue for African American artists during the Harlem Renaissance.
(http://www.blackpast.org/aah/cotton-club-harlem-1923)
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Death of Rudolph Valentino
Category: Important Events
Rudolph Valentino, the original Hollywood heartthrob, died at age 31 due to a ruptured ulcer. He may have had over 80,000 people at his funeral, and left many passionate fans around the world with hysteria.
(https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rudolph-Valentino)
(image: Lobby card for The Son of the Sheik (1926), directed by George Fitzmaurice. © 1926 United Artists Corporation) -
The Jazz Singer (1927)
Category: Important Events
The movie "The Jazz Singer," produced by Warner Bros., was the first big "talkie." The movie had sound that played along with the movie; it paved the way for movies as we know them now.
(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018037/)
(image: poster for the movie "The Jazz Singer" (1927). Warner Bros.)
