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A B movie, or B film, is a type of cheap, low-budget commercial motion picture. Originally, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, this term specifically...

Academy Award for Best Picture is one of the Academy Awards (also known as Oscars) presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS)...

production, and produced as a high-quality, big-budget film rather than as a B-picture. The new film featured several stars from the Broadway stage version,...

Marine (1937). By the time Wyman starred in Public Wedding (1937), a "B" picture, she was already divorced from first husband Ernest Wyman. She retained...

M-G-M's two-picture pact expired in August 1944, and Fox's series of six Laurel & Hardy pictures ended when the studio discontinued B-picture production...

In physics, the Heisenberg picture or Heisenberg representation is a formulation (largely due to Werner Heisenberg in 1925) of quantum mechanics in which...

in November 1936. Zanuck gave Preminger the task of directing another B-picture screwball comedy film Danger – Love at Work. Simone Simon was cast but...

between 1923 and 1934. He headed the B picture unit at Warner Bros. where he was known as "the keeper of the B's". He was born in Chicago, Illinois, on...

playwright, the eponymous Fink (Turturro), who moves to Los Angeles to write a B-picture for a venal movie mogul (Michael Lerner). Fink is modeled on playwright...

Picture! Picture! is a Philippine television game show broadcast by GMA Network. Hosted by Ryan Agoncillo, it premiered on November 23, 2013. The show...

frames are called picture types or frame types. The three major picture types used in the different video algorithms are I, P and B. They are different...

Love Again (1938), billed fourth. Marshal's first lead role was in a B picture at Republic Films, Invisible Enemy (1938). He went back to support parts...

motion-picture cinematographer best remembered for his work at RKO Pictures in the 1940s, including many of Val Lewton's series of B-picture horror films...

the latter, The Guardian called her "a revelation. She is no longer the B picture girl next door. She is a woman and her acting has power and experience...

Lady Gangster is a 1942 Warner Bros. B picture crime film directed by Robert Florey, credited as "Florian Roberts". It is based on the play Gangstress...

1940. In the first of these, Lorre appeared as the anonymous lead in the B-picture Stranger on the Third Floor (1940), reputedly the first film noir. The...

and B movies constituted the majority of Hollywood production during the period. It is not clear that the term B movie (or B film or B picture) was in...

Picture arrangement test is a test that consists of a series of comic-strip-like pictures that are presented in a random order. The subject is given the...

A-Haunting We Will Go (1942). In the late 1940s, Werker worked for the B-picture film studio Eagle-Lion Films. Notable films from that period include the...

pressures lifted in the early 1960s, the low-budget end of the American motion picture industry increasingly incorporated the sort of sexual and violent elements...