Pennsylvania Movies

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  1. 2. one of the most popular cowboy stars of the silent screen, was born and raised in Cameron County.
  2. 6. opened a nickelodeon in the backroom of a saloon in Forest City, PA.
  3. 7. Hunter (1978)
  4. 11. achieved success both as a Hollywood composer and film director
  5. 12. Directed the world's first "story film," splicing together more than twenty separate indoor and outdoor shots in his path-breaking films
  6. 13. became the only major studio film to be shot entirely in Philadelphia. Both Tom Hanks and Bruce Springsteen won Oscars for their work in it.
  7. 14. parlayed his celebrity as an Olympic gold medallist in swimming at the 1924 and 1928 Olympics into a Hollywood career as "Tarzan" in a string of successful films
  8. 15. (1976) made Philadelphia an attractive location for feature films and television series
Down
  1. 1. the all-American hero from Indiana, PA, won an Oscar for The Philadelphia Story in 1940.
  2. 3. of Wilkes-Barre moved into the new film business by offering "high-class" programs of primitive newsreels, local scenes,
  3. 4. soon opened a 99-seat theater in the steel town of New Castle, and then moved to Pittsburgh, where they started a regional film distribution company
  4. 5. In the 1930s Philadelphian Lorenzo Tucker became known as
  5. 8. who in the early 1900s built one of the nation's largest film production companies and theater chains, making movies at his 500-acre Betzwood Studios in Valley Forge.
  6. 9. the curmudgeonly comic actor who in the end decided he would rather be in Philadelphia
  7. 10. whose voices made them stars in both music and film; and the inimitable