During the 1930s, the United States was facing its longest and deepest economic downturn, the Great Depression. Spending money on entertainment was out...

In the United States, the Great Depression began with the Wall Street Crash of October 1929 and then spread worldwide. The nadir came in 1931–1933, and...

The Great Depression was a severe global economic downturn from 1929 to 1939. The period was characterized by high rates of unemployment and poverty,...

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on the ideal of the early 20th century. Films such as the musical were created as a form of entertainment during the Great Depression allowing its viewers...

in contrast to entertainment during the Great Depression. The USA entered the Second World War in December 1941 and the entertainment industry was used...

save a few pennies in order to provide their children entertainment during the Great Depression. Miniature gasoline-powered cars were added a few years...

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The Great Depression in the United Kingdom also known as the Great Slump, was a period of national economic downturn in the 1930s, which had its origins...

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contraction, it did not have the severe economic retrogression of the later Great Depression. The United Kingdom was the hardest hit; during this period it lost...

venue for entertainment during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the next decade saw the events of World War II. Leading up to and during the war, patrons...

involving imagination or entertainment. Escapism also may be used to occupy one's self away from persistent feelings of depression or general sadness. Entire...

popularity in this period as a form of cheap entertainment during the Great Depression. At the time of the Brookland Bowling Alleys' construction, there...

contests in the 1920s and developed into human endurance contests, or exploitative entertainment events during the Great Depression in the 1930s. In the present...

Tom Hanks as a death row prison guard during the Great Depression who witnesses supernatural events following the arrival of an enigmatic convict (Michael...

Asylum: Hollywood Tales From My Great Depression: Brain Dis-Ease, Recovery, and Being My Mother's Son. He revealed in the latter that he struggled with...

accessible home entertainment during the Great Depression. All stations in both A and B-class categories were to be licensed for five years. The system was...

by the Communist party and World War I, the Great Depression and the Russian Revolution all affected entertainment. Relatively minor changes to the form...

[citation needed] During the Great Depression a large population of Americans driven by poverty rode the railroad system and the term easy rider (along...

successes made him a hugely popular media sensation in the United States during the Great Depression. At the 76th Academy Awards, Seabiscuit received seven nominations...

“social inequity and opportunity in America" set during the Great Depression, Mildred Pierce follows the trajectory of a lower-middle class divorcee with...

list of recessions (and depressions) that have affected the economy of the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. In the United Kingdom a recession...

in the First World War, suffered through the Great Depression in Australia as part of the global Great Depression and again joined Britain in the Second...

Jr. and Pete Postlethwaite. The screenplay concerns justice and redemption in rural Georgia during the Great Depression. A southern man, Jesse Banks...

M. Cain's 1941 novel of the same name, It is about the titular heroine (Kate Winslet), a divorcée during the Great Depression struggling to establish...

readers from the hardships of reality. During the Great Depression, readers turned to escapist fiction as it provided them a mental escape from the bleakness...

O'Quinn. The film follows Edna Spalding, a young woman during the Great Depression in Texas who is forced to take charge of her farm after the death of...

misery. Years later, during the Great Depression, he wanders into a dance marathon that is about to begin in a shabby ballroom on the Santa Monica Pier....

keep his family alive during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The film received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the performances of Purcell...