silver screen

as in film
the art or business of making a movie a list of the top 100 stars of the silver screen

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Recent Examples of silver screen More than a decade after Gone With the Wind’s silver screen debut, O’Connor published a story satirizing the gala’s pageantry. Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2025 In her recent book, An Intimate Look at Broadway, Hollywood, and the Age of Glamour, actor Nancy Olsen Livingston opined on the personal tribulations that the former silver screen heroine may have endured in her longest starring role as that of Rainier III’s spouse. Rob Crossan, JSTOR Daily, 21 Mar. 2025 Salvaging silver screens: As local movie houses close, residents in smaller U.S. towns are forming nonprofits to save them. Natasha Frost, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025 But now in the 21st century, the unnamed narrator mourns, cinema is less about how to see than what to see, as viewers now rely on personal screens much more than on silver screens for their viewing pleasure. The Know, The Denver Post, 9 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for silver screen
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Noun
  • All the table-setting is behind us, and the film is all the better for it.
    Scott Phillips, Forbes.com, 8 July 2025
  • The music plays a huge role in the film with Provazník using Czech choir singers to sing in real time during shooting.
    Diana Lodderhose, Deadline, 8 July 2025
Noun
  • With this new ending, the play had a Broadway run of 200 performances, a national tour of 600 performances, and was adapted into a successful movie by Paramount.
    Deborah Williams July 14, Literary Hub, 14 July 2025
  • From the state capital to the coast, here’s a list of current and recently-wrapped movies and shows, according to the North Carolina film office.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • Bringing together wildlife filmmaking with reality competition is unusual.
    Peter White, Deadline, 14 July 2025
  • In filmmaking, Glasgow is often used as a stand-in for NYC, which is easier to film in than actual NYC.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
Noun
  • Space 11 is following in the steps of film producers like Imax, which has developed proprietary cameras to shoot its own big screen documentaries in outer space over the decades.
    Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 10 July 2025
  • The movie marks the first big screen role in five years for Martelli, who also enjoyed acclaim for her feature directorial debut 1976 in 2022.
    Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 July 2025

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“Silver screen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/silver%20screen. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.

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