Reading Time: 2 minutesSearching for actresses and actors more famous than Monroe and Wayne In this post I present the results of the Ngram analysis for six classic Hollywood icons that have been listed in the AFI greatest actors and actresses: Marx Brothers Buster Keaton Sidney Poitier Robert Mitchum Ava Gardner Jean Harlow. Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute This post further explores the fame of actors and actress by presenting the estimates of fame for some of the most iconic actors of the 1970s, 1980’s and 1990s, namely Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Robert Duvall, James Caan and Dustin Hoffman. Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutesFame of actors and actresses In previous posts I used the Ngram tool to identify the fame level of several actors and actresses. The unit of fame is the famon (= 1/1 000 000 relative % Ngram frequency). So far I have identified the fame of 28 actors and actresses. Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutesFame of actors and actresses In previous posts I used the Ngram tool to identify the fame level of several actors and actresses. The unit of fame is the famon (= 1/1 000 000 relative % Ngram frequency). Marylin Monroe and John Wayne are still at the top Previous uses Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutesFame of actors and actresses In previous posts I used the Ngram tool to identify the fame level of several actors and actresses. The unit of fame is the famon: with 1 famon = 1/1 000 000 relative % Ngram frequency. Marylin Monroe and John Wayne are still at the Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutesFame levels of various actors and actresses In a previous post I used the Ngram tool to identify the fame level of several actors and actresses. The Ngram tool produces a graph in which the y-axis shows how many times a phrase occurs in a corpus of books (making up Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLet’s see whether there are other popular icons of the golden Hollywood era, listed by the American Film Institute, that can break the fame level attained by Monroe and Wayne. Let’s also see how these compare to modern time actors and actresses. Six iconic actresses and actors Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutesBruce Willis, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone are all iconic action heroes for the 1980s and 1990s. Each one has its own idiosyncrasy and personal style of acting. Yet, all three have contributed some of the best action movies ever made, which are nowadays considered classic. In the last decades, Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Ngram tool Michel et al. (2011) produced the online tool Ngram. Ngram produces a graph in which the y-axis shows how many times a phrase occurs in a corpus of books (making up about 6% of all books ever printed; Lin et al. 2012) relative to all remaining phrases Read more…