EFSANE YÜZLER

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Mary Pickford, Lillian Gish, Gloria Swanson, Marlene Dietrich, Norma Shearer, Ruth Chatterton, Jean Harlow, Katharine Hepburn, Carole Lombard, Bette Davis, Greta Garbo, Barbara Stanwyck, Vivien Leigh, Greer Garson, Hedy Lamarr, Rita Hayworth, Gene Tierney, Olivia de Havilland, Ingrid Bergman, Joan Crawford, Ginger Rogers, Loretta Young, Deborah Kerr, Judy Garland, Anne Baxter, Lauren Bacall, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner, Marilyn Monroe, Grace Kelly, Lana Turner, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Audrey Hepburn, Dorothy Dandridge, Shirley MacLaine, Natalie Wood, Rita Moreno, Janet Leigh, Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren, Ann Margret, Julie Andrews, Raquel Welch, Tuesday Weld, Jane Fonda, Julie Christie, Faye Dunaway, Catherine Deneuve, Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, Isabella Rossellini, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn, Meryl Streep, Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lange, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sigourney Weaver, Kathleen Turner, Holly Hunter, Jodie Foster, Angela Bassett, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone, Meg Ryan, Julia Roberts, Salma Hayek, Sandra Bullock, Julianne Moore, Diane Lane, Nicole Kidman, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Angelina Jolie, Charlize Theron, Reese Witherspoon, Halle Berry

Music: Bach's Prelude from Suite for Solo Cello No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 performed by Yo-Yo Ma

JEAN HARLOW

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Jean Harlow (d.3 Mart 1911 Kansas City, Missouri - ö. 7 Haziran 1937 Los Angeles), ABD'li sinema oyuncusu . Gerçek adı Herlean Carpenter'dır.

1928'de komedi filmlerinde küçük rollerle sinemaya adım attı. Ünlü işadamı ve film yapımcısı Howard Hughes'un film şirketi adına çevirdiği Hell's Angels (Cehennem Melekleri - 1930) ile yıldızı parladı. Gerek dram, gerekse komedi filmlerinde oyunculuk yeteneğinin yanı sıra güzel fiziği, platin rengi saçlarıyla döneminin cinsellik simgelerinden biri oldu. Özellikle Clark Gable ile çevirdiği filmler büyük iş yaptı.

Genç yaşta böbrek yetmezliği sonucu ölünce, Hollywood'un efsane adları arasına girdi. Irving Shulman'ın 1964'te kaleme aldığı Harlow adlı özyaşam öyküsünün sinema uyarlamasında (1965), Caroll Baker tarafından canlandırıldı.


Başlıca Filmleri

Honor Bound (1928)
Moran of the Marines (1928)
Chasing Husbands (1928)
Liberty (1929)
Fugitives (1929)
Why Be Good? (1929)
Why Is a Plumber? (1929)
Close Harmony (1929)
The Unkissed Man (1929)
Double Whoopee (1929)
Thundering Toupees (1929)
Bacon Grabbers (1929)
The Saturday Night Kid (1929)

Red Dust (1932)
Dinner at Eight (1933)The Love Parade (1929)
This Thing Called Love (1929)
Weak But Willing (1929)
New York Nights (1929)
Hell's Angels (1930)
City Lights (1931)
The Secret Six (1931)
The Public Enemy (1931)
Iron Man (1931)
Goldie (1931)
Platinum Blonde (1931)
Beau Hunks (1931)
Talking Screen Snapshots (1932)
Hollywood on Parade (1932)
Three Wise Girls (1932)
The Beast of the City (1932)
Red Dust (1932)
Hold Your Man (1933)
Dinner at Eight (1933)
Bombshell (1933)
The Girl from Missouri (1934)
Reckless (1935)
China Seas (1935)
Riffraff (1936)
Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
Suzy (1936)
Libeled Lady (1936)
Personal Property (1937)
Saratoga (1937)

JEAN HARLOW

HAKKINDAKİ ÖNEMLİ LİNKLER

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Jean Harlow (d.3 Mart 1911 Kansas City, Missouri - ö. 7 Haziran 1937 Los Angeles), ABD'li sinema oyuncusu . Gerçek adı Herlean Carpenter'dır.

1928'de komedi filmlerinde küçük rollerle sinemaya adım attı. Ünlü işadamı ve film yapımcısı Howard Hughes'un film şirketi adına çevirdiği Hell's Angels (Cehennem Melekleri - 1930) ile yıldızı parladı. Gerek dram, gerekse komedi filmlerinde oyunculuk yeteneğinin yanı sıra güzel fiziği, platin rengi saçlarıyla döneminin cinsellik simgelerinden biri oldu. Özellikle Clark Gable ile çevirdiği filmler büyük iş yaptı.

Genç yaşta böbrek yetmezliği sonucu ölünce, Hollywood'un efsane adları arasına girdi. Irving Shulman'ın 1964'te kaleme aldığı Harlow adlı özyaşam öyküsünün sinema uyarlamasında (1965), Caroll Baker tarafından canlandırıldı.


Başlıca Filmleri

Honor Bound (1928)
Moran of the Marines (1928)
Chasing Husbands (1928)
Liberty (1929)
Fugitives (1929)
Why Be Good? (1929)
Why Is a Plumber? (1929)
Close Harmony (1929)
The Unkissed Man (1929)
Double Whoopee (1929)
Thundering Toupees (1929)
Bacon Grabbers (1929)
The Saturday Night Kid (1929)

Red Dust (1932)
Dinner at Eight (1933)The Love Parade (1929)
This Thing Called Love (1929)
Weak But Willing (1929)
New York Nights (1929)
Hell's Angels (1930)
City Lights (1931)
The Secret Six (1931)
The Public Enemy (1931)
Iron Man (1931)
Goldie (1931)
Platinum Blonde (1931)
Beau Hunks (1931)
Talking Screen Snapshots (1932)
Hollywood on Parade (1932)
Three Wise Girls (1932)
The Beast of the City (1932)
Red Dust (1932)
Hold Your Man (1933)
Dinner at Eight (1933)
Bombshell (1933)
The Girl from Missouri (1934)
Reckless (1935)
China Seas (1935)
Riffraff (1936)
Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
Suzy (1936)
Libeled Lady (1936)
Personal Property (1937)
Saratoga (1937)

NETTEN SEÇTİKLERİM
(Not: Telif hakkı içerdiği düşünülen görsel bildirildiği taktirde derhal kaldırılacaktır.)

KATHARINE HEPBURN

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Genel Bilgiler
Doğum adı Katharine Houghton Hepburn
Doğum 12 Mayıs 1907(1907-05-12)
Hartford, Connecticut
Ölüm 29 Haziran 2003 (96 yaşında)
Old Saybrook, Connecticut
Aktif yılları 1928-1994
Evlilik Ludlow Ogden Smith
(1928–1941)
Akademi Ödülleri

En İyi Kadın Oyuncu
1933 Morning Glory
1967 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1968 The Lion in Winter
1981 On Golden Pond
BAFTA Ödülleri

En İyi Kadın Oyuncu
1968 The Lion in Winter
1968 Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1982 On Golden Pond
Emmy Ödülleri

En İyi Kadın Oyuncu - Minidizi/TV filmi
1976 Love Among the Ruins

Katharine Hepburn, (d. 12 Mayıs 1907, Connecticut – ö. 29 Haziran 2003, Connecticut), ABD'li sinema sanatçısı.

İlk filmlerinde genellikle güçlü kadın rollerinde göründü. Kariyeri boyunca 12 kez aday gösterildiği Oscar’ı 4 kez kazanarak bir rekora imza attı. Bu rekor ancak 1990’ların sonunda Meryl Streep tarafından kırılabildi. Üçüncü filmi Morning Glory ile ilk kez Oscar heykelini kucakladığında 26 yaşındaydı.

Aktör Spencer Tracy’yle 27 yıl büyük aşk yaşadı. Birlikte dokuz film çevirdiler. 1999’da Amerikan Film Enstitüsü’nün “bütün zamanların en büyük kadın oyuncusu” ilan ettiği Katharine Hepburn, 29 Haziran 2003'te 96 yaşında yaşama veda etti.

Carole Lombard (d. 6 Ekim 1908 – ö. 16 Ocak 1942), ABD'li bir aktristir. Lombard en çok 1930'ların screwball komedilerinde oynadığı rollerle tanınır. Amerikan Film Enstitüsü tarafından hazırlanan AFI'nın 100 Yılı... 100 Yıldız listesinde yer alır. Ayrıca 1930'ların sonlarına doğru Hollywood'daki en yüksek ücretli yıldızdır. Yıllık ortalama 500,000 amerikan doları kazanıyordu  (ABD Başkanı maaşından 5 kat daha fazla). Lombard'ın kariyeri, 33 yaşında bindiği uçağın düşmesi sonucu erken bitti.


Kökenleri ve Erken Yaşamı
Lombard Fort Wayne, Indiana'da Jane Alice Peters adıyla doğdu. Evebeynlerinin adları Frederick C. Peters (1875–1935) ve Elizabeth Knight (1877–1942)'dı. Baba tarafından büyük dedesi John Claus Peters, iki alman göçmenin, Claus Peters ve Caroline Catherine Eberlin'in oğluydu. Anne tarafından ise tanınmış bir kolonici olan ve 1634'te İngiltere'nin Doğu Anglia bölgesinden Amerika'nın Massachusetts Körfezi Kolonisi'ne geldiği bilinen Thomas Hastings'in soyundan geliyordu. Lombard, ailesinin üç çocuğunun en genç olanıydı. Ondan büyük iki abisi vardı; Fred C. Peters Jr. ve Stuart Peters. Erken çocukluğunu St. Mary's Nehri yakınındaki Fort Wayne'de geçirdi. Babasında geçirdiği bir iş kazası sonucunda devamlı bir baş ağrısı kaldı. Bu baş ağrısı nedeniyle, babası ani öfke patlamaları ve sinir krizleri geçirmeye başladı ve bu durum ailesini dağıttı. Lombard'ın annesi ile babası boşandı ve 1914'te annesi üç çocuğunu da alıp Los Angeles'a taşındı. Lombard burada Virgil Ortaokulu'na ve ondan sonra Fairfax Lisesi'ne gitti. 1924'te "Mayıs kraliçesi" seçildi. Bu sıralarda Lombard hayali olan oyunculuğa daha fazla zaman harcamak için okulu bıraktı ama önünde sonunda 1927 yılında Fairfax Lisesi'nden mezun oldu. Lombard aynı zamanda 1938 yılından itibaren kayıtlı, ikinci jenerasyondan bir bahai dir.

Kariyeri


Klasik bir screwball komedisi olan My Man Godfrey 'de (1936)

Lombard sokakta beyzbol oynarken bir yönetmen olan Allan Dwan'ın onu görmesi sonucu, yirmi yaşındayken ilk kez bir filmde oynadı, A Perfect Crime (1921). Bu filmde Lombard erkek tavırlı bir kızı canlandırdı. 1920'lerde, Lombard Jane Peters adıyla çeşitli düşük bütçeli filmlerde rol aldı ve daha sonra adı Carol Lombard oldu. Lombard'ın arkadaşı olan Miriam Cooper Lombard'ın, kocası Raoul Walsh'ın filmlerinde küçük roller almasını sağladı. 1925 yılında Lombard Fox Film Corporation'la kontrat imzaladı (1935'te Daryl Zanuck'un Twentieth Century Productions 'ını ile birleşen şirket). Aynı zamanda Lombard Pathé Exchange ile de çalıştı ve 1928'de Mack Sennett'ın bir filmi olan Bathing Beauties da gözüktü. Lombard 1929'da oynadığı High Voltage filmiyle sesli sinemeya yumuşak ve pürüzsüz bir geçiş yaptı. 1930'da 2oth Century ve Pathé Exchange şirketleriyle ilişkisini keserek Paramount Pictures Corporation'la bir kontrat imzalamayı başardı.


Carole Lombard 1938 yılında
Lombard 1930'ların başında birkaç küçük başarıya imza attı. 1930'da Safety in Numbers filminde Charles "Buddy" Rogers ile ve 1932'de No Man of Her Own filminde Clark Gable ile karşılıklı oynadı. Ama Lombard'ın kariyeri 1934 yılına kadar henüz zirveye ulaşmamıştı. 1934'te yönetmen Howard Hawks ile bir partide karşılaştı, Hawks ona aşık oldu ve Lombard'ın kendi projesi için uygun olduğuna karar verdi. Hawks, Lombard'ı sahne efsanesi John Barrymore'un yanına, 2oth Century adına işe aldı. Lombard John Barrymore ile çalışmaya başladığında ilk zamanlarda gözü korktu ama daha sonra ikisi güzel bir iş uyumu geliştirdiler.

1934'te ayrıca, Lombard George Raft ile Bolero adlı yapımda rol aldı. 1935'te Lombard Mitchell Leisen'ın Hands Across the Table adlı yapımında boy gösterdi. Bu film Lombard'ın bir komedi aktrisi olarak ünlenmesinde önemli rol oynamıştır. 1936 yılı Lombard için önemli bir yıl olmuştu, eski kocası William Powell'la birlikte bir screwball komedisi olan My Man Godfrey de rol almıştı. William Powell, karşısında Lombard oynamazsa bu filmde oynamayacağını söylemiştir. Powell ve Lombard boşanmalarına rağmen, Lombard'ın ölümüne dek çok yakın olmuşlardır. Bu filmdeki performansı sayesinde Lombard En İyi Kadın Oyuncu Akademi Ödülü'ne aday gösterilmiştir. Bu filmden sonra 1937' de Lombard William A. Wellman'ın yönettiği Nothing Sacred adlı filmde Fredric March'ın karşısında oynamıştır. Bu film Lombard'ın Technicolor(renkli) ve hem eleştirmenler tarafından başarılı bulunmuş hem de ticari anlamda başarı yakalamış tek filmidir. Nothing Sacred Lombard'ı sinema dünyasının en fazla kazanan aktrisleri arasına sokmuştur.


In Vigil in the Night (1940)
Fools for Scandal 'daki başarısızlıktan sonra Lombard bir süre için komedi yerine dram filmlerinde oynamaya başladı. 1939'da Lombard James Stewart'ın karşısında rol aldığı ve David O. Selznick'in prodüktörlüğünü yaptığı Made for Each Other 'da ve Cary Grant'la karşılıklı oynadığı In Name Only adlı filmlerde oynadı. 1940'ta ise Vigil in the Night 'da oynadı. Seyirciler Carole Lombard 'ın dramatik rollerde oynamasına iyi bir tepki vermedi. Bu yüzden Lombard Alfred Hitchcock'ın yönettiği Mr. & Mrs. Smith isimli filmle komediye geri döndü. Bu film Lombard'ın kariyerine bir ivme kazandırdı ve bu başarının sonucu olarak 1942 yılında Lombard, son ve en başarılı filmlerinden biri olan To Be or Not to Be 'de rol aldı.

Kişisel Hayatı


Hazel Flagg rolünde, Carole Lombar'ın favorilerinden olan Nothing Sacred adlı filmde (1937)

Ekim 1930'da, Lombard William Powell'la tanıştı. İkisi Man of the World ve Ladies' Man adlı filmlerde birlikte rol aldılar. Powell, Lombard'ın önceki aşıklarına nazaran şehirli ve sofistikeydi. Aynı zamanda Powell'ın dobra bir kişiliği ve deli dolu bir mizah anlayışı vardı. Powell ve Lombard 26 Haziran 1931'de evlendiler. Lombard bir dergiye aralarında bulunan 16 yaşın onlar için bir problem olmadığı yorumunu yaptı ama çiftin bazı yakın arkadaşlarının onları böyle hissetmediğini belirtti. 1933'de boşandılar ama her zaman arkadaş kaldılar ve 'My Man Godfrey filminde olduğu gibi sorun yaratmadan birlikte çalıştılar.

Powell'la boşanmasının ardından, 1934'de Lombard Hollywood Bulvarı'ındaki evine taşındı. Bir arkadaşı olan ve Mack Sennett günlerinden tanıştığı Madalynne Fields'la beraber yaşamaya başladı. Daha sonra Madalynne, Lombard'ın kişisel sekreteri oldu. Lombard bu dönemlerde verdiği alışılmışın dışında partileriyle anılmaya başladı.

Bu süreçte Lombard Gary Cooper, George Raft ve en bilineni filmyazarı Robert Riskin'le bazı ilişkiler yaşadı. Daha sonra Lombard müzisyen Russ Columbo'yla ciddi bir ilişki yaşadı. Columbo, Lombard'a evlenme teklif ettikten kısa bir süre sonra 26 yaşında serseri bir kurşunla vurulduğu bir kaza sonucu öldü.

Lombard'ın en bilinen ilişkisi 1936 yılında Clark Gable'la birlikte olduğu ilişkisidir. Daha önce 1932 yılında ikili No Man of Her Own adlı filmde birlikte rol almıştı ama o süreçte Lombard'ın Powell'la mutlu bir evliliği vardı. Gable ile Lombard birbirlerinde haberleri olmaksızın Fox'un 1926 yapımı bir sessiz filmi olan The Johnstown Flood birlikte çalıştılar. Daha sonra Gable ve Lombard, Lombard'ın ev sahipliği yaptığı bir Mayfair Balosunda tekrar bir araya geldi ve ilişkileri burada başladı. Gable bu sırada bir petrol zengini olan Ria Langham'la evliydi. Bu yüzden ilişkilerini bir süre gizli tuttular. Gable bir MGM yapımı olan Gone with the Wind filmindeki Rhett Butler rolünü kabul edince işler değişti. MGM'nin başı olan Louis B. Mayer, rolü kabul etmekte isteksiz olan Gable ile bir anlaşma yaptı. Bu antlaşmaya göre Mayer Gable'a Langham'la boşanmasını ayarlaması ve Lombard'la evlenmesini sağlamak için para verdi. Gable, Langham'dan 7 Mart 1939'da boşandı. Gable, Lombard'a ikisi de Brown Derby adlı restoranda iken telefonda evlenme teklif etti.

29 Mart 1939'da Gone with the Wind 'ın prodüksiyon arasında , Gable ve Lombard arabayla Kingman, Arizona'ya gittiler ve orada basit bir törenle evlendiler. Törende sadece Gable'ın basın vekili Otto Winkler vardı. Daha sonra Encino, Los Angeles da bulunan ve önceden yönetmen Raoul Walsh'a ait olan büyük bir çiftliği satın aldılar.

Ölümü
ABD 1941 yılının sonunda II. Dünya Savaşı'na girince, Lombard memleketi olan Indiana'ya döndü. Burada Bess Peters, Clark Gable'ın basın vekili Otto Winkler ve annesiyle birlikte savaş senetleri için düzenlenen ralliye katıldı ve savunma senetlerinde 2 milyon dolara yakın para topladılar. Lombard evine dönmek için sabırsızlandı ve trene binmek yerine uçağa binmeye karar verdi. Annesi ve Winkler uçmaktan korkuyorlardı. Lombard bu karar için yazı-tura atmayı önerdi ve yazı-turanın sonucunda Lombard kazandı.

16 Ocak 1942'de, Lombard, annesi ve Winkler California'ya dönmek için Trans World Airlines'a ait DC-3 tipi uçağa biniş yaptılar. Las Vegas Valley'de uçağa yeniden benzin doldurduktan sonra TWA Flight 3 kalktı ve kalktıktan 23 dakika sonra "Double Up Peak" ile Potosi dağının 8.300 ft (2,500 m) yüksekliğinde yere çakıldı. Uçaktaki 15'i ordu görevlisi olan 22 kişi anında olay yerinde öldü.

Lombard'ın ölümünden kısa bir süre sonra Gable, (Lombard'ı kaybetmesi nedeniyle yıkılmıştı.) Amerika Birleşik Devletleri Hava Kuvvetleri'ne katıldı.

Lombard ölümünden sonra Glendale, California'daki "Forest Lawn Memorial Park" mezarlığına gömüldü. Mezar taşında adı "Carole Lombard Gable" olarak yazmaktadır. Gable yeniden evlenmesine rağmen 1960 yılında öldüğünde Lombard'ın yanına gömüldü. Bess Peters da kızının, Lombard'ın yanına gömüldü.

Ödülleri ve Onurları


HollywoodWalkofFameCaroleLombardsStar.jpg

1999'da Amerikan Film Enstitüsü Lombard'ı AFI'nın 100 Yılı... 100 Film listesinde yirmi üçüncü olarak ilan etti. Lombard, My Man Godfrey filmindeki performansıyla En İyi Kadın Oyuncu Akademi Ödülü'ne aday olmuştu. Hollywood Walk of Fame'de, 6930 Hollywood Bulvarı'nda bir yıldızı bulunmaktadır.

Lombard'ın büyüdüğü kasaba olan Fort Wayne'deki evi orijinaline ve tarihine sadık kalınarak yeniden düzenlendi. Şehir tarafından Lombard'ın evine yakın olan St. Mary's Nehri üzerinde yer alan köprüye "Carole Lombard Memorial Bridge"(Carole Lombard Hatırası Köprüsü) adını verdi.

Lombard'ı Canlandıranlar
Lombard'ı oynayan aktrisler:

Jill Clayburgh Gable and Lombard 'da (1976)
Sharon Gless Moviola: The Scarlett O'Hara War 'da (1980)
Denise Crosby Malice in Wonderland 'da (1985)
Anastasia Hille RKO 281 'da (1999)
Vanessa Gray Lucy 'da(2003)

Filmografi
Yapımları
A Perfect Crime (1921)
Gold Heels (1924)
Dick Turpin (1925)
Marriage in Transit (1925)
Gold and the Girl (1925)
Hearts and Spurs (1925)
Durand of the Bad Lands (1925)
The Plastic Age (1925)
Ben-Hur (1925)
The Road to Glory (1926)
The Johnstown Flood (1926)
The Fighting Eagle (1927)
My Best Girl (1927)
The Divine Sinner (1928)
Power (1928)
Me, Gangster (1928)
Show Folks (1928)
Ned McCobb's Daughter (1928)
High Voltage (1929)
Big News (1929)
The Racketeer (1929)
The Arizona Kid (1930)
Safety in Numbers (1930)
Fast and Loose (1930)
It Pays to Advertise (1931)
Man of the World (1931)
Ladies' Man (1931)
Up Pops the Devil (1931)
I Take This Woman (1931)
No One Man (1932)
Sinners in the Sun (1932)
Virtue (1932)
No More Orchids (1932)
No Man of Her Own (1932)
From Hell to Heaven (1933)
Supernatural (1933)
The Eagle and the Hawk (1933)
Brief Moment (1933)
White Woman (1933)
Bolero (1934)
We're Not Dressing (1934)
Twentieth Century (1934)
Now and Forever (1934)
Lady by Choice (1934)
The Gay Bride (1934)
Rumba (1935)
Hands Across the Table (1935)
Love Before Breakfast (1936)
The Princess Comes Across (1936)
My Man Godfrey (1936)
Swing High, Swing Low (1937)
Nothing Sacred (1937)
True Confession (1937)
Fools for Scandal (1938)
Made for Each Other (1939)
In Name Only (1939)
Vigil in the Night (1940)
They Knew What They Wanted (1940)
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Kısa Filmleri[değiştir | kaynağı değiştir]
Smith's Pony (1927)
Gold Digger of Weepah (1927)
The Girl from Everywhere (1927)
Run, Girl, Run (1928)
The Beach Club (1928)
Smith's Army Life (1928)
The Best Man (1928)
The Swim Princess (1928)
The Bicycle Flirt (1928)
The Girl from Nowhere (1928)
His Unlucky Night (1928)
Smith's Restaurant (1928)
The Campus Vamp (1928)
Motorboat Mamas (1928)
Hubby's Weekend Trip (1928)
The Campus Carmen (1928)
Matchmaking Mamma (1929)
Don't Get Jealous (1929)
Hollywood on Parade No. 11 (1933)
Hollywood on Parade No. A-12 (1933)
The Fashion Side of Hollywood (1935)
Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 3 (1936)
Breakdowns of 1938 (1938)
Hollywood Goes to Town (1938)
Screen Snapshots Series 18, No. 9 (1939)




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Carole Lombard was born Jane Alice Peters on October 6, 1908, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the daughter of Elizabeth Knight and Frederick C. Peters. She had two older brothers, Frederick and Stuart, and enjoyed playing with them more than making paper cutouts or valentines. A childhood friend remembered that "every other afternoon this 5 year old blonde would come screeching across the street, demanding a chance to play one of the ends [in football]. She was always sent home again."



After her parent's separation in 1914, her mother took the children to live in California. All of Lombard's life, her mother, "Bessie," remained her closest confidant. They died together on the airplane in 1942.

She left school after Junior High, and often participated in exhibition ballroom dancing at the Coconut Grove in Hollywood. It was here, in 1925, that a Fox Studio executive spotted her and gave her a screen test. Her career had begun.

Two years later, she began to work for Mack Sennett, the "King of Comedy." She made several two reel comedies with him, and told interviewers that she enjoyed working with him. He remembered her as a "scamp and a madcap."

After leaving Sennett she appeared in various films for Pathe and Paramount. One of them was Man of the World, with William Powell. They married in 1931 and were divorced 28 months later. Carole said later that "career had little to do with the divorce. We were just two completely incompatible people." They remained friends, starring together in 1936 in the classic comedy My Man Godfrey.

Lombard had known Clark Gable since 1932, but their romantic attachment began in 1936, when John Hay Whitney gave an elaborate costume party in Hollywood. The invitations requested the guests appear in something white. With her unfailing sense of humor, Carole arrived at the party in a white ambulance and was carried into the Whitney mansion on a stretcher. She and Gable renewed their friendship at "The White Ball," becoming constant companions until their marriage in 1939.



In the summer of 1939, they settled on a 20 acre estate in the Encino section of the San Fernando Valley. They loved the outdoor life and shared times hunting and riding together. Lombard was the ideal mate for Gable, a woman who could be glamorous and lovely, but who also could be as companionable as a pal.

Following the entrance of the United States into World War II in 1941, Gable was made chairman of the Hollywood Victory Committee. In January 1942, he arranged for Lombard to embark on a bond selling tour that would climax in Indianapolis on January 15. At that rally, she spoke publicly for the last time. "Before I say good-bye to you all -- come on -- join me in a big cheer -- V for Victory!"

At four AM, Friday, January 16, 1942, Lombard and her mother boarded the plane home to California. After refueling in Las Vegas, the plane took off on a clear night, and twenty three minutes later crashed into a mountain side thirty miles southwest of Las Vegas. All of the 23 passengers aboard were killed.

Her husband joined in the search for her body, and on January 18, brought her and her mother home for burial in Forest Lawn Cemetary, Glendale, California.

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Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres; from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, though her greatest successes were romantic dramas.

After appearing in Broadway plays, Davis moved to Hollywood in 1930, but her early films for Universal Studios were unsuccessful. She joined Warner Bros. in 1932 and established her career with several critically acclaimed performances. In 1937, she attempted to free herself from her contract and although she lost a well-publicized legal case, it marked the beginning of the most successful period of her career. Until the late 1940s, she was one of American cinema's most celebrated leading actresses, known for her forceful and intense style. Davis gained a reputation as a perfectionist who could be highly combative, and her confrontations with studio executives, film directors and costars were often reported. Her forthright manner, clipped vocal style and ubiquitous cigarette contributed to a public persona which has often been imitated and satirized.

Davis was the co-founder of the Hollywood Canteen, and was the first female president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She was the first actress to receive 10 Academy Award nominations and the first woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute. Her career went through several periods of decline, and she admitted that her success had often been at the expense of her personal relationships. Married four times, she was once widowed and thrice divorced, and raised her children as a single parent. Her final years were marred by a long period of ill health, but she continued acting until shortly before her death from breast cancer, with more than 100 film, television and theater roles to her credit. In 1999, Davis was placed second, behind Katharine Hepburn, on the American Film Institute's list of the greatest female stars of all time

GRETA GARBO
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Photo by Arnold Genthe, 1925

Born: Greta Lovisa Gustafsson,18 September 1905 , Stockholm, Sweden
Died: 15 April 1990 (aged 84) New York City, New York
Occupation: Actress
Years active: 1920 - 1941
Awards: Won Academy Awards, Academy Honorary Award, 1955 Lifetime Achievement
Other Awards: NYFCC Award for Best Actress 1935 Anna Karenina, 1936 Camille, Walk of Fame - Motion Picture
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Greta Garbo (18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990) was a Swedish-American actress during Hollywood's silent film period and part of its Golden Age.

Regarded as one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie stars ever produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the Hollywood studio system, Garbo received a 1954 Honorary Oscar "for her unforgettable screen performances" and in 1999 was ranked as the fifth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute.



Early life

Garbo was born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson in Stockholm, Sweden, the youngest of three children of Karl Alfred Gustafsson (1871–1920) and Anna Lovisa Johansson (1872–1944). Garbo's older sister and brother were Sven Alfred (1898–1967) and Alva Maria (1903–1926).


Becoming An Actress

When Garbo was 14 years old, her father, to whom she was extremely close, died. She was forced to leave school and go to work. Her first job was as a soap-lather girl in a barbershop. She stated in the book Garbo On Garbo (p. 33) that her relationship with her mother was not strained.

She then became a clerk at the department store PUB in Stockholm, where she would also model for newspaper advertisements. Her first motion picture aspirations came when she appeared in two short film advertisements (the first for the department store where she worked). They were eventually seen by comedy director Erik Arthur Petschler and he gave her a part in his upcoming film Peter the Tramp (1922).

From 1922 to 1924, Garbo studied at the prestigious Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. While there, she met director Mauritz Stiller. He trained her in cinema acting technique, gave her the stage name "Greta Garbo", and cast her in a major role in the silent film Gösta Berlings Saga (English: The Story of Gösta Berling) in 1924, a dramatization of the famous novel by Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf. She starred in Gösta Berling opposite Swedish film actor Lars Hanson, then appeared in the German film Die Freudlose Gasse (The Street Of Sorrow, 1925), directed by G. W. Pabst and co-starring Asta Nielsen.

She and Stiller were brought to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by Louis B. Mayer when Gösta Berlings Saga caught his attention. On viewing the film during a visit to Berlin, Mayer was impressed with Stiller's direction, but was much more taken with Garbo's acting and screen presence. According to Mayer's daughter, Irene Mayer Selznick, with whom he screened the film, it was the gentle feeling and expression that emanated from her eyes which so impressed her father.

Unfortunately, her relationship with Stiller came to an end as her fame grew and he struggled in the studio system. He was fired by MGM and returned to Sweden in 1927, where he died the following year. Garbo was also close friends with Einar Hanson, a Swedish actor who worked with her and Pabst on The Street Of Sorrow, and then came to Hollywood to work at MGM and Paramount Pictures. Einar Hanson was killed in an auto accident in 1927, after leaving a dinner with Garbo and Stiller. Garbo's sister Alva died of cancer in 1926 at the age of 23 after appearing in one feature film in Sweden, adding to the melancholy Garbo felt at being in Hollywood. MGM refused to allow Garbo to return to Sweden for her sister's funeral, and Garbo was only able to return to Sweden for a visit in 1928.


Life in Hollywood


The best of Garbo's silent movies were Flesh and the Devil (1927), Love (1927) and The Mysterious Lady (1928). She starred in the first two with the popular leading man John Gilbert. Her name was linked with his in a much publicized romance, and she was said to have left him standing at the altar in 1926, when she changed her mind about getting married.

Having achieved enormous success as a silent movie star, she was one of the few actors who made the transition to talkies, though she delayed the shift for as long as possible. Her film The Kiss (1929) was the last film MGM made without dialogue (it used a soundtrack with music and sound effects only).

Her voice was first heard on screen in Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie (1930), which was publicized with the slogan "Garbo Talks". The movie was a huge success. In 1931 Garbo made a German version of the movie.

Garbo appeared as the World War I spy Mata Hari (1931). She was next part of an all-star cast in Grand Hotel (1932) in which she played a Russian ballerina.

She then had a contract dispute with MGM. She signed a new contract in July 1932, departing for Sweden later the same month. She exercised her new control by having her leading man in Queen Christina (1933), Laurence Olivier, replaced with Gilbert. In 1935, David O. Selznick wanted her cast as the dying heiress in Dark Victory, but she insisted on doing Tolstoy's Anna Karenina. Bette Davis would eventually play the Judith Trahenre role in Dark Victory and score her third Oscar nomination.

Her role as the doomed courtesan in Camille (1936), directed by George Cukor, would be regarded by Garbo as her finest acting performance. She then starred opposite Melvyn Douglas in Ninotchka (1939), directed by Ernst Lubitsch.

Garbo was nominated for an Academy Award for Anna Christie (1930), Romance (1930), Camille (1937) and Ninotchka (1939).

Garbo received praise from many fellow actors:

Her instinct, her mastery over the machine, was pure witchcraft. I cannot analyse this woman's acting. I only know that no one else so effectively worked in front of a camera. —Bette Davis

During Garbo's Hollywood career, she was caricatured in the Warner Bros. cartoons Porky's Road Race, Speaking of the Weather (both directed by Frank Tashlin) and Hollywood Steps Out (directed by Tex Avery).


Later Career

Ninotchka was a successful attempt at lightening Garbo's image and making her less exotic, by the insertion of a scene in a restaurant in which her character breaks into uninhibited laughter which provided the film with its famous tagline, "Garbo laughs!". The follow-up film, Two-Faced Woman (1941), attempted to capitalize by casting Garbo in a romantic comedy, where she played a double role that featured her dancing, and tried to make her into "an ordinary girl". The film, directed by George Cukor, was a critical (though not a commercial) failure. It was Garbo's last official screen appearance.

It is often reported that Garbo chose to retire from cinema after this film's failure, but already by 1935 she was becoming more choosy about her roles, and eventually years passed without her agreeing to do another film. By her own admission, Garbo felt that after World War II the world changed, perhaps forever.

In 1941, MGM costume-designer Adrian also left the studio, later saying:

"It was because of Garbo that I left MGM. In her last picture they wanted to make her a sweater girl, a real American type. I said, 'When the glamour ends for Garbo, it also ends for me. She has created a type. If you destroy that illusion, you destroy her.' When Garbo walked out of the studio, glamour went with her, and so did I."

In 1949, Garbo filmed several screen tests as she considered reentering the movie business to shoot La Duchesse de Langeais directed by Walter Wanger; otherwise she never stepped in front of a movie camera again. The plans for this film collapsed when financing failed to materialize, and these tests were lost for 40 years, before resurfacing in someone's garage.They were included in the 2005 TCM documentary Garbo, and show her still radiant at age 43. There were suggestions that she might appear as the "Duchess de Guermantes" in a film adaptation of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time but this never came to fruition. She was offered many roles over the years, but always turned them down.

Her last interview was probably with the celebrated entertainment writer Paul Callan of the London Daily Mail during the Cannes Film Festival. Meeting at the Hotel du Cap Eden Roc, Callan began "I wonder . . ", before Garbo cut in with "Why wonder?", and stalked off, making it one of the shortest interviews ever published.

She gradually withdrew from the entertainment world and moved to a secluded life in New York City, refusing to make any public appearances. Up until her death, Garbo sightings were considered sport for paparazzi photographers. In 1974, pornographic filmmaker Peter De Rome tracked Garbo across New York and shot unauthorized footage of her for inclusion in his X-rated feature Adam & Yves.

Despite these attempts to flee from fame, she was nevertheless voted Best Silent Actress of the Century (her compatriot Ingrid Bergman winning the Best Sound Actress) in 1950, and was also designated as the most beautiful woman who ever lived by the Guinness Book of World Records.


Private Life

Garbo was considered one of the most glamorous movie stars of the 1920s and 1930s. She was also famous for shunning publicity, which became part of her mystique. Except at the very beginning of her career, she granted no interviews, signed no autographs, attended no premieres, and answered no fan mail.

Her famous byline was always said to be, "I want to be alone," spoken with a heavy accent which made the word "want" sound like "vont." This quote as noted comes from her role in Grand Hotel. However, Garbo later commented, "I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be let alone.' There is all the difference." This byline was referenced in the movie Death Becomes Her, where it was used in a comedic way, implying that Garbo had taken the eternally young potion used in the movie plot.

Garbo kept her private affairs out of the public domain. According to private letters released in Sweden in 2005 to mark the centenary of her birth, she was reclusive in part because she was "self-obsessed, depressive, and ashamed of her latrine-cleaner father."

Her most famous sexual relationship — but not her only such relationship — was with actor John Gilbert. They starred together for the first time in the classic Flesh and the Devil in 1926. Their on-screen "erotic intensity" soon translated into an off-camera romance, and by the end of production Garbo had moved in with Gilbert. Gilbert is said to have proposed to Garbo at least three times. She reportedly wanted to quit films if they married, but Gilbert wanted her to continue her career. When a marriage was finally arranged in 1926, she failed to show up at the ceremony. After their affair ended, Garbo showed great loyalty to Gilbert after his career collapsed with the coming of sound films, and insisted that he appear with her in 1933's Queen Christina despite the objection of MGM studio head Louis B. Mayer.

The 1995 biography Garbo by Barry Paris relates Garbo's relationships - which were often just close friendships - with actor George Brent, conductor Leopold Stokowski, nutritionist Gayelord Hauser, and her manager George Schlee, husband of designer Valentina.

In 1931, Garbo met and quickly befriended Mercedes de Acosta. The two were introduced to one another by de Acosta's close friend, author Salka Viertel, who was also very close to Garbo and wrote the screenplay for several of Garbo's films. Her relationship with Garbo has often been described as "the love of her lifetime". From all information from the time, it is unlikely that Garbo shared those feelings. Garbo was in control of the friendship, which was close for about a year from 1931 to 1932.

But thereafter, theirs was a vacillating relationship, with Garbo even ignoring de Acosta -everything was at the will of Garbo. Estranged by 1937, in 1944, Garbo insisted de Acosta stop sending her poems and letters professing her love. The last known poem of hers for Garbo was written that same year. Their relationship finally ended when De Acosta wrote about her lesbian affairs in the autobiography Here Lies the Heart (1960).

Louise Brooks wrote in her memoir that at one point, she had a brief affair with Garbo. She later described Garbo as masculine but a "charming and tender lover".


Secluded Retirement

Gravestone of Greta GarboGarbo felt her movies had their proper place in history and would gain in value. On 9 February 1951, she became a naturalized citizen of the United States. In 1954 she was awarded a special Academy Award.

In 1953, she bought a seven-room apartment in New York City at 450 East 52nd Street, where she lived for the rest of her life.

She would at times jet-set with some of the world's best known personalities such as Aristotle Onassis and Cecil Beaton, but chose to live a private life. She was known for taking long walks through the New York streets dressed casually and wearing large sunglasses, always avoiding prying eyes, the paparazzi, and media attention. Garbo did, however, receive one last flurry of publicity when nude photos, taken with a long-range lens, were published in People in 1976. Trim and relaxed, she was enjoying a swim.

Garbo lived the last years of her life in absolute seclusion. She had invested very wisely, particularly in commercial property along Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, was known for extreme frugality, and was very wealthy.

She died in New York Hospital on 15 April 1990, aged 84, as a result of pneumonia and renal failure, which had shut down her stomach and kidneys. She had previously been operated on and treated for breast cancer, which required a partial mastectomy, from which she recovered.

She was cremated and her ashes were finally interred after a long legal battle at the Skogskyrkogården Cemetery in her native Stockholm. She left her entire estate, estimated at $20,000,000 USD to her niece, Gray Reisfield of New Jersey.

For her contributions to cinema, she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6901 Hollywood Boulevard. In addition, in September 2005, the United States Postal Service and Swedish Posten jointly issued two commemorative stamps bearing her likeness

Greta Garbo 1924



Genel Bilgiler

Doğum adı: Greta Lovisa Gustafsson
Doğum:18 Eylül 1905 Stockholm İsveç
Ölüm: 15 Nisan 1990 New York City, New York
Akademi Ödülleri: Ömür Boyu Başarı Ödülü 1955






Greta Garbo portre, 1927, fotoğraf Edward Steichen
Greta Garbo (d. 18 Eylül, 1905 – ö. 15 Nisan, 1990) Holywood'un sessiz film döneminde ikonlaşan İsveç doğumlu film aktrisidir.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ve Hollywood stüdyo sistemlerince yaratılan en gizemli ve en iyi sinema oyunları arasında anılan Garbo, "unutulmaz sahne performansları için" 1955 Akademi Onur Ödülünü almış ve Amerikan Film Enstitüsü tarafından hazırlanan En Önemli 50 Beyaz Perde Efsanesi listesinde en önemli beşinci kadın yıldız olarak yer almıştır. Ayrıca, Guinness Rekorlar Kitabında Garbo'dan "şimdiye dek yaşamış en güzel kadın" olarak söz edildiği iddia edilmektedir.

Filmleri
Two-Faced Woman (1941) (Karin Borg Blake rolünde)
Ninotchka (1939) (Nina Yakushova 'Ninotchka' Ivanoff)
Conquest (1937) (Countess Marie Walewska)
Camille (1936) (Marguerite Gautier)
Anna Karenina (1935) (Anna Karenina)
The Painted Veil (1934) (Katrin Koerber Fane)
Queen Christina (1933) (Queen Christina)
As You Desire Me (1932) (Zara aka Maria)
Grand Hotel (1932) (Grusinskaya)
Mata Hari (1931) (Mata Hari)
Susan Lenox (1931) (Susan Lenox)
Inspiration (1931) (Yvonne Valbret)
Anna Christie (1931) (Anna Christie)
Romance (1930) (Madame Rita Cavallini)
Anna Christie (1930) (Anna Christie)
The Kiss (1929) (Irene Guarry)
The Single Standard (1929) (Arden Stuart Hewlett)
Wild Orchids (1929) (Lillie Sterling)
A Woman of Affairs (1928) (Diana Merrick Furness)
The Mysterious Lady (1928) (Tania Fedorova)
The Divine Woman (1928) (Marianne)
Love (1927/I) (Anna Karenina)
Flesh and the Devil (1926) (Felicitas)
The Temptress (1926) (Elena)
Torrent (1926) (Leonora Moreno)
Freudlose Gasse, Die (1925)(Greta Rumfort)
Gösta Berlings saga (1924) (Elizabeth Dohna)
Luffar-Petter (1922) (Greta)
Kärlekens ögon (1922) (Extra)
Lyckoriddare, En (1921) (Maid)
Konsum Stockholm Promo (1921)
Herr och fru Stockholm (1920) (Elder sister)

BARBARA STANWYCK

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Doğum adı Ruby Catherine Stevens
Doğum 16 Temmuz 1907
New York, ABD
Ölüm 20 Ocak 1990
Santa Monica, Kaliforniya, ABD
Evlilik Frank Fay (1928-1935)
Robert Taylor (1939-1951)
Akademi Ödülleri

Akademi Onur Ödülü
1982 Yaşam boyu başarı
Emmy Ödülleri

Drama Dizilerinde En İyi Kadın Oyuncu
1961 The Barbara Stanwyck Show
1966 The Big Valley
Mini dizi ya da Filmlerde En İyi Kadın Oyuncu
1983 The Thorn Birds
Altın Küre Ödülleri

En İyi Yardımcı Kadın Oyuncu (TV)
1984 The Thorn Birds
Cecil B. DeMille Ödülü
1986 Yaşam boyu başarı
Barbara Stanwyck (d. 16 Temmuz 1907 - ö. 20 Ocak 1990), Klasik Hollywood döneminin önde gelen sinema ve TV yıldızlarından olan ABD'li oyuncu. 60 yıllık kariyeri boyunca çok yönlü ve mükemmel bir oyuncu olarak tanındı ve Cecil B. DeMille, Fritz Lang ve Frank Capra gibi yönetmenlerin favorileri arasında yer aldı.

Kısa süren tiyatro oyunculuğunun ardından, Hollywood'da 38 yılda 80 film yaptı. Ardından kariyerine TV dizi ve şovlarıyla devam etti.

Stanwyck Akademi Ödülleri'ne dört defa aday oldu, üç Emmy ve bir Altın Küre Ödülü kazandı. Motion Picture Academy, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Altın Küre Ödülleri, Los Angeles Film Critics Association (Los Angeles Eleştirmenler Birliği) ve Screen Actors Guild'den yaşam boyu başarı ödülleri aldı, ayrıca Hollywood Walk of Fame'de bir yıldızı bulunmaktadır. Oyuncu AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars listesinde on birinci sırada yer aldı.[img]



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VIVIEN LEIGH

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Genel Bilgiler
Doğum tarihi 5 Kasım 1913
Doğum yeri Darjeeling, Batı Bengal, (şimdiki Hindistan)
Ölüm tarihi 8 Temmuz 1967
Ölüm yeri Londra, İngiltere

Lady Vivien Leigh Olivier (d. 5 Kasım 1913 – ö. 8 Temmuz 1967), İngiliz oyuncu.

Rüzgâr Gibi Geçti filmindeki güneyli güzel Scarlett O'Hara (1939) ve A Streetcar Named Desire filmindeki Blanche DuBois rolleri ile (1951) iki Oscar kazandı. Sahnede sıkça göründü ve eşi Laurence Olivier ile birçok projede çalıştı. 30 yıllık sahne kariyerinde Noël Coward ve George Bernard Shaw komedi' lerinden William Shakespeare klasikleri Ophelia, Kleopatra, Juliet ve Macbeth'e birçok farklı karakteri canlandırdı.

Övülen güzelliği Leigh için bir tatmin duygusu yaratmaktan çok, onun tarafından kendisinin bir aktris olarak ciddiye alınmasını engeleyen bir unsur olarak görülmüştür. Bununla beraber, onun için gerçek anlamda tehlike oluşturan şey hastalığı idi. Bipolar bozukluk onun yetişkin hayat sürecinin büyük bir bölümünde kendini göstermiştir. Bunun sonucu olarak da çalışmak için çok zor bir insan olmasıyla nam salarken, kariyeri çöküş periyoduna girmiştir. 1940 yılında ilk kez teşhis edilen ve kendini sürekli yineleyen tüberküloz nöbetleriyle zayıf düşen Leigh, tüberküloz hastalığı nedeniyle öleceği ana dek aralıklarla film ve tiyatro oyunlarındaki görevlerine devam etmiştir.





Filmleri

Things Are Looking Up (1935)
Gentlemen's Agreement (1935) (Phil Stanley)
Look Up and Laugh (1935) (Marjorie Belfer)
The Village Squire (1935) (Rose Venables)
Fire Over England (1937) (Cynthia)
Dark Journey (1937) (Madeleine Goddard)
Storm in a Teacup (1937) (Victoria 'Vickie' Gow)
A Yank at Oxford (1938) (Elsa Craddock)
Sidewalks of London (1938) (Liberty Libby)
Gone with the Wind (Rüzgâr Gibi Geçti) (1939) ( Scarlett O'Hara)
21 Days (1940) (Wanda)
Waterloo Bridge (1940) (Myra)
That Hamilton Woman (1941) (Emma Lady Hamilton)
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) (Cleopatra)
Anna Karenina (film, 1948) (1948) (Anna Karenina)
A Streetcar Named Desire (İhtiras Tramvayı) (1951) (Blanche DuBois)
The Deep Blue Sea (1955) (Hester Collyer)
The Skin of Our Teeth (1959) (Sabina) - (tv için)
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961) (Karen Stone)
Ship of Fools (1965) (Mary Treadwell)

RITA HAYWORTH

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Tonight and Every Night isimli filmde (1945)

Genel Bilgiler
Doğum adı Margarita Carmen Cansino
Diğer adları
Doğum tarihi 17 Ekim 1918
Doğum yeri Brooklyn, New York,
ABD
Ölüm tarihi 14 Mayıs 1987
Ölüm yeri New York,

Rita Hayworth, asıl adıyla "Margarita Carmen Cansino, 17 Ekim 1918 ve 14 Mayıs 1987 tarihleri arasında yaşamış ABDli sinema oyuncusudur.

"Gilda" karakterine can veren Rita Hayworth 17 Ekim 1918’de İspanyol asıllı bir babanın ve Amerikalı dansçı bir annenin çocuğu olarak ABD'nin New York kentinde doğmuştur. 1946 yılında rol aldığı Gilda filmi Rita Hayworth’un kariyerinin zirvesi oldu. Gilda'dan sonra kazandığı şöhreti iyi değerlendiren ve rol aldığı filmlerle ününe ün katan Hayworth, 1953’te rol aldığı Salomedan sonra sinemadan uzak kaldı. 70’li yılların sonunda yakalandığı Alzheimer nedeniyle sinemadan koptu.

Hayworth, 14 Mayıs 1987’de doğum yeri New York’ta hayata veda etti.





Filmleri

"Rita Cansino" Olarak

Anna Case in La Fiesta (1926)
Cruz Diablo aka The Devil's Cross (1934)
In Caliente (1935)
Under the Pampas Moon (1935)
Charlie Chan in Egypt (1935)
Dante's Inferno (1935)
Piernas de Seda (Legs of Silk) (1935)
Paddy O'Day (1935)
Professional Soldier (1935)
Human Cargo (1936)
Dancing Pirate (1936)
Meet Nero Wolfe (1936)
Rebellion (1936)
Old Louisiana (1937)
Hit the Saddle (1937)
Trouble in Texas (1937)

Rita Haywort Olarak

Criminals of the Air (1937)
Girls Can Play (1937)
The Game That Kills (1937)
Life Begins with Love (1937)
Paid to Dance (1937)
The Shadow (1937)
Who Killed Gail Preston? (1938)
Special Inspector (1938)
There's Always a Woman (1938)
Convicted (1938)
Juvenile Court (1938)
The Renegade Ranger (1938)
Homicide Bureau (1939)
The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
Music in My Heart (1940)
Blondie on a Budget (1940)
Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 6 (1940)
Susan and God (1940)
The Lady in Question (1940)
Angels Over Broadway (1940)
The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
Affectionately Yours (1941)
Blood and Sand (1941)
You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
My Gal Sal (1942)
Tales of Manhattan (1942)
You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
Show Business at War (1943)
Cover Girl (1944)
Tonight and Every Night (1945)
Gilda (1946)
Down to Earth (1947)
The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
The Loves of Carmen (1948)
Champagne Safari (1952)
Affair in Trinidad (1952)
Salome (1953)
Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)
Screen Snapshots: Hollywood Grows Up (1954)
Fire Down Below (1957)
Pal Joey (1957)
Separate Tables (1958)
They Came to Cordura (1959)
The Story on Page One (1959)
The Happy Thieves (1962) (also producer)
Lykke og krone (1962)
Circus World (1964)
The Money Trap (1965)
The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966)
L'Avventuriero (1967)
I Bastardi (1968)
The Naked Zoo (1971)
Road to Salina (1971)
The Wrath of God (1972)

GENE TIERNEY

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Born Gene Eliza Tierney
November 19, 1920 ( 1920-11-19 )
Brooklyn, New York, United States
Died November 6, 1991, aged 70

Gene Tierney (November 19, 1920 – November 6, 1991) was an American film and stage actress. Acclaimed as one of the great beauties of her day, she is best-remembered for her performance in the title role of Laura (1944) and her Academy Award-nominated performance for Best Actress in Leave Her to Heaven (1945). Other notable roles include Martha Strable Van Cleve in Heaven Can Wait (1943), Isabel Bradley Maturin in The Razor's Edge (1946), Lucy Muir in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), Ann Sutton in Whirlpool (1949), Maggie Carleton McNulty in The Mating Season (1951) and Anne Scott in The Left Hand of God (1955).





Early Life

Tierney was born Gene Eliza Tierney in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Howard Sherwood Tierney and Belle Lavina Taylor. She had an elder brother, Howard Sherwood "Butch" Tierney, Jr., and a younger sister, Patricia "Pat" Tierney. Her father was a prosperous insurance broker of Irish descent, her mother a former gym teacher.

Tierney attended St. Margaret's School in Waterbury, Connecticut and the Unquowa School in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Her first poem, titled "Night," was published in the school magazine, and writing verse became an occasional pastime during the rest of her life. She then spent two years in Europe and attended the Brillantmont finishing school in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she learned to speak fluent French.

Tierney returned to the U.S. in 1938 and attended Miss Porter's School. On a trip to the West Coast, she visited Warner Bros. studios. Anatole Litvak, who was so taken by her beauty, told her that she should become an actress. Warner Bros. wanted to sign her to a contract, but her parents advised against it because of the low salary

Tierney's coming-out party as a debutante occurred on September 24, 1938, when she was 17 years old. She was bored with society life and decided to pursue a career in acting. Her father felt "If Gene is to be an actress, it should be in the legitimate theatre." Tierney auditioned for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and was accepted. Other notable talents of the era who studied there include Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Grace Kelly and Lauren Bacall.


Career

Broadway
In Tierney's first part on Broadway, she carried a bucket of water across the stage in What a Life! (1938). A Variety magazine critic declared, "Miss Tierney is certainly the most beautiful water carrier I've ever seen!" At the same time, she was an understudy for The Primrose Path (1938). The next year, she appeared in the role as Molly O' Day in the Broadway production Mrs. O' Brien Entertains (1939). The New York Times critic Brooks Atkinson wrote, "As an Irish maiden fresh from the old country, Gene Tierney in her first stage performance is very pretty and refreshingly modest." That same year, Tierney appeared as Peggy Carr in Ring Two (1939) to favorable reviews. Theater critic Richard Watts, Jr. of the New York Herald Tribune wrote, "I see no reason why Miss Tierney should not have an interesting theatrical career, that is if cinema does not kidnap her away."

Tierney's father set up a corporation, Belle-Tier, to fund and promote her acting career (he went on to steal all of her money). Columbia Pictures signed her to a six-month contract in 1939. She also met Howard Hughes, who tried unsuccessfully to seduce her, but she was from a well-to-do family and was not impressed by his wealth. However, he became a lifelong friend. A cameraman advised her to lose a little weight, saying "a thinner face is more seductive." She then wrote to Harper's Bazaar for a slimming diet, which she followed for the next 20 years.

Columbia Pictures failed to find Tierney a project; so, she returned to Broadway and starred as Patricia Stanley to critical and commercial success in The Male Animal (1940). In The New York Times, Brooks Atkinson wrote, "Tierney blazes with animation in the best performance she has yet given. "She was the toast of Broadway before her 20th birthday.

The Male Animal was a hit, and Tierney was featured in Life magazine. She was also photographed by Harper's Bazaar, Vogue and Collier's Weekly.

Film Career

Gene Tierney in the film trailer for Laura (1944).Hollywood called once again. Tierney was offered the lead in MGM's National Velvet, but when the production was delayed, she signed with 20th Century Fox. Her motion picture debut was in a co-starring role as Elenore Stone in Fritz Lang's western The Return of Frank James (1940), opposite Henry Fonda. A small role as Barbara Hall followed in Hudson's Bay (1941) with Paul Muni.

Also, in 1941, Tierney co-starred as Ellie Mae Lester in John Ford's comedy Tobacco Road, along with the title role in Belle Starr, Zia in Sundown and Victoria Charteris a.k.a. Poppy Smith in The Shanghai Gesture. The following year, she played Eve in Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake, along with the dual role as Susan Miller a.k.a. Linda Worthington in the screwball comedy film Rings on Her Fingers, Kay Saunders in Thunder Birds and Miss Young in China Girl.

Top billing in Ernst Lubitsch's classic 1943 comedy Heaven Can Wait as Martha Strable Van Cleve signaled an upward turn in Tierney's career, as her popularity increased. In 1944, she starred in what became her most famous role - the intended murder victim, Laura Hunt, in Otto Preminger's mystery film Laura, opposite Dana Andrews. After playing Tina Tomasino in A Bell for Adano (1945), she played the jealous, narcissistic femme fatale Ellen Berent Harland, opposite Cornel Wilde, in the film version of the best-selling book Leave Her to Heaven, a performance that won her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress (1945). Leave Her To Heaven was 20th Century Fox's most successful film of the 1940s.

In 1946, Tierney starred as Miranda Wells in Dragonwyck. That same year, she starred in another critically-praised performance as Isabel Bradley, opposite Tyrone Power ,in The Razor's Edge, an adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel. She followed that with her role as Lucy Muir in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), which many critics have noted to be her greatest performance for which she did not receive an Academy Award for Best Actress nomination. The following year, Tierney co-starred once again with Power, this time as Sara Farley in the successful screwball comedy film That Wonderful Urge (1948). As the decade came to a close, Tierney reunited with Laura director Preminger to star as Ann Sutton in the classic film noir Whirlpool, co-starring Richard Conte and José Ferrer (1949).

Tierney gave memorable performances in two other film noirs (both in 1950) - Jules Dassin's Night and the City and Otto Preminger's Where the Sidewalk Ends.


Pin-up photo in Yank, the Army Weekly.In 1951, Tierney was loaned out to Paramount Pictures and gave a memorable comic turn as Maggie Carleton in Mitchell Leisen's classic screwball comedy film The Mating Season with John Lund, Thelma Ritter and Miriam Hopkins. This was also the year Tierney gave a tender performance as Midge Sheridan in the Warner Bros. film Close to my Heart (1951). The film is about a couple trying to adopt. Tierney felt this was her best role in a half-dozen years, as it touched the chords of her own experience. The film addressed the issue of "nature versus nurture" and opened an early conversation about the adoption process. Later in her career, she would be reunited with Milland in Daughter of the Mind (1969), which has a cult following.

After appearing opposite Rory Calhoun as Teresa in Way of The Gaucho (1952), her contract at 20th Century Fox expired. That same year, she starred as Dorothy Bradford in Plymouth Adventure, opposite Spencer Tracy at MGM, during which she had a brief romance with Tracy. Tierney then played Marya Lamarkina, opposite Clark Gable, in Never Let Me Go (1953), which was filmed in England. She found Gable patient and considerate, but lonely and vulnerable, as he was still mourning the death of Carole Lombard. She remained in Europe to play Kay Barlow in United Artists' Personal Affair (1953), which was released that same year. While Tierney was in Europe, she began a romance with Prince Aly Khan, but their marriage plans met with fierce opposition from his father, Aga Khan III. Early in 1953, Tierney returned to the U.S. to co-star in a crime fiction film as Iris Denver in Black Widow (1954) with Ginger Rogers and Van Heflin.


Pin-up photo in World War II magazine Brief During 1953, Tierney's mental health problems were becoming harder for her to hide; she dropped out of Mogambo and was replaced by Grace Kelly. While playing Anne Scott in The Left Hand of God (1955), opposite Humphrey Bogart, Tierney's long string of personal troubles finally took their toll. She said that "Bogey could tell that I was mentally unstable." During the production, he fed Tierney her lines and encouraged her to seek help. Worried about her mental health, she consulted a psychiatrist, and was admitted to Harkness Pavilion in New York. Later, she went to the The Institute of Living in Hartford, Connecticut. After some 27 shock treatments, Tierney attempted to flee, but was caught and re-institutionalized. She became an outspoken opponent of shock treatment therapy, claiming that it had destroyed significant portions of her memory.

In 1957, Tierney was seen by a neighbor as she was about to jump from a ledge. The police were called, and she was admitted to the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas on December 25. She was released from Menninger the following year, after a treatment that included - in its final stages - working as a sales girl in a large department store (where she was recognized by a customer, resulting in sensational newspaper headlines).

Later that year, 20th Century Fox offered her a lead role in Holiday for Lovers (1957), but the stress proved too great. Days into production, she was forced to drop out of the film and was readmitted to Menninger.

Comeback
Tierney made a screen comeback in Advise and Consent (1962), co-starring with Franchot Tone. A year later, she played Albertine Prine in Toys in the Attic. She received overall critical praise for her performances. Tierney's career turn as a solid character actress seemed to be on track. She played Jane Barton in The Pleasure Seekers (1964), then again retired.

Tierney would come back and star in the television movie Daughter of the Mind (1969), with Don Murray and Ray Milland. Her final performance was in the TV miniseries Scruples (1980).

Özel Hayat

Tierney married twice, first to costume and fashion designer Oleg Cassini on June 1, 1941. She and Cassini had two daughters, Antoinette Daria Cassini (born October 15, 1943) and Christina "Tina" Cassini (born November 19, 1948).

In June 1943, while pregnant with her first daughter (Daria), Tierney contracted rubella during her only appearance at the Hollywood Canteen. Daria was born prematurely in Washington, D.C., weighing only three pounds, two ounces and requiring a total blood transfusion. Because of Tierney's illness, Daria was also deaf, partially blind with cataracts and had severe mental retardation. Tierney's grief over the tragedy led to many years of depression and may have begun her bipolar disorder. Some time after the tragedy surrounding her daughter Daria's birth, Tierney learned from a fan who approached her for an autograph at a tennis party that the woman (who was then a member of the women's branch of the Marine Corps) had sneaked out of quarantine while sick with rubella to meet Tierney at her Hollywood Canteen appearance. In her autobiography, Tierney related that after the woman had recounted her story, she just stared at her silently, then turned and walked away. She wrote, "After that I didn't care whether ever again I was anyone's favorite actress." Biographers have theorized that Agatha Christie used this real life tragedy as the basis of her plot for The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side. The incident, as well as the circumstances under which the information was imparted to the actress, is repeated almost verbatim in the story. Tierney's tragedy had been well-publicized for years previously. During this time, Howard Hughes, an old friend, saw to it that Daria received the best medical care available, paying for all of her medical expenses. Tierney never forgot Hughes' acts of kindness.

Tierney separated from Cassini, challenged by the marital stress of Daria's condition, but they later reconciled and had a second daughter, Tina. During her separation, Tierney had two romances. The first was with Tyrone Power, her co-star in The Razor's Edge. That came to an end in the spring of 1946. During the filming of Dragonwyck, she met a young John F. Kennedy, who was visiting the set. They began a romance that ended the following year, when Kennedy told her he could never marry her because of his political ambitions. Tierney then reconciled with Cassini, but they divorced on February 28, 1952. In 1960, Tierney sent Kennedy a note of congratulations on his election victory; although, she later admitted that she voted for Richard Nixon, saying, "I thought that he would make a better president."

In 1958, Tierney met Texas oil baron W. Howard Lee, who was married to Hedy Lamarr from 1953 to 1960. Tierney and Lee married in Aspen, Colorado on July 11, 1960, and lived in Houston, Texas. She loved life in Texas with Lee and became an expert contract bridge player. In 1962, 20th Century Fox announced Tierney would play the lead role in Return to Peyton Place, but she became pregnant and dropped out of the project. She later miscarried.

Tierney's autobiography, Self-Portrait, in which she candidly discussed her life, career and mental illness, was published in 1979.

On February 17, 1981, Tierney was widowed when Lee died after a long illness. Tierney died in 1991, shortly before her 71st birthday, of emphysema in Houston, Texas. She had started smoking after a screening of her first movie to lower her voice because "I sound like an angry Minnie Mouse." She became a heavy smoker, which may have contributed to her death. She is interred next to Lee in the Glenwood Cemetery in Houston, Texas.

Tierney has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6125 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

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Nights in white satin,
Never reaching the end,
Letters Ive written,
Never meaning to send.

Beauty Id always missed
With these eyes before,
Just what the truth is
I cant say anymore.

cause I love you,
Yes, I love you,
Oh, how, I love you.

Gazing at people,
Some hand in hand,
Just what Im going thru
They can understand.

Some try to tell me
Thoughts they cannot defend,
Just what you want to be
You will be in the end,

And I love you,
Yes, I love you,
Oh, how, I love you.
Oh, how, I love you.

Nights in white satin,
Never reaching the end,
Letters Ive written,
Never meaning to send.

Beauty Id always missed
With these eyes before,
Just what the truth is
I cant say anymore.

cause I love you,
Yes, I love you,
Oh, how, I love you.
Oh, how, I love you.

cause I love you,
Yes, I love you,
Oh, how, I love you.
Oh, how, I love you.

OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND

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Olivia Mary de Havilland (born July 1, 1916) is a two-time Academy Award-winning actress. She is the older sister of actress Joan Fontaine, also an Academy Award winner. Along with Shirley Temple, Luise Rainer, Gloria Stuart, Deanna Durbin and her sister, Joan Fontaine, de Havilland is one of the last surviving female stars from Hollywood of the 1930s. She is also the last living lead from the Hollywood classic Gone with the Wind.

Early life

De Havilland was born in Tokyo, Japan. Her mother, Lilian Augusta Ruse (1886-1975), was an actress known by her stage name Lilian Fontaine, and her father, Walter Augustus de Havilland (1872-1968), was a British patent attorney with a practice in Japan. Her parents married in 1914 and divorced when Olivia was three. Her younger sister is actress Joan Fontaine (b. 1917), from whom she has been estranged for many decades, not speaking at all since 1975. They both attended Los Gatos High School and the Notre Dame Convent Roman Catholic girls school in Belmont, California. Her paternal cousin is Sir Geoffrey de Havilland.

The de Havilland family moved from Tokyo when she was two years old, settling in Saratoga, California. She attended school at Los Gatos High School and at the Notre Dame Convent Catholic girls' school in Belmont, California. An acting award at Los Gatos is named after her.


Career

in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)De Havilland's career began co-starring with Joe E. Brown in Alibi Ike in 1935. She appeared as Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, her first stage production, at the Hollywood Bowl. The stage production was later turned into a 1935 movie. Although the stage cast was largely replaced with Warner Bros. contract players, she was hired to reprise her role as Hermia. After this, de Havilland played opposite Errol Flynn in such highly popular films as Captain Blood, The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), and as Maid Marian to Flynn's Robin Hood in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). Overall, she starred opposite Flynn in eight films. She played Melanie Hamilton Wilkes in Gone with the Wind (1939) and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance.

In 1941, de Havilland became a naturalized citizen of the United States. De Havilland was becoming increasingly frustrated by the roles assigned to her. She felt she had proven herself capable of playing more than the demure ingénues and damsels in distress that were quickly typecasting her, and began to reject scripts that offered her this type of role. When her Warner Bros. contract expired, the studio informed her that six months had been added to it for times she had been on suspension; the law allowed for studios to suspend contract players for rejecting a role and the period of suspension to be added to the contract period. In theory, this allowed a studio to maintain indefinite control over an uncooperative contractee.


Most accepted this situation, while a few tried to change the system. Bette Davis had mounted an unsuccessful lawsuit against Warner Bros. in the 1930s. de Havilland mounted a lawsuit in the 1940s, supported by the Screen Actors Guild and was successful, thereby reducing the power of the studios and extending greater creative freedom to the performers. The decision was one of the most significant and far-reaching legal rulings in Hollywood. Her courage in mounting such a challenge, and her subsequent victory, won her the respect and admiration of her peers, among them her sister Joan Fontaine who later commented, "Hollywood owes Olivia a great deal". The studio, however, vowed never to hire her again. The court's ruling came to be known, and is still known to this day, as the "de Havilland law".

Following the release of Devotion, a Hollywood biography of the Brontë sisters filmed in 1943 but withheld from release during the suspension and litigation, de Havilland signed a three picture deal with Paramount Pictures. The quality and variety of her roles began to improve. James Agee, in his review for The Dark Mirror (1946), noted the change, and stated that although she had always been "one of the prettiest women in movies", her recent performances had proven her acting ability. He commented that she did not possess "any remarkable talent, but her playing is thoughtful, quiet, detailed and well-sustained... and an undivided pleasure to see."[5] She won Best Actress Academy Awards for To Each His Own (1946) and The Heiress (1949), and was also widely praised for her Academy Award-nominated performance in The Snake Pit (1948). This was one of the earliest films to attempt a realistic portrayal of mental illness, and de Havilland was lauded for her willingness to play a role that was completely devoid of glamor and that confronted such controversial subject matter. She won the New York Film Critics Award for both The Snake Pit and The Heiress.

De Havilland appeared sporadically in films after the 1950s and attributed this partly to the growing permissiveness of Hollywood films of the period. She was reported to have declined the role of Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, citing the unsavory nature of some elements of the script and saying there were certain lines she could not allow herself to speak. The role eventually went to her former Gone with the Wind co-star, Vivien Leigh, who won her second Academy Award for her role. De Havilland continued acting on film until the late 1970s, afterward continuing her career on television until the late 1980s, highlighted by her winning a Golden Globe and earning a Emmy Award nomination for her performance as the Dowager Empress Maria in the 1986 miniseries Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna.


Awards and nominations
Year Award Category Film Result
1939 Academy Award Best Supporting Actress Gone with the Wind Nominated
1941 Academy Award Best Actress Hold Back the Dawn Nominated
1946 Academy Award Best Actress To Each His Own Won
1948 Academy Award Best Actress The Snake Pit Nominated
Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Best Actress in a Foreign Film Won
NBR Award Best Actress Won
NYFCC Award Best Actress Won
Volpi Cup Best Actress Won
1949 Academy Award Best Actress The Heiress Won
Golden Globe Award Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama Won
NYFCC Award Best Actress Won
1950 Golden Apple Award Least Cooperative Actress Won
1952 Golden Globe Award Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama My Cousin Rachel Nominated
1986 Emmy Award Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Special Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna Nominated
Golden Globe Award Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV Won

In 2008, de Havilland was awarded the United States National Medal of Arts.


Personal life

Relationships
De Havilland and Errol Flynn were known as one of Hollywood's most exciting on-screen couples, appearing in eight films together, but never had a romantic life off-screen. In an interview with Gregory Speck, de Havilland stated, "He never guessed I had a crush on him. And it didn't get better either. In fact, I read in something that he wrote that he was in love with me when we made The Charge of the Light Brigade the next year, in 1936. I was amazed to read that, for it never occurred to me that he was smitten with me, too, even though we did all those pictures together."

De Havilland was romantically involved with John Huston, James Stewart and Howard Hughes in the early 1940s. She married novelist Marcus Goodrich in 1946 and they divorced in 1953. Their son, Benjamin (born in 1949) became a mathematician and died in 1991 after a long battle with Hodgkin's lymphoma.

She was married to French journalist and Paris Match editor Pierre Galante between 1955 until 1979. Their daughter, Giselle (who later became a journalist) was born in July 1956 when de Havilland was 40. After the divorce, de Havilland and Galante remained on good terms, and she nursed him through his final illness (lung cancer) in Paris, which was the stated reason for her absence from the 70th anniversary of the Oscars in 1998.

De Havilland was good friends with Bette Davis and has remained a close friend of Gloria Stuart. In April 2008, she attended the Los Angeles funeral of Charlton Heston and was a surprise guest at the Academy Centennial Tribute to Bette Davis.


Sibling rivalry
Of the two sisters, Olivia was the first to become an actress; when Joan tried to follow her lead, their mother, who allegedly favored Olivia, refused to let her use the family name, so Joan was forced to invent a name, taking first Joan Burfield, and later Joan Fontaine, utilizing the last name of their stepfather, GM Fontaine.

Biographer Charles Higham records that the sisters have always had an uneasy relationship, starting in early childhood when Olivia would rip up the clothes Joan had to wear as hand-me-downs, forcing Joan to sew them back together. A lot of the feud and resentment between the sisters supposedly stems from Joan's perception of Olivia being their mother's favorite child.

Both Olivia and Joan were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in 1942. Joan won first for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion (1941) over Olivia's performance in Hold Back the Dawn. Charles Higham states that Joan "felt guilty about winning given her lack of obsessive career drive..." Higham has described the events of the awards ceremony, stating that as Joan stepped forward to collect her award, she pointedly rejected Olivia's attempts at congratulating her and that Olivia was both offended and embarrassed by her behavior. Several years later, Olivia would remember the slight and exact her own revenge by brushing past Joan, who was waiting with her hand extended, because Olivia had allegedly taken offense at a comment Joan had made about Olivia's then-husband.

Olivia's relationship with Joan continued to deteriorate after the two incidents. Charles Higham has stated that this was the near final straw for what would become a lifelong feud, but the sisters did not completely stop speaking to each other until 1975. According to Joan, Olivia did not invite her to a memorial service for their mother, who had recently died. Olivia claims she told Joan, but that Joan had brushed her off, claiming that she was too busy to attend.

Charles Higham records that Joan has an estranged relationship with her own daughters as well, possibly because she discovered that they were secretly maintaining a relationship with their aunt Olivia.

Both sisters have refused to comment publicly about their feud and dysfunctional family relationships.


De Havilland today
A resident of Paris since the 1950s, de Havilland rarely makes public appearances. She is reported to be working on an autobiography. She appeared as a presenter at the 75th Annual Academy Awards in 2003. In June 2006, she made appearances at tributes for her 90th birthday at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences and the Los Angeles County Art Museum.

In 2004, Turner Classic Movies put together a retrospective piece called Melanie Remembers in which de Havilland was interviewed for the 65th anniversary of Gone with the Wind's original release. The film's last surviving principal cast member, de Havilland remembered every detail of her casting as well as filming. The 40-minute documentary can be seen on the Gone with the Wind four-disc special collector's edition.

In 2008 she was a surprise guest at a Centennial Tribute to Bette Davis

On November 17th, 2008, at the age of 92, she received the National Medal for the Arts from President George W. Bush.

In 2009 she will be making her return to film in the dramatic thriller I-59 South based on the novel of the same name by author Benjamin S. Johnson.[citation needed] Johnson will be producing the film under his production company Benjytainment along with Erik A. Williams under his production company banner Rock Your Socks Productions.


Popular culture references
In one scene in Tex Avery's 1940 cartoon A Wild Hare (famous as the first cartoon that features Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd in their recognizable forms), Bugs puts his hands over Elmer's eyes and asks "Guess who?" Elmer answers "Owivia de Haviwand" as one possibility; at the time that the cartoon came out, de Havilland was under contract to Warner Bros..

INGRID BERGMAN

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Doğum 29 Ağustos 1915
Stockholm, İsveç
Ölüm 29 Ağustos 1982
Londra, İngiltere
Aktif yılları 1935-1982
Evlilik Dr. Aron Petter Lindström (1937-1950)
Roberto Rossellini (1950-1957)
Lars Schmidt (1958-1975)
Akademi Ödülleri

En İyi Kadın Oyuncu
1944 Gaslight
1956 Anastasia
En İyi Yardımcı Kadın Oyuncu
1974 Murder on the Orient Express
BAFTA Ödülleri

En İyi Yardımcı Kadın Oyuncu
1974 Murder on the Orient Express
Emmy Ödülleri

En İyi Aktris - Minidizi/Film
1960 Turn of the Screw
1982 A Woman Called Golda
Altın Küre Ödülleri

En İyi Aktris - Drama
1945 Gaslight
1946 The Bells of St. Mary's
1957 Anastasia


Ingrid Bergman (29 Ağustos 1915 Stokholm - 29 Ağustos 1982 Londra), İsveç'li sinema ve tiyatro oyuncusu.

29 Ağustos 1915 tarihinde İsveç'in Stokholm şehrinde doğdu. 1934'te sinemaya başladı, Intermezzo (1936) filmiyle ilgiyi çekti. Daha sonra ABD'ye giderek birçok filmde oynadı. Özellikle İngiliz yönetmen Hitchcock'un filmlerindeki rolleriyle unutulmaz oldu.

Işıklar Sönerken ile Oscar kazanan sanatçı, 1950 yılında, İtalyan yönetmen Rosselini'nin çağrısıyla İtalya'ya giderek oraya yerleşti.

1956 yılında, Paris'te Çay ve Sempati oyunuyla tiyatroya döndü. Anastasia'daki rolüyle ikinci Oscar'ını kazandı.

Üçüncü ve son Oscar'ını da Doğu Ekspresinde Cinayet filmindeki rolüyle kazanan Bergman, 1978 yılında ülkesi İsveç'e dönerek anılarını yayımladı. Yine 1978 yılında ünlü İsveçli yönetmen Ingmar Bergman ile uzun zamandır beklediği film yapma projesini gerçekleştirdi.

29 Ağustos 1982 tarihinde İngiltere'nin Londra şehrinde hayata gözlerini yumdu.


Filmografi [değiştir]Landskamp (1932)
Munkbrogreven (1935)
Bränningar (1935)
Swedenhielms (1935)
Valborgsmässoafton (1935)
På solsidan (1936)
Intermezzo (1936)
Dollar (1938)
Die Vier Gesellen (1938)
En Kvinnas ansikte (1938)
En enda natt (1939)
Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939)
Juninatten (1940)
Adam Had Four Sons (1941)
Rage in Heaven (1941)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Dr. Jekyll ve Mr. Hyde) (1941)
Kazablanka (Casablanca) (1942)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (Çanlar Kimin İçin Çalıyor) (1943)
Gaslight (Işıklar Sönerken) (1944)
Spellbound (Öldüren Hatıralar) (1945)
Saratoga Trunk (Saratoga Güzeli) (1945)
The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
American Creed (1946)
Notorious (Aşktan da Üstün) (1946)
Arch of Triumph (Zafer Abidesi) (1948)
Joan of Arc (Jan Dark) (1948)
Under Capricorn (Kapri Yıldızı) (1949)
Stromboli (Stromboli) (1950)
Europe '51 (Avrupa '51) (1952)
Viaggio in Italia (İtalya'da Yolculuk) (1953)
La Paura (Korku) (1954)



Giovanna d'Arco al rogo (Jan Dark) (1954)
Elena et les hommes (1956)
Anastasia (Anastasia) (1956)
Indiscreet (1958)
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (Altıncı Mutluluk Hanı) (1958)
Goodbye Again (Brahms'ı Sever misiniz?) (1961)
The Visit (1964)
The Yellow Rolls-Royce (Sarı Otomobil) (1964)
Stimulantia (1967)
Cactus Flower (Kaktüs Çiçeği) (1969)
Walk in the Spring Rain (1970)
Murder on the Orient Express (Doğu Ekpresinde Cinayet) (1974)
A Matter of Time (Bir Zaman Sorunu) (1976)
Höstsonaten (Güz Sonatı) (1978)

JOAN CRAWFORD


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Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; (March 23, 1905 - May 10, 1977) was an Academy Award-winning American actress, named the tenth Greatest Female Star of All Time by the American Film Institute.

Starting as a dancer on Broadway, Crawford was signed to a motion picture contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios in 1925 and initially played small parts. She became a famous flapper by the end of the '20s. Beginning in the 1930s, Crawford's fame rivaled fellow MGM colleagues Norma Shearer and Greta Garbo. She often played hardworking young women who find romance and financial success. These "rags-to-riches" stories were well-received by Depression-era audiences and were popular with women. By the end of the decade, Crawford remained one of Hollywood's most prominent movie stars, and one of the highest paid women in the United States.

For her performance in Mildred Pierce Crawford won an Academy Award and in the following years, achieved some of her best reviews. In 1955, she became involved with PepsiCo, the company run by her last husband, Alfred Steele. After his death in 1959, Crawford was elected to fill his vacancy on the board of directors but was forcibly retired in 1973. She continued acting regularly into the 1960s, when her performances became fewer, and after the release of the horror film Trog in 1970, retired from the screen.

Early life

Crawford was born Lucille Fay LeSueur in San Antonio, Texas, the third child of Tennessee-born Thomas E. LeSueur (1868–1938) and Anna Bell Johnson (1884–1958). Her older siblings were Daisy LeSueur, who died very young, and Hal LeSueur. Although Crawford was of mostly English descent, her surname originated from her great-great-great-great grandparents, David LeSueur and Elizabeth Chastain, French Huguenots who immigrated from London in the early 1700s to Virginia.

Crawford later said when she was a few months old her father abandoned the family. Her mother later married Henry J. Cassin. The family lived where Cassin ran a movie theater in Lawton, Oklahoma. The 1910 Comanche County, Oklahoma, Federal Census, enumerated on April 20, showed Henry and Anna living at 910 "D" Street in Lawton. Crawford was listed as five years old, thus showing 1905 as her likely year of birth. However, the state of Texas did not require the filing of birth certificates until 1908, allowing Crawford to later claim she was born in 1908.

Growing up, Crawford preferred the nickname "Billie," and she loved watching vaudeville acts perform on the stage of her stepfather's theater. Her ambition was to be a dancer. However, in an attempt to escape piano lessons to run and play with friends, she leapt from the front porch of her home and cut her foot deeply on a broken milk bottle. Crawford had three operations and was unable to attend elementary school for a year and a half. She eventually fully recovered and returned to dancing.

Around 1916, Crawford's family moved to Kansas City, Missouri. Cassin was first listed in the City Directory in 1917, living at 403 East Ninth Street. While still in elementary school, Crawford was placed in St. Agnes Academy, a Catholic school in Kansas City. Later, after her mother and stepfather broke up, she stayed on at St. Agnes as a work student. She then went to Rockingham Academy as a work student. In 1922, Crawford registered at the posh Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, and gave her year of birth as 1906. She attended Stephens for less than a year, however, as she recognized that she was not academically prepared for college.


Career

Early career

Joan Crawford in 1927 Under the name Lucille LeSueur, Crawford began dancing in the chorus line at the Winter Gardens on Broadway in New York City. She wanted additional work and approached Loews Theaters publicist Nils Granlund. Granlund secured LeSueur a position with producer Harry Richmond's act and arranged for her to do a screen test which he sent to producer Harry Rapf in Hollywood. Rapf notified Granlund on December 24, 1924 that a contract would be offered by MGM, and Granlund immediately wired LeSueur - who had returned to her mother's home in Kansas City - with the news and $400 for travel expenses. [5] The night after Christmas she left Kansas City and arrived in Culver City, California.

As Lucille LeSueur, her first film was in the silent film Pretty Ladies in 1925, which starred ZaSu Pitts. Pretty Ladies was the only time she professionally used her birth name. (Crawford is also billed as LeSueur in a 30-minute MGM Studio Tour from 1925 which is shown on Turner Classic Movies.) Crawford is quoted saying it was Sam De Grasse who said her name LeSueur sounded too much like 'sewer.' A female contestant in a fan magazine named Movie Weekly entered the name Joan Crawford. Though Crawford reportedly said the name sounded like "crawfish" - and also requested that Joan be pronounced the same as "Joanne" - she eventually chose it as her stage name. Her friend, actor William Haines, quipped, "You're lucky. They could have called you Cranberry and served you up with a Turkey!"

Crawford first made an impression on audiences in Edmund Goulding's Sally, Irene and Mary (1925), in which she played Irene, a struggling chorus girl. In the same year, Crawford worked on Lady of the Night, starring Norma Shearer. As Crawford was made up and used as a double for Shearer, her face is briefly seen. Because of how well Shearer was treated compared to herself, Crawford resented Shearer. The following year, Crawford was named one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars, along with Mary Astor, Mary Brian, Dolores Costello, Dolores Del Rio, Janet Gaynor and Fay Wray. For the next two years, Crawford appeared in increasingly important movies. In 1926, she made Paris, where she was able to show her sex appeal. She became the romantic interest for some of MGM's leading male stars, among them Ramon Novarro, William Haines, John Gilbert and Tim McCoy.


Joan Crawford in 1928Crawford's appeared in The Unknown (1927), starring Lon Chaney, Sr. who played a carnival knife thrower with no arms. Crawford played his skimpily clad young carnival assistant whom he hopes to marry. She stated that she learned more about acting from watching Chaney work in this movie than from anything else in her long career.

In 1928, Crawford starred opposite Ramon Novarro, as Priscilla Crowninshield in Across to Singapore, but it was her role as Diana Medford in Our Dancing Daughters (1928) that catapulted her to stardom. The role established her as a symbol of modern 1920s-style femininity that rivaled the image of Clara Bow, who was then Hollywood's foremost flapper. A stream of hits followed Our Dancing Daughters, including two more flapper-themed movies, in which Crawford embodied for her legion of fans (many of whom were women) an idealized vision of the free-spirited, all-American girl.

To rid herself of her Southwestern accent Crawford tirelessly studied diction and elocution. Her first talkie was Untamed (1929), opposite Robert Montgomery, which was a box office success. Crawford made an effective transition to sound movies. One critic wrote, "Miss Crawford sings appealingly and dances thrillingly as usual; her voice is alluring and her dramatic efforts in the difficult role she portrays are at all times convincing."

MGM

Crawford starred opposite of Clark Gable in Possessed (1931). They began an affair during the production, resulting in an ultimatum from studio chief Louis B. Mayer to Gable that the affair end. Gable complied, although for many years their affair resumed sporadically and secretly. Upon release, Possessed was an enormous hit.

The studio then cast her in Grand Hotel, which starred the most famous actors of the 1930s and was MGM's most prestigious movie of 1932. Crawford later achieved continued success with Letty Lynton (1932). Unfortunately, soon after its release, a plagiarism case forced MGM to withdraw it and it has never been shown on television or made available on VHS/DVD, and is therefore considered the "lost" Crawford film. The film is mostly remembered because of the "Letty Lynton dress," designed by Adrian: a white cotton organdy gown with large ruffled sleeves, puffed at the shoulder. It was with this gown that Crawford's broad shoulders began to be accentuated by costume. Macy's copied the dress in 1932, and it sold over 500,000 replicas nationwide.

Following Possessed, Crawford starred opposite of Gable in the rollicking smash hit Dancing Lady (1933), in which she received top billing. Crawford's next movies, Sadie McKee, Chained and Forsaking All Others (all 1934), were among the top money makers of the mid-1930s, and marked her peak as a popular star at the box office for MGM.


By the end of the decade Crawford's characters were defined as much by their glamorous clothing, accessories, and styled hair and make-up as by any character trait.[citation needed] However, eventually Crawford's movies began to lose money. She was labeled "box-office poison" along with Katharine Hepburn, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Mae West and Fred Astaire in 1938.[citation needed] Around the same time, however, Crawford was considered for the role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind (1939).


from the trailer for The Women (1939)However, Crawford made a small comeback with her role as bitchy home-wrecker Crystal Allen in director George Cukor's huge comedy success The Women in 1939. She also broke from formula by taking the unglamorous role of Julie in Strange Cargo (1940), her eighth and final film with Clark Gable. Crawford then starred as a facially disfigured blackmailer in A Woman's Face (1941). While the film was only a moderate box office success, her performance was hailed by many critics.

Eager to promote new actors Greer Garson, Lana Turner, Judy Garland, and Hedy Lamarr, the MGM management began to view Crawford as a bad investment.] After eighteen years Crawford's contract was terminated by mutual consent on June 29, 1943. In lieu of one more movie owed under her contract, MGM bought out her contract for $100,000. The same day, the studio cleared out her bungalow.


Move to Warner Bros.

For five hundred thousand dollars for three movies, Crawford signed with Warner Bros. (who would later acquire the rights to her MGM films via its 1996 merger with Turner Entertainment) and was placed on the payroll on July 1, 1943. She made a cameo with many other stars in the G.I. morale-booster Hollywood Canteen (1944).

Crawford wanted to play the title role in Mildred Pierce (1945), but Bette Davis was the studio's first choice. However, Davis did not want to play the mother of a seventeen year old daughter (Ann Blyth), and she turned the role down. Director Michael Curtiz didn't want Crawford and told Jack Warner, "With her high-hat airs and her goddamn shoulder pads, she's a has-been." Following Barbara Stanwyck's success in Double Indemnity (1944), also based on a James M. Cain novel, Curtiz bent to Warner's demand. However, Curtiz demanded Crawford prove her suitability by taking a screen test. After the test, Curtiz agreed to Crawford's casting. Crawford starred opposite Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Ann Blyth and Butterfly McQueen. Mildred Pierce was a commercial success. It epitomized the lush visual style and the hard-boiled film noir sensibility that defined Warner Bros. movies of the late 1940s. Crawford earned the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

Crawford said one of the main reasons she signed with Warner Bros. was because she wanted to play the character "Mattie" in a proposed 1944 film version of Edith Wharton's novel Ethan Frome (1911). However, Davis wanted to play Mattie and reportedly told Jack Warner, "Joan's far too old, and besides, she can't act."

Time To Sing (1947) was a proposed film telling the story of two retired stage actresses who team up for a tour of summer stock theatres, similar to RKO's Stage Door (1937), starring Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers. The project was intended to team Crawford with Davis; however, it was never made.

Caged (1950) was a prison drama based on the novel Women Without Men by Virginia Kellogg. The story surrounded a female prison warden who attempts to rehabilitate a prisoner before she becomes a hardened criminal. In 1973, Crawford said, "I knew of a women's prison picture; it was written by Virginia Kellogg and later became Caged [1950] with Eleanor Parker and Agnes Moorehead." This too was intended to pair Crawford with Davis, who made it clear that she would not be starring in any "dyke movie".

Crawford and Davis did not appear together in a motion picture until the 1962 film What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?.


Joan Crawford in Mildred Pierce (1945) From 1945-1952, Crawford reigned as a top star and respected actress, appearing in such roles as Helen Wright in Humoresque (1946) , Louise Howell Graham in Possessed (1947, for which she was nominated for a second Oscar as Best Actress) and the title role in Daisy Kenyon (also 1947).

Crawford's other movie roles of the era include Lane Bellamy in Flamingo Road (1949), a dual role in the film noir The Damned Don't Cry (1950) and her performance in the title role of Harriet Craig (1950) at Columbia Pictures. After filming This Woman Is Dangerous (1952), Crawford asked to be released from her Warner Bros. contract. As she had done so before, Crawford triumphed as Myra Hudson in Sudden Fear (1952) at RKO, which was also the movie that introduced her co-star, Jack Palance, to the screen and earned Crawford a third and final Oscar nomination for Best Actress.


Radio and television

Crawford worked in the radio The Screen Guild Theater on January 8, 1939; Good News; Baby, broadcast March 2, 1940 on Arch Oboler's Lights Out; The Word on Everyman's Theater (1941); Chained on the Lux Radio Theater and Norman Corwin's Document A/777 (1948).

She appeared numerous times in episodes of anthology TV shows in the 1950s and, in 1959, made a pilot for her series, The Joan Crawford Show, but the show was never picked up by a network. See Joan Crawford filmography for a complete list of television appearences.


Work at Pepsi

Crawford traveled extensively on behalf of husband Al Steele's company, Pepsi Cola Company. After Steele's death in April 1959, Crawford was elected to fill his vacancy on the board of directors Herbert L. Barnet, president, emphasized her election was not a sentimental gesture toward the memory of Steele, but “hard-headed business judgment which makes possible continuing utilization of Pepsi-Cola of Miss Crawford’s intimate knowledge and rare skills in promotion and public relations to which she has so superbly demonstrated to our benefit for the last four years.” Crawford accepted a supporting role in The Best of Everything -- her first non-starring role -- reportedly because Steele's death put her in financial difficulty.

Crawford was the recipient of the sixth annual "Pally Award," which was in the shape of a bronze Pepsi bottle. It was awarded to the employee making the most significant contribution to company sales.

In 1973, Crawford retired from the company at the behest of company executive Don Kendall, whom Crawford had referred to for years as "Fang."

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After her triumph in RKO's Sudden Fear (1952), Crawford continued her career, with films ranging from the cult western film Johnny Guitar (1954) to the drama Autumn Leaves (1956), opposite a young Cliff Robertson. By the early 1960s, however, Crawford's status in motion pictures had diminished.

Crawford's starred as "Blanche Hudson," a physically disabled woman and former A-list movie star in conflict with her psychotic sister in the highly successful thriller What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? (1962). Despite the actresses' earlier tensions, Crawford suggested Bette Davis for the role of Jane. The movie became a blockbuster.

Crawford played Lucretia Terry in the United Artists movie The Caretakers (1963). For her performance in What Ever Happened To Baby Jane? Davis was nominated for an Academy Award that year. Crawford secretly contacted all the other Oscar nominees to tell them if they were unable to attend the ceremony, she would be happy to accept the Oscar on their behalf. Both Davis and Crawford were backstage when the absent Anne Bancroft was announced as the winner. That same year, Crawford starred as Lucy Harbin in William Castle's horror/mystery Strait-Jacket (1964).

Aldrich cast Crawford and Davis in Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964). However, Crawford entered a hospital and after a prolonged absence Aldrich was forced to replace her with Olivia de Havilland. There is a long shot in the beginning of the movie, when Miriam gets out of the taxi upon her arrival at the Hollis plantation, that actually shows the back of Joan Crawford's head and not de Havilland's. "When the taxi pulls up with cousin Miriam inside and stops at the foot of the steps, if you look closely before Miriam gets out you can just for a split moment see it is fact Joan Crawford in the back and not Olivia de Havilland. You can't see Crawford's face but you can tell it's her by the black dress and dark sunglasses that she is wearing. When de Haviland as Miriam is seen in the taxi before she arrives she is wearing a white hat and her clothing is light colored."

Upon her release from the hospital Crawford played the role of Amy Nelson in I Saw What You Did (1965), another William Castle vehicle. She starred as Monica Rivers in Herman Cohen's horror/thriller Berserk! (1968). After the film's release, Crawford guest-starred as herself on The Lucy Show. The episode, "Lucy and the Lost Star", first aired on February 26, 1968, caused much celebrity fodder as during filming title star Lucille Ball had a very public feud with Crawford. According to Ball, Crawford was often drunk on the set and could not memorize her lines. Ball was said to have requested several times to replace Crawford with Gloria Swanson, who was supposed to have originally filled the role, but bowed out at the last minute. When asked during an interview how she had liked working with Ball, Crawford's response was, "And they call me a bitch!"

In October 1968, Crawford's 29-year-old daughter, Christina (who was then acting in New York on the TV soap opera The Secret Storm), needed immediate medical attention due to a ruptured ovarian tumor. Until Christina was well enough to return, Crawford offered to play her role, which the producer readily agreed to. The implausibility of Crawford (then 63) playing a 28-year-old woman was coupled by her apparent state of intoxication on the live telecast. Christina was fired from the role the following year. In her memoir, Mommie Dearest, Christina claimed her mother's behavior contributed to her firing.

Crawford's appearance in the 1969 TV film Night Gallery (which served as pilot to the series that followed), marked one of Steven Spielberg's earliest directing jobs.

Crawford starred on the big screen one final time, playing Dr. Brockton in Herman Cohen's sci-fi/horror Trog (1970), rounding out a career spanning 45 years and over 80 motion pictures.

Crawford made four more TV appearances, as Stephanie White in an episode of The Virginian (1970), entitled "The Nightmare"; as a board member in an episode of The Name of the Game (1971), entitled "Los Angeles"; as Allison Hayes in the made-for-TV movie Beyond the Water's Edge (1972); and as Joan Fairchild (her final screen performance) on an episode of the television series, The Sixth Sense, entitled, "Dear Joan: We're Going To Scare You To Death" (1972).


Personal life[/b]

[b] Marriages and residences
In 1929, at the time she wed Douglas Fairbanks Jr. at St. Malachy Church in New York, Crawford purchased a mansion at 426 North Bristol Avenue in Brentwood, located midway between Beverly Hills and the Pacific Ocean. The home would be her primary residence for the next 26 years. During that period, Crawford had her home decorated and redecorated by William Haines, her former silent movie co-star and lifelong friend, who was much in demand as an interior designer after receiving Crawford's recommendation.

Crawford had four husbands: actors Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. (married June 3, 1929 in New York-divorced 1933); Franchot Tone (married October 11, 1935 in New Jersey-divorced 1939); Phillip Terry (married July 21, 1942 at Hidden Valley Ranch in Ventura County, California-divorced 1946); and Pepsi-Cola president Alfred N. Steele (married May 10, 1955 in Las Vegas, Nevada-his death 1959).

Crawford moved to a lavish penthouse apartment at 2 East 70th St. with her last husband and sold her Brentwood mansion. She stayed in New York, moving to a smaller apartment, number 22-G in the Imperial House. She later moved to a smaller apartment in the same building (Apt.# 22-H) where she died, aged 72. She kept a small apartment in Los Angeles for her frequent trips there. Crawford was well-known for her relationship with her fans, often sending thousands of handwritten replies to fan letters each month. She also worked tirelessly with her official fan club, which disappeared after her death.


Adopted children

In 1940, as a single, divorced woman, Crawford adopted Christina (born June 11, 1939). She later adopted a boy named Christopher (born April 1941), who was reclaimed by his biological mother in 1942. In Mommie Dearest (1978) Christina conveyed an unflattering account of her mother Joan Crawford (see below).

A third child adopted was Christopher Terry (born 1943). Crawford and Philip Terry adopted him that same year but she changed his name to Christopher Crawford after she and Terry divorced. According to Christina, Crawford changed his birth date because she was afraid he would be taken away. He died of cancer on September 22, 2006 in Greenport, New York.

In June 1947 she adopted twin infant girls Cynthia "Cindy" Crawford and Catherine "Cathy" Crawford, born on January 13 that year in Dyersburg, Tennessee, to an unwed mother who died seven days after their birth. Cynthia died on October 14, 2007 in Fort Worth from complications following a liver transplant.

Religion

Crawford was raised Catholic by her stepfather, Henry Cassin, a Roman Catholic (although he and Crawford's mother ultimately divorced). Crawford insisted on marrying Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., who was not Catholic, at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City.

By the late 1930s, Crawford attended The Church of Christ, Scientist. She would bring her adopted children to that church regularly, but not always weekly. Although Crawford practiced Christian Science, she sought medical care for herself and her children when necessary.

Christina Crawford attended the Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy For Girls for her junior and senior years of high school, along with the daughters of non-Catholic actresses Virginia Field and Lana Turner. Christina Crawford stated in her memoir, Mommie Dearest, that the Catholic doctrines she was taught came as a shock following her experiences with Christian Science. Christina also stated in Mommie Dearest that Crawford considered herself a Catholic despite the fact that she had stopped practicing the faith nearly 50 years before her death.


Final years and death

In 1970, Crawford was presented with the Cecil B. DeMille Award by John Wayne on the Golden Globes, which was telecast from the Coconut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. She also spoke at her alma mater, Stephens College, from which she never graduated.

A Portrait of Joan, an autobiography written with Jane Kesner Ardmore, was published in 1962 by Doubleday. Crawford's next book, My Way of Life, was published in 1971 by Simon and Schuster. Those expecting a racy tell-all were disappointed, although Crawford's meticulous ways were revealed in her advice on grooming, wardrobe, exercise, and even food storage.

In September 1973, Crawford moved from apartment 22-G to the smaller apartment 22-H in the Imperial House. Her last public appearance was September 23, 1974, at a party honoring her old friend Rosalind Russell at New York's Rainbow Room. Russell was battling breast cancer at the time and died two years later in 1976. On May 8, 1977, Crawford gave away her beloved Shih Tzu "Princess Lotus Blossom," which signaled to her close friends that her death was near.

Crawford died two days later at her New York apartment from a heart attack, while also ill with pancreatic cancer. According to her daughter Christina, Crawford's alleged last words were "Damn it...Don't you dare ask God to help me," which were directed at her housekeeper, who had begun to pray out loud. However, other sources indicate that Crawford was found dead on the bedroom floor by her housemaid. A funeral was held at Campbell Funeral Home, New York, on May 10, 1977. All four of her adopted children attended, as did her niece, Joan Crawford LeSueur (aka Joan Lowe), who was the daughter of her late brother, Hal LeSueur (died in 1963). In her will, which was signed October 28, 1976, Crawford bequeathed to her two youngest children, Cindy and Cathy, $77,500 each from her $2,000,000 estate. However, she explicitly disinherited the two eldest, Christina and Christopher. In the last paragraph of the will, she wrote, "It is my intention to make no provision herein for my son Christopher or my daughter Christina for reasons which are well known to them."

A memorial service was held for Crawford at All Souls' Unitarian Church on Lexington Avenue in New York on May 16, 1977, and was attended by, among others, her old Hollywood friend Myrna Loy. Another memorial service, organized by George Cukor, was held on June 24 in the Samuel Goldwyn Theater at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills, California.

Crawford was cremated and her ashes placed in a crypt with her last husband, Al Steele, in Ferncliff Cemetery, Hartsdale, New York.

Crawford's hand and footprints are immortalized in the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theater on Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood. She also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1750 Vine Street. In 1999, Playboy listed Crawford as one of the "100 Sexiest Women of the 20th century," ranking her #84.


Mommie Dearest
A year and a half after Crawford's death, Christina published a bestseller exposé entitled Mommie Dearest which contained allegations that Crawford was emotionally and physically abusive to her and her brother Christopher. Though many of Crawford's friends, as well as her other two daughters, criticized the book[citation needed], others supported the book's contents and Crawford's reputation was somewhat tarnished. The book was later made into the 1981 film Mommie Dearest, starring Faye Dunaway as Crawford, the film differing significantly in tone from the more serious memoir. It has been said that this movie was the beginning of the end of Dunaway's career who enjoyed a massive success in the 70s with such now classics like Network.
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GINGER ROGERS

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Born : Virginia Katherine McMath
July 16, 1911(1911-07-16) Independence, Missouri
Died : April 25, 1995 (aged 83) Rancho Mirage, California

Spouse(s)
Jack Pepper (1929-1931)
Lew Ayres (1934-1941)
Jack Briggs (1943-1949)
Jacques Bergerac (1953-1957)
William Marshall (1961-1969)


Virginia Katherine McMath was born on July 16, 1911 in Independence, Missouri. Her nickname, "Ginger," originated from her younger cousin Helen who pronounced "Virginia" as "Ginja." Family and friends continued to call her this, and later theatre men who understood the name to be "Ginger" billed her as such on their marquees.

Those who knew her as a little girl often said that Ginger could dance before she could walk. At the age of 10, she was appearing at local charity shows, celebrations and lodge meetings with her stepfather, "Daddy John," whose last name, Rogers, she eventually borrowed.

Going on tour
At the age of 14, young Ginger won the Texas State Charleston Championship. Her prize was four weeks of appearances in four Texas cities on the Interstate Theatre Circuit. She chose two red-headed Charleston dancers, and billed the act "Ginger and the Redheads." The performances continued well beyond their four-week engagement when Junior Orpheum sent the trio on an extensive tour across the western United States.

When the show reached Chicago, a famous vaudeville act stole the redheaded dancers, and Ginger found herself doing a single for the Skouras Brothers at their Ambassador Theatre in St. Louis. She continued for 28 weeks, with a new act each week, using the Master of Ceremonies as her straight man.

When Paul Ash invited her to appear with his band at the Oriental Theatre, Ginger left St. Louis and traveled to Chicago. After performing for nearly four months with Ash, Paramount Publix lured her away to New York to perform at Broadway's Paramount Theatre. They also began preparing a stage show for Ginger to tour in at their theatres across the country. However, her routines with the Master of Ceremonies were so successful, she was held over for several weeks and the touring show went on without her. The Paramount Theatre subsequently brought Paul Ash and his band to New York and invited Ginger back to join them. [img][/img][img][/img][img][/img][img][/img]