Tuesday, November 5, 2013

5 November - English Films History



1964 Famke Janssen


1987 Ron Jones records his score for the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "The Battle" (1987)


1930 Third Annual Academy Awards were announced.




Birthdays



1900 – Natalie Schafer (actress: Gilligan’s Island, The Survivors, Forever Darling, The Time of Your Life; died Apr 10, 1991)

1905 – Joel (Albert) McCrea (actor: Ride the High Country, The Oklahoman, Four Faces West, Buffalo Bill, Barbary Coast, Wichita Town; died Oct 20, 1990)

1911 – Roy Rogers (Leonard Slye) (‘King of the Cowboys’: actor: 85+ westerns, The Roy Rogers Show, The Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Show; singer: Happy Trails to You; died July 6, 1998)

1913 – Vivien Leigh (Vivian Mary Hartley) (Academy Award-winning actress: Gone with the Wind [1939], A Streetcar Named Desire [1951]; Ship of Fools, Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, Anna Karenina; died July 7, 1967)
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1913 – John McGiver (actor: Midnight Cowboy, The Manchurian Candidate, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Patty Duke Show, Mr. Terrific, Many Happy Returns, The Jimmy Stewart Show; died Sep 9, 1975)

1940 – Elke Sommer (Schletz) (actress: A Shot in the Dark, The Prize, The Oscar, Prisoner of Zenda; Miss Italy [1959])

1957 – Jon-Erik Hexum (actor: Voyagers, Cover Up; died Oct 18, 1984)

1958 – Robert Patrick (actor: Killer Instinct, Die Hard 2: Die Harder, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Wayne’s World, Fire in the Sky, Rosewood, Cop Land, Renegade Force,)

1963 – Andrea McArdle (actress, singer: Annie)

1963 – Tatum O’Neal (Academy Award-winning actress: Paper Moon [1973]; Bad News Bears, Little Darlings)

1965 – Famke Janssen (actress: Fathers & Sons, GoldenEye, The Gingerbread Man, Rounders, X-Men)

1968 – Sam Rockwell (actor: Clownhouse, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Strictly Business, The Search for One-eye Jimmy, Safe Men, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Green Mile, Charlie’s Angels)

1971 – Corin ‘Corky’ Nemec (actor: Operation Dumbo Drop, Stephen King’s The Stand, Drop Zone, Solar Crisis, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, Parker Lewis Can’t Lose, Webster)



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Top TV Networks in USA and Their YouTube Video Channels



1 NBC
   http://www.youtube.com/user/NBC
   http://www.youtube.com/user/NBCSportsNetwork
2 CBS
   http://www.youtube.com/user/CBS
3 QVC
    http://www.youtube.com/user/QVC
4 ABC
   http://www.youtube.com/user/ABCNetwork
   http://www.youtube.com/user/ABCNews?feature=watch
5 ESPN
   http://www.youtube.com/user/ESPN
6 Fox
   http://www.youtube.com/user/FoxNewsChannel
7 HBO
   http://www.youtube.com/user/HBO
8 HSN
   http://www.youtube.com/user/HSN
9 TNT
   http://www.youtube.com/user/tntweknowdrama
10 NICKELODEON
11 SHOWTIME
     http://www.youtube.com/user/SHOWTIME
12 USA
13 MTV
     http://www.youtube.com/user/MTV
14 CNN
     http://www.youtube.com/user/CNNInternational
15 TBS
     http://www.youtube.com/user/TBS
16 LIFETIME
     http://www.youtube.com/user/Lifetime
17 DISCOVERY
     http://www.youtube.com/user/DiscoveryNetworks
18 THE WB
     http://www.youtube.com/user/WarnerBrosPictures
19 SHOPNBC
     http://www.youtube.com/user/ShopNBC
20 DISNEY
21 FOX NEWS
     http://www.youtube.com/user/FoxNewsChannel
22 A&E
     http://www.youtube.com/user/AETV
23 CINEMAX
     http://www.youtube.com/user/Cinemax
     Max 60 seconds interviews
24 UNIVISION
     http://www.youtube.com/user/Univision
25 TLC
     http://www.youtube.com/user/TLC



More YouTube channels

http://www.youtube.com/user/mnctventertainment?feature=watch

http://www.youtube.com/user/TurnerClassicMovies/

http://www.youtube.com/user/AlJazeeraEnglish?feature=watch

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheNewYorkTimes?feature=watch

5 December - English Films History





Birthdays

1901 - Walt Disney

1905 – Otto (Ludwig) Preminger (director: In Harm’s Way, Advise and Consent, Exodus, Anatomy of a Murder, Saint Joan, Bonjour Tristesse, The Man with the Golden Arm, The Moon is Blue, Forever Amber, Laura; died Apr 23, 1986)

1916 – Margaret (Maggie) Hayes (Florette Ottenheimer) (actress: Omar Khayyam, Blackboard Jungle, Sullivan’s Travels, In Old Colorado, Robert Montgomery Presents; died Jan 26, 1977)

1930 – Larry Kert (actor, singer, dancer: West Side Story original cast [1957]; died June 5, 1991)

1944 – Jeroen Krabbé (actor: Immortal Beloved, King of the Hill, The Fugitive, Stalin, Robin Hood, The Prince of Tides, Crossing Delancey, Dynasty)

1951 – Morgan Brittany (Suzanne Cupito) (actress: Dallas, Glitter, Moviola, Sundown, LBJ: The Early Years, The Prodigal, The Initiation of Sarah)

1963 – Carrie Hamilton (actress: Fame, Cool World, Shag: The Movie, Tokyo Pop, Hostage, daughter of comedienne, Carol Burnett; died Jan 20, 2002)

1968 – Margaret Cho (actress: All-American Girl, TV guest host: Girls’ Night Out)

1985 – Frankie Muniz (actor: Malcolm in the Middle, My Dog Skip, The Andy Dick Show, Dr. Dolittle 2)

http://jaxonfilmfest.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/on-this-day-in-movie-history-december-5-1901-walt-disney-born/waltdisney/

3 December - English Films History



December 3, 1922 the first successful Technicolor motion picture, “The Toll of the Sea”, was shown at the Rialto Theatre, 1481 Broadway, NW corner of 42nd Street, New York, N.Y.

Birthdays

1922 – Sven Nykvist (cinematographer: Something to Talk About, Sleepless in Seattle, Chaplin, New York Stories, Agnes of God, The Postman Always Rings Twice; died Sep 20, 2006)

1930 – Jean-Luc Godard (producer, writer, director: Breathless, Weekend, Hail Mary, King Lear, A Married Woman)

1960 – Daryl Hannah (actress: The Fury, Splash, Steel Magnolias, Blade Runner, The Pope of Greenwich Village, Roxanne, Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman, Grumpier Old Men, Diplomatic Siege, Dancing at the Blue Iguana)

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1960 – Julianne Moore (actress: The Fugitive, Short Cuts, Nine Months, Lost World: Jurassic Park, Boogie Nights, Cookie’s Fortune, The Ladies Man, Hannibal)
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1968 – Brendan Fraser (actor: The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, George of the Jungle, Encino Man, The Quiet American)
1973 – Holly Marie Combs (actress: Picket Fences, Chain of Desire, A Reason to Believe, Daughters, Ocean’s Eleven)
1980 – Anna Chlumsky (actress: My Girl, My Girl 2, A Child’s Wish, Miracle in the Woods)
1981 – Brian Bonsall (actor: Family Ties, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Father and Scout, Lily in Winter, Father Hood, Desperate Motives)

http://jaxonfilmfest.wordpress.com/2012/12/03/on-this-day-in-movie-history-december-3-1922-first-technicolor-feature-not-to-require-special-projector-premiered/

English - Hollywood Films History - Bibliography




Classical Hollywood Reader (Google eBook)
Steve Neale
Routledge, 12-Nov-2012 - Performing Arts - 496 pages
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=aHOpw3eEGQkC


Movies of the 60s
Jürgen Müller
Taschen, 2004 - Art - 640 pages
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=Xi_QfRTDvpkC


The Great Movies II (Google eBook)
Roger Ebert
Random House LLC, 12-Nov-2008 - Performing Arts - 544 pages
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=sdv8LRB6a88C


http://www.filmsite.org/20sintro.html

http://movies.about.com/

Monday, November 4, 2013

Oliver Wilde - Biography, Films and Interviews - Videos



She appeared in the short-lived Fox television series "Skin" (2003),

She made her Hollywood debut in The Girl Next Door (2004) and then came to public notice in "The O.C." (2003), but it was as Dr. Remy "Thirteen" Hadley in "House M.D." (2004) that she achieved international stardom. She has since starred or co-starred in the films TRON: Legacy (2010), Cowboys & Aliens (2011), In Time (2011), People Like Us (2012) and The Words (2012).

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http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1312575/

29 November - English Films History

Birthdays

Anna Faris
Janina Gavankar
Lucas Black
Lauren German
Joel Coen

28 November - English Films History



Birthdays

Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Alfonso Cuarón
Karen Gillan
Alan Ritchson
Ed Harris

26 November - English Films History



Birthdays

1910 – Cyril Cusack (actor: Far and Away, My Left Foot, The Tenth Man, 1984, True Confessions, Les Miserables, The Day of the Jackal, Sacco & Vanzetti, King Lear, Harold and Maude, David Copperfield, The Taming of the Shrew, Fahrenheit 451, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Waltz of the Toreadors, The Elusive Pimpernel, Odd Man Out, Late Extra; died Oct 7, 1993)

23 November - English Films History




Birthdays
1888 – Harpo (Adolph) Marx (comedian, musician: harp, piano; silent member of the Marx Brothers comedy team: Animal Crackers, A Day at the Races, Duck Soup, Horse Feathers, Monkey Business, A Night at the Opera, Go West, At the Circus; actor: Silent Panic; died Sep 28, 1964)

1902 – Victor Jory (actor: Gone with the Wind, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Miracle Worker, Papillon, Charlie Chan in Rio, Manhunt, Kings Row; died Feb 12, 1982)

1915 – Ellen Drew (actress: Hollywood Boulevard, China Sky, Christmas in July, Dark Mountain; died Dec 3, 2003)

1929 – Sybil Jason (Jacobs) (actress: The Blue Bird, The Little Princess)

1934 – Michael Wayne (producer: McLintock!, The Green Berets, Chisum, Big Jake, Cahill: United States Marshal, Brannigan; son of actor John Wayne; died Apr 2, 2003)

1936 – Steve Landesberg (actor: Barney Miller, Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers, Dean Martin Presents, Sodbusters, Leader of the Band, Final Notice, Blade, Conrad Bloom; died Dec 20, 2010)

1942 – Susan Anspach (actress: Five Easy Pieces, Play It Again, Sam, The Yellow Rose, The Slap Maxwell Story)

1951 – David Rappaport (actor: L.A. Law, Peter Gunn, The Wizard, The Bride, Mysteries; died May 2, 1990)

1959 – Maxwell Caulfield (actor: The Colbys, Sundown, The Supernaturals, Alien Intruder, Grease 2, Mind Games)

1967 – Salli Richardson (actress: I Spy Returns, Prelude to a Kiss, A Low Down Dirty Shame, Rude Awakening, Family Law)

21 November English Films History

Birthdays

1924 – Vivian Blaine (Stapleton) (actress: State Fair, Guys and Dolls, Those Two; died Dec 9, 1995)

1927 – Joseph Campanella (actor: Ben, Meteor, Original Intent, The President’s Plane is Missing, The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, Sky Hei$t, The Colbys, The Lawyers, The Nurses, Mannix; narrator: The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau; host: Emergency Call)

1934 – Laurence Luckinbill (Emmy Award-winning executive producer: Lucy and Desi: A Home Movie [1992-1993]; actor: Lyndon, Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier, Messenger of Death, Cocktail, The Boys in the Band, The Delphi Bureau)

1941 – Juliet Mills (Emmy Award-winning actress: QB VII, Parts 1 & 2, ABC Movie Special [1974-75]; Nanny and the Professor, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, The Cracker Factory; daughter of actor John Mills and sister of actress Hayley Mills)

1945 – Goldie Hawn (Btudlendgehawn) (Academy Award-winning actress: Cactus Flower [1969]; First Wives Club, Bird on a Wire, Butterflies are Free, Housesitter, Death Becomes Her, Private Benjamin, Shampoo, The Sugarland Express, Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, Good Morning, World)

1956 – Cynthia Rhodes (actress, dancer: Dirty Dancing, Flashdance)

1963 – Nicollette Sheridan (actress: Desperate Housewives,Paper Dolls, Knots Landing, Spy Hard, Silver Strand, Noises Off, Deceptions, The Sure Thing)

16 November - English Films History




Birthdays

1907 – (Oliver) Burgess Meredith (Emmy Award-winning actor: The Big Event: Tail Gunner Joe [2-6-77], Batman, Gloria, Mr. Novak, Search, The Day of the Locust, Rocky series, Advice and Consent, Grumpy Old Men, In Harm’s Way, Of Mice and Men; TV host: Those Amazing Animals; author: So Far, So Good a Memoir; died Sep 9, 1997)

1922 – Royal Dano (actor: Mr. Lincoln, Ghoulies 2, The Red Badge of Courage, Huckleberry Finn, The Right Stuff, Johnny Guitar, The Trouble with Harry; died May 15, 1994)

1934 – Guy Stockwell (actor: The Richard Boone Show, Beau Geste, Return to Peyton Place, Airport 1975, Columbo: Columbo Goes to College; brother of actor Dean Stockwell; died Feb 6, 2002)

1935 – Clu Gulager (actor: The Killing Device, My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, Return of the Living Dead, A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge, Kenny Rogers as the Gambler series, Force of One, The Other Side of Midnight, Smile Jenny You’re Dead, The Last Picture Show, The Killers, The Virginian, The Tall Man, The Survivors, San Francisco International Airport)

1942 – Joanna Pettet (actress: Best Sellers, Casino Royale, Double Exposure, Captains and the Kings, Knots Landing)

1958 – Marg Helgenberger (actress: C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation, Ryan’s Hope, China Beach, Through the Eyes of a Killer, Fallen Angels, Fire Down Below, Gold Coast, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town)

1966 – Dean McDermott (actor: Earth : Final Conflict, La Femme Nikita, Spenser : Small Vices, The Outer Limits, Rookies, Due South, Power Play, Brian’s Song)

1967 – Lisa Bonet (actress: The Cosby Show, A Different World, Angel Heart, Bank Robber)

1970 – Martha Plimpton (actress: The Goonies, Parenthood, The Mosquito Coast)



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15 November - English Films History



November 15, 1956: “Love Me Tender” , a 1956 American black-and-white CinemaScope motion picture directed by Robert D. Webb and providing debut ot Elvis Presley, premiered at the Paramount Theater in New York City


Birthdays

1919 – Carol Bruce (actress: WKRP in Cincinnati; died Oct 9, 2007)

1934 – Joanna Barnes (actress: The Trials of O’Brien, 21 Beacon Street, Spartacus, Parent Trap, Goodbye Charlie)

1937 – Yaphet Kotto (actor: Two If by Sea, The Puppet Masters, Extreme Justice, Midnight Run, The Running Man, Eye of the Tiger, Fighting Back, Alien, Raid on Entebbe, Shark’s Treasure, Live and Let Die, The Thomas Crown Affair, Five Card Stud, Nothing But a Man, Blue Collar, Homicide: Life on the Street, For Love and Honor)

1940 – Sam Waterston (actor: The Killing Fields, Law & Order, Friendly Fire, I’ll Fly Away, The Great Gatsby, Serial Mom)

1951 – Beverly D’Angelo (actress: Coal Miner’s Daughter, Paternity, Hair, Annie Hall, Every Which Way but Loose, National Lampoon’s Vacation series, Captains and the Kings)

1963 – Kevin J. O’Connor (actor: The Mummy, Peggy Sue Got Married, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Birdland, Gideon’s Crossing)


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10 November - English Films History



1931 Fourth Academy Awards




Birthdays

1889 – Claude Rains (actor: Casablanca, The Invisible Man, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Lawrence of Arabia; died May 30, 1967)

1925 – Richard Burton (Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.) (actor: Camelot, Hamlet, Anne of the Thousand Days, Becket, The Desert Rats, The Longest Day, Look Back in Anger, The Night of the Iguana, The Robe, The Sandpiper, The Taming of the Shrew, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; TV narrator: Winston Churchill-The Valiant Years, Ellis Island;  died Aug 5, 1984)

1932 – Roy Scheider (actor: All that Jazz, Blue Thunder, Marathon Man, The French Connection, Jaws series, 2010, 52 Pickup, seaQuest DSV; died Feb 10, 2008)

1949 – Ann Reinking (dancer, actress: Pippin, All that Jazz, Annie, Mickey and Maude)

1956 – Sinbad (David Adkins) (actor, comedian: A Different World, The Sinbad Show, The Redd Foxx Show, Coneheads, The Cherokee Kid, Good Burger; )

1959 – (Laura) Mackenzie Phillips (actress: One Day at a Time, American Graffiti, Eleanor & Franklin; )

1977 – Brittany Murphy (actress: Clueless, Freeway, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Girl, Interrupted, Cherry Falls, Riding in Cars with Boys; died Dec 20, 2009)

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9 November - English Films History



Birthdays
1918 – Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (actor: The F.B.I., 77 Sunset Strip, Hot Shots!, The Gathering: Part 2, Terror Out of the Sky, Airport ’75, The Legend of Prince Valiant, Hotel; voice of Alfred in Batman-the Animated Series)

1920 – Virginia Mayo (Virginia Clara Jones) (actress: Midnight Witness, Captain Horatio Hornblower, The Silver Chalice, The West Point Story, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Best Years of Our Lives; died Jan 17, 2005)

1937 - Ridley Scott, Director

1947 – David Mamet (director: Oleanna, Homicide, House of Games, Things Change; playwright: Hoffa, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Untouchables, The Verdict, The Postman Always Rings Twice)

1951 – June Chadwick (actress: Forbidden World, The Last Horror Film, This is Spinal Tap, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Going to Extremes, Star Trek: Away Team)

1952 – Mandy Patinkin (Tony Award-winning actor: Evita [1980]; True Colors, The Doctor, Dick Tracy, Alien Nation, The Princess Bride, Sunday in the Park with George, Yentl, French Postcards, Chicago Hope)

1955 – Kevin Conroy (actor: Chain of Desire, The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton, Tour of Duty, Rachel Gunn, R.N., Ohara, )

1965 – Ben Stiller (actor: The Ben Stiller Show, Reality Bites, Flirting with Disaster, The Cable Guy, There’s Something About Mary, Meet the Parents, Zoolander)


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8 November - English Films History



November 8, 1847, Irish novelist and short story writer, who wrote 1897 Gothic novel Dracula, Abraham “Bram” Stoker was born.


Birthdays
1912 – June Havoc (actress: Brewster’s Millions, Gentlemen’s Agreement, Sing Your Worries Away, Willy; died Mar 28, 2010)

1914 – Norman Lloyd (actor: St. Elsewhere, Journey of Honor, Jaws of Satan, Saboteur, The Southerner)

1920 – Esther Rolle (Academy Award-winning actress: Summer of My German Soldier [10/30/78]; Good Times, Maude, Scarlett, Driving Miss Daisy, A Raisin in the Sun, The Mighty Quinn; died Nov 17, 1998)

1921 – Gene Saks (actor: A Fine Romance, Prisoner of Second Avenue, A Thousand Clowns; director: Barefoot in the Park, Mame, The Odd Couple, Cactus Flower)

1921 – Walter Mirisch (Academy Award-winning producer: The Apartment [1960])

1924 – Joe Flynn (actor: The Tim Conway Show, McHale’s Navy, The Joey Bishop Show, The George Gobel Show, The Bob Newhart Show, The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, Superdad, Million Dollar Duck, The Barefoot Executive, The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes; died July 19, 1974)

1935 – Alain Delon (actor: Nouvelle Vague, The Concorde: Airport ’79, Gypsy, Red Sun, Is Paris Burning?, Honor Among Thieves, Rocco and His Brothers, Sois Belle et Tais-Toi)

1961 – Leif Garrett (actor: Spirit of 76, Thunder Alley, Kid Vengeance, Three for the Road; singer: I Was Made for Dancin)

1967 – Courtney Thorne-Smith (actress: Melrose Place, Fast Times, Day by Day, Breach of Conduct, Side Out, Welcome to 18, Summer School, Revenge of the Nerds 2: Nerds in Paradise, Lucas)

1968 – Parker Posey (actress: Party Girl, The Daytrippers, You've Got Mail, Scream 3, Best in Show)

1969 – Roxana Zal ( Shattered Spirits, Under the Boardwalk, Goodbye, Miss 4th of July, River’s Edge, Testament, Table for Five)

1972 – Gretchen Mol (actress: The Magnificent Ambersons, Donnie Brasco, Subway Stories: Tales from the Underground, Rounders, Finding Graceland, The Thirteenth Floor)

1975 – Tara Reid (actress: The Big Lebowski, American Pie series, Body Shots, Dr. T & the Women, Josie and the Pussycats)

7 November - English Films History




November 7, 1980,  American actor Terence Stephen “Steve” McQueen died

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Birthdays

1903 – (Ira) Dean Jagger (Academy Award-winning actor: Twelve O’clock High [1949]; Elmer Gantry, Bad Day at Black Rock, White Christmas, King Creole, The Robe, Vanishing Point, Mr. Novak; died Feb 5,1991)

1938 – Barry Newman (actor: Petrocelli, Nightingales, The Edge of Night, Vanishing Point)

1957 – Christopher Knight (actor: The Brady Bunch, Another World, A Very Brady Christmas, Good Girls Don’t, The Brady Bunch Movie)

1964 – Dana Plato (actress: Diff’rent Strokes, Return to Boggy Creek, Beyond the Bermuda Triangle; died May 8, 1999)

1972 – Jason London (actor: The Man in the Moon, To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, Mixed Signals, Broken Vessels, Alien Cargo; twin brother of Jeremy London)

1972 – Jeremy London (actor: I’ll Fly Away, Party of Five, White Wolves II: Legend of the Wild, Breaking Free, The Babysitter, The Red Lion, Bad to the Bone; twin brother of Jason London)

6 November - English Films History



November 6, 1882, American silent film actor, director, screenwriter and producer of more than 100 films and pioneering studio mogul, Thomas Harper Ince was born. He was known as the “Father of the Western”,




Birthdays
1896 – Jim Jordan (James Edward Jordan) (actor: radio's Fibber McGee and Molly; died Apr 1, 1988)

1931 – Mike Nichols (Michael Igor Peschkowsky) (Academy Award-winning director: The Graduate [1967]; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Silkwood, Postcards from the Edge, The Day of the Dolphin; comedian: [w/Elaine May])

1946 – Sally Field (Sally Mahoney) (Academy Award-winning actress: Norma Rae [1979], Places in the Heart [1984]; Gidget series, Steel Magnolias, Mrs. Doubtfire, Smokey and the Bandit series, Hooper, Forrest Gump, Absence of Malice;  The Flying Nun, Gidget, The Girl with Something Extra, Alias Smith and Jones)

1949 – Nigel Havers (actor: Lie Down with Lions, The Burning Season, Farewell to the King, The Little Princess, Empire of the Sun, A Passage to India, Chariots of Fire, Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?)

1957 – Lori Singer (actress: Fame, Born Beautiful, Footloose, Summer Heat, Equinox, Short Cuts, Sunset Grill, VR.5; musician: cellist: Bach Cello Suite #4: Sarabande)

1958 – Trace Beaulieu (actor, puppeteer: Mystery Science Theater 3000)

1960 – Lance Kerwin (actor: James at 15, The Family Holvak, The Loneliest Runner, The Mysterious Stranger, Salem's Lot, The Snow Queen)

1966 – Peter DeLuise (actor: seaQuest DSV, 21 Jump Street, Children of the Night, Rescue Me, The Midnight Hour)

1970 – Ethan Hawke (actor: Search and Destroy, Reality Bites, Alive, Waterland, A Midnight Clear, White Fang, Dead Poets Society, Dad, Explorers)

1972 – Thandie Newton (actress: Mission: Impossible II, Flirting, Interview with the Vampire)

1972 – Rebecca Romijn-Stamos (actress: Just Shoot Me, Dirty Work, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me)

1974 – Zoe McLellan (actress: Sliders, Silk Stalkings, Diagnosis Murder, Star Trek: Voyager, The Invisible Man, Dungeons & Dragons)

1978 – Nicole Dubuc (actress: Our House, Major Dad)

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4 November - English Films History




1879: 4th November: Will Rogers is born


1913 – Gig Young (Byron Elsworth Barr) (Academy Award-winning actor: They Shoot Horses Don’t They? [1969]; Teacher’s Pet, Young at Heart, Desperate Hours, The Rogues; died Oct 19, 1978)

1917 – Virginia (Margaret Cynthia) Field (actress: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Dance, Girl, Dance, Waterloo Bridge; died Jan 2, 1992)

1918 – Art (William Matthew) Carney (Academy Award-winning actor: Harry and Tonto [1974]; Last Action Hero, Izzy and Moe, House Calls, Roadie, Take this Job and Shove It, Terrible Joe Moran;  died Nov 9, 2003)

1918 – Cameron Mitchell (Mitzell) (actor: Trapped Alive, Hollywood Cop, Swift Justice, Blood and Black Lace, How to Marry a Millionaire, Desiree, The Tall Men, Carousel, Homecoming, The High Chaparral, Swiss Family Robinson; died July 6, 1994)

1919 – Martin (Henry) Balsam (Academy Award-winning actor: A Thousand Clowns [1965]; All the President’s Men, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Carpetbaggers, Death Wish 3, Delta Force, The Goodbye People, Harlow, Little Big Man, Marjorie Morningstar, Murder on the Orient Express, Psycho, Tora! Tora! Tora!, Twelve Angry Men, All in the Family; died Feb 13, 1996)

1930 – Kate Reid (actress: Death of a Salesman, The Andromeda Strain, Atlantic City, Death Ship, Gavilan, Dallas; died Mar 27, 1993)

1950 – Markie Post (actress: Night Court, Hearts Afire, Fall Guy, The Gangster Chronicles)

1961 – Ralph Macchio (actor: Eight is Enough, Karate Kid series, Distant Thunder, My Cousin Vinny)





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14 November - English Films History




Hollywood was incorporated as a municipality on November 14, 1903



Birthdays
1900 – Aaron Copland (Academy Award-winning composer: film score: The Heiress [1948]; Of Mice and Men, Our Town, Lincoln Portrait, Fanfare for the Common Man; ballet score: Billy the Kid; Pulitzer Prize- winner: Appalachian Spring [1945]; died Dec 2, 1990)

1904 – Dick (Richard E.) Powell (actor: Too Busy to Work, Footlight Parade, Gold Diggers of 1933, Gold Diggers of 1935, Gold Diggers of 1937, Hollywood Hotel, Murder, My Sweet, Cry Danger, Four Star Playhouse, Susan Slept Here; TV Host: The Best in Mystery, Zane Grey Theater, The Dick Powell Show (1961) TV; died Jan 2, 1963)

1910 – Rosemary DeCamp (actress: Rhapsody in Blue, On Moonlight Bay, The Bob Cummings Show, That Girl, The Life of Riley; died Feb 20, 2001)

1921 – Brian Keith (Robert Keith Richey, Jr.) (actor: Family Affair, Hardcastle & McCormick, Heartland, The Westerner, Crusader, Centennial, The Brian Keith Show, Walter and Emily, Nevada Smith, The Loneliest Runner, The Parent Trap, The Young Philadelphians, Young Guns; died June 24, 1997)


1924 – Phyllis Avery (actress: The George Gobel Show, Mr. Novak)

1927 – McLean Stevenson (actor: M*A*S*H, The McLean Stevenson Show, Hello Larry, The Tim Conway Comedy Hour, The Doris Day Show, Condo; died Feb 15, 1996)

1935 – Don Stewart (actor: Guiding Light, The Doomsday Flight; died Jan 9, 2006)

1948 – Robert Ginty (actor: The Paper Chase, Hawaiian Heat, Falcon Crest, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Lady Dragon, Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man, Madhouse, Programmed to Kill, Exterminator series, Coming Home; died Sep 21, 2009)

1962 – Laura San Giacomo (actress: Just Shoot Me, The Right to Remain Silent, Stephen King’s The Stand, Under Suspicion, Vital Signs, Pretty Woman, sex, lies and videotape, Miles from Home)

1964 – Patrick Warburton (actor: Seinfeld, Dave’s World, NewsRadio, Scream 3, The Emperor’s New Groove, Men in Black 2)

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30 November - English Films History



Birthdays

Ben Stiller - 1965






Birthdays
1918 – Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (actor: The F.B.I., 77 Sunset Strip, Hot Shots!, The Gathering: Part 2, Terror Out of the Sky, Airport ’75, The Legend of Prince Valiant, Hotel; voice of Alfred in Batman-the Animated Series)

1920 – Virginia Mayo (Virginia Clara Jones) (actress: Midnight Witness, Captain Horatio Hornblower, The Silver Chalice, The West Point Story, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Best Years of Our Lives; died Jan 17, 2005)

1947 – David Mamet (director: Oleanna, Homicide, House of Games, Things Change; playwright: Hoffa, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Untouchables, The Verdict, The Postman Always Rings Twice)

1951 – June Chadwick (actress: Forbidden World, The Last Horror Film, This is Spinal Tap, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Going to Extremes, Star Trek: Away Team)

1952 – Mandy Patinkin (Tony Award-winning actor: Evita [1980]; True Colors, The Doctor, Dick Tracy, Alien Nation, The Princess Bride, Sunday in the Park with George, Yentl, French Postcards, Chicago Hope)

1955 – Kevin Conroy (actor: Chain of Desire, The Secret Passion of Robert Clayton, Tour of Duty, Rachel Gunn, R.N., Ohara, )

1965 – Ben Stiller (actor: The Ben Stiller Show, Reality Bites, Flirting with Disaster, The Cable Guy, There’s Something About Mary, Meet the Parents, Zoolander)

13 November - English Films History



Birthdays

Whoopi Goldberg - 1955





Birthdays

1913 – Alexander Scourby (actor: The Big Heat, Affair in Trinidad; died Feb 22, 1985)

1916 – Jack Elam (actor: Support Your Local Sheriff, High Noon, Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Cannonball Run series, Pocketful of Miracles, Rawhide, Temple Houston, The Texas Wheelers, The Dakotas; died Oct 20, 2003)

1922 – Madeleine Sherwood (actress: The Flying Nun, Hurry Sundown, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Broken Vows, Sweet Bird of Youth)

1922 – Oskar Werner (actor: Ship of Fools, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Voyage of the Damned, Fahrenheit 451; died Oct 23, 1984)

1923 – Linda Christian (actress: The Devil’s Hand, Athena; died Jul 22, 2011)

1934 – Garry Marshall (producer: The Odd Couple, Mork & Mindy, Happy Days; director: Pretty Woman, Beaches; comedy writer: Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lucy Show; actor: A League of Their Own, Lost in America; brother of actress Penny Marshall)

1938 – Jean Seberg (actress: Paint Your Wagon, The Mouse That Roared, Airport, Joan of Arc, Bonjour Tristesse; died Aug 30, 1979)

1941 – Dack (Norman) Rambo (actor: Dallas, All My Children, The Guns of Will Sonnett, Sword of Justice, The New Loretta Young Show; died Mar 21, 1994)

1948 – Sheila Frazier (actress: The Hitter, Three the Hard Way, I'm Gonna Git You Sucker, Super Fly, Firehouse, The Lazarus Syndrome)

1953 – Tracy Scoggins (actress: Lois and Clark – The New Adventures of Superman, Hawaiian Heat, Dynasty, The Colbys, Alien Intruder, Dead On, The Gumshoe Kid)

1954 – Chris Noth (actor: Law & Order, Burnzy’s Last Call, Jakarta, Baby Boom, Sex and the City)

1955 – Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Johnson) (Academy Award-winning actress: Ghost [1990]; The Color Purple, Sister Act series, Made in America, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Comic Relief, The Whoopi Goldberg Show, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Bagdad Cafe, Whoopi; )

1959 – Caroline Goodall (actress: Schindler’s List, Charles & Diana: A Royal Love Story, Hook, Cliffhanger, The Princess Diaries)

19 November - English Films History



Birthdays

Meg Ryan - 1961
Jodie Foster - 1962

27 November - English Films History



Birthdays

Bruce Lee - 1940

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Sharlto Copley

William Fichtner

Brooke Langton

Allison Pill

Kirk Avecedo

22 November - English Films History



Birthdays

Scarlett Johansson - 1984






Birthdays

1921 – Rodney Dangerfield (Jacob Cohen) (“I Don’t Get No Respect”: comedian, actor: Caddyshack, Easy Money, Back to School, Natural Born Killers, Ladybugs, The Dean Martin Show; died Oct 5, 2004)

1923 – Arthur Hiller (director: The Americanization of Emily, Author! Author!, Love Story, Man of La Mancha, Plaza Suite, Silver Streak, Taking Care of Business)

1924 – Geraldine Page (Academy Award-winning actress: The Trip to Bountiful [1985]; The Day of the Locust, Harry’s War, Pete ‘n’ Tillie, Summer and Smoke, Sweet Bird of Youth, Toys in the Attic; Emmy Award-winner: A Christmas Memory, ABC Stage 67 [1966-1967], The Thanksgiving Visitor [1968-1969]; died June 13, 1987)

1932 – Robert Vaughn (Emmy Award-winning actor: Washington: Behind Closed Doors [1977-78]; The Man from U.N.C.L.E., The Magnificent Seven, The Big One, The Towering Inferno, The Bridge at Remagen, Delta Force, Superman 3, The Young Philadelphians)

1935 – Michael Callan (Calinieff) (actor: Because They're Young, Cat Ballou, Gidget Goes Hawaiian, Love American Style, Occasional Wife)

1939 – Allen Garfield (Goorwitz) (actor: Diabolique, Night Visitor, Beverly Hills Cop 2, Dick Tracy, The Cotton Club, Mother, Jugs and Speed, The Conversation, The Candidate, The Owl and the Pussycat, Greetings, Bananas)

1940 – Terry Gilliam (actor: Monty Python series, And Now for Something Completely Different, Life of Brian; director: Brazil, The Fisher King, Monty Python and the Holy Grail)

1941 – Tom Conti (actor: American Dreamer, The Norman Conquests series, The Quick and the Dead, Saving Grace, Masterpiece Theater, Shirley Valentine, The Wright Verdicts)

1958 – Jamie Lee Curtis (actress: A Fish Called Wanda, Forever Young, Halloween ’78, Halloween 2: The The Nightmare Isn’t Over!, Trading Places, True Lies, My Girl, Mother’s Boys, Love Letters, Anything But Love, Dominick & Eugene, Operation Petticoat; daughter of actors Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh)

1961 – Mariel Hemingway (actress: Delirious, Falling from Grace, Lipstick, Personal Best, The Suicide Club, Superman 4: The Quest for Peace, Manhattan, Civil Wars, Star 80)

http://jaxonfilmfest.wordpress.com/2012/11/21/on-this-day-in-movie-history-november-22-1963-happy-thanksgiving/

12 November - English Films History



Birthdays

Grace Kelly 1929
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Anne Hathaway  1982






Birthdays

1903 – Jack Oakie (Lewis Delaney Offield) (actor: Lover Come Back, The Rat Race, Song of the Islands, Tin Pan Alley, The Texas Rangers; died Jan 23, 1978)

1920 – Sunset Carson (Winifred Maurice Harrison) (actor: Stage Door Canteen, Rio Grande Raiders, Alias Billy the Kid; died May 1, 1990)

1920 – Richard Quine (actor: Babes on Broadway, For Me and My Gal, director: The World of Suzy Wong, Bell Book and Candle, How to Murder Your Wife, Sex and the Single Girl; died Jun 10, 1989)

1922 – Kim Hunter (Janet Cole) (Academy Award-winning actress: A Streetcar Named Desire [1951]; Requiem for a Heavyweight, Planet of the Apes series, The Edge of Night, Backstairs at the White House; died Sep 11, 2002)

1929 – Grace Kelly (Princess Grace of Monaco) (Academy Award-winning actress: The Country Girl [1954]; To Catch a Thief, High Society, High Noon, Rear Window, Dial “M” for Murder; singer: True Love [w/Bing Crosby]; died Sep 14, 1982)

1931 – Bob Crewe (producer: The Four Seasons, Mitch Ryder, The Bob Crewe Generation: Music to Watch Girls By)

1934 – Ann Flood (actress: The Edge of Night)

1943 – Wallace Shawn (actor: House Arrest, Clueless, The Magic Bubble, Radio Days, The Princess Bride, Micki & Maude, The Hotel New Hampshire, A Little Sex, My Dinner with Andre, Simon, All That Jazz)

http://jaxonfilmfest.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/on-this-day-in-movie-history-november-12-1929-grace-kelly-born/

11 November - English Films History



Birthdays

Demi Moore - 1962
Leonardo Dicaprio - 1974







Birthdays

1899 – Pat (William Joseph Patrick) O’Brien (actor: Knute Rockne, All American, Ragtime, Fighting Father Dunne, Some like It Hot, Harrigan and Son; died Oct 15, 1983)

1909 – Robert Ryan (actor: Bad Day at Black Rock, Battle of the Bulge, The Dirty Dozen, Flying Leathernecks, The Longest Day, On Dangerous Ground;  died July 11, 1973)

1911 – Patric (Reginald Lawrence) Knowles (actor: Chisum, The Devil’s Brigade, Auntie Mame, Three Came Home, Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman, The Wolfman, How Green was My Valley, The Adventures of Robin Hood [1938], The Charge of the Light Brigade; died Dec 23, 1995)

1918 – Stubby Kaye (actor: Cat Ballou, Guys and Dolls, Li’l Abner, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, My Sister Eileen, Love & Marriage; TV panelist: Pantomime Quiz; died Dec 14, 1997)

1935 – Bibi (Birgitta) Andersson (actress: Duel at Diablo, Story of a Woman, The Concorde: Airport ’79)

1962 – Demi Moore (Demetria Guynes) (actress: Indecent Proposal, Ghost, The Seventh Sign, A Few Good Men, Color of Night, St. Elmo’s Fire, Choices, General Hospital, Striptease, G.I. Jane)

1964 – Calista Flockhart (actress: Ally McBeal, The Guiding Light, Pictures of Baby Jane Doe, Telling Lies in America)

1964 – Philip McKeon (actor: Alice, Red Surf, Return to Horror High)

1974 – Leonardo (Wilhelm) DiCaprio (actor: Titanic, Parenthood, Growing Pains, Critters 3, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, The Man in the Iron Mask, The Aviator)

http://jaxonfilmfest.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/on-this-day-in-movie-history-november-11-1925-jonathan-harshman-winters-iii-born/

Hollywood Film Actors and Actresses - Biographies, Interviews and Films - YouTube Videos

Alan Arkin
Albert Finney
Al Pacino
Angela Lansbury
Anthony Hopkins

Barbara Hershey
Benicio Del Toro
Ben Kingsley
Bill Murray
Billy Bob Thornton
Bob Hoskins
Brad Pitt

Cate Blanchett
Caterina Murino
Catherine Keener
Charles Bronson
Charlton Heston
Chris Cooper
Christian Bale
Christopher Plummer
Cindy Crawford - 20 Feb 1966
Clint Eastwood

Daniel Craig
Daniel Day-Lewis
David Strathairn
Denzel Washington
Diane Keaton
Don Cheadle
Dustin Hoffman


Ed Harris
Edward Norton
Elizabeth Taylor - 27 Feb 1932
Eliza Dushku - 30 Dec 1980
Ellen Burstyn
Emily Watson
Emma Thompson

Faye Dunaway
Fefe Dobson
Frances McDormand

Gene Hackman
Geoffrey Rush
George Clooney
Glen Close

Halle Berry
Harrison Ford
Harvey Keitel
Helena Bonham Carter
Helen Mirren

Ian Holm
Ian McKellen
Ingrid Bergman

Jack Nicholson
James Earl Jones
Javier Bardem
Jean Claude Van Damme
Jim Broadbent
Joan Allen
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Jodie Foster
John Hurt
Johnny Depp
Jon Voight
Judi Dench
Julianne Moore
Julia Roberts
Julie Christie
Juliette Binoche
Jeff Bridges



Kate Winslet
Kevin Costner
Kevin Spacey
Kirk Douglas

Laura Linney
Leonardo Dicaprio
Liam Neeson
Liv Ullmann
Lucy Liu

Maggie Gyllenhaal
Maggie Smith
Matt Damon
Max von Sydow
Meryl Streep
Michael Caine
Michelle Williams
Miranda Richardson
Morgan Freeman

Natalie Portman
Nicole Kidman
Nick Nolte

Oliver Wilde
Olivia de Havilland
Olivia Newton John

Penelope Cruz
Peter O'Toole
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Ralph Fiennes
Richard Burton
Robert De Niro
Robert Duvall
Robert Redford
Robin Williams

Samuel L. Jackson
Sean Connery
Sean Penn
Shirley MacLaine
Sidney Poitier
Sigourney Weaver
Sissy Spacek
Susan Sarandon
Sylvester Stallone

Tatum O'neal 
Tom Cruise
Tom Hanks
Tommy Lee Jones
Tom Robbins
Tracey Ullman - 30 Dec 1959

Uma Thurman

Vanessa Redgrave
Viggo Mortensen

Willem Dafoe
William Hurt
Winona Ryder
Woody Allen

Yul Brynner

Tom Cruise - Biography and Interviews - Videos


Tom Cruise, was born on July 3, 1962 in Syracuse, New York,  Cruise's mother was an amateur actress and schoolteacher.

He moved to New York for acting career and , struggled through audition after audition before landing an appearance in 1981's Endless Love, starring Brooke Shields. Around this same time, he also got a small role in the military school drama Taps (1981), co-starring Sean Penn.

His performance  in Taps caught the attention of a number of critics and filmmakers. In 1983, Cruise appeared in The Outsiders , directed by Francis Ford Coppola and  starred alongside Emilio Estevez, Matt Dillon, and Rob Lowe. The film  allowed Cruise to work with an acclaimed director in a high-profile project.

His next film, Risky Business (1983), grossed $65 million. It also made Cruise a highly recognizable actor.

In 1986 Cruise's A-list status was confirmed with the release of Top Gun, which co-starred Kelly McGillis, Anthony Edwards, and Meg Ryan. The became the highest grossing film of 1986.

Misson Impossible is a successful series for Tom Cruise. Mission: Impossible 3 (2006),  scored well with audiences. Cruise returned to ths most popular franchise in 2011 with Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol. The film eventually earned more than $200 million.

Shooting a scene of the film Knight and Day
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1981 Endless Love Billy
1981 Taps Cadet Captain David Shawn
1983 The Outsiders Steve Randle
1983 Losin' It Woody
1983 All the Right Moves Stefen "Stef" Djordjevic
1983 Risky Business Joel Goodson
1985 Legend Jack O' The Green
1986 Top Gun Lt. Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell
1986 The Color of Money Vincent Lauria
1988 Cocktail Brian Flanagan
1988 Rain Man Charlie Babbitt
1989 Born on the Fourth of July Ron Kovic
1990 Days of Thunder Cole Trickle
1992 Far and Away Joseph Donnelly
1992 A Few Good Men Lt. Daniel Kaffee
1993 The Firm Mitch McDeere
1994 Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles Lestat de Lioncourt
1996 Mission: Impossible Ethan Hunt
1996 Jerry Maguire Jerry Maguire
1999 Eyes Wide Shut Bill Harford
1999 Magnolia Frank T.J. Mackey
2000 Mission: Impossible II Ethan Hunt
2001 Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures Narrator
2001 Vanilla Sky David Aames
2002 Space Station 3D Narrator
2002 Minority Report John Anderton
2002 Austin Powers in Goldmember Himself
2003 The Last Samurai Nathan Algren
2004 Collateral Vincent
2005 War of the Worlds Ray Ferrier
2006 Mission: Impossible III Ethan Hunt
2007 Lions for Lambs Senator Jasper Irving
2008 Valkyrie Claus von Stauffenberg
2008 Tropic Thunder Les Grossman
2010 Knight and Day - Roy Miller
2011 Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol Ethan Hunt
2012 Rock of Ages Stacee Jaxx
2012 Jack Reacher Jack Reacher
2013 Oblivion Jack Harper
2014 Edge of Tomorrow Lt. Col. Bill Cage

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Zemeckis, Robert - Director



Zemeckis applied  to University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts, and went into the Film School on the strength of an essay and a music video based on a Beatles song. While at USC, Zemeckis developed a close friendship with the writer Bob Gale, who was also a student there. Both were interested in Hollywood movies and  Clint Eastwood,  James Bond and Walt Disney He graduated from USC in 1973.

As a result of winning a Student Academy Award at USC for his film, A Field of Honor, Zemeckis came to the attention of Steven Spielberg.  Spielberg became Zemeckis's mentor and executive produced his first two films, both of which Zemeckis co-wrote with Bob Gale. He later executive produced other Zemeckis films, including the Back to the Future trilogy and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Michael Douglas hired him in 1984 to film Romancing the Stone. A romantic adventure starring Douglas and Kathleen Turner,  the film became a sleeper hit.

In 1992, Zemeckis directed the black comedy Death Becomes Her, starring Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, and Bruce Willis.  1994's Forrest Gump was his biggest commercial success. Starring Tom Hanks in the title role, and borrowing to some extent from Woody Allen's earlier Zelig, Forrest Gump tells the story of a man with a low I.Q., who unwittingly participates in some of the major events of the twentieth century  and interacts with several major historical figures in the process. The film grossed $677 million worldwide and became the top grossing U.S. film of 1994; it won six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Hanks as Best Actor, and Zemeckis as Best Director.


Robert Zemeckis accepting the Oscar Award

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Monday, April 29, 2013

Yul Brynner - Biography and Interviews




Yul Brynner made his film debut in Port of New York (1949). Two years later he played the role of the King in Richard Rodgers' and Oscar Hammerstein II's musical "The King and I". Brynner became an immediate sensation in the role, repeating it for film (The King and I (1956)) and winning the Oscar for Best Actor.

For the next two decades he maintained a starring film career performing in a wide range of roles from Egyptian pharaohs to Western gunfighters, almost all with the shaved head. In the 1970s he returned to the role that had made him a star, and spent most of the rest of his life touring the world in "The King and I". When he developed lung cancer in the mid-1980s, he left a powerful public service announcement denouncing smoking as the cause. 

Saturday, April 27, 2013

X-Men - Film Released in 2000




X-Men is a 2000 American superhero film based on the fictional Marvel Comics characters of the same name.

The film has in its cast Patrick Stewart, Hugh Jackman, Ian McKellen, Anna Paquin, Famke Janssen, Bruce Davison, James Marsden, Halle Berry, Rebecca Romijn, Ray Park and Tyler Mane.

It depicts a world in which a small proportion of people are mutants and posess superhuman powers.  The film focuses on the mutants Wolverine and Rogue as they are brought into a conflict between two groups that have radically different approaches to bringing about the acceptance of mutantkind: Professor Xavier's X-Men, and the Brotherhood of Mutants, led by Magneto.

Te film rights went to 20th Century Fox in 1994. Filming took place from September 22, 1999 to March 3, 2000, primarily in Toronto. X-Men was released to positive reviews and was a financial success for Fox, spawning a reemergence of superhero films and a series of sequels and spin-offs.

Friday, April 26, 2013

William Wyler - Three Oscars Winning English Film Director


Wyler's directorial career spanned 45 years, from silent pictures to the movies of  1970s.  He was nominated a record 12 times for an Academy Award as Best Director and  he won three.  In 1966, was honored with the Irving Thalberg Award, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' ultimate accolade for a producer. He was the fourth recipient of the American Film Institute's Lifetime Achievement Award, after Ford, James Cagney and Welles. Along with Ford and Welles, Wyler ranks with the best and most influential American directors, including Griffith, DeMille, Frank Capra, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg.

Born Willi Wyler on July 1, 1902, in Mulhouse in the province of Alsace, then a possession of Germany,  Wyler emigrated to the US in 1920 at the age of 18. After starting in Universal's New York offices as an errand boy, he moved his way up through the organization, ending up in the California operation in 1922.

Wyler was given the opportunity to direct in July 1925, with the two-reel western The Crook Buster (1925).  For almost five years he performed his apprenticeship in Universal's "B" unit, turning out a score of low-budget silent westerns. In 1929 he made his first "A" picture, Hell's Heroes (1929), Universal's first all-sound movie shot outside a studio. The western was a commercial and critical success.

Wyler subsequently established himself as a major director in the mid-1930s, when he began directing films for independent producer Samuel Goldwyn. Willi would soon find his freedom fettered by the man with the fabled "Goldwyn touch," which entailed bullying his directors to recast, rewrite and recut their films, and sometimes replacing them during shooting.

The first of the Wyler-Goldwyn works was These Three (1936). His first unqualified success for Goldwyn was Dodsworth (1936), an adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' portrait of a disintegrating American marriage, a marvelous film that still resonates with audiences in the 21st century. He received his first Best Director Oscar nomination for this picture. The film was nominated for Best Picture, the first of seven straight years in which a Wyler-directed movie would earn that accolade, culminating with Oscars for both Willi and Mrs. Miniver (1942) in 1942.

Wyler's potential greatness can be seen as early as "Hell's Heroes," an early talkie that is not constrained by the restrictions of the new technology.  However, it was with "Dodsworth" that Wyler began to establish his critical reputation. The film features long takes and a probing camera, a style that Wyler would make his own.

Now established as Goldwyn's director of choice, Wyler made several films for him, including Dead End (1937) and Wuthering Heights (1939).

Goldwyn loaned out Wyler to other studios, and he made Jezebel (1938) and The Letter (1940) for Warner Bros. Working with Bette Davis in the two masterpieces, as well as in Goldwyn's The Little Foxes (1941), Wyler elicited three of the great diva's finest performances.


Wyler won his first Oscar as Best Director with "Mrs. Miniver" for MGM, which also won the Oscar for Best Picture, the first of three Wyler films that would be so honored. Made as a propaganda piece for American audiences to prepare them for the sacrifices necessitated by World War II, the movie is set in wartime England and elucidates the hardships suffered by an ordinary, middle-class English family coping with the war. An enthusiastic President Franklin D. Roosevelt, after seeing the film at a White House screening, said, "This has to be shown right away." The film also won Oscars for star Greer Garson and co-star Theresa Wright, for cinematographer Joseph Ruttenberg and for Best Screenplay.

After "Miniver," Wyler went off to war as an officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps. One of his more memorable propaganda films of the period was a documentary about a B-17 bomber, The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944), He also directed the Navy documentary The Fighting Lady (1944), an examination of life aboard an American aircraft carrier. It won an Oscar as Best Documentary,

Wyler's first picture upon returning from World War II would prove to be the last movie he made for Goldwyn.  "The Best Years of Our Lives" (1946)  won Wyler his second Oscar. The movie, which featured a moving performance by real-life veteran and double amputee Harold Russell, struck a universal chord with Americans and was a major box office hit. It was the second Wyler-directed picture to be named Best Picture at the Academy Awards. The film also won Oscars for star Fredric March and co-star Russell, film editor Daniel Mandell, composer Hugo Friedhofer and screenwriter Robert E. Sherwood, and was instrumental in garnering the Irving Thalberg Award for Samuel Goldwyn, who also took home the Best Picture Oscar that year as "Best Years" producer.



Wyler films in his postwar period include The Heiress (1949), a fine version of Henry James' novel "Washington Square," with an Oscar-winning performance by Olivia de Havilland; Detective Story (1951), a police drama that takes place on a minimal, controlled set almost as restricted as that of Hitchcock's Rope (1948); and Roman Holiday (1953), which won Audrey Hepburn an Oscar in her first leading role. The other films of this period are Carrie (1952), The Desperate Hours (1955) and Friendly Persuasion (1956).

Wyler returned to the western genre one last time with The Big Country (1958),  featuring Gregory Peck, Heston, and Wyler's old "Hell's Heroes" star Bickford. Burl Ives won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as the patriarch of an outlaw clan in conflict with Bickford's family. Wyler was next enlisted by producer Sam Zimbalist to direct MGM's high-stakes "Ben-Hur" (1959), a remake of its 1925 classic.   "Ben-Hur" went on to win 11 Oscars out of 12 nominations, including a third Best Director Academy Award for Willi.

In the last decade of his career, he remade "These Three" as The Children's Hour (1961), a franker version of Hellman's play than his 1936 version. The Collector (1965) was his last artistic triumph, and he had his last hit with Funny Girl (1968), for which Barbra Streisand repeated Audrey Hepburn's success of 15 years earlier, wining an Oscar in her first lead role. Wyler's last film was The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970),

William Wyler died on July 27, 1981, in Beverly Hills, California, as one of the most accomplished and honored filmmakers in history.

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Ursula Andress - Biography and Interviews





Birth: 19 March 1936, Ostermundigen, Bern, Switzerland


Ursula Andress started her movie career with small roles in Italian films.  Eventually,  she signed a contract with Columbia Pictures and came to the United States. She and married John Derek in 1957, and dropped out of movies for several years.

In the year 1962, she co-starred with Sean Connery in the first movie version of Ian Fleming's fanciful "James Bond" novels, "Dr. No".

The success of "Dr. No" established her screen presence and she was cast along with icons  such as Elvis Presley, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr.

Andress made many more movies in the United States and Europe from the mid-1960s to the mid-1970s. Casino Royale (1967) was another foray for her into the world of James Bond.

In 1979, she began her second romance with Harry Hamlin, her handsome young co-star from Clash of the Titans (1981).  She and Hamlin had a child, who was named  Dimitri Hamlin.

After the her son's birth, Andress scaled back her career and she raised Dimitri in Rome. She last worked on a film in 1997.



http://movies.yahoo.com/person/ursula-andress/biography.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1079213/My-bones-like-glass-Why-Bond-Girl-Ursula-Andress-blames-ravaged-osteoporosis.html

Monday, April 22, 2013

Sylvester Stallone - Biography and Interviews - Videos



Birth 6 July 1946

Sylvestor Stallone got a crucial career break in the effectively written teen gang film The Lord's of Flatbush (1974).

Rocky (1976) became the stuff of cinematic legends, scoring ten Academy Award nominations, winning the Best Picture Award of 1976 and triggering one of the most financially successful movie franchises in history.   Stallone had truly arrived on his terms, and offers poured in from various studios eager to secure Hollywood's hottest new star. The sequel Rocky II came in 1979.


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Saturday, April 20, 2013

Robert Redford - Biography and Interviews - Videos





Birth 18 August 1936


Robert Redford's breakthrough role was "The Sundance Kid" in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969).  The Way We Were (1973) and The Sting (1973), both in 1973, made Redford the number one box office star.  In 1980, he established the Sundance Institute for aspiring filmmakers.  Redford's directorial debut, Ordinary People (1980), won him the Academy Award as Best Director in 1981.

1993 brought Redford one of his most popular and recognized roles when he starred as a millionaire businessman who tests people's morals through bribery in Indecent Proposal, which became one of the year's biggest hits. The actress was Demi Moore in this movie

He was given Oscar for Lifetime Achievement in 2002 (Video available below).

His recent movie as a director an actor is "The Company You Keep" released in 2012.


Robert Redford receiving Honorary Life Achievement Oscar Award - 2002
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Friday, April 19, 2013

Question (II) - A Documentary Film



A documentary film in which a  filmmaker shares a direct first-person account of his experiences in the military.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2008605/


Thursday, April 18, 2013

Penelope Cruz - Biography and Interviews - Videos


Birthday 28 April 1974

Spanish Actress


Penelop Cruz  made  feature film debut in Jamón, jamón (1992), to critical acclaim. She acted in some more Spanish films and she acted in English films also.  Her  roles in the 1990s and 2000s included Open Your Eyes(1997), The Hi-Lo Country (1999), The Girl of Your Dreams (2000) and Woman on Top(2000). Cruz achieved recognition for her lead roles in the 2001 films Vanilla Sky and Blow.
She has  built a successful career, appearing in films from a wide range of genres. The films include Waking Up in Reno (2002), the thriller Gothika (2003), the Christmas movie Noel (2004), and the action adventure Sahara (2005). She has received critical acclaim for her roles in Volver (2006) and Nine (2009) receiving Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations for each. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2008 for Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Video included). 




Oscar Award for Penelope Cruz

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Interview - Penelope Cruz
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

A to Z Blogging Challenge - Film Category Blogs

Olivia Newton John - Biography and Interviews - Videos


Birth 26 September 1948


Newton-John's acted in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical, Grease, in 1978. She was offered the lead role of Sandy after meeting producer Allan Carr at a dinner party.  The film accommodated Newton-John's Australian accent by recasting her character from the play's original American Sandy Dumbrowski to Sandy Olsson, an Australian who holidays and then moves with her family to the United States.


Grease became the biggest box-office hit of 1978. The soundtrack album was at No. 1 in  12 non-consecutive weeks.  Newton-John's performance earned her a People's Choice award for Favourite Film Actress. She was also nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Actress in a Musical and performed the Oscar-nominated "Hopelessly Devoted to You" at the 1979 Academy Awards.

The film's popularity has endured through the years. It was re-released for its 20th anniversary in 1998  and ranked as the second highest grossing film behind Titanic in its opening weekend.


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Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Nick Nolte - Biography and Interviews - Videos



Birthday 8 February 1941




Nolte's first major film role was starring opposite Jacqueline Bisset and Robert Shaw in 1977's The Deep. He followed this with Who'll Stop the Rain in 1978 and North Dallas Forty in 1979.  The 1982 buddy cop/convict film 48 Hrs. strongly bolstered his film career.  His films in the 1980s, included Under Fire (1983), Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986), Extreme Prejudice (1987) and New York Stories (1989).

He began the 1990s  with the sequel Another 48 Hours. Nolte had perhaps his greatest box office success in 1991, starring in The Prince of Tides with Barbra Streisand, for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama. That same year he starred in Martin Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear.


Nolte's solid work continued with Lorenzo's Oil (1992), Mulholland Falls (1996), and Afterglow (1997).  . That same year, Nolte starred in Terrence Malick's highly anticipated war epic The Thin Red Line as Colonel Tall.

Nolte continued to work through the 2000s,  In 2011, Nolte portrayed recovering alcoholic Paddy Conlon, dealing with his two estranged sons competing in an MMA tournament in the film Warrior, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.


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Monday, April 15, 2013

Michael J Fox - Biography and Interviews - Videos



Birth: 9 June 1961

He acted in the comedy "Family Ties" (1982). He starred in the feature films Teen Wolf (1985), High School U.S.A. (1983) (TV), Poison Ivy (1985) (TV) and Back to the Future (1985).

Fox was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1991, and disclosed his condition to the public in 1999. Fox semi-retired from acting in 2000 as the symptoms of his disease became more severe.

Since 2000 Fox has mainly worked as a voice-over actor in films such as Stuart Little and Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and taken guest TV roles such as in Boston Legal, The Good Wife, Scrubs, Curb Your Enthusiasm and Rescue Me.


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Saturday, April 13, 2013

Lucy Liu - Biography and Interviews - Videos


Birthday 2 December 1968


Lucy Liu first appeared on the big screen as an ex-girlfriend in Jerry Maguire (1996). Her breakthrough small screen was  "Ally McBeal" (1997). She acted the growling, ill-tempered lawyer Ling Woo as a regular cast member.

The "Ally" win gave Liu's film career a much-needed boost--in 1999, she was cast as a dominatrix in the Mel Gibson action flick Payback (1999 0. The next year she played big roles in Jackie Chan's western Shanghai Noon (2000), and  Charlie's Angels (2000).


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Friday, April 12, 2013

Kevin Costner -Biography and Interviews - Videos




Birth 18 January 1955

Kevin Costner  has won two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and one Emmy Award.

Costner arrived as major actor in Hollywood in 1987, when he starred as federal agent Eliot Ness in The Untouchables and in the leading role of the thriller No Way Out. He solidified his A-list status with  Bull Durham (1988) and Field of Dreams (1989).

Costner's next success came with the epic "Dances with Wolves (1990)". He directed and starred in the film and is one of its producers.The film was nominated for 12 Academy Awards and won seven, including  the  Best Director for him personally.  The same year  Revenge was released, in which he starred along with Anthony Quinn and Madeleine Stowe.

In 2010, he appeared in "The Company Men" alongside Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones and Chris Cooper.


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Thursday, April 11, 2013

Julianne Moore - Biography and Interviews - Videos


Birthday 3 December 1960

Julianne Moore made her entrance into the big screen with 1990's Tales from the Darkside: The Movie (1990).  Steven Spielberg  cast her in the Jurassic Park sequel.  Director Todd Haynes gave Julianne her first opportunity to take on a lead role in Safe (1995). Her portrayal of Carol White, an affluent L.A. housewife who develops an inexplicable allergic reaction to her environment, won critical praise. She acted as Hugh Grant's pregnant girlfriend in Nine Months (1995). Following films included Assassins (1995), where she played an electronics security expert targeted for death with Sylvester Stallone and Antonio Banderas as costars and Surviving Picasso (1996), where she played Dora Maar, one of the numerous lovers of Picasso. Julianne appeared  in the movie, Boogie Nights (1997) and played the role of Amber Waves, a loving porn star who acts as a mother figure to a ragtag crew. For this role,  she received both Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations. In 1999,  Moore was very busy as an actress. She starred in a number of high-profile projects. For the outstanding performance in The End of the Affair (1999), she had another Oscar nomination. She ended 1999 with another great performance, that of a grieving mother in A Map of the World (1999), opposite Sigourney Weaver. She is active in films even now.

She  received praise for her performances in The Kids Are All Right (2010) and Game Change (2012), where she portrayed Sarah Palin.

The New York Times Interview 2010
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Golden Globe - Best Actress - 2013
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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Ingrid Bergman - Biography and Interview Videos


Birthday : 29 August  1915
Death:      29 August  1982


American producer David O. Selznick gave a contract to Ingrid.  Once signed, she came to California and starred in United Artists' 1939  film, Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939).  The film was a hit and so was Ingrid. Her beauty was unlike anything the movie industry had seen before and her acting was superb.  The public fell in love with her. In the US,  her films got enthusiastic audience. She acted in the classic Casablanca opposite the great Humphrey Bogart in 1942.

Ingrid chose her roles well. In 1943 she was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943). Her role of Paula Alquist got her the Oscar for Best Actress. In 1945 Ingrid played in Spellbound (1945), Saratoga Trunk (1945) and The Bells of St. Mary's (1945). She had a fourth nomination for Joan of Arc (1948). Her title role in Anastasia (1956)  won for her second Academy Award.  Her final big-screen performance was in 1978's Autumn Sonata (1978). For this role,  she had her final Academy Award nomination. She gave an outstanding performance in the mini-series A Woman Called Golda (1982) (TV), a film about Israeli prime minister Golda Meir. For this she won an Emmy Award as Best Actress.  Ingrid Bergman died from cancer on August 29, 1982, her 67th birthday, in London, England.



Oscar for Best Supporting Actress 1975

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Best Actress for Anastasia in 1957

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Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Halle Berry - Biography and Interviews Videos




Halle first came into the spotlight at seventeen years when she won the Miss Teen All-American Pageant, representing the state of Ohio in 1985 and, a year later in 1986, when she was the first runner-up in the Miss U.S.A. Pageant.


Her role as a crack addict in Spike Lee's Jungle Fever (1991) provided her big screen breakthrough. The following year, she was cast as Eddie Murphy's love interest in Boomerang (1992). In 1994, she acted  in The Flintstones. She next had a highly publicized costarring role with Jessica Lange in the adoption drama Losing Isaiah (1995).  In 1998, she received critical success when she starred as a street smart young woman who takes up with a struggling politician in Warren Beatty's Bulworth.  In 2000, she received box office success in X-Men (2000) in which she played "Storm", a mutant who has the ability to control the weather.

She appeared as Leticia Musgrove, the troubled wife of an executed murderer  in the 2001 feature film Monster's Ball. Her performance won the Oscar for best-actress. She became the first African-American to win the Academy Award for Best Actress.


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Monday, April 8, 2013

Glenn Close - Biography and Interview Videos



Birth: 19 March 1947

Her first film role was in The World According to Garp (1982). She acted further in The Big Chill (1983), and The Natural (1984). All three earned her nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in Fatal Attraction (1987), Dangerous Liaisons (1988), and Albert Nobbs (2011) also. Thus, Close is a six-time Academy Award nominee, tying the record for being the actress with the most nominations never to have won (along with Deborah Kerr and Thelma Ritter). Her work has earned her three Tonys, an Obie, three Emmys, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

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Receiving Hollywood Career Award
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Sunday, April 7, 2013

19 March - English Films History



Birthdays

1936 Ursula Andress
1947 Glenn Close
1955 Bruce Willis

7 April - English Films History



Birthdays

1939 - Francis Ford Coppola
1954 - Jackie Chan
1964 - Russell Crowe

Film Releases


2006 - On a Clear Day -  The Benchwarmers - Take the Lead - Phat Girlz - Friends With Money

Saturday, April 6, 2013

Fefe Dobson - Biography and Interview Videos


She is a Canadian song writer and recording artist.

Birthday:  28 February 1985

Acted in films

Christmas in Compton (2012)

Home Again (2012)

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Friday, April 5, 2013

Elizabeth Taylor - Biography and Interview Videos


Date of Birth: 27 February 1932






A family friend noticed little Elizabeth and suggested that she be taken for a screen test. Her screen test impressed executives at Universal Pictures and she acted in There's One Born Every Minute (1942),    when she was ten. The first production she made with MGM studio was Lassie Come Home (1943).  She had minuscule parts in her next two films, The White Cliffs of Dover (1944) and Jane Eyre (1943) Then came the picture that made Elizabeth a star: MGM's National Velvet (1944). She played Velvet Brown opposite Mickey Rooney. The film was a smash hit.  Elizabeth was given a long-term contract with MGM and was its top child star. In 1946, she acted in Courage of Lassie (1946). In 1947, when she was 15, she starred in Life with Father (1947) with such heavyweights as William Powell, Irene Dunne and Zasu Pitts.

 Her busiest year was 1954, with roles in Rhapsody (1954), Beau Brummell (1954), The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954) and Elephant Walk (1954). She was 22 now, and even at that young age was considered one of the world's great beauties. In 1955 she appeared in the hit Giant (1956) with James Dean.

 The next year saw Elizabeth star in Raintree County (1957), an overblown epic made, partially, in Kentucky.  Elizabeth was nominated for an Academy Award for her portrayal of Southern belle Susanna Drake. . In 1958 Elizabeth starred as Maggie Pollitt in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958).

The film received rave reviews from the critics and Elizabeth was nominated again for an Academy Award for best actres. She was still a hot commodity in the film world, though. In 1959 she appeared in another mega-hit and received yet another Oscar nomination for Suddenly, Last Summer (1959).  Her Oscar drought ended in 1960 when she brought home the coveted statue for her flawless performance in Butterfield 8 (1960) as Gloria Wandrous, a call girl who is involved with a married man.

 In 1963 she starred in Cleopatra (1963), which was one of the most expensive productions up to that time--as was her salary, a whopping $1,000,000.

Elizabeth has top performance as  Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). Her performance as the loudmouthed, shrewish, unkempt Martha was easily her finest to date.

For this she would win her second Oscar and one that was more than well-deserved.


Elizabeth Taylor Remembered - ABC News 2011
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Elitzabeth Taylor Winning Oscar for "Butterfield 8" (1961)
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News of Death of Elizabeth Taylor 23 March 2011
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Thursday, April 4, 2013

Daniel Craig - Biography and Interview Videos




Daniel Craig acted as "James Bond" in Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008) and Skyfall (2012).

From the age of 6, Craig started acting in school plays.

At the age of 14, Craig played roles in "Oliver", "Romeo and Juliet" and "Cinderella" at Hilbre High School in West Kirby, Wirral, UK. He left Hilbre High at 16 to audition at the National Youth Theatre's (NYT) troupe on their tour in Manchester in 1984. He was accepted and moved down to London. There,  his stage debut was as "Agamemnon" in Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida".  Craig performed with NYT on tours to Valencia, Spain, and to Moscow, Russia. In 1988, he entered the Guildhall School of Music and Drama at the Barbican.  He graduated in 1991.   Daniel Craig made his film debut in The Power of One (1992).  He shot to international fame after playing supporting roles in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and Road to Perdition (2002). He was nominated for his performances in the leading role in Layer Cake (2004), and received other awards and nominations. Craig was named as the sixth actor to portray "James Bond", in October of 2005.

He is the first blonde actor to play Bond.  Four of the past Bond actors: Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan have indicated that Craig is a good choice as "Bond".


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Daniel Craig on Hunger TV
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