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- Sylvia Sidney was born in The Bronx, New York City, on August 8, 1910 as Sophia Kosow to Jewish parents. Her father was born in Russia and her mother was born in Romania. They divorced not long after her birth. Her mother subsequently remarried and young Sophia was adopted by her stepfather, Sigmund Sidney.
A shy, only child, her parents tried to encourage her to be more outgoing and gregarious. As an early teen, Sophia (later Sylvia) had decided she wanted a stage career. While most parents would have looked down on such an announcement, Sylvia was encouraged to pursue the dream she had made. She enrolled in the Theater Guild's School for Acting. Sylvia later admitted that when she decided to become a stage actress at 15, it wasn't being star struck that occurred to her, but the expression of beauty that encompassed acting. All she wanted was to be identified with good productions.
One school production was held at a Broadway theater and in the audience there was a critic from the New York Times who had nothing but rave reviews for the young woman. On the strength of her performance in New York, she appeared onstage in Washington, D.C. Further stage productions followed, each better than the last and it wasn't long before the film moguls were at the doorstep. She was appearing in the stage production of "Crime" when she made her first appearance on the silver screen in 1927. The film in question was Broadway Nights (1927) which dealt with stage personalities of which Sylvia, despite her extremely tender age, was one. After the film she returned to the stage where she appeared in creations which were, for the most part, forgettable. She moved to Colorado to tour with a stock company. She later returned to Broadway for a series of other plays. By 1929, she was on the big screen with Thru Different Eyes (1929) as Valerie Briand. This was followed by a short film, Five Minutes from the Station (1930). Sylvia Sidney was slowly leaving the stage for the production studios of Paramount.
1931 saw her appear in five films, one of which, City Streets (1931), made her a star. Aware that she was replacing the great Clara Bow, who was suffering from severe and debilitating health issues, mainly depression. The contrast between the two actresses was great but the movie was a hit. The sad-eyed Sylvia made a tremendous impact and her screen career was off a running. Her next film was Ladies of the Big House (1931) as Kathleen Storm McNeil, part of a couple framed for a murder they didn't commit. The film made huge profits at the box-office. She then made Merrily We Go to Hell (1932), appearing opposite Fredric March. The film was an unqualified success. Later, in Madame Butterfly (1932), she starred as the doomed geisha girl (Cho-Cho San); critics agreed that only her performance saved the film from being a total disaster.
In 1933, she starred in the title role in Jennie Gerhardt (1933). Yet another doom and gloom picture, she played a girl beset with poverty and the death of her young husband before the birth of their child. Sidney received the star spotlight in Good Dame (1934). Despite her fine performance, the film failed at the box-office. She scored big with the film critics as the lead female in Mary Burns, Fugitive (1935), a restaurant owner who falls for a big time gangster. Her performance was overshadowed by Alan Baxter, who gave an outstanding portrayal as the gangster. That film was quickly followed by "Accent On Youth", in which she played Linda Brown, a young lady fascinated by older men. In 1938, Sidney played in "You and Me", opposite George Raft. The film critics gave it mixed reviews but it did not fare well at the box-office. Afterward, the roles began to dissipate. She filmed ...One Third of a Nation... (1939) and would not be seen again onscreen until The Wagons Roll at Night (1941). There was a four year hiatus before Blood on the Sun (1945), opposite James Cagney.
In 1946, she starred in The Searching Wind (1946) as Cassie Bowman. The film was based on a Broadway play but it just didn't transfer well onto the big screen. It was widely considered to be too serious and flopped with the movie fans. After Love from a Stranger (1947), she didn't appear onscreen again until Les Miserables (1952), as "Fantine". Only three more films followed that decade. There were no films throughout the 1960s. After appearing in a made-for-television movie, she returned to the big screen in Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973), playing the mother of the character played by Oscar-winning actress Joanne Woodward. For her performance, Sidney received her only Oscar nomination, losing to another actress who also only received one Oscar nomination in her lifetime, Tatum O'Neal (Paper Moon (1973)). O'Neal was 10 years old when she accepted the award.
Aside from a few more supporting role film appearances strewn here and there, Sidney mostly appeared on television thereafter. In 1988, she appeared as Juno in Tim Burton 's hit film Beetlejuice (1988). Her last film for the big screen was Mars Attacks! (1996) as the unlikely heroine whose taste in music saves Earth from an exceptionally brutal Martian victory. She had been seriously injured after being hit by a car but director Burton waited for her to be able to appear (in a wheelchair) rather than recast the role. In 1998, she played Clia, the irritable elderly travel agency clerk, who appeared (along with Fyvush Finkel) at the beginning of every episode of Fantasy Island (1998), the short-lived black-humored reboot of the iconic 1970s series of the same name.
A lifelong heavy smoker, Sidney died on July 1, 1999, aged 88, of throat cancer.*[Red]cinememorial.com : [Green](Profession : Actrice américaine Date et lieu de naissance :308-08-1910, à New York, dans le Bronx, États-Unis)/Green] /Red][Link=http://cinememorial.com/Acteur_detail.php?id=1327] [SYLVIA SIDNEY] [/link][Purple] (Date et lieu du décès : 01-07-1999, à New York City, New York, États-Unis. Cause du décès : De complications rénales à l'âge de 88 ans.) /Purple]
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OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green](Sabotage)/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028212/] [Sabotage (1936)] [/link][Purple] (I Married a Murderer (USA) (reissue title), Sabotage (USA) , The Hidden Power , The Woman Alone (USA), Agent secret ) /Purple]
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Celeste Holm was an only child, born into a home where her mother was a painter and her father worked in insurance. She would study acting at the University of Chicago and make her stage debut in 1936. Her Broadway debut came when she was 19 in 'The Time of Your Life'. She appeared in many successful plays, including "The Women", "Oklahoma!" and "Bloomer Girl". It was in the production of "Oklahoma!" that Celeste would sing the showstopper, "I Cain't Say No". She was signed by 20th Century Fox in 1946 and appeared in her first film, Three Little Girls in Blue (1946). With her third film, Gentleman's Agreement (1947), she would win the Supporting Actress Oscar and a Golden Globe. Celeste would be nominated twice more for Academy Awards in the Come to the Stable (1949) and All About Eve (1950). But, Celeste was a star who loved the stage so she left Hollywood, only to return for two MGM musicals in the 1950s. They were The Tender Trap (1955) and High Society (1956). In addition to her stage career, Celeste appeared on television in her own series, Honestly, Celeste! (1954) and as a panelist on Who Pays? (1959). In 1970, Celeste returned to television series as the chaperone to the president's daughter on Nancy (1970). For the next two decades, she would appear on television in regular series, miniseries and movies. Celeste Holm died at age 95 of a heart attack on July 15, 2012.*
[Red]cinememorial.com : [Green]( Profession : Actrice et dame de théâtre américain. Date et lieu de naissance : 29-04-1917, à New York, État de New York, États-Unis. )/Green] /Red][Link=http://cinememorial.com/Acteur_detail.php?id=1314] [CELESTE HOLM] [/link][Purple] ( Date et lieu du décès : 15-07-2012, à New York, État de New York, États-Unis. Cause du décès : De cause naturelle à l'âge de 95 ans.
L'actrice avait remporté en 1947 l'Oscar du meilleur second rôle féminin pour le film d'Elia Kazan Gentleman's Agreement. Elle avait aussi joué dans High Society (1956). Elle avait été hospitalisée il y a une semaine, a indiqué sa nièce Amy Philipps, citée par la chaîne CNN. «Elle est morte paisiblement dans sa maison, dans son lit, entourée de son mari, des ses amis et sa famille», a-t-elle dit. Elle avait aussi obtenu une nomination aux Oscars en 1950 pour Come to the Stable, où elle jouait une religieuse française, ainsi qu'en 1951 pour son rôle dans All About Eve aux côtés de Bette Davis. L'actrice new-yorkaise avait débuté dans Hamlet de Shakespeare et a décroché son premier grand rôle à Broadway en 1940, avec Gene Kelly. ...) /Purple]
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Actress/dramatic teacher Maude Fealy, the daughter of actress Margaret Fealy, was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on March 3, 1881. Maude made her acting debut at three years of age in one of her mother's productions, "Faust". She was quite successful over the next few years, appearing in productions all over the US and Canada. In 1901 she toured England and was rumored to be engaged to actor William Gillette, but she denied the story and there was never any marriage. In 1907 she married a young Englishman, Louis Sherwin, who was a drama critic for a Denver newspaper. However, her parents were dead set against the marriage and took every opportunity to break it up. They eventually succeeded, and the couple divorced in 1909. Later that year she married an actor, James Durkin, who was more acceptable to her parents. The couple later formed the Fealy-Durkin Stock Co., a traveling acting troupe.
She agreed to make films with the Thanhouser Co. in 1911, and appeared in a few films in between her stage work. In 1913 she signed a three-year contract with the studio, appearing in such films as Moths (1913) and The Legend of Provence (1913). Her husband was hired by Thanhouser as a director. However, both she and Durkin left the company in 1914, before her contract ended, and they returned to the stage. In 1916 she appeared in The Immortal Flame (1916) for low-budget Ivan Films. In December of that year she signed with Jesse Lasky Picture Co., and stayed with them for a year. She then returned to the stage, starting her own stock company in Denver, Colorado, and touring the US in various productions well into the 1920s.
In the 1930s she returned to Hollywood and resumed her friendship with director Cecil B. DeMille, with whom she had worked when De Mille was a stage actor. He, in turn, gave her parts in many of his films. She stayed in Hollywood until the early 1940s, when she returned to Denver and began an acting school. Later she returned to Hollywood and opened an acting school there (Nanette Fabray was one of her students). She still made occasional appearances in films, mainly those of her friend De Mille (The Ten Commandments (1956) was one of them).
In 1957 she finally retired and moved back to Denver, but still kept her hand in the theater, appearing in the occasional play and lecturing at a local college.
She died on November 8, 1971, at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California, where she had been getting treatment for arteriosclerosis. Her funeral and burial expenses were paid by her longtime friend, Cecil B. De Mille. When he died in 1959, he left a provision in his will for her funeral expenses when they were needed.*
[Red]cinememorial.com : [Green]( Profession : Actrice et scénariste américaine. Date et lieu de naissance : 04-03-1883, à Memphis, Tennessee, États-Unis.)/Green] /Red][Link=http://cinememorial.com/Acteur_detail.php?id=1315] [MAUDE FEALY] [/link][Purple] ( Date et lieu du décès : 09-11-1971, à Woodland Hills, Californie, États-Unis. Cause du décès : Décédée juste après son hospitalitation à l'âge de 88 ans.
Elle est décédée le 8 Novembre 1971, à Motion Picture Country Home à Woodland Hills, en Californie, où elle avait reçu des traitements pour l'artériosclérose. Ses funérailles et les frais d'inhumation ont été payés par son ami de longue date, de Cecil B. De Mille , Il était décédé en 1959 mais a laissé une disposition de son bien pour de telles dépenses pour elle, quand c'étaient nécessaires. Sa dernière apparition pour le grand écran remonte en 1958 dans le film : Les Boucaniers. ) /Purple]
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OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green]/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036855/] [Gaslight (1944)] [/link][Purple] (Hantise) /Purple]- Tsilla Chelton was born on 21 June 1919 in Jerusalem, Palestine [now Israel]. She was an actress, known for Auntie Danielle (1990), Pandora'nin Kutusu (2008) and The Musketeer (2001). She was married to Jacques Noël. She died on 15 July 2012 in Brussels, Belgium.*
[Red]cinememorial.com : [Green]( Profession : Actrice et dame de théâtre français. Date et lieu de naissance : 21-06-1918, à Jérusalem, Israël )/Green] /Red][Link=http://cinememorial.com/Acteur_detail.php?id=1316] [TSILLA CHELTON] [/link][Purple] ( Date et lieu du décès : 15-07-2012, à Près de Bruxelles, Belgique. Cause du décès : De cause naturelle à l'âge de 94 ans.
Fille de parents français d'origine juive, elle perd sa mère à l'âge de six ans et suit son père à Anvers. Durant la guerre, elle quitte la Belgique pour la Suisse. Elle s'installe à Paris à la Libération. Comédienne dont la carrière se déroula essentiellement au théâtre, elle fut notamment l'interprète de onze pièces du répertoire d'Eugène Ionesco, elle décroche le Molière de la meilleure comédienne en 1994 pour son rôle dans la pièce "Les chaises" d'Eugène Ionesco. Elle enseigne l'art dramatique dès le début des années 1960 et compte notamment parmi ses élèves Gérard Jugnot, Michel Blanc, Christian Clavier, Marie-Anne Chazel ou Thierry Lhermitte. 1989 est pour elle l'année de la consécration pour la comédie, encore mal connue du public. Son inoubliable interprétation du rôle-titre du film d'Etienne Chatiliez Tatie Danielle lui apporte la célébrité. Elle y incarne une grand-mère acâriatre et insupportable, véritable cauchemar pour toute sa famille. En 2004, elle enchaine les films et téléfilms, et tourne avec Marie Gillain et Julien Boisselier dans Tout le plaisir est pour moi une comédie épicée sur l'accès au plaisir sexuel. Tsilla joue ensuite dans Zone libre, apprend le turque pour jouer dans La boîte de Pandore avant de faire une apparition dans le biopic consacré à Soeur Sourire avec Cécile de France dans le rôle titre. ... ) /Purple]
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Ann Rutherford was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The daughter of a former Metropolitan Opera singer, John Rutherford, and her actress mother, Lillian Mansfield, was destined for show business.
Not long after her birth, her family moved to California, where she made her stage debut in 1925.
Ann appeared in many plays and on radio for the next nine years before making her first screen appearance in Waterfront Lady (1935).
Ann's talent was readily apparent, and she was signed to three films in 1935: Waterfront Lady (1935), Melody Trail (1935), and The Fighting Marines (1935).
By now, she was a leading lady in the fabled Westerns with two legends, John Wayne and Gene Autry.
By the time Ann was 17, she inked a deal with MGM, where she would gain star status for her portrayal of "Polly Benedict" in the popular "Andy Hardy" series with Mickey Rooney. Ann's first role as "Polly" was in 1938, in You're Only Young Once (1937).
Three more Hardy films were produced that same year: Out West with the Hardys (1938), Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938), and Judge Hardy's Children (1938).
Ann found time to play in other productions, too. One that is still loved today is the Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol (1938), in which she played the sweet role of the Spirit of Christmas Past.
In 1939, Ann played the role of "Annie Hawks" in Of Human Hearts (1938) in addition to three more Andy Hardy films.
That year also saw Ann land a role in the most popular film in film history. She played "Careen O'Hara," Scarlett's little sister, in Gone with the Wind (1939). Plenty of fans of the Andy Hardy series went to see it just for Ann. The film was unquestionably a super hit.
She then resumed making other movies. While working for MGM, Ann, along with the other stars, was under the watchful eye of movie mogul Louis B. Mayer.
Mayer was no different from any other film tycoon except for the fact that he ran the classiest studio in Hollywood. The bottom line was profit, and Mayer couldn't really maximize profits unless he kept performers' salaries minimized as much as possible. Most tried to get raises and failed. Even Mickey Rooney was decidedly underpaid during his glory years at MGM.
But not Ann Rutherford. When she asked for a raise, she took out her bankbook and, showing him the amount it contained, and told Mayer she had promised her mother a new house. Ann got her raise.
In 1942 at the age of 22, Ann appeared in her last Andy Hardy film, Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942).
She then left MGM and freelanced her talent. Ann was still in demand.
In 1943, she appeared in Happy Land (1943), but it was a little later in her career when she appeared in two big hits.
In 1947, she played Gertrude Griswold in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) and Donna Elena in Adventures of Don Juan (1948) in 1948.
After that, Ann appeared in several TV programs and didn't return to the silver screen until 1972, in They Only Kill Their Masters (1972).
Her last role came in 1976 in the dismal Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976), whereupon she retired.
Ann was approached to play the older Rose in 1998's mega hit Titanic (1997) but turned it down.
She happily enjoyed her retirement being constantly deluged with fan mail and granting several interviews and appearances.
She died at her Beverly Hills home on June 11, 2012 with her close friend Anne Jeffreys by her side. She was 94 years old.*
[Red]cinememorial.com : [Green](Profession : Actrice canadienne. Date et lieu de naissance : 02-11-1917, à Toronto, Canada)/Green] /Red][Link=http://cinememorial.com/Acteur_detail.php?id=1305] [ANN RUTHERFORD] [/link][Purple] (Date et lieu du décès : 11-06-2012, à Beverly Hills, Californie, États-Unis. Cause du décès : Probablement de cause naturelle à l'âge de 91 ans.
PS : Elle incarnait la soeur de Scarlett O'Hara dans "Autant en emporte le vent", sorti en 1939.) /Purple]
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OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green]/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031381/] [Autant en emporte le vent (1939)] [/link][Purple] (Gone with the Wind) /Purple]- Actress
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A bizarre, gloriously one-of-a-kind Hollywood gypsy and self-affirmed outcast, San Francisco-born actress Susan Tyrrell (born Susan Jillian Creamer) was a teenager when she made her stage debut in "Time Out for Ginger" in 1962. A product of the entertainment industry, her father was a top agent at one time with the William Morris firm. She built up her resumé in summer stock and regional plays usually cast in standard ingénue roles. Her nascent career took an abrupt shift in direction, however, when, as a member of New York's Lincoln Repertory Company, she was cast in an array of seamy, salty-tongued, highly dysfunctional character parts. After striking performances on and off Broadway in such fare as "The Rimers of Eldritch" (1967), "A Cry of Players" (1968), "The Time of Your Life" (1969) and "Camino Real" (1970) Hollywood took keen notice of this special talent and, in the early 1970s, began to cast her in their more offbeat projects.
In only her fourth film, Susan earned an Academy Award nomination for her powerhouse portrayal of a cynical, low-life boozer girlfriend opposite Stacy Keach's has-been boxer in John Huston's potent but highly depressing Fat City (1972). Pulling out all the stops after this, she continued to show her fearless attraction toward the dark side throughout the late 1970s with flashy roles in lesser quality material such as The Killer Inside Me (1976), Andy Warhol's Bad (1977), Islands in the Stream (1977), I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (1977), and September 30, 1955 (1977) as various harridans and grotesques. The 1980s proved no different with manic behavior on full display in Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981), Forbidden Zone (1980), Liar's Moon (1981), Fast-Walking (1982), Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker (1981), Big Top Pee-wee (1988) and underground director John Waters' more mainstream film Cry-Baby (1990), many of which have now achieved cult status.
Toned down a bit for TV, she nevertheless demonstrated in both the one-season series Open All Night (1981) and on MacGruder and Loud (1985) that she wasn't about to change. When her TV and movie career started to simmer down, the Los Angeles-based actress opted for the avant-garde stage with such productions as "Why Hannah's Skirt Won't Stay Down" (1986), "Landscape of the Body" (1987), "The Geography of Luck" (1989) and her trenchant one-woman piece "My Rotten Life: A Bitter Operetta" (1989), which she performed over a long period of time.
Real-life tragedy struck in late April of 2000 when Susan contracted a near-fatal illness. Both of her legs had to be amputated below the knee as a result of multiple blood clots due to a rare blood disease -- thrombocythemia. Never say die, she valiantly tried to maintain a positive outlook, and continued to perform on occasion while going through rehabilitation. She also spent time writing and painting before passing away on June 16, 2012. A wild, boisterous trooper, she was the definitive underground raconteur for those who desired the more sordid side of Hollywood.*
[Red]cinememorial.com : [Green](Profession : Actrice américaine. Date et lieu de naissance : 19-03-1945, à San Francisco, Californie, États-Unis. )/Green] /Red][Link=http://cinememorial.com/Acteur_detail.php?id=1307] [SUSAN TYRRELL] [/link][Purple] ( Date et lieu du décès : 16-06-2012, à ?? Cause du décès : Probablement de cause naturelle à l'âge de 67 ans.
PS : Elle contracte une maladie rare du sang la "Thrombocytémie essentielle" qui l'a conduit à l'amputation des ces deux jambes en 2000, mais elle a continué à travailler jusqu'à sa mort en 2012.) /Purple]
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NO- Kathryn is best known for her portrayals of "Karen McCluskey" on Desperate Housewives (2004) on ABC and of "Mrs. Landingham", secretary to the President (Martin Sheen), on the critically-acclaimed NBC drama, The West Wing (1999). She has also recurred on Dharma & Greg (1997), and guest-starred on many hit television series, such as Becker (1998), Arli$$ (1996), Ally McBeal (1997), Providence (1999), Scrubs (2001) and over twenty other prime-time shows. Kathryn will also be seen later this year on ABC's daytime drama, General Hospital (1963). Her credits are impressive for any actor, let alone one that only began the craft at age 42.
Although only put into action well into her middle years, Kathryn's dream began in her twenties, when her mother died of cancer in 1963. While dying in the hospital, her mother shared that her biggest regret was not following her dreams. Kathryn vowed, at that moment, that she would someday pursue her own dream of acting.
At the time, she was entering into a new career as a psychiatric nurse in a medium security wing for disturbed teenagers. Through that job, she met and married a psychiatrist, gave birth to two boys and settled down as a suburban housewife in Lake Forest, Illinois, a well-to-do suburb of Chicago. But Kathryn never forgot her dream of acting, something that she never had time to pursue in-between caring for her children and husband. In 1980, her husband's alcoholism led Kathryn to a divorce and a difficult situation; a single mother with two young sons. Rather than lose hope, she took the opportunity to change her life forever and follow her lost dream.
Kathryn took classes at Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago and performed at community theaters all over Northern Illinois. By day, she supported her family hanging wallpaper and painting the mansions of Lake Forest, working as a sales person for a Welcome Wagon company and using her contacts to book film and print locations in the houses she was painting. By night, Kathryn was improving her skills and moving from community theater to semi-professional theater. Her first break was in 1991. Disney held a cattle call for street performers for Disney World. After standing in line for five hours, Kathryn got the part and moved shop to Orlando, Florida. Though she was living behind an adult arcade in the "tourist unfriendly" part of Buena Vista, Kathryn was finally earning her living through performance and loving it. The part only lasted for a year and, once again, Kathryn was forced to supplement her acting income with other work -- bar-tending and catering during the day, theater at night. Though the acting gig was over, the move to Florida proved one thing to Kathryn...she had the talent to make it as an actor. She did it once and she could do it again. Unfortunately, it took her two and half years to realize it wouldn't happen in central Florida.
In December 1995, Kathryn again packed a truck and drove to Hollywood. Although she didn't have an agent and had no contacts, Kathryn never hesitated following her dream. In only five months, she landed her first part...two lines in Family Matters (1989). In the six years since then, she has appeared in over a dozen plays, six movies, eleven national television commercials, two pilots, ten drama series and over twenty sitcoms. From her many roles, Kathryn is recognized as one of Murphy Brown (1988)'s secretaries, Frasier (1993)'s agent's mother and the bingo buddy to Drew Carey's girlfriend, on The Drew Carey Show (1995). But it is her portrayal of "Mrs. Landingham", the foil, friend and secretary to Martin Sheen's "President Bartlet" on The West Wing (1999) that propelled her into the spotlight she truly deserves. She followed that up with her last huge roll as Karen McCluskey for 8 seasons on ABC's Desperate Housewives (2004), which won her two Emmy awards. Joosten made a guest appearance on CBS daytime soap The Bold and the Beautiful as part of the show's 6000th episode, which featured several other real-life lung cancer survivors discussing their experiences. She was named the national spokesperson for the Lung Cancer Profiles campaign on behalf of Pfizer. Joosten died of lung cancer on the morning of June 2, 2012. Her death happened 20 days after the onscreen death of her character Karen McCluskey on the final episode of Desperate Housewives. The hit show ended its eight-year run on ABC last month with a series finale in which Joosten's character passed away. Her character's battle with brain cancer was a story line in the show.*
[Red]cinememorial.com : [Green](Profession : Actrice américaine. Date et lieu de naissance : 20-12-1939, à Eustis, Floride, États-Unis. )/Green] /Red][Link=http://cinememorial.com/Acteur_detail.php?id=1304] [KATHRYN JOOSTEN] [/link][Purple] ( Date et lieu du décès : 02-06-2012, à Westlake Village, Californie, États-Unis. Cause du décès : D'un cancer du poumon à l'âge de 72 ans.) /Purple]
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Kay Francis is possibly the biggest of the 'forgotten stars' from Hollywood's Golden Era. Yet, for a while in the 1930s she ranked as one of America's most popular actresses, tagged the 'Queen of Warner Brothers'. By 1935, she earned a yearly salary of $115,000 (compared to Bette Davis with $18,000). The daughter of actress Katherine Clinton and businessman Joseph Gibbs, Kay did not start her working life in show business but sold real estate and arranged extravagant parties for wealthy socialites. Following her marriage in 1922 to James Dwight Francis, the son of a moneyed family, Kay adopted the surname Francis. Her first acting job was in a modernized 1925 version of 'Hamlet' (as the Player Queen), performing as 'Katharine Francis'. She then played Marjorie Grey in the melodrama "Crime" (1927) and appeared in the Ring Lardner play "Elmer the Great" (1928), produced by George M. Cohan and starring Walter Huston as Elmer Kane. On the strength of her stage work, Kay was screen-tested by Paramount and subsequently offered a contract (1929-31). A brief affair with writer/director Edmund Goulding (some time around April 1928) may also have been a contributing factor.
She had a bit in the first Marx Brothers outing, The Cocoanuts (1929), and then graduated to playing sophisticated seductresses opposite stars like William Powell and Ronald Colman. She appeared in the Lubitsch comedy Trouble in Paradise (1932), though being unhappy about being billed below Miriam Hopkins in the picture. One of her best early films was the comedy/drama One Way Passage (1932), in which Kay portrayed a gravely-ill baroness opposite Powell's gentleman burglar. This doomed romance, interlaced with witty dialogue, was described by a reviewer as 'spilled cocktail and love at first sight'.
Paramount, at the time well-stocked with female stars but experiencing financial problems, decided to let Kay move to Warner Brothers. There she would remain for the rest of the decade. A tall, attractive, gray-eyed brunette with undeniable style and poise, she soon acquired a reputation as Hollywood's 'best dressed woman', wearing the most glamorous gowns designed by great studio costumers like Orry-Kelly, Travis Banton and Adrian. Female audiences, in particular, often flocked to see Kay Francis pictures simply to appreciate her sumptuous wardrobe. For her part, Kay spent a lot of time and effort on collaborative efforts with costume designers to select the right clothes for the parts she played. Dorothy Jeakins believed, that Kay possessed an 'innate sense of style'.
By the mid-1930s, Kay earned $5,250 per week and was voted by Variety as Hollywood's sixth most popular star. Numerous magazine articles were written about every detail of her life in and off the studio lot. She had major hits with I Found Stella Parish (1935) and Confession (1937), both excellent money-spinners for the studio. While much was made at the time (and since) of her famous lisp, this had not hitherto been a significant detriment to Kay's career. At least, not until her falling out with the studio executives who thought her salary too excessive. The tight control the studio exercised over the roles she played on screen caused her to file a lawsuit against Warner Brothers in an effort to escape her contract. It had all started to go wrong for her when she was assigned the role of 'women's picture star', effectively typecasting her in sentimental melodramas, earnest biopics (The White Angel (1936), and three-handkerchief tearjerkers like My Bill (1938), her script filled with Rs and Ls as chastisement for bucking the system. Though she still managed to give several good performances, the writing was now on the wall. By the end of the decade, the 'Queen of Warner Brothers' mantle had passed on to Bette Davis.
During the mid-1940s, Kay co-produced several B-movies as vehicles for herself at Monogram, then made a brief return to stage work, acting in summer stock before retiring permanently in 1952. She spent the remainder of her life in virtual seclusion in New York and in her estate near Falmouth, Cape Cod. She left some of her estate (in excess of one million dollars) to an organization training guide dogs for the blind, Seeing Eye Inc. Her surviving personal papers are accessible at the Wesleyan University Cinema Archives.*
[Red]cinememorial.com : [Green](Date et lieu de naissance : 13-01-1905, à Oklahoma City, dans l'état d'Oklahoma, États-Unis.)/Green] /Red][Link=http://cinememorial.com/Acteur_detail.php?id=1256/] KAY FRANCIS [/link][Purple] (Date et lieu du décès : 26-08-1968, à New York, dans l'état de New York, États-Unis.) /Purple]
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[Red]operator_99.blogspot.be : [Green](Kay Francis was a "superstar". While not as readily known today as other superstar actresses of the 30's era, her name was box office gold and she was the highest paid actress at Warner Bros. There are a number of web sites and blogs dedicated to her, detailing her life and films, and I leave it to them to provide the career details...)/Green] /Red][Link=http://operator_99.blogspot.be/search?q=kay+francis] [Allure: Search results for kay francis] [/link][Purple] /Purple]
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[Red]lumiere2009.org : [Green](Kay Francis, mégastar oubliée)/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.lumiere2009.org/fr/emotion-picture/kay-francis.html] [Festival Lumière - Kay Francis, mégastar oubliée] [/link][Purple] /Purple]
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OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green]/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0028310/] [Stolen Holiday (1937)] [/link][Purple] /Purple]- Actress
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Janet began her stage career, right out of high school, at the legendary Kansas City Starlight Theatre, appearing in many many musicals including: "Hello Dolly", "Guys and Dolls"," Mame", "Gypsy", "South Pacific", "Pajama Game", "Carousel" and many others. Janet continued her stage work in California for many years, starring opposite Cloris Leachman in "A Couple of White Chicks", starred with Lynn Redgrave and John Lithgow in "Lady Windemere's Fan", among other productions. Janet made her Broadway debut in "Little Women", alongside Sutton Foster and Maureen McGovern.
Her big break in films came when she was cast as Tom Cruise's mother in Risky Business (1983). From there, she went on to star in numerous films, working almost non-stop till last year. Her films include: Family Business (1989), Memories of Me (1988), Forces of Nature (1999), The Killing Time (1987), Enough (2002), Talent for the Game (1991), "My Guaranteed Student Loan", among many others. Her television career was just as busy, with recurring roles or lead roles in: The Bronx Zoo (1987), Murphy Brown (1988), Melrose Place (1992), Married... with Children (1987), Bonnie (1995), and guest appearances on: Brothers & Sisters (2006), Scrubs (2001), Designing Women (1986), 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996), Mary (1985), etc. Her co- stars includes such luminaries as: Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman, Celeste Holm, Jennifer Lopez, Sandra Bullock, Billy Crystal, Alan King, Ben Affleck, Mary Tyler Moore, Edward Asner, Brad Pitt, Matthew Broderick, Billy Campbell, Lorraine Bracco and Edward James Olmos, to name a few.
Janet won the coveted Los Angeles Drama Logue Critics Award for outstanding achievement in theatre for Ezra Pound's "Electra". For eight years, she was the Artistic Director of The Jazz Series at The Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center, Janet was the co-founder of "The Victory Ball" in Westport CT, annually benefiting ALS Foundation(Lou Gehrig's Disease). She served on the Executive Board of Directors of Ginny Mancini's "Society of Singers" as VP of Development.
Her ashes will be spread in the Edgebrook Lutheran Church Memorial Garden in Chicago, Illinois, in a ceremony to be determined at a later date.[Red]cinememorial.com : [Green]( Profession : Actrice américaine. Date et lieu de naissance : 24-12-1940, à Chicago, Illinois. États-Unis.
Née à Chicago en 1940, Janet Carroll est morte mardi 22 mai à New York des suites d'une longue maladie, selon le magazine Variety. Elle commence sa carrière dès la sortie du lycée, dans de nombreuses pièces de théâtre et comédies musicales. En 1983, elle fait ses débuts sur grand écran au côté de Tom Cruise dans Risky Business. Après ce film, Janet Carroll enchaîne avec de nombreux longs métrages comme Family Business (avec Sean Connery en 1989), mais c'est à la télévision qu'elle travaille le plus. On la croise dans les séries cultes Melrose Place, Beverly Hills, Mariés deux enfants, Les Craquantes (Golden Girls), 21 Jump Street, Ally McBeal et plus récemment dans Scrubs et Brothers and Sisters.
Un hommage en son honneur est organisé samedi dans une église luthérienne de Manhattan. Ses cendres seront ensuite dispersées à Chicago, où reposent ses parents. Janet Carroll avait un fils.
)/Green] /Red][Link=http://cinememorial.com/Acteur_detail.php?id=1302] [JANET CARROLL] [/link][Purple] ( Date et lieu du décès : 22-05-2012, à New York, New York, États-Unis. Cause du décès : Probablement de cause naturelle à l'age de 71 ans. ) /Purple]
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Catherine Jourdan was born on 12 October 1948 in Azay-le-Rideau, Indre-et-Loire, France. She was an actress, known for The Samurai (1967), The Leatherstocking Tales (1969) and Vortex (1976). She died on 18 February 2011 in Paris, France.[Red]cinememorial.com : [Green]( Profession : Actrice et mannequin Française. Date et lieu de naissance : 12-10-1948, à Azay-le-Rideau, en Indre-et-Loire, France. ANECDOTES : Catherine Jourdan, physique longiligne, front large et regard provocateur à la Twiggy, est arrivée dans la capitale comme mannequin avant de se lancer devant les caméras.
De faux airs de Jean Seberg, un goût prononcé pour les films d’art et d’essai et les rayons X, la magnétique et troublante Catherine Jourdan a rendu l’âme.
)/Green] /Red][Link=http://cinememorial.com/Acteur_detail.php?id=1303] [CATHERINE JOURDAN] [/link][Purple] ( Date et lieu du décès : 18-02-2011, à Paris, France (inhumée jeudi 24 février 2011 au Père Lachaise.) Cause du décès : D'une embolie pulmonaire à l'âge de 62 ans. ) /Purple]
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NO- Claire Mafféi was born on 11 October 1919 in Lyon, Rhône, France. She was an actress, known for Les dieux du dimanche (1949), Antoine & Antoinette (1947) and La plus belle des vies (1956). She died on 16 September 2004 in Brignais, Rhône, France.*
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OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green]/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039155/] Antoine et Antoinette (1947) [/link][Purple] /Purple]
OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green]/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053198/] Les quatre cents coups (1959) [/link][Purple] /Purple] - Monique Mélinand was born on 9 March 1916 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Adorable Sinner (1959), Le sang à la tête (1956) and Rencontres (1962). She was married to Jean Martinelli. She died on 16 May 2012 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France.[Red]cinememorial.com : [Green]( Profession : Actrice et comédienne de théâtre français. Date et lieu de naissance : 09-03-1916, à Paris dans le 6ème, France. Pour le cinéma, elle tournera plus d’une cinquantaine de films dont ressort une quinzaine d’entre eux. Elle est notamment la pianiste dans Lady Paname (1949); meurtrière esseulée dans Les anciens de Saint-Loup (1950) ; la mère injustement accusée d’assassinat dans La pocharde (1952) puis se démarque dans un film de mœurs, La mort de Belle (1960), où elle interprète l’épouse soupçonneuse, bouleversée par les accusations de meurtre envers son mari.
Par la suite, elle se contentera de seconds rôles durant les années 70 et en aura de convaincants dans quelques films de Raul Ruiz durant les années 90. Pour une de ses dernières prestations, elle jouera la gentille grand-mère du Cou de la girafe qui remonte à 2004.
Elle nous quitte à l’âge vénérable de 96 ans.
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Nathalie Nerval was born on 28 March 1926 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Le chevalier de Maison Rouge (1963), Madame Sans Gêne (1963) and Les plaisirs de l'île enchantée (1981). She died on 7 May 2012 in Paris, France.[Red]cinememorial.com : [Green](Date et lieu de naissance : 28-03-1926, à Paris, France. Date et lieu du décès : 07-05-2012, à Paris, France. )/Green] /Red][Link=http://cinememorial.com/Acteur_detail.php?id=1300/] [NATHALIE NERVAL] [/link][Purple] (SA BIOGRAPHIE
CineMemorial n'a, actuellement, pas de biographie, ni d'anecdotes de NATHALIE NERVAL. ) /Purple]
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Paris-born Josette Day debuted in films at the age of five, but soon returned to the stage, including a stint as a child dancer in the Paris Opera. She did not return to the screen until she was into her adulthood, and her career took off. She played leads in countless French films, but is probably best known for the role of Beauty in Jean Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast (1946) (French title: "La Belle et la Bête"). She had an affair with Marcel Pagnol. It is to be noted that several English-language sources stated that Day had married and divorced from director Marcel Pagnol; however French sources have discredited this claim. The French newspaper Le Monde ran a correction (on 2 July 1978) of her obituary, stating that the union of Josette Day and Marcel Pagnol "was never consecrated by a marriage." Day's career lasted until 1950 when she retired to marry Maurice Solvay, multi-millionaire Belgian industrialist and businessman, who was reported to be "one of the richest men in Europe" during his lifetime.*
[Red]cinememorial.com : [Green](Profession : Actrice et dame de théâtre français. Date et lieu de naissance : 31-07-1914, à Paris, France.)/Green] /Red][Link=http://cinememorial.com/Acteur_detail.php?id=1297] [JOSETTE DAY] [/link][Purple] (Date et lieu du décès : 29-06-1978, à Paris, France. Inhumée au Cimetière du Père Lachaise, Paris. Cause du décès : De cause inconnue à l'âge de 63 ans.) /Purple]
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[Red]fondation-daysolvay.fr : [Green](Josette Day fut une grande actrice du cinéma des années 40. Sa Mémoire est, en particulier immortalisée par son rôle dans « La Belle et la Bête » avec Jean Marais. Elle créa la Fondation Day Solvay en 1973 pour favoriser le développement des recherches réalisées par l’école de Jean Hamburger à l’Hôpital Necker.)/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.fondation-daysolvay.fr/la-fondation-josette-day-solvay] [La Fondation Josette Day Solvay – Fondation Day Solvay] [/link][Purple] /Purple]
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OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green]/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134281/] [Allo Berlin? Ici Paris! (1932)] [/link][Purple] /Purple]- Actress
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Damia was born on 5 December 1889 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for A Very Long Engagement (2004), La Vie En Rose (2007) and A Man's Head (1933). She died on 30 January 1978 in La Celle-Saint-Cloud, Yvelines, France.*
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Date et lieu de naissance : 05-12-1889, à Paris 13e, France.
Date et lieu du décès : 30-01-1978, à La Celle-Saint-Cloud, dans les Yvelines en France.
Elle est inhumée au cimetière de Pantin.)/Green] /Red][Link=http://cinememorial.com/Acteur_detail.php?id=1296/] [DAMIA] [/link][Purple] (Cause du décès : Suites a une chute accidentelle dans le métro à l'âge de 88 ans.) /Purple]
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Diane Cilento was an Australian actress from Queensland. She had partial Italian descent. She was once nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. For a theatrical role as Helen of Troy, Cilento was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play.
In 1932, Cilento was born in Brisbane, Queensland's state capital, to a relatively affluent family. Her maternal grandfather was the prominent merchant Charles Thomas McGlew (1870-1931), founder of the Liberty Motor Oil Company. Cliento's father was the medical practitioner Raphael "Ray" Cilento (1893-1985). He became famous as the director of the Australian Institute of Tropical Medicine, the director of the Commonwealth Government's Division of Tropical Hygiene, the Director-General of Health and Medical Services, the president of the Queensland's Medical Board, a high-ranking member of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, the Director for Refugees and Displaced Persons, and director of disaster relief in Palestine. Raphael spend much of his career combating malaria and other tropical diseases.
Cilento's mother was the medical practitioner and medical journalist Phyllis Cilento (née McGlew, 1894 - 1987). Phylis became famous for advocating family planning, contraception, and the legalization of abortion in Australia. She wrote many books on health matters. Her medical research involved the use of Vitamin E in therapy, and as a method for preventing blood clots.
Cilento was the fifth of six children born to her famous parents. Four or her siblings followed their parents' footsteps as medical practitioners. Cilento's most famous sibling was the professional painter and print-maker Margaret Cilento (1923-2006). Margaret's works are preserved in both the National Gallery of Victoria and the National Gallery of Australia.
Cilento was expelled from school while living in Australia. She then studied abroad, spending part of her school years in the U.S. state of New York. She decided to follow an acting career and won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), located in London. She settled in England during the early 1950s.
Following her graduation from RADA, Cilento started a career as a theatrical actress. She was eventually offered a five-year contract by the British film producer Alexander Korda (1893-1956), and took the offer. She started out with several small roles in film. Her first leading role was playing British governess Ruth Elton in the romantic drama "Passage Home" (1955). In the film, Elton rejects a marriage proposal from Captain Lucky Ryland (played by Peter Finch), who she barely knows. Ryland then tries to rape her. She eventually marries another man, but she is secretly in love with her would-be rapist.
During the late 1950s, Cilento found steady work in British films. She played the only woman in a love triangle in the circus-themed "The Woman for Joe" (1955). She played the between maid in the castaway-themed "The Admirable Crichton" (1957), an adaptation of a play by J. M. Barrie (1860-1937). She played a free-thinker in the romantic comedy "The Truth About Women" (1957),concerning the memories of an old man. She also had a role in the aviation disaster film "Jet Storm" (1959), in which a man has placed a bomb on a passenger airplane.
In the early 1960s, Cilento continued to have notable roles. She played the female lead Denise Colby in the psychological thriller "The Full Treatment" (1960). In the film Denise's husband struggles with mood swings and the dark impulse to kill his wife, which makes him fear for his sanity. The film was one of the murder-themed films produced by Hammer Film Productions.
Cilento played the supporting role of a murder suspect's wife in the thriller film "The Naked Edge" (1961). The film is mainly remembered as the last film role for protagonist Gary Cooper (1901-1961), who died of prostate cancer following the film's completion. Cilento played the murder victim Liane Dane in the crime film "I Thank a Fool" (1962), where a female doctor is suspected of killing her own patient.
Cilento played the most acclaimed role of her career as Molly Seagrim in the comedy film "Tom Jones" (1963), the title character's first love. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, but the award was instead won by rival actress Margaret Rutherford (1892 - 1972).
Cilento next played one of the murder suspects in the crime film "The Third Secret" (1964). In the film a well-known psychoanalyst is found murdered within his own residence, and a number of his patients are suspected of killing him. The main plot twist is that the victim was killed by someone much closer to him than his patients.
Cilento also played the prostitute Cyrenne in the comedy-drama film "Rattle of a Simple Man" (1964). The film concerns the efforts of 39-year-old virgin man to finally have sex. She next played the Italian noblewoman Contessina Antonia Romola de' Medici in the historical film "The Agony and the Ecstasy" (1965), a fictionalized version of the life of the artist Michelangelo (1475-1564). The film was critically acclaimed and nominated for awards, but under-performed at the box office. The struggling studio 20th Century Fox reportedly lost over 5 million dollars due to this box office flop.
Cilento had the supporting role of the caretaker Jessie in the revisionist Western film "Hombre" (1967). The film depicted the relations between the Apache and the white men in 19th-century Arizona. The film earned 12 million dollars in the worldwide box office, one of the greatest hits in its year for release.
Cilento's last film role in the 1960s was the photographer Reingard in the film "Negatives" (1968). The film concerned a couple who liked to role-play as part of their erotic fantasies, however they chose to play the role of famous murderer Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen (1862-1910) and his lover. This film is remembered as the directorial debut of Hungarian expatriate Peter Medak (1937-), who later had a lengthy career.
Cilento gained her first regular television role when cast as Lady Sarah Bellasize in the prison-themed television series "Rogues' Gallery" (1968-1969). It depicted life in the famous Newgate Prison (1188 -1902) of London during the 18th century. The series lasted 2 seasons and a total of 10 episodes.
Following a hiatus in her film career, Cilento returned in the dystopian science fiction film "Z.P.G." ( "Zero Population Growth", 1972). The film depicted a future Earth suffering from overpopulation and environmental destruction. The world's government has decreed than no new child must be born over the next 30 years, but a couple decide to illegally procreate. Cilento played the supporting role of Edna Borden. Borden offers to help conceal the new baby from the world, while she actually wants to keep it for herself. The film's was well received in its time, and lead actress Geraldine Chaplin (1944-) won an award for this role.
Cilento played the role of the famous German test pilot Hanna Reitsch (1912-1979) in the historical film "Hitler: The Last Ten Days". (1973) The film depicted the last few days in the life of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), based on the eye-witness account of Gerhard Boldt (1918 - 1981). The authenticity of the source book has since been questioned.
Cilento had a supporting role in the classic horror film "The Wicker Man" (1973), concerning a neo-pagan cult which practices Celtic paganism. The film was based on a novel by David Pinner (1940-). The film won the 1978 Saturn Award for Best Horror Film, and has often been listed among the best British films. It was one of the most acclaimed films of Cilento's career.
The lesser known film "The Tiger Lily" (1975) included Cilento's last film role in the 1970s. She gained another regular role in the television series "Tycoon" (1978), which only lasted a single season and a total of 13 episodes.
Her film career was in decline during the 1980s, and Cilento chose to return to her native Queensland. She settled in the small town of Mossman, named after the Mossman River which flows though it. She built the outdoor theater Karnak in the local rain-forest, which she operated for the rest of her life. She used the theater as a venue for experimental drama.
In 2001, Cilento was awarded with Australian's Centenary Medal for her services to theater. In 2007, Cilento published her autobiography "My Nine Lives". In her last years she was suffering from cancer. In 2011, she died due to this disease while hospitalized in the Cairns Base Hospital. The hospital was the largest major hospital in Far North Queensland. Cilento was 79-years-old at the time of her death.
Cilento was survived by her daughter Giovanna Volpe and her son Jason Connery (1963-), her only heirs. A collection of items from her personal estate was donated by her heirs to the Queensland University of Technology. The collection reportedly included "hundreds of books, memorabilia, posters, furniture". Also included were original scripts which Cilento had inherited from her last husband, the playwright Anthony Shaffer. Original scripts by both Cilento and Shaffer have been digitized, and made available to scholars through the University's digital collections.[Red]cinememorial.com : [Green](Date et lieu de naissance : 05-10-1933, à Brisbane, Queensland, Australie.)/Green] /Red][Link=http://cinememorial.com/Acteur_detail.php?id=1243/] DIANE CILENTO [/link][Purple] (Date et lieu du décès : 06-10-2011, à Cairns, Australie.) /Purple]
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Juliette Gréco was born on 7 February 1927 in Montpellier, Hérault, France. She was an actress, known for The Sun Also Rises (1957), Crack in the Mirror (1960) and The Big Gamble (1961). She was married to Gérard Jouannest, Michel Piccoli and Philippe Lemaire. She died on 23 September 2020 in Ramatuelle, Var, France.*
[Red]arte.tv : [Green](Le 7 février prochain, Juliette Gréco fête ses 85 ans. Retour sur son fabuleux parcours avec un documentaire inédit, suivi d’un concert filmé à l’Olympia en 2004.)
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(La grande dame de la chanson française est à l’écran toute la soirée avec, pour commencer, "Juliette Gréco, l’insoumise" : un portrait de 70 minutes au cours duquel l’artiste se livre avec franchise et légèreté, ravivant au passage le souvenir des ses amis d'antan - Jean-Paul Sartre, Boris Vian, Françoise Sagan et tant d'autres. ARTE rediffuse ensuite l'intégralité de son concert à l'Olympia en 2004. Accompagnée d'un accordéon et d'un piano, Juliette Gréco y revisite soixante années de carrière en chantant les plus belles chansons de son répertoire.) /Purple]
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She was a child prodigy and pianist at age 10. Her first movie was There's Magic in Music (1941) aka The Hard-Boiled Canary (1941), under the name Dolly (a short version of her real name, Dolores) Loehr. She signed a long-term contract with Paramount in 1942 and had her name changed to Diana Lynn. She had good parts in The Major and the Minor (1942), The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1943), and Our Hearts Were Young and Gay (1944). She got fewer roles as she matured; she did do My Friend Irma (1949) and My Friend Irma Goes West (1950), based on the popular radio sitcom, and Bedtime for Bonzo (1951), and had a nice career on TV. Her first marriage was from 1948 to 1954 to architect John C. Lindsay (no children); then, on December 6, 1956, she married Mortimer C. Hall, president of L.A. radio station KLAC. His mother was Dorothy Schiff, then publisher of the New York Post. She had four children with him between 1958 and 1964. They moved to New York City so he could assume a post on his mother's paper. Diana Lynn passed away on December 17, 1971, of a stroke/brain hemorrhage in Los Angeles.*
[Red]cinememorial.com : [Green](Date et lieu de naissance : 07-10-1926, à Los Angeles, Californie, États-États.)/Green] /Red][Link=http://cinememorial.com/Acteur_detail.php?id=1266/] DIANA LYNN [/link][Purple] (Date et lieu du décès : 18-12-1971, à Los Angeles, Californie, États-États.) /Purple]
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OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green]/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047603/] Track of the Cat (1954) - IMDb [/link][Purple] /Purple]- Mila Parély was born on 7 October 1917 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for The Rules of the Game (1939), Beauty and the Beast (1946) and Le cavalier noir (1945). She was married to Thomas Mathieson and Jean Marais. She died on 14 January 2012 in Vichy, Allier, France.[Red]cinememorial.com : [Green](Date et lieu de naissance : 07-10-1917, à Vichy, Allier, France.)/Green] /Red][Link=http://cinememorial.com/Acteur_detail.php?id=1274] MILA PARELY [/link][Purple] (Date et lieu du décès : 14-01-2012, à Paris, France.) /Purple]
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OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green]/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031885/] La règle du jeu (1939) [/link][Purple] /Purple] - Actress
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Rosy Varte was born on 22 November 1923 in Istanbul, Turkey. She was an actress, known for Maguy (1985), Antoine and Colette (1962) and Love at Twenty (1962). She was married to Pierre Badel. She died on 13 January 2012 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France.*
[Red]cinememorial.com : [Green](Date et lieu de naissance : 22-11-1923, à Istanbul, Turquie. )/Green] /Red][Link=http://cinememorial.com/Acteur_detail.php?id=1273] ROSY VARTE [/link][Purple] (Date et lieu du décès : 14-01-2012, à l'hôpital américain de Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.) /Purple]
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OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green]/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122492/] Fortunat (1960) [/link][Purple] /Purple]
OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green]/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046998/] French Cancan (1954) [/link][Purple] /Purple]
OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green]/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0122617/] Mon oncle Benjamin (1969) [/link][Purple] /Purple]
OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green]/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041634/] Manon (1949) [/link][Purple] /Purple]- Françoise Christophe was born on 3 February 1923 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France. She was an actress, known for The Three Musketeers: Part I - The Queen's Diamonds (1961), Les Thibault (1972) and The Possessors (1958). She died on 8 January 2012 in Paris, France.*
[Red]cinememorial.com : [Green](Date et lieu de naissance : 03-02-1923, à Paris, France.)/Green] /Red][Link=http://cinememorial.com/Acteur_detail.php?id=1271] FRANCOISE CHRISTOPHE [/link][Purple] (Date et lieu du décès : 08-01-2012, à Paris, France.) /Purple]
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Marie Glory was born on 3 March 1905 in Mortagne-au-Perche, Orne, France. She was an actress, known for Monte Cristo (1929), La femme idéale (1934) and ...And God Created Woman (1956). She died on 24 January 2009 in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France.*
[Red]cinememorial.com : [Green](Date et lieu de naissance : 03-03-1905, à Mortagne-au-Perche, dans l'Orne, France. Si le souvenir de Marie Glory reste encore aussi présent dans la mémoire des cinéphiles, c'est parce qu'elle fut durant une longue décennie l'une des comédiennes les plus populaires et les plus appréciées du cinéma français.
Curieusement, c'est son engagement patriotique durant la seconde guerre qui sera la cause de l'ingrat oubli des producteurs. En effet, elle fut l'une des rares actrices à avoir rejoint les Forces Françaises Libres du Général de Gaulle. Un peu à l'image de Jean Gabin, de Claude Dauphin et de Jean-Pierre Aumont....)/Green] /Red][Link=http://cinememorial.com/Acteur_detail.php?id=1270/] MARIE GLORY [/link][Purple] (Date et lieu du décès : 24-01-2009, à Cannes, dans les Alpes-Maritimes, France de cause naturelle à l'âge de 104 ans.) /Purple]
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OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green]/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049189/] Et Dieu... créa la femme (1956) [/link][Purple] /Purple]
OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green]/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020182/] Monte Cristo (1929) [/link][Purple] (Comte de Monte Cristo - 1ere époque sur 2) /Purple]
OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green]/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0020182/] Monte Cristo (1929) [/link][Purple] (Comte de Monte Cristo - 2eme époque sur 2) /Purple]- Actress
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Tall, sultry, green-eyed blonde Peggie Castle was actually spotted by a talent scout while she was lunching in a Beverly Hills restaurant. In her films she was usually somebody's "woman" rather than a girlfriend, and her career was confined to mostly "B"-grade action pictures, dramas or westerns: Harem Girl (1952), Wagons West (1952), The Prince Who Was a Thief (1951), Jesse James' Women (1954), among others. She did, however, have good roles in such films as Payment on Demand (1951) with Bette Davis, 99 River Street (1953) with John Payne, I, the Jury (1953), The White Orchid (1954), Miracle in the Rain (1956) with Jane Wyman and in Seven Hills of Rome (1957) with Mario Lanza. After three seasons playing sexy femme lead Lily Merrill, the dance-hall hostess and romantic interest for steely-eyed Marshal Dan Troop in the TV western series Lawman (1958), she left show business in 1962. She later developed an alcohol problem and died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1973 at age 45.[Red]cineartistes.com : [Green](Date et Lieu de naissance : 22 décembre 1926 (Appalachia, Virginie, USA))/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.cineartistes.com/fiche-Peggie+Castle.html] Peggie Castle - CinéArtistes.com [/link][Purple] (Date et Lieu de décès : 11 août 1973 (Hollywood, Californie, USA)) /Purple]
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At age 16, Annabella was chosen by Abel Gance to appear in Napoleon (1927). In the 30s, she became a star of French movies. She made movies in numerous other countries, before being called to Hollywood in 1938, where she met and married Tyrone Power. She remained in the USA until 1947. Then she attempted a comeback in France. She retired from show business in 1954.*
[Red]imdb.com : [Green](OK : )/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024600/] Sonnenstrahl (1933) - IMDb [/link][Purple] /Purple]- Yvette Lebon was born on 14 August 1910 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Michel Strogoff (1936), Paméla (1945) and Ulysses Against Hercules (1962). She was married to Nat Wachsberger and Roger Duchesne. She died on 28 July 2014 in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France.[Red]vargen57.unblog.fr : [Green](Née à Paris 10ème le 14 Août 1910)/Green] /Red][Link=http://vargen57.unblog.fr/lebon-yvette-1910/] Lebon Yvette (1910-) · Les légendes du cinéma [/link][Purple] (DOYENNE des ACTRICES FRANCAISES) /Purple]
[Red]imdb.com : [Green](Yvette LEBON)/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/list/1s9UN3wAywg/] IMDb: How many centenarians of entertainment do you know? - a list by christopherbkk [/link][Purple] (DOYENNE des ACTRICES FRANCAISES) /Purple]
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NO - Magdalen Nabb was born on 16 January 1947 in Church, Lancashire, England, UK. She was a writer, known for Josie Smith (1989), The Marshal (1993) and Death in Florence (1988). She died on 18 August 2007 in Scandicci, Tuscany, Italy.[Red][Green](WRITER : Magdalen Nabb est un auteur de romans policiers britannique née le 16 janvier 1947 à Church, un village du Lancashire et décédée le 18 aout 2007 en Italie. Après avoir étudié l'art, elle enseigne la céramique. En 1975, elle s'installe à Florence. C'est en 1981 qu'elle écrit son premier livre, Le Gentleman florentin, salué par Georges Simenon. La British Crimes Writer's Association lui décerne d'ailleurs le prix du meilleur roman policier en 1982 pour cet ouvrage. Ses enquêtes ont pour héros l'adjudant Guarnaccia. Elle a aussi écrit des romans pour les enfants.)/Green] /Red][Purple] /Purple]
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OK : [Red][Green](Meurtres à Florence >>> ARTE : dimanche, 21 août 2011 à 01:25)/Green] /Red][Purple] (Auteure de polars, la Britannique Magdalen Nabb (1947-2007) avait fait de Florence sa seconde patrie. Un portrait intime et littéraire servi par des images d'une grande beauté. ) /Purple] - Denise Gence was born on 8 March 1924 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Lovers of Paris (1957), Marriage of Figaro (1959) and Le théâtre de la jeunesse (1960). She died on 29 September 2011 in Paris, France.[Red]cinememorial.com : [Green](Date et lieu de naissance : 08-03-1924, à Paris, France.)/Green] /Red][Link=http://cinememorial.com/Acteur_detail.php?id=1241/] DENISE GENCE [/link][Purple] (Date et lieu du décès : 29-09-2011, à Paris, France.) /Purple]
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Elisabeth Flickenschildt was born on 16 March 1905 in Blankenese, Hamburg, Germany. She was an actress, known for Das große Liebesspiel (1963), The False Step (1939) and The Indian Scarf (1963). She was married to Rolf Badenhausen. She died on 26 October 1977 in Stade, Lower Saxony, Germany.[Red]cineartistes.com : [Green](Fille d’un capitaine, Elisabeth Ida Marie Flickenschildt voit le jour à Hambourg, ville de l’Empire Germanique, le 16 mars 1905. Après avoir obtenu son baccalauréat, la jeune fille entreprend une carrière de styliste de mode. Parallèlement, elle suit des cours de comédie au Schauspielschule de Hambourg. En 1931, elle décroche un premier rôle: celui de la jeune paysanne Armgard dans «Guillaume Tell»....)/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.cineartistes.com/fiche-Elisabeth+Flickenschildt.html/] Elisabeth Flickenschildt - CinéArtistes.com [/link][Purple] (Elisabeth Flickenschildt décède le 26 octobre 1977 à Stade, en Basse-Saxe (Allemagne). La ville de Berlin, reconnaissante de son immense talent, lui offre, à titre posthume, le nom d’une de ses rues dans le quartier de Pulvermühle.) /Purple]
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OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green](Requin Harponne Scotland Yard)/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056012/] Das Gasthaus an der Themse (1962) - IMDb [/link][Purple] (The Inn on the River) /Purple]- Hind Rostom(November 11, 1929 - August 8, 2011) was one of the most popular Egyptian actresses.
Actress Hind Rostom, is a star from the golden era of Egyptian cinema.
With her blond hair and good looks, Rostom often played the sultry seductress, and she quickly rose to become one of Egypt's best-known actresses.
She won popular acclaim for her 1958 film "Cairo Station," about the city's underclass and their struggles to survive. She starred in it with Youssef Chahine, one of Egypt's most lauded movie directors.
Among her other well-known films were "Love Rumor" and "Struggle on the Nile" with Omar Sharif -- the country's most celebrated actor.
Born in Alexandria, Rostom defied her conservative upbringing to stake out a career in film. She was dubbed by fans the Marilyn Monroe of the Arabs and "the queen of seduction" of Egyptian cinema.[Red]cinememorial.com : [Green](12-11-1929, à Caire, Égypte.)/Green] /Red][Link=http://cinememorial.com/Acteur_detail.php?id=1229/] HIND ROSTOM[/link][Purple] ( 08-08-2011, à l'hôpital de Al-Mohandeseen au Caire, Égypte.) /Purple]
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OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green]/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051390/] Bab el hadid (1958) [/link][Purple] (Gare Centrale) /Purple] - Actress
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Born into a family of doctors and educated in China at the Shanghai Film Academy and the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Languages, Joan Chen was discovered by veteran Chinese director Jin Xie while observing a filming with a school group. Her performance in Xiao hua (1979) (A.K.A. "The Little Flower") won China's Best Actress award, and resulted in the Chinese press dubbing her "The Elizabeth Taylor of China" for having achieved top stardom while still in her teen years. She came to the U.S. to attend college in 1981, first at the State University of New York at New Paltz, later at California State University at Northridge. She a succession of small parts in movies and T.V., with her first break coming in 1986 when, in true Hollywood legend, producer Dino De Laurentiis noticed her in the parking lot of Lorimar Studios and cast her in Tai-Pan (1986). The film bombed, but it led to her being cast as the ill-fated Empress in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor (1987), which won critical acclaim. This, and her role as enigmatic mill owner Josie Packard in the cult TV series Twin Peaks (1990), are her best-known roles in Europe and North America. However, Hollywood's practice of type-casting East Asians has led to a dearth of major roles for Chen since then, and in recent roles, she has often been cast as a villainess.
After taking a few years off to start a family, Joan returned to the screen in important supporting roles playing women in early middle age, such as the mother of a principle adult character. As a result, her career is flourishing again on both sides of the Pacific. Her two directing efforts were well-received critically, and in a 2008 interview she revealed she planned to direct again but was putting that off until her daughters were grown, since directing took her away from them too much, whereas acting could be done on a part-time basis.[Red]lemonde.fr : [Green](Joan Chen interprète ici une jolie ouvrière (qui "ressemblait à Joan Chen") qui n'a jamais trouvé de mari à sa convenance.)/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.lemonde.fr/cinema/article/2009/03/17/24-city-au-coeur-de-la-mutation-d-une-cite-industrielle_1169146_3476.html] "24 City" : au coeur de la mutation d'une cité industrielle en complexe de luxe - LeMonde.fr [/link][Purple] /Purple]
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OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green]/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1103963/] Er shi si cheng ji (2008) [/link][Purple] (Chine - Industrie - Immobilier - Luxe - 24 City) /Purple]- Actress
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Paulette Dubost was born on 8 October 1910 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for The Rules of the Game (1939), Les vingt-huit jours de Clairette (1933) and Les mystères de Paris (1962). She was married to André Ostertag. She died on 21 September 2011 in Longjumeau, Essonne, France.[Red]cinememorial.com : [Green](Date et lieu du décès : 21-09-2011, à Longjumeau, Essonne, France.)/Green] /Red][Link=http://cinememorial.com/Acteur_detail.php?id=1238/] PAULETTE DUBOST [/link][Purple] (Date et lieu de naissance : 08-10-1910, à Paris, 16ème arrond., France.) /Purple]
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OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green]/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031885/] La règle du jeu (1939) - IMDb [/link][Purple] /Purple]
OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green]/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059956/] Viva Maria! (1965) - IMDb [/link][Purple] /Purple]
OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green]/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048308/] Lola Montès (1955) - IMDb [/link][Purple] /Purple]
OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green]/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097884/] Milou en mai (1990) - IMDb [/link][Purple] /Purple]
OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green]/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023929/] IMDb - Dans les rues (1933) [/link][Purple] /Purple]- Director
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Carmen Butta is known for Die geheime Revolution (2016), Das Wunder von Nairobi - Noten der Hoffnung (2019) and Schau in meine Welt! (2012).OK : [Red]arte.tv : [Green](Japon, les reines de la mer)/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.arte.tv/fr/recherche/2854428.html/] Jap [/link][Purple] ("Ama" signifie en japonais "femmes de la mer". Jusqu’à un âge avancé, les Ama vont ramasser des coquillages au fond de l’océan, bravant les profondeurs en apnée.) /Purple]
La cadette a trouvé en son aînée un modèle. « Je veux plonger aussi longtemps que je pourrai encore marcher, et peut-être même plus longtemps que Kazu », dit Satomy. Plongeuse depuis trois ans, elle aura bientôt acquis assez d’expérience pour mériter le titre d’Ama. Mais pour cela, il lui faut plonger en eau encore plus profonde…- Actress
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Born into a family of show people, Blanche Sweet first appeared on the stage when she was 18 months old. She was a dancer by the time she was four and a talented actress by 1909 when she started work at the Biograph with D.W. Griffith. By 1910, aged 14, she was four years younger than Mary Pickford, but her maturity and appearance soon lead to leading roles. She starred in such films as The Lonedale Operator (1911) and Judith of Bethulia (1914). Unlike most of the frail roles for women of her day, her presence was smart and resourceful. She left Biograph in 1914 and worked with Cecil B. DeMille in The Warrens of Virginia (1915). A popular and independent actress, she worked for many studio's and directors in the age of silent movies.
In 1922, she married director Marshall Neilan, who would direct her in Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1924). The marriage ended in divorce in 1929. In 1923, she starred in Anna Christie (1923), directed by John Griffith Wray, the first play by Eugene O'Neill to be filmed. Even before talkies, her career was in decline. She made three talking pictures, including Show Girl in Hollywood (1930). This was to be the last film Sweet appeared in before retiring. Her line, in the movie, about being washed up at 32 in Hollywood, was close to the truth for her. (She was 34.) After that she retired from the screen and returned to the Stage. She appeared in plays on Broadway and with touring companies and also worked in radio during the 1930s. She and co-star Raymond Hackett married in 1936 and remained married until his death in 1958. Both of her marriages were childless.*
[Red]vargen57.unblog.fr : [Green](Blanche Sweet, de son vrai nom Sarah Blanche Sweet, naît le 18 juin 1896 à Chicago, dans l'Illinois.)/Green] /Red][Link=http://vargen57.unblog.fr/sweet-blanche-1896-1986/] Sweet Blanche (1896-1986) · Les légendes du cinéma [/link][Purple] /Purple]
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OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green]/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0004181/] Judith of Bethulia (1914) - IMDb [/link][Purple] /Purple]
OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green]/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0002350/] The Massacre (1914) - IMDb [/link][Purple] /Purple]
OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green]/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0002795/] Death's Marathon (1913) - IMDb [/link][Purple] /Purple]
OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green]/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0002408/] One Is Busine [/link][Purple] /Purple]
OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green]/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0001789/] IMDb - The Miser's Heart (1911) [/link][Purple] /Purple]
OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green]/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0001499/] IMDb - The Battle (1911) [/link][Purple] /Purple]
OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green]/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0001724/] The Last Drop of Water (1911) - IMDb [/link][Purple] /Purple]
OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green]/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0000832/] A Corner in Wheat (1909) - IMDb [/link][Purple] /Purple]- Linda Christian was born Blanca Rosa Welter, to a Dutch father, Gerardus Jacob Welter, and a Mexican-born mother, Blanca Rosa Vorhauer. Her Father was an executive with Royal Dutch Shell and Christian traveled extensively as a result living in South Africa, Romania, Germany, France, Switzerland, England, and Palestine at various times during her childhood This was beneficial in that the little girl - a very good pupil at school - eventually was able to speak seven languages. She also turned into a shapely young lady who won a beauty contest. She started studying medicine in Palestine but had to be repatriated to the USA due to the international situation. She landed in Los Angeles and naturally considered a movie career there. She studied drama but got only minor parts for years. She really became famous when she married Tyrone Power, and her career somewhat improved. But it is scandal more than her film roles that long made her a favorite of the celebrity press rather than of specialized movie magazines.
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Solveig Dommartin was born on 16 May 1961 in Constantine, Constantine, France [now Algeria]. She was an actress and director, known for Wings of Desire (1987), Until the End of the World (1991) and It Would Only Take a Bridge (1998). She died on 11 January 2007 in Paris, France.*
[Red]imdb.com : [Green](Born: May 16, 1961 in Paris, France)/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0231652//] Solveig Dommartin - IMDb [/link][Purple] (Died: January 11, 2007 (age 45) in Paris, France) /Purple]
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OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green](Ailes Du Désir)/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093191/] Der Himmel über Berlin (1987) - IMDb [/link][Purple] /Purple]- Often called the First Lady of German cinema, Ruth Leuwerik was at the peak of her popularity during the 1950's when partnered on screen by the leading male stars of the post-war era: Dieter Borsche, Hannes Messemer, Curd Jürgens and O.W. Fischer. She proved her range by alternating between glamorous damsels and emancipated, resilient heroines in quality productions, invariably directed by master film makers like Wolfgang Liebeneiner, Robert Siodmak or Helmut Käutner.
Young Ruth first became enamoured with acting after watching a movie with Greta Garbo at the age of ten. Julius Martin Leeuwerik, a merchant, was sufficiently prosperous to afford his daughter private acting tuition after she was initially rejected by Berlin's premier acting academy. Undeterred, Leuwerik made her theatrical debut in 1943. The war, however, proved decidedly limiting to further career prospects. Between 1947 and 1949, she was able to gain steady theatrical engagements in Bremen and Lübeck. The following year, she came to the attention of film audiences in the vacation comedy, Dreizehn unter einem Hut (1950). Success was almost immediate and work on the stage henceforth took a back seat to the celluloid medium.
Between 1950 and 1963, Ruth Leuwerik starred in 28 pictures, nearly all of them box-office gold. These ranged from creaky melodramas like Die große Versuchung (1952) and Geliebte Feindin (1955) to prestige pictures like Rosen im Herbst (1955) (as Effie Briest, based on the novel by Theodor Fontane) and Ludwig II: Glanz und Ende eines Königs (1955) (as Empress Elisabeth of Austria). Her varied roles encompassed not only the standard Mittel-European aristocratic heroines of the period, but also hardy bourgeois mothers, victims of circumstance and dedicated professional women. She played Maria von Trapp in The Trapp Family (1956) -- long before the musical version with Julie Andrews was conceived -- and showcased her abilities as a serious dramatic actress in the role of a priest's daughter, on trial for murdering her husband, in the title role of A Matter of Minutes (1959). Another moving and sympathetic portrayal was that of the physician Hanna Dietrich, tending to 300 German POW's inside a Siberian concentration camp, in the gritty post-war drama Taiga (1958). This particular performance won her the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco Film Festival. Arguably the culmination of her career was Liebling der Götter (1960), a biopic of the tragic actress Renate Müller. Voted Germany's most popular actress by Bravo, "the magazine for film and television", Leuwerik also picked up four prestigious Bambi Awards in 1953, 1960, 1961 and 1962. She was the first German actress to participate in a Royal Performance in London in 1960.
From 1964 -- having rejected an offer from Hollywood -- Leuwerik began to withdraw from public life and restrict her appearances to occasional guest spots on television. Unlike other screen divas, her personal life was remarkably devoid of scandal and controversy. Her second husband was the famous German opera singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Ruth Leuwerik died in Munich in January 2016 at the age of 91.*
OK : [Red]imdb.com : [Green]/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051551//] Dorothea Angermann (1959) - IMDb [/link][Purple] /Purple] - Marthe Turgeon was born in 1944 in Armagh, Bellechasse, Québec, Canada. She was an actress, known for The Confessional (1995), The Moderns (1988) and Straight for the Heart (1988). She died on 28 August 2011 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.[Red]cinememorial.com : [Green](1944, à Armage, Québec, Canada.... 28-08-2011, à l'hôpital Notre-Dame de Montréal, Québec, Canada.)/Green] /Red][Link=http://cinememorial.com/Acteur_detail.php?id=1234/] MARTHE TURGEON [/link][Purple] (Avec le décès de Marthe Turgeon, le monde du théâtre a perdu une comédienne «unique» et «atypique» dotée d'une «voix envoûtante».) /Purple]
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Has performed throughout the world for over forty years. Born March 11, 1955 in the former East Berlin, East Germany, to Hans and Eva-Maria Hagen. At the age of four began to study ballet and at an early age was considered to be an "opera prodigy". In 1979, appeared with Herman Brood, and Lene Lovich in the film Cha-Cha (1979). The three composed the film's soundtrack.*
imdb.com (See also : ) : Zarah Leander - IMDb
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OK : imdb.com : Nina Hagen - Godmother of Punk (TV 2011) - IMDb- Actress
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Jeannette Batti was born on 6 September 1921 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. She was an actress, known for Moumou (1951), Holiday for Henrietta (1952) and Une nuit à Megève (1953). She was married to Henri Génès. She died on 10 February 2011 in Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine, France.- Actress
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Betty Stockfeld was born on 15 January 1905 in Sydney, Australia. She was an actress, known for 77 Park Lane (1931), Farewell to Love (1931) and Arènes joyeuses (1935). She was married to Aubrey St. John Edwards. She died on 27 January 1966 in Tadworth, Surrey, England, UK.- Anna Massey was born on 11 August 1937 in Thakeham, West Sussex, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Peeping Tom (1960), Frenzy (1972) and The Machinist (2004). She was married to Dr. Uri Andres and Jeremy Brett. She died on 2 July 2011 in London, England, UK.
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Dolores Fuller first got the idea that she wanted to get into the picture business at the age of ten, when she was an extra in the motel sequence of It Happened One Night (1934). She acted in school plays, modeled and landed a few jobs on TV. In the early 1950s, she and her actress-friend, Mona McKinnon, went to a casting call where they met producer-director Edward D. Wood Jr., who became Fuller's boyfriend. Wood's real-life passion for wearing women's clothes was focused upon in the filmmaker's semi-autobiographical Glen or Glenda (1953), in which Wood starred as a cross-dresser and Fuller played his girlfriend. Fuller also appeared in Wood's Jail Bait (1954) and Bride of the Monster (1955) before his drinking caused a split. Fuller turned songwriter, wrote tunes for a number of movies (including Elvis Presley's Blue Hawaii (1961) and Kid Galahad (1962)), founded her own record company (Dee Dee Records) and helped to launch the careers of Johnny Rivers and Tanya Tucker. Fuller is vocal in her dislike of the way she was depicted by Sarah Jessica Parker in director Tim Burton's Ed Wood (1994).cinememorial.com : DOLORES FULLER
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OK : imdb.com : Bride of the Monster (1955) - IMDb
OK : imdb.com : Bride of the Monster (1955) - IMDb See also >>> nanarland.com : La Fiancée du Monstre : la chronique de Nanarland- Actress
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Aliki Vougiouklaki was born in 1934 (or 1933, according to some sources), in Maroussi Attikis, Greece. She studied at the Drama School of the Greek National Theater and made her stage debut in a 1953 Athens production of Molière's "Le malade imaginaire". Around the same time she made her movie debut in To pontikaki (1954). The late 1950's was her breakthrough period: she starred in a successful revival of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion" (as Eliza Doolittle) and took the leading part in a very popular movie, Maiden's Cheek (1959). She instantly became Greece's most popular star, created her personal stage group (with a repertory including Aristophanes' "Lysistrata", Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth" and Sophocles' "Antigone") and starred in many films, light comedies and melodramas (in many of them she co-starred with Dimitris Papamichael, who was her husband and theater partner during 1965-1974). Her film Ypolohagos Natassa (1970) has been the biggest moneymaker in the history of Greek cinema.movie-musical-world.blogspot.com : movie-musical-world: Aliki Vougiouklaki, insouciante BB grecque
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NO- Yvonne Clech was born on 3 June 1920 in Moustéru, Côtes-d'Armor, France. She was an actress, known for Zazie in the Metro (1960), Le tracassin ou Les plaisirs de la ville (1961) and Au théâtre ce soir (1966). She died on 25 February 2010 in Paris, France.
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Karachi-born Margaret Lockwood, daughter of a British colonial railway clerk, was educated in London and studied to be an actress at the Italia Conti Drama School. Her first moment on stage came at the age of 12, when she played a fairy in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in 1928. She had a bit part in the Drury Lane production of "Cavalcade" in 1932, before completing her training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
Her film career began in 1934 with Lorna Doone (1934) and she was already a seasoned performer when Alfred Hitchcock cast her in his thriller, The Lady Vanishes (1938), opposite relative newcomer Michael Redgrave. The film was shot at Islington studios and was "in the can" after just five weeks in 1937 and released the following year. This was her first opportunity to shine, and she gave an intelligent, convincing performance as the inquisitive girl who suspects a conspiracy when an elderly lady (May Whitty) seemingly disappears into thin air during a train journey. Due to the success of the film, Margaret spent some time in Hollywood but was given poor material and soon returned home. Back at Gainsborough, producer Edward Black had planned to pair Lockwood and Redgrave much the same way William Powell and Myrna Loy had been teamed up in the "Thin Man" films in America, but the war intervened and the two were only to appear together in the Carol Reed-directed The Stars Look Down (1940). This was the first of her "bad girl" roles that would effectively redefine her career in the 1940s. In between playing femmes fatales, she had a popular hit in the 1944 melodrama A Lady Surrenders (1944) as a brilliant but fatally ill pianist and was sympathetic enough as a young girl who is possessed by a ghost in A Place of One's Own (1945). However, her best-remembered performances came in two classic Gainsborough period dramas. The first of these, The Man in Grey (1943), co-starring James Mason, was torrid escapist melodrama with Lockwood portraying a treacherous, opportunistic vixen, all the while exuding more sexual allure than was common for films of this period. The enormous popular success of this picture led to her second key role in 1945 (again with Mason) as the cunning and cruel title character of The Wicked Lady (1945), a female Dick Turpin. This was even more daring in its depiction of immorality, and the controversy surrounding the film did no harm at the box office. Some of Lockwood's scenes had to be re-shot for American audiences not accustomed to seeing décolletages. Margaret scored another hit with Bedelia (1946), as a demented serial poisoner, and then played a Gypsy girl accused of murder in the Technicolor romp Jassy (1947).
As her popularity waned in the 1950s she returned to occasional performances on the West End stage and appeared on television, making her greatest impact as a dedicated barrister in the ITV series Justice (1971), which ran from 1971 to 1974.- Actress
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Ruth Roman was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, the youngest of three daughters of Lithuanian-Jewish parents Mary Pauline (Gold) and Abraham Roman. Her father, a carnival barker, died when she was a small child, forcing her mother to support the family by working as a waitress and cleaning woman. Ruth grew up in the poor tenement district of Boston, Massachusetts, where she went to school. However, she left school after just two years to pursue an acting career. Her chosen path proved to be strewn with obstacles: in New York, she obtained a job posing for stills for a crime magazine, but theatrical work eluded her. She then worked as a hat check girl at a night club before calling it quits and returning to Boston. There, she made ends meet as an usherette during the day while at night performing with the New England Repertory Company, her first steady acting job. She also studied drama and eventually graduated from the Bishop-Lee Theatre School.
Trying to get into films, Ruth unsuccessfully made the rounds of agents and producers for two years (1940-42), until a bit part as a WAVE came her way in the film Stage Door Canteen (1943). With $200 to her name, she purchased a one-way ticket to Hollywood, where she found shared accommodation with other aspiring starlets, naming it, optimistically, 'the House of the Seven Garbos'. After a screen test with Warner Brothers failed to result in a contract, Ruth had another run of six hard years playing bit parts, many of them uncredited, some ending up on the cutting room floor. A sole speaking part of consequence was in the titular role of Jungle Queen (1945), a Universal serial (after subsequent acting lessons, Ruth was aghast when the serial was rereleased in 1951).
Ruth finally got her big break when producer Dore Schary cast her (against character, as a murderess) in the RKO thriller The Window (1949). That same year, she successfully auditioned for Stanley Kramer's boxing drama Champion (1949) as the dependable wife of the fighter (Kirk Douglas). After this turning point in her life, the shapely, smoky-voiced brunette secured a contract with Warner Brothers. During the next phase of her career, she moved effortlessly from glamorous and seductive to demure and wholesome in films opposite stars like James Stewart, Errol Flynn, and Gary Cooper. Look Magazine billed her as the 'Big Time Movie Personality of 1950', and by the following year she was receiving some 500 fan letters per week.
While many of her leads were in westerns (albeit mostly A-grade ones), Ruth was somewhat more memorable in support of Farley Granger (as his upper-crust lover and the raison d'etre for the planned murder of his wife) in Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951). Another offbeat role was as a gangster's moll in the British-made updated adaptation of Shakespeare's Joe MacBeth (1955). As Lily, she is the power behind angst-ridden Paul Douglas ('Joe'), whom she easily manipulates to do her bidding. In The Bottom of the Bottle (1956), she was at her dependable best as the supportive wife of lawyer Joseph Cotten. Arguably, her last noteworthy performance on the big screen was in Alexander Singer's romance/drama Love Has Many Faces (1965).
By the 1960s, Ruth had made the transition to middle-aged character parts and began to appear mostly on television in shows like The Outer Limits (1963), Mannix (1967), Gunsmoke (1955), and (in a recurring role) in The Long, Hot Summer (1965). She also toured nationally with theatrical productions of "Plaza Suite", "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf", and "Two for the Seesaw". For the actress, who was said to disdain the trimmings of Hollywood stardom, real-life drama came when she and her son counted among the 760 survivors of the sinking of the luxury cruise liner 'Andrea Doria' in 1956. In September 1967, she jumped from her burning car but still managed to make her scheduled performance in "Beekman Place" at the Ivanhoe Theatre. Ruth died in September 1999 at her home in Laguna Beach, aged 76.[Red]cinememorial.com : [Green]/Green] /Red][Link=http://cinememorial.com/Acteur_detail.php?id=1249/] RUTH ROMAN [/link][Purple] /Purple]
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Marcelle Chantal was born on 9 February 1901 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Fantômas contre Fantômas (1949), Chéri (1950) and Jeunes filles en détresse (1939). She died on 11 March 1960 in Paris, France.[Red]cinememorial.com : [Green](Date et lieu de naissance : 09-02-1901, à Paris, France.)/Green] /Red][Link=http://cinememorial.com/Acteur_detail.php?id=1251/] MARCELLE CHANTAL [/link][Purple] (Date et lieu du décès : 11-03-1960, à Paris, France.) /Purple]
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Catherine Sauvage was born on 26 May 1929 in Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. She was an actress, known for Maid in Paris (1956), Deux heures à tuer (1966) and L'Europe en chantant (1962). She died on 19 March 1998 in Bry-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne, France.*
[Red]cinememorial.com : [Green](Date et lieu de naissance : 29-05-1929, à Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. (Actrice, chanteuse et femme de théâtre français))/Green] /Red][Link=http://cinememorial.com/Acteur_detail.php?id=1257/] CATHERINE SAUVAGE [/link][Purple] (Date et lieu du décès : 19-03-1998, à Bry-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne, France.) /Purple]
[Red]music-story.com : [Green](Catherine Sauvage (née Jeanine Saunier à Nancy en 1929 et décédée en 1998) est comédienne, et débute presque par hasard une carrière dans la chanson au Boeuf sur le Toit, en interprétant le répertoire de Marianne Oswald, et dans les cabarets de la Rive Gauche. Georges Brassens dit d'elle : « Elle ne chante pas, elle mord », et en effet sa gouaille, son ton toujours forcé, son talent d'interprétation en font une interprète majeure de la chanson française.)/Green] /Red][Link=http://www.music-story.com/catherine-sauvage/] Catherine Sauvage - Chanson française - Music Story [/link][Purple] /Purple]
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Hollywood has always welcomed with open arms exotic, sexy imports to its gallery of glamour girls and serious actresses; look at how Greta Garbo, Ingrid Bergman, Marlene Dietrich and Sophia Loren have been embraced. Buxom and alluring French siren Denise Darcel fell into the secondary ranks of thick-accented, post-WWII hopefuls which would include a wave of other temptations such as Märta Torén, Viveca Lindfors, Corinne Calvet and Bella Darvi.
This particularly luscious Parisian was born Denise Billecard on September 8, 1925, one of five daughters born to a baker and his wife. The daughters were raised outside of Paris in a small town for a time, but Denise eventually moved back to Paris after WWII as a young adult and college student (University of Dijon). She was working as a dime store cashier when she entered and won a beauty contest that resulted in a lot of publicity for her as "The Most Beautiful Girl in France". She capitalized on this by developing her own nightclub act and touring around the Riviera with it -- blazing a name for herself.
Denise came to the United States as the wife of an American Army captain, but the marriage soured quickly after about a year. She turned to the movies. In her first, the war film To the Victor (1948), she managed to turn heads despite her small, unbilled appearance as a club singer. She made the most of her sexy version of "La vie en rose" and, with that, moved into a top femme acting role with the western Thunder in the Pines (1948), which had both pre-"Superman" George Reeves and post-"Dick Tracy" Ralph Byrd fighting for her attention. She then was the sole femme in the successful war picture Battleground (1949), providing sexy distraction amid all the bombings. This alone pushed her sex symbol status to its peak. As a result she provided a little extra steam in the jungles with her exotic part in the Lex Barker entry Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950).
And then it was over. Despite providing more sexy cabaret entertainment in the film Young Man with Ideas (1952) starring Glenn Ford, and grabbing notice in such man-oriented action in Westward the Women (1951) with Robert Taylor, Flame of Calcutta (1953) with Patric Knowles and Vera Cruz (1954) co-starring Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster, Ms. Darcel's film career fell completely away.
She never took herself or her image too seriously during her prime and was known and admired for her fine sense of humor, playing the sexy foil to such comic stars as Olsen and Johnson on stage -- in "Pardon My French" (1950) -- and Milton Berle on TV. She even hosted her own short-lived TV quiz show Gamble on Love (1954) at one point. But as far as movies were concerned, she returned only once more to film the utterly forgettable and exploitative 7 Women from Hell (1961).
Hollywood folklore has it that Ms. Darcel gave the cold shoulder to the heated romantic advances of both Columbia mogul Harry Cohn and producer playboy Howard Hughes, and thereby sealed her own fate. While waiting out the snub, she left Hollywood and made live appearances on stage, in dinner theaters and around the nightclub circuit, appearing in such plays and musicals as "Oh, Captain!" (1958), "The Little Hut" (1961) and "Can-Can" (1961).
She once was an opening act for singer/dancer Joel Grey, and made even more money the more she playfully revealed herself to her paying customers. But she was never invited back to Hollywood. Married and divorced five times in all, the vivacious Ms. Darcel remained close to her two sons, Chris and Craig, and made ends meet later by working as a Las Vegas casino dealer. She died of an aneurysm on December 23, 2011, at age 86.*
[Red]cinememorial.com : [Green](Date et lieu de naissance : 08-09-1925, à Paris, France.)/Green] /Red][Link=http://cinememorial.com/Acteur_detail.php?id=1272] DENISE DARCEL [/link][Purple] (Date et lieu du décès : 23-12-2011, à Los Angeles, Californie, États-Unis (D’une rupture d’anévrisme à l'âge de 87 ans).) /Purple]
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Sophie Desmarets was born on 7 April 1922 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Le capitan (1946), 120, rue de la Gare (1946) and Si Paris nous était conté (1956). She was married to Jean de Baroncelli and René Froissant. She died on 13 February 2012 in Paris, France.*
[Red]cinememorial.com : [Green](Profession : Actrice et dame de théâtre français. Date et lieu de naissance : 07-04-1922, à Paris, dans le 16ème arrondissement, France.)/Green] /Red][Link=http://cinememorial.com/Acteur_detail.php?id=1283] SOPHIE DESMARETS [/link][Purple] (Date et lieu du décès : 13-02-2012, à Paris, France.) /Purple]
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NO- Sylvia Breamer was one of a flock of Australians who came to Hollywood in the early silent era. She had been a stage actress in her native Sydney for several years, and had played in several Australian productions of American stage plays, which met with great success. Hoping to capitalize on that success, she traveled to the US to try her luck on Broadway. She wasn't there long before word got to Hollywood of an extraordinarily beautiful young Australian actress who had just hit Broadway, and soon she found herself making screen tests for several different studios.
Breamer hit Hollywood in 1917 and was put in several Charles Ray comedies for Triangle, and soon was working with such leading men as William S. Hart, Thomas Meighan, and Herbert Rawlinson. She continued making films until 1926. She tried her hand at talkies and made one in 1936, Too Many Parents (1936), but apparently either didn't care for them or was intimidated by them, and left films for good.
Breamer died in New York City in 1943, at the tragically young age of 45. No details of her personal life or death are available.*
[Red]cinememorial.com : [Green](Profession : Actrice américaine. Date et lieu de naissance : 09-06-1897, à Sydney, Australie.
Sylvia Breamer reste une actrice peu populaire de nos jours malgré sa carrière assez réussie au cinéma. )/Green] /Red][Link=http://cinememorial.com/Acteur_detail.php?id=1324] [SYLVIA BREAMER] [/link][Purple] ( Date et lieu du décès : 07-06-1943, à New York, New York, États-Unis. Cause du décès : De cause inconnue à l'âge de 45 ans.) /Purple]
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Greta Ruzt-Nissen was born in Oslo, Norway, on January 30, 1905. As a young girl she studied dance and had intended to make a career out of it. For a while she did, but when she was 19 she appeared in her first big-screen production, The Wanderer (1925). Afterwards she made several more films, but she was one of those who lost much work due to the advent of sound films. One setback for her was when she was chosen for the lead in Hell's Angels (1930) by Howard Hughes but then replaced by Jean Harlow because of her heavy Norwegian accent. The film shot Harlow to stardom. Throughout the 1930s Greta stayed fairly busy. Obviously some roles were better than others, but she never got the breakout role she wanted so badly. After Danger in Paris (1937), Greta left the screen forever. On May 17, 1988, she died of Parkinson's disease. She was 83 years old.*
[Red]cinememorial.com : [Green](Profession : Actrice et danseuse norvégienne. Date et lieu de naissance :30-01-1906, à Oslo, Norvège
Alors qu'elle est jeune fille, elle étudie la danse et à l'intention de faire carrière avec son talent. Elle se produit un eu partout en Norvège. A 17 ans, elle tourne dans le 1er film de sa carrière, une production danoise : " Daarskab, Dyd Og Driverer ".
A ses 19 ans elle apparaît dans son 1er film américain : " Le Vagabond " (1925). En 1926, elle remplace Greta Garbo dans le film " The Love Thief ".
Après plusieurs films muets, le parlant s'impose et sa carrière est menacée. Howard Hugues l'avait choisit pour sa production " Anges De L'Enfer " mais les bandes doivent être sonorisées. Elle gagne alors 2500 dollars par semaine. Un problème de taille fait surface : son accent norvégien rend ses répliques incompréhensibles. Elle est alors remplacée par la nouvelle actrice sulfureuse Jean Harlow qui travailla pour 250 malheureux dollars. C'est ce film qui propulsa la carrière de l'actrice. )/Green] /Red][Link=http://cinememorial.com/Acteur_detail.php?id=1325] [GRETA NISSEN] [/link][Purple] ( Malheureusement, malgré son réel talent, sa carrière sera incroyablement courte : 29 films de 1923 à 1937. Cependant, elle tourna avec de grands comédiens de l'époque : Tyrone Power Sr (" Le Vagabond " 1925), Wallace Beery (" In The Name Of Love " 1925), Lionel Barrymore (" The Luck Lady " 1926), Edmund Lowe (" Women Of All Nation " 1931), Myrna Loy (" Transatlantic " 1931), Hedda Hopper (" Good Sport " 1931) et Mary Brian (" The Unwritten Law " 1932).
Date et lieu du décès : 07-05-1988, à Montecito, Californie, États-Unis. Cause du décès : De la maladie de Parkinson à l'âge de 83 ans) /Purple]
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NO- One of Britain's biggest female stars of the post-war years, she appeared at various positions (3rd being the highest) in the British and Motion Picture Herald popularity polls, between 1945-50. She was pretty, vivacious and charming, which was all most of her early roles called for. She appeared in a number of the hugely popular wartime Gainsborough costume dramas, including Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945) and The Wicked Lady (1945). She also made one film in Hollywood, the Technicolor Canyon Passage (1946). Her best acting opportunities were in The Brothers (1947), as a sexy orphan wreaking havoc on a remote Scottish Island, and When the Bough Breaks (1947), a stark unwed mother drama.
She moved to Paris upon her second marriage in 1949 and began to work increasingly in European cinema, filming in France and Italy (and a French-Canadian feature in Quebec). She returned to England in the late fifties, making three more films (her last) and a few TV appearances before retiring in 1963. She lived in Locarno, Switzerland for many years and died there in December 2003.*
[Red]cinememorial.com : [Green](Profession : Actrice anglaise. Date et lieu de naissance :307-06-1915, à Londres, Royaume-Uni.)/Green] /Red][Link=http://cinememorial.com/Acteur_detail.php?id=1326] [PATRICIA ROC] [/link][Purple] (Date et lieu du décès : 30-12-2003, à Locarno, Suisse. Cause du décès : De complications rénales à l'âge de 88 ans.) /Purple]
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Alice started as an extra in films at age 15. She worked in "Inceville" and would appear as several characters in 'Civilization (1916)'. In 1917, she would meet director Rex Ingram and they would marry in 1921. It was also in 1921 that Alice would gain acclaim as Marguerite in 'The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)'. She would continue to play the heroine is the films 'The Prisoner of Zenda (1922)' and 'Scaramouche (1923)'. In 1924, Metro would merge into the new MGM and both Ingram and Terry would work there. She would make the 'The Great Divide (1924)' with Wallace Beery in a western melodrama. She would be directed by Ingram in 'The Arab (1924)', which was filmed in North Africa and owed much to the influence of screen idol Valentino. Alice would get her chance to play the wicked woman in 'Mare Nostrum (1926)'. Filmed in Italy and Spain, this film was both a critical and financial success directed by Ingram. Ingram would make his third independent film in Italy when he directed Alice in 'The Garden of Allah (1927)'. Later that year, Alice would be reunited with Ramon Navarro in 'Lovers? (1927)', but the film would not be as well received as their earlier films. When sound came to the screen Alice retired when her favorite director Rex Imgram retired.- Actress
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Delightful child/juvenile actress Virginia Anna Adelaide Weidler (her friends called her "Ginny") had that knowing gleam in her eye that usually spelled trouble in one form or another for anyone nearby. She was born in Eagle Rock, California, in 1927, one of six children. Her mother was former Wagnerian opera singer Margarete Radon (born Margarete Therese Louisa Meyer), and her father was architect Alfred Weidler.
Virginia nearly made her acting debut at age 3 in John Barrymore's Moby Dick (1930) but was summarily replaced. A year later, she scored her first small movie bit in Warner Baxter's Surrender (1931) and was on her way. One of her brothers, child actor and musician George Weidler, was Doris Day's first husband (from 1946 to 1949).
RKO picked up young Virginia after learning that she could speak a bit of French. The average-looking youngster was ably cast as rural tomboy types in Laddie (1935) and Freckles (1935), the latter film allowing her to do a dead-on parody of Shirley Temple. She earned her first lead in Girl of the Ozarks (1936) and showed she could easily hold her own. After an unimpressive stint with Paramount, who tried to groom her as a rival to Fox's bratty Jane Withers, she was finally picked up by MGM and her film career blossomed. Co-starring with Mickey Rooney in Love Is a Headache (1938), she proved a natural young comedienne and precocious scene-stealer in such films as Out West with the Hardys (1938) (again with Rooney) and Too Hot to Handle (1938).
Little Virginia could also shine in dramatic outings, as she did with The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939) and Bad Little Angel (1939), but she was never a good choice for sappy roles, as demonstrated when she played Norma Shearer's whiny imp of a daughter in The Women (1939). Virginia's forte was providing comedy relief, and she reached her young peak with two classic MGM films: Young Tom Edison (1940), as Rooney's creative sister, and The Philadelphia Story (1940), as Katharine Hepburn's smart-alecky younger sister. Her tongue-in-cheek rendition of "Lydia the Tattooed Lady" at the piano was just one of many memorable highlights from this vintage classic.
The young actress's career started to slip away from her when the teenage Shirley Temple signed with MGM, abruptly bumping "Plain-Jane" Virginia back to secondary status. After rather disappointing receptions to Born to Sing (1942), The Youngest Profession (1943), and Best Foot Forward (1943), the awkward teen left films and turned to vaudeville as a song-and-dance comedy performer, utilizing her full-scale talents as a mimic. She made her legitimate stage debut in "The Rich Full Life" at the John Golden Theatre in 1945, but the show closed within a month.
Soon after, Virginia retired from show business, married, and had two children. She passed away from a heart ailment at 41. After her death it was learned that she had suffered from rheumatic fever as a child.- Anna Quirentia Nilsson, popularly known as "Anna Q", who was born on March 30th, 1888, in Ystad, Sweden, emigrated to the United States in 1905. The 5'7" Nilsson used her blonde beauty to become a famous model for well-known fashion photographers and fine artists. In 1907 she was chosen the most beautiful girl in the US and in 1911 made her film debut in Molly Pitcher (1911). She was an overnight sensation, becoming a silent film superstar in the first decade of the 20th century. In 1914 she was chosen the most beautiful actress "in the world" and Photoplay magazine named her "the ideal American girl" in 1919.
She appeared in films by the top studios in Hollywood, including Goldwyn, Famous Players (Paramount), Metro and First National. Her movie career continued to flourish in the 1920s, the decade of the flapper and bathtub gin, the so-called Jazz Age. In 1926 she was chosen the most popular actress. However, she suffered a major setback in 1928, when she was thrown off a horse and fractured her thigh. To her relatives in Sweden she wrote " . . . no tragedy is greater than mine. I am still a young star and suddenly everything is lost". Her fans supported her with some 30,000 letters a month and Nilsson tried to rush her convalescence. It made a bad situation worse and doctors needed to shorten her leg.
In 1931 Nilsson was back before the camera, but her stardom was unfortunately in the past. She appeared in approximately 40 more films until she retired in 1954. She was one of the bridge players (a.k.a. the "wax works") in Norma Desmond's mansion in Sunset Blvd. (1950), appearing with her former co-star, silent film superstar and prominent victim of sound, H.B. Warner. Four years later, she appeared in a small part in her motion-picture swan-song, the classic musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954).
Anna Q. Nillson died on February 11, 1974, six weeks shy of her 85th birthday. - Actress
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Classic comedienne Zasu Pitts, of the timid, forlorn blue eyes and trademark woebegone vocal pattern and fidgety hands, was born to Rulandus and Nellie (Shay) Pitts, the third of four children on January 3, 1894. Her aged New York-native father, who lost a leg back in the Civil War era, had settled the family in Kansas by the time ZaSu was born but relocated to Santa Cruz, California, when she was 9, seeking a warmer climate and better job opportunities. She attended Santa Cruz High and somehow rose above her excessively shy demeanor to join the school's drama department. She went on to cultivate what was once deemed her negative qualities by making a career out of her unglamorous looks and wallflower tendencies in scores and scores of screwball comedy treasures.
Pitts made her stage debut in 1915 and was discovered two years later by pioneer screenwriter Frances Marion, who got her work, though in small, obscure parts, in vehicles for such Paramount stars as Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford. Mary cast her in another of her films to greater effect and the rest is history. She grew in popularity following a series of Universal one-reeler comedies and earned her first feature-length lead in King Vidor's Better Times (1919). She met and married matinée idol Tom Gallery in 1920 and paired up with him in several films, including Bright Eyes (1921), Heart of Twenty (1920), Patsy (1921), and A Daughter of Luxury (1922).
Their daughter Ann was born in 1922. In 1924 the actress, now a reputable comedy farceur, was given the greatest tragic role of her career in Erich von Stroheim's epic classic Greed (1924), an over-four-hour picture cut down by the studio to less than two. The surprise casting initially shocked Hollywood but showed that she could draw tears and pathos as well as laughs with her patented doleful demeanor. The movie has grown tremendously in reputation over time, although it failed initially at the box office due to its extensive cutting.
Trading off between comedy shorts and features, she earned additional kudos in such heavy dramas as Sins of the Fathers (1928), The Wedding March (1928), also helmed by Von Stroheim, and War Nurse (1930). Still, by the advent of sound, which was an easy transition for Pitts, she was fully secured in comedy. One bitter and huge disappointment for her was when she was replaced in the war classic All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) by Beryl Mercer after her initial appearance drew unintentional laughs from preview audiences. She decided, however, to make the most of a not-so-bad situation. She had them rolling in the aisles in such wonderful and wacky entertainment as The Dummy (1929), Finn and Hattie (1931), The Guardsman (1931), Blondie of the Follies (1932), Sing and Like It (1934), and Ruggles of Red Gap (1935). She also excelled deliciously in her comedy partnerships with stunning blonde comedienne Thelma Todd (in short films) and gangly comedian Slim Summerville (in features).
Breezing through the 1940s in assorted films, she found work in vaudeville and on radio as well, trading quivery banter with Bing Crosby, Al Jolson, and Rudy Vallee, among others. She also tackled Broadway, making her debut in the mystery "Ramshackle Inn" in 1944. The play, which was written especially for her, fared quite well and, as a result, took the show on the road frequently in later years. Postwar films continued to give Pitts the chance to play comic snoops and flighty relatives in such quality fare as Life with Father (1947), but into the 1950s she started focusing on TV. This culminated in her best known series role, playing second banana to cruise line social director Gale Storm in The Gale Storm Show: Oh! Susanna (1956) [aka "Oh, Susannah"]. As Nugie, the shipboard beautician and partner-in-crime, she made the most of her timid, twitchy mannerisms.
Sadly, ill health dominated Pitts' later years when she was diagnosed with cancer in the mid-1950s. She bravely carried on, continuing to work until the very end, making brief appearances in The Thrill of It All (1963) and the all-star comedy epic It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963). Having married a second time after her divorce from Gallery, the beloved sad sack comedienne passed away at age 69 on June 6, 1963, leaving behind a gallery of scene-stealing worrywarts for all to enjoy.- A former stage actress, Dorothy Phillips was married to actor/director/producer Allen Holubar. They were known as two of the screen's most prominent players--her the star, he the director/producer. Dorothy was well known in Hollywood as one of the most warm-hearted, approachable stars in the business. After the advent of sound, however, her career faded and she could be seen in a handful of films as an extra. Although a major star in her time and one of the best loved of that era, her passing was barely mentioned, other than in local papers.
- Eva María Duarte was born into a small poor village, Los Toldos. When she was still a child she always knew she wanted to break out and get more than the others from her life. She wanted to become an actress. At the age of 15, she seduced the singer Agustín Magaldi to take her with him on his journey to Buenos Aires, where she soon found work on stage and as a photo model. Some affairs later, she got her first film contract and starred in some minor roles. She soon realized that she hadn't a very big talent on the stage and on the screen, but that she had quite some voice talent, and started working with great success in radio shows. Because she got friends in high ranks of politics, her film career also flourished. She started dating the revolutionist 'Juan Perón' and they soon married. With the help of the military Perón took over Argentina, and Eva became something like the "queen of hearts" of the poor. She tried to make the situation better for the lots of poor people in Argentina, and she will never be forgotten by them. She was the one who kept the spirit alive, and after her tragic death in 1952 Perón was never as successful as he was with her. Some years after her death, some other regime took over the country and he had to leave Argentina.