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Audrey Hepburn (1929 – 1993)
Audrey Hepburn grew up in Holland during World War II and began life with great uncertainty—not knowing when she would see her estranged father, where her next meal would come from, or even whether she would survive the war. Dance was her refuge and it brought her to the movies, where she quickly rose to ...
Katharine Hepburn (1907 – 2003)
Broadway producers thought Katharine Hepburn was too much the individual to achieve stardom, but she caught the eye of director George Cukor, who offered her the lead in A Bill of Divorcement (1932). Despite her early success in that film and in Morning Glory (1933), by decade’s end exhibitors had labeled her box office poison. ...
Lauren Bacall (1924 – )
One of the screen’s most independent women, Lauren Bacall grew up in a middle-class family in the Bronx. Her childhood interest in dance gave way to a passion for acting early on, and she studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, where the young Kirk Douglas became a lifelong friend.. Her first stage shows ...
Ingrid Bergman (1915 – 1982)
As a shy, young orphan in Sweden, Ingrid Bergman dreamed of becoming an actress. She started appearing in films while still a teenager, eventually rising to stardom. Her film Intermezzo (1936), in which she played a classical pianist in love with a married violinist, brought her to the attention of independent producer David 0. Selznick. ...
Joan Crawford (1904 – 1977)
Joan Crawford spent much of her early movie career playing shopgirls Short on cash but long on moxie who talked and occasionally danced their way to a better life. These were characters near but not dear to her heart; her own divorced mother had toiled as a maid and a laundress, and living behind the ...
Bette Davis (1908 – 1989)
Bette Davis was shocked when Hollywood first came calling. She had never thought a world that worshipped beauties like Jean Harlow would take an interest in her. Yet her confidence grew with each picture until, insecure about her talent no longer, she was like a boxer, going rounds with costars and directors, scriptwriters and studio ...
Humphrey Bogart (1899 – 1957)
When the Brattle Theatre, near Harvard, started its annual revivals of Casablanca (1942) in the sixties, students showed up for screenings dressed as Rick Blaine, their trench coats and snap-brim hats mirroring Humphrey Bogart’s screen image just as his tough-guy pose mirrored their own youthful rebellions. Had Bogie been alive, he probably would have been ...
Marlon Brando (1924 – 2004)
Brando was one of the key figures to introduce a new, more personal approach to acting in the fifties. Although he never considered himself a Method actor, he had studied with New York teacher Stella Adler, who taught him to create impressively realistic performances by dredging up evocative past memories. As the child of alcoholic ...
Montgomery Clift (1920 – 1966)
The life of Montgomery Clift is one of Hollywood’s most tragic stories. In many ways the sensitivity and emotional openness that made him a star in films like A Place in the Sun (1951) and From Here to Eternity (1953) contributed to his fall from stardom. Clift’s family background— domineering mother and emotionally absent father—seemed ...
Laurence Olivier (1907 – 1989)
Laurence Olivier didn’t just create characters; he created “the universe in the palm of his hands,” one of his own definitions of acting. Graced with the ability to disappear inside even the showiest role, he transformed himself into a series of unforgettable characters. Through the course of his career, he moved from romantic lead to ...
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