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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 ...
John Garfield (1913 – 1952)
John Garfield was a fighter all his life, taking on the Hollywood establish- ment, the House Un-American Activities Committee, and even his colleagues in the legendary Group Theatre. As a motherless child in the New York slums, he had to fight to survive. He fell naturally into clowning, performing for fellow gang members to win ...
Clark Gable (1901 – 1960)
Clark Gable was a star tailor-made for the thirties. Stage training gave him a perfect voice for talking pictures, while his size and rough features made him both heroic and down-to-earth–a fitting idol for Depression-weary Americans who wished they could stand up to adversity so well. Gable always joked that he turned to acting in ...
Kirk Douglas (1916 – )
Kirk Douglas gave some of his best performances as men bucking the system, taking on everything from the artistic establishment as Vincent van Gogh in Lust for Life (1956) to conventional morality as the unscrupulous hero of Champion (1949) and The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). His searing intensity and husky physique made him seem ...
James Dean (1931 – 1955)
Sensitive and masculine in equal measures, James Dean made his mark playing sincere, searching youths hungry for emotional honesty. His pained cry to his parents—”You’re tearing me apart!”—in Rebel Without a Cause (1955) was emblematic of an entire misunderstood generation. Dean’s intensely personal acting added to his mystique, blurring the dividing line between actor and ...
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