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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 ...
Kate Winslet
Kate Winslet comes from a family of actors: her parents, grandparents, and uncle all spent their lives on the stage. She took acting classes as a child, and became a well-spoken, bright-eyed child actress in BBC TV series such as Dark Season (1991) and Casualty (1993), before director Peter Jackson cast her as Juliet Hulme, ...
Angelina Jolie
Famous for her provocative behavior offscreen as well as her professional achievements, Angelina Jolie is the daughter of Marcheline Bertrand and actor Jon Voight, who divorced when she was just one year old. Her interest in acting began as a child when, at the age of seven, she appeared in Lookin’ to Get Out (1982), ...
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
One of the greatest epics of all time, Lawrence of Arabia epitomizes all that motion pictures can be. Ambitious in every sense of the word, David Lean’s Oscar-grabbing masterpiece, based loosely on the life of the eccentric British officer T.E. Lawrence and his campaign against the Turks in World War I, makes most movies pale ...
Gone with the Wind (1939)
Margaret Mitchell’s Civil War bestseller was snapped up by megalomaniac producer David O. Selznick, who resisted Mitchell’s suggestion that he cast Basil Rathbone as Rhett Butler in favor of the fans’ only choice, Clark Gable. After a nationwide talent search and a Hollywood catfight involving every potential leading lady in town, Selznick hired British Vivien ...
Casablanca (1942)
The most beloved Academy Award Best Picture winner of all, this romatic war melodrama epitomizes the 194os craze for studio-bound exotica, with the Warners lot transformed into a fantastical North Africa that has far more resonance than any mere real place possibly could. Casablanca also offers more cult performers, quotable lines, instant clichés, and Hollywood ...
Citizen Kane (1941)
Since 1962, Sight & Sound magazine’s oft-cited critics’ poll of the greatest films ever made has placed Citizen Kane, Orson Welles’s remarkable debut film, at the top of the list. By 1998, the American Film Institute called it the greatest movie of all time. It also garnered Best Picture awards from the New York Film ...
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Pakeezah (1971):
While courtesans feature in many films, mostly in minor roles, the two great films in whic...
Bollywood - Year by Year - 1910: Important Events
Dadasaheb Phalke attends a screening of The Life of Christ at P. B. Mehta's Americ...
Lauren Bacall (1924 - ):
One of the screen's most independent women, Lauren Bacall grew up in a middle-class family in th...
Dev Anand:
Along with Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand completes the trio of the top male stars from t...
Panna - Memories:
Real name; Zareen Sulaiman, name known to the world; Panna. Practicing the fine art of dance sin...
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