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Rita Hayworth (born Margarita Carmen Cansino; October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987) was an American actress and dancer. She achieved fame during the 1940s as one of the era's top stars, appearing in a total of 61 films over 37 years. The press coined the term "love goddess" to describe Hayworth after she had become the most glamorous screen idol of the 1940s. She was the top pin-up girl for GIs during World War II.
Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922 and died May 13, 2019 at the age of 97) was an American actress, singer, and animal welfare activist. After she began her career as a big band singer in 1939, her popularity increased with her first hit recording "Sentimental Journey" (1945). After leaving Les Brown & His Band of Renown to embark on a solo career, she recorded more than 650 songs from 1947 to 1967, which made her one of the most popular and acclaimed singers of the 20th century.
Cary Grant (born Archibald Alec Leach; January 18, 1904 – November 29, 1986) was a British-American actor, known as one of classic Hollywood's definitive leading men. He began a career in Hollywood in the early 1930s, and became known for his transatlantic accent, debonair demeanor, and light-hearted approach to acting and sense of comic timing. He became an American citizen in 1942.
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress. Known for her fierce independence and spirited personality, Hepburn was a leading lady in Hollywood for more than 60 years. She appeared in a range of genres, from screwball comedy to literary drama, and she received four Academy Awards—a record for any performer—for Best Actress. In 1999, Hepburn was named by the American Film Institute as the greatest female star of Classic Hollywood Cinema.
When a Roman General, Maximus Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe) is betrayed, and his family murdered by an emperor's corrupt son (Joaquin Phoenix), he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge. In the final days of Marcus Aurelius' (Richard Harris) reign, the aging emperor arouses his son Commodus' anger when he makes known his wish that Maximus be his successor. Power-hungry Commodus kills his father and orders the death of Maximus. But the latter flees and hides his identity by becoming slave and a gladiator. Eventually, Maximus journeys back to Rome to confront his archrival.
Humphrey DeForest Bogart was born in New York City, New York, to Maud Humphrey, a famed magazine illustrator and suffragette, and Belmont DeForest Bogart, a moderately wealthy surgeon (who was secretly addicted to opium). Bogart was educated at Trinity School, NYC, and was sent to Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, in preparation for medical studies at Yale. He was expelled from Phillips and joined the U.S. Naval Reserve. From 1920 to 1922, he managed a stage company owned by family friend William A.
After John Nash, a brilliant but asocial mathematician, accepts secret work in cryptography, his life takes a turn for the nightmarish. "A Beautiful Mind" is a 2001 American biographical drama film based on the life of John Nash (Russell Crowe), a Nobel Laureate in Economics. The film was directed by Ron Howard, from a screenplay written by Akiva Goldsman. It was inspired by a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-nominated 1998 book of the same name by Sylvia Nasar. The story begins in Nash's days as a graduate student at Princeton University. Early in the film, Nash begins to develop paranoid schizophrenia and endures delusional episodes while painfully watching the loss and burden his condition brings on wife Alicia (Jennifer Connelly) and friends.
An ingenue insinuates herself into the company of an established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater friends. - The film stars Bette Davis as Margo Channing, a highly regarded but aging Broadway star. Anne Baxter plays Eve Harrington, an ambitious young fan who subtly manuvers herself into Channing's life, ultimately threatening Channing's career and her personal relationships. The film co-stars George Sanders, Celeste Holm, and features Gary Merrill, Hugh Marlowe, Thelma Ritter, Marilyn Monroe (in one of her earliest roles), Gregory Ratoff, Barbara Bates and Walter Hampden."
"Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago. "Chicago" is a 2002 American musical crime comedy-drama film based on the stage-musical of the same name, exploring the themes of celebrity, scandal, and corruption in Chicago during the Jazz Age. The film stars Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Richard Gere....
The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.
The faster I write the better my output. If I'm going slow I'm in trouble. It means I'm pushing the words instead of being pulled by them.
I'll give you a definite maybe.
Advise to a young Richard Roundtree
Whatever you do in this business, It's much easier than lifting heavy things.
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.
No matter how slow the film, Spirit always stands still long enough for the photographer it has chosen.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them!
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
I can't wait to one day shoot in Detroit and say 'Let's have this double for Toronto'.
To young actor. Eugene Roach on the subject of acting
Don't ever let 'em catch you at it.
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.
Life ain't no dress rehearsal.
My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.
All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.
Kiss and make up...
but too much makeup has ruined many a kiss.
The problem is not that television presents us with entertaining subject matter,
but, that all subject matter is presented as entertaining.…
What's this business of being a writer?
It's just putting one word after another.
Seeing a murder on television, can help work off one's antagonisms.
And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some!
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
When you're down and out, something always turns up -- and it's usually the noses of your friends.
The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
When asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
I'll moider da bum!
Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn't have in your home.
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
Do, or do not. - There is no 'try'..
While attending a Production Meeting
This is no place to ask questions!!
I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with 'Guess' on it.
I said, Thyroid problem?
From: "Tuesday's with Morrie"
We must learn to love one another or die.... We must!
It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?
Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by favoring to attempt.
The problem with television is that the people must sit and keep their eyes glued on a screen; the average American family hasn’t time for it. Therefore, the showmen are…
Sage Advise to a Young Oregonian, Barbara Niven
If you want to make it in show business, get the hell out of Oregon!
Why should people go out and pay to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
