Name	Beatrice Arthur
Caption	Arthur at the 1987 Emmy Awards
Birth name	Bernice Frankel
Birth date	May 13, 1922
Death date
Birth place	New York City, New York, U.S.
Death place	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Death cause	Cancer
Religion	Jewish
Occupation	Actress, comedienne, singer, activist
Spouse	Robert Alan Aurthur (divorced) Gene Saks (1950–1978; divorced; 2 sons)
Years active	1947–2009}}

Beatrice "Bea" Arthur (May 13, 1922 – April 25, 2009) was an American actress, comedienne and singer whose career spanned seven decades. Arthur achieved fame as the character Maude Findlay on the 1970s sitcoms All in the Family and Maude, and as Dorothy Zbornak on the 1980s sitcom The Golden Girls, winning Emmy Awards for both roles. A stage actress both before and after her television success, she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance as Vera Charles in the original cast of Mame (1966).

Early life

Arthur was born Bernice Frankel to Jewish parents Philip and Rebecca Frankel in New York City on May 13, 1922. In 1933 her family moved to Cambridge, Maryland, where her parents operated a women's clothing shop. She attended Linden Hall High School, an all girls school in Lititz, Pennsylvania, before enrolling in the now-defunct Blackstone College for Girls in Blackstone, Virginia, where she was active in drama productions. During World War II she spent 30 months in the Marine Corps, where she was one of the first members of the Women’s Reserve and spent time as a typist and a truck driver despite publicly denying any military service. When she enlisted, Arthur was described as "argumentative and "over-aggressive." The recruitment officer concluded, however, that she is: "Officious—but probably a good worker—if she has her own way!"

Career

Theater

From 1947, Bea Arthur studied at the Dramatic Workshop of The New School in New York with German director Erwin Piscator. Arthur began her acting career as a member of an off Broadway theater group at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City in the late 1940s. On stage, her roles included Lucy Brown in the 1954 Off-Broadway premiere of Marc Blitzstein's English-language adaptation of Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera, Yente the Matchmaker in the 1964 premiere of Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway, and a 1966 Tony Award-winning portrayal of Vera Charles to Angela Lansbury's Mame. She reprised the role in the 1974 film version opposite Lucille Ball. In 1981, she appeared in Woody Allen's The Floating Light Bulb. She made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 1994 portraying the Duchess of Krakenthorp, a speaking role, in Gaetano Donizetti's La fille du régiment.

Television

In 1971, Arthur was invited by Norman Lear to guest-star on his sitcom All in the Family, as Maude Findlay, the cousin of Edith Bunker. An outspoken liberal feminist, Maude was the antithesis to the bigoted, conservative Archie Bunker, who decried her as a "New Deal fanatic". Then nearly 50, Arthur's tart turn appealed to viewers and to executives at CBS, who, she would later recall, asked "'Who is that girl? Let's give her her own series.'"

That show, previewed in her second All in the Family appearance, would be simply titled Maude. The show, debuting in 1972, would find her living in the affluent community of Tuckahoe, Westchester County, New York, with her husband Walter (Bill Macy) and divorced daughter Carol (Adrienne Barbeau). Her performance in the role garnered Arthur several Emmy and Golden Globe nominations, including her Emmy win in 1977 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.

It would also earn a place for her in the history of the women's liberation movement. The groundbreaking series didn't shirk from addressing serious sociopolitical topics of the era that were fairly taboo for a sitcom, from the Vietnam War, the Nixon Administration and Maude's bid for a Congressional seat to divorce, menopause, drug use, alcoholism, nervous breakdown and spousal abuse. A prime example, "Maude's Dilemma", was a two-part episode in which Maude's character grapples with a late-life pregnancy, ultimately deciding to have an abortion. The episode aired two months before the U.S. Supreme Court legalized the procedure in the Roe v. Wade decision. Though abortion was legal in New York State, it was illegal in many regions of the country and so controversial that dozens of affiliates refused to broadcast the episode. A reported 65 million viewers watched the two episodes either in their first run that November or the following summer as a re-run. By 1978, however, Arthur decided to move on from the series.

That year, she costarred in The Star Wars Holiday Special, in which she had a song and dance routine in the Mos Eisley Cantina. She hosted The Beatrice Arthur Special on CBS on January 19, 1980, which paired the star in a musical comedy revue with Rock Hudson, Melba Moore and Wayland Flowers and Madame. (right).]] After appearing in the short-lived 1983 sitcom Amanda's (an adaptation of the British series Fawlty Towers), Arthur was cast in the sitcom The Golden Girls in 1985, in which she played Dorothy Zbornak, a divorced substitute teacher living in a Miami house owned by Blanche Devereaux (Rue McClanahan). Her other roommates included widow Rose Nylund (Betty White) and Dorothy's Sicilian mother, Sophia Petrillo (Estelle Getty). Getty was actually a year younger than Arthur in real life, and was heavily made up to look significantly older. The series became a hit, and remained a top-ten ratings fixture for six seasons. Her performance led to several Emmy nominations over the course of the series and an Emmy win in 1988. During the series run, Arthur became an LGBT icon. Arthur decided to leave the show after seven years, and in 1992 the show was moved from NBC to CBS and retooled as The Golden Palace in which the other three actresses reprised their roles. Arthur made a guest appearance in a two-part episode.

Film

Arthur also sporadically appeared in films, reprising her stage role as Vera Charles in the 1974 film adaption of Mame, opposite Lucille Ball. Additionally, Arthur portrayed overbearing mother Bea Vecchio in Lovers and Other Strangers (1970), and had a cameo as a Roman unemployment clerk in Mel Brooks' History of the World, Part 1 (1981).

Later career

After Arthur left The Golden Girls, she made several guest appearances on television shows and organized and toured in her one-woman show, alternately titled An Evening with Bea Arthur and And Then There's Bea. She made a guest appearance on the American cartoon Futurama, in the Emmy-nominated 2001 episode "Amazon Women in the Mood", as the voice of the Femputer who ruled the giant Amazonian women. She also appeared in an episode of Malcolm in the Middle as Mrs. White, Dewey's babysitter, in a first-season episode. She was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her performance. She also appeared as Larry David's mother on Curb Your Enthusiasm.

In 2002, she returned to Broadway starring in Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends, a collection of stories and songs (with musician Billy Goldenberg) based on her life and career. The show was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Special Theatrical Event. The previous year had been the category's first, and there had been only one nominee. That year, Arthur was up against solo performances by soprano Barbara Cook, comedian John Leguizamo, and Arthur's fellow student in Piscator's program at The New School, actress Elaine Stritch, who won for Elaine Stritch: At Liberty.

In addition to appearing in a number of programs looking back at her own work, Arthur performed in stage and television tributes for Jerry Herman, Bob Hope, Peggy Lee, and Ellen DeGeneres. In 2005, she participated in the Comedy Central roast of Pamela Anderson, where she recited explicit passages from Anderson's book Star Struck.

Influences

In 1999, Arthur told an interviewer of the three influences in her career: "Sid Caesar taught me the outrageous; [method acting guru] Lee Strasberg taught me what I call reality; and [original Threepenny Opera star] Lotte Lenya, whom I adored, taught me economy."

Personal life and death

Arthur was married twice. Her first marriage took place during her time in the military, when she married fellow Marine Robert Alan Aurthur,

In 1972, she moved to the Greater Los Angeles Area and sublet her apartment on Central Park West in New York City and her country home in Bedford, New York.

Arthur was a committed animal-rights activist and frequently supported People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals campaigns. Arthur joined PETA in 1987 after a Golden Girls anti-fur episode. Arthur wrote letters, made personal appearances and placed ads against the use of furs, foie gras, and farm animal cruelty by KFC suppliers. She appeared on Judge Judy as a witness for an animal-rights activist, and, along with Pamela Anderson insisted on a donation to PETA in exchange for appearing on Comedy Central. In Norfolk, Virginia near the site of the PETA headquarters, there is a dog park named (Bea Arthur Dog Park) in her honor.

Arthur's longtime championing of civil rights for women, the elderly, and the Jewish & LGBT communities—in her two television roles and through her charity work and personal outspokenness—has led her to be cited as an LGBT icon.

Arthur died at her home in the Greater Los Angeles Area in the early morning hours of Saturday, April 25, 2009. She had been ill from cancer, and her body was cremated after her death.

On April 28, 2009, the Broadway community paid tribute to Arthur by dimming the marquees of New York City's Broadway theater district in her memory for one minute at 8:00 P.M.

Arthur's co-stars from The Golden Girls, Rue McClanahan and Betty White, commented on her death via telephone on an April 27 episode of Larry King Live as well as other news outlets such as ABC. Longtime friends Adrienne Barbeau (with whom she had worked on Maude) and Angela Lansbury (with whom she had worked in Mame) released amicable statements: Barbeau said, "We've lost a unique, incredible talent. No one could deliver a line or hold a take like Bea and no one was more generous or giving to her fellow performers"; and Lansbury said, "She became and has remained my Bosom Buddy [...] I am deeply saddened by her passing, but also relieved that she is released from the pain".

Arthur bequeathed $300,000 to The Ali Forney Center, a New York City organization that provides housing for homeless LGBT youths.

Awards

Arthur won the American Theatre Wing's Tony Award in 1966 as Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance that year as Vera Charles in the original Broadway production of Jerry Herman's musical Mame.

Arthur has received the most Emmy nominations for Leading Actress in a Comedy Series with 9. She later received the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences' Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series twice, once in 1977 for Maude and again in 1988 for The Golden Girls. She was inducted into the Academy's Hall of Fame in 2008.

On June 8, 2008, The Golden Girls was awarded the Pop Culture award at the Sixth Annual TV Land Awards. Arthur (in one of her final public appearances) accepted the award with co-stars Rue McClanahan and Betty White.

Television credits

*Kraft Television Theatre (1951–1958)

Studio One (1951–1953)

Threepenny Opera (1956)

Max Liebman Presents: Kaleidoscope (1955)

Caesar's Hour (regular performer 1954–1956)

The Seven Lively Arts (1958)

Omnibus (1958)

Hallmark Hall of Fame (1958)

The George Gobel Show (1959)

The Perry Como Show (1961)

All in the Family (1971 & 1972)

Maude (1972–1978)

The 45th Annual Academy Awards (1973)

The Mike Douglas Show (1974 & 1980)

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1974–1977 ,1980, 1985, 1986, 1990)

Dinah (1975 & 1976)

Saturday Night Live (1976 & 1979)

Cos (1976)

Laugh-In (1977)

CBS: On the Air (1978)

The Star Wars Holiday Special (1978)

The Mary Tyler Moore Hour (1979)

The Beatrice Arthur Special (1980)

Soap (1980)

''History of the World Part I (1981)

Omnibus (1981)

Nights of 100 Stars (1982)

Broadway Plays Washington on Kennedy Center Tonight (1982)

Amanda's (1983) (series; lasted 4 months)

a.k.a. Pablo (1984)

P.O.P. (1984)

The Golden Girls (1985–1992)

Circus of the Stars #10 (1985)

NBC 60th Anniversary Celebration (1986)

Walt Disney World's 15th Birthday Celebration (1986)

Late Night with David Letterman (1986)

The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1986)

The 13th Annual People's Choice Awards (1987)

''This is Your Life" (1987)

The 41st Annual Tony Awards (1987)

Comic Relief '87 (1987)

Family Comedy Hour (1987)

Irving Berlin's 100th Birthday Celebration (1988)

Circus of the Stars #13 (1988)

My First Love (1988) (ABC-TV Movie)

Empty Nest (1989)

Aspel & Company (1990)

Night of 100 Stars III (1990)

The 42nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1990)

Dame Edna's Hollywood (1991)

The Howard Stern Show (1992)

Guest Night (1992)

6th Annual Americam Comedy Awards (1992)

The Golden Palace (1992) 2 episodes

This Joint Is Jumpin' (1993)

The 47th Annual Tony Awards (1993)

Boulevard Bio (1993)

Sean's Show (1993)

Jerry Herman's Broadway at the Hollywood Bowl (1994)

Bob Hope: Happy 91st Birthday, Bob (1994)

50 Years of Funny Females (1995)

The 50th Annual Tony Awards (1996)

Dave's World (cast member 1996 & 1997)

The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1997)

The RuPaul Show (1998)

''Ellen: A Hollywood Tribute, Part 1" (1998)

The 53rd Annual Tony Awards (1999)

Beggars and Choosers (1999)

The Martin Short Show (1999)

So Graham Norton (2000)

Intimate Portrait: Rue McClanahan (2000)

Malcolm in the Middle, "Water Park (Part 1)" (2000)

E! True Hollywood Story: All in the Family (2000)

Intimate Portrait: Estelle Getty (2001)

Futurama as "Femputer" in the episode "Amazon Women in the Mood" (2001)

Today (2001)

The View (2002)

CBS News Sunday Morning (2002)

The Rosie O'Donnell Show (2002)

Good Morning America (2002)

The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (2002)

The Big O! True West Hollywood Story (2002)

TV Most Censored Moments (2002)

TV Tales: The Golden Girls (2002)

Open Mike with Mike Bullard (2002)

Because I Said So (2002)

Inside TV Land: Taboo TV (2002)

Intimate Portrait: Bea Arthur (2003)

TV Land Awards: A Celebration of Classic TV (2003)

Rove Live (2003)

Through The Keyhole (2003)

Broadway: The Golden Age by the Legends Who Were There (2003)

The Golden Girls: Their Greatest Moments (2003)

Today with Des and Mel (2003)

Richard & Judy (2003)

The Terry and Gaby Show (2003)

The Second Annual TV Land Awards: A Celebration of Classic TV (2004)

The Best of So Graham Norton (2004)

Inside TV Land: Primetime Politics (2004)

TV's Greatest Sidekicks (2004)

Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson (2005)

TV Land Confidential (2005)

Curb Your Enthusiasm as Larry David's deceased mother on the Season 5 finale (2005)

Entertainment Tonight (2006)

Biography: Bea Arthur (2006)

The View (2007)

TV Land Confidential (2007)

Entertainment Tonight (2007)

Back to the Grind (2007)

Entertainment Weekly & TV Land Present: The 50 Greatest TV Icons (2007)

Entertainment Tonight (2008)

The 6th Annual TV Land Awards (2008)

Entertainment Tonight (2008)

Theater performances

*Lysistrata (1947)

The Dog Beneath the Skin (1947)

Yerma (1947)

No Exit (1948)

The Taming of the Shrew (1948)

Six Characters in Search of an Author (1948)

The Owl and the Pussycat (1948)

Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1949)

Yes is for a Very Young Man (1949)

The Creditors (1949)

Heartbreak House (1949)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1951)

Personal Appearance (1951)

Candle Light (1951)

Love or Money (1951)

The Voice of the Turtle (1951)

The New Moon (1953)

The Threepenny Opera (1954)

What's the Rush? (1955)

Shoestring Revue (1955)

Plain and Fancy (1955)

Seventh Heaven (1955)

Mistress of the Inn (1956)

Ziegfeld Follies (1956)

Nature's Way (1957)

Ulysses in Nighttown (1958)

The Gay Divorcee at the Cherry Lane (1960)

A Matter of Position (1962)

Fiddler on the Roof (1964)

Mame (1966)

The Floating Lightbulb (1981)

La Fille du Regiment (1994)

Bermuda Avenue Triangle (1995–1996)

Angela Lansbury – A Celebration (November 17, 1996) (benefit concert)

After Play (1997–1998)

Strike Up The Band (2000)

An Evening with Bea Arthur in Westport, Connecticut (July 28–30, 2000)

And Then There's Bea United States Tour (April 24, 2001 – January 13, 2002)

Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends in New York, New York (January 29, 2002 – April 14, 2002)

An Evening with Bea Arthur in Santa Fe, New Mexico (September 24, 2002)

And Then There's Bea in Melbourne, Australia (October 15–27, 2002)

And Then There's Bea in Sydney, Australia (October 29 – November 10, 2002)

Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends in Toronto, Canada (November 20 – December 8, 2002)

And Then There's Bea in Johannesburg, South Africa (August 12–24, 2003)

And Then There's Bea in Cape Town, South Africa (August 26 – September 7, 2003)

Bea Arthur at The Savoy in London, England (September 15 – October 18, 2003)

An Evening with Bea Arthur in Los Angeles, California (January 31 – February 1, 2004)

An Evening with Bea Arthur in Saugatuck, Michigan (May 22–23, 2004)

A Celebration of Life in Washington, D.C. (May 26, 2004)

Bea Arthur at the El Portal in North Hollywood, California (August 5–8, 2004)

An Evening with Bea Arthur in Provincetown, Massachusetts (August 21, 2004)

An Evening with Bea Arthur in Columbus, Georgia (October 30, 2004)

An Evening with Bea Arthur in Nyack, New York (March 4–6, 2005)

An Evening with Bea Arthur in Fort Wayne, Indiana (April 17, 2005)

An Evening with Bea Arthur in Mount Pleasant, Michigan (April 19, 2005)

An Evening with Bea Arthur in Atlantic City, New Jersey (June 3–4, 2005)

An Evening with Bea Arthur in Holmdel, New Jersey (June 7, 2005)

An Evening with Bea Arthur in Las Vegas, Nevada (August 27, 2005)

An Evening with Bea Arthur in Hampton, Virginia (September 16–17, 2005)

An Evening with Bea Arthur in Alexandria, Virginia (September 22, 2005)

An Evening with Bea Arthur in Geneva, New York (September 24, 2005)

Bea Arthur Back on Broadway (at 95th Street) in New York, New York (November 21, 2005)

An Evening with Bea Arthur in San Francisco, California (January 7, 2006)

An Evening with Bea Arthur in Salem, Oregon (January 21, 2006)

Bea Arthur Back at the El Portal in North Hollywood, California (February 16–19, 2006)

An Evening with Bea Arthur in Scottsdale, Arizona (February 24–25, 2006)

An Evening with Bea Arthur in University Park, Illinois (March 19, 2006)

References

External links

Kirsten Fermaglich, Beatrice Arthur, Jewish Women Encyclopedia

CBC obituary

N.Y. Times obituary

L.A. Times memorial

Entertainment Weekly article about her death

Beatrice Arthur – Daily Telegraph obituary

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Name	Rock Hudson
Caption	An image from the trailer for Giant (1956)
Birth name	Roy Harold Scherer, Jr.
Birth date	November 17, 1925
Birth place	Winnetka, Illinois, U.S.
Death date	October 02, 1985
Death place	Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actor
Height
Years active	1948–1985
Spouse	Phyllis Gates (1955–1958)

Roy Harold Scherer, Jr. (November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985), known professionally as Rock Hudson, was an American film and television actor, recognized as a romantic leading man during the 1950s and 1960s, most notably in several romantic comedies with his most famous co-star, Doris Day. Hudson was voted "Star of the Year", "Favorite Leading Man", and similar titles by numerous movie magazines. The tall actor was unquestionably one of the most popular and well-known movie stars of the time. He completed nearly 70 motion pictures and starred in several television productions during a career that spanned over four decades. Hudson was also one of the first major Hollywood celebrities to die from an AIDS-related illness.

Life and career

Early life

Hudson was born Roy Harold Scherer, Jr., in Winnetka, Illinois, the only child of Katherine Wood (of English and Irish descent), a telephone operator, and Roy Harold Scherer, Sr., (of German and Swiss descent) an auto mechanic who abandoned the family during the depths of the Great Depression. His mother remarried and his stepfather Wallace "Wally" Fitzgerald adopted him, changing his last name to Fitzgerald. Hudson's years at New Trier High School were unremarkable. He sang in the school's glee club and was remembered as a shy boy who delivered newspapers, ran errands and worked as a golf caddy.

After graduating from high school, he served in the Philippines as an aircraft mechanic for the United States Navy during World War II. In 1946, Hudson moved to the Los Angeles area to pursue an acting career and applied to the University of Southern California's dramatics program, but he was rejected owing to poor grades. Hudson worked for a time as a truck driver, longing to be an actor but with no success in breaking into the movies. A fortunate meeting with Hollywood talent scout Henry Willson in 1948 got Hudson his start in the business.

Early career

Hudson made his debut with a small part in the 1948 Warner Bros.' Fighter Squadron. Hudson needed no fewer than 38 takes before successfully delivering his only line in the film.

Hudson was further coached in acting, singing, dancing, fencing, and horseback riding, and he began to feature in film magazines where he was promoted, possibly on the basis of his good looks. Success and recognition came in 1954 with Magnificent Obsession in which Hudson plays a bad boy who is redeemed opposite the popular star Jane Wyman. The film received rave reviews, with Modern Screen Magazine citing Hudson as the most popular actor of the year. Hudson's popularity soared with George Stevens' Giant, based on Edna Ferber's novel and co-starring Elizabeth Taylor and James Dean. Hudson and Dean both were nominated for Oscars in the Best Actor category.

Following Richard Brooks' notable Something of Value (1957) was a moving performance in Charles Vidor's box office failure A Farewell to Arms, based on Ernest Hemingway's novel. In order to make A Farewell to Arms, he had reportedly turned down Marlon Brando's role in Sayonara, William Holden's role in The Bridge on the River Kwai, and Charlton Heston's role in Ben-Hur. Those films went on to become hugely successful and critically acclaimed, while A Farewell to Arms proved to be one of the biggest flops in cinema history.

Hudson sailed through the 1960s on a wave of romantic comedies. He portrayed humorous characters in Pillow Talk, the first of several profitable co-starring performances with Doris Day. This was followed by Lover Come Back, Come September, Send Me No Flowers, Man's Favorite Sport?, The Spiral Road, and Strange Bedfellows, and along with Cary Grant was regarded as one of the best-dressed male stars in Hollywood, and received "Top 10 Stars of the Year" a record eight times from 1957 to 1964. He worked outside his usual range on the science-fiction thriller Seconds (1966). The film flopped but it later gained cult status, and Hudson's performance is often regarded as one of his best. He also tried his hand in the action genre with Tobruk (1967), the lead in 1968's spy thriller Ice Station Zebra, a role which he had actively sought and remained his personal favorite, and westerns with The Undefeated (1969) opposite John Wayne.

Later career

Hudson's popularity on the big screen diminished after the 1960s. He starred in a number of made-for-TV movies. His most successful series was McMillan & Wife opposite Susan Saint James from 1971 to 1977. In it, Hudson played police commissioner Stewart "Mac" McMillan with Saint James as his wife Sally. Their on-screen chemistry helped make the show a hit.

In the early 1980s, following years of heavy drinking and smoking, Hudson began having health problems which resulted in a heart attack in November 1981. Emergency quintuple heart bypass surgery sidelined Hudson and his new TV show The Devlin Connection for a year; the show was canceled in December 1982 not long after it first aired. Hudson recovered from the heart surgery but continued to smoke. He was in ill health while filming The Ambassador in Israel during the winter of 1983-84 with Robert Mitchum. The two stars reportedly did not like each other, Mitchum himself having a serious drinking problem. During 1984, Hudson's health grew worse, prompting different rumors that he was suffering from liver cancer, among other ailments, due to his increasingly gaunt face and build.

From December 1984 to April 1985, Hudson landed a recurring role on the ABC prime time soap opera Dynasty as Daniel Reece, the love interest for Krystle Carrington (played by Linda Evans) and biological father of the character Sammy Jo Carrington (Heather Locklear). While he had long been known to have difficulty memorizing lines which resulted in his use of cue cards, on Dynasty it was Hudson's speech itself that began to deteriorate. Hudson was originally slated to appear for the duration of the show's 5th season, however, due to his progressing illness, his character was abruptly written out of the show and died offscreen.

Personal life

Hudson never publicly revealed any specifics regarding his sexuality. While Hudson's career was blooming as he epitomized wholesome manliness, he and his agent Henry Willson kept his personal life out of the headlines. In 1955, Confidential magazine threatened to publish an exposé about Hudson's secret homosexual life; Willson covered this by disclosing information about two of his other clients, in the form of Rory Calhoun's years in prison and the arrest of Tab Hunter at a gay party in 1950.

Soon afterward, Hudson married Willson's secretary Phyllis Gates. In Gates' 1987 autobiography My Husband, Rock Hudson, the book she wrote with veteran Hollywood chronicler Bob Thomas, Gates states that she dated Hudson for several months and lived with him for two months before his surprise marriage proposal. She claims to have married Hudson out of love and not, as it was later purported, to stave off a major exposure of Hudson's sexual orientation. The news of the wedding was made known by all the major gossip magazines. One story, headlined "When Day Is Done, Heaven Is Waiting," quoted Hudson as saying, "When I count my blessings, my marriage tops the list." The union lasted three years; Gates filed for divorce in April 1958, charging mental cruelty. Hudson did not contest the divorce, and Gates received an alimony of US$250 a week for 10 years. After her death from lung cancer in January 2006, some informants reportedly stated that she was actually a lesbian who married Hudson for his money, knowing from the beginning of their relationship that he was gay. She never remarried.

According to the 1986 biography, Rock Hudson: His Story, by Hudson and Sara Davidson, Rock was good friends with American novelist Armistead Maupin and a few of Hudson's lovers were: Jack Coates (born 1944); Hollywood publicist Tom Clark (1933–1995), who also later published a memoir about Hudson, Rock Hudson: Friend of Mine; and Marc Christian, who later won a suit against the Hudson estate. In Maupin's Further Tales of the City, Michael Tolliver links up with a closeted macho icon referred to as Blank Blank, which has been interpreted as a thinly disguised caricature of Hudson.

The book, The Thin Thirty, by Shannon Ragland, chronicles Hudson's involvement in a 1962 sex scandal at the University of Kentucky involving the football team. Ragland writes that Jim Barnett, a wrestling promoter, engaged in prostitution with members of the team, and that Hudson was one of Barnett's customers.

A popular urban legend states that Hudson married Jim Nabors in the 1970s. The two, however, never had anything beyond a friendship; the legend originated with a group of "middle-aged homosexuals who live in Huntington Beach", as Hudson put it, who would send out joke invitations for their annual get-together. One year, the group invited its members to witness "the marriage of Rock Hudson and Jim Nabors"; the punchline of the joke was that Hudson would take the name of Nabors's most famous character, Gomer Pyle, and would henceforth be named "Rock Pyle". Despite the obvious impossibility of such an event, the joke was lost on many, and the Hudson-Nabors marriage was, in a few circles, taken seriously. As a result of the false rumor, Nabors and Hudson never spoke to each other again.

AIDS and death

and first lady Nancy Reagan at a White House state dinner, May 1984]] In July 1985, Hudson joined his old friend Doris Day for the launch of her new TV cable show, Doris Day's Best Friends. His gaunt appearance, and his nearly incoherent speech, were so shocking it was broadcast again all over the national news shows that night and for weeks to come. Day herself stared at him throughout their appearance.

Hudson had been diagnosed with HIV on June 5, 1984, but when the signs of illness became apparent, his publicity staff and doctors told the public he had inoperable liver cancer. It was not until July 25, 1985, while in Paris for treatment, that Hudson issued a press release announcing that he was dying of AIDS. In a later press release, Hudson speculated he might have contracted HIV through transfused blood from an infected donor during the multiple blood transfusions he received as part of his heart bypass procedure in 1981. Hudson flew back to Los Angeles on July 31, where he was so physically weak he was taken off by stretcher from an Air France Boeing 747, which he chartered and upon which he was the sole passenger, along with his medical attendants. He was flown by helicopter to Cedars Sinai Hospital, where he spent nearly a month undergoing further treatment. When the doctors told him there was no hope of saving his life, since the disease had progressed into the advanced stages, Hudson returned to his house, 'The Castle', in Beverly Hills, where he remained in seclusion until his death on October 2, 1985 at 08:37 PDT. Hudson was a month and a half away from his 60th birthday.

After Hudson's death, Doris Day, widely thought to be a close off-screen friend, said she never knew of Hudson engaging in any homosexual behaviour. Carol Burnett, who often worked on television and in live theatre with Hudson, was a staunch defender of her friend, telling an interviewer that she knew about his sexuality and did not care. As Morgan Fairchild said, "Rock Hudson's death gave AIDS a face".

Hudson was cremated and his ashes scattered at sea. Following his funeral, Marc Christian sued Hudson's estate on grounds of "intentional infliction of emotional distress". Christian tested negative for HIV but claimed Hudson continued having sex with him until February 1985, more than eight months after Hudson knew he had HIV. Hudson biographer Sara Davidson later stated that, by the time she had met Hudson, Christian was living in the guest house, and Tom Clark, who had allegedly been Hudson's partner for many years before, was living in the house.

Following his death, Elizabeth Taylor, his co-star in the film Giant, purchased a bronze plaque for Hudson on the West Hollywood Memorial Walk.

Hudson was the subject of a play, Rock, by Tim Fountain starring Michael Xavier as Rock and Bette Bourne as his agent Henry Willson. It was staged at London's Oval House Theatre in 2008.

Hudson was also the subject of another play, "For Roy", by Nambi E. Kelley starring Richard Henzel as Roy and Hannah Gomez as Caregiver. It was staged at American Theatre Company in Chicago in 2010.

Filmography

Fighter Squadron (1948)

Every Girl Should Be Married (1948)

Undertow (1949)

One Way Street (1950)

I Was a Shoplifter (1950)

Peggy (1950)

Winchester '73 (1950)

The Desert Hawk (1950)

Shakedown (1950)

Tomahawk (1951)

Air Cadet (1951)

The Fat Man (1951) (radio show)

Bright Victory (1951)

Iron Man (1951)

Bend of the River (1952)

Here Come the Nelsons (1952)

Scarlet Angel (1952)

Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952)

Horizons West (1952)

The Lawless Breed (1953)

Seminole (1953)

Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)

Back to God's Country (1953)

Gun Fury (1953)

The Golden Blade (1953)

Sea Devils (1953)

Bengal Brigade (1954)

Magnificent Obsession (1954)

Taza, Son of Cochise (1954)

I Love Lucy (1 episode, guest star) (1955)

All That Heaven Allows (1955)

One Desire (1955) .... Clint Saunders

Captain Lightfoot (1955)

Written on the Wind (1956)

Giant (1956)

Never Say Goodbye (1956)

A Farewell to Arms (1957)

Something of Value (1957)

Battle Hymn (1957)

Twilight for the Gods (1958)

The Tarnished Angels (1958)

Pillow Talk (1959)

This Earth Is Mine (1959)

Lover Come Back (1961)

Come September (1961)

The Last Sunset (1961)

The Spiral Road (1962)

"Marilyn"(1963)

A Gathering of Eagles (1963)

Send Me No Flowers (1964)

Man's Favorite Sport? (1964)

Blindfold (1965)

A Very Special Favor (1965)

Strange Bedfellows (1965)

Seconds (1966)

Tobruk (1967)

Ice Station Zebra (1968)

The Undefeated (1969)

Ruba al prossimo tuo (1969)

Hornets' Nest (1970)

Darling Lili (1970)

Once Upon a Dead Man (1971) (TV)

Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971)

Showdown (1973)

Embryo (1976)

McMillan & Wife (29 episodes, 1971–1977)

Avalanche (1978)

Wheels (1978) TV mini-series

The Martian Chronicles (1979) TV mini-series

The Mirror Crack'd (1980)

Superstunt II (1980)

NBC Family Christmas (1981)

The Star Maker (1981)

The Devlin Connection (13 episodes, 1982)

World War III (1982) TV mini-series

The Vegas Strip War (1984)

The Ambassador (1984)

Dynasty (14 episodes, 1984–1985)

Awards

Academy Award: Nominated 1956 Best Actor for Giant

Golden Globe: Winner 1959 World Film Favorite: Male actor

Golden Globe: Winner 1960 World Film Favorite: Male actor

Golden Globe: co-Winner with Tony Curtis 1961 World Film Favorite: Male actor

Golden Globe: Winner 1963 World Film Favorite: Male actor

Hudson received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6104 Hollywood Boulevard.

See also

Rock Hudson's Home Movies - Rappaport 1992

Bibliography

References

External links

Transcript of CNN Larry King 7. June 2001, Special on Rock Hudson offscreen with Dale Olson

Transcript of CNN Larry King 1. October 2003, 18th anniversary of Hudson's death

Rock Hudson biography at TCM

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Arthur Rock (born August 19, 1926) is an American venture capitalist of Silicon Valley, California. He was an early investor in major firms including Intel, Apple Computer, Scientific Data Systems and Teledyne.

He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in business administration from Syracuse University in 1948 and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1951.

Rock started his career in 1951 as a security analyst in New York City, and then joined the corporate finance department of Hayden, Stone & Company, where he focused on raising money for small high-technology companies.

After graduating from Harvard, he worked as an investment banker in New York. In 1957, when the Traitorous Eight left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, Rock was the one who helped them find Sherman Fairchild to start Fairchild Semiconductor.

In 1961, he moved to California. Along with Thomas J. Davis, Jr., formed the San Francisco venture capital firm Davis & Rock. In 2003, Rock donated $25 million to the Harvard Business School to establish the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship.

References

See also

Rock's Law

Category:1926 births Category:Living people Category:American businesspeople Category:Venture capitalists Category:Harvard Business School alumni Category:Syracuse University alumni Category:American billionaires

Name	Pamela Anderson
Imagesize	200px
Caption	Pamela Anderson attending "The 6th Annual Hollywood Style Awards" Beverly Hills, CA on Oct. 10, 2009
Birth date	July 01, 1967
Birth place	Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada
Birth name	Pamela Denise Anderson
Years active	1989–present
Other names	Pamela Anderson Lee Pam Anderson
Occupation	Actress, model, producer, activist, author, former showgirl
Website	http://pamelaanderson.com/
Spouse	(divorced) (divorced) (annulled)

Pamela Denise Anderson (born July 1, 1967) is a Canadian American actress, model, producer, author, activist, and former showgirl, known for her roles on the television series Home Improvement, Baywatch, and V.I.P.

She was chosen as a Playmate of the Month for Playboy magazine in February 1990. For a time, she was known as Pamela Anderson Lee (or Pamela Lee) after marrying Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee. She holds both United States and Canadian citizenship.

Early life

Anderson was born in Ladysmith, British Columbia, the daughter of Barry Anderson, a furnace repairman, and Carol (née Grosco), a waitress. Her great-grandfather Juho Hyytiäinen was Finnish, a native of Saarijärvi, and left the Grand Duchy of Finland (which was a part of the Russian Empire at the time) in 1908, changing his name to Anderson when he arrived as an immigrant. Anderson also has Russian ancestry on her mother's side.

Career

After graduating from Highland Secondary School in 1985, Anderson moved to Vancouver and worked as a fitness instructor. During the summer of 1989, Anderson went with her friends to a BC Lions game at BC Place; during the game she was shown on the stadium screen wearing a Labatt's t-shirt, causing the crowd to cheer for the 21-year-old Anderson. She was taken down to the field to receive an ovation from the crowd. Labatt's had the opportunity to hire Canadian model Pamela Anderson as a Labatt's Blue Zone Girl after she was picked out of the crowd by a TV camera man at a BC Lions football game wearing a Blue Zone crop-top. Photographer and boyfriend Dan Ilicic produced the Blue Zone Girl poster on his own. In October 1989 she appeared as the cover girl on Playboy magazine. At this stage in her modelling career, she had decided to live in Los Angeles to further pursue her career ambitions. She became a centrefold for Playboy when the magazine chose her to be their Playmate of the Month for their February 1990 issue. She then chose to get breast implants. Anderson has since appeared in Playboy several times in the 1990s and 2000s.

Acting and modelling

After her move to Los Angeles, she won a minor role as the original "Tool Time girl" on the hit television sitcom, Home Improvement. She left the show after two seasons and won the role of C. J. Parker on Baywatch, a role she played between 1992 and 1997. Anderson was still modelling for Outdoor Life and appearing on the cover of the magazine each year. In 1993 Pam appeared in a music video "Can't Have Your Cake" by Vince Neil to promote his first solo album "Exposed" in which Steve Stevens played all guitars for the recording of that project.

In 1996, she acted in the film Barb Wire playing Barbara Rose Kopetski, which was thought by some to be Anderson's real name. The movie, a thinly veiled futuristic remake of Casablanca, was not a commercial success. In April 1997, she guest-hosted Saturday Night Live. She also appeared on one of two covers for the September issue of Playboy.

In September 1998, Anderson starred as Vallery Irons in the Sony Pictures Entertainment hit syndicated show V.I.P. created by J. F. Lawton. Blending action and humor in a fast-paced adventure series, with Anderson often poking fun at her tabloid image, the show explored the exciting and sometimes treacherous lives of the rich and famous. The series lasted through a successful four year run.

In 1999, she appeared as a giantess in the music video for "Miserable" by California alternative rock band Lit.

Her role as C.J. Parker gave her more popularity and gained her attention from international viewers. She returned to Baywatch for the 2003 reunion movie, . She also appeared on The Nanny as Fran's rival, Heather Biblow. , (2004)]]

In early 2004, Anderson returned to the spotlight. In May, she appeared naked on the cover of Playboy magazine. It was the first time she had appeared naked on any magazine cover. Later, she posed naked for Stuff and GQ magazines.

Anderson became a naturalized citizen of the United States on May 12, 2004, while retaining her Canadian citizenship. She has lived in Southern California since 1989.

In 2004, she released the book Star, co-written by Eric Shaw Quinn, about a teenager trying to become famous. After this, she began touring the United States, signing autographs for fans at Wal-Mart stores nationwide. Her second book, the sequel Star Struck, released in 2005, is a thinly veiled look at her life with Tommy Lee and the trials of celebrity life.

In April 2005, Anderson starred in a new Fox sitcom Stacked as Skyler Dayton, a party girl who goes to work at a bookstore. It was cancelled on May 18, 2006, after two seasons, although some episodes had not been aired. On August 14, 2005, Comedy Central created the Roast of Pamela Anderson to honour the sex symbol for the past decade. During her final speech at the Roast, Anderson referred to her breasts as "Pancho and Lefty".

In December 2005, NBC cut off a video of Anderson pole dancing on Elton John's "The Red Piano." NBC said that the footage was inappropriate for prime time. The video was shown on huge screens during the event, while John played "The Bitch is Back".

In March 2006, it was announced that Anderson would receive a star on Canada's Walk of Fame thanks to her many years as a model and actress. She is only the second model to receive a star. In April 2006, Anderson hosted Canada's Juno Awards, becoming the first non-singer and model to do so.

Anderson was repeatedly referenced in the 2006 mockumentary as the seeks to kidnap and marry her. Anderson appears in person at the end of the film confronted by Borat in a staged botched abduction.

She performed on February 13–14, 2008 in a Valentine's Day striptease act at the Crazy Horse cabaret in Paris.

On July 9, 2008, Anderson entered the Australian Big Brother house for a three-day visit. Her appearance on this show also marked Anderson's foray into reality television with a series of her own, , which debuted on August 3, 2008 on E! in the United States.

In December 2009, Anderson guest-starred as Genie of the Lamp in the pantomime Aladdin at the New Wimbledon Theatre in Wimbledon, south-west London, England. Anderson took over the role from comedienne Ruby Wax, with former EastEnders actress Anita Dobson and comedian Paul O'Grady also booked for the role. In the spring of 2010, Anderson appeared as one of the contestants on Dancing with the Stars.

Anderson is due to star in a short film The Commuter directed by the McHenry Brothers to promote the Nokia N8 smartphone in the UK Fans of Anderson, who won a Nokia UK run competition, will be starring alongside Anderson in the short film.

In November 2010, Anderson appeared on season 4 of the Indian television reality show Bigg Boss as a guest. She stayed for three days for a reported sum of Rs. 2.5 crores. The show is inspired from the famous reality show Big Brother.

Personal life

In addition to her fame from modelling and acting, Anderson has received a great deal of press attention for her well-publicized personal life. Her relationships have made headlines in gossip magazines for years. Anderson married Tommy Lee, drummer of Mötley Crüe, on February 19, 1995, after knowing him for only 96 hours and the couple eventually had two sons, Brandon Thomas Lee (b. June 6, 1996) and Dylan Jagger Lee (b. December 29, 1997), named after Pamela's great grandfather Dale Jagger Grosco who fought in World War II. During this time, she was known professionally as Pamela Anderson Lee. Anderson filed for divorce from Lee twice and reconciled with him twice, before the couple finally broke up for good, however, she admitted to newspapers that she still often had sex with him since their divorce. In March 2002, Anderson publicly stated that she had contracted the Hepatitis C virus from Lee (supposedly from sharing tattoo needles), and began writing a regular column for Jane magazine. In October 2003, Anderson jokingly said on Howard Stern's radio show that she does not expect to live more than ten or fifteen years, but this was misconstrued and taken seriously by many websites and tabloids.

A sex tape of Anderson and Tommy Lee on their honeymoon was stolen from their home, and made a huge stir on the Internet. Anderson sued the video distribution company, Internet Entertainment Group. Ultimately, the Lees entered into a confidential settlement agreement with IEG. Thereafter, the company began making the tape available to subscribers to its Web sites again, resulting in triple the normal traffic on the site.

in 2003]] A second tape, which was made before the Tommy Lee tape, involving Anderson and musician Bret Michaels from Poison was later announced, and an abridged version of less than 60 seconds appeared on the internet. Frames of the video first appeared in Penthouse magazine in March 1998. The tape was successfully blocked by Michaels, but a four-minute sex tape is still available on the Internet.

Since her divorce, she was engaged to the model Marcus Schenkenberg and to the singer Kid Rock (Robert J. Ritchie). She broke up with Schenkenberg in 2001 and with Kid Rock in 2003. It was announced on July 18, 2006 that she would marry Kid Rock on July 29, 2006, on a yacht near St Tropez, France. "Feels like I've been stuck in a time warp," said Anderson in her blog entry. "Not able to let go of MY family picture ... it's been sad and lonely and frustrating ... I've raised my kids alone in hope of a miracle. Well my miracle came and went. And came back and back because he knew that I'd wake up one day and realize that I was waiting for nothing." "I'm moving on," she declared. "I feel like I'm finally free ... I'm in love." There was extensive unconfirmed media speculation that the marriage was pregnancy-related, but the theory was based only on Anderson's representative's refusal to comment on the question.

On November 10, 2006, it was announced that Anderson miscarried while in Vancouver shooting a new film, Blonde and Blonder. Seventeen days later, on November 27, 2006, Anderson filed for divorce in Los Angeles County Superior Court from Kid Rock, citing irreconcilable differences. Some news reports have suggested that Kid Rock's outrage during a screening of , in which she plays a cameo role, led to the filing for divorce two weeks later.

Anderson told talk show host Ellen DeGeneres in September 2007 that she was engaged. On September 29, Anderson and Rick Salomon, applied for a marriage license in Las Vegas. Anderson married Salomon between her two nightly appearances at the Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Hans Klok's magic show in a small wedding ceremony at The Mirage on October 6, 2007. However, the couple separated on December 13, and on February 22, 2008, Anderson requested through the courts that the marriage be annulled citing fraud.

Charitable work and activism

Anderson is a vegetarian, an advocate for animal rights, and an active member of the animal protection organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), taking part in several campaigns for animal rights. She became a vegetarian in her early teens when she saw her father cleaning an animal he had hunted.

One of Anderson's campaigns as a member of PETA has been against the use of fur. In 1999, Anderson received the first Linda McCartney Memorial Award for animal rights protectors, in recognition of her campaign. In 2003, Anderson stripped down for PETA's "I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur" advertising campaign. On June 28, 2006, Anderson posed naked with other protesters on a window display of the Stella McCartney boutique in London, England. It was a PETA gala event before the PETA Humanitarian Awards. Anderson went inside the boutique and said she would take her clothes off if the event raised enough money for PETA, which it did.

She has also campaigned against Kentucky Fried Chicken. In 2001, Anderson released a letter in support of PETA's campaign against Kentucky Fried Chicken, stating "What KFC does to 750 million chickens each year is not civilized or acceptable." She later made a video about KFC's treatment of chickens. In January 2006, Anderson requested that the Governor of Kentucky remove a bust of Colonel Sanders, the founder of KFC, from display but her request was refused even when she offered her own bust in exchange. In February 2006, Anderson decided to boycott the Kentucky Derby because of its support for Kentucky Fried Chicken.

She has also campaigned against seal hunting in Canada. In March 2006, Anderson asked to speak to Prime Minister Stephen Harper about the annual seal hunt but she was refused. In May 2006, she petitioned random individuals on the street for their opinion on the Canadian Seal Hunt. In December, 2009, Anderson, photographed in a t-shirt with a drawn picture of a seal pup on it, was featured in a new ad campaign for PETA. She appears next to the headline "Save the Seals" in the ad and urges the public to help end "Canada's annual seal slaughter."

Anderson joined forces with PETA in a campaign for the boycott of fruit-juice maker POM. The "Pom Horrible Campaign" has resulted in the company halting animal tests.

In March 2005, Anderson became a spokesmodel for MAC Cosmetics's MAC AIDS Fund, which helped people affected by AIDS and HIV. After becoming the official spokesmodel, Anderson raised money during events in Toronto, Tokyo, Dublin, and Athens.

Anderson became the celebrity spokesperson for the American Liver Foundation, and served as the Grand Marshal of the SOS motorcycle ride fundraiser.

She wrote an open letter to President Barack Obama urging the legalization of cannabis.

Anderson became the center of controversy when she posed in a bikini nearly nude for a PETA ad that was banned in Canada because they said the ad was sexist. Anderson retorted saying, "In a city that is known for its exotic dancing and for being progressive and edgy, how sad that a woman would be banned from using her own body in a political protest over the suffering of cows and chickens. In some parts of the world, women are forced to cover their whole bodies with burqas -- is that next? I didn't think that Canada would be so puritanical."

Work

Filmography

{| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- | 1990 | Playboy: Sexy Lingerie II | Herself | Self - video |- | 1991 | Playboy Video Playmate Calendar 1991 | Herself | Self - video |- | 1991 | Playboy: Wet & Wild III | Herself | Self - video |- | 1991 | Playboy: Sexy Lingerie III | Herself | Self - video |- | 1991 | | Cheerleader | Action film |- | 1992 | Playboy Video Centerfold: Pamela Anderson | Herself | Self - video |- | 1992 | Playboy: The Best of Sexy Lingerie | Herself | Self - video |- | 1992 | Playboy: Playmate Bloopers | Herself | Self - video |- | 1992 | Playboy: Playmates in Paradise | Herself | Self - video |- | 1992 | Playboy: Playmate Private Pleasures | Herself | Self - video |- | 1993 | Snapdragon | Felicity | Thriller film |- | 1994 | Raw Justice | Sarah | Thriller film |- | 1995 | Naked Souls | Britt | Independent thriller film |- | 1995 | | C.J Parker | Television film |- | 1995 | Playboy: The Best of Pamela Anderson | Herself | Self - video |- | 1995 | Edenquest: Pamela Anderson | Herself | Self - video |- | 1996 | Barb Wire | Barb Wire | Sci-Fi film |- | 1998 | Pam & Tommy Lee: Stolen Honeymoon | Herself | Self - video |- | 1998 | Playboy: Celebrities | Herself | Self - video |- | 1998 | A Taste of Playboy: Personalities Volume 1 | Herself | Self - video |- | 1998 | Playboy: Blondes, Brunettes, Redheads | Herself | Self - video |- | 1999 | Playboy: Sexiest Home Videos | Herself | Self - video |- | 1999 | Celebrities Caught on Camera: Volume 1 | Herself | Self - video |- | 1999 | Playboy: Playmate Profile Video Collection Featuring Miss February 1999, 1996, 1993, 1990 | Herself | Self - video |- | 2001 | Playboy Exposed: Playboy Mansion Parties Uncensored | Herself | Self - video |- | 2002 | Playboy: Prime Time Playmates | Herself | Self - video |- | 2002 | Playboy: The Ultimate Pamela Anderson | Herself | Self - video |- | 2002 | Scooby-Doo | Herself | Uncredited |- | 2003 | Scary Movie 3 | Becca | Comedy spoof film |- | 2003 | Pauly Shore Is Dead | Herself | Comedy/mockumentary film |- | 2004 | Playboy: 50 Years of Playmates | Herself | Self - video |- | 2005 | No Rules | Herself | Action movie |- |2006 | | Herself | Mockumentary |- | 2008 | Superhero Movie | Invisible Girl | Comedy film |- | 2008 | Blonde and Blonder | Dee Twiddle | Comedy film |- | 2010 | Costa Rican Summer | Herself | Comedy film |- | 2010 | Hollywood & Wine | Herself | Comedy film |- | 2010 | The Commuter | Female Guest in Hotel | Short action/comedy film |}

Television

Charles in Charge episode "Teacher's Pest" (1990)

Married... with Children episode "Al With Kelly" (1990)

Married... with Children episode "Route 666: Part 2" (1991)

Home Improvement (cast member from 1991–1993)

Baywatch (cast member from 1992–1997)

Days of our Lives (cast member in 1992)

(1994)

The Nanny episode "Danny's Dead and Who's Got the Will?" (1997)

The Nanny episode "The Heather Biblow Story" (1997)

V.I.P. (1998–2002)

(2003)

Less Than Perfect episode "All About Claude" (2003)

Stripperella (voice) (2003–2004)

Stacked (2005–2006)

Comedy Central Roast of Pamela Anderson (2005)

8 Simple Rules episode "C.J.'s Temptation" (2005)

8 Simple Rules episode "Torn Between Two Lovers" (2005)

MADtv (2005)

(2008)

The Sunday Night Project - Guest Host (2008)

Big Brother Australia - House Guest for 3 days (2008)

Dancing with the Stars (2010) - As contestant

Comedy Central Roast of David Hasselhoff (2010) - As roaster

Magic Numbers (in the United Kingdom) (2010) - as guest.

Bigg Boss India - House Guest for 4 days (2010)

Playboy career

Name	Pamela Anderson
Issue	February 1990
Birth date	July 1, 1967
Bust	She has also made appearances in the publication's newsstand specials. Anderson wrote the forward in the Playboy coffee table book Playboy's Greatest Covers.
Name	Anderson, Pamela
Alternative names	Anderson, Pamela Denise
Short description	Actress, model, producer, author, former showgirl
Date of birth	July 1, 1967
Place of birth	Ladysmith, British Columbia, Canada

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Name	Melba Moore
Birth name	Beatrice Melba Smith
Name	Melba Moore
Background	solo_singer
Born	October 29, 1945 New York City, New York, United States
Genre	Pop, R&B;, disco, soul, dance-pop, post-disco
Occupation	Singer, songwriter, actress
Instrument	Vocals, Piano
Label	Epic Records, Capitol Records
Years active	1970—present
Associated acts	Freddie Jackson, Van McCoy, Meli'sa Morgan, Kashif
Url	http://www.melbamoore.com

Beatrice Melba Smith Her mother, Bonnie Davis had a No. 1 R&B; hit with "Don't Stop Now", prior to Melba's birth. Although her biological father was legendary Big Band leader and saxophonist Teddy Hill, it was her stepfather Moorman (who played on "Don't Stop Now") who became a prime influence and encouragement in Moore's musical pursuits and talent, insisting she learn to play the piano. Initially, Moore graduated from college and worked as a music teacher, but soon opted to switch careers. Moore chose her stage name by shortening her stepfather's surname from Moorman to Moore and using her middle name, "Melba".

Early career

Moore began her performing career in 1967 as a member of the original cast of the musical Hair along with Ronnie Dyson and Diane Keaton. Moore replaced Keaton in the role of Sheila. In 1970, Moore won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for her role in Purlie (she portrayed Lutiebelle). She would not return to Broadway afterwards until 1978 when she appeared (as Marsinah) with Eartha Kitt in Timbuktu!, but left the show after a few weeks and was replaced by Vanessa Shaw. Following the success of Purlie, Moore landed two big screen film roles, released two successful albums including 1970's I Got Love and Look What You're Doing to the Man and co-starred with actor Clifton Davis in the then-couple's own successful variety television series in 1972. Both Moore and Davis revealed that the show was canceled after its brief run when their relationship came to an end. Moore's career faced problems after Moore's managers and accountants left her in 1973. Moore returned to Newark and began singing for benefits. Her career picked up after meeting record manager and business promoter Charles Huggins following a performance at the Apollo Theater in 1974. Marrying in 1975, Moore and Huggins formed Hush Productions, signing notable R&B; artists such as Freddie Jackson and Meli'sa Morgan.

Music career

In 1975, Moore signed with Buddah Records and released the critically successful R&B; album, Peach Melba, which included the minor hit, "I Am His Lady". The following year, in 1976, Moore scored her first significant hit with the Van McCoy-penned "This Is It", which reached the Billboard Hot 100, the top twenty position on the R&B; chart and also reached the top ten in the UK, becoming her biggest success in that country. In 1976, she scored her third Grammy nomination with the R&B; ballad, "Lean on Me", which had been recorded originally by Vivian Reed and later by Moore's idol Aretha Franklin who recorded the song as a b-side to her 1971 hit, "Spanish Harlem". The song is most notable for Moore's extended long note at the end of the track. In 1983, she re-recorded the song as a tribute to McCoy, who died four years earlier of illness. Throughout the rest of the 1970s, Moore struggled to match the success of This Is It with minor R&B;/dance hits, gaining another hit with 1979's "You Stepped Into My Life", which was released on Epic Records and hit the top 20 on the R&B; charts and also became one of her biggest pop hits.

It wouldn't be until 1982 when Moore started to gain huge success as a singer signing with Capitol Records and reaching the top 5 on the R&B; charts with the dance pop/funk single, "Love's Comin' At Ya", which also hit the top 20 in the UK and became a sizable hit in some European countries for its post-disco sound. A string of R&B; hits would follow during this decade including 1983's "Keepin' My Lover Satisfied" and "Love Me Right", 1984's "Livin' For Your Love", 1985's "Read My Lips", which later won Moore a fourth Grammy nomination for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance, making her just the third black artist after Donna Summer and Michael Jackson to be nominated in the rock category, and 1985's "When You Love Me Like This". In 1986, she scored two number-one R&B; hits, including the duet, "A Little Bit More", with Freddie Jackson and "Falling". She scored other popular R&B; hits including "Love the One I'm With (A Lot of Love)" and "It's Been So Long". In 1986, Moore also headlined the CBS television sitcom, Melba (TV show) that debuted the same night as the Challenger explosion and was abruptly canceled shortly thereafter. Her success began to wane as the decade closed, although she managed two further Top 10 R&B; hits, "Do You Really (Want My Love)" and "Lift Every Voice and Sing" (which featured such artists as Jackson, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Jeffrey Osborne, Anita Baker and Stephanie Mills).

Current work

Moore returned to Broadway in 1995 landing a part in Les Misérables, a year later, she started her long-running one-woman show, Sweet Songs of the Soul, later renamed I'm Still Standing, and in 2007, she landed a role in the Broadway revival of Ain't Misbehavin'. In 2003, she was featured in the film, The Fighting Temptations, which starred Cuba Gooding, Jr. and Beyoncé Knowles.

In 2009 independent label Breaking Records released the EP Book of Dreams, in which Moore was featured. That same year Moore told her life story on TV-One's Unsung and later that year, released her first R&B; album in nearly 20 years, in a duet release with Phil Perry. She is also in the studio working on a new album which is scheduled to be released in early 2011. The album is being produced by Rahni Song and Dominic McFadden, son of the late Gene McFadden of McFadden and Whitehead.

Read more: http://www.myspace.com/melbamoore#ixzz155h843fa

Moore is a born-again Christian. a single called "Love Is" debuted at #95 on the R&B; charts and currently at #87

Awards

In addition to her Tony Award, Moore music career brought additional accolades. She was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1971 for 'Best New Artist'. Her 1975 second album, Peach Melba, saw her get a Grammy nomination. In 1976, she earned another Grammy nomination for Best Rhythm & Blues Vocal Performance - Female for the song "Lean on Me",. Moore was also nominated for Best Female Rock Vocal in 1986 for "Read My Lips".

Discography

Albums

"Let's Stand Together" and "Take My Love" charted together on the U.S. Billboard Dance chart, but charted separately elsewhere.

See also

List of disco artists

List of post-disco artists

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Guests on Soul Train

List of performers on Top of the Pops

List of Broadway musicals stars

List of artists who reached number one on the Billboard R&B; chart

References

External links

Melba Moore official website

Melba Moore's Official Myspace page

SoulTracks.com profile of Melba Moore

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Name	Barbra Streisand
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Barbara Joan Streisand
Born	April 24, 1942 Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
Genre	Broadway, traditional pop, adult contemporary
Occupation	singer-songwriter, actress, film producer, director
Other names	Mrs. Elliotvt Gould, Barbra Streisand Gould, Mrs. Barbra Gould, Ms. Barbra Streisand, Mrs. James Brolin, Barbra Gould Brolin, Barbra Streisand Gould Brolin, Mrs. Barbra Streisand, Mrs. Barbra Brolin
Years active	1957–present
Label	Columbia Records
Url
Spouse	Elliott Gould (1963–1971) James Brolin (1998–present)

Barbra Joan Streisand (pronounced ; born April 24, 1942) is a American singer-songwriter, actress, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, and a Peabody Award. She is the best-selling female artist on the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) Top Selling Artists list, the only female recording artist in the top ten, and the only artist outside of the rock and roll genre. Along with Frank Sinatra, Cher, and Shirley Jones, she shares the distinction of being awarded an acting Oscar and also recording a number-one single on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.

According to the RIAA, Streisand holds the record for the most top ten albums of any female recording artist - a total of 31 since 1963. Streisand has the widest span (46 years) between first and latest top ten albums of any female recording artist. With her 2009 album, Love Is the Answer, she became the only artist to achieve number-one albums in five consecutive decades. According to the RIAA, she has released 51 Gold albums, 30 Platinum albums, and 13 Multi-Platinum albums in the United States. She attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn and joined the Freshman Chorus and Choral Club. Diana Rosen Streisand remarried and gave Barbra a half-sister who grew up to become a professional singer with the name Roslyn Kind.

Barbra Streisand became a nightclub singer while in her teens. She wanted to be an actress and appeared in summer stock and in a number of Off-Off-Broadway productions, including Driftwood (1959), with the then-unknown Joan Rivers. (In her autobiography, Rivers wrote that she played a lesbian with a crush on Streisand's character, but this was later refuted by the play's author.) Driftwood ran for only six weeks. When her boyfriend, Barry Dennen, helped her create a club act—first performed at The Lion, a popular gay nightclub in Manhattan's Greenwich Village in 1960—she achieved success as a singer. While singing at The Lion for several weeks, she changed her name to Barbra. One early appearance outside of New York City was at Enrico Banducci’s hungry i nightclub in San Francisco. In 1961, Streisand appeared at the Town and Country nightclub in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, but her appearance was cut short; the club owner did not appreciate her singing style. Streisand's first television appearance was on The Tonight Show, then hosted by Jack Paar, in 1961, singing Harold Arlen's A Sleepin' Bee. Orson Bean, who substituted for Paar that night, had seen the singer perform at a gay bar and booked her for the telecast. (Her older brother Sheldon paid NBC for a kinescope film so she could use it in 1961 to promote herself. Decades later the film was preserved through digitizing and is available for viewing on a website.) Streisand became a semi-regular on PM East/PM West, a talk/variety series hosted by Mike Wallace, in late 1961. Westinghouse Broadcasting, which aired PM East/PM West in a select few cities (Boston, New York, Baltimore, Washington, DC, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago and San Francisco), has since wiped all the videotapes because of the cost of videotape at the time. Audio segments from some episodes are part of the compilation CD Just for the Record, which went platinum in 1991. The singer said on 60 Minutes in 1991 that 30 years earlier Mike Wallace had been "mean" to her on PM East/PM West. He countered that she had been "self-absorbed". 60 Minutes included the audio of Streisand saying to him in 1961, "I like the fact that you are provoking. But don't provoke me."

In 1962, after several appearances on PM East/PM West, Streisand first appeared on Broadway, in the small but star-making role of Miss Marmelstein in the musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale. Her first album, The Barbra Streisand Album, won two Grammy Awards in 1963. Following her success in I Can Get It for You Wholesale, Streisand made several appearances on The Tonight Show in 1962. Topics covered in her interviews with host Johnny Carson included the empire-waisted dresses that she bought wholesale, to her "crazy" reputation at Erasmus Hall High School. It was at about this time that Streisand entered into a long and successful professional relationship with Lee Solters and Sheldon Roskin as her publicists with the firm Solters/Roskin (later Solters/Roskin/Friedman).

Streisand returned to Broadway in 1964 with an acclaimed performance as entertainer Fanny Brice in Funny Girl at the Winter Garden Theatre. The show introduced two of her signature songs, "People" and "Don't Rain on My Parade". Because of the play's overnight success she appeared on the cover of Time. In 1966, she repeated her success with Funny Girl in London's West End at the Prince of Wales Theatre. From 1965 to 1967 she appeared in her first four solo television specials.

Singing career

Streisand has recorded 35 studio albums, almost all with Columbia Records. Her early works in the 1960s (her debut The Barbra Streisand Album, The Second Barbra Streisand Album, The Third Album, My Name Is Barbra, etc.) are considered classic renditions of theater and cabaret standards, including her slow version of the normally uptempo Happy Days Are Here Again. She performed this in a duet with Judy Garland on The Judy Garland Show. Garland referred to her on the air as one of the last great belters. They also sang There's No Business Like Show Business, with Ethel Merman joining them.

Beginning with My Name Is Barbra, her early albums were often medley-filled keepsakes of her television specials. Starting in 1969, she began attempting more contemporary material, but like many talented singers of the day, she found herself out of her element with rock. Her vocal talents prevailed, and she gained newfound success with the pop and ballad-oriented Richard Perry-produced album Stoney End in 1971. The title track, written by Laura Nyro, was a major hit for Streisand.

During the 1970s, she was also highly prominent on the pop charts, with Top 10 recordings such as The Way We Were (US No. 1), Evergreen (US No. 1), No More Tears (Enough Is Enough) (1979, with Donna Summer), which as of 2010 is reportedly still the most commercially successful duet,(US No. 1), You Don't Bring Me Flowers (with Neil Diamond) (US No. 1) and The Main Event (US No. 3), some of which came from soundtrack recordings of her films.

As the 1970s ended, Streisand was named the most successful female singer in the U.S.—only Elvis Presley and The Beatles had sold more albums. In 1980, she released her best-selling effort to date, the Barry Gibb-produced Guilty. The album contained the hits Woman In Love (which spent several weeks atop the pop charts in the Fall of 1980), Guilty, and What Kind of Fool.

After years of largely ignoring Broadway and traditional pop music in favor of more contemporary material, Streisand returned to her musical-theater roots with 1985's The Broadway Album, which was unexpectedly successful, holding the coveted No. 1 Billboard position for three straight weeks, and being certified quadruple platinum. The album featured tunes by Rodgers & Hammerstein, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, and Stephen Sondheim, who was persuaded to rework some of his songs especially for this recording. The Broadway Album was met with acclaim, including a Grammy nomination for album of the year and, ultimately, handed Streisand her eighth Grammy as Best Female Vocalist. After releasing the live album One Voice in 1986, Streisand was set to take another musical journey along the Great White Way in 1988. She recorded several cuts for the album under the direction of Rupert Holmes, including On My Own (from Les Misérables), a medley of How Are Things in Glocca Morra? and Heather on the Hill (from Finian's Rainbow and Brigadoon, respectively), All I Ask of You (from Phantom of the Opera), Warm All Over (from The Most Happy Fella) and an unusual solo version of Make Our Garden Grow (from Candide). Streisand was not happy with the direction of the project and it was ultimately scrapped. Only Warm All Over and a reworked, lite FM-friendly version of All I Ask of You were ever released, the latter appearing on Streisand's 1988 effort, Till I Loved You.

At the beginning of the 1990s, Streisand started focusing on her film directorial efforts and became almost inactive in the recording studio. In 1991, a four-disc box set, Just for the Record, was released. A compilation spanning Streisand's entire career to date, it featured over 70 tracks of live performances, greatest hits, rarities and previously unreleased material.

The following year, Streisand's concert fundraising events helped propel former President Bill Clinton into the spotlight and into office. Streisand later introduced Clinton at his inauguration in 1993. Streisand's music career, however, was largely on hold. A 1992 appearance at an APLA benefit as well as the aforementioned inaugural performance hinted that Streisand was becoming more receptive to the idea of live performances. A tour was suggested, though Streisand would not immediately commit to it, citing her well-known stage fright as well as security concerns. During this time, Streisand finally returned to the recording studio and released Back to Broadway in June 1993. The album was not as universally lauded as its predecessor, but it did debut at No. 1 on the pop charts (a rare feat for an artist of Streisand's age, especially given that it relegated Janet Jackson's Janet to the No. 2 spot). One of the album's highlights was a medley of I Have A Love/One Hand, One Heart, a duet with the legendary Johnny Mathis, who Streisand said is one of her favorite singers.

In 1993, New York Times music critic Stephen Holden wrote that Streisand "enjoys a cultural status that only one other American entertainer, Frank Sinatra, has achieved in the last half century."

In September 1993, Streisand announced her first public concert appearances in 27 years. What began as a two-night New Year's event at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas eventually led to a multi-city tour in the summer of 1994. Tickets to the tour were sold out in under one hour. Streisand also appeared on the covers of major magazines in anticipation of what Time magazine named "The Music Event of the Century". The tour was one of the biggest all-media merchandise parlays in history. Ticket prices ranged from US$50 to US$1,500 – making Streisand the highest-paid concert performer in history. Barbra Streisand: The Concert went on to be the top-grossing concert of the year and earn five Emmy Awards and the Peabody Award, while the taped broadcast on HBO is, to date, the highest-rated concert special in HBO's 30-year history.

Following the tour's conclusion, Streisand once again kept a low profile musically, instead focusing her efforts on acting and directing duties as well as a burgeoning romance with actor James Brolin. In 1997, she finally returned to the recording studio, releasing Higher Ground, a collection of songs of a loosely-inspirational nature which also featured a duet with Celine Dion. The album received generally favorable reviews and, remarkably, once again debuted at No. 1 on the pop charts.

Following her marriage to Brolin in 1998, Streisand recorded an album of love songs entitled A Love Like Ours the following year. Reviews were mixed, with many critics carping about the somewhat syrupy sentiments and overly-lush arrangements; however, it did produce a modest hit for Streisand in the country-tinged If You Ever Leave Me, a duet with Vince Gill.

On New Year's Eve 1999, Streisand returned to the concert stage, with the highest-grossing single concert in Las Vegas history to date. At the end of the millennium, she was the number-one female singer in the U.S., with at least two No. 1 albums in each decade since she began performing. A two-disc live album of the concert entitled was released in 2000. Streisand performed versions of the "Timeless" concert in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, in early 2000.

In advance of four concerts (two each in Los Angeles and New York) in September 2000, Streisand announced she was retiring from paying public concerts. Her performance of the song People was broadcast on the Internet via America Online.

Streisand's most-recent albums have been Christmas Memories (2001), a somewhat somber collection of holiday songs (which felt entirely—albeit unintentionally—appropriate in the early post-9/11 days), and The Movie Album (2003), featuring famous film themes and backed by a large symphony orchestra. Guilty Pleasures (called Guilty Too in the UK), a collaboration with Barry Gibb and a sequel to their Guilty, was released worldwide in 2005.

In February 2006, Streisand recorded the song Smile alongside Tony Bennett at Streisand's Malibu home. The song is included on Tony Bennett's 80th birthday album, Duets. In September 2006, the pair filmed a live performance of the song for a special directed by Rob Marshall entitled Tony Bennett: An American Classic. The special aired on NBC November 21, 2006, and was released on DVD the same day. Streisand's duet with Bennett opens the special.

In 2006, Streisand announced her intent to tour again, in an effort to raise money and awareness for multiple issues. After four days of rehearsal at the Sovereign Bank Arena in Trenton, New Jersey, the tour began on October 4 at the Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, continued with a featured stop in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, (this was the concert Streisand chose to film for a TV special), and concluded at Staples Center in Los Angeles on November 20, 2006. Special guests Il Divo were interwoven throughout the show. On stage closing night, Streisand hinted that six more concerts may follow on foreign soil. The show was known as .

Streisand's 20-concert tour set box-office records. At the age of 64, well past the prime of most performers, she grossed US$92,457,062, and set house gross records in 14 of the 16 arenas played on the tour. She set the third-place record for her October 9, 2006, show at Madison Square Garden, the first- and second-place records of which are held by her two shows in September 2000. She set the second-place record at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, with her December 31, 1999, show being the house record and the highest-grossing concert of all time. This led many people to openly criticize Streisand for price gouging, as many tickets sold for upwards of US$1,000.

A collection of performances culled from different stops on this tour, Live in Concert 2006, debuted at No. 7 on the Billboard 200, making it Streisand's 29th Top 10 album. In the summer of 2007, Streisand gave concerts for the first time in continental Europe. The first concert took place in Zürich (June 18), then Vienna (June 22), Paris (June 26), Berlin (June 30), Stockholm (July 4, canceled), Manchester (July 10) and Celbridge, near Dublin (July 14), followed by three concerts in London (July 18, 22 and 25), the only European city where Streisand had performed before 2007. Tickets for the London dates cost between £100.00 and GB£1,500.00 and for the Ireland date between €118 and €500. The tour included a 58-piece orchestra.

In February 2008, Forbes listed Streisand as the No. 2 earning female musician, between June 2006 and June 2007, with earnings of about US$60 million. Although Streisand's range has changed with time and her voice has deepened over the years, her vocal prowess has remained remarkably secure for a singer whose career has endured for nearly half a century. Streisand is a contralto or possibly a mezzo-soprano who has a range consisting of well over two octaves from “low E to a high G and probably a bit more that in either direction.”

On November 17, 2008, Streisand returned to the studio to begin recording what will be her sixty-third album and it was announced that Diana Krall was producing the album.

On April 25, 2009, CBS aired Streisand's latest TV special, , highlighting the aforementioned featured stop from her 2006 North American tour, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Streisand is one of the recipients of the 2008 Kennedy Center Honors. On December 7, 2008, she visited the White House as part of the ceremonies. This performance was later released on DVD as One Night Only Barbra Streisand and Quartet at The Village Vanguard.

On September 29, 2009, Streisand and Columbia Records released her newest studio album, Love is the Answer, produced by Diana Krall. On October 2, 2009, Streisand made her British television performance debut with an interview on Friday Night With Jonathan Ross to promote the album. This album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and registered her biggest weekly sales since 1997, making Streisand the only artist in history to achieve No. 1 albums in five different decades.

On February 1, 2010, Streisand joined over 80 other artists in recording a new version of the 1985 charity single "We Are the World". Quincy Jones and Lionel Richie planned to release the new version to mark the 25th anniversary of its original recording. These plans changed, however, in view of the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti on January 12, 2010, and on February 12, the song, now called "We Are the World 25 for Haiti", made its debut as a charity single to support relief aid for the beleaguered island nation.

Streisand will be honored as MusiCares Person of the Year on February 11, 2011, two days prior to the 53rd Annual Grammy Awards.

Streisand is one of many singers who uses teleprompters during their live performances. Streisand has defended her choice in using teleprompters to display lyrics and, sometimes, banter.

Film career

(1969)]] Her first film was a reprise of her Broadway hit, Funny Girl (1968), an artistic and commercial success directed by Hollywood veteran William Wyler, for which she won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actress, sharing it with Katharine Hepburn (The Lion in Winter), the first (and only) time there was a tie in this Oscar category. Her next two movies were also based on musicals, Jerry Herman's Hello, Dolly!, directed by Gene Kelly (1969), and Alan Jay Lerner's and Burton Lane's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, directed by Vincente Minnelli (1970), while her fourth film was based on the Broadway play The Owl and the Pussycat (1970).

During the 1970s, Streisand starred in several screwball comedies, including What's Up, Doc? (1972) and The Main Event (1979), both co-starring Ryan O'Neal, and For Pete's Sake (1974) with Michael Sarrazin. One of her most famous roles during this period was in the drama The Way We Were (1973) with Robert Redford, for which she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress. She earned her second Academy Award for Best Original Song as composer (together with lyricist Paul Williams) for the song "Evergreen", from A Star Is Born in 1976.

Along with Paul Newman, Sidney Poitier and later Steve McQueen, Streisand formed First Artists Production Company in 1969, so the actors could secure properties and develop movie projects for themselves. Streisand's initial outing with First Artists was Up the Sandbox (1972).

From a period beginning in 1969 and ending in 1980, Streisand appeared in the annual motion picture exhibitors poll of Top 10 Box Office attractions a total of 10 times, often as the only woman on the list. After the commercially disappointing All Night Long in 1981, Streisand's film output decreased considerably. She has only acted in five films since.

Streisand produced a number of her own films, setting up Barwood Films in 1972. For Yentl (1983), she was producer, director, and star, an experience she repeated for The Prince of Tides (1991) and The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996). There was controversy when Yentl received five Academy Award nominations, but none for the major categories of Best Picture, Actress, or Director. Prince of Tides received even more Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, but the director was not nominated. Streisand also scripted "Yentl", something she is not always given credit for. According to New York Times Editorial Page Editor Andrew Rosenthal in an interview (story begins at minute 16) with Allan Wolper, "the one thing that makes Barbra Streisand crazy is when nobody gives her the credit for having written 'Yentl'."

In 2004, Streisand made a return to film acting, after an eight-year hiatus, in the comedy Meet the Fockers (a sequel to Meet the Parents), playing opposite Dustin Hoffman, Ben Stiller, Blythe Danner and Robert De Niro.

In 2005, Streisand's Barwood Films, Gary Smith, and Sonny Murray purchased the rights to Simon Mawer's book Mendel's Dwarf. In December 2008, she stated that she was considering directing an adaptation of Larry Kramer's play The Normal Heart, a project she has worked on since the mid-1990s In 2009, Andrew Lloyd Webber stated that Streisand was one of several actresses (alongside Meryl Streep and Glenn Close) who were interested in playing the role of Norma Desmond in the film adaptation of Webber's musical version of Sunset Boulevard

In December 2010, Streisand appeared in Little Fockers, the third film from the Meet the Parents trilogy. She reprised the role of Roz Focker alongside Dustin Hoffman.

On 4 January 2011, the New York Post reported that Streisand was in negotiations to produce, direct, and star in a new film version of Gypsy. In an interview with the New York Post, Arthur Laurents said: "We've talked about it a lot, and she knows what she's doing. She has my approval." He said that he would not write the screenplay. The following day, the New York Times reported that Arthur Laurents clarified in a telephonic interview that Streisand would not direct the film "but playing Rose is enough to make her happy." Streisand's spokesperson confirmed that "there have been conversations".

Politics

Streisand has long been an active supporter of the Democratic Party and many of their causes. Streisand said, "The Democrats have always been the party of working people and minorities. I've always identified with the minorities." Streisand has personally raised $15 million for organizations through her live performances. The Streisand Foundation, established in 1986, has contributed over $16 million through its grants to "national organizations working on preservation of the environment, voter education, the protection of civil liberties and civil rights, women’s issues and nuclear disarmament." In 2006, Streisand donated $1 million to the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation in support of former President Bill Clinton’s climate change initiative.

Lawsuit

Streisand sued aerial photographer Kenneth Adelman for displaying a photograph of her Malibu, California home, along with other photos of the California coastline. Her suit was dismissed under the anti-SLAPP provisions of California law. Mike Masnick of Techdirt.com coined the term "Streisand effect" in January 2005 to describe the publicity generated by Streisand's efforts to suppress the publication of the photograph.

Awards

In 2000, Barbra Streisand was awarded the National Medal of Arts.

Music awards

Streisand's works have been nominated for over 57 Grammy Awards; she won 8 of these, including two special awards. She has been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame three times. In 2011 she will be honored as MusiCares Person of the Year.

{| class="wikitable" |- style="background:#ccc; text-align:center;" ! Year !! Award !! Category !! Work !! Result |- | rowspan="3"|1963 || rowspan="11"|Grammy Awards || Album of the Year || rowspan="2"| The Barbra Streisand Album || |- | Best Female Vocal Performance || |- | Record of the Year || "Happy Days Are Here Again" || |- | rowspan="3"|1964 || Best Female Vocal Performance || rowspan="3"| People || |- | Album of the Year || |- | Record of the Year || |- | rowspan="2"|1965 || Best Female Vocal Performance || rowspan="2"| My Name Is Barbra || |- | Album of the Year || |- | rowspan="2"|1966 || Best Female Vocal Performance || rowspan="2"| Color Me Barbra || |- | Album of the Year || |- | 1968 || Best Contemporary-Pop Vocal Performance || Funny Girl Soundtrack || |- | 1970 || AGVA Georgie Award || Entertainer of the Year || align="center"|— || |- | rowspan="2"|1972 || Grammy Awards || Best Pop Female Vocal Performance || "Sweet Inspiration / Where You Lead" || |- | AGVA Georgie Award || Singing Star of the Year || rowspan="2" align="center"|— || |- | 1975 || People's Choice Awards || Favorite Female Singer of the Year || |- | 1976 || rowspan="5"|Grammy Awards || Best Classical Vocal Soloist Performance || Classical Barbra || |- | rowspan="5"|1977 || Best Pop Female Vocal Performance || rowspan="4"| "Evergreen" (from A Star Is Born) || |- | Song of the Year || |- | Record of the Year || |- | Best Original Score – Motion Picture or Television Special || |- | AGVA Georgie Award || Singing Star of the Year || align="center"|— || |- | 1978 || rowspan="7"|Grammy Awards || Best Pop Female Vocal Performance || rowspan="3"| "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" (with Neil Diamond) || |- | rowspan="2"|1979 || Record of the Year || |- | rowspan="2"|Best Pop Vocal Performance – Duo, Group, or Chorus || |- | rowspan="5"|1980 || rowspan="2"| Guilty (with Barry Gibb) || |- | Album of the Year || |- | Record of the Year || rowspan="2"| "Woman In Love" || |- | Best Pop Vocal Female Performance || |- | AGVA Georgie Awards || Singing Star of the Year || rowspan="2" align="center"|— || |- | 1985 || People's Choice Awards || Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer || |- | rowspan="3"|1986 || rowspan="5"|Grammy Awards || Best Pop Vocal Female Performance || rowspan="2"| The Broadway Album || |- | Album of the Year || |- | Best Instrumental Arrangement Acompanying Vocal || "Being Alive" || |- | rowspan="2"|1987 || Best Pop Vocal Female Performance || rowspan="2"| One Voice || |- | Best Music Video Performance || |- | 1988 || People's Choice Awards || Favorite All-Time Musical Performer || align="center"|— || |- | 1991 || rowspan="15"|Grammy Awards || Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance || "Warm All Over" || |- | 1992 || Grammy Legend Award || align="center"|— || Special award |- | 1993 || Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance || Back to Broadway || |- | rowspan="3"|1994 || Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award || align="center"|— || Special award |- | Best Traditional Pop Vocal Performance || Barbra: The Concert || |- | Best Pop Female Vocal Performance || "Ordinary Miracles" || |- | rowspan="2"|1997 || rowspan="2"|Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals || "Tell Him" (with Celine Dion) || |- | "I Finally Found Someone" (with Bryan Adams) || |- | 2000 || rowspan="3"|Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album || Timeless – Live In Concert || |- | 2002 || Christmas Memories || |- | 2003 || The Movie Album || |- | 2004 || rowspan="2"|Grammy Hall of Fame || Funny Girl (Barbra Streisand and Sydney Chaplin) || rowspan="2"|Inducted |- | 2006 || The Barbra Streisand Album |- | 2007 || Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album || Live in Concert 2006 || |- | 2008 || Grammy Hall of Fame || "The Way We Were" || Inducted |- | 2011 || Grammy Awards || Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album || Love Is the Answer || |}

Film awards

{| class="wikitable" |- ! Year !! Award !! Category !! Work !! Result |-2000 Razzie Scariest character on South Park Nominated | rowspan="2"|1969 || Academy Awards || Best Actress || rowspan="2"| Funny Girl || |- | rowspan="5"| Golden Globe Awards || rowspan="2"|Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) || |- | rowspan="2"|1970 || Hello, Dolly! || |- | Henrietta World Film Favorite || align="center"|— || Special award |- | rowspan="2"|1971 || Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) || The Owl and the Pussycat || |- | Henrietta World Film Favorite || align="center"|— || Special award |- | rowspan="2"|1974 || Academy Awards || Best Actress || rowspan="2"| The Way We Were || |- | rowspan="3"|Golden Globe Awards || Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama) || |- | 1975 || Henrietta World Film Favorite || align="center"|— || Special award |- | 1976 || Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) || Funny Lady || |- | rowspan="3"|1977 || Academy Awards || Best Original Song || rowspan="3"| "Evergreen" (from A Star Is Born) || |- | rowspan="6"|Golden Globe Awards || Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) || |- | Best Original Song || |- | 1978 || Henrietta World Film Favorite || align="center"|— || Special award |- | rowspan="2"|1984 || Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) || rowspan="2"| Yentl || |- | Best Director (Motion Picture) || |- | 1988 || Best Actress in Motion Picture (Drama) || Nuts || |- | rowspan="2"|1992 || Academy Awards || Best Picture || rowspan="2"| The Prince of Tides || |- | Golden Globe Awards || Best Director (Motion Picture) || |- | rowspan="3"|1997 || Academy Awards || Best Original Song || "I Finally Found Someone" (from The Mirror Has Two Faces) || |- | rowspan="3"|Golden Globe Awards || Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) || The Mirror Has Two Faces || |- | Best Original Song || "I Finally Found Someone" (from The Mirror Has Two Faces) || |- | 2000 || Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award for Lifetime Achievement || align="center"|— || Special award |- |- |}

Personal life

Streisand has been married twice. Her first husband was actor Elliott Gould, to whom she was married from 1963 to 1971. They had one child, Jason Gould, who would go on to star as her on-screen son in The Prince of Tides. Her second husband is James Brolin, whom she married on July 1, 1998. While they have no children together, Brolin has two children from his first marriage, including Academy Award nominated actor Josh Brolin, and one child from his second marriage. Both of her husbands starred in the 1970s conspiracy sci-fi thriller Capricorn One.

Jon Peters' daughters, Caleigh Peters and Skye Peters, are her goddaughters.

Streisand shares a birthday with Shirley MacLaine, and they celebrate together every year.

Streisand is the older sister of singer/actress Roslyn Kind. Kind was born 9 January 1951 in Brooklyn, New York.

Streisand's philanthropic organization, The Streisand Foundation, gives grants to "national organizations working on preservation of the environment, voter education, the protection of civil liberties and civil rights, women’s issues and nuclear disarmament" and has given large donations to programs related to women's health. Streisand was named third most generous celebrity. The Giving Back Fund claimed Streisand donated $11 million, which The Streisand Foundation distributed.

At Julien’s Auctions in October 2009, Streisand, a long-time collector of art and furniture, sold 526 items with all the proceeds going to her foundation. Items included a costume from Funny Lady and a vintage dental cabinet purchased by the performer at 18 years old. The sale’s most valuable lot was a painting by Kees van Dongen.

Name

Streisand changed her name from Barbara to Barbra because, she said, "I hated the name, but I refused to change it.". Streisand further explained, ""Well, I was 18 and I wanted to be unique, but I didn't want to change my name because that was too false. You know, people were saying you could be Joanie Sands, or something like that. [My middle name is Joan.] And I said, 'No, let's see, if I take out the 'a,' it's still 'Barbara,' but it's unique." A 1967 biography with a concert program said, "the spelling of her first name is an instance of partial rebellion: she was advised to change her last name and retaliated by dropping an “a” from the first instead."

References in popular culture

On television

The most memorable parody of Streisand's iconic status has been on the sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live in the recurring skit Coffee Talk where character Linda Richman, played by Mike Myers, hosts a talk show dedicated to, among other things, the adoration of Streisand. Streisand, in turn, made an unannounced guest appearance on the show, surprising Myers and guests, Madonna and Roseanne Barr. Mike Myers also appeared as the Linda Richman character on stage with Streisand at her 1994 MGM Grand concert, as well as a few of the 1994 Streisand tour shows.

Streisand is mentioned many times in television sitcoms. In the CBS 1993–1999 sitcom The Nanny, Fran Drescher's character Fran Fine, along with her entire family, is obsessed with the performer. And Fran is obsessed with the fact that many times she almost meets Ms. Streisand, most notably when her stepdaughter, Margret S. Sheffield, marries Michael Brolin, nephew of James Brolin who is Barbra Gould Brolin's husband.

Streisand is frequently mentioned in the sitcom Will & Grace, particularly by the character Jack McFarland. Songs made famous by Streisand, such as "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" from Yentl and "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" from The Broadway Album are reproduced by characters in the show.

The sitcom Friends refers to Streisand in at least two episodes. In "The One Where Chandler Can't Remember Which Sister", Monica names a sandwich at her 1950s-styled restaurant after Barbra Streisand. A soup is also named after Streisand's movie Yentl. Meanwhile, in The One After 'I Do', Phoebe pretends she is pregnant with James Brolin's baby, to which Chandler Bing responds "[A]s in Barbra Streisand's husband, James Brolin?" In the same episode, Gould appears on the show as Ross and Monica's father.

At least four episodes of the animated sitcom The Simpsons refer to Streisand. Outside Springfield Elementary School, announcing Lisa's jazz concert and noting tickets have been sold out, is an advertisement for a Streisand concert in the same venue for the following day, with tickets still on sale. In another episode, after Marge undergoes therapy, she informs the therapist that whenever she hears the wind blow, she'll hear it saying "Lowenstein", Streisand's therapist character in The Prince of Tides, despite Marge's therapist having a completely different name. Another reference comes in "Sleeping with the Enemy" when Bart exclaims after seeing Lisa make a snow-angel in a cake on the kitchen table, "At least she's not singing Streisand". Nelson Muntz sings a song from Yentl earlier in the episode, which is the reason for Bart's reference. In "Simple Simpson", the on-stage patriotic western-singer says that Ms. Streisand is unpatriotic and could be pleased by spitting on the flag and strangling a bald eagle.

Another enduring satirical reference is in the animated series South Park, most notably in the episode "Mecha-Streisand", where Streisand is portrayed as a self-important, evil, gigantic robotic dinosaur with a terrible singing voice about to conquer the universe before being defeated by Robert Smith of The Cure. This was because she criticized South Park saying it was bad for children. On another occasion, the Halloween episode "Spookyfish" is promoted for a week as being done in "Spooky-Vision", which involves Streisand's face seen at times during the episode in the four corners of the screen. At the end of the feature film , her name is used as a powerful curse word, a gag repeated in the episode "Osama bin Laden Has Farty Pants". The Mecha-Streisand character made a return in the Season 14 episodes "200" and "201", as one of several celebrities the show had lampooned over the years.

In the episode titled "Ex in the City" from Season 2 of Sex and the City, protagonist Carrie Bradshaw likens herself and her lovelife to that of Streisand's character, Katie Morosky in The Way We Were before breaking into a rendition of the title song.

In the 2002–04 Icebox.com cartoon and animated TV series Queer Duck, the title character is obsessed with Streisand. He undergoes Christian-based conversion therapy to be made straight; only Barbra's magic nose can return him to his gayness.

In the 2005 Fox animated sitcom American Dad!, Season 5 Episode 1 shows Roger preparing to watch a Streisand special where the entertainer sings the collected works of Celine Dion in Las Vegas.

In Season 1 Episode 12 of Boston Legal aired in August 2005, Denny Crane boasts that he once had a threesome with Shirley Schmidt and Barbra Streisand. Schmidt corrects him by reminding him that "Barbra Streisand" was actually a female impersonator, whose penis should have been a clue.

In the 2007 Fox animated sitcom Family Guy, one episode shows Lois singing a cabaret act with "Don't Rain on My Parade"—originally sung by Streisand in Funny Girl—only slowed down and jazzier, as an act of defiance to Peter. In another episode, Peter received life insurance after Lois died and claimed that he has more money than Streisand. This was followed by a cut scene showing Streisand and her husband in their home. The husband asked for money and Streisand pressed one nostril of her nose and dollar bills came out the other nostril. Another earlier episode shows Streisand and husband James Brolin, with Streisand remarking "I'm glad I married you and not a celebrity".

Streisand is referenced frequently on the Fox TV musical series Glee. The character Rachel (Lea Michele) mentions that Streisand refused to alter her nose in order to become famous in the show's third episode Acafellas. Also, in the mid-season finale of Glee, Rachel sings the Streisand anthem "Don't Rain on My Parade". In the episode Hell-O, she says that she will be heartbroken for life, "Like Barbra in The Way We Were." Also in the episode Hell-O, Jesse St.James (Jonathan Groff) criticizes Rachel's performance of "Don't Rain on My Parade" by saying that she "lacked Barbra's emotional depth." In the episode Theatricality, Rachel is spying on the opposing team's dance rehearsal when the director, Shelby Corcoran (Idina Menzel), expresses dissatisfaction at the team's routine. She demonstrates how it's done with the title song from Funny Girl, and Rachel, sitting in the audience, whispers to her friend, "Exactly what I would have done--Barbra. I could do it in my sleep."

When Glee won the prize for "Best TV Series-Comedy Or Musical" at the 2010 Golden Globe Awards, creator Ryan Murphy quipped on stage, "Thank you to the Hollywood Foreign Press and Miss Barbra Streisand".

On film

In movies, Streisand is remembered as the favorite of the character Howard Brackett, played by Kevin Kline, who finally admits to being gay while standing at the altar in the 1997 romantic comedy In & Out. His unfortunate bride-to-be, played by Joan Cusack, cries out in frustration to family and friends present, "Does anybody here KNOW how many times I've had to sit through Funny Lady?" In an earlier scene, Howard is taunted by a friend during an argument at a bar with a jeering, "The studio thought that Barbra was too ol-l-ld to play Yentl." The film also mentions the album Color Me Barbra. Barbra's signature tune, "People", is played by a school orchestra in honor of teacher Howard as the story wraps at the end of the credits. This and similar references refer to her popularity among gay men.

In the 1980 musical film Fame, one of the characters, Mrs. Finsecker, announces that Barbra Streisand did not have to change her name to get to the top. Also, Doris Finsecker, played by Maureen Teefy, sings "The Way We Were" for her audition to get into the drama department.

In the 1988 comedy, BIG, Tom Hanks goes home and to prove to his mother that he is her "little" boy he sings the first line of her favorite song, "Memories, like the corner of my mind..." from "The Way We Were."

In the 1993 romantic comedy Mrs. Doubtfire, Robin Williams, while trying different looks to apply to the Mrs. Doubtfire character that he portrays, uses a wig "a la Streisand" and sings some lines from "Don't Rain on My Parade".

In the 1996 comedy "The Associate", Whoopi Goldberg plays a business woman, Laurel Ayers, who creates a business associate, Robert S. Cutty, who is said to have known and dated Streisand. In addition to having an autographed picture of Streisand in her office, Ayers also has a cross-dressing friend who dresses up to resemble Streisand throughout the film.

In the 1998 film adaptation of the novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas a teenage runaway played by Christina Ricci paints images of Streisand while being administered large amounts of LSD by Hunter Thompson's Samoan attorney.

In the 1999 film based on the TV series, Cartman shouted out Barbra Streisand's name and shot electricity out of his hands. She is also mentioned in a relationship conversation between the characters of Satan and Saddam Hussein.

In the 2000 remake of the comedy Bedazzled, the Devil (Elizabeth Hurley) tells Elliot (Brendan Fraser): "It's not easy being the Barbra Streisand of evil, you know."

The characters Carla and Connie, as aspiring song-and-dance acts in the 2004 comedy Connie and Carla, include four Streisand references. They sing "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" and "Memory" at an airport lounge and "Don't Rain on My Parade" onstage in a gay bar, and talk about the plot of Yentl at the climax of the film after they ask how many in their audience have seen the movie (everyone raised their hands).

In the 2005 animated feature Chicken Little, Chicken's best friend Runt's mom says, after she thinks he is lying about seeing an alien spaceship, "Don't make me take away your Streisand collection!" and Runt returns with, "Mother, you leave Barbra out of this!"

In music

Sound clips of Streisand's heated exchange with a supporter of former U.S. president George W. Bush were sampled in the 2009 Lucian Piane dance song "Bale Out", making it sound as if she were arguing with actor Christian Bale (whose recorded outbursts during the filming of Terminator Salvation were the centerpiece of the song).

Her name consists both the title and the complete lyrics of the "Barbra Streisand" disco house song by Duck Sauce which reached number 1 in the UK Dance charts. It also reached number 1 in several other countries.

On stage

Daniel Stern's 2003 Off-Broadway play Barbra's Wedding was set against the backdrop of Streisand's 1998 wedding to James Brolin.

The 2005 Broadway musical Spamalot carries the song "You won't succeed on Broadway" which references lines from "People" and "Papa, Can You Hear Me?".

The 2008 Broadway musical "Title of show" has a line where the character, Susan, was suggesting names for the title of the show. She threw out the name "Color Me Susan", a reference to Barbra's Color Me Barbra.

Appearances

Broadway performances

{| class="wikitable" |- style="background:#ccc; text-align:center;" ! Year !! Title !! Notes |- | 1961–1963 || I Can Get It for You Wholesale || Nominated—Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical |- | 1964–1965 || Funny Girl || Nominated—Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical |}

West End performances

{| class="wikitable" |- style="background:#ccc; text-align:center;" ! Year !! Title !! Notes |- | 1966 || Funny Girl || April 13, 1966 – July 16, 1966 at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London. |}

Television specials

{| class="wikitable" |- style="background:#ccc; text-align:center;" ! Year !! Title !! Notes |- | 1965 || My Name Is Barbra || Filmed in 1964 | Aired April 28, 1965 |- style="background:#f0f0f0" | 1966 || Color Me Barbra || Filmed 1965 | Aired March 30, 1966 |- | 1967 || The Belle of 14th Street ||Aired Oct. 11, 1967 |- style="background:#f0f0f0" | 1968 || A Happening in Central Park || Aired June 17, 1967 |- | 1973 || Barbra Streisand...And Other Musical Instruments || Nov. 2, 1973 |- style="background:#f0f0f0" | 1975 || Funny Girl to Funny Lady || |- | 1976 || Barbra: With One More Look at You || |- style="background:#f0f0f0" | 1983 || A Film Is Born: The Making of 'Yentl' || |- | 1986 || Putting it Together: The Making of The Broadway Album || |- style="background:#f0f0f0" | 1987 || One Voice || |- | 1994 || || Also producer and director |- style="background:#f0f0f0" | 2001 || || Aired on FOX TV February 14, 2001 (1 hour edited version) |- | 2009 || || Aired on CBS April 25, 2009 (Filmed in Florida in 2006) |- style="background:#f0f0f0" | 2009 || Friday Night with Streisand and Ross || First Ever UK Performance |}

Discography

*1963: The Barbra Streisand Album

1963: The Second Barbra Streisand Album

1964: The Third Album

1964: Funny Girl

1964: People

1965: My Name Is Barbra

1965: My Name Is Barbra, Two...

1966: Color Me Barbra

1966: Je m'appelle Barbra

1967: Simply Streisand

1967: A Christmas Album

1969: What About Today?

1971: Stoney End

1971: Barbra Joan Streisand

1973: Barbra Streisand...And Other Musical Instruments

1974: The Way We Were

1974: ButterFly

1975: Lazy Afternoon

1976: Classical Barbra

1977: Streisand Superman

1978: Songbird

1979: Wet

1980: Guilty

1984: Emotion

1985: The Broadway Album

1988: Till I Loved You

1993: Back to Broadway

1997: Higher Ground

1999: A Love Like Ours

2001: Christmas Memories

2003: The Movie Album

2005: Guilty Pleasures

2009: Love Is the Answer

Tours and live performances

{| class="wikitable" |- style="background:#ccc;" ! Year !! Title !! Continents !! Box-Office Benefits !! Total Audience |- | 1966 || An Evening with Barbra Streisand (Tour) || North America || $480,000 || 60,000 |- style="background:#f0f0f0" | 1994 || || North America and Europe || $50 million || 400,000 |- | 2000 || || North America and Oceania || $70 million || 200,000 |- style="background:#f0f0f0" | 2006–2007 || || North America and Europe || $119.5 million || 425,000 |}

Filmography

{| class="wikitable" |- style="background:#ccc;" ! Year ! Title ! Role ! Notes |- | 1968 | Funny Girl | Fanny Brice | Academy Award for Best Actress Tied with Katharine Hepburn for The Lion in Winter
David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress Tied with Mia Farrow for Rosemary's Baby
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role also for Hello, Dolly! |- | 1969 | Hello, Dolly! | Dolly Levi | Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role also for Funny Girl
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |- |rowspan=2|1970 | On a Clear Day You Can See Forever | Daisy Gamble / Melinda Tentres |- | The Owl and the Pussycat | Doris Wilgus/Wadsworth/Wellington/Waverly | Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |- |rowspan=2| 1972 | What's Up, Doc? | Judy Maxwell | |- | Up the Sandbox | Margaret Reynolds | |- | 1973 | The Way We Were | Katie Morosky | David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress Tied with Tatum O'Neal for Paper Moon
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama |- | 1974 | For Pete's Sake | Henrietta 'Henry' Robbins | |- | 1975 | Funny Lady | Fanny Brice |Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |- | 1976 | A Star Is Born | Esther Hoffman Howard | Academy Award for Best Original Song Shared with Paul Williams (lyrics) for the song "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)"
Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song Shared with Paul Williams (lyrics) for the song "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)"
Nominated—BAFTA Award for Best Film Music Shared with Paul Williams, Kenny Ascher, Rupert Holmes, Leon Russell, Kenny Loggins, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Donna Weiss |- | 1979 | The Main Event | Hillary Kramer | |- | 1981 | All Night Long | Cheryl Gibbons | |- | 1983 | Yentl | Yentl/Anshel |(also director and producer)
Golden Globe Award for Best Director
Nastro d'Argento for Best New Foreign Director
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy |- | 1987 | Nuts | Claudia Faith Draper | Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama |- | 1991 | The Prince of Tides | Dr. Susan Lowenstein |(also director and producer)
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Picture Shared with Andrew S. Karsch
Nominated—Directors Guild of America Award
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Director |- | 1996 | The Mirror Has Two Faces | Rose Morgan |(also director and producer)
Nominated—Academy Award for Best Original Song Shared with Marvin Hamlisch, Robert John Lange and Bryan Adams for the song "I Finally Found Someone"
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song Shared with Marvin Hamlisch, Robert John Lange and Bryan Adams for the song "I Finally Found Someone" |- | 2004 | Meet the Fockers | Roz Focker | |- | 2010 | Little Fockers | Roz Focker | |}

References

Further reading

External links

BarbraStreisand.com, the Official Site

BJSMusic.com

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