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Agatha Christie
Dame Agatha Christie, DBE, CBE (15 September 1890 – 12 January 1976), was a British crime writer of novels, short stories and plays. She also wrote romances under the name Mary Westmacott, but she is best remembered for her 80 detective novels—especially those featuring Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple—and her successful West End theatre plays.
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Anatole Litvak
Anatole Litvak (Анатоль Литвак) (May 10, 1902 – December 15, 1974) was a Jewish Russian-born filmmaker who wrote, directed, and produced films in a various countries and languages. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director for the film The Snake Pit (1948).
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Ann-Margret
Ann-Margret Olsson (born April 28, 1941) is a Swedish-American actress, singer and dancer whose professional name is Ann-Margret. She became famous for her starring roles in Bye, Bye Birdie, Viva Las Vegas, The Cincinnati Kid, Carnal Knowledge, and Tommy. Her later career includes character roles in Grumpy Old Men, Any Given Sunday, , and The Break-Up. She has won five Golden Globe Awards and been nominated for two Academy Awards, two Grammy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and six Emmy Awards. On August 21, 2010, she won her first Emmy Award for her guest appearance on .
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Anne Baxter
Anne Baxter (May 7, 1923 – December 12, 1985) was an American actress known for her performances in films such as The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), All About Eve (1950), ''The Razor's Edge (1946) and The Ten Commandments'' (1956).
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Belle Starr
Myra Maybelle Shirley Reed Starr (February 5, 1848 - February 3, 1889), better known as Belle Starr, was a notorious American outlaw.
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Ben Ames Williams
Ben Ames Williams (7 March 1889 – 4 February 1953) American writer who published over thirty novels, including All the Brothers Were Valiant (1919), The Strange Woman (1945), House Divided (1947), Leave Her to Heaven (1944), and Come Spring (1940). His writing traversed a wide range of genres and evinced considerable expertise in a number of divergent fields. Williams achieved his greatest popularity when three of his books were adapted to film: Leave Her to Heaven (1945), The Strange Woman (1946), and All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953). Other films based on the writing of Williams are Jubilo, Jr (1927), Small Town Girl (1936), ''Adventure's End (1937), and Too Good to Be True'' (1988).
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Brooks Atkinson
Justin Brooks Atkinson (November 28, 1894 – January 14, 1984) was an American theatre critic. He worked for The New York Times from 1925 to 1960. In his obituary, the Times called him "the most important reviewer of his time."
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Bruce Cabot
Bruce Cabot (April 20, 1904 – May 3, 1972) was an American film actor. Tall and athletic looking, he is best remembered as Jack Driscoll in King Kong (1933).
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Carole Lombard
Carole Lombard (October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942) was an American actress. She was particularly noted for her comedic roles in several classic films of the 1930s, most notably in the 1936 film My Man Godfrey. She is listed as one of the American Film Institute's greatest stars of all time and was the highest-paid star in Hollywood in the late 1930s, earning around US$500,000 per year (more than five times the salary of the US President). Lombard's career was cut short when she died at the age of 33 in the crash of TWA Flight 3.
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Charles Grapewin
Charley Ellsworth Grapewin (December 20, 1869 – February 2, 1956) was an American vaudeville performer and a stage and film actor, who portrayed Uncle Henry in The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Grandpa Joad in the film The Grapes of Wrath (1940).
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Clark Gable
William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American film actor, nicknamed "The King of Hollywood" in his heyday. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among the greatest male stars of all time.
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Clifton Webb
Clifton Webb (aka Webb Parmelee Hollenbeck, aka Webb P. Raum, November 19, 1889 – October 13, 1966) was an American actor, dancer, and singer known for his Oscar-nominated roles in such films as Laura, ''The Razor's Edge, and Sitting Pretty. In the theatrical world he was known for his appearances in the plays of Noël Coward, notably Blithe Spirit''.
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Cole Porter
Cole Albert Porter (June 9, 1891 – October 15, 1964) was an American composer and songwriter. His works include the musical comedies Kiss Me, Kate, Fifty Million Frenchmen, DuBarry Was a Lady and Anything Goes, as well as songs like "Night and Day", "I Get a Kick out of You", "Well, Did You Evah!" and "I've Got You Under My Skin". He was noted for his sophisticated, bawdy lyrics, clever rhymes and complex forms. Porter was one of the greatest contributors to the Great American Songbook. Cole Porter is one of the few Tin Pan Alley composers to have written both the lyrics and the music for his songs.
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Cornel Wilde
Cornelius Louis Wilde (October 13, 1912 – October 16, 1989) was an American actor and film director.
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Dan Dailey
Daniel James Dailey Jr. (December 14, 1915 – October 16, 1978) was an American dancer and actor.
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Danny Kaye
Danny Kaye (January 18, 1913 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian.
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Darryl F. Zanuck
Darryl Francis Zanuck (September 5, 1902 – December 22, 1979) was an American producer, writer, actor, director, and studio executive who played a major part in the Hollywood studio system as one of its longest survivors (the length of his career being rivalled only by that of Adolph Zukor).
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Dean Martin
Dean Martin (June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995) was an American singer, film actor and comedian. Martin's hit singles included "Memories Are Made of This", "That's Amore", "Everybody Loves Somebody", "Mambo Italiano", "Sway", "Volare" and posthumous smash "Ain't That a Kick in the Head?". Nicknamed the "King of Cool", he was one of the members of the "Rat Pack" and a major star in four areas of show business: concert stage/night clubs, recordings, motion pictures, and television.
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Dinah Shore
Dinah Shore (born Frances Rose Shore; February 29, 1916 – February 24, 1994) was an American singer, actress, and television personality. She was most popular during the Big Band era of the 1940s and 1950s.
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Don Ameche
Don Ameche (May 31, 1908 – December 6, 1993) was an Academy Award winning American actor.
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Don Murray (actor)
:For other persons named Don Murray, see Don Murray.
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Donald O'Connor
Donald David Dixon Ronald O’Connor (August 28, 1925 – September 27, 2003) was an American dancer, singer, and actor who came to fame in a series of movies in which he co-starred alternately with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, and Francis the Talking Mule. Perhaps his most famous performance was as Gene Kelly's friend and colleague in ''Singin' in the Rain'' (1952).
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Ed Sullivan
Edward Vincent "Ed" Sullivan (September 28, 1901 – October 13, 1974) was an American entertainment writer and television host, best known as the presenter of a TV variety show called The Ed Sullivan Show that was broadcast from 1948 until 1971. Its 23-year run made The Ed Sullivan Show one of the longest-running variety shows in U.S. broadcast history.
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Edmund Purdom
Edmund Anthony Cutlar Purdom (19 December 1926 – 1 January 2009) was a British actor.
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Edna Best
Edna Best (3 March 1900 – 18 September 1974) was a British actress.
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Ernst Lubitsch
Ernst Lubitsch (January 28, 1892 – November 30, 1947) was a German-born film director. His urbane comedies of manners gave him the reputation of being Hollywood's most elegant and sophisticated director; as his prestige grew, his films were promoted as having "the Lubitsch touch".
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Franchot Tone
Franchot Tone (February 27, 1905 – September 18, 1968) was an American stage, film, and television actor, star of Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) and many other films through the 1960s. In the early 1960s Tone appeared in character roles on TV dramas like Bonanza, Wagon Train, The Twilight Zone, and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.
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Fredric March
Fredric March (August 31, 1897 – April 14, 1975) was an American stage and film actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1932 for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and in 1946 for The Best Years of Our Lives.
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Fritz Lang
Friedrich "Fritz" Christian Anton Lang (December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976) was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute. His most famous films are the groundbreaking Metropolis (the world's most expensive silent film at the time of its release) and M, made before he moved to the United States, his iconic contribution to the film noir genre.
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Gene Tunney
James Joseph "Gene" Tunney (May 25, 1897 – November 7, 1978) was the world heavyweight boxing champion from 1926-1928 who defeated Jack Dempsey twice, first in 1926 and then in 1927. Tunney's successful title defense against Dempsey is one of the most famous bouts in boxing history and is known as The Long Count Fight. Tunney retired as an undefeated heavyweight after his victory over Tom Heeney in 1928.
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George Sanders
George Henry Sanders (3 July 1906 – 25 April 1972) was an English film and television actor best known for his roles of Addison DeWitt in the 1950 film All About Eve as well as the villainous tiger Shere Khan in The Jungle Book.
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Ginger Rogers
Ginger Rogers (July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995) was an American actress, dancer, and singer who appeared in film, and on stage, radio, and television throughout much of the 20th century.
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Glynis Johns
Glynis Johns (born October 5, 1923) is a South African-born Welsh stage and film actress, dancer, pianist and singer (notably of "Send in the Clowns", which she originated in Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music). With a career spanning seven decades, Johns is often cited as the "complete actress", who happens to be a trained pianist and singer. She is also an accomplished dancer, and was qualified to teach ballet by the age of ten.
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Grace Kelly
Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982) was an American Academy Award-winning actress and Princess consort of Monaco. In April 1956 Kelly married Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, and became styled as Her Serene Highness The Princess of Monaco, and was commonly referred to as Princess Grace.
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Gregory Peck
Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003) was an American actor.
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Henry Fonda
Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American film and stage actor.
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Howard Hughes
Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American aviator, engineer, industrialist, film producer, film director, philanthropist, and one of the wealthiest people in the world. He gained prominence from the late 1920s as a maverick film producer, making big-budget and often controversial films like ''Hell's Angels, Scarface and The Outlaw''. Hughes was one of the most influential aviators in history: he set multiple world air-speed records, built the Hughes H-1 Racer and H-4 "Hercules" (better known to history as the "Spruce Goose") aircraft, and acquired and expanded Trans World Airlines. Hughes is also remembered for his eccentric behavior and reclusive lifestyle in later life, caused in part by a worsening obsessive–compulsive disorder. His legacy is maintained through the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
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Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957) was an American actor. He is widely regarded as a cultural icon.
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Irish people
The Irish people (, na hÉireannaigh, na Gaedhil) are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years (according to archaeological studies, see Prehistoric Ireland), with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded have legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolgs, Tuatha Dé Danann and the Milesians the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic ancestry, and still serving as a term for the Irish race today. The main groups that interacted with the Irish in the Middle Ages include the Scottish people and the Vikings, with the Icelanders especially having some Irish descent. The Anglo-Norman invasion of the High Middle Ages, the English plantations and the subsequent English rule of the country introduced the Normans and Flemish into Ireland. Welsh, Picts, Bretons, and small parties of Gauls and even Anglo-Saxons are known in Ireland from much earlier times.
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Jean Simmons
Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE (January 31, 1929 January 22, 2010) was an English actress who later also became an American citizen. She appeared predominantly in motion pictures, beginning with films made in Great Britain during and after World War II, followed mainly by Hollywood films from 1950.
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Jerry Lewis
Jerry Lewis (born Jerome Levitch, March 16, 1926) is an American comedian, actor, film producer, writer, film director and singer. He is best-known for his slapstick humor in stage, radio, screen, recording and television. He was originally paired up with Dean Martin in 1946, forming the comedy team of Martin and Lewis. In addition to the team's popular nightclub work, they starred in a successful series of comedy films for Paramount Pictures. As an innovative filmmaker, Lewis is credited with inventing the video assist system in cinematography. Lewis is also known for his charity fund-raising telethons and position as national chairman for the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA).
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Joe Schenck
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John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
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John Ford
Rear Admiral (reserve)
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John Hodiak
John Hodiak (April 16, 1914 – October 19, 1955) was an American actor who worked in Radio and Film.
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John Lund
John Lund (6 February 1911 - 10 May 1992) was an American film actor who is probably best remembered for his role in the film A Foreign Affair (1948), directed by Billy Wilder.
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Johnny Carson
John William “Johnny” Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005) was an American television host and comedian, known as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for 30 years (1962–1992). Carson received six Emmy Awards including the Governor Award and a 1985 Peabody Award; he was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992, and received Kennedy Center Honors in 1993.
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (11 February 1909 – 5 February 1993) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Mankiewicz had a long Hollywood career and is best known as the writer-director of the Oscar-winning All About Eve (1950). He was brother to the equally famous screenwriter and drama critic Herman J. Mankiewicz who also won an Oscar — for co-writing Citizen Kane (1941).
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Joseph Schenck
Joseph Michael Schenck (December 25, 1878 – October 22, 1961) was a pioneer executive who played a key role in the development of the United States film industry.
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José Ferrer
José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintrón (January 8, 1912 – January 26, 1992), best known as José Ferrer, was a Puerto Rican actor, as well as a theater and film director. He was the first Hispanic actor to win an Academy Award.
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Jules Dassin
Jules Dassin (December 18, 1911 – March 31, 2008), born Julius Dassin, was an American film director. He was a subject of the Hollywood blacklist in the McCarthy era, and subsequently moved to France where he revived his career.
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Leo Genn
Leo John Genn (9 August 1905 – 26 January 1978) was an Anglo-Jewish stage and film actor.
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Lindsay Wagner
Lindsay Jean Wagner (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress. She is probably most widely known for her portrayal of Jaime Sommers in the 1970s television series The Bionic Woman (for which she won an Emmy award), though she has maintained a lengthy career in a variety of other film and television productions since.
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Michelle Vogel
Michelle Vogel is an Australian-born film historian and author. Vogel has written biographies on Gene Tierney, Marjorie Main and Olive Thomas. She has also written two books on Joan Crawford.
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Mike Douglas
Mike Douglas, born Michael Delaney Dowd, Jr. (August 11, 1925 – August 11, 2006) was an American entertainer.
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Mitchell Leisen
Mitchell Leisen (b. October 6 1898, Menominee, Michigan–d. October 28 1972, Los Angeles) was an American director, art director, and costume designer. He entered the film industry in the 1920s, beginning in the art and costume departments.
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Noël Coward
Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 1899 – 26 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".
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Oleg Cassini
Oleg Cassini (April 11, 1913 – March 17, 2006) was a French-born American fashion designer noted for being chosen by Jacqueline Kennedy to design her state wardrobe in the 1960s. He became the exclusive costume designer for his then-wife, American film and stage actress Gene Tierney. His designs appeared in eleven of Tierney’s films in the 1940s and 50s.
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Otto Preminger
Otto Ludwig Preminger (5 December 1905, Vyzhnytsia – 23 April 1986) was an Austro–Hungarian-born American film director who moved from the theatre to Hollywood, directing over 35 feature films in a five-decade career. He rose to prominence for stylish film noir mysteries such as Laura (1944) and Fallen Angel (1945). In the 1950s and 1960s, he directed a number of high-profile adaptations of popular novels and stage works. Several of these pushed the boundaries of censorship by dealing with topics which were then taboo in Hollywood, such as drug addiction (The Man with the Golden Arm, 1955), rape (Anatomy of a Murder, 1959), and homosexuality (Advise and Consent, 1962). He was twice nominated for the Best Director Academy Award. He also had a few acting roles.
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Paul Muni
Paul Muni (September 22, 1895 – August 25, 1967) was an Austrian-Hungarian-born American stage and film actor. During the 1930s, he was considered the most prestigious actor at Warner Brothers studios, and one of the rare actors who was given the privilege of choosing which parts he wanted.
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Preston Foster
Preston Foster (August 24, 1900 – July 14, 1970) was an American stage and film actor, and singer. Foster entered films in 1929 after appearing as a Broadway stage actor. He was appearing in Broadway plays as late as October 1931 when he acted in a play titled Two Seconds starring Edward J. Pawley. Some of his notable films include: Doctor X (1932), I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932), Annie Oakley (1935), The Last Days of Pompeii (also 1935), The Informer (1935) (as the head of the organization), and My Friend Flicka (1943).
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Prince Aly Khan
Prince Ali Solomone Aga Khan (June 13, 1911 – May 12, 1960), known as Aly Khan was a son of Aga Khan III, the head of the Ismaili Muslims, and the father of Aga Khan IV. A socialite, racehorse owner and jockey, he was the third husband of actress Rita Hayworth. After being passed over for succession as Aga Khan, he served as Pakistan's representative to the United Nations, of which he became a vice president.
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Ray Milland
Ray Milland (3 January 1907 – 10 March 1986) was a Welsh actor and director. His screen career ran from 1929 to 1985, and he is best remembered for his Academy Award–winning portrayal of an alcoholic writer in The Lost Weekend (1945) and as Oliver Barrett III in the 1970 film, Love Story.
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Rex Harrison
Sir Reginald “Rex” Carey Harrison (5 March 1908 – 2 June 1990) was an English actor of stage and screen. Harrison won both an Academy Award and a Tony Award.
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Richard Conte
Richard Conte (March 24, 1910 – April 15, 1975) was an American actor. He appeared in numerous films from the 1940s through 1970s, including ''I'll Cry Tomorrow and The Godfather''.
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Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States from 1969 to 1974, having formerly been the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961. A member of the Republican Party, he was the only President to resign the office as well as the only person to be elected twice to both the Presidency and the Vice Presidency.
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Richard Watts, Jr.
Richard Watts, Jr. (1898–1981) was an American theatre critic.
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Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981–1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967–1975).
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Rory Calhoun
Rory Calhoun (August 8, 1922 – April 28, 1999) was an American television and film actor, screenwriter, and producer best known for his roles in Westerns.
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Rouben Mamoulian
Rouben Mamoulian (pronounced: roo-BEN ma-mool-YAN (October 8, 1897 – December 4, 1987) was an Armenian-American film and theatre director.
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Spencer Tracy
Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was an American theatrical and film actor, who appeared in 74 films from 1930 to 1967. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Tracy ninth among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time. He was nominated for nine Academy Awards for Best Actor in all, winning two.
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Thelma Ritter
Thelma Ritter (February 14, 1902 – February 5, 1969) was an American supporting and character actress from the 1940s until her death in 1969.
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Van Heflin
Emmett Evan "Van" Heflin, Jr. (December 13, 1910 – July 23, 1971) was an American film and theatre actor. He played mostly character parts over the course of his film career, but during the 1940s had a string of roles as a leading man. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Johnny Eager (1942).
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Van Johnson
Van Johnson (August 25, 1916 – December 12, 2008) was an American film and television actor and dancer who was a major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios during and after World War II.
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Victor Mature
Victor John Mature (January 29, 1913 – August 4, 1999) was an American stage, film and television actor.
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Vincent Price
Vincent Leonard Price II (May 27, 1911 – October 25, 1993) was an American actor, well known for his distinctive voice and serio-comic attitude in a series of horror films made in the latter part of his career.
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W. Somerset Maugham
William Somerset Maugham (pronounced , ), CH (25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) was an English playwright, novelist and short story writer. He was among the most popular writers of his era, and reputedly, the highest paid author during the 1930s.
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Walter Huston
Walter Huston (; April 6, 1884 – April 7, 1950) was a Canadian-born American actor. He was the father of actor and director John Huston and the grandfather of actress Anjelica Huston and actor Danny Huston.
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Walter Pidgeon
Walter Davis Pidgeon (September 23, 1897 – September 25, 1984) was a Canadian actor who lived most of his adult life in the United States. He starred in many motion pictures, including Mrs. Miniver, The Bad and the Beautiful, Forbidden Planet, Advise and Consent and Funny Girl.
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Aspen, Colorado
The City of Aspen is an affluent Home Rule Municipality that is the county seat and the most populous city of Pitkin County, Colorado, United States. The United States Census Bureau estimates that the city population was 5,804 in 2005. Founded as a mining camp in the Colorado Silver Boom and named because of the abundance of aspen trees in the area, the city is now a ski resort and an upscale tourist center.
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Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 large professional theatres with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan, New York City.Although theater is the preferred spelling in the U.S.A. (see further at American and British English Spelling Differences), the majority of venues, performers, and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre. Along with London's West End theatre, Broadway theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.
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Brooklyn
Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough with approximately 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area.
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Brooklyn, New York
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California
California (pronounced ) is the most populous state in the United States and the third-largest by land area, after Alaska and Texas. California is also the most populous sub-national entity in North America. It's on the U.S. West Coast, bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west and by the states of Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, Baja California, Mexico, to the south. Its 5 largest cities are Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, and Long Beach, with Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose each having at least 1 million residents. Like many populous states, California's capital, Sacramento is smaller than the state's largest city, Los Angeles. The state is home to the nation's 2nd- and 6th-largest census statistical areas and 8 of the nation's 50 most populous cities. California has a varied climate and geography and a multi-cultural population.
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Charles Grapewin
Charley Ellsworth Grapewin (December 20, 1869 – February 2, 1956) was an American vaudeville performer and a stage and film actor, who portrayed Uncle Henry in The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Grandpa Joad in the film The Grapes of Wrath (1940).
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Colorado
Colorado (pronounced or, chiefly by outsiders, ) is a U.S. state that encompasses most of the Southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains. Colorado is part of the Western United States, the Mountain States, and the Southwestern United States.
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Connecticut
Connecticut () (state code CT) is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and New York to the west and south (because various islands of New York span Connecticut's entire coast).
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Houston
Houston () is the fourth-largest city in the United States of America and the largest city in the state of Texas. As of the 2009 U.S. Census estimate, the city had a population of 2.3 million within an area of . Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of the metropolitan area—the metropolitan area in the U.S. with a population of approximately 5.9 million.
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Houston, Texas
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Miss Porter's School
'''Miss Porter's School', sometimes simply referred to as Porter's or Farmington'', is a private college preparatory school for girls, aged 14–18, located in Farmington, Connecticut. It was founded by education reformer Sarah Porter in 1843, with an eye to educating the elite young women of the Eastern seaboard.
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New York
New York (; locally or ) is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east. The state has a maritime border with Rhode Island east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Ontario to the north and west, and Quebec to the north. New York is often referred to as New York State to distinguish it from New York City.
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Stork Club
The Stork Club was a nightclub in New York City from 1929 to 1965. From 1934 onwards, it was located at 3 East 53rd Street, just east of Fifth Avenue. The building was demolished in 1966 and the site is now the location of Paley Park, a small vest-pocket park.
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Laura Trailer 1944
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- Duration: 2:32
- Published: 26 Oct 2009
- Updated: 06 Feb 2012
- Author: valentinolover70
Laura-starring Gene Tierney... Born Gene Eliza Tierney November 19, 1920 in Brooklyn, New York, US Died November 6, 1991 (aged 70) in Houston, Texas, US Years active 19401980 Spouse(s) Oleg Cassini (1941-1952) W. Howard Lee (1960-1981) Gene Tierney was an American film and stage actress. Acclaimed as one of the great beauties of her day, she is best-remembered for her performance in the title role of Laura (1944) and her Academy Award-nominated performance for Best Actress in Leave Her to Heaven (1945). ( info taken from wikipedia) Laura Song Lyrics Title: Laura Laura is the face in the misty lights Footsteps that you hear down the hall The laugh that floats on a summer night That you can never quite recall And you see Laura on the train that is passing through Those eyes how familiar they seem She gave your very first kiss to you That was Laura but she's only a dream ..instrumental interlude.. And you see Laura on the train that is passing through Those eyes how familiar they seem She gave your very first kiss to you That was Laura but she's only a dream
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Theme from Laura (1944) - David Raksin
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- Duration: 5:43
- Published: 28 Aug 2009
- Updated: 25 Feb 2012
- Author: oldmoviemusic
There are elements of Maurice Ravel's 'Daphne et Chloe' in this, yes, for those who were wondering, and I did mix the two together. In this Otto Preminger directed film noir we meet some of the defining characters of the genre, and we view one of the best movies of the 40s. Despite the great script, to-a-tee acting, smoky atmosphere and moody cinematography, what really comes in to focus with this movie is its music. After all, if you look at most of the great movies, you will find a great score backing up the brilliance. This score is done by David Raksin. Year: 1944 Movie: Laura Director: Otto Preminger Players: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price and Judith Anderson. Genre: 1940s Film Noir My Rating: 9.5/10 My Music Rating: 9/10
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Laura 1944
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- Duration: 4:26
- Published: 27 Feb 2010
- Updated: 21 Feb 2012
- Author: OldSchoolFan87
The whole movie in 5 minutes. A small tribute to the larger than life movie!
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"Laura" 's Ending (1944) by Otto Preminger
A Fantastic Movie by a Master of the Cinema. The expressionnist Ending is my favorite moment of the film!
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Laura (1944) - "No man is going to hurt me again"
Excerpt from Otto Preminger's film noir masterpiece.
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Gene Tierney - The LAURA videoclipe
Gene is THE face in a misty light...
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Scene from Laura (1944) with Gene Tierney and Judith Anderson
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- Duration: 3:09
- Published: 27 Dec 2011
- Updated: 22 Feb 2012
- Author: classicmov
Scene from Laura (1944) with Gene Tierney and Judith Anderson. This is as great a scene between two women as one can find in any movie!
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Laura (1944) Trailer
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- Duration: 2:31
- Published: 23 Jun 2011
- Updated: 30 Jan 2012
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Laura (1944) Trailer www.imdb.com Director: Otto Preminger Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb, Vincent Price
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Laura 1944
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- Duration: 0:51
- Published: 03 Mar 2008
- Updated: 19 Mar 2011
- Author: urinetownresearch
Does this man remind you of Cladwell? Is the character of Laura anything like Hope? Hmmm.
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DAVID ROSE & HIS ORCHESTRA - 'Holiday For Strings' + 'Laura' - 1944 78rpm
First of London-born, Chicago-raised David's 'Holiday' scores. Described as 'perfect shopping music'!. Both sides recorded in 1944, but this disc came out four years later. 'Laura' is from the film-noir, also 1944, which starred Vincent Price, Dana Andrews and Gene Tierney in the female lead.
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Laura (1944) - trailer
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- Duration: 1:59
- Published: 10 Feb 2012
- Updated: 25 Feb 2012
- Author: BFITrailers
'I shall never forget the weekend Laura died...' So begins Otto Preminger's masterpiece about erotic obsession, jealousy, deceit and deadly betrayal, now newly - and beautifully - restored.
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LAURA (1944)
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- Duration: 5:57
- Published: 27 Oct 2009
- Updated: 10 Jun 2011
- Author: BLUESTAR777dotCOM
The song is the theme song of a mystery novel Laura by Vera Caspary, published in 1943 that was made into movie in 1944. The song was originally just its Main Theme instrumental, as theme song for the movie Laura, with no lyrics The main lyrics and later, the Verse was added (with the Verse music, I think) later by Johnny Mercer.The main theme music itself was written by David Raksin
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MOVIE TRAILER -- "LAURA" (1944)
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- Published: 17 Oct 2011
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Laura (1944)
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- Published: 03 Oct 2011
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- Author: Mrbrandnewmovies
Laura info: Release Date: November 1944 (USA) Plot: Detective Mark McPherson investigates the killing of Laura, found dead on her apartment floor before the movie starts. McPherson builds a mental picture of the dead girl from the suspects whom he interviews. He is helped by the striking painting of the late lamented Laura hanging on her apartment wall. But who would have wanted to kill a girl with whom every man she met seemed to fall in love? To make matters worse, McPherson finds himself falling under her spell too. Then one night, halfway through his investigations, something seriously bizarre happens to make him re-think the whole case. Laura (1944) cast: Gene Tierney Laura Hunt Dana Andrews Det. Lt. Mark McPherson Clifton Webb Waldo Lydecker Vincent Price Shelby Carpenter Judith Anderson Ann Treadwell Production company: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation Info source:IMDB
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Laura - Trailer (1944)
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- Duration: 2:23
- Published: 17 Feb 2007
- Updated: 12 Feb 2012
- Author: Adlerangriffe
A detective investigating a murder falls in love with the dead girls portrait only to find out that it wasn't her that was murdered. Who was? Why? By whom? Will they try again? What will become of the detective's love?
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Laura (1944) Full Movie Online
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Gene Tierney (1920-1991) ..American Film Star..
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- Duration: 3:00
- Published: 27 Oct 2009
- Updated: 26 Feb 2012
- Author: valentinolover70
Images of Gene Tierney.. American Film Star.. The beginning of the video has images of her in the film, 'Laura' (1944) The instrumental song is entitled 'Laura', taken from Martin Denny's Album: 'Quiet Village/Enchanted Sea' .. Gene Tierney was an American film and stage actress. Acclaimed as one of the great beauties of her day, she is best-remembered for her performance in the title role of Laura (1944) and her Academy Award-nominated performance for Best Actress in Leave Her to Heaven (1945). ( info taken from wikipedia) Laura Song Lyrics Title: Laura Laura is the face in the misty lights Footsteps that you hear down the hall The laugh that floats on a summer night That you can never quite recall And you see Laura on the train that is passing through Those eyes how familiar they seem She gave your very first kiss to you That was Laura but she's only a dream ..instrumental interlude.. And you see Laura on the train that is passing through Those eyes how familiar they seem She gave your very first kiss to you That was Laura but she's only a dream
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Waldo Lydecker & Laura : You Belong To Me
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- Duration: 2:44
- Published: 07 Jul 2010
- Updated: 21 Aug 2011
- Author: AliceVonFrankenstein
First video on the new channel of mine : little tribute to the famous film noir "Laura" (1944) in general and remarkable actor Clifton Webb in particular. I do not own clips from "Laura" (1944) and Michael Buble's song "You belong to me".
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Diamonds and Dames~Episode 11~"Laura" Inspired 1944 Layered Waves
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- Duration: 7:41
- Published: 20 Jul 2010
- Updated: 23 Feb 2012
- Author: LisaFreemontStreet
Inspired by Laura, of the classic 1944 film, played exquisitely by Gene Tierney. Without her natural waves and a shorter haircut, the look is not quite right but is pretty close. Rest assured, if you have the proper hair cut, this setting pattern will give you almost an identical look to Gene's pin curled locks. My hair is about 3 inches too long, dangit! :) Lighted Vanity Mirror from Vanity Girl Hollywood: www.vanitygirlhollywood.com Check my blog for a post dedicated to this style lisafremontpages.blogspot.com Music: 'Laura'-Spike Jones Midnight Coctail-The Glen Miller Orchestra "Laura'-Anthony Warlow
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Don't Look So Sad - John Robinson (©1994-2011 bfm/woa)
4000 views!!! (let's double it, ppl) thank you - all for viewing. come on guys, we all love Gene, so more support is needed, and the music's pretty good, as well. changed the thumbnail - isn't she just beautiful??? music: John Robinson, ©1995. pix: Debra Bryan. for Gene T. this work is about love - unrequited love. remember that woman you could never get? this is of her. Guitar used: Fender Pre-L Strat. Amp: Marshall Anniversary Amp Head. Spkr: Mesa EV 12". Mic: Neumann KM -88 (rare, and the very best). Gene, there's a lot of love 4 u in this world. thank you to all viewers of the music video. this piece, i wrote, is still a very personal favorite of mine. "men admired her" - "women envied her" - Laura, 1944. Laura: "Why are you doing this?" Waldo: "For you" from Laura, 1944. from Shanghaibenny2: 'Admired by men;' indefinable grace, 'Envied by women;' a celestial face. Adored by her fans; beauty alluring, Enshrined by the media; image enduring.
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GENE TIERNEY ~ LAURA~Carroll Gibbons~Savoy Orpheans
Laura is a 1944 American film noir directed by Otto Preminger. It stars Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews and Clifton Webb. The screenplay by Jay Dratler, Samuel Hoffenstein, and Elizabeth Reinhardt is based on the 1943 novel of the same title by Vera Caspary. Laura, 1944 film starring Gene Tierney. In 1999, Laura was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". The American Film Institute ranked the film #73 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills, the score #7 in AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores, and it was ranked the fourth best film in the mystery genre in AFI's 10 Top 10. Music is "Laura" with Carroll Gibbons and his Hotel Savoy Orpeans written by David Raksin and Johnny Mercer.
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LAURA - Gene Tierney (excerpt US 1944)
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- Duration: 6:53
- Published: 01 Aug 2011
- Updated: 01 Jan 2012
- Author: AshintoSan
TRAILER www.youtube.com Detective Mark McPherson investigates the killing of Laura, found dead on her apartment floor before the movie starts. McPherson builds a mental picture of the dead girl from the suspects whom he interviews. He is helped by the striking painting of the late lamented Laura hanging on her apartment wall. But who would have wanted to kill a girl with whom every man she met seemed to fall in love? To make matters worse, McPherson finds himself falling under her spell too. Then one night, halfway through his investigations, something seriously bizarre happens to make him re-think the whole case. IMDb USER REVIEWs www.imdb.com WATCH stagevu.com EXTERNAL REVIEWs www.noiroftheweek.com www.imdb.com THE FILM en.wikipedia.org www.imdb.com www.rottentomatoes.com DIRECTOR Otto Preminger (1905--1986) en.wikipedia.org He was Hollywood's first truly independent producer/director, was a controversial, polarizing figure throughout his life. He was famous as a flamboyant, outspoken personality -- no filmmaker other than Alfred Hitchcock had a more recognizable public persona. A savvy showman and self-promoter whose frequent on-set tantrums were widely reported. But behind the colorful "characters" he invented and performed with great skill, Preminger was a fearless advocate of free speech. His defiance of the MPAA Production Code and the Catholic Legion of Decency -- he released THE MOON IS BLUE and THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM without the Production Code's Seal of <b>...</b>
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| name | Gene Tierney |
|---|---|
| birth name | Gene Eliza Tierney |
| birth date | November 19, 1920 |
| birth place | Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| death date | November 06, 1991 |
| death place | Houston, Texas, U.S. |
| years active | 1940–80 |
| occupation | Actress |
| spouse | }} |
Gene Eliza Tierney (November 19, 1920 – November 6, 1991) was an American film and stage actress. Acclaimed as one of the great beauties of her day, she is best remembered for her performance in the title role of ''Laura'' (1944) and her Academy Award-nominated performance for Best Actress in ''Leave Her to Heaven'' (1945).
Other notable roles include Martha Strable Van Cleve in ''Heaven Can Wait'' (1943), Isabel Bradley Maturin in ''The Razor's Edge'' (1946), Lucy Muir in ''The Ghost and Mrs. Muir'' (1947), Ann Sutton in ''Whirlpool'' (1949), Maggie Carleton McNulty in ''The Mating Season'' (1951) and Anne Scott in ''The Left Hand of God'' (1955). Certain of her film-related material and personal papers are contained in the Wesleyan University Cinema Archives, to which scholars and media experts from around the world may have full access.
Early life
Tierney was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Howard Sherwood Tierney and Belle Lavina Taylor. She had an elder brother, Howard Sherwood “Butch” Tierney, Jr., and a younger sister, Patricia “Pat” Tierney. Her father was a prosperous insurance broker of Irish descent, her mother a former gym teacher.Tierney attended St. Margaret’s School in Waterbury, Connecticut, and the Unquowa School in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Her first poem, entitled “Night,” was published in the school magazine, and writing verse became an occasional pastime during the rest of her life. She then spent two years in Europe and attended the Brillantmont finishing school in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she learned to speak fluent French.
Tierney returned to the U.S. in 1938 and attended Miss Porter's School. On a trip to the West Coast, she visited Warner Bros. studios. The director Anatole Litvak, who was so taken by the seventeen-year-old’s beauty, told her that she should become an actress. Warner Bros. wanted to sign her to a contract, but her parents advised against it because of the low salary.
Tierney’s coming-out party as a debutante occurred on September 24, 1938, when she was 17 years old. She was bored with society life and decided to pursue a career in acting. Her father felt “If Gene is to be an actress, it should be in the legitimate theatre.” Tierney studied acting at a small Greenwich Village acting studio in New York with Benno Schneider.
Career
Broadway
In Tierney’s first part on Broadway, she carried a bucket of water across the stage in ''What a Life!'' (1938). A ''Variety'' magazine critic declared, "Miss Tierney is certainly the most beautiful water carrier I’ve ever seen!" At the same time, she was an understudy for ''The Primrose Path'' (1938). The next year, she appeared in the role as Molly O' Day in the Broadway production ''Mrs. O' Brien Entertains'' (1939). ''The New York Times'' critic Brooks Atkinson wrote, "As an Irish maiden fresh from the old country, Gene Tierney in her first stage performance is very pretty and refreshingly modest." That same year, Tierney appeared as Peggy Carr in ''Ring Two'' (1939) to favorable reviews. Theater critic Richard Watts, Jr. of the ''New York Herald Tribune'' wrote, "I see no reason why Miss Tierney should not have an interesting theatrical career, that is if cinema does not kidnap her away."Tierney’s father set up a corporation, Belle-Tier, to fund and promote her acting career (He later went on to steal all of her money). Columbia Pictures signed her to a six-month contract in 1939. She also met Howard Hughes, who tried unsuccessfully to seduce her, but she was from a well-to-do family and was not impressed by Hughes' wealth. He did, however, become a lifelong friend. A cameraman advised Tierney to lose a little weight, saying “a thinner face is more seductive.” Tierney then wrote to ''Harper’s Bazaar'' for a diet, which she followed for the next twenty-five years. Years later Tierney was quoted as saying, "I love to eat. For all of Hollywood's rewards, I was hungry for most of those twenty-five years." Tierney was offered the lead role in ''National Velvet'' but production was delayed. ''National Velvet'' would be produced at MGM in 1944.
Columbia Pictures failed to find Tierney a project; so, she returned to Broadway and starred as Patricia Stanley to critical and commercial success in ''The Male Animal'' (1940). In ''The New York Times'', Brooks Atkinson wrote, "Tierney blazes with animation in the best performance she has yet given". She was the toast of Broadway before her 20th birthday.
''The Male Animal'' was a hit, and Tierney was featured in ''Life'' magazine. She was also photographed by ''Harper's Bazaar'', ''Vogue'' and ''Collier's Weekly''.
Two weeks after ''The Male Animal'' opened, one evening before the curtain went up, there was a rumor that Darryl F. Zanuck, the head of 20th Century Fox had flown in from the coast and was in the audience. During the performance, he told an assistant to make a note of Tierney's name. Later that night, Zanuck dropped by the Stork Club, where he saw a young lady on the dance floor. He told his assistant, "Forget the girl from the play. See if you can sign that one." It was Tierney. Zanuck was not easily convinced that the two women were one and the same. Tierney was quoted after the fact, "I always had several different 'looks', a quality that proved useful in my career."
Film career
Hollywood called once again, Tierney signed with 20th Century-Fox. Her motion picture debut was in a supporting role as Elenore Stone in Fritz Lang's western ''The Return of Frank James'' (1940), opposite Henry Fonda. A small role as Barbara Hall followed in ''Hudson's Bay'' (1941) with Paul Muni.Also, in 1941, Tierney co-starred as Ellie Mae Lester in John Ford's comedy ''Tobacco Road'', along with the title role in ''Belle Starr'', Zia in ''Sundown'' and Victoria Charteris a.k.a. Poppy Smith in ''The Shanghai Gesture''. The following year, she played Eve in ''Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake'', along with the dual role as Susan Miller a.k.a. Linda Worthington in Rouben Mamoulian's screwball comedy film ''Rings on Her Fingers'', Kay Saunders in ''Thunder Birds'' and Miss Young in ''China Girl''.
Top billing in Ernst Lubitsch's classic 1943 comedy ''Heaven Can Wait'' as Martha Strable Van Cleve signaled an upward turn in Tierney's career, as her popularity increased. Tierney recalled during the production of ''Heaven Can Wait'', "Lubitsch was a tyrant on the set, the most demanding of directors. After one scene, which took from noon until five to get, I was almost in tears from listening to Lubitsch shout at me. The next day I sought him out, looked him in the eye, and said, 'Mr. Lubitsch, I'm willing to do my best but I just can't go on working on this picture if you're going to keep shouting at me.' 'I'm paid to shout at you', he bellowed. 'Yes', I said, 'and I'm paid to take it — but not enough.' After a tense pause, Lubitsch broke out laughing. From then on we got along famously." In 1944, she starred in what became her most famous role: the intended murder victim, Laura Hunt, in Otto Preminger's film noir ''Laura'', opposite Dana Andrews. After playing Tina Tomasino in ''A Bell for Adano'' (1945), she played the jealous, narcissistic femme fatale Ellen Berent Harland, opposite Cornel Wilde, in the film version of the best-selling Ben Ames Williams novel ''Leave Her to Heaven'', a performance that won her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress (1945). ''Leave Her To Heaven'' was 20th Century-Fox's most successful film of the 1940s.
In 1946, Tierney starred as Miranda Wells in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's debut film as a director in ''Dragonwyck'', along with Walter Huston and Vincent Price. That same year, she starred in another critically praised performance as Isabel Bradley, opposite Tyrone Power, in ''The Razor's Edge'', an adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel. She followed that with her role as Lucy Muir in Mankiewicz's ''The Ghost and Mrs. Muir'' (1947), which many critics and film scholars have noted to be her greatest performance (besides ''Laura'') for which she did not receive an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. The following year, Tierney co-starred once again with Power, this time as Sara Farley in the successful screwball comedy film ''That Wonderful Urge'' (1948). As the decade came to a close, Tierney reunited with ''Laura'' director Preminger to star as Ann Sutton in the classic film noir ''Whirlpool'', co-starring Richard Conte and José Ferrer (1949).
Tierney gave memorable performances in two other film noirs (both in 1950) — Jules Dassin's ''Night and the City'' and Otto Preminger's ''Where the Sidewalk Ends''.
In 1951, Tierney was loaned to Paramount Pictures and gave a memorable comic turn as Maggie Carleton in Mitchell Leisen's classic ensemble screwball comedy film ''The Mating Season'' with John Lund, Thelma Ritter and Miriam Hopkins. This was also the year Tierney gave a tender performance as Midge Sheridan in the Warner Bros. film ''Close to My Heart'' (1951) with Ray Milland. The film is about a couple trying to adopt. Tierney felt this was her best role in a half-dozen years, as it touched the chords of her own experience. The film addressed the issue of "nature versus nurture" and opened an early conversation about the adoption process. Later in her career she would be reunited with Milland in ''Daughter of the Mind'' (1969), which has a cult following.
After appearing opposite Rory Calhoun as Teresa in ''Way of a Gaucho'' (1952), her contract at 20th Century-Fox expired. That same year she starred as Dorothy Bradford in ''Plymouth Adventure'', opposite Spencer Tracy at MGM, during which she had a brief romance with. Tierney then played Marya Lamarkina, opposite Clark Gable, in ''Never Let Me Go'' (1953), which was filmed in England. She found Gable patient and considerate, but lonely and vulnerable, as he was still mourning the death of Carole Lombard. She remained in Europe to play Kay Barlow in United Artists' ''Personal Affair'' (1953), which was released that same year. While Tierney was in Europe, she began a romance with Prince Aly Khan, but their marriage plans met with fierce opposition from his father, Aga Khan III. Early in 1953, Tierney returned to the U.S. to co-star in a film noir film as Iris Denver in ''Black Widow'' (1954) with Ginger Rogers and Van Heflin.
Health Issues
During 1953, Tierney's mental health problems were becoming harder for her to hide; she dropped out of ''Mogambo'' and was replaced by Grace Kelly. While playing Anne Scott in ''The Left Hand of God'' (1955), opposite Humphrey Bogart, Tierney’s long string of personal troubles finally took its toll. She said that “Bogey could tell that I was mentally unstable.” (Bogart himself had a sister who suffered from mental illness, to whom he was close.) During the production he fed Tierney her lines and encouraged her to seek help. Worried about her mental health, she consulted a psychiatrist and was admitted to Harkness Pavilion in New York. Later, she went to The Institute of Living in Hartford, Connecticut. After some 27 shock treatments Tierney attempted to flee but was caught and returned. She became an outspoken opponent of shock treatment therapy, claiming that it had destroyed significant portions of her memory.In 1957 Tierney was seen by a neighbor as she was about to jump from a ledge. The police were called and she was admitted to the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas on December 25. She was released from Menninger the following year after a treatment that included - in its final stages - working as a sales girl in a large department store (where she was recognized by a customer, resulting in sensational newspaper headlines).
Later that year 20th Century-Fox offered her a lead role in ''Holiday for Lovers'' (1957), but the stress proved too great. Days into production she was forced to drop out of the film and was readmitted to Menninger.
Comeback
Tierney made a screen comeback in ''Advise and Consent'' (1962), co-starring with Franchot Tone. A year later, she played Albertine Prine in ''Toys in the Attic'', followed by the International production of ''Las cuatro noches de la luna llena'' (1963) with Dan Dailey. She received overall critical praise for her performances. Tierney's career turn as a solid character actress seemed to be on track. She played Jane Barton in ''The Pleasure Seekers'' (1964), then again retired.Tierney came back to star in the television movie ''Daughter of the Mind'' (1969) with Don Murray and Ray Milland. Her final performance was in the TV miniseries ''Scruples'' (1980).
Personal life
Tierney married twice, first to costume and fashion designer Oleg Cassini on June 1, 1941. She and Cassini had two daughters, Antoinette Daria Cassini (born October 15, 1943 died September 11, 2010) and Christina "Tina" Cassini (born November 19, 1948).In June 1943, while pregnant with Daria, Tierney contracted rubella during her only appearance at the Hollywood Canteen. Daria was born prematurely in Washington, D.C., weighing only three pounds, two ounces (1.42 kg) and requiring a total blood transfusion. Because of Tierney's illness, Daria was also deaf, partially blind with cataracts and had severe mental retardation. Tierney's grief over the tragedy led to many years of depression and may have begun her bipolar disorder. Some time after the tragedy surrounding her daughter Daria's birth, Tierney learned from a fan who approached her for an autograph at a tennis party that the woman (who was then a member of the women's branch of the Marine Corps) had sneaked out of quarantine while sick with rubella to meet Tierney at her only Hollywood Canteen appearance. In her autobiography, Tierney related that after the woman had recounted her story, she just stared at her silently, then turned and walked away. She wrote, "After that I didn't care whether ever again I was anyone's favorite actress." Biographers have theorized that Agatha Christie used this real-life tragedy as the basis of her plot for ''The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side''. The incident, as well as the circumstances under which the information was imparted to the actress, is repeated almost verbatim in the story. Tierney's tragedy had been well-publicized for years previously. During this time, Howard Hughes, an old friend, saw to it that Daria received the best medical care available, paying for all of her medical expenses. Tierney never forgot Hughes' acts of kindness.
Tierney separated from Cassini, challenged by the marital stress of Daria's condition, but they later reconciled and had a second daughter, Tina. During her separation, during the filming of ''Dragonwyck'', she met a young John F. Kennedy, who was visiting the set. They began a romance that ended the following year, when Kennedy told her he could never marry her because of his political ambitions. Tierney then reconciled with Cassini, but they divorced on February 28, 1952. "Cassini promised in his 1952 divorce from Gene Tierney that he would write a will leaving both of his daughters half of his fortune".
In 1960, Tierney sent Kennedy a note of congratulations on his election victory; she later admitted that she had voted for Richard Nixon, saying, "I thought that he would make a better president."
In 1958, Tierney met Texas oil baron W. Howard Lee, who was married to Hedy Lamarr from 1953 to 1960. Tierney and Lee married in Aspen, Colorado on July 11, 1960, and lived in Houston, Texas. She loved life in Texas with Lee and became an expert contract bridge player. In 1962, 20th Century Fox announced Tierney would play the lead role in ''Return to Peyton Place'', but she became pregnant and dropped out of the project. She later miscarried.
Tierney's autobiography, ''Self-Portrait'', in which she candidly discussed her life, career and mental illness, was published in 1979.
On February 17, 1981, Tierney was widowed when Lee died after a long illness.
Gene Tierney died in 1991, shortly before her 71st birthday, of emphysema in Houston, Texas. She had started smoking after a screening of her first movie to lower her voice because "I sound like an angry Minnie Mouse." She became a heavy smoker, which contributed to her death. She is interred next to Lee in the Glenwood Cemetery in Houston, Texas.
In 1986, Tierney was honored alongside actor Gregory Peck with the first Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival Spain for their body of work.
For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Tierney has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6125 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.
Credits in theatre, film, and television
| + List of Broadway theatre credits | ||||
| ! Year | ! Title | ! Format/genre | ! Role | ! Staged by |
| 1938 | ''What A Life!'' | Original Play, Comedy | Walk on, Water carrier | |
| 1938 | '''' | Original Play, Drama/Comedy | Understudy | |
| 1939 | ''Mrs O' Brian Entertains'' | Original Play, Comedy | Molly O' Day | |
| 1939 | ''Ring Two'' | Original Play, Comedy | Peggy Carr | |
| 1940 | '''' | Original Play, Comedy | Patricia Stanley |
| + List of film credits, including directors and principal cast members | |||||
| Year | ! Title | ! Role | ! Director | Other cast members | Notes |
| 1940 | '''' | Eleanor Stone | Henry Fonda | Technicolor | |
| 1949 | Barbra Hall | ||||
| 1941 | Ellie Mae Lester | ||||
| 1941 | Belle Starr | Technicolor | |||
| 1941 | Zia | Bruce Cabot | |||
| 1941 | '''' | Victoria Charteris akaPoppy Smith | Walter Huston | ||
| 1942 | ''Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake'' | Eve | Tyrone Power | Sepia tone (sequences) | |
| 1942 | ''Rings on Her Fingers'' | Susan Miller (aka Linda Worthington) | Henry Fonda | ||
| 1942 | Kay Saunders | Technicolor | |||
| 1942 | Miss Young | ||||
| 1943 | Martha Strabel Van Cleve | Don Ameche | Technicolor | ||
| 1944 | |||||
| 1945 | '''' | Tina Tomasino | John Hodiak | ||
| 1945 | ''Leave Her to Heaven'' | Ellen Brent Harland | |||
| 1946 | Miranda Wells Van Ryn | ||||
| 1946 | '''' | Isabel Bradley Maturin | |||
| 1947 | '' | Lucy Muir | |||
| 1948 | '''' | Anne Gouzenko | Dana Andrews | ||
| 1948 | ''That Wonderful Urge'' | Sara Farley | Tyrone Power | ||
| 1949 | Ann Sutton | ||||
| 1950 | ''Night and the City'' | Mary Bristol | Richard Widmark | ||
| 1950 | ''Where the Sidewalk Ends'' | Morgan Taylor (Paine) | Dana Andrews | ||
| 1951 | '''' | Maggie Carleton McNulty | |||
| 1951 | ''On the Riviera'' | Lili Duran | Danny Kaye | Technicolor | |
| 1951 | '' | Marcia Stoddard | Glenn Ford | ||
| 1951 | ''Close to My Heart'' | Midge Seridan | Ray Milland | ||
| 1952 | ''Way of a Gaucho'' | Teresa | Rory Calhoun | Technicolor | |
| 1952 | ''Plymouth Adventure'' | Dorothy Bradford | Technicolor | ||
| 1953 | Marya Lamarkina | Clark Gable | |||
| 1953 | Kay Barlow | ||||
| 1954 | Iris Denver | Ginger Rogers | CinemaScope, Deluxe color | ||
| 1954 | '''' | Baketamon | CinemaScope, Deluxe color | ||
| 1955 | '''' | Anne Scott | Humphrey Bogart | CinemaScope, Deluxe color | |
| 1962 | Dolly Harrison | Panavision | |||
| 1963 | Albertine Prine | Dean Martin | |||
| 1963 | ''Las cuatro noches de la luna llena'' | Dan Dailey | English title: ''Four Nights of the Full Moon'' | ||
| 1964 | '''' | Jane Barton | Ann-Margret | CinemaScope, Deluxe color |
| + List of television credits, including co-stars | ||||
| ! Year | ! Title | ! Role | Other cast members | Notes |
| 1947 | ''Sir Charles Mendl Show'' | Herself | Host: Sir Charles Mendl | |
| 1953 | Herself | Host: Ed Sullivan | Episode #6.33 | |
| 1954 | ''26th Academy Awards'' | Herself | Host: Donald O'Connor, Fredric March | Presenter: Costume Design Awards |
| 1957 | ''What's My Line?'' | Herself | Host: John Charles Daly | Episode: August 25, Mystery guest |
| 1960 | ''General Electric Theater'' | Ellen Galloway | Host: Ronald Reagan | Episode: "Journey to a Wedding" |
| 1969 | '''' | Faye Simpson | Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. | Episode: "Conspiracy of Silence" |
| 1969 | ''Daughter of the Mind'' | Lenore Constable | Ray Milland | TV movie |
| 1974 | '''' | Herself | Host: Merv Griffin | |
| 1979 | '''' | Herself | Host: Merv Griffin | |
| 1980 | '''' | Herself | Host: Johnny Carson | |
| 1980 | '''' | Herself | Host: Mike Douglas | |
| 1980 | ''Dinah!'' | Herself | Host: Dinah Shore | |
| 1980 | Harriet Toppington | Lindsay Wagner | TV Mini-series | |
| 1999 | Herself (archive material) | "Gene Tierney: A Shattered Portrait", biographical documentary, March 26 |
Quotes
About Tierney
By Tierney
Cultural references
Tierney was ranked number 71 in ''Premiere Magazine'''s list of "The 100 Sexiest Movie Stars of All Time". They said, "Tierney, a classic beauty, may at first seem too elegant to be a sex symbol, but her Oscar-nominated performance as the femme fatal in ''Leave Her to Heaven'' firmly establised her sexy cred. Plus, Tierney owned her look. She didn't let studio executives mess with her hair color or length, and refused to fix a slight overbite, earning extra sexy points for confidence."
References
Works referenced
External links
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David Raksin (August 4, 1912 - August 9, 2004) was an American composer born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. With over 100 film scores and 300 television scores to his credit, he became known as the "Grandfather of Film Music." One of his earliest film assignments was as assistant to Charlie Chaplin in the composition of the score to ''Modern Times'' (1936). He is perhaps best remembered for the haunting theme to the 1944 movie ''Laura'', which became the 1945 song "Laura". Johnny Mercer put lyrics to this theme, and during Raksin's lifetime this was said to be the second most-recorded song in history following only ''Stardust'' by Hoagy Carmichael and Mitchell Parish. He also wrote the theme song for (and scored the pilot of) ''Ben Casey''.
''The Day After'' (1983)
''Glass Houses'' (1972)
''Will Penny'' (1968)
''A Big Hand for the Little Lady'' (1966)
''Invitation to a Gunfighter'' (1964)
''The Patsy'' (1964)
''Two Weeks in Another Town'' (1962)
''Too Late Blues'' (1961 or 1962)
''Ben Casey'' (1961) TV Series
''Two Faces West'' (1960) TV Series
''Al Capone'' (1959)
''Separate Tables'' (1958)
''Until They Sail'' (1957)
''Man on Fire'' (1957)
''20 Million Miles to Earth'' (1957)
''Hellcats of the Navy'' (1957)
''Hilda Crane'' (1956)
''Jubal'' (1956)
''Seven Wonders of the World'' (1955) (with Sol Kaplan, Jerome Moross, Emil Newman)
''The Big Combo'' (1955)
''Suddenly'' (1954)
''Apache'' (1954)
''The Bad and the Beautiful'' (1952)
''Madeline'' (cartoon) (1952)
''Carrie'' (1952)
''Pat and Mike'' (1952)
''It's a Big Country'' (1951)
''Across the Wide Missouri'' (1951)
''The Next Voice You Hear...'' (1950)
''The Magnificent Yankee'' (1950)
''Whirlpool'' (1949)
''Force of Evil'' (1948)
''Superman'' (1948)
''Daisy Kenyon'' (1947)
''Forever Amber'' (1947)
''The Secret Life of Walter Mitty'' (1947)
''Fallen Angel'' (1945)
''Laura'' (1944)
''Tampico'' (1944)
''Something to Shout About'' (1943)
''City Without Men'' (1943)
''The Men in Her Life'' (1941)
''The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes'' (1939)
''Stanley and Livingstone'' (1939)
''The Hound of the Baskervilles'' (1939)
''Suez'' (1938)
''Modern Times'' (arranger)(1936)
''Parade'' (1935) - revue - co-orchestrator
''At Home Abroad'' (1935) - revue - co-orchestrator
''New Faces of 1936'' (1936) - revue - co-orchestrator
''If the Shoe Fits'' (1946) - musical - composer
''Dream'' (1997) - revue - featured songwriter for "Laura"
The Film Music Society
Brief biography from Otherminds.org
Film Composers Tributes - David Raksin
Obituary ''The New York Times'' (August 11, 2004)
Streaming audio interview with Raksin, by Charles Amirkhanian, January 28, 1988
David Raksin interview by Bruce Duffie, May 1988
Raksin's father was an orchestra conductor. Raksin played professionally in dance bands while attending Central High School of Philadelphia. He went on to study composition with Harl McDonald at the University of Pennsylvania and later with Isadore Freed in New York and Arnold Schoenberg in Los Angeles. In New York Raksin worked as an arranger for Harms/Chappell.
Later in life, Raksin taught at the University of Southern California and the University of California, Los Angeles.
At the time of his death, it was announced that Raksin had completed his autobiography, titled ''If I Say So Myself''.
His son Alex is a Pulitzer Prize winning editorial writer for the ''Los Angeles Times''.
Film/TV scores - selected list
Work on Broadway
See also
Footnotes
External links
Interviews
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| name | Otto Preminger |
|---|---|
| birth name | Otto Ludwig Preminger |
| birth date | December 05, 1905 |
| birth place | Wiznitz, Austria–Hungary (present Ukraine) |
| death date | April 23, 1986 |
| death place | New York City, New York, U.S. |
| occupation | Director, producer, actor |
| years active | 1931–86 |
| spouse | }} |
Otto Ludwig Preminger (5 December 1905 23 April 1986) was an Austro–Hungarian-American theatre and film director.
After moving from the theatre to Hollywood, he directed over 35 feature films in a five-decade career. He rose to prominence for stylish film noir mysteries such as ''Laura'' (1944) and ''Fallen Angel'' (1945). In the 1950s and 1960s, he directed a number of high-profile adaptations of popular novels and stage works. Several of these pushed the boundaries of censorship by dealing with topics which were then taboo in Hollywood, such as drug addiction (''The Man with the Golden Arm'', 1955), rape (''Anatomy of a Murder'', 1959), and homosexuality (''Advise & Consent'', 1962). He was twice nominated for the Best Director Academy Award. He also had a few acting roles.
Early life
Preminger was born in 1905 in Wiznitz (Vyzhnytsia), a town west of Czernowitz, Northern Bukovyna, in today's Ukraine, then part of the Austro–Hungarian Empire, into the Jewish family of Markus and Josefa Preminger. Preminger's father was born in 1877 in Galicia, at a time when it was part of the Austro–Hungarian Empire. As an Attorney General of Austria–Hungary, Markus was a proud public prosecutor on the cusp of an extraordinary career defending the interests of the Emperor Franz Josef. The couple provided a stable home life for Preminger and his brother Ingo."My father believed that it was impossible to be too kind or loving to a child. He never punished me. I don't think my mother agreed completely with this method but she acted, as always, according to his wishes. I adored him. I had an affectionate relationship with my mother; she was a wonderful, warm-hearted woman, but she did not really play a large part in the formation of my character. Intellectually my father influenced me more than my mother."
After the assassination in 1914 of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the throne, which led to the Great War, Russia entered the war on the Serbian side, and tsarist armies began to invade Eastern Europe. Perilously close to Russia, Czernowitz was especially vulnerable. Like other refugees in flight, Markus Preminger saw Austria as a safe haven for his family. He was able to secure a job as a public prosecutor in Graz, capital of the Austrian province of Styria. Preminger prosecuted nationalist Serbs and Croats who had been imprisoned as suspected enemies of the Empire. When the Preminger family relocated, Otto was nearly nine, and was enrolled in a school where instruction in Catholic dogma was mandatory and Jewish history and religion had no place on the syllabus. Ingo, not yet four, remained at home. Otto was often teased by Catholic classmates and was told by his father to answer that he was Jewish when asked.
After a year in Graz, the decisive public prosecutor was summoned to Vienna, where he was offered an eminent position, roughly equivalent to that of the United States Attorney General. Markus was told that the position would be his only if he converted to Catholicism. In a gesture of defiance and self-assertion, Markus refused. He received the position anyway. In 1915, Markus relocated his family to Vienna, the city that Otto later claimed to have been born in. Although now working for the emperor, Markus was a government official, respectable, but not part of the highly-prized inner city. As a result, the family started their new lives with rather modest quarters. Vienna was still an imperial capital with an array of cultural offerings that tempted Otto, at ten already incurably stagestruck. Often accompanied by his maternal grandfather, Otto made regular visits, sometimes as many as three or four a week, to the Burgtheater on the Ringstrasse, where he saw a wide variety of both classical and contemporary plays.
Career
Theater
Preminger's first theatrical ambition was to become an actor. In his early teens, Otto was able to recite from memory many of the great monologues from the international classic repertory, and, never shy, he demanded an audience. Preminger's most successful performance in the National Library rotunda was Mark Antony's funeral oration from ''Julius Caesar''. As he read, watched, and after a fashion, began to produce plays, he started to miss more and more classes of school. Austria's failing fortunes during the war had no impact on the Premingers. Markus moved his family to a more fashionable district in 1916. Throughout the war years, Otto, now often with his younger brother, continued to go to the theater and concerts, museums, and the National Library, while his attendance in school remained irregular.As the war came to an end, Markus formed his own law practice. Markus instilled in both his sons a sense of fair play as well as respect for those with opposing view-points, and rather than becoming reactionary conservatives, as their privileged upbringing might seem to be foreordained, Otto and Ingo became lifelong liberal Democrats. As his father's practice continued to thrive in post-war Vienna, Otto began seriously contemplating a career in the theater. At the age of 16, he won the role of Lysander in a production of ''A Midsummer Night's Dream''.
In 1923, when Preminger was seventeen, his soon-to-be mentor, Max Reinhardt, a Viennese-born director who had established his base of operation in Berlin, announced plans to establish a theatrical company in Vienna in a rundown 135-year old theater. Reinhardt's announcement was seen as a call of destiny to Preminger. He began writing to Reinhardt weekly, requesting an audition. After a few months, Preminger, frustrated, gave up, and stopped his daily visit to the post office to check for a response. Unbeknownst to him, a letter was waiting with a date for an audition Preminger had already missed by two days. Feigning illness, Preminger skipped classes and began to hover near the stage door hoping to encounter Reinhardt associate Dr. Stefan Hock, begging for another audition. The day finally came when Hock took Preminger directly inside to Reinhardt and his associates. Preminger was immediately accepted.
Preminger explained to his father that a career in theater was not just a ploy to excuse himself from school. This was a way of life, and it was the only one he wanted. In order to obtain his father's full blessing, Preminger finished school and completed the study of law at the University of Vienna. He juggled a commitment to the University and his new position as a Reinhardt apprentice. The two developed a mentor-and-protege relationship, becoming both a confidant and teacher. When the theater opened, on April 1, 1924, Preminger appeared as a furniture mover in Reinhardt's comedia staging of Carlo Goldoni's ''The Servant of Two Masters''. His next, and more substantial appearance came late in the next month with William Dieterle (who would also later move to Hollywood) in ''The Merchant of Venice''. Other notable ''alumni'' who Preminger would work with the same year were Mady Christians, who committed suicide after having been blacklisted during the McCarthy era in Hollywood, and Nora Gregor, who was to star in Jean Renoir's ''La Règle du jeu'' (1939).
Reinhardt may have had reservations about Preminger's acting but he quickly detected the young man's abilities as an administrator. He appointed Preminger as an assistant in the Reinhardt acting school that opened in the theater at Schönbrunn, the former summer palace of the emperor. The following summer, a frustrated Preminger was no longer content to occupy the place of a subordinate and he decided to leave the Reinhardt fold. His status as a Reinhardt muse gave him an edge over much of his competition when it came to joining German-speaking theater. Preminger hopped from theater to theater and decided to call it quits with acting, and focus on directing, partly because of hair loss.
His first theater assignments as a director in Aussig were plays ranging from the sexually provocative ''Lulu'', and from Berlin he imported ''Roar China'', a pro-Communist agitprop. Preminger displayed pleasure in discovering new talent, but also created pitfalls with his unruly temper and disdain for directorial collaborations. In 1930, a wealthy industrialist from Graz approached the rising young theater director with an offer to direct a film called ''Die Grosse Liebe'' (''The Great Lover'').
Preminger did not have the same passion for the medium as he had for theater. He accepted the assignment nonetheless. The film premiered at the Emperor Theater in Vienna on 21 December 1931, to strong reviews and business. From 1931-1935, Preminger directed twenty-six shows. Among the performers he hired were Lili Darvas, Lilia Skala, Harry Horner, Oskar Karlweis, Albert Bassermann, and Luise Rainer, who was to win back-to-back Academy Awards in 1936 and 1937.
It was not until the spring of 1931 that Preminger's carefree bachelor lifestyle was threatened when he met a Hungarian woman named Marion Mill. The couple married soon afterwards in the summer of 1932 in a plain ceremony on the bride's birthday, August 3, only thirty minutes after her divorce from her first husband had been finalized. The couple moved into an apartment of their own. Preminger immediately informed his wife that she could not pursue a theatrical career.
Hollywood
In April 1935, as Preminger was rehearsing a boulevard farce, ''The King with an Umbrella'', he received a summons from American film producer Joseph Schenck to a five o'clock meeting at the Imperial Hotel. In 1924 Schenck had become the president of United Artists, and in 1934 had founded a new company called Twentieth Century. Two years later (only several months before his meeting with Preminger), Schenck had taken over William Fox's ailing studio and with a partner, Darryl F. Zanuck, had set up a new entity, Twentieth Century-Fox. At the new studio, Zanuck handled all film production while Schneck managed the finances. The duo, now in competition with already well-established studios such as Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, were on the lookout for new talent. Within a half-hour of meeting Schenck, Preminger accepted an invitation to come to work for Fox in Los Angeles.Sam Spiegel, later himself a film producer, accompanied Preminger from Vienna to Paris by train. From Paris, Preminger on his own took another train to Le Havre, where he joined up with Gilbert Miller and his wife, Kitty Miller, who sailed with him to New York on the ''Normandie''. The ''Normandie'' arrived in New York on October 21, 1935. Upon the Premingers' arrival in Hollywood, Schenck introduced the couple to Fox's array of movie royalty, including Irving Thalberg, Norma Shearer, Gary Cooper, Joan Crawford and Greta Garbo.
Preminger's first assignment was to direct a vehicle for Lawrence Tibbett, a renowned opera singer Zanuck wanted to get rid of. Tibbett had achieved mild success for MGM in musicals throughout the early 1930s and then returned to the stage. Zanuck later lured Tibbett back to films with a generous contract. Preminger worked efficiently, completing the film well within the budget and well before the scheduled shooting deadline. The film opened to tepid notices in November 1936. Preminger, proving to Zanuck's satisfaction that he was not a typical rebellious European hotshot, graduated.
Zanuck promoted him to the A-list, assigning him a story called ''Nancy Steele Is Missing'', which was to star Wallace Beery, who had recently won an Academy Award for ''The Champ''. Beery, however, refused to do the film, saying, "I won't do a picture with a director whose name I can't pronounce". Zanuck instead gave Preminger the task of directing another B-picture comedy called ''Danger - Love at Work''. French starlet Simone Simon was cast in the lead but was later fired by Zanuck and replaced with Ann Sothern. The premise told the story of a lawyer who must persuade eight members of an eccentric rich family to hand over land left them by their grandfather to a corporation for development. Reviews of the disposable farce, released in September 1937, were surprisingly pleasant.
In November 1937, Zanuck's perennial emissary Gregory Ratoff brought Preminger the news that Zanuck had chosen him to direct ''Kidnapped'', the most expensive feature to date for the studio. Zanuck himself had adapted the Robert Louis Stevenson novel, set in the Scottish Highlands. After reading Zanuck's script, Preminger knew he was in trouble; a foreign director directing in a foreign setting? During the shooting of ''Kidnapped'' Preminger had the first of his notorious tantrums. While screening footage of the film to Zanuck, the studio head accused Preminger of making changes in a scene between child actor Freddie Bartholomew and a dog. Preminger, composed at first, explained he had shot the scene exactly as written. Zanuck insisted he knew his own script, and disagreed. The confrontation escalated quickly and ended with Preminger exiting the office and slamming the door. Days later the lock to Preminger's office was changed and his name was removed from the door. After his parking space was relocated to a remote spot, Preminger stopped going to the studio. At that point, an official of Zanuck's offered Preminger a buyout deal which he rejected: Preminger wanted to be paid for the remaining eleven months of his two-year contract. Preminger searched for work at other studios, but received no offers. Only two years after his arrival in Hollywood, Preminger was unemployed. He focused on the stage with great success. Success came quickly on Broadway for Preminger, with long-running productions including ''Outward Bound'' with Laurette Taylor and Vincent Price, ''My Dear Children'' with John and Elaine Barrymore and ''Margin for Error'', in which Preminger played a shiny-domed villainous Nazi.
A week after the opening of ''Margin'', Preminger was offered a teaching position at the Yale School of Drama. He began commuting twice a week to Yale to lecture on directing and acting. Nunnally Johnson, a Hollywood writer impressed with Preminger's performance in ''Margin'', called to ask if he would be interested in playing another Nazi in a film called ''The Pied Piper''. In need of money, Preminger accepted on the spot. The film was to be made for Twentieth Century-Fox, the studio which had banished him. Even in the absence of Zanuck, who joined the Army after Pearl Harbor, Preminger did not expect to remain in Hollywood. After collecting a sizable salary for his work, Preminger was preparing to return to New York when his agent informed him that Fox wanted him to reprise his role in the upcoming film adaptation of ''Margin for Error''. Famed director Ernst Lubitsch was set to direct and Preminger was to appear onscreen with Joan Bennett and Milton Berle. Lubitsch withdrew not long after production began and Preminger saw his chance to gain back what he had lost in his falling-out with Zanuck, a chance to direct again. William Goetz, who was running Fox in Zanuck's absence, was persuaded by Preminger and took the bait.
With the script of ''Margin'' in shambles, Preminger hired a movie novice named Samuel Fuller, who was on leave from the Army, to rework the entire script. Goetz was soon impressed with his views of the dailies each night and offered Preminger a new seven-year contract calling on his services as both a director and actor. Preminger took full measure of the temporary studio czar and accepted. Preminger completed production on schedule with a slightly increased budget in November 1942. Critics were dismissive upon the film's release the following February, noting the bad timing of the release, coinciding with the war.
Before his next assignment with Fox, Preminger was asked by movie mogul Samuel Goldwyn to appear as a Nazi yet again, this time in a Bob Hope comedy called ''They Got Me Covered''. Preminger hoped to find possible properties he could develop before Zanuck's return, one of which was Vera Caspary's suspense novel ''Laura''. Before production would begin on ''Laura'', Preminger was given the green light to direct and to produce ''Army Wives''. ''Army Wives'' was another B-picture morale booster for a country at war, showing the sacrifices made by women as they send their husbands off to the frontlines. Cast in the lead was Jeanne Crain, a contract star for Fox who was being groomed for the A-list. Veteran character actor Eugene Pallette played Crain's father. Preminger clashed with Pallette and claimed he was ''"an admirer of Hitler and convinced that Germany would win the war"''. Pallete also refused to sit down at the same table with a black actor in a scene set in a kitchen. "You're out of your mind, I won't sit next to a nigger", Pallette hissed at Preminger. Otto furiously informed Zanuck, who fired the actor, whose scenes had already been shot. ''Army Wives'' was given a new title, ''In the Meantime, Darling'', and opened in September 1944, with an estimated budget of $450,000. Aside from the incident with Pallette, no other complications arose during the filming; the hurdles would instead come soon after during the shooting of ''Laura''.
''Laura''
Zanuck returned from the armed services with his grudge against Preminger intact. Although he had been forgiven by Zanuck, Preminger was not granted permission to direct ''Laura'', but only allowed to produce the picture. Instead, Rouben Mamoulian would direct. Mamoulian began ignoring his producer and even started to rewrite the script. Although Preminger had no complaints about the casting of Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews, he balked at their choice for Waldo: Laird Cregar. Preminger explained to Zanuck that audiences would immediately identify with Cregar as a villain, especially after Cregar's role as Jack the Ripper a year earlier in ''The Lodger''. Preminger instead was ideally taken by stage actor Clifton Webb. Even after Zanuck made crude remarks about Webb's homosexuality, Preminger persuaded his boss to at least give Webb a screen test. The persuasion paid off and Webb was cast (and earned a long-term Fox contract), and Mamoulian was fired for creative differences.''Laura'' started filming on April 27, 1944, with a projected budget of $849,000. After Preminger took over, the film continued shooting well into late June. The film was an instant hit with audiences and critics alike, earning Preminger his first Academy Award nomination for direction, Clifton Webb a Best Supporting Actor nomination and Lyle Wheeler an art direction nomination. Joseph La Shelle won the Academy Award for his cinematography. The film propelled its two relatively unknown young actors Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews to the top of the Hollywood box office. David Raksin's haunting theme song would become one of the most memorable in Hollywood history. Laura's theme is one of the most recorded songs, with over four hundred known renditions from Frank Sinatra to Carly Simon.
Peak years
Preminger expected that acclaim for ''Laura'' would promote him to work on better pictures, but his professional fate was in the hands of Darryl Zanuck, who had Preminger take over for the ailing Ernst Lubitsch, who had recently suffered a heart attack, on ''A Royal Scandal'', a remake of Lubitsch's own 1924 silent ''Forbidden Paradise'', starring Pola Negri as Catherine the Great. Before his heart attack, Lubitsch had spent months in preparation, and had already cast the film. Preminger, who had known Tallulah Bankhead before the start of the Nazi invasion into Austria, got along well with her. The film received lackluster reviews and failed to earn back any gross revenue. Bankhead would appear in only one more film, two decades later.''Fallen Angel'' (1945) was exactly what Preminger had been anticipating. In ''Fallen Angel'', a con man and womanizer ends up by chance in a small California town, where he romances a sultry waitress and a well-to-do spinster. When the waitress is found killed, the drifter, played by Dana Andrews, becomes the prime suspect. Zanuck gave Preminger the task of convincing Alice Faye, the studio's top musical star of the late 1930s and early 1940s, to play the role of the spinster. Zanuck hoped Faye's appearance would boost the film's box-office appeal and introduce Faye back into the public eye. Linda Darnell was given the role of the doomed waitress.
''Centennial Summer'', Preminger's next film, would be his first to be shot entirely in color. Hoping to duplicate the success of MGM's 1944 musical ''Meet Me in St. Louis'', Zanuck enlisted both Preminger and composer Jerome Kern. The musical detailed two sisters in an idealized all-American working-class family, who become rivals over the same man. The cast included Darnell and Jeanne Crain as the dueling sisters, Cornel Wilde as the object of their affections, and veteran stars Walter Brennan, Constance Bennett, and Dorothy Gish in supporting roles. The reviews and box office draw were tepid when the film was released in July 1946, but by the end of that year Preminger had one of the most sumptuous contracts on the lot, earning $7,500 a week.
''Forever Amber'', based on Kathleen Winsor's internationally popular novel published in 1944, was Zanuck's next investment in adaptation. Preminger had read the book and disliked it immensely. Preminger had another best seller aimed at a female audience in mind, ''Daisy Kenyon''. Zanuck pledged that if Preminger did ''Forever Amber'' first, he could go to town with ''Daisy Kenyon'' afterwards. ''Forever Amber'' had already been shooting for nearly six weeks when Preminger replaced director John Stahl. Zanuck had already spent nearly two million dollars on the production. First, Preminger decided the script needed to be completely rewritten, and that Peggy Cummins, the film's leading lady, would have to be replaced, because he regarded her to be "amateurish beyond belief". Only after turning to his revised script did Preminger learn that Zanuck had already cast Linda Darnell in place of Cummins. The heroine in the novel was blonde, and Preminger was convinced it was necessary to cast a true blonde, Lana Turner, who was under contract to MGM. Zanuck protested, and was convinced that whoever played Amber would become a big star, and wanted that woman to be one of the studio's own. Zanuck had bought the book because he believed its scandalous reputation promised big box-office returns, and was not surprised when the Catholic Legion of Decency condemned the film for glamorizing a promiscuous heroine who has a child out of wedlock. ''Forever Amber'' opened to big business in October 1947, and garnered decent reviews. Preminger later recalled that ''Forever Amber'' was ''"by far the most expensive picture I ever made and it was also the worst"''.
Throughout the five-month shoot on ''Forever Amber'' Preminger maintained a busy schedule, working regularly with writers on scripts for two upcoming projects, ''Daisy Kenyon'' and ''The Dark Wood''. Preminger was finally relieved to be working on ''Daisy Kenyon''. Joan Crawford stars in the title role as a magazine illustrator facing a romantic conflict: Will she choose a prominent, married lawyer or an unmarried neurotic veteran? Crawford was enthusiastic about the role, coming only two years after she had won an Academy Award for ''Mildred Pierce''. Dana Andrews is the unfaithful lawyer whose unloved wife, played by Ruth Warrick, takes her anger out on her daughters and beats them hysterically. Henry Fonda is a grieving widower and war vet plagued by nightmares. ''Variety'' magazine proclaimed, the film is ''"high powered melodrama surefire for the femme market"''.
After the modest success of ''Daisy Kenyon'' (1947), Preminger, an avid careerist, saw ''That Lady in Ermine'' as a further opportunity. Betty Grable was cast as a countess who saves her small mythical country when she seduces the Hungarian colonel in charge of the occupation, played by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. The film had previously been another Lubitsch project, but after his sudden death in November 1947, Preminger took over direction. When the film opened to modest business in July 1948, it received better notices than it deserved as reviewers scrambled to discern traces of Lubitsch's hand. Preminger's next film would be another period piece based on a literary classic, an adaptation of Oscar Wilde's 1897 play ''Lady Windermere's Fan''. Over the spring and early summer of 1948 Otto renovated Wilde's play into ''The Fan''. Madeleine Carroll plays Mrs. Erlynne, who tries to save her married daughter Lady Windermere (Jeanne Crain) from ruining her reputation. As Preminger fully expected, ''The Fan'' (1949) opened to poor notices.
Later career
Starting in the 1950s, Preminger's reputation rose to the point that he was commissioned to direct a number of prestigious projects with A-list casts and based on successful novels or stage works. Some of his most significant films of this period include:
Several of these films broke new ground for Hollywood in tackling controversial and taboo topics, thereby challenging both the Motion Picture Association of America's Production Code of censorship and the Hollywood blacklist. ''Forever Amber'' (1947) was condemned by the Catholic Legion of Decency, which successfully lobbied 20th Century Fox to make changes to the film. The League also condemned the 1953 comedy ''The Moon is Blue'', based on a Broadway play which did not inspire mass protests, for its use of the words "virgin" and "pregnant", and the film was notably released without the Production Code Seal of Approval. ''The Man with the Golden Arm'' (1955) broke new ground with its exploration of the then taboo subject of heroin addiction, as did ''Anatomy of a Murder'' with its frank courtroom discussions of rape and sexual intercourse — the censors objected to the use of words such as "rape", "sperm", "sexual climax" and "penetration". Preminger made but one concession (substituting "violation" for "penetration") and the picture was released ''with'' the MPAA seal, marking the beginning of the end of the Production Code. On ''Exodus'' (1960) Preminger struck the first major blow against the Hollywood blacklist by openly hiring banned screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, who was credited under his own name for the first time in a decade.
From the mid-1950s, most of Preminger's films utilized distinctive animated titles designed by Saul Bass, and many had modern jazz scores. At the New York City Opera, in October 1953, Preminger directed the American premiere (in English translation) of Gottfried von Einem's ''Der Prozeß'' (The Trial), based on a work by Franz Kafka. Soprano Phyllis Curtin headed the cast.
Preminger also acted in a few movies; his most memorable role is that of the warden of a German POW camp in ''Stalag 17''. In the 1960s ''Batman'' television series, Preminger was the second of three actors who played Mr. Freeze, in the two-parter "Green Ice/Deep Freeze." Adam West, who portrayed Batman, remembers Preminger as rude and unpleasant, especially when he disregarded the typical thespian etiquette of subtly cooperating when being helped to his feet in a scene by West and Burt Ward. This feeling was echoed by Laurence Olivier, who played a police inspector in ''Bunny Lake is Missing'' (1965). In his autobiography ''Confessions of an Actor'' Olivier recalled Preminger as "a bully", as did "Bunny" castmember Noel Coward. Ingo Preminger, who produced the 1970 ''M*A*S*H'' movie, was Otto Preminger's younger brother.
Beginning in 1965, Preminger made a string of films in which he attempted to make stories that were fresh and distinctive, but the films he made, including ''In Harm's Way'' (1965) and ''Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon'' (1970), became both critical and financial bombs. In 1967, Preminger released ''Hurry Sundown'', a lengthy drama set in the U.S. South and partially intended to break cinematic racial and sexual taboos. However, the film was poorly received and ridiculed for a heavy-handed approach, and for the casting of Michael Caine as a Southern patriarch. ''Hurry Sundown'' signaled a rather precipitous decline in Preminger's reputation, as it was followed by several other films which were critical and commercial failures, including ''Skidoo'' (1968), a failed attempt at a hip sixties comedy (and Groucho Marx's last film), and ''Rosebud'' (1975), a terrorism thriller which was also widely ridiculed. Several publicized disputes with leading actors did further damage to Preminger's reputation. His last film, an adaptation of the Graham Greene espionage novel ''The Human Factor'' (1979), had financial problems and was barely released.
Personal life
As they continued living together, Preminger and his wife Marion became more and more estranged. It was an open secret that the two had an arrangement, whereby as long as he promised not to seek a divorce, Preminger was free to see other women. In effect, he lived like a bachelor, as was the case when he met burlesque performer Gypsy Rose Lee and began an open relationship with her. Lee had already attempted to break into movie roles, but she was not taken seriously as anything more than a stripper. She appeared in B pictures in less-than-minor roles. Preminger's liaison with Lee produced a child, Erik. Lee rejected the idea of Preminger helping to support the child, and instead elicited a vow of silence from Preminger: he was not to reveal Erik's paternity to anyone, including Erik himself. Lee called the boy Erik Kirkland, after her separated husband, Alexander Kirkland. It was not until 1966, when Preminger was 60 years old and Erik was 22 years old, that they were to meet finally as father and son.Although Preminger and Marion had been estranged for years, he was surprised when in May 1946 she asked for a divorce. On a trip to Mexico she had met a very wealthy (and married) Swedish financier, Axel Wennergren. The Premingers' divorce ended smoothly and speedily. Marion did not seek any alimony, just a few personal belongings that would be picked up in a few days by her fiancé's private plane. Mrs. Wennergren, madly jealous of her rival, began to stalk Marion and was not willing to grant a divorce. Marion even went as far as to claim that Mrs. Wennergreen attempted to shoot her at a post office in Mexico. Marion returned to the Preminger home feeling embarrassed and shamed. She resumed her appearances as Preminger's wife, and nothing more. Preminger was enjoying his escapades as a freewheeling man-about-town and had begun dating Natalie Draper, a niece of Marion Davies.
While filming ''Carmen Jones'' (1954), Preminger began an affair with the film's star, Dorothy Dandridge, which lasted four years. During that period, Preminger advised her on career matters, including an offer made to Dandridge for the featured role of Tuptim in the 1956 film of ''The King and I''. Preminger advised her to turn down the supporting role, as he believed it to be unworthy of her. Dandridge later regretted accepting Preminger's advice. She ended the affair with Preminger upon realization that he had no plans to leave his first wife to marry her. Their affair was depicted in the HBO Pictures biopic, ''Introducing Dorothy Dandridge'', in which Preminger was portrayed by Austrian actor Klaus Maria Brandauer.
Death
Otto Preminger died in New York City in 1986, aged 80, from cancer after suffering from Alzheimer's disease. He was cremated and is interred in a niche in the Azalea Room of the Velma B. Woolworth Memorial Chapel at Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, New York.
Filmography
Awards
Preminger's ''Anatomy of a Murder'' was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. He was twice nominated for Best Director: for ''Laura'' and for ''The Cardinal''. He won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the 5th Berlin International Film Festival and the Bronze Berlin Bear award for the film ''Carmen Jones''.
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| name | Dame Judith Anderson |
|---|---|
| birth name | Frances Margaret Anderson-Anderson |
| birth date | February 10, 1897 |
| birth place | Adelaide, South Australia, Australia |
| death date | January 03, 1992 |
| death place | Santa Barbara, California, U.S. |
| spouse | (divorced)(divorced) |
| occupation | Actress |
| years active | 1915–87 }} |
Dame Judith Anderson, AC, DBE (10 February 18973 January 1992) was an Australian-born American-based actress of stage, film and television. She won two Emmy Awards and a Tony Award and was also nominated for a Grammy Award and an Academy Award.
Early life
Anderson was born Frances Margaret Anderson-Anderson in Adelaide, South Australia to Jessie Margaret and James Anderson-Anderson. She attended Norwood High School, and began acting in Australia before moving to New York in 1918. She established herself as a dramatic actress of note, making several appearances in the plays of William Shakespeare.
Stage
She made her professional debut (as Francee Anderson) in 1915, playing Stephanie at the Theatre Royal, Sydney, in ''A Royal Divorce''. Leading the company was the Scottish actor Julius Knight whom she later credited with laying the foundations of her acting skills. In the company were some American actors who convinced Anderson to try her luck in the United States. She went to California but was unsuccessful, and tried New York, with an equal lack of success. After a period of poverty and illness, she found work with the Emma Bunting Stock Company at the 14th Street Theatre in 1918–19. She toured with other stock companies until 1922 when she made her Broadway debut in ''On the Stairs'' using the name Frances Anderson. Twelve months later, she had changed her name to Judith and had her first triumph with the play ''Cobra'' co-starring Louis Calhern. She toured Australia in 1927 with three plays – ''Tea for Three'', ''The Green Hat'' and ''Cobra''.By the early 1930s, she had established herself as one of the greatest theatre actresses of her era and she was a major star on Broadway throughout the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. In 1931, she played the Unknown Woman in the American premiere of Luigi Pirandello's ''As You Desire Me'', filmed the following year with Greta Garbo in the same role. This was followed by Eugene O'Neill's ''Mourning Becomes Electra'', Luigi Chiarelli's ''The Mask and the Face'', with Humphrey Bogart, and Zoe Akins' ''The Old Maid'' from the novel by Edith Wharton, in the role later played on film by Miriam Hopkins. In 1936, Anderson played Gertrude to John Gielgud's Hamlet in a production which featured Lillian Gish as Ophelia.
In 1937, she joined the Old Vic Company in London and played Lady Macbeth opposite Laurence Olivier in a production by Michel Saint-Denis, at the Old Vic and the New Theatre. In 1941, she played Lady Macbeth again in New York opposite Maurice Evans in a production staged by Margaret Webster, a role she was to reprise later on television twice (the second version of 1960 was released to theatres in Europe as a feature film, and was the first ''Macbeth'' in color).
In 1942–43, she played Olga in Chekhov's ''Three Sisters'', in a production which also featured Katharine Cornell, Ruth Gordon, Edmund Gwenn, Dennis King, and Alexander Knox. (Kirk Douglas, playing an orderly, made his Broadway debut in the production.) The production was so illustrious, it made it to the cover of ''Time''.
In 1947, she triumphed as Medea in a version of Euripides' tragedy, written by the poet Robinson Jeffers and produced by John Gielgud, who also played Jason. She won the Tony Award for Best Actress for her performance. She toured in this role to Germany in 1951 and to France and Australia in 1955–56.
In 1953, she was directed by Charles Laughton in his own adaptation of Stephen Vincent Benét's ''John Brown's Body'' with a cast also featuring Raymond Massey and Tyrone Power. In 1960, she played Madame Arkadina in Chekhov's ''The Seagull'' first at the Edinburgh Festival, and then at the Old Vic, with Tom Courtenay, Cyril Luckham and Tony Britton.
In 1970, she realized a long-held ambition to play the title role of Hamlet on a national tour of the United States and at New York's Carnegie Hall.
In 1982, she returned to ''Medea'', this time playing the Nurse opposite Zoe Caldwell in the title role. Caldwell had appeared in a small role in the Australian tour of ''Medea'' in 1955–56. She was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play.
Hollywood
In Hollywood, her striking and not conventionally attractive features meant that her opportunities were limited to supporting character actress work. She naturally preferred the stage in any event. However, she did make a handful of significant films. In particular, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Alfred Hitchcock's ''Rebecca'' (1940). As the housekeeper Mrs. Danvers, Judith Anderson was required to mentally torment the young bride, the "second Mrs. de Winter" (Joan Fontaine), even encouraging her to commit suicide; and taunt her husband (Laurence Olivier) with the memory of his first wife, the never-seen "Rebecca" of the title. "Mrs. Danvers" as conceived by Judith Anderson is widely considered one of the screen's most memorable and sexually ambiguous female villains. (The Oscar went to Jane Darwell, for ''The Grapes of Wrath''.)
This led to several film appearances during the 1940s in such films as ''Lady Scarface'' (1941), ''Kings Row'' (1942), ''All Through the Night'' (1942), Otto Preminger's ''Laura'' (1944) with Gene Tierney, René Clair's ''And Then There Were None'' (1945), Ben Hecht's ''Specter of the Rose'' (1946), and Jean Renoir's ''The Diary of a Chambermaid'' (1946). She continued to act on the New York stage, winning a Tony Award in 1948 for her bravura, legendary performance in the title role of ''Medea''.
Her stage and film work continued and by the 1950s she was also appearing in television productions. On the big screen, she played a golddigger in Anthony Mann's western ''The Furies'' (1950), Herodias in ''Salome'' (1953) and Memnet in Cecil B. DeMille's epic ''The Ten Commandments'' (1956). Anderson gave a memorable performance as Big Momma in the film adaptation of Tennessee Williams' ''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'' (1958). She also portrayed the Evil Stepmother in a Jerry Lewis comedy, ''Cinderfella'', and Buffalo Cow Head in the western adventure ''A Man Called Horse'' (1970).
Anderson also recorded many spoken word record albums for Caedmon Audio in the 1950s through the 1970s, including her performance as Lady Macbeth (opposite Anthony Quayle). Other recordings include an adaption of Madea, Robert Louis Stevenson verses, and readings from The Bible. She received a Grammy nomination for her work on the ''Wuthering Heights'' recording.
Television
Anderson began an active career in television in the early 1950s, usually starring in prestigious "event" dramas such as recreating her role as Medea in 1959 and two separate productions of ''Macbeth'' in 1954 and 1960, winning the Emmy Award for both filmed performances as Lady Macbeth. Anderson was a frequent star of Hallmark Hall of Fame productions.
Later career
In her later years, she played two more prominent roles in productions that took her as far away from her Shakespearean origins as possible. In 1984, she appeared in ''Star Trek III: The Search for Spock'' as the Vulcan High Priestess "T'Lar". That same year she commenced a three-year stint as matriarch ''Minx Lockridge'' on the NBC serial ''Santa Barbara''. She had professed to be a fan, but after signing the contract, she bitterly complained about her lack of screen time. After leaving the show, she was succeeded in the role by the quarter-century younger American actress Janis Paige.
Personal life
Anderson was married twice and declared that "neither experience was a jolly holiday": Benjamin Harrison Lehmann (1889–1977), an English professor at the University of California at Berkeley; they wed in 1937 and divorced in August 1939. By this marriage she had a stepson, Benjamin Harrison Lehmann Jr. (born 1918).
Death
Anderson loved Santa Barbara, California and spent much of her life there, dying of pneumonia in 1992. She was a friend of poet Robinson Jeffers, who wrote the adaptation of ''Medea'' which she starred in, and she was a frequent visitor to his home "Tor House" in Carmel, California.
Honours
Anderson was created a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1960 and thereafter was often billed as "Dame Judith Anderson".On 10 June 1991, in the Queen's Birthday Honours, she was named a Companion in the Order of Australia (AC), "in recognition of service to the performing arts".
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| name | David Rose |
|---|---|
| background | non_performing_personnel |
| born | June 15, 1910 London, England |
| died | August 23, 1990 Burbank, California |
| occupation | Songwriter, composer, arranger, and orchestra leader |
| years active | 1940s-90s |
| spouse(s) | Martha Raye (1938-41) Judy Garland (1941-44) Betty Bartholomew (?-90) |
| notable instruments | }} |
David Rose (June 15, 1910 – August 23, 1990) was a British-born American songwriter, composer, arranger, pianist, and orchestra leader. His most famous compositions were "The Stripper", "Holiday for Strings", and "Calypso Melody". He also wrote music for many television series, including ''It's a Great Life'', ''Little House on the Prairie'', ''Highway To Heaven'', ''Bonanza'', and ''Highway Patrol'' under the pseudonym "Ray Llewellyn." Rose's work in composing music for television programs earned him four Emmys. In addition, Rose was musical director for ''The Red Skelton Show'' during its 21-year-run on the CBS and NBC networks. He was a member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the national fraternity for men in music.
Career
Recipient of four Emmy awards, David Rose was born in London to Jewish parents and raised in Chicago, Illinois. Rose's career in music began when he worked with Ted Fio Rito's band when he was sixteen. Rose also worked as a standby pianist for NBC Radio. It was here, in the early 1930s, that he first gained a reputation, while arranging for the Frank Trumbauer orchestra and later leading a house band at station WGN. He composed several early swing originals such as "Break It Down" with Frankie Trumbauer, "Transcontinental," "Plantation Moods," and a piece recorded under three different titles: "I've Got It", "Itchola", and "Jigsaw Rhythm," his original version with the WGN band including Louis Prima.Rose was asked to come to Hollywood, where he formed his orchestra, doing a twice-weekly radio show for Mutual Broadcasting System called ''California Melodies'', where he wrote all the broadcast arrangements. He worked his way up to becoming music director of the Mutual network. Rose's first try at composing was his hit song "Holiday for Strings". During World War II, Rose entered the Army and it was here where he met Red Skelton. Skelton asked Rose to become the conductor for his ''Raleigh Cigarettes Program''. Rose joined the cast in 1948 and went on to work with Skelton on his television show for over 20 years.
In 1957 his rendition of Larry Clinton's "Calypso Melody" became Rose's second million selling record, and was awarded a gold disc.
"The Stripper" was composed by Rose and recorded in 1958. It was originally used as the B-side to his single, "Ebb Tide". The choice of the record's B-side was not by Rose, but by an MGM office boy. MGM indicated they wanted to put the record on the market quickly. A B-side was needed and with Rose away, the office boy went through some of Rose's tapes searching for one. "The Stripper" featured especially prominent trombone lines, giving the tune its lascivious signature, and evokes the feel of music used to accompany vaudeville striptease artists. The piece features in the films ''Slap Shot'', ''The Full Monty'' and ''Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit'' as well as TV series ''Little Britain'' and ''Scrubs''. It was also famously used in a parody by British comedy duo Morecambe and Wise, where they danced to the tune while making breakfast.
"Holiday for Strings" became well-known as the theme for Red Skelton's programs. A parody version, retitled "Holiday for States", was recorded as a vocal by Allan Sherman, with the straight melody but with ersatz lyrics comprised solely of the names of the American states. In Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In, Ruth Buzzi "laughed" the melody of the song, imitating the Spike Jones version. On his album ''Leon Live,'' Leon Russell plays a strain from the song in the middle of a performance of his own song, "Shootout on the Plantation."
Personal life
He was married on October 8, 1938, to the actress Martha Raye. They were divorced on May 19, 1941. Rose was married for a second time, on July 28, 1941, to the actress and singer Judy Garland. They had no children, though Garland, according to biographer Gerald Clarke, underwent at least one abortion during the marriage, at the insistence of her mother, her husband, and the studio that employed her, MGM. Garland and Rose divorced in 1944.He had two daughters with his third wife, Betty Bartholomew. His granddaughter is singer-songwriter Samantha James.
Rose was a live steam hobbyist, with his own backyard railroad.
Death
Rose died in Burbank, California at the age of 80 and was buried in Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery in Hollywood Hills, California.
Music
Singles
Television
Broadway
References
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