A rags to b*tches tale.
Plot
A biopic about the actor James Dean, whose stardom of the ultimate teenage rebel as well as the premature death made him a legend. His roles are depicted having much in common with his personal life, most notably the difficult relationship with his father.
Keywords: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, acting, acting-class, actor, actors-studio-new-york-city, actress, audition, aunt-nephew-relationship
The stars that burn brightest burn quickest
Forever Young.
Too fast to live. Too young to die.
James Dean: "I'm playing the drums! Go to hell!"
[about an audition]::Martin Landau: You never know. I mean look at me; when I tried out for "Tennesse Williams" I thought I was terrible.::James Dean: You were terrible... you didn't get the part::Martin Landau: Just a detail.
Winton Dean: That's a nice car.::James Dean: Yeah, it's alluminum. They only made 30.::Winton Dean: Must have cost a lot.::James Dean: Well, I got a lot.
James Dean: I need to talk to you.::Winton Dean: Ethel's waiting for me.::James Dean: Well, then why don't you let her wait.::Winton Dean: Now, hold on, young man. Don't take that attitude with me.::James Dean: No, I need to talk to you right now!::Winton Dean: But I don't have to...::James Dean: No, look! Everybody thinks I'm great except you!::Winton Dean: Well, fine, listen to them...::James Dean: Don't you read the papers? I'm in the papers! Everybody wants to meet me except you! Why? Why is that?::Winton Dean: The stupidest mistake you've ever made...::James Dean: Just shut up and listen to me! Why don't you talk to me? You're my father! [grabs his father's shirt] Please!::Winton Dean: I deserve some damn respect...::James Dean: Dad, I was 9 years old! 9 years old! Now open your mouth and talk to me!::Winton Dean: Just calm down.::James Dean: [grabbing his father] You talk to me! Dad, please! Talk to me, please!
Rolf Wütherich: See that piece on you in the LA Times?::James Dean: No, why? I get hammered?::Rolf Wütherich: [laughs] Opposite. They said you're gonna get bigger than Brando and Clift together. Can you believe it?::[They both laugh]
Rolf Wütherich: Watch that Ford. [car signals left-hand turn] He's turning left.::James Dean: He's gotta see us.
[last lines]::James Dean: I took the train right back to Indiana again. This time my father came with me.
Jack Warner: I love you and I hate you.::James Dean: I hate you and I hate you.
Plot
The story of 'Elizabeth Taylor (I)' (qv)'s rise to stardom, beginning in Los Angeles 1942. Her dominating mother has decided that her daughter must become a star - no matter what others or Elizabeth herself think. Assisted by 'Hedda Hopper' (qv), she gets a part in _Lassie Come Home (1943)_ (qv). She becomes a child star, raised by her studio. Growing up, she has several love-affairs - and several divorces, since her husbands can't accept being married to a Hollywood icon.
Keywords: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, acting, actress, alcoholism, based-on-novel, behind-the-scenes, celebrity, character-name-in-title
She earned two Oscars. She survived eight marriages. She overcame battles with pills, booze and food. And she never left the spotlight.
A beautiful star. A legendary life.
Richard Burton: Miss Taylor, has anyone ever told you, what a very pretty girl you are?
Richard Burton: I taught her about beer, she taught me about Bulgari.
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Biography of actor Rock Hudson focuses on his struggle with his homosexuality. Based on the book by his ex-wife, Phyllis Gates, and on the court records from the civil suit brought by his former lover, Marc Christian.
Keywords: actor, aids, character-name-in-title, closeted-homosexual, gay, gay-actor, gay-interest, gay-lead-character, homosexual, hugging
Plot
A young, unsuccessful singer, after committing suicide, is to be reincarnated, this time into a musical family. Her spirit must get to the hospital where her future mother is currently ready to give birth to her, so that she can enter the womb and be born. Unfortunately, she misses her appointed birth time, twice, due to the accidental intervention of a young man, Mr. Hong. At first she is angry and makes life hard for him, but eventually they fall in love, although she can't stay around long as she has one last chance to be born.
Keywords: electric-fan, ghost, hospital, pregnancy, professor, reincarnation, singer, student, suicide, triad
Roy Harold Scherer, Jr., later Roy Harold Fitzgerald (November 17, 1925 – October 2, 1985), known professionally as Rock Hudson, was an American film and television actor, most recognized as a romantic leading man during the 1950s and 1960s, most notably in Magnificent Obsession (1954), Giant (1956) and several popular comedies with Doris Day. Later roles included the leads in Ice Station Zebra and the popular television series McMillan & Wife along with a role in the hugely successful series Dynasty.
Hudson was voted "Star of the Year", "Favorite Leading Man", and similar titles by numerous movie magazines. The 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m) tall actor was one of the most popular and well-known movie stars of the time. He completed nearly 70 motion pictures and starred in several television productions during a career that spanned over four decades.
Hudson died in 1985, being the first major celebrity to die from an AIDS-related illness.
Hudson was born Roy Harold Scherer, Jr., in Winnetka, Illinois, the only child of Katherine Wood (of English and Irish descent), a telephone operator, and Roy Harold Scherer, Sr., (of German and Swiss descent) an auto mechanic who abandoned the family during the depths of the Great Depression. His mother remarried and his stepfather Wallace "Wally" Fitzgerald adopted him, changing his last name to Fitzgerald. Hudson's years at New Trier High School were unremarkable. He sang in the school's glee club and was remembered as a shy boy who delivered newspapers, ran errands and worked as a golf caddy.