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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), a sophisticated leading man opposite a corrupt John Wayne in Reap the Wild Wind (1942), the murder-plotting husband in Dial M for Murder (1954), and as Oliver Barrett III in Love Story (1970).
Milland was born Alfred Reginald Jones (not Reginald Alfred John Truscott-Jones as has often been stated). His birth was registered in the March Quarter of 1907 in Neath, Wales, and he was the son of Elizabeth Annie (née Truscott) and Alfred Jones. In the 1911 census the family were living at 66 Coronation Road, Mount Pleasant, Neath, Wales. Of his parents, Milland wrote in his 1974 autobiography Wide-Eyed in Babylon, "My father was not a cruel or harsh man. Just a very quiet one. I think he was an incurable romantic and consequently a little afraid of his emotions and perhaps ashamed of them... he had been a young hussar in the Boer War and had been present at the relief of Mafeking. He never held long conversations with anyone, except perhaps with me, possibly because I was the only other male in our family. The household consisted of my mother, a rather flighty and coquettish woman much concerned with propriety and what the neighbours thought.."
Coordinates: 51°02′10″N 0°48′22″W / 51.03601°N 0.80607°W / 51.03601; -0.80607
Milland is a village and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England. It is situated north of the A272 road on the border with Hampshire.
In the 2001 census the parish covered 5,023 acres (20.33 km2) and had 332 households with a total population of 829 of whom 394 residents were economically active.
The village lies along a section of the Chichester to Silchester Way Roman road, almost the only part to have survived in modern use. At the southern end of the village the boundary banks of a mansio, a Roman posting station on the road, are visible.
The parish has an Anglican church, St. Luke's, the independent Milland Evangelical Church (MEC) and the disused Tuxlith Chapel which is in the care of a national charity the Friends of Friendless Churches.
Hamlets within the civil parish include:
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Harold George "Harry" Belafonte, Jr. (born March 1, 1927) is an American singer, songwriter, actor and social activist. He was dubbed the "King of Calypso" for popularizing the Caribbean musical style with an international audience in the 1950s. Belafonte is perhaps best known for singing "The Banana Boat Song", with its signature lyric "Day-O". Throughout his career he has been an advocate for civil rights and humanitarian causes and was a vocal critic of the policies of the George W. Bush Administration.
Born Harold George Bellanfanti, Jr., at Lying-in Hospital, Harlem, New York, Belafonte was the son of Melvine (née Love) – a housekeeper of Jamaican descent – and Harold George Bellanfanti, Sr., a Martiniquan who worked as a chef in the National Guard. From 1932 to 1940, he lived with his grandmother in her native country of Jamaica. When he returned to New York City, he attended George Washington High School after which he joined the Navy and served during World War II. In the 1940s, he was working as a janitor's assistant in NYC when a tenant gave him, as a gratuity, two tickets to see the American Negro Theater. He fell in love with the art form and also met Sidney Poitier. The financially struggling pair regularly purchased a single seat to local plays, trading places in between acts, after informing the other about the progression of the play. At the end of the 1940s, he took classes in acting at the Dramatic Workshop of The New School in New York with the influential German director Erwin Piscator alongside Marlon Brando, Tony Curtis, Walter Matthau, Bea Arthur and Sidney Poitier, while performing with the American Negro Theatre. He subsequently received a Tony Award for his participation in the Broadway revue John Murray Anderson's Almanac.
Actors: Treg Brown (editor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Mel Blanc (actor), Arthur Q. Bryan (actor), Edward Selzer (producer), Michael Maltese (writer), Tedd Pierce (writer), Carl W. Stalling (composer), Friz Freleng (director), Dave Barry (actor),
Plot: In a slick New York club for the rich and famous, Mr Humphrey Bogart orders rabbit. Waiter Elmer Fudd is at a loss where he'll get fresh rabbit at that time of night until he finds Bugs Bunny feasting on carrots. With time running out, Fudd tries to get Bugs into the pot.
Keywords: 1940s, animal-in-title, bar, breaking-the-fourth-wall, carmen-miranda-impersonator, celebrity-caricature, conga, custard-pie, dance-number, grabbed-by-the-lapelsActors: William Demarest (actor), Hal K. Dawson (actor), Walter Abel (actor), Edgar Dearing (actor), Eric Alden (actor), Frank Butler (actor), Macdonald Carey (actor), Stanley Clements (actor), Charles Coleman (actor), Pinto Colvig (actor), Gary Cooper (actor), William Bendix (actor), Bing Crosby (actor), Howard Da Silva (actor), Cecil B. DeMille (actor),
Plot: Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful young ladies who come to Hollywood, exchange identities, and cause comic confusion (with slapstick interludes) throughout the Paramount studio.
Keywords: variety-clubAnd if I ev-ever fall in love again, I will be sure that the lady is a friend.
And if I ev-ever fall in love so true, I will make sure that the lady's just like you. Oh!
What's happenin ladies?
Whats up wit my lil shorty's.
It's your man mr. cannon on the beat.
Yeah.
I'm here wit Romeo.
O.k.
He bout to tell ya'll some things.
To all the girls out there... I'm lookin like for a cinderella.
Yeah. New no limit. Can I ball.
Yeah yeah.
Talk to em rome.
Look dis young romey lookin for a homey, a little juliet, who say she'll console me.
When I'm all lonely, knows how to hold me, a little tight shawty, know what I mean.
Little attitude but not controlling, with them pink nike's, and them passion jeans.
I need a girl sweet as a dove, first time in my life, I see I need love.
New no limit, mommy no gimmicks, Maybach Benz, mommy jump in it.
You remind me of my diamonds, always shinin, I'm flawless girl.
I'm a young Bill Gates, get all this girl, in my g-4 we could tour the world,
before I'm 24 I'mma rule the world, and you can be my queen, yo that's for real, ok.
And if I ev-ever fall, in love again, I will be sure that the lady is a friend.
And if I ev-ever fall in love so true, I will be sure that the lady's just like you.
Oh!
Ok. I want my shawty to be like you, sweet and sassy, someone to write to.
Yes it's quite true, I kinda like you, you say we just friends but not tonight boo.
Lets pretend you my cinderella, have you home by twelve, or respect the fellas.
Keep you together in my butter soft weather.
Night is young, we could do whatever.
I know you see me on the tv shows, videos, big screen, but I'm just Romeo.
A real cool dude you should get to know, on a diffrent plateu, like whoa!
Buyin out what's love, like fat joe, mommy I know, but I'm willin to grow.
To the mountain top if you willin to go.
Don't be scared, romey take you there, come on.
And if I ev-ever fall, in love again, I will be sure that the lady is a friend.
And if I ev-ever fall in love so true, I will be sure that the lady's just like you.
Oh!
Look, if I ever fall in love it's all or nothin, no reason for the kids to go and start frontin.
Lookin for a girl who can press my button, hit me on the cell to do a lil somethin.
Can I ball?
You know it ma.
Playa thin and tall, I'm growin up.
It's a new no limit, ya'll can't flow wit us, on my way to school I got my own bus,
and I can't leave home without my chain, got girls all over screamin out my name.
I'm like tracy mcgrady, and Yao Ming, I might switch up my team, but I'm still in the game.
MVP, so I'm earnin that, searchin for a chick who sweep, to put his slipper on her feet.
Until then, I'm gon run the street, keep spinnin these rhymes, nick bring the beat.
And if I ev-ever fall, in love again, I will be sure that the lady is a friend.
And if I ev-ever fall in love so true, I will make sure that the lady's just like you.
Oh!