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Carole Lombard (October 6, 1908 – January 16, 1942) was an American actress. She is particularly noted for her comedic roles in the screwball comedies of the 1930s. 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[citation needed] (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 a plane crash while returning from a World War II Bond tour.
Queen of the 1930s screwball comedies, she personified the anxiety of a nervous age. Graham Greene praised the "heartbreaking and nostalgic melodies" of her faster-than-thought delivery. "Platinum blonde, with a heart-shaped face, delicate, impish features and a figure made to be swathed in silver lamé, she wriggled expressively through such classics of hysteria as Twentieth Century and My Man Godfrey."
Actors: Neil Meron (producer), Ian Mune (actor), Glenn Jordan (director), Craig Zadan (producer), Glenn Jordan (producer), Bruce Broughton (composer), Ann Dowd (actress), David A. Simmons (editor), Jacobus Rose (producer), Madeline Zima (actress), Russell Newman (actor), Zoe Carides (actress), Jackie Sullivan (miscellaneous crew), Dave Mace (producer), Andrew Robertt (actor),
Plot: After her parents are financially ruined in a lawsuit over a shooting accident, Lucille 'Lucy' Ball pursues her dream of fame as actress. She succeeds in comical parts, often the girl who gets the cake in her face. Then she meets and soon marries the love of her life, Desiderio 'Desi' . Ricky, Latin band leader and aristocratic son of an exiled Cuban mayor. Desi proves a business genius, who gets a revolutionary method adopted to gain production control of the sitcom "I Love Lucy", a format devised for him and Lucy to star in. Despite offspring, their family life soon gets into stormy waters, mainly due to his infidelity, gambling and temper.
Keywords: abuse, character-name-in-title, dancing, face-slap, gambling, hugging, infidelity, jealousy, love, play-within-a-playActors: Ridley Scott (producer), Melanie Griffith (actress), Brenda Blethyn (actress), Fiona Shaw (actress), James Cromwell (actor), Liev Schreiber (actor), Kerry Shale (actor), Jay Benedict (actor), Liam Cunningham (actor), David Suchet (actor), Cyril Shaps (actor), Roy Scheider (actor), John Malkovich (actor), John Altman (composer), Tony Scott (producer),
Plot: Coming to Hollywood as a celebrated boy genius featuring a spectacular career arc in New York including his "War of the Worlds" radio hoax, Orson Welles is stymied on the subject for his first film. After a dinner party at Hearst Castle, during which he has a verbal altercation with Hearst, Welles decides to do a movie about Hearst. It takes him some time to convince co-writer Herman Mankiewicz and the studio, but Welles eventually gets the script and the green light, keeping the subject very hush-hush with the press. When a rough cut is screened, Hearst gets wind of the movie's theme and begins a campaign to see that it is not only never publicly screened, but destroyed.
Keywords: 1940s, actress, anti-semitism, bankruptcy, based-on-documentary, based-on-true-story, censorship, director, film-director, film-industryActors: Russell T. Davies (writer), Scot Williams (actor), Crissy Rock (actress), Carolyn Reynolds (producer), Kevin Knapman (actor), Gareth Roberts (writer), Olwen May (actress), Eugene Ferguson (director), Paul Cornell (writer), Matthew Dunster (actor), Kay Patrick (director), Bill Speed (actor), Judy Holt (actress), Katharine Rogers (actress), Jonathan Barlow (actor),
Genres: Drama, Fantasy,Actors: B.J. Ward (actress), Jan Tríska (actor), Anne Haney (actress), Elizabeth Taylor (actress), Richard Dysart (actor), Joyce Van Patten (actress), Jane Alexander (actress), Edith Fields (actress), Bonnie Bartlett (actress), Denise Crosby (actress), Tim Robbins (actor), Mark L. Taylor (actor), Jason Wingreen (actor), Nolan Miller (costume designer), Charles Bernstein (composer),
Plot: Struggling actress Hedda Hopper can't get a break in Hollywood, even though an acquaintence of hers is the extremely powerful gossip monger Louella Parsons - maker and breaker of careers (and lives) through her daily syndicated newspaper column. The big movie moguls, fed up with Parson's power over their stars, decide to de-claw her by setting up gossip Hopper as a competitor in the rumour industry. What they couldn't forsee was that Hopper would become as big as Parsons -- and every bit as much of a pain. Based on the true life stories of two of the most powerful (and arguably dangerous) women of Hollywood's hay-day.
Keywords: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, actress, based-on-novel, based-on-true-story, docudrama, female-protagonist, film-critic, film-industryActors: Travilla (costume designer), Annie Potts (actress), Walter Scharf (composer), Sharon Gless (actress), Richard Bracken (editor), David L. Wolper (producer), Garson Kanin (writer), Tony Curtis (actor), Harold Gould (actor), Don Keefer (actor), John Erman (director), Clive Revill (actor), Morgan Brittany (actress), George Furth (actor), Stan Margulies (producer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Robert Karnes (actor), Edith Head (costume designer), Sidney J. Furie (director), Michel Legrand (composer), Jill Clayburgh (actress), William Bryant (actor), Melanie Mayron (actress), Army Archerd (actor), Ross Elliott (actor), Allen Garfield (actor), James Brolin (actor), Red Buttons (actor), Morgan Brittany (actress), Cal Bartlett (actor), Ivan Bonar (actor),
Genres: Biography, Drama, Romance,