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Sally Rand (April 3, 1904 – August 31, 1979) was a burlesque dancer and actress, most noted for her ostrich feather fan dance and balloon bubble dance. She also performed under the name Billie Beck.
Helen Harriet Beck was born in Hickory County, Missouri, attending Greenwood Grammar School three years ahead of Robert A. Heinlein. During the 1920s, she acted on stage and appeared in silent films. Cecil B. DeMille gave her the name Sally Rand, inspired by a Rand McNally atlas. She was selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1927. After the introduction of sound film, she became a dancer, known for the fan dance, which she popularized starting at the Paramount Club. Her most famous appearance was at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair entitled Century of Progress. She had been arrested four times in a single day during the fair due to perceived indecent exposure while riding a white horse down the streets of Chicago, but the nudity was only an illusion. She also conceived and developed the bubble dance, in part to cope with wind while performing outdoors. She performed the fan dance on film in Bolero, released in 1934.[citation needed]
Marlon Brando, Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American movie star and political activist. "Unchallenged as the most important actor in modern American Cinema" according to the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, Brando was one of only three professional actors, along with Charlie Chaplin and Marilyn Monroe, named by Time magazine as one of its 100 Persons of the Century in 1999.
Brando had a significant impact on film acting, and was the foremost example of the "method" acting style. While he became notorious for his "mumbling" diction and exuding a raw animal magnetism, his mercurial performances were nonetheless highly regarded, and he is widely considered as one of the greatest and most influential actors of the 20th century. Director Martin Scorsese said of him, "He is the marker. There's 'before Brando' and 'after Brando'." Actor Jack Nicholson once said, "When Marlon dies, everybody moves up one." He was ranked by the American Film Institute as the fourth greatest screen legend among male movie stars.
Actors: Paul Kaye (actor), Veronica Taylor (actress), Paul Lazar (actor), Leslie Lyles (actress), Roy Thinnes (actor), Simon Jones (actor), Rocco Sisto (actor), Carolyn McCormick (actress), Joe Holt (actor), Richard Bekins (actor), Stan Carp (actor), Julie Garfield (miscellaneous crew), Danny Burstein (actor), Aleksa Palladino (actress), Lee Wong (actor),
Plot: While searching the past for her missing father with a time machine of her own invention, the young protagonist Spectropia is accidentally transported to New York in 1931. There she finds herself in the body of a female sleuth called Verna de Mott. Spectropia is a time travel drama exploring the anxieties generated by capitalist consumer culture and emerging technologies through a ghost story and the metaphor of supernatural possession.
Keywords: neo-noir, time-travelActors: Kate Nelligan (actress), Irene Litinsky (producer), Arthur Holden (actor), Cedric Smith (actor), Michael Rhoades (actor), Roy Dupuis (actor), Marcel Sabourin (actor), Pierre Curzi (actor), Charles Edwin Powell (actor), Richard Jutras (actor), Beau Bridges (actor), Rémy Girard (actor), Sean McCann (actor), Yves Langlois (editor), Christopher Dedrick (composer),
Plot: The true story that shocked 1930's Canada. When a poor rural Ontario family gives birth to quintuplet, the town doctor doesn't waste a second and takes over the family. He helps to take care of the babies but soon turns the babies into a freak show. Not before long the government gets involved and the babies are a multi-million dollar industry. But how can the uneducated couple regain their babies and their lives?
Keywords: 1930s, baby-nurse, birth, canada, childbirth, country-doctor, dionne-quintuplets, doctor, estrangement, expectant-fatherActors: Lyndon Johnson (actor), Christopher Kriesa (actor), Royal Dano (actor), Scott Glenn (actor), Nikita Khrushchev (actor), Lance Henriksen (actor), Ed Harris (actor), Jim Haynie (actor), David Clennon (actor), Edward Anhalt (actor), John Dehner (actor), John F. Kennedy (actor), Jeff Goldblum (actor), Scott Paulin (actor), Donald Moffat (actor),
Plot: Tom Wolfe's book on the history of the U.S. Space program reads like a novel, and the film has that same fictional quality. It covers the breaking of the sound barrier by Chuck Yeager to the Mercury 7 astronauts, showing that no one had a clue how to run a space program or how to select people to be in it. Thrilling, funny, charming and electrifying all at once.
Keywords: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, adultery, aerospace-film, aircraft-carrier, airplane-accident, astronaut, australian-aboriginal, aviationActors: Allan Forrest (actor), Jack Raymond (actor), Bessie Love (actress), Archie Marshek (editor), Randolph Bartlett (writer), Jerry Miley (actor), Jimmy Phillips (actor), Lynn Shores (director), Margaret Quimby (actress), Enid Hibbard (writer), Enid Hibbard (writer), John W. Conway (writer), Irene Lambert (actress),
Genres: Drama,You say all the things I wanna hear. Oh baby come and get your well earned share of the dollars that it costs. But this is something that I relly must if you don't smile and do your thing across th street is burger king. They got all and they got more. If you don't like me you're a...oh thank you very much and goodbye, did I get that coffee and that apple pie.