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Child Star: The Shirley Temple Story: Shirley Temple: Emily Hart (older) Ashley Rose Orr (young) The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky: Vaslav Nijinsky: Derek Jacobi: The Gaul: Vercingetorix: Christopher Lambert: A Huey P. Newton Story: Huey P. Newton: Roger Guenveur Smith: Hysteria - The Def Leppard Story: Def Leppard: Multiple Actors In the Time of ...
James Byron Dean (February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955) was an American actor with a career that lasted five years. His roles typified the teenage disillusionment and social estrangement of his time. He had several uncredited roles from 1951 to 1953 before starring as a rebellious son attempting to win his father's approval in East of Eden ...
Marion Robert Morrison[ 1][ a] (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), professionally known as John Wayne and nicknamed " the Duke ", was an American actor who became a popular icon through his starring roles in films which were produced during Hollywood's Golden Age, especially in Western and war movies. His career flourished from the silent era of ...
Bette Davis and Donald Meek in Broken Dishes (1929). "I was now a bona fide Broadway actress—in a hit," Davis wrote. [2]Ruth Elizabeth Davis, known from early childhood as "Betty", was born on April 5, 1908, [3] in Lowell, Massachusetts, the daughter of Harlow Morrell Davis (1885–1938), a law student from Augusta, Maine, and subsequently a patent attorney, and Ruth Augusta (née Favór ...
Hedy Lamarr (/ ˈ h ɛ d i /; born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler; November 9, 1914 [a] – January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress and inventor. After a brief early film career in Czechoslovakia, including the controversial erotic romantic drama Ecstasy (1933), she fled from her first husband, Friedrich Mandl, and secretly moved to Paris.
t. e. AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars is the American Film Institute 's list ranking the top 25 male and 25 female greatest screen legends of American film history and is the second list of the AFI 100 Years... series . The list was unveiled through a CBS special on June 15, 1999, hosted by Shirley Temple (who is herself honored on the female ...
Louise Brooks. Mary Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985) was an American film actress during the 1920s and 1930s. She is regarded today as an icon of the flapper culture, in part due to the bob hairstyle that she helped popularize during the prime of her career. [ 1][ 2][ 3] At the age of 15, Brooks began her career as a dancer ...
Movie star. A movie star (also known as a film star or cinema star) is an actor who is famous for their starring, or leading, roles in movies. [ 1][ 2] The term is used for performers who are marketable stars as they become popular household names and whose names are used to promote movies, for example in trailers and posters. [ 3]