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Friday, October 8th, 2010 by admin
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John Garfield (1913 – 1952)

John Garfield was a fighter all his life, taking on the Hollywood establish- ment, the House Un-American Activities Committee, and even his colleagues in the legendary Group Theatre. As a motherless child in the New York slums, he had to fight to survive. He fell naturally into clowning, performing for fellow gang members to win ...

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Clark Gable (1901 – 1960)

Clark Gable was a star tailor-made for the thirties. Stage training gave him a perfect voice for talking pictures, while his size and rough features made him both heroic and down-to-earth–a fitting idol for Depression-weary Americans who wished they could stand up to adversity so well. Gable always joked that he turned to acting in ...

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Friday, October 8th, 2010 by admin
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Kirk Douglas (1916 – )

Kirk Douglas gave some of his best performances as men bucking the system, taking on everything from the artistic establishment as Vincent van Gogh in Lust for Life (1956) to conventional morality as the unscrupulous hero of Champion (1949) and The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). His searing intensity and husky physique made him seem ...

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Friday, October 8th, 2010 by admin
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James Dean (1931 – 1955)

Sensitive and masculine in equal measures, James Dean made his mark playing sincere, searching youths hungry for emotional honesty. His pained cry to his parents—”You’re tearing me apart!”—in Rebel Without a Cause (1955) was emblematic of an entire misunderstood generation. Dean’s intensely personal acting added to his mystique, blurring the dividing line between actor and ...

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Saturday, May 8th, 2010 by admin
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Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet comes from a family of actors: her parents, grandparents, and uncle all spent their lives on the stage. She took acting classes as a child, and became a well-spoken, bright-eyed child actress in BBC TV series such as Dark Season (1991) and Casualty (1993), before director Peter Jackson cast her as Juliet Hulme, ...

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Saturday, May 8th, 2010 by admin
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Angelina Jolie

Famous for her provocative behavior offscreen as well as her professional achievements, Angelina Jolie is the daughter of Marcheline Bertrand and actor Jon Voight, who divorced when she was just one year old. Her interest in acting began as a child when, at the age of seven, she appeared in Lookin’ to Get Out (1982), ...

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