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British Academy Film Awards
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The British Academy Film Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts to honour the best British and international contributions to film. Between 2008 and 2016, the ceremony was held in central London at the Royal Opera House, the 70th British Academy Film Awards were held on 12 February 2017 at the Royal Albert Hall in London. British Academy of Film and Television Arts was founded in 1947 as The British Film Academy, by David Lean, Alexander Korda, Carol Reed, Charles Laughton, Roger Manvell and others. BAFTA stated charitable purpose is to support, develop and promote the art forms of the image, by identifying and rewarding excellence, inspiring practitioners. In addition to awards ceremonies BAFTA runs a year-round programme of educational events including film screenings. BAFTA is supported by a membership of about 6,000 people from the film, television, the Academys awards are in the form of a theatrical mask designed by American sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe, which was commissioned by the Guild of Television Producers in 1955. The ceremony previously took place in April or May and since 2002 it takes place in February in order to precede the Oscars. The awards are open to all nationalities, though there is an award for Outstanding British Film. Only UK films are eligible for the categories of The British Short Film, the Awards ceremony is delayed broadcast on British television the same evening, and across the world for example its shown on BBC America in the United States. It has been broadcast in colour since 1970, the award ceremony is held in London. From 2000 to 2007 the ceremonies took place at the flagship Odeon cinema in Leicester Square, between 2008 and 2016, the ceremonies took place at the Royal Opera House. The 70th Awards in 2017 were held at the Royal Albert Hall, until 2012, the mobile network Orange sponsored the awards and starting in 2013 Oranges parent company, EE, began sponsorship. British Academy of Film and Television Arts British Academy Television Awards Official website BAFTA Awards database Museum of Broadcast Communications, BAFTA IMDB, BAFTA
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United Kingdom
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The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom or Britain, is a sovereign country in western Europe. Lying off the north-western coast of the European mainland, the United Kingdom includes the island of Great Britain, Northern Ireland is the only part of the United Kingdom that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland, with an area of 242,500 square kilometres, the United Kingdom is the 78th-largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th-largest in Europe. It is also the 21st-most populous country, with an estimated 65.1 million inhabitants, together, this makes it the fourth-most densely populated country in the European Union. The United Kingdom is a monarchy with a parliamentary system of governance. The monarch is Queen Elizabeth II, who has reigned since 6 February 1952, other major urban areas in the United Kingdom include the regions of Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, Liverpool and Manchester. The United Kingdom consists of four countries—England, Scotland, Wales, the last three have devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in their capitals, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast, respectively. The relationships among the countries of the UK have changed over time, Wales was annexed by the Kingdom of England under the Laws in Wales Acts 1535 and 1542. A treaty between England and Scotland resulted in 1707 in a unified Kingdom of Great Britain, which merged in 1801 with the Kingdom of Ireland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Five-sixths of Ireland seceded from the UK in 1922, leaving the present formulation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain, there are fourteen British Overseas Territories. These are the remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in the 1920s, British influence can be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former colonies. The United Kingdom is a country and has the worlds fifth-largest economy by nominal GDP. The UK is considered to have an economy and is categorised as very high in the Human Development Index. It was the worlds first industrialised country and the worlds foremost power during the 19th, the UK remains a great power with considerable economic, cultural, military, scientific and political influence internationally. It is a nuclear weapons state and its military expenditure ranks fourth or fifth in the world. The UK has been a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council since its first session in 1946 and it has been a leading member state of the EU and its predecessor, the European Economic Community, since 1973. However, on 23 June 2016, a referendum on the UKs membership of the EU resulted in a decision to leave. The Acts of Union 1800 united the Kingdom of Great Britain, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have devolved self-government
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British Academy of Film and Television Arts
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The British Academy of Film and Television Arts is an independent charity that supports, develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image – film, television and game in the United Kingdom. David Lean was the founding Chairman of the Academy, the first Film Awards ceremony took place in May 1949 and honouring the films The Best Years of Our Lives, Odd Man Out and The World Is Rich. In 2005, it placed a cap on worldwide voting membership which now stands at approximately 6,500. BAFTA has offices in Scotland and Wales in the UK, in Los Angeles and New York in the United States and runs events in Hong Kong, amanda Berry OBE has been chief executive of the organisation since December 2000. Many of these events are free to online at BAFTA Guru. BAFTA runs a number of programmes across the UK, US. Launched in 2012, the UK programme enables talented British citizens who are in need of support to take an industry-recognised course in film. Each BAFTA Scholar receives up to £12,000 towards their annual course fees, since 2013, three students every year have received one of the Prince William Scholarships in Film, Television and Games, supported by BAFTA and Warner Bros. These scholarships are awarded in the name of in his role as President of BAFTA, since 2015, BAFTA has been offering scholarships for British citizens to study in China, vice versa. BAFTA presents awards for film, television and games, including entertainment, at a number of annual ceremonies across the UK and in Los Angeles. The BAFTA award trophy is a mask, designed by American sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe. Todays BAFTA award – including the mask and marble base – weighs 3.7 kg and measures 27 cm x 14 cm x 8 cm. BAFTAs annual film awards ceremony is known as the British Academy Film Awards, or the BAFTAs, in 1949 the British Film Academy, as it was then known, presented the first awards for films made in 1947 and 1948. Since 2008 the ceremony has held at the Royal Opera House in Londons Covent Garden. It had been held in the Odeon cinema on Leicester Square since 2000, the ceremony had been performed during April or May of each year, but since 2002 it has been held in February to precede the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Academy Awards, or Oscars. They have been awarded annually since 1954, the first ever ceremony consisted of six categories. Until 1958, they were awarded by the Guild of Television Producers and Directors, from 1968 until 1997, BAFTAs Film and Television Awards were presented together, but from 1998 onwards they were presented at two separate ceremonies. The Television Craft Awards celebrate the talent behind the programmes, such as working in visual effects, production
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Viola Davis
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Viola Davis is an American actress and producer. She is the black woman to be nominated for three Academy Awards, winning one, and is the only black actress or actor to win the Triple Crown of Acting. In 2012, she was listed by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world. After graduating from the Juilliard School in 1993, Davis began her career on stage, in 2001, she won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role as Tonya in the original production of August Wilsons King Hedley II. Davis film breakthrough came in 2008 when her role in the drama Doubt earned her several nominations, including the Golden Globe, SAG. Greater success came to Davis in the 2010s and she won the 2010 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role as Rose Maxson in the revival of August Wilsons play Fences. For her lead role as 1960s housemaid Aibeleen Clark in the comedy-drama The Help, she received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress among others and her portrayal also won her two SAG Awards in 2015 and 2016. Davis and her husband, Julius Tennon, are the founders of the production company JuVee Productions, Davis has starred in their productions Lila & Eve and Custody. Davis was born in St. Matthews, South Carolina, at her grandparents house on the Singleton Plantation and she is the daughter of Mary Alice and Dan Davis, and is the second youngest of six children. Her father was a trainer and her mother was a maid. Her mother was also an activist during the Civil Rights Movement, at the age of two, Davis was taken to jail with her mother after she was arrested during a civil rights protest. Two months after she was born, her moved to Central Falls, Rhode Island, with Davis. She has described herself as having lived in poverty and dysfunction during her childhood. Davis is the cousin of actor Mike Colter, who is known for portraying the Marvel Comics character Luke Cage. Davis attended Central Falls High School, the alma mater to which she credits her love of stage acting with her involvement in the arts. As a teen, she was involved in the federal TRIO Upward Bound, when enrolled at the Young Peoples School for the Performing Arts in West Warwick, Rhode Island, Davis talent was recognized by a director at the program, Bernard Masterson. Following graduation from school, Davis studied at Rhode Island College, majoring in theater. She was awarded a doctorate in Fine Arts from the college in 2002
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Fences (film)
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Fences is a 2016 American drama film directed by and starring Denzel Washington and written by August Wilson, based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name. In addition to Washington, the film also stars Viola Davis, Stephen Henderson, Jovan Adepo, Russell Hornsby, Mykelti Williamson, principal photography on the film began on April 25,2016, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the Hill District, and wrapped in mid-June 2016. Fences was released in the United States on December 16,2016, by Paramount Pictures, received positive reviews and it also received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor for Washington and a Best Supporting Actress win for Davis. In 1950s Pittsburgh, Troy Maxson lives with his wife Rose and their son Cory, Gabriel has since moved out, but still lives in the neighborhood, often getting in trouble with the law for his eccentric behavior, which includes religious fixations. In his adolescence, Troy left home from his abusive father, after killing a man during a robbery led him to prison, he met Bono and revealed himself to be a talented baseball player. He then played in the professional Negro Leagues, but he never made it to Major League Baseball, when Bono says that Troy was born too soon, Troy rejects this choice of words and insists that he was passed over due to the color of his skin. Having survived a bout of pneumonia in his youth, Troy claims to have done so by defeating the Grim Reaper in a fistfight. Rose later tells Troy that Cory is being scouted by a football team. Not only is he stung by his own lack of success in baseball and he tells Cory that he will not sign the permission documents. He does not want his son to fail as he did, Rose asks Troy to build a fence around their house, and Troy demands that Cory help him as punishment for Cory not doing his chores due to football practice. Troy and Cory clash over Corys ambitions to play college football, Troy achieves a promotion to driving the garbage truck, becoming the first African-American to do so in Pittsburgh, even though he cant read and doesnt have a drivers license. Bono finds out that Troy is cheating on Rose with Alberta, a woman he met at the local bar, the two then become estranged when Troy is assigned to a different neighborhood. Cory lashes out and throws his helmet at Troy, which Troy claims is the first of Corys three permitted offenses. When called to bail Gabriel out of jail for disturbing the peace, Troy unknowingly signs papers rerouting half of Gabriels pension to a psychiatric hospital, forcing Gabriel to be institutionalized. Troy brings his baby daughter Raynell home, and Rose decides to raise her as her own, Cory is considering enlisting in the United States Marine Corps after missing his opportunity to attend college. One day, when he returns home, an intoxicated Troy blocks his path, Troy gains the upper hand, grabs the bat from Cory, and drives him out of the house. Both energized and disoriented by his victory, Troy once again challenges the Reaper to come for him, six years later, Troy has died of a heart attack, and Cory, now a USMC corporal, returns home, but informs Rose he will not attend the funeral. Rose admits to loving Troy despite his flaws and pleads that Troy is still a part of him
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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
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The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered a performance in a supporting role while working within the film industry. At the 9th Academy Awards ceremony held in 1937, Gale Sondergaard was the first winner of award for her role in Anthony Adverse. Initially, winners in both supporting acting categories were awarded instead of statuettes. Beginning with the 16th ceremony held in 1944, however, winners received full-sized statuettes, currently, nominees are determined by single transferable vote within the actors branch of AMPAS, winners are selected by a plurality vote from the entire eligible voting members of the Academy. Since its inception, the award has given to 78 actresses. Dianne Wiest and Shelley Winters have received the most awards in this category with two awards each, despite winning no awards, Thelma Ritter was nominated on six occasions, more than any other actress. As of the 2017 ceremony, Viola Davis is the most recent winner in category for her role as Rose Maxson in Fences. In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of release in Los Angeles County. Toronto, Ontario, Canada, University of Toronto Press, inside Oscar, The Unofficial History of the Academy Awards. New York, United States, Ballantine Books, oscars. org Oscar. com The Academy Awards Database
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Billie Whitelaw
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Billie Honor Whitelaw, CBE was an English actress. She worked in collaboration with Irish playwright Samuel Beckett for 25 years and was regarded as one of the foremost interpreters of his works. She was also known for her portrayal of Mrs Baylock, the nanny in the 1976 horror film The Omen. Whitelaw was appointed a CBE in the 1991 Birthday Honours, Whitelaw was born in Coventry, Warwickshire, the daughter of Frances Mary and Gerry Whitelaw. She had one sister, Constance, who was 10 years older, Whitelaw grew up in a working class part of Bradford and later attended Grange Girls Grammar School in Bradford. Her father died of cancer when Billie was 9 years old. Money was tight and her mother struggled on her own to support the family and its something I havent come to terms with. Im rather ashamed of having the good life I have, she later recalled, Whitelaw trained at RADA and made her stage debut at age 18 in London 1950. She made her debut in The Sleeping Tiger, followed by roles in Carve Her Name with Pride. Whitelaw soon became a regular in British films of the 1950s, in her early film work she specialised in blousy blondes and secretaries, but her dramatic range began to emerge by the late 1960s. She starred alongside Albert Finney in Charlie Bubbles, a performance which won her a BAFTA award as Best Actress in a Supporting Role and she would win her second BAFTA as the sensuous mother of college student Hayley Mills in the psychological study Twisted Nerve. She continued in roles including Leo the Last, Start the Revolution Without Me, Gumshoe. Whitelaw gained international acclaim for her role as Mrs. Baylock. Her performance was considered one of the most memorable of the film, other films included performing the voice of Aughra in The Dark Crystal, as the hopelessly naive Mrs. She returned to film, in a turn, as Joyce Cooper in Hot Fuzz. In 1970, she was a member of the jury at the 20th Berlin International Film Festival, in 1963, Billie Whitelaw met Irish playwright Samuel Beckett. She and Beckett enjoyed a professional relationship until his death in 1989. He wrote many of his experimental plays especially for her
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Charlie Bubbles
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Charlie Bubbles is a 1967 British comedy-drama film starring Billie Whitelaw and Albert Finney, and also featuring a young Liza Minnelli. It was listed to compete at the 1968 Cannes Film Festival, the film made great play of its Manchester setting, contrasting the return of its eponymous lead character, played by Finney, to his home city after achieving success as a writer in London. During his return he visits his wife, played by Whitelaw, in Derbyshire and watches a Manchester United match at Old Trafford, featuring footage of Bobby Charlton. They are cut off from the world in a glass-fronted box as they watch the match. Finneys character is bored with his success and his privileged position, one of these is a relationship with his secretary Eliza, played by Minnelli. Bubbles glides around in a gold Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud III convertible – CB 1E, contrasting sharply with the class life. From London along the newly constructed M1, Bubbles heads to Manchester, the street scenes are a reminder of a Manchester that is long gone and are an accurate record of the mass demolition of so much of working class Victorian back-to-back dwellings. Joe Gladwin plays a waiter serving breakfast in the Manchester hotel room, I used to know your father Sir, is he still deaf. He was unemployed for some years. Were all very proud of you. Are you still working Sir or do you just do the writing now, Bubbles smiles wryly and retorts No, I just do the writing and hands him a bank note. After leaving Manchester, Bubbles drives to see his son Jack and it becomes obvious that visits are few and we are also introduced to his ex-wife Lotti Billie Whitelaw who is running a farm deep in the Derbyshire hills. Father and son go to a match and eat hotdogs from their private box at Old Trafford. A sentence that is aimed towards the boy who done good. The film then cuts to scenes outside the stadium where Charlie is suddenly looking for the boy. Bubbles returns to the farm without the boy, driving the Rolls erratically and stopping to vomit on the way, there is some retrospective and reminiscent interplay between Finney and Whitlelaw and it isnt difficult to see why she won a BAFTA in 1968 for Best Supporting Actress. Charlie Bubbles was not only Albert Finneys debut as a director but was also the last time he directed a box office film. The film is a slightly surreal offshoot of the kitchen sink drama in which Finney had achieved stardom in Karel Reiszs Saturday Night, shelagh Delaney had also achieved fame as the writer of another film in this genre, Tony Richardsons 1961 A Taste of Honey. Delaney also wrote Lindsay Andersons 1967 film The White Bus like Charlie Bubbles, set in part in Manchester and Salford, which has a distinctly surreal feel to it at times. Charlie Bubbles is referred to in the Kinks song Where Are They Now. on the album Preservation Act 1 and the film was released on DVD in September 2008
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Twisted Nerve
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Twisted Nerve is a 1968 British psychological thriller film directed by Roy Boulting and starring Hywel Bennett, Hayley Mills, Billie Whitelaw and Frank Finlay. The film opens with Martin playing catch with his younger brother Pete, Martin is the only remaining figure in Petes family life, their father died years ago and their mother has a new life with a new husband. Martin expresses concern for his brothers well-being to the schools physician, after the title sequence, Martin is shown in a toy store, gazing at Susan, who purchases a toy. As she leaves, Martin follows after having pocketed a toy duck, two store detectives ask them to return to the managers office. The detectives assert that Martin and Susan were working together to allow Martin to steal a toy, Susan assures them she has never met Martin. The manager asks Susan for her address and Martin appears to make a note when she offers it. When questioned by the manager, Martin turns soft, presents himself as mentally challenged, sympathetic to him, Susan pays for the toy. Certain that this was a misunderstanding, the manager lets them leave, Martin returns home and finds his parents arguing in the parlor, over his lack of interest in life. There is allusion to some perverse behaviour he has exhibited, though this is not elaborated upon and he shuts himself in his room. While secluded, Martin stares in the mirror, bare-chested, examining his frame and he seems disappointed in his appearance, eventually punching and cracking the mirror in frustration. The camera reveals a stack of bodybuilding magazines on his dresser, the next day, Martin goes to Susans house and waits for her to return. She arrives with a young Indian man named Shashee and he drops off Susan, who thanks him and she goes to the library, where she keeps an after-school job. Martin approaches Susan who immediately recognises him as Georgie and he tells her that he followed her and pays her back for the toy. Before he leaves, Martin, as Georgie, gets Susan to lend him a book about animals, Martin has a heated conversation with his stepfather, who insists he travel to Australia. Martin refuses, then sets in motion a plan to leave home, pretend to go to France, Martin leaves his family and shows up late at Susans mothers house, where she rents rooms. Presenting himself as Georgie, he gains sympathy both from Susan and her mother and they let him stay, the plot unravels with Martins duplicitous nature clashing against his desires to win Susans heart. He wants her to him as a lover, but cannot reveal that he is in fact Martin. Meanwhile, Martin uses his identity to his advantage to seek out revenge on his stepfather
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Romeo and Juliet (1968 film)
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Romeo and Juliet is a 1968 British-Italian romance film based on the tragic play of the same name by William Shakespeare. The film was directed and co-written by Franco Zeffirelli, and stars Leonard Whiting, sir Laurence Olivier spoke the films prologue and epilogue and reportedly dubbed the voice of the Italian actor playing Lord Montague, but was not credited in the film. Several critics also welcomed the film enthusiastically, in Verona, Italy, the longstanding feud between the Montague and the Capulet clans breaks out in a street brawl, broken up by the Prince of the city. The same night, two teenagers of the two families — Romeo and Juliet — meet at a Capulet masked ball and become deeply infatuated, later, Romeo stumbles into the secluded garden under Juliets bedroom balcony and the two exchange impassioned pledges. They are soon married by Romeos confessor and father figure, Friar Laurence. Unfortunately, another street duel breaks out between Juliets first cousin Tybalt and Romeos best friend Mercutio when Tybalt insults Romeo. Since Tybalt is Juliets cousin and Romeo has just been married to Juliet, he sees Tybalt as family and refuses to him, leading Mercutio to be a loyal friend. Romeo retaliates by fighting Tybalt and killing him, and is punished by the Prince with banishment instead of the death penalty. Romeo, however, sees his banishment as worse than death, as Verona is the home he has known. Friar Laurence eventually convinces Romeo that he is lucky and should be thankful for what he has. Romeo and Juliet secretly spend their night together and consummate their marriage. Unaware of Juliets secret marriage, her father has arranged for her to marry wealthy Count Paris, in order to escape this arranged marriage and remain faithful to Romeo, Juliet consumes a potion prepared by Friar Laurence intended to make her appear dead for forty-two hours. However, when Romeos servant, Balthasar, sees Juliet being buried, under the impression that she is dead, he goes to tell Romeo, in despair, Romeo goes to Juliets tomb and kills himself by drinking poison. Awakening shortly after he expires, Juliet discovers a dead Romeo and proceeds to stab herself with his dagger, later, the two families attend their joint funeral and agree to end the feud. Laurence Oliviers involvement in the production was by happenstance and he was in Rome to film The Shoes of the Fisherman and visited the studio where Romeo and Juliet was being shot. He asked Zeffirelli if there was anything he could do, and was given the Prologue to read, then ended up dubbing the voice of Lord Montague as well as other assorted roles. Set in a 14th-century Renaissance Italy in varying locations, The balcony scene, At the Palazzo Borghese, built by Cardinal Scipione Borghese in the 16th century, in Artena,20 miles south of Rome. The interior church scenes, At a Romanesque church named St. Pietro Somaldi in, Lucca, the tomb scene, Also in Tuscania
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Virginia Maskell
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Virginia Elizabeth Maskell, Lady Shakerley was an English actress. Virginia Maskell was born in Shepherds Bush, London, after the outbreak of the Second World War, Maskells family were evacuated to South Africa. After the war she returned to London and entered a convent school, after attending drama school, she featured in television roles mainly playing demure young women in action series such as The Buccaneers and The Adventures of Robin Hood. She made a film debut for director Roy Boulting with Happy Is the Bride. In director Pat Jacksons comedy Virgin Island she appeared with John Cassavetes and she gained a British Lion contract and appeared in The Man Upstairs with Richard Attenborough, and as an air-hostess in Jet Storm. She also made an impact on the stage, in The Catalyst, Interlude was released after she died and she won a posthumous National Board of Review award and a BAFTA nomination for her work in the film. Maskell was also a poet and an artist, Maskell married Sir Geoffrey Adam Shakerley, 6th Baronet on 3 July 1962. The couple had two sons, the first, Nicholas, born in December 1963, after the birth of her second son in February 1966, Maskell showed signs of post-natal depression. Following the shooting of Interlude in the summer of 1967, she suffered a nervous breakdown and was hospitalized at Stoke Mandeville Hospital for six weeks. On Wednesday, January 24,1968, she left home in her car, police searched woods 700 feet up in the Chiltern Hills after her car was found a mile from her home. Maskell had apparently wandered through the woods for hours before collapsing where the police found her. She was taken to hospital and given treatment for an overdose of barbiturates. I love acting, but I also want to be alive, if youre not careful, you begin to live according to everyones idea of how you ought to live. To be a big, big star. on the stage. Carve Her Name with Pride - Wren Happy Is the Bride - Marcia The Man Upstairs - Helen Grey Virgin Island - Tina Jet Storm - Pam Leyton Doctor in Love - Dr. Nicola Barrington Suspect - Dr. co. uk
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Interlude (1968 film)
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Interlude is a 1968 British drama film directed by Kevin Billington. A famous conductor gives an interview to a pretty young reporter and he speaks a bit too frankly and finds hes given himself an unwanted sabbatical from conducting. He begins an affair with the young reporter during his interlude, singer Timi Yuro performed the title song Interlude. Another version by Yuro was released commercially, the song was later covered by Morrissey and Siouxsie. Interlude Interlude at the Internet Movie Database
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Simone Signoret
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Simone Signoret was a French cinema actress often hailed as one of Frances greatest film stars. She became the first French person to win an Academy Award, in her lifetime she also received two Césars, three BAFTAs, an Emmy, a Cannes Film Festival Award, the Silver Bear for Best Actress awards, a NBR Award and a Golden Globe nomination. Signoret was born Simone Henriette Charlotte Kaminker in Wiesbaden, Germany, to André and Georgette Kaminker and her mother, Georgette, from whom she acquired her stage name, was a French Catholic. Signoret grew up in Paris in an atmosphere and studied English, German. During the German occupation of France, Signoret mixed with an group of writers and actors who met at a café in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés quarter. By this time, she had developed an interest in acting and was encouraged by her friends, including her lover, Daniel Gélin and she took her mothers maiden name for the screen to help hide her Jewish roots. Signorets sensual features and earthy nature led to type-casting and she was seen in roles as a prostitute. She won considerable attention in La Ronde, a film which was banned briefly in New York as immoral and she won further acclaim, including an acting award from the British Film Academy, for her portrayal of another prostitute in Jacques Beckers Casque dor. She appeared in notable films in France during the 1950s, including Thérèse Raquin, directed by Marcel Carné, Les Diaboliques. In 1958, Signoret acted in the English independent film, Room at the Top, which won her numerous awards including the Best Female Performance Prize at Cannes and the Academy Award for Best Actress. She was the only French cinema actress to receive an Oscar until Juliette Binoche in 1997 and Marion Cotillard in 2008, and she was offered films in Hollywood, but turned them down, continuing to work in France and England—notably opposite Laurence Olivier in Term of Trial —until 1965. In 1962, Signoret translated Lillian Hellmans play The Little Foxes into French for a production in Paris that ran for six months at the Theatre Sarah-Bernhardt and she played the Regina role as well. Hellman was displeased with the production, although the translation was approved by scholars selected by Hellman, Signorets memoirs, Nostalgia Isnt What It Used To Be, were published in 1978. She also wrote a novel, Adieu Volodya, published in 1985, Signoret first married filmmaker Yves Allégret, with whom she had a daughter Catherine Allégret, herself an actress. Her second marriage was to the Italian-born French actor Yves Montand in 1951, Signoret died of pancreatic cancer in Autheuil-Authouillet, France, aged 64. She was buried in Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris and Yves Montand was later buried next to her, the play charted the deteriorating relationship between Signoret and Marilyn Monroe during the filming of Lets Make Love. Unable to achieve the recognition of Oscar-winning Signoret, Monroe begins an affair with Signorets husband, singer Nina Simone took her last name from Simone Signoret
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Games (film)
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Games is a 1967 psychological thriller, directed by Curtis Harrington and starring Katharine Ross, James Caan, and Simone Signoret. Lisa proceeds to set up several situations of simulated domestic discord that the couple can react to, things turn deadly when an acquaintance, Norman, is accidentally killed during a so-called game. He was killed with a wound in the right eye. Paul has to go to lengths to conceal any evidence. He fears being blackmailed by Lisa, whose psychic activities continue, ultimately, at the request of Paul, Lisa leaves, for the welfare of an ever more anxious Jennifer. Paul and Lisa orchestrated the entire affair in order to trick Jennifer into killing someone, the murdered man had been in on the game, but was double-crossed. Paul and Lisa share a drink as Paul pays Lisa her ten-percent cut. Unfortunately for Paul, Lisa has poisoned his drink, after Paul collapses and dies, Lisa takes the briefcase containing all of the money, leaves the house, and walks down the street. Director Curtis Harrington wrote the role of Lisa with Marlene Dietrich in mind to play the part, the film was released theatrically in the United States by Universal Pictures in September 1967. The film was given a belated VHS release by Gaiam, Inc. in 1995, both versions are currently out of print. The film was released on DVD in the Spain by Universal Studios and this release presents the film widescreen. In the 4th quarter of 2011 the film was released as part of Universals Vault Series on DVD-R, Games at the Internet Movie Database Games at AllMovie
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Celia Johnson
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Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson DBE was an English actress. She began her acting career in 1928, and subsequently achieved success in West End. She also appeared in films, including the romantic drama Brief Encounter. Much of her work was for television, and she continued performing in theatre for the rest of her life. She suffered a stroke and died soon after at the age of 73, born in Richmond, Surrey, and nicknamed Betty, Johnson was the second daughter of Robert and Ethel Johnson. Her first public performance was in 1916, when she played a role in a charity performance of King Cophetua and she attended St Pauls Girls School in London from 1919 until 1926, and played in the schools orchestra under Gustav Holst. She acted in productions, but had no other acting experience, when she was accepted to study at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in 1926. She later spent a term in Paris, studying under Pierre Fresnay at the Comédie Française and she later recalled her choice of an acting career with the comment, I thought Id rather like it. It was the only thing I was good at, and I thought it might be rather wicked. ”Her stage début, and first professional role, was as Sarah in George Bernard Shaws Major Barbara at the Theatre Royal, Huddersfield in 1928. She went to London the following year to take the place of Angela Baddeley in the part of Currita in A Hundred Years Old, in 1930 Johnson played in Cynara with Sir Gerald Du Maurier and Dame Gladys Cooper. She made her first trip to the United States the following year to star as Ophelia in a New York production of Hamlet. She returned to London, where she appeared in a number of productions, before establishing herself with a two-year run in The Wind. She married the journalist Peter Fleming in 1935, and in 1939 gave birth to their first child, during the Second World War, Johnson lived with her widowed sister and sister-in-law and helped care for their combined seven children. She appeared in In Which We Serve and This Happy Breed, Lean and Coward sought Johnson for the next production, Brief Encounter. I have found myself already planning how I should play bits, Johnson was awarded the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress. After the war, Johnson concentrated on her life, which included two daughters born in 1946 and 1947 and her occasional acting work was secondary for the following decade. In 1952, she opened The Grass is Greener, in 1957 she acted with Ralph Richardson in The Flowering Cherry. As a member of Laurence Oliviers National Theatre Company, Johnson appeared in the plays The Master Builder with Olivier and Hay Fever, for her role in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, she received the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (film)
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a 1969 British drama film, based on the novel of the same name by Muriel Spark. Directed by Ronald Neame, it stars Maggie Smith in the role as an unrestrained teacher at a girls school in 1930s Edinburgh. This production was a success, running for just less than a year. Allen adapted her play into a film, which was directed by Ronald Neame, Maggie Smith won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the title role. There was also a performance from Pamela Franklin as Sandy. It was entered in the 1969 Cannes Film Festival, Jean also became a huge hit for the singer Oliver in the autumn of 1969. Jean Brodie is a teacher in the section of the Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh, Scotland. Brodie devotes her time and energy to her four special 12-year-old junior school girls, called the Brodie Set, Sandy, Monica, Jenny and Mary. She seems to have a grudge against Brodie, who has tenure and had been at Marcia Blaine for six years prior to Mackay being appointed headmistress. Miss Brodie boasts to her girls that the way she will stop teaching is if she is assassinated. Brodie sometimes spends the night with Lowther, although she tries to conceal this from the girls, Lowther wants to get married, but Brodie drags her feet. She still has feelings for her married ex-lover, Teddy Lloyd, Miss Gaunts brother, a deacon at Lowthers church, eventually asks for his resignation as church organist and elder because of his relationship with Brodie. As the Brodie Set grow older and become students in the Senior School, Miss Brodie begins to cast her spell over a new group of junior students, particularly Clara who reminds her of Jenny. While Mary, Monica and Jenny become closer friends, Sandy becomes slightly distant from the set, Miss Brodie tries to manoeuvre Jenny and Mr Lloyd into having an affair, and Sandy into spying on them for her. However, it is actually Sandy who has an affair with Mr. Lloyd, Sandy ends the affair because of Mr Lloyds overwhelming obsession with Miss Brodie. Mary, influenced by Brodie, sets out to Spain to join her brother and she is killed when her train is attacked shortly after crossing the frontier. Miss Brodie, on her part, makes some harsh but astute comments about Sandys character, particularly her ability to coldly judge and destroy others. Sandy retorts that Brodie professed to be an admirer of conquerors and walks out of the classroom, after the confrontation, Sandy, Monica, and Jenny graduate along with the other girls
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Peggy Ashcroft
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Dame Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft, DBE, commonly known as Peggy Ashcroft, was an English actress whose career spanned more than sixty years. Born to a comfortable middle-class family, Ashcroft was determined from an age to become an actress. She was working in theatres even before graduating from drama school. Ashcroft maintained her leading place in British theatre for the fifty years. Well regarded in Shakespeare, Ashcroft was also known for her commitment to modern drama, appearing in plays by Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter. Ashcroft was born in Croydon, Surrey, the child and only daughter of William Worsley Ashcroft, a land agent. The biographer Michael Billington writes that Violetta Ashcroft was of Danish and German-Jewish descent, Ashcrofts father was killed on active service in the First World War. Ashcroft was determined, however, and at the age of sixteen, she enrolled at the Central School of Speech and Drama, run by Elsie Fogerty, from whom her mother had taken lessons some years before. The schools emphasis was on the voice and elegant diction, which did not appeal to Ashcroft or to her fellow pupil Laurence Olivier and she learned more from reading My Life in Art by Constantin Stanislavski, the influential director of the Moscow Art Theatre. She graduated from the Central School in 1927 with London Universitys Diploma in Dramatic Art, never much drawn to the West End or stardom, she learned her craft with mostly small companies in fringe theatres. Her first notable West End role was Naemi in Jew Süss in 1929, in the same year she married Rupert Hart-Davis, then an aspiring actor, later a well-known publisher. He later described the marriage as a sad failure, we were too young to know what we wanted. After much agony we parted and were duly divorced, nowadays Peggy and I lunch together perhaps once or twice a year in a Soho restaurant and have a lovely nostalgic-romantic talk of shared memories of long ago. She is a person and the best actress living. In 1930 Ashcroft was cast as Desdemona in a production of Othello at the Savoy Theatre, the production was not well received, but Ashcrofts notices were excellent. During the run she had an affair with Robeson, which. Priestley, put an end to her first marriage, Hart-Davis was granted a divorce in 1933, on the grounds of Ashcrofts adultery with the director Theodore Komisarjevsky. Among those impressed by Ashcrofts performance as Desdemona was John Gielgud and he recalled, When Peggy came on in the Senate scene it was as if all the lights in the theatre had suddenly gone up
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Three into Two Won't Go
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Three into Two Wont Go is a 1969 British drama film directed by Peter Hall, and starring Rod Steiger, Claire Bloom and Judy Geeson. The film was entered into the 19th Berlin International Film Festival, steve and Frances Howard are a middle-aged, married and childless couple who reside in a sparsely decorated home in Manchester, England. He is an executive in a store that sells appliances, steve picks up a teenage hitchhiker, Ella, and begins an affair. Ella turns up at his home claiming to be pregnant, where after becoming acquainted, the situation further demonstrates the loveless nature of the couples marriage. In 1970 a version of the film screened on NBC in the US, Hall, OBrien and Newman demanded their names be taken off the film alleging 20 minutes of new footage had been shot and added. Three into Two Wont Go at the Internet Movie Database
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Pamela Franklin
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Pamela Franklin is a British actress who appeared in feature films from 1961 until 1976, and on American television throughout the 1970s. She is best known for her role in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Franklin, who had three brothers, was born in Yokohama, Japan, and grew up in the Far East, where her father was an importer/exporter. The family lived in Japan, Hong Kong, Australia, at the age of eight she was sent to the Elmhurst School of Ballet in the UK. She made her debut at age 11 in The Innocents. In 1962 she played opposite William Holden and Trevor Howard in the British film The Lion, a year later, she co-starred with Luke Halpin in Flippers New Adventure as a wealthy industrialists daughter abandoned on a tropical island but saved by Halpin and his pet dolphin Flipper. In 1963, Franklin was voted 10th place for the Laurel Awards Top New Female Personality and she was 14 when she made The Third Secret in 1964, in which she played a troubled young daughter. When she was interviewed about the film in 1979, she said that she and Stephen Boyd had become friends, in 1966 she had a lead role in the BBC TV series Quick Before They Catch Us. Franklin received favourable notices for her portrayal of an unusually worldly teenager in the suspense film The Nanny starring Bette Davis and she also received an Emmy nomination for her supporting role in the 1965 TV movie Eagle in a Cage in which she again acted opposite Trevor Howard. She acted with Dirk Bogarde, who played her father in Our Mothers House, in the same year, Franklin played opposite Marlon Brando and Rita Moreno in The Night of the Following Day as the kidnap victim in the crime thriller. This was her first adult role, with one showing her topless. In 1970, she appeared with Michele Dotrice in the horror thriller And Soon the Darkness, for her role as Sandy in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Franklin won the National Board of Review award for Best Supporting Actress. In the same year, she starred in the John Huston movie Sinful Davey with a young John Hurt, as an adult, Franklin became somewhat typecast in horror films after her performance in the occult thriller The Legend of Hell House in 1973 opposite Roddy McDowell. This followed with the horror movie, Satans School for Girls. Her last film role was in The Food of the Gods, although she made television appearances until 1981, including an episode of Police Story, in which she became physically ill playing a rape victim. Franklin made other television appearances including The Love Boat, Fantasy Island, The Six Million Dollar Man, Hawaii Five-O, Barnaby Jones, Vega$. She gave a performance as the title character in Jenny Wilde is Drowning. Her character was an actress trying to succeed in Hollywood. Franklin met actor Harvey Jason on the set of Necromancy, which came out in 1972, the couple married and settled near Hollywood and had two sons
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Oh! What a Lovely War
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The film is based on the stage musical Oh, What a Lovely War. Originated by Charles Chilton as a play, The Long Long Trail in December 1961. The title is derived from the music hall song Oh and its a Lovely War, which is one of the major numbers in the film. The diplomatic manoeuvrings and events involving those in authority are set in a location inside the pierhead pavilion. In the opening scene various Foreign Ministers, generals and Heads of State walk over a map of Europe. The German invasion of Belgium leaves Sir Edward Grey little choice, italy reneges on her alliance with the Central Powers but Turkey joins them instead. The start of the war in 1914 is shown as a parade of optimism, a military band rouses holidaymakers from the beach to rally round and follow – some even literally boarding a bandwagon. The first Battle of Mons is similarly cheerfully depicted yet more realistic in portrayal, both scenes are flooded in pleasant sunshine. When the casualties start to mount, an audience is rallied by singing Are We Downhearted. A chorus line dressed in frilled yellow dresses, recruits an army with We dont want to lose you. The young men take to the stage and are quickly moved offstage and into life. The red poppy crops up again as a symbol of impending death and these scenes are juxtaposed with the pavilion, now housing the top military brass. There is a showing the loss of life and yards gained. Outside, Sylvia Pankhurst is shown addressing a crowd on the futility of war. She is met with catcalls and jeered off her podium,1915 is depicted as darkly contrasting in tone. Many shots of a parade of wounded men illustrate an endless stream of grim, black humour among these soldiers has now replaced the enthusiasm of the early days. Theres a Long, Long Trail a-Winding captures the new mood of despair, red poppies provide the only bright colour in these scenes. At the end of the year, amidst more manoeuvres in the pavilion, Haig is then mocked by Australian troops who see him inspecting British soldiers, they sing They were only playing Leapfrog to the tune of John Brown
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Susannah York
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Susannah Yolande Fletcher, known professionally as Susannah York, was an English film, stage and television actress. She was awarded a BAFTA as Best Supporting Actress for They Shoot Horses, Dont They. and was nominated for an Oscar and she won best actress for Images at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. In 1991 she was appointed an Officier de lOrdre des Arts et des Lettres and her maternal grandfather was Walter Andrew Bowring, CBE, a British diplomat who served as Administrator of Dominica, she was a great-great-granddaughter of political economist Sir John Bowring. York had a sister, as well as a half-brother, Eugene Xavier Charles William Peel Fletcher. In early 1943, her mother married a Scottish businessman, Adam M. Hamilton, at the age of 11 York entered Marr College in Troon, Ayrshire. Later she became a boarder at Wispers School, a school housed in Wispers, at 13 she was removed – effectively expelled – from Wispers after owning up to a nude midnight swim in the school pool, and she transferred to East Haddon Hall in Northamptonshire. There she won the Ronson award for most promising student before graduating in 1958 and her film career began with Tunes of Glory, co-starring with Alec Guinness and John Mills. In 1961, she played the role in The Greengage Summer. In 1962, she performed in Freud, The Secret Passion with Montgomery Clift in the title role, York played Sophie Western opposite Albert Finney in the Oscar-winning Best Film Tom Jones. She also appeared in Kaleidescope, A Man for All Seasons, The Killing of Sister George, scott, playing the title role in an American television movie of Jane Eyre. It was also in 1970 that Susannah York played opposite Peter OToole in Country Dance, York was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for They Shoot Horses, Dont They. She snubbed the Academy when, regarding her nomination, she declared it offended her to be nominated without being asked and she was highly praised for her performance, though she said I dont think much of the film, or of myself in it. She did attend the ceremony but lost to Goldie Hawn for her role in Cactus Flower, in 1972, she won the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival for her role in Images. She played Supermans mother Lara on the doomed planet Krypton in Superman and its sequels, Superman II and Superman IV, The Quest for Peace. York made extensive appearances in British television series, including Prince Regent, as Maria Fitzherbert, the wife of the future George IV. In 1984, York starred as Mrs. Cratchit in A Christmas Carol and she again co-starred with George C. Scott, David Warner, Frank Finlay, Angela Pleasence and Anthony Walters, in 1992, she was a member of the jury at the 42nd Berlin International Film Festival. In 2003, York had a role as hospital manager Helen Grant in the BBC1 television drama series Holby City
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They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (film)
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They Shoot Horses, Dont They. is a 1969 American drama film directed by Sydney Pollack. The screenplay by James Poe and Robert E. Thompson is based on the 1935 novel of the name by Horace McCoy. It focuses on a group of characters desperate to win a Depression-era dance marathon. It stars Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York, Bruce Dern, Bonnie Bedelia, Fonda, Young and York won awards for their performances. Robert Syverton, who dreamed of being a great film director. In his youth, he saw a horse break its leg, after which it was shot and he is recruited by MC Rocky as a substitute partner for a cynical malcontent named Gloria, when her original partner is disqualified because of an ominous cough. Early in the marathon the weaker pairs are eliminated quickly, while Rocky observes the vulnerabilities of the contestants and exploits them for the audiences amusement. Frayed nerves are exacerbated by the theft of one of Alices dresses, in retaliation, she takes Joel as her partner, but when he receives a job offer and departs, she aligns herself with Harry. Harry has a heart attack during one of the races. Harry dies as Gloria drags him, Alice, who witnesses his death, has a breakdown and is taken away. Lacking partners, Robert and Gloria again pair up, Rocky suggests the couple marry during the marathon, a publicity stunt guaranteed to earn them some cash, in the form of gifts from supporters such as Mrs. Laydon. When Gloria refuses, he reveals the contest is not what it appears, expenses will be deducted from the prize money, leaving the winner with close to nothing. Shocked by the revelation, the couple out of the competition. The two leave the hall and stand on the pier, overlooking the ocean. Gloria confesses how empty she is inside and tells Robert that she wants to kill herself, desperate, she asks Robert, Help me. He obliges, and shoots her in the head, questioned by the police as to the motive for his action, Robert responds, They shoot horses, dont they. The marathon continues with its few remaining couples, including James, the eventual winners are not revealed. Laydon In the early 1950s, Norman Lloyd and Charlie Chaplin were looking for a project on which to collaborate, with Lloyd as director and Chaplin as producer
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Ryan's Daughter
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Ryans Daughter is a 1970 epic romantic drama film directed by David Lean. The plot has similarities to that of Gustave Flauberts novel Madame Bovary. The score was written by Maurice Jarre and it was photographed in Super Panavision 70 by Freddie Young. It received two Academy Awards, but was not nominated for best picture, Rosy Ryan, only daughter of the local publican, widower Tom Ryan, is bored with life in Kirrary, an isolated village on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland. The villagers are nationalists, taunting British soldiers from an army camp. Ryan publicly supports the recently suppressed Easter Rising, but secretly serves the British as an informer, Rosy falls in love with the village schoolmaster, widower Charles Shaughnessy. She imagines, though he tries to convince her otherwise, that he will somehow add excitement to her life and they marry and settle in the schoolhouse, but he is a quiet man uninterested in physical love. Major Randolph Doryan arrives to command of the army camp. After winning a Victoria Cross on the Western Front, he has a leg and is suffering from shell shock. When he visits the pub where Rosy is serving alone, he collapses under a flashback to the trenches and is comforted by her, the two kiss passionately until they are interrupted by the arrival of Ryan and others. Next day, the two ride to a forest for a passionate liaison, Charles becomes suspicious of Rosy, but keeps his thoughts to himself. Charles takes his schoolchildren to the beach, where he notices Doryans telltale footprints accompanied by a womans in the sand and he tracks the prints to a cave and imagines Doryan and Rosy conducting an affair. Local halfwit Michael notices the footprints as well and searches the cave, finding Doryans Victoria Cross, he pins it on his lapel and proudly parades through the village, but suffers abuse from the villagers. When Rosy comes riding past, Michael approaches her tenderly, between Rosys dismay and Michaels pantomime, the villagers surmise that she is having an affair with Doryan. When they leave, Ryan tips off the British, the entire village turns out to help the rebels, with Ryan the most outwardly devoted to the task, wading into the breakers repeatedly to salvage boxes of weapons and explosives. OLeary is overwhelmed by Ryans devotion, and the villagers are ebullient and they gleefully free the rebels loaded truck from the wet sand and follow it up the hill. Doryan, waiting at the top with his troops, captures the men, oLeary makes a break, but Doryan climbs atop the truck and brings him down with a single rifle shot. Then he suffers a flashback and collapses, Rosy presses through the crowd in concern, outraging the villagers
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Estelle Parsons
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Estelle Margaret Parsons is an American actress, singer and stage director. After studying law, Parsons became a singer before deciding to pursue a career in acting and she worked for the television program Today and made her stage debut in 1961. During the 1960s, Parsons established her career on Broadway before progressing to film and she received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Blanche Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde, and was also nominated for her work in Rachel, Rachel. She worked extensively in film and theatre during the 1970s and later directed several Broadway productions, more recently her television work included playing Beverly Harris, mother of the eponymous title character, on the sitcom Roseanne. She has been nominated five times for the Tony Award, in 2004, Parsons was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. Parsons was born in Lynn Hospital, Lynn, Massachusetts and her mother, Elinor Ingeborg, was a native of Sweden, and her father, Eben Parsons, was of English descent. She attended Oak Grove School for Girls in Maine, after graduating from Connecticut College in 1949, Parsons initially studied law at Boston University, and then worked as a singer with a band before settling on an acting career in the early 1950s. Moving to New York City, Parsons worked as a writer, producer and she made her Broadway debut in 1956 in the ensemble of the Ethel Merman musical Happy Hunting. She began performing Off-Broadway in 1961, and received a Theatre World Award in 1963 for her performance in Whisper into My Good Ear/Mrs. In 1964, Parsons won an Obie Award for Best Actress for her performance in two Off-Broadway plays, Next Time Ill Sing to You and In the Summer House. In 1967, she starred with Stacey Keach in the premiere of Joseph Hellers play We Bombed in New Haven at the Yale Repertory Theater. Parsons has received Tony Award nominations for her work in The Seven Descents of Myrtle, And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little, Miss Margaridas Way, in 1978 she played Lady MacBeth in the Kauai Community Players production. She also played Ruth in Gilbert & Sullivans The Pirates of Penzance on Broadway in 1981, from June 17,2008 through May 17,2009, she played the role of Violet Weston in August, Osage County. She continued playing the role during the national tour beginning July 24,2009. As a director, Parsons has a number of Broadway credits, including a production of Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Off-Broadway, she directed Dario Fos Orgasmo Adulto Escapes from the Zoo. She also served as the Artistic Director of the Actors Studio for five years, in 2016, she starred in Israel Horovitzs new play Out Of The Mouths Of Babes along with Judith Ivey directed by Barnet Kellman at The Cherry Lane Theater in New York City. In 2004, Parsons was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame and her film career includes an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Blanche Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde, and a nomination for Rachel, Rachel. She received a BAFTA Award nomination for her role in Watermelon Man, on television, Parsons played the recurring role of Beverly, on Roseanne
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Watermelon Man (film)
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Watermelon Man is a 1970 American comedy-drama film, directed by Melvin Van Peebles. Written by Herman Raucher, it tells the story of an extremely bigoted 1960s era White insurance salesman named Jeff Gerber, the premise for the film was inspired by Franz Kafkas Metamorphosis, and by John Howard Griffins autobiographical Black Like Me. The music for Watermelon Man, written and performed by Van Peebles, was released on a soundtrack album, in 2011 that single received much mainstream attention when videos set to the song and featuring footage of Occupy Wall Street became viral. Jeff Gerber lives in a suburban neighborhood with his seemingly liberal housewife Althea. Every morning when Jeff wakes up, he spends some time under a machine, hits the speedbag, drinks a health drink. Jeff presents himself as happy-go-lucky and quite a joker, but others tend to see him as obnoxious, Althea, who watches the race riots every night on TV with great interest, chastises Jeff for not having sympathy for the problems of black Americans. One morning, Jeff wakes up to find that his pigment has changed and he tries to fall back asleep, thinking that it is a dream, but to no avail. He tries taking a shower to wash the black off him, but finds it doesnt work, when Althea walks into the bathroom and he explains to her that the Negro in the bathroom is him. At first, Jeff believes this to be the result of spending too much time under the tanning machine and his attempts to change his skin color fail. The next day, he is persuaded to get up and go to work, things start out well at first, until Jeff is accused of robbery while running alongside the bus to work. The policeman assumes that, since he is a black man, during his lunch break, he makes an appointment with his doctor who cannot explain Jeffs condition either. After several calls, the doctor suggests that Jeff might be comfortable with a black doctor. Returning home, he finds Althea afraid to answer the phone and he doesnt understand why until he receives a call from a man telling him to Move out, nigger. At work the day, a secretary makes several advances toward him. Jeffs boss suggests that they could drum up business with a Negro salesman. At home one evening, he finds the people who had made the phone calls. Jeff manages to raise the price to $100,000, Althea sends the children to live with a relative and later leaves her husband. Finally accepting the fact that he is black, Jeff resigns his job, buys an apartment building
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Maureen Stapleton
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Lois Maureen Stapleton was an American actress in film, theater and television. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Lonelyhearts, Airport and Interiors and she was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981. She also won an Emmy Award for the television film Among the Paths to Eden and her other film roles included Bye Bye Birdie, Plaza Suite, The Fan, Cocoon and The Money Pit. Stapleton was born in Troy, New York, the daughter of John P. Stapleton and Irene and her father was an alcoholic and her parents separated during her childhood. Stapleton moved to New York City at the age of eighteen and she once said that it was her infatuation with the handsome Hollywood actor Joel McCrea which led her into acting. She made her Broadway debut in the production featuring Burgess Meredith of The Playboy of the Western World in 1946 and that same year, she played the role of Iras in Shakespeares Antony and Cleopatra in a touring production by actress and producer Katharine Cornell. Stepping in because Anna Magnani refused the role due to her limited English, Stapleton played in other Williams productions, including Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton and Orpheus Descending, as well as Lillian Hellmans Toys in the Attic. She won a second Tony Award for Neil Simons The Gingerbread Lady, later Broadway roles included Birdie in The Little Foxes opposite Elizabeth Taylor and as a replacement for Jessica Tandy in The Gin Game. Stapletons film career, though limited, brought her immediate success and she appeared in the 1963 film version of Bye Bye Birdie, in the role of Mama Mae Peterson, with Dick Van Dyke, Janet Leigh, Paul Lynde and Ann-Margret. Stapleton played the role of Dick Van Dykes mother, even though she was five months and 22 days older than Van Dyke. She was nominated again for an Oscar for Airport and Woody Allens Interiors and she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Reds, directed by Warren Beatty, in which she portrayed the Lithuanian-born anarchist, Emma Goldman. In her acceptance speech, she stated I would like to thank everyone Ive ever met in my entire life, Stapleton won a 1968 Emmy Award for her performance in Among the Paths of Eden. She was nominated for the version of All the Kings Men, Queen of the Stardust Ballroom. Her later appearances included Johnny Dangerously, Cocoon and its sequel Cocoon and she was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame in 1981. She was an alumna of the famous Actors Studio in New York City and she became friends with Marilyn Monroe, who was only one year younger than Stapleton. She was impressed with Monroes talent, and always thought it was a shame that Monroe was rarely allowed to play roles beyond the ditzy blonde, by comparison, Stapleton thought herself lucky, I never had that problem. People looked at me on stage and said, Jesus, that broad better be able to act, one of the most famously remembered scenes at the studio was when Stapleton and Monroe acted in Anna Christie together. She hosted the 19th episode of Season 4 of NBCs Saturday Night Live in 1979, Stapletons first husband was Max Allentuck, general manager to the producer Kermit Bloomgarden, and her second, playwright David Rayfiel, from whom she divorced in 1966
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Airport (1970 film)
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Airport is a 1970 American disaster-drama film starring Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin, directed and written by George Seaton, and based on Arthur Haileys 1968 novel of the same name. It originated the 1970s disaster film genre and it is also the first in the Airport film series. Produced on a $10 million budget, it earned over $100 million, the film is about an airport manager trying to keep his airport open during a snowstorm, while a suicidal bomber plots to blow up a Boeing 707 airliner in flight. It takes place at fictional Lincoln International Airport near Chicago, Illinois, the film was a commercial success and surpassed Spartacus as Universal Pictures biggest moneymaker. Ernest Laszlo photographed it in 70 mm Todd-AO and it is the last film scored by Alfred Newman and the last film roles for Van Heflin and Jessie Royce Landis. Chicago is paralyzed by a snowstorm affecting Lincoln International Airport, a Trans Global Airlines Boeing 707 flight crew misjudge their turn from Runway 29 onto the taxiway, becoming stuck in the snow and closing that runway. Airport manager Mel Bakersfeld is forced to work overtime, causing tension with his wife, a divorce seems imminent as he nurtures a closer relationship with a co-worker, TGA customer relations agent Tanya Livingston. Vernon Demarest is a TGA captain scheduled to be the captain for the airline to evaluate Captain Anson Harris during its Flight 2 to Rome. TGAs flagship service, named The Golden Argosy, is being operated by a Boeing 707, Bakersfeld borrows TWA mechanic Joe Patroni to assist with TGAs disabled plane. Bakersfeld and Livingston also deal with Mrs. Ada Quonsett, a lady from San Diego who is a habitual stowaway. Guerrero, down on his luck and with a history of mental illness and he plans to set off a bomb in an attaché case while over the Atlantic so that his wife, Inez, will collect the insurance money of $225,000. His erratic behavior at the airport, including using his last cash to buy the insurance policy and mistaking a Customs officer for a ramp agent. Guerreros wife finds a Special Delivery envelope from an agency and, realizing her husband might be doing something desperate. She informs airport officials that he had fired from a construction job for misplacing explosives. Mrs. Quonsett manages to evade the TGA employee assigned the task of putting her on a back to San Diego, talks her way past the gate agent, boards Flight 2. When the Golden Argosy crew is made aware of Guerreros presence and possible intentions, once Quonsett is discovered, her help is enlisted by the crew to get to Guerreros briefcase, but the ploy fails when a would-be helpful male passenger unwittingly returns the case to Guerrero. Captain Demarest goes back into the cabin and tries to persuade Guerrero not to trigger the bomb. Guerrero runs into the lavatory, locks it, and sets off the device, Guerrero dies instantly and is sucked out through the hole blown in the fuselage by the explosion
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Margaret Leighton
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Margaret Leighton, CBE was an English actress. She was known for her sense of grandeur and refinement. She began her career on stage in 1938, and went on to win the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play, for the original Broadway productions of Separate Tables. Leightons film appearances included Under Capricorn, Calling Bulldog Drummond, Carrington V. C. and she won an Emmy Award in 1971 for a television version of Hamlet. She was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, born in Barnt Green, Worcestershire, Leighton made her stage debut as Dorothy in Laugh With Me, which was also performed that year for BBC Television. She became a star of the Old Vic and she starred with Walter Pidgeon in the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer crime/mystery Calling Bulldog Drummond. Leighton was nominated for Best Actress in a Play for Much Ado About Nothing opposite John Gielgud and she portrayed the wife of an American presidential candidate in the 1964 film The Best Man, written by Gore Vidal. She had a noteworthy list of TV appearances, including Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Ben Casey and her last appearance on Broadway was as Birdie Hubbard in a revival of Lillian Hellmans The Little Foxes starring Anne Bancroft as Regina Giddens. For her film role as Mrs. Maudsley in The Go-Between Leighton won the British BAFTA Film Award for Best Supporting Actress and she received a BAFTA nomination for Best British Actress for her role as Valerie Carrington in Carrington V. C. She received a Hollywood Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for The Go-Between, Leighton had three husbands, publisher Max Reinhardt, actor Laurence Harvey, and actor Michael Wilding, her death). She was awarded the CBE in 1974, Leighton died of multiple sclerosis in 1976, aged 53, in Chichester, Sussex. Helen Smith The Tempest. Ariel Home at Seven, janet Preston The Holly and the Ivy. Helen Teckman The Good Die Young, judith Wynter/Leonie The Sound and the Fury. Caddy Compson Waltz of the Toreadors, emily Fitzjohn The Third Secret The Best Man. Agatha Andrews The Madwoman of Chaillot, constance, the Madwoman of Passy The Go-Between. Aka X, Y and Zee Lady Caroline Lamb, Lady Melbourne A Bequest to the Nation. Lady Frances Nelson From Beyond the Grave, madame Orloff in segment The Elemental Galileo. Elderly Court Lady Trial by Combat, rosalind ITV Play of the Week episode A Month in the Country
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Jane Asher
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Jane Asher is an English actress, author and entrepreneur, who achieved early fame as a child actress, and has worked extensively in film and TV throughout her career. She has appeared in TV shows and films such as Deep End, The Masque of the Red Death, Alfie, The Mistress, Crossroads, Death at a Funeral and she is also known for supplying specialist cakes and kitchenware, as well as publishing three best-selling novels. She was a key figure of 1960s show business society as well as a girlfriend, Asher was the middle of three children born to Richard and Margaret Asher, née Eliot, in Willesden, North West London. Her father was a consultant in blood and mental diseases at the Central Middlesex Hospital, as well as being a broadcaster, Ashers mother was a professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Asher attended Queens College in Harley Street, London and is the sister of Clare Asher. Ashers elder brother is record producer Peter Asher, who was Peter of Peter, Asher was a child actress and appeared in the 1952 film Mandy and the 1955 science fiction film The Quatermass Xperiment. She also played the role in dramatised versions of Alice in Wonderland. In 1961 she co-starred in The Greengage Summer which was released in the United States as Loss of Innocence and she also appeared in the 1962 film and Disney TV programme, The Prince and the Pauper. British TV appearances included three episodes of the ITV series The Adventures of Robin Hood and as a panelist on the BBCs Juke Box Jury. Asher appeared in Roger Cormans The Masque of the Red Death with Vincent Price, in Alfie opposite Michael Caine in 1966, Jane Asher acted with John Moulder Brown in Deep End. In 1994, she portrayed the Doctor Who companion Susan Foreman in a BBC Radio 4 comedy drama Whatever Happened to Susan Foreman, another notable radio appearance was in The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in 2002, in the episode The Peculiar Persecution of Mr John Vincent Harden. In 2003, she appeared in the revived ITV soap, Crossroads where she played the hotels owner, after the soap was axed, Asher apologised to Crossroads fans for the way the 2003 series went. In 2004 she starred in Festen at the Arts Theatre, in 2005 she starred in The Worlds Biggest Diamond, by Gregory Motton, at the Royal Court Theatre. In 2006, Asher starred in the Richard Fell adaptation of the 1960s science fiction series A for Andromeda, in 2007, she portrayed the widow Sandra in the Frank Oz film Death at a Funeral. The same year Asher appeared in the BBC medical drama, Holby City as Lady Byrne, in October 2007, she played Andrea Yates in The Sarah Jane Adventures, in the episode Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane. Asher co-starred in the 2008 ITV drama series The Palace, filmed in Lithuania, she played Queen Charlotte, in August 2008, Asher appeared in the reality TV talent show-themed television series, Maestro, on BBC Two with other showbusiness personalities. From 2009 to 2010, she played Sally in the BBC One comedy series The Old Guys, in 2011 she played Margaret Harker in Waterloo Road. In 2011 she returned to the Rose, Kingston as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest, in 2012 she appeared in Charleys Aunt at the Menier Chocolate Factory
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Deep End (film)
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Deep End is a 1970 British-West German drama film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski and starring Jane Asher and John Moulder Brown. Set in London, the focuses on the relationship between two young co-workers at a suburban bath house and swimming pool. The restored film was re-released in UK cinemas on 6 May 2011 and was released on Blu-ray Disc, in March 2012 it was first shown on TV by Film4. Mike, a 15-year-old dropout, finds a job in a public bath, there he is trained by his co-worker Susan, a woman ten years his senior. Susan is a tease who plays with Mikes and other mens feelings, acting sometimes warm and affectionate and other times cold, working in the bathhouse turns out to involve providing services to clients of a more or less sexual nature, in exchange for a tip. For example, a woman is sexually stimulated by pushing Mikes head into her bosom. Mike fantasizes about Susan and falls in love with her, even though she has a wealthy and handsome young fiancé, Mike begins following Susan on her dates with Chris and the instructor and trying to disrupt them. Although Susan often gets angry at Mike for this, she provides just enough encouragement to him to continue the behavior. Obsessed with Susan, Mike refuses other outlets for sex, such as his former girlfriend, while following Susan on a date, Mike sees and steals a life-size advertising photo cutout of a naked girl who resembles Susan. He confronts Susan with it on the London Underground, flying into a violent tantrum in front of other passengers when Susan teasingly refuses to him whether she posed for the nude photo. Mike then takes the cutout to the baths after hours and swims naked with it. The next morning, Mike disrupts the instructors foot race and punctures the tyres of the car while Susan is driving it. Susan gets mad and hits Mike, in the losing the diamond from her new engagement ring in the snow. While Susan is briefly out of the room, Mike finds the diamond in the melted snow and he teases Susan by refusing to give her the diamond until she undresses. She does so, he gives her the diamond and she is about to leave and they have a sexual encounter, although it is not clear whether Mike is able to perform. Chris then telephones and Susan rushes around the empty pool hurriedly gathering her clothes to go, Mike begs her to stay and talk to him, but Susan insists she has to leave. Meanwhile an attendant has arrived, who, unaware of the presence of Mike and Susan, Mike becomes more insistent, chasing Susan around the rapidly filling pool, and finally hitting her in the head with the ceiling lamp, severely injuring her. She falls into the water of the pool, Mike embraces the dying, nude Susan underwater, just as he embraced the photo cutout
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Georgia Brown (English singer)
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Georgia Brown was an English singer and actress. Georgia Brown was born and raised in Whitechapel and her birth name was Lillian Claire Laizer Getel Klot and she was known as Lily. The daughter of Mark and Annie Klot, Brown grew up in a large extended East European Jewish family and her father worked in a textile factory and as a bookmaker. Brown attended the Central Foundation Grammar School, during the London Blitz, she was evacuated to Wales. Browns career role was that of Nancy in the musical Oliver, a role she created in the original 1960 London production. When she first came in to audition for the author and composer, Lionel Bart, he recognized her as a childhood neighbour. Her subsequent audition caused him to award her the role of Nancy, Bart had conceived that role in hopes of pop singer Alma Cogan playing it, however, it was reported that after he cast Brown as Nancy, he then composed the Oliver. Numbers As Long As He Needs Me and Its a Fine Life specifically with her in mind and she reprised the role of Nancy in the 1963 Broadway production of Oliver. Earning a Tony Award nomination for her performance, and her voice is heard on both the original West End and Broadway cast recordings, on 9 February 1964, Brown appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show with 18-year-old Davy Jones recreating two scenes from the musical then showing on Broadway. This happened to be the evening that the Beatles made their first live US appearance on the show. The role of Nancy in the version went to Browns friend Shani Wallis. After a stint in Barts Maggie May in 1965, Brown concentrated on work for more than a decade. Despite her success in such roles, Brown was unhappy with the paucity of significant parts for women in television drama. She expressed her dissatisfaction to the BBC and was told to identify a series she would like to be in, Brown enlisted the help of producer Verity Lambert, and the three women got approval from the BBC. In the course of realising the project, Brown and her colleagues found they had to remove a number of misconceptions, Brown referred to these as the male point of view. Shoulder to Shoulder was first broadcast in six parts in 1974, Shoulder to Shoulder remains highly regarded as an attempt to convey an important episode both of feminist history and of Britains history of dissent and civil disobedience. Brown returned to Broadway to join the cast of the long-running revue Side by Side by Sondheim in 1977, two years later she created the title role in Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lanes unsuccessful musical Carmelina. She toured Britain in Georgia Brown and Friends, then brought the revue to New York for a run in 1982
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Georgia Engel
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Georgia Bright Engel is an American film, television, and stage actress who is best known for her role as Georgette Franklin Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Engel was born in Washington, D. C. the daughter of Ruth Caroline and Benjamin Franklin Engel, Engel attended the Kodiak Island Borough School District, and Walter Johnson High School and the Academy of the Washington Ballet from which she graduated. She earned her degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her sister, Robin Ruth Engel, was Miss Hawaii,1967, after college, Engel appeared in musical productions with Washingtons American Light Opera Company. She moved to New York City in 1969, appearing Off-Broadway in Lend an Ear, and for a year as Minnie Fay in the Broadway production of Hello, Dolly. starting in December 1969. A1971 off Broadway production of The House of Blue Leaves eventually played in Los Angeles, Engel appeared as Georgette Franklin Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show from 1972 until the show ended in 1977. The role won her two Emmy nominations, after that series ended, she teamed up with former Mary Tyler Moore Show co-star Betty White for The Betty White Show during its first and only season. She later co-starred in two short-lived 1980 sitcoms, Goodtime Girls, as Loretta Smoot, and in Jennifer Slept Here featuring Ann Jillian, Engel had a recurring role on Coach as Shirley Burleigh and starred as the voice of Love-a-Lot Bear in The Care Bears Movie. She played a witch in a 2007 recurring role of Esmeralda on the now-defunct NBC soap opera Passions. She lent her voice to the animated films Open Season, Open Season 2, Dr. Dolittle 2, Engel returned to her stage roots in 2006, appearing on Broadway in the musical The Drowsy Chaperone, with Sutton Foster and Edward Hibbert. She created the role of Mrs. Tottendale, which she continued to perform, for the summers of 2004,2005,2007,2009, and 2010, Engel appeared in various productions at The Muny Theater in Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri. She most recently appeared in Show Boat in August 2010 as Parthy, in July 2005 she appeared in Mame as Agnes Gooch, in June 2007 she appeared in Oklahoma. As Aunt Eller, and in July 2009 she appeared as Mrs. Paroo in The Music Man, in June 2010, Engel appeared at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Ogunquit, Maine production of The Drowsy Chaperone as Mrs. Tottendale. In October through December 2010, Engel was featured in the Vineyard Theatres Off-Broadway production of Middletown, Engel appeared in the new Annie Baker play John, which opened Off-Broadway at the Signature Theatre on July 22,2015, directed by Sam Gold. The play ran to September 6,2015, the cast also features Lois Smith. Engel was nominated for the 2016 Lucille Lortel Award, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Play for her role in this play. Engel stars in the new musical Gotta Dance, which premiered at the Bank of America Theatre, Chicago on December 13,2015, the cast also stars Stefanie Powers, Lillias White and Andre DeShields. The musical is directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell, with a book by Chad Beguelin and Bob Martin, Georgia Engel at the Internet Movie Database Georgia Engel at the Internet Broadway Database Georgia Engel at the Internet Off-Broadway Database New York Times biography Biography in TV Guide
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Taking Off (film)
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Taking Off is a 1971 American comedy film. It was Czech director Miloš Formans first American film and it tells the story of a group of parents whose children have run away from home. The parents take the opportunity to rediscover their youth and it was written by Forman in collaboration with John Guare, along with Jean-Claude Carriere and John Klein. Part of the movie takes place at a Tina Turner concert. Taking Off Taking Off at the Internet Movie Database Taking Off at Rotten Tomatoes Taking Off at AllMovie
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Cloris Leachman
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Cloris Leachman is an American actress of stage, film, and television. In a career spanning seven decades she has won eight Primetime Emmy Awards, one Daytime Emmy Award. As Miss Chicago, Leachman competed in the 20th Miss America pageant, in the 2000s, Leachman had a recurring role as grandma Ida on the Fox sitcom Malcolm in the Middle, and appeared as a roaster in the Comedy Central Roast of Bob Saget in 2008. She was a contestant on the season of the ABC reality competition series Dancing with the Stars in 2008. She was 82 at the time and is the oldest contestant to have danced on the series, from 2010-14, she starred as Maw Maw on the Fox sitcom Raising Hope. Leachman was born in Des Moines, Iowa, the eldest of three sisters and she attended Theodore Roosevelt High School. Her parents were Berkeley Claiborne Buck Leachman, who worked at the family-owned Leachman Lumber Company, the youngest sister, Mary, was not in show business. Middle sister Claiborne Cary was an actress and singer and her maternal grandmother was of Bohemian descent. As a teenager, Leachman appeared in plays by local youth on weekends at Drake University in Des Moines and she began appearing on television and in films shortly after competing in Miss America in 1946. After winning a scholarship in the Miss America pageant, Leachman studied acting under Elia Kazan at the Actors Studio in New York City and she was cast as a replacement for the role of Nellie Forbush during the original run of Rodgers and Hammersteins South Pacific. Leachman appeared in live television broadcasts in the 1950s, including such programs as Suspense. She made her film debut as an extra in Carnegie Hall. Leachman was several months pregnant during the filming, and appears in one scene running down a darkened highway wearing only a trench coat, a year later, she appeared opposite Paul Newman and Lee Marvin in The Rack. She appeared with Newman again in a role as a prostitute in Butch Cassidy. She continued to work mainly in television, with appearances in Rawhide, during this period, Leachman appeared opposite John Forsythe on the popular anthology Alfred Hitchcock Presents in an episode titled Premonition. She later appeared as Ruth Martin, Timmy Martins adoptive mother, jon Provost, who played Timmy, said, Cloris did not feel particularly challenged by the role. Basically, when she realized that all shed be doing was baking cookies and she was replaced by June Lockhart in 1958. That same year, she appeared in an episode of One Step Beyond titled The Dark Room, in 1960, she played Marilyn Parker, the roommate of Janice Rules character, Elena Nardos, in the Checkmate episode The Mask of Vengeance
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The Last Picture Show
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The Last Picture Show is a 1971 American drama film directed and co-written by Peter Bogdanovich, adapted from a semi-autobiographical 1966 novel The Last Picture Show by Larry McMurtry. Set in a town in north Texas from November 1951 to October 1952, it is about the coming of age of Sonny Crawford. The cast also includes Cybill Shepherd, Ben Johnson, Eileen Brennan, Ellen Burstyn, Cloris Leachman, Clu Gulager, Randy Quaid, for aesthetic reasons it was shot in black and white, which was unusual for the time. The film features songs of Hank Williams and other recording artists played throughout. In 1998 the film was deemed culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant by the United States Library of Congress, in 1951, Sonny Crawford and Duane Jackson are high-school seniors and friends in Anarene, a small, declining north Texas town. Duane is dating Jacy Farrow, the prettiest girl in town, Sonny decides to break up with girlfriend Charlene Duggs. At Christmas time, Sonny begins an affair with Ruth Popper, at the Christmas dance, Jacy is invited by Lester Marlow to a naked indoor pool party, at the home of Bobby Sheen, a wealthy young man who seems a better prospect than Duane. Bobby tells Jacy he isnt interested in virgins and to back after shes had sex. The group of boys take their young intellectually disabled friend, Billy, to a prostitute to lose his virginity but she hits Billy in the face when he ejaculates prematurely. When Duane and Sonny take Billy back home, Sam the Lion tells them that since they cannot even take care of a friend, he is barring them from his hall, movie theater. Sonny later sneaks into the cafe and accepts the offer of a hamburger from the waitress, Genevieve. Once Sam sees Sonnys genuine affection for Billy he accepts his apology, during the weekend of New Years Eve, Duane and Sonny go on a weekend road trip to Mexico. Before they drive off, Sam comes to them about their trip. When they return from the trip, hungover and tired, they learn that during their absence Sam died of a stroke on New Years Eve. In his will, Sam left the theater to the woman who ran the concession stand, the café to Genevieve, $1,000 to Joe Bob Blanton. Jacy invites Duane to a motel for sex but he is unable to perform and she loses her virginity to him on their second attempt and then breaks up with him by phone. When Bobby marries another girl, Jacy is disappointed, out of boredom, she has sex with Abilene, her mothers lover, though he is cold to her afterward. Jacy then sets her sights on Sonny, who drops Ruth without announcement, Duane quarrels with Sonny over Jacy, his girl, and hits him over the head with a bottle
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Marisa Berenson
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Vittoria Marisa Schiaparelli Berenson is an American actress and model. She appeared on the front covers of Vogue and Time, the role also earned her Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations. In 2001, she made her Broadway debut in the revival of Design for Living and her other film appearances include Death in Venice, Barry Lyndon, S. O. B. and I Am Love. Berenson was born in New York City, the elder of two daughters and her father, Robert Lawrence Berenson, was an American career diplomat turned shipping executive of Lithuanian Jewish descent, and his familys original surname was Valvrojenski. Her mother was born Maria-Luisa Yvonne Radha de Wendt de Kerlor, better known as Gogo Schiaparelli, berensons maternal grandmother was the fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, and her maternal grandfather was Wilhelm de Wendt de Kerlor, a theosophist and psychic medium. Her younger sister, Berinthia, became a model, actress and she appeared in numerous fashion layouts in Vogue in the early 1970s and her sister Berry was a photographer for the magazine as well. She was known as The Queen of the Scene for her frequent appearances at nightclubs and other venues in her youth. Vincent Canby of The New York Times stated of her performance, Marisa Berenson splendidly suits her costumes and she recalled her experience working under Kubricks direction, I liked him very much. He had a lot of dry humour, contrary to what people think – they have this image of Stanley as this difficult ogre – he wasn’t at all. He was a perfectionist but every great director I’ve worked with has been a perfectionist and you have to be to make extraordinary films. Berenson appeared in a number of movies including Casanova & Co. Killer Fish, the Blake Edwards comedy S. O. B, the Secret Diary of Sigmund Freud and Clint Eastwoods White Hunter Black Heart, as well as in made-for-TV movies in the United States, such as the Holocaust-themed drama Playing for Time. She guest-hosted an episode of The Muppet Show during its season in 1978. She made her Broadway debut in the 2001 revival of Design for Living, in 2009, she appeared in the film I Am Love. She is currently appearing in a production of Romeo and Juliet in London, in the early 1970s, Berenson was the companion of the French banking heir Baron David René de Rothschild, the younger son of Baron Guy de Rothschild. She was also in a relationship with Austrian actor Helmut Berger and her first husband was James Randall, a rivet manufacturer, they wed in Beverly Hills, in 1976 and divorced in 1978. The couple have one daughter, Starlite Melody Randall and her second husband was Aaron Richard Golub, a lawyer, whom she married in 1982 and divorced in 1987. On September 11,2001, her sister and sole sibling, Berry Perkins
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Cabaret (1972 film)
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Cabaret is a 1972 American musical drama film which was directed by Bob Fosse and which starred Liza Minnelli, Michael York, and Joel Grey. Only a few numbers from the score were used for the film, Kander. In the traditional manner of musical theater, called a musical, every significant character in the stage version sings to express his/her own emotion. In the sexually charged Two Ladies, about a ménage à trois, however, it is listed as number 367 on Empires 500 greatest films of all time. Cabaret opened to glowing reviews and strong box office, eventually taking in more than $20 million, but the biggest winner was Fosse. Shortly before the 45th Academy Awards, he won two Tonys for directing and choreographing Pippin, his biggest stage hit to date. When, months later, he won the Primetime Emmy Award for choreographing and directing Minnellis television special, Liza with a Z, in 1931 Berlin, young American Sally Bowles performs at the Kit Kat Klub. A new British arrival in the city, Brian Roberts, moves into the house where Sally lives. A reserved academic and writer, Brian gives English lessons to earn a living while completing his doctorate, Sally tries seducing Brian and suspects he may be gay. Brian tells Sally that on three occasions he has tried to have physical relationships with women, all of which failed. They become friends, and Brian witnesses Sallys anarchic, bohemian life in the last days of the German Weimar Republic, Sally and Brian become lovers despite their earlier reservations, they conclude that his previous failures with women were because they were the wrong three girls. Sally befriends Maximilian von Heune, a rich playboy baron who takes her and Brian to his country estate, after a sexual experience with Brian, Max loses interest in the two and departs for Argentina. During an argument, when Sally tells Brian that she has been having sex with Max, Brian and Sally later reconcile, and Sally reveals that Max left them money and mockingly compares the sum with what a professional prostitute gets. Sally learns that she is pregnant, but is unsure of the father, Brian offers to marry her and take her back to his university life in Cambridge. Ultimately she has an abortion, without informing Brian in advance, when he confronts her, she shares her fears and the two reach an understanding. Brian departs for England and Sally continues her life in Berlin, embedding herself in the Kit Kat Klub, but the final shot shows men in Nazi uniforms in the front row of the club. A subplot concerns Fritz Wendel, a German Jew passing as a Christian, who is in love with Natalia Landauer, the worldly Sally gives advice which eventually enables Fritz to win her love. Although the Nazis are not yet in power, some of them kill Natalias beloved dog one night, the Naziss violent rise is a powerful, ever-present undercurrent in the film
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Eileen Brennan
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Verla Eileen Brennan was an American film, stage, and television actress. She gained further acclaim for her role as Doreen Lewis in Private Benjamin. She reprised the role for the TV adaptation, winning both a Golden Globe and Emmy for her performance, Brennan also starred in the mystery comedy Clue, and had a minor role in the horror film Jeepers Creepers. Brennan also worked prolifically in television, receiving Emmy nominations for her roles on Newhart, Thirtysomething, Taxi. Brennan was born Verla Eileen Brennen on September 3,1932 in Los Angeles, California, daughter of Regina Jeanne Menehan, a silent film actress, and John Gerald Brennen, of Irish descent, she was raised Roman Catholic. After graduating from school in California, Brennan relocated to Washington, DC, to attend Georgetown University. She later relocated to New York City to attend the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Brennan began her acting career while attending university, appearing in Georgetowns stage productions of Arsenic and Old Lace. She played Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker at the 1961 Central City, Colorado, Festival, directed by Arthur Penn and she went on to create the role of Irene Malloy in the original Broadway production of Hello, Dolly. Brennans work in theatre attracted attention from producers in California. Her feature film debut was in Divorce American Style and she soon became one of the most recognizable supporting actresses in film and television. Her roles were usually sympathetic characters, though she played a variety of character types, including earthy, vulgar, and sassy. A year after her debut, she became a semiregular on the comedy-variety show Rowan & Martins Laugh-In. Although her name was not often recognized by the public, she became a favorite of many directors. She appeared in Bogdanovichs 1971 drama The Last Picture Show as Genevieve, in 1974, she reunited with director Bogdanovich, appearing in his adaptation of the Henry James novella Daisy Miller. Bogdanovich was the director who made use of her musical talents when he cast her as Cybill Shepherds crude. Brennan also worked with director Robert Moore and writer Neil Simon, appearing in Murder by Death as Tess Skeffington, both of these movies also starred James Coco, James Cromwell, and Peter Falk. She had a role, playing the disc jockey Mutha in the 1978 movie, FM. In 1980, Brennan received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her role as Goldie Hawns nasty commanding officer in Private Benjamin and she reprised the role in the television adaptation, for which she won an Emmy as well as a Golden Globe
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Shelley Winters
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Shelley Winters was an American actress who appeared in dozens of films, as well as on stage and television, her career spanned over 50 years until her death in 2006. Winters won Academy Awards for The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue and she also appeared in such films as The Big Knife, A Double Life, Lolita, The Night of the Hunter, Alfie, Next Stop, Greenwich Village, and Petes Dragon. Shelley Winters was born Shirley Schrift in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Rose, a singer with the Muny, and Jonas Schrift and her parents were Jewish, her father emigrated from Austria, and her mother was born in St. Louis to Austrian immigrants. Her family moved to Brooklyn, New York when she was three years old and her sister Blanche Schrift later married George Boroff, who ran the Circle Theatre in Los Angeles. Winters studied at the New School in New York City, as the New York Times obituary noted, A major movie presence for more than five decades, Shelley Winters turned herself into a widely respected actress who won two Oscars. Winters originally broke into Hollywood films as a Blonde Bombshell type, but quickly tired of the roles limitations. She claims to have washed off her makeup to audition for the role of Alice Tripp, the girl, in A Place in the Sun, directed by George Stevens. As the Associated Press reported, the public was unaware of how serious a craftswoman Winters was. Although she was in demand as an actress, Winters continued to study her craft. She attended Charles Laughtons Shakespeare classes and worked at the Actors Studio and she studied in the Hollywood Studio Club, and in the late 1940s, she shared an apartment with another newcomer, Marilyn Monroe. Her first movie was What a Woman, working in films through the 1940s, Winters first achieved stardom with her breakout performance as the victim of insane actor Ronald Colman in George Cukors A Double Life, in 1947. She quickly ascended in Hollywood with leading roles in The Great Gatsby with Alan Ladd and she also returned to the stage on various occasions during this time, including a Broadway run in A Hatful of Rain, in 1955–1956, opposite future husband Anthony Franciosa. She won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for The Diary of Anne Frank in 1960 and she donated her Oscar for The Diary of Anne Frank to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. In The Poseidon Adventure, she was the ill-fated Belle Rosen and she returned to the stage during the 1960s and 1970s, most notably in Tennessee Williams Night of the Iguana. She appeared in cult films as 1968s Wild in the Streets. She also starred in the 1970 Broadway musical Minnies Boys as Minnie Marx, the mother of Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo, as the Associated Press reported, During her 50 years as a widely known personality, Winters was rarely out of the news. Her stormy marriages, her romances with famous stars, her forays into politics and she delighted in giving provocative interviews and seemed to have an opinion on everything. That led to a career as a writer
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The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film)
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The Poseidon Adventure is a 1972 American disaster film directed by Ronald Neame, produced by Irwin Allen, and based on Paul Gallicos novel of the same name. It features an ensemble cast, including five Academy Award winners, Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Jack Albertson, Shelley Winters, parts of the movie were filmed aboard the RMS Queen Mary. The plot centers on the SS Poseidon, a luxury liner on her final voyage from New York City to Athens before being sent to the scrapyard. On New Years Eve, she is overturned by a rogue wave, passengers and crew are trapped inside, and a rebellious preacher attempts to lead a small group of survivors to safety. It is in the vein of other all-star disaster films of the early-mid 1970s such as Airport, Earthquake, by the end of 1974, it was regarded as a widely successful film. The film won two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Motion Picture Sound Editors Award, a 1979 sequel, Beyond the Poseidon Adventure, was also based on a novel by Gallico, but was a commercial and critical failure. The S. S. Poseidon, an ocean liner slated for retirement and scrapping, makes her way across the North Atlantic Ocean, the Reverend Frank Scott, a minister believing God helps those who help themselves, delivers a sermon. Detective Lt. Mike Rogo and wife Linda, a former prostitute. Susan and younger brother Robin are traveling to meet their parents, Robin is interested in how the ship works and frequently visits the engine room. Retired Jewish hardware store owner Manny Rosen and wife Belle are going to Israel to meet their two-year-old grandson for the first time, haberdasher James Martin is a love-shy, health-conscious bachelor. The ships singer, Nonnie Parry, rehearses for the New Years Day celebration with her band and that evening, passengers gather in the dining room to celebrate. Harrison is called to the bridge in response to a report of an undersea earthquake and he receives word from the lookout that a huge wave is approaching from the direction of Crete, at 60 knots. He issues a mayday signal and commands a hard left turn. The wave hits the ship and she capsizes, in the dining room, survivors take stock of their predicament. Acres, a waiter, is trapped at the galley door now high above. Scott surmises that the route will be found upwards, at the outer hull. Robin tells him the hull near the shaft is only one inch thick. The Rosens, the Rogos, Susan, Robin, Acres, Nonnie, Scott unsuccessfully tries convincing more passengers to join them
