She received the Cannes Festival Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her breakthrough role in Paul Mazursky’s comedy-drama An Unmarried Woman (1978).
Oscar Actors: Clayburgh, Jill (Nominee)–Background, Career, Awards (Cum Advantage)
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Oscar Actors: Shire, Talia (Nominee)–Background, Career, Awards
February 2, 2021 by
For her portrayal of Adrian Pennino, the love interest of Rocky Balboa in Rocky (1976),she won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress, the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress, and was nominated for both the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama and the Oscar Award for Best Actress.
Oscar Actors: Barrault, Marie Christine (Nominee)–Background, Career, Awards
February 1, 2021 by
Research in Progress, Feb 1, 2021 Marie Christine Barrault Career Summary: Occupational Inheritance: father worked in theater Social Class: Upper-middle Race/Ethnicity/Religion Family: Education: Training: Teacher/Inspirational Figure: Radio Debut: TV Debut: Stage Debut: Broadway Debut: Film Debut: Breakthrough Role: Oscar Role: Cousin Cousine, 1976; aged 32 Other Noms: Other Awards: Frequent Collaborator: Screen Image: character actor […]
Death in Hollywood: Bern, Paul (Jean Harlow’s First Husband)–Suicide or Murder?
February 1, 2021 by
He helped launch the career of Jean Harlow, whom he married in July 1932; two months later, he was found dead of a gunshot wound, leaving a suicide note.
1 Hitchcock: Actors Playing Actors, Performative, Role Playing, Theatricality
January 31, 2021 by
July 9, 2022 Hitchcock: Themes–Role Playing–Performative In many of his films, the characters claim and/or know that they, like everyone else, are playing a role: Murder: Theater setting 39 Steps: Robert Donat in the first scene Stage Fright: The young detective, smitten with Eve Gills (Jane Wyman) remarks that she does not look like an […]
