Oscar Actors: Dall, John–Background, Career, Awards
Updated June 29, 2022 Career Summary: Occupational Inheritance: N0 Nationality: NYC Social Class: Middle; father civil engineer Race/Ethnicity/Religion Family: one brother, older; father suicide, when Dall was 9 Education: Training: Theodora Irvine School of Theater; Pasadena Playhouse Teacher/Inspirational Figure: Radio Debut: TV Debut: Stage Debut: Broadway Debut: Film Debut: Breakthrough Role: The Corn Is Green, […]
Oscar Actors: Pavan, Marisa–Background, Career, Awards
Although her screen debut was in 1952 in What Price Glory, Pavan’s breakthrough role came three years later, when she was cast as Anna Magnani’s daughter in The Rose Tattoo. That part was initially assigned to her twin sister, but by the time production began, Angeli was unavailable for the role.
Oscar Actors: Plummer, Christopher–Background, Career, Awards (Cum Advantage)
Updated June 18, 2022 Career Summary: Occupational Inheritance: No Birth: Toronto, Canada Social Class: Upper-middle; father sold stocks; mother worked McGil University Race/Ethnicity/Religion Family: only child; parents separated shortly after birth Education: love for theatre at an early age Training: apprentice with the Montreal Repertory Theatre Teacher/Inspirational Figure: Olivier, Henry IV (1933) Radio Debut: TV […]
Trintignant, Jean-Louis: French and International Star Dies at 91
Trintignant became international star after his turn as a race car driver and lover of Anouk Aimée in Claude Lelouch’s A Man and a Woman (1966), which won Oscar Awards for best screenplay and foreign-language film.
Cannes Film Fest 2022: Directors–Serra, Albert, Pacification (Competition)
He is best known for his films Story of My Death (2013) and The Death of Louis XIV (2016), starring Jean-Pierre Léaud.
Oscar Directors: Anderson, Lindsay–Background, Career, Awards (LGBTQ, Gay Director)
Lindsay Gordon Anderson (April 17, 1923–August 30, 1994) was British film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading figure of the Free Cinema movement and the British New Wave. He is most widely remembered for his 1968 film If…., which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes Film Fest in 1969 and marked Malcolm McDowell’s […]
1 Hitchcock: Literary Source–Filmography (Chronological and Alphabetic)
Hitchcock Filmography in Chronological and Alphabetic Order
De Van, Marina: French Extreme Cinema (Cinema of Body) Women (Cannes 2009)
Her film, Don’t Look Back, was screened out of competition at the 2009 Cannes Film Fest.
Honoré, Christophe: French Extreme Cinema (Queer Cinema) LGBTQ
Christophe Honoré (born April 10, 1970) is a French writer and film and theatre director. Honoré was born in Carhaix, Finistère. After moving to Paris in 1995, he wrote articles in Les Cahiers du Cinéma. He started writing soon after. His 1996 book Tout contre Léo (Close to Leo) talks about HIV and is aimed […]
Death in Hollywood: Hodiak, John (Lifeboat, Harvey Girls))
At age 41, Hodiak suffered a fatal heart attack at his parents’ home in Tarzana, California. He was acting in On the Threshold of Space–it was decided that his performance was sufficient to release the movie.