Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2007 12:03:28 GMT
10 more ! Can you solve the identity of these actors/actresses from the rather sketchy (but interesting !) clues ?
11. She was cast as the dizzy receptionist with Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers in Howard Hawks's slapstick comedy Monkey Business. Critics no longer ignored her, and both films' success at the box office was partly attributed to her growing popularity.
Fox finally gave her a starring role in 1952 with Don't Bother to Knock, in which she portrayed a deranged babysitter who attacks the little girl in her care. It was a cheaply made B-movie, and although the reviews were mixed, they claimed that it demonstrated her ability and confirmed that she was ready for more leading roles. Her performance in the film has since been noted as one of the finest of her career.
12. She was born both a British and an American citizen, having acquired British citizenship by being born on British soil under the principle of Jus soli, and American citizenship through her parents under the principle of Jus sanguinis.
Both of her American parents were originally from Arkansas City, Kansas. Her father was an art dealer and her mother a former actress whose stage name was Sara Sothern. Sara retired from the stage when she married in 1926 in New York. In popular accounts, the father has been portrayed as a weak figure who always capitulated to her mother.
13. In November 1959, she was diagnosed with acute hepatitis and told that she "would never sing again". However, she successfully recovered and returned to both films and television; her concert appearance at Carnegie Hall on April 23, 1961, was a considerable highlight, called by many "the greatest night in show business history." The 2-record live recording made of the concert was a best-seller (certified gold), charting for 73 weeks on Billboard (13 weeks at number one), and won five Grammy Awards including Album of the Year and Best Female Vocal of the Year. The album has never been out of print.
14. She became an American citizen in 1939. In 1941 she became one of the first celebrities to raise war bonds. She entertained troops on the front lines in a USO revue that included future TV pioneer Danny Thomas as her opening act. She was known to have strong political convictions and the mind to speak them. Like many Weimar-era German entertainers, she was a staunch anti-Nazi who despised anti-Semitism.
She recorded a number of anti-Nazi records in German for the OSS. She also played the musical saw to entertain troops. She sang for the Allied troops on the front lines in Algiers, France and into Germany with Generals James M. Gavin and George S. Patton. When asked why she had done this, in spite of the obvious danger of being within a few kilometers of German lines, she replied, "aus Anstand" – "it was the decent thing to do."
She was awarded the Medal of Freedom by the US Government for her war work. She was also made a chevalier (later commandeur) of the Légion d'Honneur by the French government.
15. She was born Lucille Fay LeSueur in San Antonio, Texas, the third child of Tennessee-born Thomas E. LeSueur (1868–1938) and Anna Bell Johnson (1884–1958). Her older siblings were Daisy LeSueur, who died as a very young child, and Hal LeSueur. Although of mostly English descent, her surname originates from her great-great-great-great grandparents, David LeSueur and Elizabeth Chastain, French Huguenots who immigrated from London in the early 1700s to Virginia, where they lived for several generations.
Her father was said to have abandoned the family in Texas; she later said she had been only a few months old when her father left. Her mother later married Henry J. Cassin (1867-after 1919). The family lived in Lawton, Oklahoma, where Cassin ran a movie theatre. The 1910 Comanche County, Oklahoma, Federal Census, enumerated on April 20, shows Henry and Anna living at 910 "D" Street in Lawton. Lucille was then 5 years of age.
Lucille preferred the nickname "Billie," and she loved watching vaudeville acts perform on the stage of her stepfather's theater. Her ambition was to be a dancer. Unfortunately, she cut her foot deeply on a broken milk bottle when she leapt from the front porch of her home in an attempt to escape piano lessons and run and play with friends. A neighbor, Don Blanding, who became a poet, carried her into the house and phoned the doctor. She was unable to attend elementary school for a year and a half and eventually had three operations on her foot. Demonstrating the steely determination that would serve her for the rest of her life, she overcame the injury and returned not only to walking normally, but to dancing as well.
16. Made his mark early as a Broadway actor, and made his Hollywood debut in 1935. His career gained momentum after his Academy Award-nominated performance in 1940's The Grapes of Wrath, an adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel about an Oklahoma family who moved west during the Dust Bowl. Throughout six decades in Hollywood, he cultivated a strong, appealing screen image in such classics as The Ox-Bow Incident, Mister Roberts, and 12 Angry Men. Later, moved toward both more challenging, darker epics as Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (as a villain who kills, among others, a child and a cripple)
He enlisted in the Navy to fight in World War II, saying, "I don't want to be in a fake war in a studio." Previously, he and James Stewart had helped raise funds for the defense of Britain from the Nazis. He served for three years, initially as a Quartermaster 3rd Class on the destroyer USS Satterlee. He was later commissioned as a Lieutenant Junior Grade in Air Combat Intelligence in the Central Pacific and won a Presidential Citation and the Bronze Star.
17. Six times married, once to actress Carole Lombard who died tragically, he also had a daughter, Judy Lewis (b. 1935), the result of an affair with actress Loretta Young begun on the set of The Call of the Wild (1935). In 1942, following Lombard's death, he joined the U.S. Army Air Forces. As Captain, he trained with and accompanied the 351st Heavy Bomb Group as head of a 6-man motion picture unit making a gunnery training film. While at RAF Polebrook, England, he flew five combat missions, including one to Germany, as an observer-gunner in B-17 Flying Fortresses between May 4 and September 23, 1943, earning the Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross for his efforts. Adolph Hitler esteemed him above all other actors, and during the Second World War, offered a sizable reward to anyone who could capture and deliver him to him unscathed. He left the Army Air Forces with the rank of major.
18. He won an Oscar playing George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942). He returned to his gangster roots in Raoul Walsh's film White Heat (1949) and played a tyrannical ship captain opposite Jack Lemmon and Henry Fonda in Mister Roberts (1955).
19. In 1941, he began a relationship with Katharine Hepburn, whose agile mind and New England brogue complemented his easy working-class machismo very well. Though estranged from his wife Louise, he was a practicing Roman Catholic and never divorced. He and Hepburn made nine films together.
Had a brief romance with Gene Tierney while filming Plymouth Adventure (1952). He once said about her: "Although she was beautiful in her films, they couldn't quite capture all of her. Fortunately, I did even if it was late in my life."
Seventeen days after filming had completed on his last film, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, with Hepburn, he died from heart failure at the age of 67.
20. He was named in the New Year's Honours List in 1975 and, on March 4, was knighted at the age of 85 as a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II. The honour was first proposed in 1931, and again in 1956, when it was vetoed by the then Conservative government for fears of damage to relations with the United States at the height of the Cold War and planned invasion of Suez of that year.
He swam, played tennis, smoked little and seldom drank. However his robust health began to slowly fail in the late 1960s, after the completion of his final film A Countess from Hong Kong. In his final years he grew increasingly frail, and died in his sleep on Christmas Day, 1977, in Vevey, Switzerland, aged 88.
· There is a statue of him in front of the Alimentarium in Vevey to commemorate the last part of his life, and a replica also stands in Leicester Square in London. He has also a bronze statue in Waterville, County Kerry in Ireland (- which tommo has seen ! -) to show Irish appreciation for his love of the country.
That’s it ! One point only for each, but one bonus point in addition if you can add something else of interest about the person. Good luck !
11. She was cast as the dizzy receptionist with Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers in Howard Hawks's slapstick comedy Monkey Business. Critics no longer ignored her, and both films' success at the box office was partly attributed to her growing popularity.
Fox finally gave her a starring role in 1952 with Don't Bother to Knock, in which she portrayed a deranged babysitter who attacks the little girl in her care. It was a cheaply made B-movie, and although the reviews were mixed, they claimed that it demonstrated her ability and confirmed that she was ready for more leading roles. Her performance in the film has since been noted as one of the finest of her career.
12. She was born both a British and an American citizen, having acquired British citizenship by being born on British soil under the principle of Jus soli, and American citizenship through her parents under the principle of Jus sanguinis.
Both of her American parents were originally from Arkansas City, Kansas. Her father was an art dealer and her mother a former actress whose stage name was Sara Sothern. Sara retired from the stage when she married in 1926 in New York. In popular accounts, the father has been portrayed as a weak figure who always capitulated to her mother.
13. In November 1959, she was diagnosed with acute hepatitis and told that she "would never sing again". However, she successfully recovered and returned to both films and television; her concert appearance at Carnegie Hall on April 23, 1961, was a considerable highlight, called by many "the greatest night in show business history." The 2-record live recording made of the concert was a best-seller (certified gold), charting for 73 weeks on Billboard (13 weeks at number one), and won five Grammy Awards including Album of the Year and Best Female Vocal of the Year. The album has never been out of print.
14. She became an American citizen in 1939. In 1941 she became one of the first celebrities to raise war bonds. She entertained troops on the front lines in a USO revue that included future TV pioneer Danny Thomas as her opening act. She was known to have strong political convictions and the mind to speak them. Like many Weimar-era German entertainers, she was a staunch anti-Nazi who despised anti-Semitism.
She recorded a number of anti-Nazi records in German for the OSS. She also played the musical saw to entertain troops. She sang for the Allied troops on the front lines in Algiers, France and into Germany with Generals James M. Gavin and George S. Patton. When asked why she had done this, in spite of the obvious danger of being within a few kilometers of German lines, she replied, "aus Anstand" – "it was the decent thing to do."
She was awarded the Medal of Freedom by the US Government for her war work. She was also made a chevalier (later commandeur) of the Légion d'Honneur by the French government.
15. She was born Lucille Fay LeSueur in San Antonio, Texas, the third child of Tennessee-born Thomas E. LeSueur (1868–1938) and Anna Bell Johnson (1884–1958). Her older siblings were Daisy LeSueur, who died as a very young child, and Hal LeSueur. Although of mostly English descent, her surname originates from her great-great-great-great grandparents, David LeSueur and Elizabeth Chastain, French Huguenots who immigrated from London in the early 1700s to Virginia, where they lived for several generations.
Her father was said to have abandoned the family in Texas; she later said she had been only a few months old when her father left. Her mother later married Henry J. Cassin (1867-after 1919). The family lived in Lawton, Oklahoma, where Cassin ran a movie theatre. The 1910 Comanche County, Oklahoma, Federal Census, enumerated on April 20, shows Henry and Anna living at 910 "D" Street in Lawton. Lucille was then 5 years of age.
Lucille preferred the nickname "Billie," and she loved watching vaudeville acts perform on the stage of her stepfather's theater. Her ambition was to be a dancer. Unfortunately, she cut her foot deeply on a broken milk bottle when she leapt from the front porch of her home in an attempt to escape piano lessons and run and play with friends. A neighbor, Don Blanding, who became a poet, carried her into the house and phoned the doctor. She was unable to attend elementary school for a year and a half and eventually had three operations on her foot. Demonstrating the steely determination that would serve her for the rest of her life, she overcame the injury and returned not only to walking normally, but to dancing as well.
16. Made his mark early as a Broadway actor, and made his Hollywood debut in 1935. His career gained momentum after his Academy Award-nominated performance in 1940's The Grapes of Wrath, an adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel about an Oklahoma family who moved west during the Dust Bowl. Throughout six decades in Hollywood, he cultivated a strong, appealing screen image in such classics as The Ox-Bow Incident, Mister Roberts, and 12 Angry Men. Later, moved toward both more challenging, darker epics as Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (as a villain who kills, among others, a child and a cripple)
He enlisted in the Navy to fight in World War II, saying, "I don't want to be in a fake war in a studio." Previously, he and James Stewart had helped raise funds for the defense of Britain from the Nazis. He served for three years, initially as a Quartermaster 3rd Class on the destroyer USS Satterlee. He was later commissioned as a Lieutenant Junior Grade in Air Combat Intelligence in the Central Pacific and won a Presidential Citation and the Bronze Star.
17. Six times married, once to actress Carole Lombard who died tragically, he also had a daughter, Judy Lewis (b. 1935), the result of an affair with actress Loretta Young begun on the set of The Call of the Wild (1935). In 1942, following Lombard's death, he joined the U.S. Army Air Forces. As Captain, he trained with and accompanied the 351st Heavy Bomb Group as head of a 6-man motion picture unit making a gunnery training film. While at RAF Polebrook, England, he flew five combat missions, including one to Germany, as an observer-gunner in B-17 Flying Fortresses between May 4 and September 23, 1943, earning the Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross for his efforts. Adolph Hitler esteemed him above all other actors, and during the Second World War, offered a sizable reward to anyone who could capture and deliver him to him unscathed. He left the Army Air Forces with the rank of major.
18. He won an Oscar playing George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942). He returned to his gangster roots in Raoul Walsh's film White Heat (1949) and played a tyrannical ship captain opposite Jack Lemmon and Henry Fonda in Mister Roberts (1955).
19. In 1941, he began a relationship with Katharine Hepburn, whose agile mind and New England brogue complemented his easy working-class machismo very well. Though estranged from his wife Louise, he was a practicing Roman Catholic and never divorced. He and Hepburn made nine films together.
Had a brief romance with Gene Tierney while filming Plymouth Adventure (1952). He once said about her: "Although she was beautiful in her films, they couldn't quite capture all of her. Fortunately, I did even if it was late in my life."
Seventeen days after filming had completed on his last film, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, with Hepburn, he died from heart failure at the age of 67.
20. He was named in the New Year's Honours List in 1975 and, on March 4, was knighted at the age of 85 as a Knight Commander of the British Empire (KBE) by Queen Elizabeth II. The honour was first proposed in 1931, and again in 1956, when it was vetoed by the then Conservative government for fears of damage to relations with the United States at the height of the Cold War and planned invasion of Suez of that year.
He swam, played tennis, smoked little and seldom drank. However his robust health began to slowly fail in the late 1960s, after the completion of his final film A Countess from Hong Kong. In his final years he grew increasingly frail, and died in his sleep on Christmas Day, 1977, in Vevey, Switzerland, aged 88.
· There is a statue of him in front of the Alimentarium in Vevey to commemorate the last part of his life, and a replica also stands in Leicester Square in London. He has also a bronze statue in Waterville, County Kerry in Ireland (- which tommo has seen ! -) to show Irish appreciation for his love of the country.
That’s it ! One point only for each, but one bonus point in addition if you can add something else of interest about the person. Good luck !
