Showing posts with label American History. Show all posts
Showing posts with label American History. Show all posts

Thursday, February 16, 2012

Taylor Momsen - American actress, musician and model

Taylor Momsen
Taylor Michel Momsen is a famous American actress, musician and model who in How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and front the rock band The Pretty Reckless. In June 2008, at the age of 14, Momsen signed to IMG Models. Taylor was the face of British fashion chain fresh Look for its spring/summer 2010 collection. After weeks of speculation of who was the look of Madonna's 2010 fashion line "Material Girl", she was announced on July 15, 2010. A week later, she was announced as the model for John Galliano's new women's fragrance, planned to launch in autumn 2010.

Heidi Montag record "Blackout", a song written by Taylor Momsen. According to Momsen, she wrote the song when she was 8 years old and record it as a demo with a producer. Montag released the song as a digital only solo, with the music video being directed by her spouse Spencer Pratt. Momsen commented on the recording: "I am like, okay, dude, you are singing an 8-year-old's words, but that's cool. The track was soon included on Montag's debut studio album Superficial. On July 27, 2011, she announced via Twitter that the band will be touring with Evanescence as the sustaining act during the fall of 2011.

Taylor Momsen

Born Name

Taylor Michel Momsen

Date Of Birth

July 26, 1993

Place Of Birth

St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.

Occupation

Actress, singer-songwriter, model

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Ashton Kutcher - Actor, former fashion model, producer, comedian

Ashton Kutcher
Christopher Ashton Kutcher most known as Ashton Kutcher, is an American actor, fashion model, producer, former, and comedian, recognized for his portrayal of Michael Kelso in the Fox sitcom That '70s Show. He also produced and hosted Punk'd, and played lead position in the Hollywood films Dude, Where's My Car?, Just Married, The Butterfly Effect, The Guardian, and What Happens in Vegas. He is also the co-creator and producer of the supernatural TV show Room 401 and the reality TeleVision show Beauty and the Geek. Kutcher now co-stars in the hit CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men as the character Walden Schmidt.

After participating as a modeling competitor in an IMTA competition in 1998, Kutcher signed with the Next modeling agency in New York, show in ads for Calvin Klein, and modeled in Paris and Milan. In 2003, Kutcher produced and starred in his personal series, MTV's Punk'd, as the host. The series involved hidden camera tricks perform on celebrity. Kutcher is also an executive producer of the reality television shows Beauty and the Geek, Adventures in Hollyhood, The Real Wedding Crashers, and the game show chance Knocks. Many of his production credits, including Punk'd, come through Katalyst Films, a production company he runs with associate Jason Goldberg. In 2006, People magazine ranked him third in its annual list of "The Sexiest Men Alive".

Ashton Kutcher


Born Name
Christopher Ashton Kutcher

Date Of Birth
February 7, 1978

Place Of Birth
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, U.S.

Occupation
Actor, former fashion model, producer, comedian, television host

Spouse
Demi Moore

Thursday, January 12, 2012

Raymond Griffith - actor, comedian

Raymond Griffith
Raymond Griffith was one of the grand silent movie comedians. He lost his voice at an early age, causing him to speak for relax of his life in a hoarse whisper. He claimed that it was the effect of his having to scream at the top of his lungs each night in a stage melodrama as a child actor others have stated that a childhood sickness was more likely the cause. Although some comedy films of his are considered classics he is almost completely forgotten today. His film debut was for the L-KO Kompany. Many of his starring feature films have extended since been lost, but probably the best recognized of his films today is Hands Up!.

A 1926 Civil War comedy feature directed by Clarence G. Badger, and co-starring Mack Swain, which was goes into the National Film Registry in 2005. Also measured a classic is Badger's Paths to Paradise, a caper film that is in all circulating prints missing its final reel. Like several silent comedians, he had a traditional dress; his was a top hat, white tie and tails, often augmented by a cape and walking stick. The coming of sound finished Griffith's acting career, but he did have one excellent role in a motion picture before retiring from the screen, playing a French soldier killed by Lew Ayres in the 1930 Lewis Milestone film All Quiet on the Western Front. He then segued into a producing and writing career at Twentieth Century Fox.

Raymond Griffith

Date Of Birth
January 23, 1895

Place Of Birth
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Occupation
Actor

Spouse
Bertha Mann

Date Of Died
November 25, 1957

Place Of Died
Los Angeles, California, USA


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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Betty Grable - American actress, dancer and singer

Betty Grable
Betty Grable was an famous American actress, dancer and singer. Her iconic bathing suit photo finished her the number-one pin-up girl of the World War II era. It was afterward included in the LIFE magazine project "100 Photos that Changed the World". Grable was mainly noted for having the most beautiful legs in Hollywood and studio publicity extensively dispersed photos featuring them. Hosiery specialist of the era often celebrated the ideal proportions of her legs. Grable's legs were notably insured by her studio for $1,000,000 with Lloyds of London.

Despite being renowned for her looks, she was a woman of talent. She appear in many smash-hit musical films in the 1940s like, Down Argentine Way (1940), Moon Over Miami. However, she is greatest noted for her 1947 film Mother Wore Tights. By the 1950s, she was still creation films like, Wabash Avenue, How to Marry a Millionaire, and How to Be Very, Very Popular (1955), her last film. She retired from the film industry in 1955, and never returned. She had many nicknames during her career like: "the girl with the million dollar legs," "the quick-silver blonde," "the queen of the Hollywood musical," and "the darling of the forties." She died in 1973 at age 56 of lung cancer.
Betty Grable


Birth Name
Elizabeth Ruth Grable

Date Of Birth
December 18, 1916

Place Of Birth
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.

Other names
Frances Dean

Occupation
Actress, dancer, singer

Spouse
Jackie Coogan,
Harry James

Date Of Died
July 2, 1973

Place Of Died
Santa Monica, California, U.S.


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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Jayne Mansfield - Actress, singer, model

Jayne Mansfield
Jayne Mansfield was an famous American actress working both in Hollywood and on the Broadway theatre. One of the foremost blonde sex symbols of the late-1950s, she starred in many popular Hollywood films that emphasized her platinum-blonde hair, hourglass figure and cleavage-revealing costumes, and her capability to play the violin. While Mansfield's film career was short-lived,she had many box office successes and win the Theatre World Award, a Golden Globe and a Golden Laurel. She is well remembering for her starring roles in the 20th Century Fox comedy films The Girl Can't Help It (1956) and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957).

She also tackled a rare straight role in The Wayward Bus (1957), a film renowned for being her best on-screen dramatic performance. As the require for blonde bombshells declined in the 1960s, She remained a famous celebrity, continuing to attract huge crowds outside the U.S. and in lucrative and successful nightclub tours. Her film career continued in lesser budget melodramas and comedies, many filmed in the United Kingdom and Europe, including the independent film, Promises! Promises! (1963), in which she become the first American actress to appear nude, in a starring role, in a Hollywood motion-picture. She had been a Playboy Playmate of the Month and appeared in the magazine many additional times. She dies in an automobile accident at age 34.
Jayne Mansfield

Birth Name
Vera Jayne Palmer

Date Of Birth
April 19, 1933

Place Of Birth
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States

Occupation
Actress, singer, model

Spouse
Paul Mansfield,
Miklos Hargitay,
Matt Cimber

Date Of Died
June 29, 1967

Place Of Died
Slidell, Louisiana, United States


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Monday, January 9, 2012

Gene Tierney - film and stage actress

Gene Tierney

Gene Tierney was famous American film and stage actress. Acclaimed as one of the huge beauties of her day, she is best remembered for her presentation in the title role of Laura (1944) and her Academy Award-nominated presentation for Best Actress in Leave Her to Heaven (1945). Other notable character include Martha Strable Van Cleve in Heaven Can Wait, Isabel Bradley Maturin in The Razor's Edge, Lucy Muir in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Ann Sutton in Whirlpool and Anne Scott in The Left Hand of God. Certain fragments of her film-related material and individual papers are contained in the Wesleyan University Cinema Archives, to which scholars and media professional from around the world may have full access.

Tierney came back to act in the television movie Daughter of the Mind with Don Murray and Ray Milland. Her last presentation was in the TV miniseries Scruples. In 1960, Tierney sent Kennedy a message of congratulations on his election victory; she later admits that she had voted for Richard Nixon, saying, "I thought that he would create a better president." In 1958, Tierney met Texas oil baron W. Howard Lee, who was wedded to Hedy Lamarr from 1953 to 1960. Tierney and Lee married in Aspen, Colorado on July 11, 1960, and lived in Houston, Texas. In 1962, 20th Century Fox announce Tierney would play the lead role in Return to Peyton Place, but she became pregnant and dropped out of the project. Tierney later miscarried.

Gene Tierney

Born Name
Gene Eliza Tierney

Date Of Birth
November 19, 1920

Place Of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

Occupation
Actress

Spouse
Oleg Cassini,
W. Howard Lee (1960–81)

Date Of Died
November 6, 1991

Place Of Died
Houston, Texas, U.S.


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