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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

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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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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Thursday, January 5, 2012

20th Century Fox

20th Century Fox

Twentieth Century Fox Film also known as 20th Century Fox, or just 20th or Fox is one of the six main American film studios as of 2011. The company was found on May 31, 1935, as the effect of the merger of Fox Film Corporation, founded by William Fox in 1915, and Twentieth Century Pictures, establish in 1933 by Darryl F. Zanuck, Joseph Schenck, Raymond Griffith and William Goetz. 20th Century Fox's mainly popular film franchises include Avatar, Star Wars, Ice Age, Garfield, plus famous TV shows such as The Simpsons, Family Guy, and American Dad!. Some of the most well-known actors to come out of this studio were Shirley Temple, who was 20th Century Fox's opening film star, Betty Grable, Gene Tierney, Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Mansfield.

Their most commercially winning production partners in later years have been 1492 Pictures, Lucasfilm, Lightstorm Entertainment, Davis Entertainment, Walden Media, Regency Enterprises, Blue Sky Studios, Troublemaker Studios, Ingenious Film Partners, Scott Free Productions, Marvel Studios, Gracie Films, EuropaCorp, Color Force, Centropolis Entertainment, Conundrum Entertainment, Bad Hat Harry Productions, Red Hour Productions, Dune Entertainment, Village Roadshow Pictures, Chernin Entertainment, The Donners' Company, 21 Laps Entertainment and Spyglass Entertainment. 20th Century Fox is a associate of the Motion Picture Association of America.

20th Century Fox

Industry
Film

Headquarters
Fox Plaza, Century City, Los Angeles, California, United States

Owner(s)
Independent (1914–1985)
News Corporation (1985-present)

Products
Motion pictures, television films

Key people
Stephen Blairson, CEO

Parent
Fox Entertainment Group

Divisions
20th Century Fox Animation
Fox 2000 Pictures

Subsidiaries
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Fox Atomic
Fox Interactive
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Fox Television Studios
Blue Sky Studios
20th Television/20th Century Fox Television
Fox Star Studios

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Award
The Golden Globe Award is an accolade grant by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association identify excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual formal ceremony and dinner at which the awards are presented is a important part of the film industry's awards season, which culminate every year with the Academy Awards. The first Golden Globe Awards were held in Jan 1944 at the 20th Century Fox studios in Los Angeles. The 69th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the most excellent in film and television for 2011, will be presented on January 15, 2012, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, where they have been held yearly since 1961.

The broadcast of the Golden Globe Awards, telecast to 167 countries worldwide, normally ranks as the third most-watched awards show every year, behind only the Oscars and the Grammy Awards. Until Ricky Gervais hosted the 67th yearly Golden Globe Awards Ceremony in 2010, the award ceremony was one of two major Hollywood award ceremonies that did not have a usual host; each year a different presenter introduced the ceremony at the beginning of the broadcast. Gervais returned to host the 68th year Golden Globe Awards in 2011, and will return to host the 69th year Golden Globe Awards in 2012.

Golden Globe Award

Awarded for
Excellence in film and television

Presented by
Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Country
United States

First awarded
1944


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Monday, January 2, 2012

Dennis Rodman - basketball player, wrestler and actor

Dennis Rodman

Dennis Keith Rodman is a retired American Hall of Fame professional basketball player of the NBA. He was nicknamed "Dennis the Menace" and "The Worm" and was identified for his fierce defensive and rebounding abilities. Playing little forward in his early on years before becoming a power forward, Rodman earn NBA All-Defensive First Team honors 7 times and was voted NBA Defensive Player of the Year twice. He also led the NBA in rebounds per game for a record seven successive years and won five NBA championships. His biography at NBA.com states that he is "debatably the best rebounding forward in NBA history". On April 1, 2011, the Pistons leave Rodman's #10 jersey. Later that same year, Rodman was induct into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Rodman knowledgeable an unhappy childhood and was shy and introverted in his early years. After abort a suicide attempt in 1993, he reinvented himself as the prototypical "bad boy" and became infamous for numerous controversial antics. He dyed his hair in artificial colors, presented himself with several piercings and tattoos and frequently disrupted games by clashing with opposing players and officials. He famously wore a wedding dress to support his autobiography. Rodman pursued a high-profile issue with singer Madonna and was briefly married to actress Carmen Electra.

Dennis Rodman

Apart from basketball, Rodman is a retired part-time wrestler and actor. He was a member of the nWo and fought next to Hulk Hogan at two Bash at the Beach events. He have TV show, The Rodman World Tour, and had guide roles in the action films Simon Sez and Double Team alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme. Both films were strictly critically panned, with the latter earning Rodman a triple Razzie Award. He appears in many realities TV series and was the winner of the $222,000 main prize of the 2004 edition of Celebrity Mole. Rodman also won the first forever Celebrity Championship Wrestling tournament.

Date Of Birth
May 13, 1961

Place Of Birth
Trenton, New Jersey

Nationality
American

High school
South Oak Cliff

Height
6 ft 6 in

Weight
100 kg


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