Vivien Leigh – An Actress Whose Life Was Affected by Bipolar Disorder
Vivien Leigh was born Vivian Mary Hartley in Darjeeling, India. At a very young age she showed an ability to act, but she could only engage in it at age 18 when she enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. At age 19, she married Leigh Holman, who was a lawyer and that was her name she used to make up his stage name. A year after marriage, Vivien was still a student and had a daughter named Suzanne. Then in mid-1930, Vivien arrives to meet with Laurence Olivier and thus began one of the most passionate affairs of ...
Comedy’s Modification Within Silent Film – Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin
During the 1910s, popular comedy shorts before features the most esteemed. In the 1920s, however, comedy developed into a kind of mass observed length feature with stars like Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. Silent film, simply by referring to its title, suggested physical dependence action-comic-actors. But that was not enough to distinguish the capabilities of the silent film comedy. A similar, but the sound was performed on stages of vaudeville and circus arenas. To this end, the silent film needed to offer something more actors to explain his longevity with audiences plentiful, although the appearance of the mass-exposure is a ...
Gary Oldman – The Dark Knight – The Joker and Mickey Knox BFF?
I went to see The Dark Knight on opening night on the IMAX screen. Overwhelmed, I knew I had him again to give a proper assessment. Then I got my hands on a copy of it to watch at home and spent nearly every weekend can not get out of the film world. Now that I've seen a few times, he deconstructs, reverse-designed it, and savored my favorite scenes repeatedly, I realize that this is not simply awesome. It is beautiful, graceful as a ballerina, and will be one of those films that reference we judge others against the decades ...
Who is the Next Marlon Brando?
Well, who is the next Marlon Brando? "This is an issue that has been playing on your mind as well, I know! However, before letting slip an answer we plunge deeper into this" be the next Brando "actually means. I am speculating on who the next player to wear a tight t-shirt and mumble a scene with captivating magnetism? Of course not! It would be nothing more than cheap resale a parody of an image now over fifty years. Need I say will be the next name actor renowned for his expanding waistline, as if in preparation for ...
Daniel Day-Lewis Best Movies of All Time
Daniel Day Lewis, I wish there were more films that played in Lewis is arguably the most talented actor working today, and multiple Oscar winner and candidates away from this argument. Since the beginning of his career, he was nominated for Best Actor four times in a leading role, and won twice. Time feat indeed. This article I will discuss some of my favorite movies with Daniel Day Lewis brilliant. If you have never seen Daniel Day-Lewis, then a good starting point would be the film, which won the 1990 Oscar for best actor in a leading role in My Left Foot. ...
Online singing techniques Tips & Voice – Is it better to be a singer or a singer emotional technique just like Laurence Olivier?
There is a story about Dustin Hoffman and the great actor Sir Laurence Olivier, who may or may not be true, but that's what I heard: Hoffman is an actor very young when he filmed Marathon Man with Olivier. Hoffman A day has come together at the studio looking very bad ... tired, dirty, obviously worn down. When Sir Oliver asked him what happened to cause this since Hoffman has revealed that he played a scene where his character was supposed to be in a similar state, he "prepared" by living for a few days without sleeping, eating very little ...
Do not be reluctant callers – Sir Laurence Olivier
The great English actor Sir Laurence Olivier, after a life on stage and screen, once admitted that he suffered from stage fright throughout his career. Huh? Difficult to imagine the fright that one of the most revered of all actors of the 20th century, who appeared in more than 120 roles on stage, nearly 60 films and over 15 television productions, might have had. Notice his numbers. Clearly, the state Sir Laurence did not prevent him from succeeding. And I think it's instructive that he was willing to talk, because it gives us at least four clues about him as a professional, ...
Movieland memories are stronger than the wax
It was 1962 when Logan Fleming first checked out Buena Park's hot, new tourist attraction - Movieland Wax Museum. The place had only been open a few months. But, as a commercial artist (Fleming worked on billboards at the time) he could appreciate the effort behind Movieland's elaborate sets and statues of the stars. Logan Fleming working on the wax figure of Danny Thomas. "it was quite wondrous." Purpose, he quickly realized there was something quite wrong, too. The stars in wax, didn't look like.... stars. Clark Gable, for example, didn't look at all Civil War macho journal wax set for "Gone with the wind." Instead, ...
Sir Laurence Olivier (Lord Larry) – British actor Iconic
Lord Laurence Olivier is one of the greatest icons of England and is recognized worldwide as one of the greatest stage actors of the 20th century. I thought it would be interesting to write the history of this famous icon of its beginnings to its status today as a great English icon. Laurence Kerr Olivier was born into a poor family but old England March 22, 1907 in Dorking, Surrey, England. His father was a minister with a stern fanaticism closet drama and literature. So when Mr. Oliver inherited his father's mania for the stage, it was strongly encouraged, and he ...
Jean Harlow – Blonde bombshell and sex symbol
Jean Harlow is best known today for being the original blonde bombshell and sex symbol par excellence of the 1930s. However, there was more to John than his angelic beauty. One of my favorite actresses of all time, John was a gentle, intelligent and generous, never a diva, always friendly to everyone. It has been very misunderstood, and later became the inspiration for Marilyn Monroe. The parallels between their lives is borderline scary. Although Harlow seemed to have everything a woman could desire, she had a very tragic life, and at the age of 26 years, the "baby" was dead. Jean ...
Classic Actors – Clark Gable
Movieland memories are stronger than the wax
It was 1962 when Logan Fleming first checked out Buena Park’s hot, new tourist attraction – Movieland Wax Museum. The place had only been open a few months. But, as a commercial artist (Fleming worked on billboards at the time) he could appreciate the effort behind Movieland’s elaborate sets and statues of the stars. Logan [...]
Lina Romay dies at 91. Singer, MGM Cugat actress.
Lina Romay in 1945. His films included “Bathing Beauty” (1944) with Esther Williams, “adventure” (1945) with Clark Gable and “Love laughs at Andy Hardy” (1946) with Mickey Rooney. (MGM)Lina Romay, whose role as a singer with Xavier Cugat Orchestra in the 1940s led to a career in films and a passing decades later, a radio [...]
Classic Hollywood: for the holiday spirit, consult these comedies of the 1930s and 1940s
Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert need to ride in “It happened one night” in 1934. (Columbia Pictures, Columbia Pictures)Admittedly, sometimes the holiday season is as depressing as a fruitcake Rassi piece. If the usual Christmas movies thinking leaves you cold, here’s another way to shake holiday blues away: a selection of comedies classic since the [...]
Classic Actors – Laurence Olivier
Sir Laurence Olivier (Lord Larry) – British actor Iconic
Lord Laurence Olivier is one of the greatest icons of England and is recognized worldwide as one of the greatest stage actors of the 20th century. I thought it would be interesting to write the history of this famous icon of its beginnings to its status today as a great English icon. Laurence Kerr Olivier [...]
Do not be reluctant callers – Sir Laurence Olivier
The great English actor Sir Laurence Olivier, after a life on stage and screen, once admitted that he suffered from stage fright throughout his career. Huh? Difficult to imagine the fright that one of the most revered of all actors of the 20th century, who appeared in more than 120 roles on stage, nearly 60 [...]
Online singing techniques Tips & Voice – Is it better to be a singer or a singer emotional technique just like Laurence Olivier?
There is a story about Dustin Hoffman and the great actor Sir Laurence Olivier, who may or may not be true, but that’s what I heard: Hoffman is an actor very young when he filmed Marathon Man with Olivier. Hoffman A day has come together at the studio looking very bad … tired, dirty, obviously [...]
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Jean Harlow – Blonde bombshell and sex symbol
Jean Harlow is best known today for being the original blonde bombshell and sex symbol par excellence of the 1930s. However, there was more to John than his angelic beauty. One of my favorite actresses of all time, John was a gentle, intelligent and generous, never a diva, always friendly to everyone. It has been [...]
Daniel Day-Lewis Best Movies of All Time
Daniel Day Lewis, I wish there were more films that played in Lewis is arguably the most talented actor working today, and multiple Oscar winner and candidates away from this argument. Since the beginning of his career, he was nominated for Best Actor four times in a leading role, and won twice. Time feat indeed. [...]
Who is the Next Marlon Brando?
Well, who is the next Marlon Brando? “This is an issue that has been playing on your mind as well, I know! However, before letting slip an answer we plunge deeper into this” be the next Brando “actually means. I am speculating on who the next player to wear a tight t-shirt and mumble a [...]
Gary Oldman – The Dark Knight – The Joker and Mickey Knox BFF?
I went to see The Dark Knight on opening night on the IMAX screen. Overwhelmed, I knew I had him again to give a proper assessment. Then I got my hands on a copy of it to watch at home and spent nearly every weekend can not get out of the film world. Now that [...]
Antiques American Hero – Gary Cooper in High Noon
The story of High Noon resonates with me in particular. I saw him as a boy of ten years while my father flew in a glider airport in the desert interior of Washington State, less than two hundred miles from home. I helped maintain the wing of a glider many as he began to pitch [...]
Comedy’s Modification Within Silent Film – Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin
During the 1910s, popular comedy shorts before features the most esteemed. In the 1920s, however, comedy developed into a kind of mass observed length feature with stars like Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. Silent film, simply by referring to its title, suggested physical dependence action-comic-actors. But that was not enough to distinguish the capabilities of [...]
Vivien Leigh – An Actress Whose Life Was Affected by Bipolar Disorder
Vivien Leigh was born Vivian Mary Hartley in Darjeeling, India. At a very young age she showed an ability to act, but she could only engage in it at age 18 when she enrolled at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. At age 19, she married Leigh Holman, who was a lawyer and [...]