Birthdays
1920
Gene Tierney - US actor
"Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test."
1961
Meg Ryan - US actor
"It would be really great if people would realize
that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not
immaculate idols."
1962
Jodie Foster - US actor
"Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from."
As I'm studying French, and it's my second foreign language I'd like to tell you that Jodie Foster speaks French very-well. Foster attended a French-language prep school, the Lycée Français de Los Angeles, and graduated in 1980. She frequently stayed and worked in France as a teenager, and speaks the language fluently. Due to her French fluency, Foster has dubbed herself in French-language versions of most of her films. In 2004, she took a minor role in the French WWI film, A Very Long Engagement. She also understands German, Spanish and can converse in Italian.
ReplyDeleteFoster's career during her teenage years included many more movies. Finally, after graduating as the valedictorian of her class in 1980, she was done with high school. That left Jodie free to continue her successful career. Never at a loss for work, she starred in "Foxes" and in "Carny" during the same year.
ReplyDeleteA little known fact about award-winning actress Jodie Foster is that graduated magna cum laude from Yale University in 1985. After college, Foster went onto act, direct and even produce several movies.
Jodie Foster's latest acting project is the movie "The Brave One" (2007). As a result of the Hinckley nightmare, she keeps her life private. She is busy raising two sons, Charles, born in 1998, and Kit, born in 2001. Foster won't reveal the father's name, but says she'll tell her kids when they are old enough.
Gene Tierney, with prominent cheekbones and the most appealing overbite of her day, her striking good looks helped propel her to stardom. Her best known role is the enigmatic murder victim in Laura (1944). She was also Oscar-nominated for Leave Her to Heaven (1945). Her acting performances were few in the 1950s as she battled a troubled emotional life that included hospitalization and shock treatment for depression.
ReplyDeleteAllen Tate was also born on this day. John Orley Allen Tate (November 19, 1899 – February 9, 1979) was an American poet, essayist, social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1943 to 1944.
ReplyDeleteRobert Edward "Ted" Turner III (born November 19, 1938) is an American media mogul and philanthropist. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the cable news network CNN, the first 24-hour cable news channel. In addition, he founded WTBS, which pioneered the superstation concept in cable television. As a philanthropist, he is known for his $1 billion gift to support the United Nations, which created the United Nations Foundation, a public charity to broaden support for the UN. Turner serves as Chairman of the United Nations Foundation board of directors.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful, yes. Enigmatic, yes. Never to be forgotten, yes.
ReplyDeleteGene Tierney first caught movie fans’ attention with her natural beauty
in “Tobacco Road” when she was twenty-one years old in 1941, then for playing exotics in movies such as “Shanghai Gesture,” “Son of Fury,” and “China Girl.” Because of her high cheekbones and eyes that make-up artists could look slanty, early in her career she was typecast as an Oriental, as Myrna Loy had been in many of her early films. But also like that equally beautiful and very talented actress, after a few years Tierney broke free of the exotic Asian stereotype and held our attention as "Laura," then in "Leave
Her to Heaven," "The Razor’s Edge,"
and "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir."
Jack Warner Schaefer (November 19, 1907 - January 24, 1991) was a twentieth century American author known for his Westerns. His most famous work is Shane, which was made into a critically acclaimed movie, and the short story "Stubby Pringle's Christmas" (1964).
ReplyDeleteJack Warner Schaefer was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of an attorney. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1929 with a major in English. He attended graduate school at Columbia University from 1929–30, but left without completing his Master of Arts degree. He then went to work for the United Press. In his long career as a journalist, he would hold editorial positions at many eastern publications.
Schaefer's first success as a novelist came in 1949 with his memorable novel Shane, set in Wyoming. Few realized that Schaefer himself had never been anywhere near the west. Nevertheless, he continued writing successful westerns, selling his home in Connecticut and moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1955.
In 1975 Schaefer received the Western Literature Association's Distinguished Achievement award.
He died of heart failure in Santa Fe in 1991. Schaefer was married twice, his second wife moving to Santa Fe with him.
Schaefer's novel Monte Walsh was made into a movie in 1970, with Lee Marvin in the title role, and again in 2003 as a TV movie starring Tom Selleck. Shane was also made into a movie and a series.
Margaret Mary Emily Anne Hyra (born November 19, 1961), professionally known as Meg Ryan, is an American actress and producer. After minor roles in film and television, Ryan became a movie star in 1989 when she appeared in 'When Harry Met Sally'.... Over the next 15 years she played leading roles in several romantic comedy films, including 'Sleepless in Seattle' (1993), 'French Kiss' (1995), Addicted to Love (1997), City of Angels (1998), You've Got 'Mail' (1998), and 'Kate & Leopold' (2001), grossing a total of over $870 million worldwide. In 1995, Time critic Richard Corliss called her "the current soul of romantic comedy".
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