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Post by aubrey on Jul 6, 2019 10:07:59 GMT
Frida Kahlo
"'I was born a bitch. I was born a painter'"
Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y Calderón, born 6 July 1907, a great revolutionary communist artist from Mexico.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2019 10:46:16 GMT
Janet Leigh (born Jeanette Helen Morrison; July 6, 1927 – October 3, 2004) was an American actress, singer, dancer, and author. Raised in Stockton, California, by working-class parents, Leigh was discovered at age eighteen by actress Norma Shearer, who helped her secure a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Leigh had her first formal foray into acting appearing in radio programs before making her film debut in The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947).
Early in her career, she appeared in several popular films for MGM which spanned a wide variety of genres, including Act of Violence (1948), Little Women (1949), Angels in the Outfield (1951), Scaramouche (1952), The Naked Spur (1953), and Living It Up (1954). Leigh played mostly dramatic roles during the latter half of the 1950s, in such films as Safari (1956) and Orson Welles's film noir Touch of Evil (1958), but achieved her most lasting recognition as the doomed Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), which earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
Her highly publicized marriage to actor Tony Curtis ended in divorce in 1962, and after starring in The Manchurian Candidate that same year, Leigh scaled back her career. Intermittently, she continued to appear in films, including Bye Bye Birdie (1963), Harper (1966), Night of the Lepus (1972), and Boardwalk (1979). In late 1975, she made her Broadway debut in a production of Murder Among Friends. She would also go on to appear in two horror films with her daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis: The Fog (1980) and Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998).
In addition to her work as an actress, Leigh also wrote four books between 1984 and 2002, two of which were novels. She died in October 2004 at age 77, following a year-long battle with vasculitis, an inflammation of the blood vessels.
Probably best remembered for Psycho
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Post by aubrey on Jul 6, 2019 13:20:42 GMT
^^^
Does anyone think Janet Leigh was really scared to go into a shower for 20 years after making psycho? Especially as most of the shots in the shower scene featured not her but a nude model called Marli Renfro
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Post by Deleted on Jul 6, 2019 14:02:30 GMT
"Does anyone think Janet Leigh was really scared to go into a shower for 20 years after making psycho? Especially as most of the shots in the shower scene featured not her but a nude model called Marli Renfro"
We will never know how many nude scenes including full frontal will be the actual actor/actress are the bodies we think they are Must be a disappointment for those who actually do meet the real person
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Post by aubrey on Jul 6, 2019 16:03:08 GMT
"Does anyone think Janet Leigh was really scared to go into a shower for 20 years after making psycho? Especially as most of the shots in the shower scene featured not her but a nude model called Marli Renfro"
We will never know how many nude scenes including full frontal will be the actual actor/actress are the bodies we think they are Must be a disappointment for those who actually do meet the real person
And they sometimes wear merkins as well, damn them.
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Post by ARENA on Jul 7, 2019 7:09:41 GMT
Brenda Bruce (7 July 1918 – 19 February 1996) was a British actress. She had a long and successful career in the theatre, radio, film and television. Brenda Bruce was born in Manchester, Lancashire. Bruce started her acting career as a teenager on stage as a chorus girl. She was with the Birmingham Repertory Company (1936–39) and a long-time actress with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC).
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Post by Deleted on Jul 7, 2019 9:34:19 GMT
Saw her recently in the film version of All Creatures Great and Small. She played a very fierce secretary Siegfried employed to sort their affairs out Awesome!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2019 9:52:14 GMT
Martin Alan "Marty" Feldman (8 July 1934 – 2 December 1982) was a British actor, comedy writer and comedian, known for his prominent, misaligned eyes.He starred in several British television comedy series, including At Last the 1948 Show and Marty, the latter of which won two BAFTA awards. He also co-created the BBC Radio comedy programme Round the Horne.
Feldman was part of an ensemble cast of British comic actors that appeared in The Bed Sitting Room (1969), his film debut. He starred in the comedy Every Home Should Have One, one of the most popular comedies at the British box office in 1970.Feldman was the first Saturn Award winner for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Igor in Mel Brooks' 1974 comedy horror film Young Frankenstein.
I never liked his so called comedy TV appearances, his eyes were so off putting. I didn't know he wrote Round the Horne which was brilliant on radio, perhaps he should have stuck to radio
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Post by aubrey on Jul 9, 2019 7:52:07 GMT
Soledad Rendón Bueno (9 July 1943 – 18 August 1970), better known by her stage names Soledad Miranda or Susann Korda (or sometimes Susan Korday), was an actress and pop singer who was born in Seville, Spain.
She released numerous Spanish-language pop songs throughout the mid-sixties. She died in a car accident on a Lisbon highway at age 27.
She is remembered now mainly for the films she made with Jesús Franco: The Devil Came from Akasava (1971); Vampyros Lesbos (1971); She Killed in Ecstasy (1971); Nightmares Come at Night (1972); Eugénie de Sade (1973). [Those dates are wrong, by the way; or else they show US releases.]
On the morning of 18 August 1970, near the end of filming The Devil Came From Akasava, Miranda and her husband were involved in a collision with a small truck. Simões suffered minor injuries but Miranda died as a result of major head and back trauma. She was due to see a US producer about appearing in mainstream films. She would have been a huge star; she really would.
A fan tribute, featuring clips from Jess's films with her:
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2019 9:34:14 GMT
Sir Edward Richard George Heath KG MBE (9 July 1916 – 17 July 2005), often known as Ted Heath, was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. Heath served 51 years as a Member of Parliament from 1950 to 2001. He was a strong supporter of the European Communities (EC), and after winning the decisive vote in the House of Commons by 336 to 244, he led the negotiations that culminated in Britain's entry into the EC on 1 January 1973. It was, says biographer John Campbell, "Heath's finest hour". Although he planned to be an innovator as Prime Minister, his government foundered on economic difficulties, including high inflation and major strikes. He became an embittered critic of Margaret Thatcher, who supplanted him as Tory leader.
Heath's lower middle-class origins were quite unusual for a Tory leader of that time. He was a leader in student politics at the University of Oxford and served as an officer in the Royal Artillery during the Second World War. He worked briefly in the Civil Service, but resigned in order to stand for Parliament, and was elected for Bexley in the 1950 general election. He was the Chief Whip from 1955 to 1959. Having entered the Cabinet as Minister of Labour in 1959, he was promoted to Lord Privy Seal and later became President of the Board of Trade. Heath was elected leader of the Conservative Party in 1965; he retained that position despite losing the 1966 general election.
Heath became Prime Minister after winning the 1970 general election. In 1971 he oversaw the decimalisation of British coinage, and in 1972 he reformed Britain's system of local government, reducing the number of local authorities and creating a number of new metropolitan counties. Possibly most significantly, he took Britain into the European Economic Community in 1973. Heath's premiership also coincided with the height of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, with the suspension of the Stormont Parliament and the imposition of direct British rule. Unofficial talks with Provisional Irish Republican Army delegates were unsuccessful, as was the Sunningdale Agreement of 1973, which led the MPs of the Ulster Unionist Party to withdraw from the Conservative whip.
Heath also tried to curb the trade unions with the Industrial Relations Act 1971, and hoped to deregulate the economy and make a transfer from direct to indirect taxation. Rising unemployment in 1972 led him to reflate the economy; he attempted to control the resulting high inflation by a prices and incomes policy. Two miners' strikes, in 1972 and at the start of 1974, damaged the government; the latter caused the implementation of the Three-Day Week to conserve energy. Heath eventually called an election for February 1974 to obtain a mandate to face down the miners' wage demands, but this instead resulted in a hung parliament in which the Labour Party, despite gaining fewer votes, had four more seats than the Conservatives. Heath resigned as Prime Minister after trying in vain to form a coalition with the Liberal Party. Despite losing a second general election in October that year, he vowed to continue as party leader. In February 1975, Margaret Thatcher challenged and defeated him to win the leadership.
Returning to the backbenches, Heath was openly critical of Thatcherism. He remained a backbench MP until retiring at the 2001 election, serving as the Father of the House for his last nine years in Parliament. Outside politics, Heath was a world-class yachtsman and a talented musician. He died in 2005, aged 89. He is one of only four British prime ministers never to have married.
The first elected Tory party leader who did not "emerge" from the upper classes and who was grammar school educated rather than public school He was a committed European and managed to negotiate entry into the Common Market, the forerunner to the EU
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Post by ARENA on Jul 9, 2019 9:55:55 GMT
Mervyn Laurence Peake (9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968) was an English writer, artist, poet and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the Gormenghast books. The three works were part of what Peake conceived as a lengthy cycle, the completion of which was prevented by his death, and consequently should not be considered a trilogy.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2019 12:31:34 GMT
Doesn't he just look like the person who would write such books
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Post by ARENA on Jul 10, 2019 6:10:54 GMT
John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris (10 July 1903 – 11 March 1969) was an English science fiction writer who usually used the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes. Many of his works were set in post-apocalyptic landscapes. Wyndham was born in the village of Knowle in Warwickshire.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2019 8:58:31 GMT
Who can forget BBC's first venture into scfi with Wyndhams Day of the Triffids, shot in black and white it frightened the viewers
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2019 9:04:14 GMT
Arthur Robert Ashe Jr. (July 10, 1943 – February 6, 1993) was an American professional tennis player who won three Grand Slam titles.
Ashe was the first black player selected to the United States Davis Cup team and the only black man ever to win the singles title at Wimbledon, the US Open, and the Australian Open. He retired in 1980. He was ranked World No. 1 by Harry Hopman in 1968 and by Lance Tingay of The Daily Telegraph and World Tennis Magazine in 1975. In the ATP computer rankings, he peaked at No. 2 in May 1976.
In the early 1980s, Ashe is believed to have contracted HIV from a blood transfusion he received during heart bypass surgery. Ashe publicly announced his illness in April 1992 and began working to educate others about HIV and AIDS. He founded the Arthur Ashe Foundation for the Defeat of AIDS and the Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health before his death from AIDS-related pneumonia at age 49 on February 6, 1993.
On June 20, 1993, Ashe was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by the United States President Bill Clinton.
One of the generation of "gentlemen" tennis players who never argued with officials, they just got on and played magnificent tennis
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