Happy Birthday
Katharine Hepburn †
May 12, 1907
June 29, 2003
(The African Queen)
Emilio Estevez (46)
May 12, 1962
(The breakfast club)
Burt Bacharach (80)
May 12, 1928
(Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid)
Stephen Baldwin (42)
May 12, 1966
(The usual suspects)
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Katherine was born in 1907
101 years ago Katherine Hepburn was born. She appeared in her first film in 1932. This movie was a hit, and she went on to win four Oscars, for Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968) and On Golden Pond (1981).
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Gary died in 1961
This week 47 years ago (May 13, 1961) Gary Cooper died just one week after his 60th birthday. A month earlier Cooper was invited to receive a honorary Oscar but he was too ill to attend the Academy Awards ceremony. His close friend James Stewart accepted the Oscar on his behalf.
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Inspiration
May 15, 1972 Arthur Bremer tried to kill the governor of Alabama, George Wallace. Arthur was dumped by a 15 year old girl and he wanted to show his love for her by killing Wallace. This accident inspired director Scorsese in making Taxi driver, a movie that inspired John Hinckley to shoot president Ronald Reagan.
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Honest Henry
Congratulations, this week it will be Henry Fonda’s 103th birthday. Henry enjoyed a highly successful career spanning close to a half century. He projected honesty and integrity in the roles he played so much that audiences came to associate his characters with Fonda himself.
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The quiet star
Robert De Niro refuses to answer questions or even to give interviews at all. The titles of articles in the popular press: “You Talkin to Me? No”, “Man of Few Words”, “The Phantom of the Cinema” and “The Return of the Silent Screen Star”
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Lawrence died
73 years ago (May 19th, 1935) Colonel Thomas E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia, died from head injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident on a Dorset, England, country road. He led the Arab revolt against the Turks in World War I.
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Spotlight
John Wayne
Remarkable:
Wayne told a group of friends after a private screening of Midnight cowboy that he thought that actors Hoffman and Voight were great. A few days later he wondered: “Whoever thought I’d say good things about a movie featuring a gigolo, a homeless Italian dwarf, and gang rape”.
Born:
May 26, 1907
Born as:
Marion Robert Morrison
Died:
June 11, 1979
Raised in California, Marion went to USC on a football scholarship. During summer vacations he was employed as a third-string prop man in the Fox-studio's and on the set he became close friends with director John Ford for whom he began doing bit parts.
Wayne got his break winning the the lead in Fox's upcoming Western epic The big trail. He changed his name in John Wayne and became in 1939 a star in the role of The Ringo kid in Stagecoach.
In 1948 for the first time, critics sat up and took notice when the duke starred in Howard Hawks' Red River (1948). The 50s gave Wayne an opportunity to depth and poignancy in films like She wore a yellow ribbon (1949), Rio Grande (1950), The Searchers (1956) and Rio Bravo (1959).
In real life he was a patriot, an ultra-American who reflected his right-wing political stance in The Alamo (1960) and in The green berets (1968). John won his only Academy Award with True Grit (1969).
Academy awards
1970 Won Best actor for: True grit (1969)
1961 Nominated Best picture for: The Alamo(1960)
1950 Nominated Best actor for: Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
Selected Movies:
- The searchers (1956)
- The man who shot Liberty Valance (1962)
- Red River (1948)
- Stagecoach (1939)
- Quiet Man, The (1952)
- Rio Bravo (1959)
- She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
- The longest day (1962)
Books:
S. Zmijewsky and B. Zmijewsky and M. Ricci -> The Complete Films of John Wayne (1983/1995)
Randy Roberts and James S. Olson -> John Wayne, American (1995)
Ronald L. Davis -> Duke: The Life and Image of John Wayne (1998)
Emanuel Levy -> John Wayne: Prophet of the American Way of Life (1988/1998)
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