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Belgian collectors card by Publesca for Le Cinéma Ritz, no. 123. Photo: Warner Bros. John Garfield in The Breaking Point (Michael Curtiz, 1950).
American actor John Garfield (1913-1952) played brooding, rebellious, working-class characters. Garfield is seen as a predecessor of such Method actors as Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, and James Dean. Called to testify before the U.S. Congressional House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC), he denied communist affiliation and refused to 'name names', which effectively ended his film career. The stress led to his premature death at 39 from a heart attack.
John Garfield was born Jacob Julius Garfinkle on the Lower East Side of New York City, to Hannah Basia (Margolis) and David Garfinkle, who were Jewish immigrants from Zhytomyr (now in Ukraine). Jules was raised by his father, a clothes presser and part-time cantor, after his mother's death in 1920, when he was 7. He grew up in the heart of the Yiddish Theatre District. Jacob was sent to a special school for problem children, where he was introduced to boxing and drama. As a boy, he won a state-wide oratory contest sponsored by the New York Times with Benjamin Franklin as his subject. Garfield later won a scholarship to Maria Ouspenskaya's drama school. In 1932, he landed a non-paying job at Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory, where he was recommended to by his acting teachers Maria Ouspenskaya and Richard Boleslawski. He changed his name to Jules Garfield and according to IMDb, he made his Broadway debut in that company's Counsellor-at-Law, written by Elmer Rice and starring Paul Muni. (Wikipedia writes that this was actually his second Broadway appearance and that Garfield made his Broadway debut in 1932 in a play called Lost Boy, which ran for only two weeks). Later, he joined the Group Theatre company, winning acclaim for his role as Ralph, the sensitive young son who pleads for "a chance to get to the first base" in Awake and Sing. The play opened in February 1935, and Garfield was singled out by critic Brooks Atkinson for having a "splendid sense of character development." However, Garfield was passed over for the lead in Golden Boy, which had especially been written for him by author Clifford Odets. When the play was first produced by the Group Theatre in 1938, the powers that be decided Garfield wasn't 'ready' to play the role of the young violinist turned boxer. Luther Adler subsequently created the role. Embittered, Garfield signed a contract with Warner Brothers, who changed his name to John Garfield. Because both Garfield and his wife did not want to 'go Hollywood,' he had a clause in his Warner contract that allowed him to perform in a legitimate play every year at his option. The couple also refused to own a home in Tinseltown. Garfield won enormous praise for his role as the cynical and tragic composer Mickey Borden in Four Daughters (Michael Curtiz, 1938), starring Claude Rains. For his part, he was nominated for the Oscar as Best Actor in a Supporting Role. After the breakout success of Four Daughters, Warner Bros created a name-above-the-title vehicle for him, the crime film They Made Me a Criminal (Busby Berkeley, 1939). Garfield had already made a B movie called Blackwell's Island (William C. McGann, 1939). Not wanting their new star to appear in a low-budget film, Warners ordered an A movie upgrade by adding $100,000 to its budget and recalling director Michael Curtiz to shoot newly scripted scenes.
At the onset of World War II, John Garfield immediately attempted to enlist in the armed forces but was turned down because of his heart condition. Frustrated, he turned his energies to supporting the war effort. He and actress Bette Davis were the driving forces behind the opening of the Hollywood Canteen, a club offering food and entertainment for American servicemen. He traveled overseas to help entertain the troops, made several bond selling tours and starred in a string of popular, patriotic films like Air Force (Howard Hawks, 1943), Destination Tokyo (Delmer Daves, 1943) with Cary Grant, and Pride of the Marines (Delmer Faves, 1945) with Eleanor Parker. All were box office successes. Throughout his film career, John Garfield, again and again, brooding played rebellious roles despite his efforts to play varied parts. Garfield became one of Warner Bros' most suspended stars. He was suspended 11 times during his nine years at the studio. After the war, Garfield starred in a series of successful films such as the Film Noir The Postman Always Rings Twice (Tay Garnett, 1946) with Lana Turner, and the showbiz melodrama Humoresque (Jean Negulesco, 1946) with Joan Crawford. When his Warner Bros. contract expired in 1946, he did not re-sign with the studio, opting to start his own independent production company instead. Garfield was one of the first Hollywood actors to do so. In the Best Picture Oscar-winning Gentleman's Agreement (Elia Kazan, 1947), Garfield took a featured but supporting, part because he believed deeply in the film's exposé of antisemitism in America. In 1948, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his starring role in Body and Soul (Robert Rossen, 1947) with Lilli Palmer. That same year, Garfield returned to Broadway in the play Skipper Next to God.
Active in liberal political and social causes, John Garfield found himself embroiled in the Communist scare of the late 1940s. Blacklisted during the McCarthy era in the early 1950s for his left-wing political beliefs, he adamantly refused to "name names" in testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in April 1951. In his only TV appearance, Garfield played Joe Bonaparte and Kim Stanley played Lorna Moon in a scene from Clifford Odets' 'Golden Boy' on Cavalcade of Stars: John Garfield, Kim Stanley, Paul Winchell & Jerry Mahoney (1950). With film work scarce because of the blacklist, Garfield returned to Broadway and starred in a 1951 or 1952 revival (the sources differ) of Golden Boy. Garfield finally played the role which Odets had written for him and which was denied him years before at the Group Theater. His final film was the Film Noir He Ran All the Way (John Berry, 1951), with Shelley Winters. On 21 May 1952, John Garfield was found dead of a heart attack in the apartment of a friend, former showgirl Iris Whitney. A week before he had separated from his wife, and hours before his death he completed a statement modifying his 1951 testimony about his Communist affiliations. A day earlier Clifford Odets had testified before HUAC and reaffirmed that Garfield had never been a member of the Communist Party. Garfield was the fourth actor to die after being subjected to HUAC investigation. The others were Mady Christians (at 59), J. Edward Bromberg (at 47) and Canada Lee (at 45). The official cause of his death was coronary thrombosis due to a blood clot blocking an artery in his heart. His funeral was mobbed by thousands of fans, in the largest funeral attendance for an actor since Rudolph Valentino. Garfield had been married to his childhood sweetheart Roberta Seidman, from 1935 till his death. They had three children, Katherine (1938-1945), actor David Garfield (1942-1995) and actress Julie Garfield (1946-). His six-year-old daughter Katharine died of an allergic reaction in 1945. He never got over the loss. John Garfield is buried at Westchester Hills Cemetery, Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
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James Gandolfini, whose portrayal of a brutal, emotionally delicate mob boss in HBO's The Sopranos helped create one of TV's greatest drama series and turned the mobster stereotype on its head, died Wednesday in Italy. He was 51.
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German actor Kai Wiesinger (1966) has appeared in several German TV shows and films since 1992. In Comedian Harmonists (1997) he played singer Erwin Bootz.
Kai Wiesinger was born in 1966 in Hanover, West Germany.
Wiesinger began taking private acting lessons as a teenager. During his Zivildienst he served as a paramedic. After that, he became an acting student in Munich. In 1990, he made his stage debut in the role of Harold in 'Harold and Maude' at the Bavarian State Theater. Since 1992 he appeared in several German TV shows and films. He received a Bavarian Film Award for his role in Sönke Wortmann's comedy Kleine Haie/Little Sharks (1992). Two years later, he appeared in the Anglo-German independent drama Backbeat (Ian Softley, 1994) a film on The Beatles' formative period in Hamburg, starring Stephen Dorf and Ian Hart. He then appeared in the hit comedy Der bewegte Mann/The Most Desired Man (Sönke Wortmann, 1994) starring Til Schweiger, Joachim Król, and Katja Riemann. The film was based on the comics by Ralf König. He had a small part in the Norwegian film Pakten/Waiting for Sunset (Leidulv Risan, 1995), starring Robert Mitchum and Cliff Robertson. A huge success was Comedian Harmonists (Joseph Vilsmaier, 1997), which chronicles the rise and fall of Germany's most famous a capella group, the Comedian Harmonists, in 1930s Germany.
Kai Wiesinger played the lawyer of Dr. Josef Mengele (Götz George), known as the "death angel of Auschwitz" in the film Nichts als die Wahrheit/After the Truth (Roland Suso Richter, 1999) depicting the fictional trial of Mengele. In 2001 followed a role in the second most successful Austrian film of all time, Poppitz (Harald Sicheritz, 2002), together with Roland Düringer and Marie Bäumer. He also played Emil's father in the family film Emil und die Detektive/Emil and the Detectives (Franziska Buch, 2001), based on the classic novel by Erich Kästner. He had a small part in the Television mystery Murder on the Orient Express (Carl Schenkel, 2001) based on the novel by Agatha Christie, featuring Hercule Poirot (Alfred Molina). The following year, he played in the Italian Mini-Series Dracula/Dracula's Curse (Roger Young, 2002), starring Patrick Bergin. Other notable screen appearances he had in the Minis-series Dresden (Roland Suso Richter, 2006), set during the bombing of Dresden in World War II, and the film Bis nichts mehr bleibt/Until Nothing Remains (Niki Klein, 2010) depicting a story about Scientology and its effects upon converts. More recently he appeared in the films Lucky Loser - Ein Sommer in der Bredouille/Lucky Loser (Nico Sommer, 2017), and the comedy Takeover (Florian Ross, 2020). From 1998 till her death in 2013, he was married to actress Chantal De Freitas. They had two children.
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Actor Matthew McConaughey, a native of Uvalde, Texas as well as a father and a gun owner, speaks to reporters about mass shootings in the United States during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 7, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
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Matthew McConaughey's delivered a heart-felt message to those lawmakers living in a remote parallel universe where lives of other citizens matter & conflict resolutions take place on a psychoanalytic couch not on a shoot out with innocent bystanders having nothing to do with their grievances!
One of the greatest actors who ever lived deserves to be immortalized in a 1/6 scale figure. This custom made figure is based on the 1980 Popeye movie starring the late Robin Williams. This figure was created through the collaboration of Michael Garver from Irongate Artisan for the Sculpts which were Painted by Peter Walker. The Clothing set is custom tailored by Geewhiz Customs. Hope you enjoy our little tribute to Robin Williams!
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1991 Oscar and Golden Globe for Reversal of Fortune
1870s carte de visite of Victorian stage actors George Rignold and Mlle. Berthe Girardin as King Henry and Katharine, as photographed by Sarony of New York.
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British postcard. Photo: Warner Bros. Publicity still for The Letter (William Wyler, 1940).
American film star Bette Davis (1908-1989) was one of the greatest actors in world cinema history. She dared to play unsympathetic, sardonic characters and was reputed for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies. Her greatest successes were her roles in romantic dramas.
After appearing in Broadway plays, Davis moved to Hollywood in 1930. Her early films for Universal were unsuccessful or she only had a small role, such as in James Whale's Waterloo Bridge (1931). Davis was preparing to return to New York when actor George Arliss chose Davis for the female lead in the Warner Brothers picture The Man Who Played God (John G. Adolfi, 1932), which would be her 'break' in Hollywood. Warner Bros. signed her a five-year contract. The role of the vicious and slatternly Mildred Rogers inOf Human Bondage (John Cromwell, 1934) earned Davis her first major critical acclaim. She established her career with several other critically acclaimed performances. For her role as a troubled actress in Dangerous (Alfred E. Green, 1935), she won her first Oscar. In 1937, she attempted to free herself from her contract and although she lost a well-publicized legal case, it marked the beginning of the most successful period of her career. In Marked Woman (Lloyd Bacon, 1937), she played a prostitute in a contemporary gangster drama inspired by the case of Lucky Luciano. For her role she was awarded the Volpi Cup at the 1937 Venice Film Festival. Her next picture was Jezebel (William Wyler, 1938), and during production Davis entered a relationship with director William Wyler. The film was a success, and Davis' performance as a spoiled Southern belle earned her a second Academy Award. Dark Victory (Edmund Goulding, 1939) became one of the highest grossing films of the year, and the role of Judith Traherne brought her an Academy Award nomination. The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (Michael Curtiz, 1939) with Errol Flynn, was her first colour film. To play the elderly Elizabeth I of England, Davis shaved her hairline and eyebrows. Davis was now Warner Bros.' most profitable star, and she was given the most important of their female leading roles. Her image was considered with care; she was often filmed in close-ups that emphasized her distinctive eyes.
Until the late 1940s, Bette Davis was one of American cinema's most celebrated leading ladies, known for her forceful and intense style. Davis gained a reputation as a perfectionist who could be highly combative, and confrontations with studio executives, film directors and co-stars were often reported. After The Letter (William Wyler, 1940), William Wyler directed Davis for the third time in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes (1941), but they clashed over the character of Regina Giddens. Taking a role originally played on stage by Tallulah Bankhead, Davis felt Bankhead's original interpretation was appropriate and followed Hellman's intent, but Wyler wanted her to soften the character. Davis refused to compromise. Her forthright manner, clipped vocal style and ubiquitous cigarette contributed to a public persona which has often been imitated and satirized. In 1941, she became the first female president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a year later, she was the co-founder of the Hollywood Canteen. Her best films include the women's picture Now Voyager (Irving Rapper, 1942) and Watch on the Rhine (Herman Shumlin, 1943). In 1947, at the age of 39, Davis gave birth to a daughter, Barbara Davis Sherry (known as B.D.) At the end of the 1940s, her box office appeal had noticeably dropped and she was labelled 'Box Office Poison'. Then producer Darryl F. Zanuck offered her the role of the aging theatrical actress Margo Channing in All About Eve (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1950). During production, she had a romantic relationship with her leading man, Gary Merrill, which led to marriage. Her career went through several of such periods of eclipse, and she admitted that her success had often been at the expense of her personal relationships. Married four times, she was once widowed and thrice divorced, and raised her children as a single parent. Later successes include the Grand Guignol horror film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich, 1962) with Joan Crawford, and the follow-up Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (Robert Aldrich, 1964) with Olivia de Havilland. Her final years were marred by a long period of ill health, but she continued acting until shortly before her death from breast cancer, with more than 100 films, television and theatre roles to her credit. She was the first person to accrue 10 Academy Award nominations for acting, and in 1977, she was the first woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute. One of her last films was Lindsay Anderson's film The Whales of August (1987), in which she played the blind sister of Lillian Gish.
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Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM was an English actor and director who, along with his contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, dominated the British stage of the mid-20th century. Wikipedia
Was sad to hear of the recent passing of the actor Bernard Cribbins. So this is my small tribute to a fine actor who was the voice of "The Wombles" the annoying guest Mr Hutchinson in a Fawlty Towers episode and many other acting roles that a lot of us may remember from our childhood. But perhaps best remembered for playing Albert Perks the station porter in the 1970 all time great family film "The Railway Children" May he rest in peace.
Bernard Cribbins (1928- 2022)
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Robert Pattinson, the English actor who plays Cedric Diggory in the latest Harry Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.
German postcard by Ross Verlag, no. 4877/1, 1929-1930. Photo: Atelier Ernst Schneider, Berlin / Tauber Tonfilm G.m.b.H.
Austrian opera singer Richard Tauber (1891-1948) was one of the world's finest Mozartian tenors of the 20th century. Some critics commented that "his heart felt every word he sang". He also tested the then-new talking pictures in such popular musical films as Ich küsse Ihre Hand, Madame (1929) with Marlene Dietrich, Das Land des Lächelns (1930) and Melodie der Liebe (1932).
Richard Tauber was the illegitimate son of soubrette Elisabeth Seiffert and actor Richard Anton Tauber. In 1913 he made his stage debut in Mozart's 'The Magic Flute' and he worked up a rich repertoire of roles in such operas as 'Don Giovanni', 'Tosca', and 'Carmen'. Franz Lehár composed several new operettas specifically designed for Tauber's voice, including 'Der Zarewitsch' (1926), 'Friederike' (1928) and 'Das Land des Lächelns' (1929). He made over seven hundred gramophone records, mainly for the Odeon Records label. He also tested the then new talking pictures in such popular musical films as Ich küsse Ihre Hand, Madame (Robert Land, 1929) with Marlene Dietrich, Das Land des Lächelns (Max Reichmann, 1930) and Melodie der Liebe (Georg Jacoby, 1932). He was elegant in appearance. He had a slight squint in his right eye and disguised it by wearing a monocle which, when accompanied by a top hat, added to the elegant effect. For many people he became the epitome of Viennese charm.
In 1933, Richard Tauber was assaulted by a group of Nazi Brownshirts because of his Jewish ancestry, and he decided to leave Germany for his native Austria. Eventually he emigrated to London and appeared in some British musical films. He earned fine notices for his portrayal of composer Franz Schubert in Blossom Time (Paul L. Stein, 1934), as well as for his work in Heart's Desire (Paul L. Stein, 1935), and Land Without Music (Walter Forde, 1936). He married his British co-star Diana Napier. In 1947, Tauber sought help for an aggravated cough which was subsequently diagnosed as lung cancer. He gave a bravura performance as Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni at Covent Garden and fulfilled this engagement the following day at the Camden Theatre, having begun and ended his formidable career performing Mozart. He died in January 1948. In the musical bio Du bist die Welt für mich (Ernst Marischka, 1953) Rudolf Schock acted and sang the role of Tauber.
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