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Mya Bollaers | Actress / Actrice
(pour le film "Lola vers la mer")
24eme Rencontres du Cinema Francophone en Beaujolais
"This is a HAND-PAINTED REAL PHOTOGRAPH of a BRITISH Beauty MISS GLADYS COOPER". A post card "Printed in Britain" by Rotary Photo, London, E.C.
The theme for “Smile on Saturday!” is “what’s in a name”. I knew what name I wanted to select for this theme immediately: Gemma.
A girl’s name, Gemma, is of Latin origin, meaning "gem", "gemstone" or "jewel". In Hebrew it has the meaning of "little dove". It was the third most popular female name in 1984 in the UK. Records also indicate that 3,426 girls in the United States have been named Gemma since 1880. The greatest number of people were given this name in 2012, when 1,011 people in the U.S. were given the name Gemma.
Saint Gemma was an Italian saint canonized in 1940. However I like the name Gemma because of two actresses who scored major breakthroughs in their careers in 1976: British actress Gemma Jones (whom I remember best as the straight talking Cockney Louisa Trotter the BBC television drama “The Duchess of Duke Street”) and Irish actress Gemma Craven (whom I still love to watch sing and dance across my television screen in my favourite musical “The Slipper and the Rose – the Story of Cinderella”).
This photograph is actually of Gemma Craven’s name, taken from the billing on the back page of the very rare “The Slipper and the Rose – the Story of Cinderella” movie tie in book adapted by Bryan Forbes from the original script written by Bryan Forbes, Robert B. Sherman and Richard A. Sherman, published by Namara Publications and Quartet Books in 1976.
Portrait of Jessica Lange
Lange's first starring role was in the 1976 remake of King Kong. She had no prior acting experience. Lange was also considered for the role of Wendy Torrance in The Shining before it went to Shelley Duvall (source - wiki).
source: hdwallsource
A 1902 portrait of actress Marie Doro by Burr McIntosh. My colorization of the original image in the Library of Congress archive.
"Marie Doro (born Marie Katherine Stewart; May 25, 1882 – October 9, 1956) was an American stage and film actress of the early silent film era.
She was first noticed as a chorus-girl by impresario Charles Frohman, who took her to Broadway, where she also worked for William Gillette of Sherlock Holmes fame, her early career being largely moulded by these two much-older mentors. Although generally typecast in lightweight feminine roles, she was in fact notably intelligent, cultivated and witty.
On Frohman's death in the RMS Lusitania in 1915, she moved into films, initially under contract to Adolph Zukor; most of her early movies are lost. After making a few films in Europe, she returned to America, increasingly drawn to the spiritual life, and ended as a recluse, actively avoiding friends and acquaintances.
In the early 1950s author Daniel Blum interviewed and included her in his book Great Stars of the American Stage, an homage to many theater performers, some dead, some still living at the time like Doro. Blum wrote a quick and mostly accurate run-down of her life and career and included several portraits from her Broadway years. He also included an early-1950s photo for fans who remembered but hadn't seen her in decades." --
"Marie Katherine Stewart was born to Richard Henry Stewart and Virginia Weaver in Duncannon, Pennsylvania on May 25, 1882, and began her career as a theater actress under the management of Charles Frohman before progressing to motion pictures in 1915, under contract with film producer Adolph Zukor.
She was briefly married to the vaudeville and silent screen actor Elliott Dexter; the marriage soon ended in divorce. The marriage produced no children and Doro never remarried.
Her name was linked over the years to much older William Gillette of Sherlock Holmes fame, who was consistently linked by the press with his leading ladies. The two appeared in The Admirable Crichton in 1903, in which the young Doro had a small part, Clarice and Sherlock Holmes in 1905–06, and Diplomacy in 1914. She also starred in Gillette's 1910 production of Electricity.
On a tour of England, she acted with the unknown teenage Charlie Chaplin, who was besotted with her. Later, when he was famous, they met in America, but she had to confess that she had no memory of him.
Doro was a Dresden doll-like brunette, described by drama critic William Winter as "a young actress of piquant beauty, marked personality and rare expressiveness of countenance." She was talented, beautiful and a star in her own right. The few silent films of hers that survive show a gifted natural actress who did not always get the best parts.
Lowell Thomas, the traveler, writer, and broadcaster, knew Doro well, saying that "her fragile-looking type of pulchritude caused her to be cast in usually insipid, pretty-pretty roles." Offstage, she was intelligent, an expert on Shakespeare and Elizabethan poetry, and possessed a penetrating humor and a sometimes acid wit. "She became associated with Gillette quite early in her career and he, a man of strong and powerful mind, exercised considerable influence over her development."
(Wikipedia)
Actress Nichelle Nichols seen here as the communications officer "Lt Uhura" in the original "Star Trek" series. Once again someone we were all used to seeing from time to time on our tv screens as part of our teenage years. Sadly she is no longer with us. My tribute to a fine actress. May she rest in peace.
Nichelle Nichols. (1932-2022)
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