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You'll see him soon in PRELUDE TO FAME with Guy Rolfe, Kathleen Byron and Kathleen Ryan
Magazine cutting from Picturegoer : The National Film Weekly (Alan Ladd cover), Week ending April 29, 1950. Every Thursday. Threepence.
The photographs were taken by the stills photographer Ian Jeayes.
Bought from an eBay seller in Wardle, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.
Jeremy Spenser (1937-), British actor, active 1948-1967.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelude_to_Fame
C. A. Lejeune, The Observer, 7 May 1950:
"The film is based on a story by Aldous Huxley called Young Archimedes. It is about a small boy, an Italian farmer's son, who turns out to be a musical prodigy. But for that light chance that touches off the direction of an artist from his earliest years, he might have been a poet. He is not a creator, but an interpreter. His ear picks out the concert of everyday sounds, and correlates the beat of a passing train with the rhythmic crowing of cocks and the whisper of wind in the grass. There is nothing fancy about this idea. Test it for yourself. Sit quite still for a moment, and listen. You will find the inner ear is filled with layer upon layer of sound. I am writing, for instance, beside a gas stove in a room with a wide open window. I can hear, at one and the same time, the faint hiss of gas, the bark of a dog, the mad song of innumerable birds, the distant drone of an aeroplane, a man crying rag-and-bones, a motor-car changing gear: my subconscious mind is bothered with a half-remembered tune, and my conscious mind is trying to compose words into some sort of dominant theme. By nature, we are all living in the heart of a vast orchestral score. But only a few of us, by special gift or training, can hope to make musical order out of it.
The small hero of Prelude to Fame has this natural gift. Rich patrons give him the training to develop it. He becomes the most celebrated child conductor in the world, but suddenly the strain gets too much for him, and he wants either to kill himself or go home. He goes home, leaving the nastiest of his rich patrons fulminating.
The child and the music are the main things, and in all that concerns them I cannot find a fault. A small boy called Jeremy Spenser plays the musical prodigy and manages to be wholly convincing without being in any way a blot. All children are natural mimics, but it is an unusually talented or receptive child who can simulate an intellectual passion. This child does just that. It is highly improbable that Jeremy Spenser could actually conduct the Royal Philharmonic or the San Carlo Theatre Orchestra with success. The impression of the film is that he could and that is all that matters.
Muir Mathieson, the best man of music that British films have permanently employed, makes sure that the musical basis is sound. It is very clear indeed that the score of Prelude to Fame has been built up, deliberately, by a man who knows what's what. He doesn't believe in the fiction of musical groundings. He doesn't kow-tow to the foibles of musical highbrows. He contrives his film music-plot, from Neapolitan love-songs to Weber to Bach to Beethoven to Borodin, with a truly magnificent sense of drama. His best job, and the picture's is to grant a good orchestra the courtesy of allowing them to play the 'Oberon' overture without interruption. This passage of Prelude to Fame, wonderfully cut, beautifully played, with the child conducting in an apparent glory of possession, is so right that I should like to see it carved out of the heart of an inconspicuous picture and kept for posterity."
Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella, professionally known as Rudolph Valentino (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926), was an Italian actor naturalized American who starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle, and The Son of the Sheik. He was an early pop icon, a sex symbol of the 1920s, who was known as the "Latin lover" or simply as "Valentino". He had applied for American citizenship shortly before his untimely death at age 31, which caused mass hysteria among his female fans and further propelled him into iconic status. Wikipedia
Spanish collector's card. La Novela Semanal Cinematográfica, No. 12.
Frank Mayo (1889–1963) was an American actor, who appeared in 310 films between 1911 and 1949.
Born in New York, Frank Mayo was the grandson of 19th-century theater actor Frank M. Mayo and made his theater debut at age 6 in his grandfather's play Davy Crockett. Mayo was first credited in film in the 1911 short film The Thumb Print (1911), by the Vitagraph Studios, along with Earle Williams, Maurice Costello and Florence Turner. He later acted in The Lure of the Windigo (Selig, 1914) and acted at the Balboa Amusement Company in such films as The Love Liar (1915), The Rim of the Desert (1915), The Adventures of a Madcap (1915) and in the series The Red Circle (1915), alongside Ruth Roland. Meanwhile, Mayo directed a single film, The Lost Bracelet (Lubin, 1916).
He signed to World Films in 1918, and acted in several World Film films throughout the 1918 and 1919. For Universal Pictures Mayo starred between 1919 and 1923 in some 25 features including The Girl in Number 29 (1920), The Red Lane (1920), Hitchin 'Posts (1920), The Shark Master (1921), and Out of the Silent North (1922). In 1923 he moved over to Goldwyn Pictures where he starred in e.g. Souls for Sale (Rupert Hughes, Goldwyn 1923) and Wild Oranges (King Vidor, Goldwyn 1924), after which he acted for First National and a whole string of smaller companies, as in The Triflers (Louis Gasnier, Bud Schulberg productions 1924) and Then Came the Woman (David Hartford, David Hartford Productions 1926). After 1927 he had a big gap in film acting and started again in 1930 when the sound film had set in. However, his glory days as film star were over, and he had now to satisfy with supporting parts at most and more often he had uncredited parts. Until 1949 Mayo acted but almost only in uncredited parts,
Frank Mayo's first wife, Joyce Eleanor Mayo, told in 1920 that her husband had deserted his marriage in 1919 after “six years of marriage”, i.e. from 193 onward. Afterward, Frank married actress Dagmar Godowsky in Tijuana, Mexico in 1921. Frank married Dagmar four days after an emergency proceeding to divorce Joyce Eleanor Mayo, but California law did not allow new marriage until a final sentence was reached one year after the injunction was granted, which eventually characterized the case as bigamy. In March 1925, Dagmar Godowsky appointed Anna Luther as co-responsible in a lawsuit that initiated the divorce proceedings after alleging to have discovered Luther with her husband in Mayo's apartment. The marriage was annulled in August 1928, based on the fact that Mayo had another wife. In 1963 Mayo died in Laguna Beach, California of acute myocardial infarction, and was buried in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills).
Sources, English and Portuguese Wikipedia, IMDB.
Vin Diesel (born Mark Sinclair Vincent; July 18, 1967) is an American actor, writer, director and producer. He became known in the early 2000s, appearing in several successful Hollywood films, including The Fast and the Furious and xXx. He founded the production companies One Race Films, Tigon Studios and Racetrack Records.
Tony Award-winning actor Annaleigh Ashford joined fellow Broadway Coloradans Beth Malone ("Fun Home") and Mara Davi ("Dames at Sea" for "United in Love," a special concert event benefiting the Denver Actors Fund on April 30 at the Lone Tree Arts Center. The three were "back to give back," joined by powerhouse singer, actor and First Lady of Denver Mary Louise; Broadway’s Jodie Langel ("Les Misérables"); composer Denise Gentilini ("I Am Alive") and Denver performers Jimmy Bruenger, Eugene Ebner, Becca Fletcher, Clarissa Fugazzotto, Robert Johnson, Daniel Langhoff, Susannah McLeod, Chloe McLeod, Sarah Rex, Jeremy Rill, Kristen Samu, Willow Samu, Thaddeus Valdez, and the casts of both "The Jerseys" (Klint Rudolph, Brian Smith, Paul Dwyer and Randy St. Pierre), and the all-student cast of the upcoming "13 the Musical" (Rylee Vogel, Josh Cellar, Hannah Meg Weinraub, Hannah Katz, Lorenzo Giovannetti, Maddie Kee, Kaden Hinkle, Darrow Klein, Evan Gibley, Conrad Eck and Macy Friday). The purpose of the evening was to spread a message of love and hope while raising funds for the Denver Actors Fund, which has made $90,000 available to local theatre artists facing situational medical need. The concert was presented by presented by Ebner-Page Productions. Photos by RDG Photography, Gary Duff and DCPA Senior Arts Journalist John Moore, also the founder of the Denver Actors Fund. For more information, go to www.denveractorsfund.org
What casting directors really want
Had a shoot with young actor Jordan Billings.
We met up in his home town of Newton Le Willows. He travelled down from his acting studies at Preston University.
Casting directors and agents had given Jordan advice on the images required for professional actors' listings on Spotlight, Starnow and for casting in general. They want clean, professional headshots, so casting directors know what they're getting.
With the mobile studio set up, we captured a good range of images, giving Jordan plenty to choose from.
Jordan is an absolute gentleman and has a lovely family.
Find out more about Jordan at:-
www.starnow.co.uk/jordanbillings
www.mandy.com/uk/actor/jordan-billings
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPDXWKN7u04&t=12s (showreel)
and of course on Starlight.com
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Ross Kemp (born 21 July 1964) is a BAFTA award-winning British actor, author and journalist, who rose to prominence in the role of Grant Mitchell in the BBC soap opera, EastEnders. Since 2006, Kemp has received international recognition as an investigative journalist for his critically acclaimed and award-winning documentary series Ross Kemp on Gangs
Actor and model, Back to the old Photography, its a lot easier with digital than with 5x4 Ektachrome film, or even the mamiya 67 for fashion, model and actor photos
Tony Award-winning actor Annaleigh Ashford joined fellow Broadway Coloradans Beth Malone ("Fun Home") and Mara Davi ("Dames at Sea" for "United in Love," a special concert event benefiting the Denver Actors Fund on April 30 at the Lone Tree Arts Center. The three were "back to give back," joined by powerhouse singer, actor and First Lady of Denver Mary Louise; Broadway’s Jodie Langel ("Les Misérables"); composer Denise Gentilini ("I Am Alive") and Denver performers Jimmy Bruenger, Eugene Ebner, Becca Fletcher, Clarissa Fugazzotto, Robert Johnson, Daniel Langhoff, Susannah McLeod, Chloe McLeod, Sarah Rex, Jeremy Rill, Kristen Samu, Willow Samu, Thaddeus Valdez, and the casts of both "The Jerseys" (Klint Rudolph, Brian Smith, Paul Dwyer and Randy St. Pierre), and the all-student cast of the upcoming "13 the Musical" (Rylee Vogel, Josh Cellar, Hannah Meg Weinraub, Hannah Katz, Lorenzo Giovannetti, Maddie Kee, Kaden Hinkle, Darrow Klein, Evan Gibley, Conrad Eck and Macy Friday). The purpose of the evening was to spread a message of love and hope while raising funds for the Denver Actors Fund, which has made $90,000 available to local theatre artists facing situational medical need. The concert was presented by presented by Ebner-Page Productions. Photos by RDG Photography, Gary Duff and DCPA Senior Arts Journalist John Moore, also the founder of the Denver Actors Fund. For more information, go to www.denveractorsfund.org
American actor, famous for his role as convict Dragline in Cool Hand Luke, Joe Patroni in the Airport series of disaster movies from the 1970s, and as Captain Ed Hocken in the Naked Gun series of comedy films.
Emma watson at the world premiere screening of 'harry potter and the prisoner of azkaban' held at radio city music hall. New york city. 23 may 2004. Pictures dennis van tine/Lfi
This was uploaded for a comment I made on this UIE blog post.
www.uie.com/brainsparks/2007/11/15/personas-vs-user-descr...
Actors Seth Green and Clare Grant with Webb project engineer Ray Lundquist.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Pat Izzo
Tony Award-winning actor Annaleigh Ashford joined fellow Broadway Coloradans Beth Malone ("Fun Home") and Mara Davi ("Dames at Sea" for "United in Love," a special concert event benefiting the Denver Actors Fund on April 30 at the Lone Tree Arts Center. The three were "back to give back," joined by powerhouse singer, actor and First Lady of Denver Mary Louise; Broadway’s Jodie Langel ("Les Misérables"); composer Denise Gentilini ("I Am Alive") and Denver performers Jimmy Bruenger, Eugene Ebner, Becca Fletcher, Clarissa Fugazzotto, Robert Johnson, Daniel Langhoff, Susannah McLeod, Chloe McLeod, Sarah Rex, Jeremy Rill, Kristen Samu, Willow Samu, Thaddeus Valdez, and the casts of both "The Jerseys" (Klint Rudolph, Brian Smith, Paul Dwyer and Randy St. Pierre), and the all-student cast of the upcoming "13 the Musical" (Rylee Vogel, Josh Cellar, Hannah Meg Weinraub, Hannah Katz, Lorenzo Giovannetti, Maddie Kee, Kaden Hinkle, Darrow Klein, Evan Gibley, Conrad Eck and Macy Friday). The purpose of the evening was to spread a message of love and hope while raising funds for the Denver Actors Fund, which has made $90,000 available to local theatre artists facing situational medical need. The concert was presented by presented by Ebner-Page Productions. Photos by RDG Photography, Gary Duff and DCPA Senior Arts Journalist John Moore, also the founder of the Denver Actors Fund. For more information, go to www.denveractorsfund.org