(1845–1924) Ferdinand Anne Piestre The artist’s works: Caïn 1880 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Une forge 1893 Musée d’Orsay, Paris Autoportrait 1912 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Born December 24 1845 Paris (France) Died March 20 1924 Paris (France) Buried Cimetière de Montmartre (Paris) Pupils Émile Bernard (1868-1941)…
(1811–1863) The artist’s works: Self-Portrait c.1844 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Thackeray the Humourist and the Man of Letters 1864 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Lady Writing s.d. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago Works: • A Little Dinner at Timmins’s (English) • Ballads (English) •…
(1923–2012) Charles Edward Durning Filmography as Actor: Tootsie 1982 Director: Sydney Pollack Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange Born February 28 1923 Highland Falls, NY (USA) Died December 24 2012 Manhattan, New York, NY (USA) Occupation Actor Awards Golden Globe Hollywood Walk of…
(1922–1990) Ava Lavinia Gardner Born December 24 1922 Grabtown, NC (USA) Died January 25 1990 Westminster, London (England) Cause of death Pneumonia Husband (1942-1943) Mickey Rooney (1920-2014) Husband (1945-1946) Artie Shaw (1910-2004) Husband (1951-1957) Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) Boyfriend (1956) Walter Chiari…
(1906–1967) Franz Wachsmann Works: • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941) • Fascination (1957) • Love in the Afternoon (1957) • Rear Window (1954) • Rebecca (1940) • Sunset Boulevard (1950) • Suspicion (1941) • The Philadelphia Story (1940) Filmography as Composer: Rebecca…
(1911–1975) Max ‘Benny’ Herman Works: • Movie Theme Songs • “Scene d’amour” from Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” • Vertigo (1958) Filmography as Composer: Citizen Kane 1941 Director: Orson Welles Starring: Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore Vertigo 1958 Director: Alfred Hitchcock Starring: James Stewart, Kim…
(1886–1962) Mihály Kertész Filmography as Director: Casablanca 1942 Director: Michael Curtiz Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman Born December 24 1886 Budapest (Hungary) Died April 10 1962 Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA (USA) Cause of death Cancer Buried Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale) Occupation Film director Award…
(1166–1216) John Lackland, Jean sans Terre King of England (1199–1216) Lord of Ireland (1177–1216) Count of Poitiers (1199–1204) Duke of Normandy (1199–1204) Duke of Aquitaine (1199–1216) John Lackland in Literature: • Shakespeare, William (1564-1616): King John (1596) John Lackland in Film: The Lion in…
(1923–1984) Peter Sydney Ernest Ayden Filmography as Actor: Little Women 1949 Director: Mervyn LeRoy Starring: June Allyson, Peter Lawford Born September 7 1923 London (England) Died December 24 1984 Los Angeles, CA (USA) Cause of death Kidney failure Wife (1954-1966)…
(1916–1994) Filmography as Actor: Little Women 1949 Director: Mervyn LeRoy Starring: June Allyson, Peter Lawford Three Coins in the Fountain 1954 Director: Jean Negulesco Starring: Clifton Webb, Dorothy McGuire Born September 18 1916 Bologna (Italia) Died December 24 1994 Roma…