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Melanie Griffith

(1957) Melanie Richards Griffith Filmography as Actress: Working Girl 1988 Director: Mike Nichols Starring: Harrison Ford, Melanie Griffith     The Bonfire of the Vanities 1990 Director: Brian De Palma Starring: Tom Hanks, Melanie Griffith     Lolita 1997 Director: Adrian…

Montgomery Clift

(1920–1966) Edward Montgomery Clift Filmography as Actor: I Confess 1953 Director: Alfred Hitchcock Starring: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter   Born October 17 1920 Omaha, NE (USA) Died July 23 1966 New York, NY (USA) Cause of death Heart failure Occupation…

Walter Hampden

(1879–1955) Walter Hampden Dougherty Filmography as Actor: All About Eve 1950 Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter     Sabrina 1954 Director: Billy Wilder Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn   Born June 30 1879 Brooklyn, New York,…

Humphrey Bogart

(1899–1957) Humphrey DeForest Bogart Filmography as Actor: Casablanca 1942 Director: Michael Curtiz Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman     Sabrina 1954 Director: Billy Wilder Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn   Born December 25 1899 New York, NY (USA) Died January 14 1957 Los…

Séduction (1872)

Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Séduction (Seduction, The Proposal) 1872 Oil on canvas, 163.5 x 111.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The motif of a young man at a window, wooing a woman at her spinning wheel, and the vaguely…

Barbara Bel Geddes

(1922–2005) Filmography as Actress: Vertigo 1958 Director: Alfred Hitchcock Starring: James Stewart, Kim Novak   Born October 31 1922 New York, NY (USA) Died August 8 2005 Northeast Harbor, ME (USA) Cause of death Cancer (lung) Occupation Actress Awards Emmy…

Le lever (1871)

Bouguereau, William-Adolphe (1825-1905) Le lever (Young Mother Gazing at Her Child) 1871 Oil on canvas, 142.2 x 102.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This doting mother in picturesque dress and her angelic offspring are two of many such…

Erasmus of Rotterdam (c.1532)

Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Erasmus of Rotterdam c.1532 Oil on linden panel, 17.6 x 14 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Hans Holbein the Younger was one of the most celebrated portraitists of the sixteenth century. At an…

Portrait of a Man in Royal Livery (1532-1535)

Holbein, Hans the Younger (c.1497-1543) Portrait of a Man in Royal Livery 1532–1535 Oil and gold on parchment, laid down on linden, diameter 9.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Holbein painted this small roundel about 1532–35, after his…

Thelma Ritter

(1902–1969) Filmography as Actress: All About Eve 1950 Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Starring: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter     Rear Window 1954 Director: Alfred Hitchcock Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly   Born February 14 1902 Brooklyn, New York, NY (USA) Died February 4…