Tag: Presidential Medal of Freedom

Georgia O’Keeffe

(1887–1986) Georgia Totto O’Keeffe The artist’s works: Black Spot No. 3 1919 Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo Lake George Reflection c.1921–1922 Private collection Pink Spirea c.1922 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence Dark Abstraction 1924 Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis Fall Maple…

Frank Sinatra

(1915–1998) Francis Albert Sinatra, OMRI Filmography as Actor: Around the World in 80 Days 1956 Director: Michael Anderson Starring: David Niven, Cantinflas     High Society 1956 Director: Charles Walters Starring: Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly     Paris When It Sizzles 1964 Director: Richard Quine Starring: Audrey Hepburn, William…

Sidney Poitier

(1927–2022) Sidney Poitier, KBE Filmography as Actor: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner 1967 Director: Stanley Kramer Starring: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn     Born February 20 1927 Miami, FL (USA) Died January 6 2022 Los Angeles, CA (USA) Cause of…

Barbra Streisand

(1942) Barbara Joan Streisand Filmography as Actress: The Way We Were 1973 Director: Sydney Pollack Starring: Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford     Meet the Fockers 2004 Director: Jay Roach Starring: Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller     Little Fockers 2010 Director: Paul Weitz Starring: Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller…

Nelson Rockefeller

(1908–1979) Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller 41st Vice President of the United States (1974–1977) Nelson Rockefeller in Film: Frida 2002 Director: Julie Taymor Starring: Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina   Born July 8 1908 Bar Harbor, ME (USA) Died January 26 1979 New York, NY (USA)…

Kirk Douglas

(1916–2020) Issur Danielovitch Demsky Filmography as Actor: Lust for Life 1956 Directors: Vincente Minnelli, George Cukor Starring: Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn     Spartacus 1960 Director: Stanley Kubrick Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier   Born December 9 1916 Amsterdam, NY (USA) Died…

Robert Redford

(1936) Charles Robert Redford, Jr. Filmography as Actor: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1969 Director: George Roy Hill Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford     The Way We Were 1973 Director: Sydney Pollack Starring: Barbra Streisand, Robert Redford   Born August 18 1936 Santa…

Tom Hanks

(1956) Thomas Jeffrey Hanks Filmography as Actor: The Bonfire of the Vanities 1990 Director: Brian De Palma Starring: Tom Hanks, Melanie Griffith     Sleepless in Seattle 1993 Director: Nora Ephron Starring: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan     You’ve Got Mail 1998…

Helen Hayes

(1900–1993) Helen Hayes MacArthur, née Brown Filmography as Actress: Airport 1970 Director: George Seaton Starring: Burt Lancaster, Dean Martin   Born October 10 1900 Washington, DC (USA) Died March 17 1993 Nyack, NY (USA) Cause of death Heart Failure Occupation…

James Stewart

(1908–1997) James Maitland Stewart Filmography as Actor: The Philadelphia Story 1940 Director: George Cukor Starring: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn     Rope 1948 Director: Alfred Hitchcock Starring: James Stewart, John Dall     Rear Window 1954 Director: Alfred Hitchcock Starring: James Stewart, Grace Kelly    …