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Gene Kelly biography Gene Kelly (Eugene Curran Kelly) was born August 23, 1912, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an American dancer, choreographer, actor, and director, one of the leading forces in the golden age of musicals 1945-55. Gene Kelly characterized the genre with his athletic, imaginative, and jazz-ballet-influenced dance, first as an actor in Anchors Aweigh (1945) and The Pirate (1948), then also as a director with Stanley Donen in On the Town (1949), which brought dance from the studio into the big city, Singin' in the Rain (1952). It's Always Fair Weather (1955). Also famous is his finale ballet to George Gershwin's music in An American in Paris (1951). Gene Kelly later had serious roles, for example, in Inherit the Wind (1959), but returned as a musical director with Hello, Dolly! (1969). In a film dialogue in Lulu on the Bridge (1998), author Paul Auster has two of his characters agree that the same song, "Singin' in the Rain," in the fi...

John Grisham biography John Grisham was born in 1955, an American lawyer and author. After debuting in 1989 with the courtroom drama A Time to Kill (1995), he established his name on the suspense novel market with The Firm (1991), The Pelican Brief (1992), and The Client (1993). The action-packed bestsellers all focus on the struggle of ordinary people against a complicated and opaque American justice system, best in The Chamber (1994), which also debates the subject of the death penalty. All the novels have been made into films; the most successful was Sydney Pollack's The Firm (1993). The Last Juror (2004) is a story of social indignation over the state of the law in the 1970s in the southeastern part of the United States, which has never fully recovered from the defeat in the American Civil War back in the middle of the 1800s. Since then, several bestsellers from the hand of John Grisham have followed almost every year, most recently The Racketeer (2012), which again takes place...

Gena Rowlands biography Gena Rowlands, born in 1934, American actress. Among Gena Rowland's most essential roles are intense, neurotically marked portraits in the films of her husband, John Cassavetes, first in Faces (1968), later in i.a. A Woman Under the Influence (1974) and Love Streams (1984). Gena Rowland's other notable films are Another Woman (1988) and Something to Talk About (1995). last updated October 2022

Roger Moore biography Roger Moore (Roger George Moore) was born on October 14, 1927. Roger Moore was known for his self-deprecating acting style in TV series such as The Saint (1962-68) and The Persuaders (1971-72) before replacing Sean Connery as James Bond in Live and Let Die (1973) and seven films later ended his run with A View to a Kill (1985). Died on May 23, 2017. last updated October 2022

Tony Curtis biography Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz) was born on June 3, 1925. He was an American actor. After several roles as a smooth romantic hero, Tony Curtis developed a sure talent for comedy, i.a., in Operation Petticoat (1959) and Billy Wilder's Some Like It Hot (1959). He also had more severe roles in Sweet Smell of Success (1957) and The Boston Strangler (1968), and on television, he found success as the newly rich American upstart in the British series The Persuaders (1971-1972). Tony Curtis starred in the Danish film Walter and Carlo in America (1989). He is the father of actor Jamie Lee Curtis . Died on September 29, 2010. last updated October 2022

Jamie Lee Curtis biography Jamie Lee Curtis was born on November 22, 1958 Jamie Lee Curtis is an American actress, the daughter of Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis . She broke through in horror roles, i.a., Halloween (1978) with several sequels. Still, She later got leading roles in a witty comedy, e.g., in Trading Places (1983), A Fish Called Wanda (1988), and romantic heroine, e.g., in Forever Young (1992). Among her other films are Blue Steel (1989), My Girl (1991), James Cameron's action film True Lies (1994), where she played opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger , Virus (1999), Drowning Mona (2000), Freaky Friday (2003) and the romantic comedy You Again (2010). She again stars in the Halloween horror movie in Halloween Ends (2022). last updated October 2022

Michael Fassbender biography Michael Fassbender was born in Heidelberg, Germany, on April 2, 1977. He is half Irish, half German, and speaks German as a second language, which Quentin Tarantino exploited in Fassbender's international breakthrough film Inglourious Basterds (2009). Before the breakthrough, Fassbender had mainly played dark and mysterious first-lover roles in the TV series 'Hex' (2004-2005) and in Francois Ozon's 'Angel' (2007). The career already seemed to get a boost with a minor role in Spielberg's TV series Comrades at War back in 2001 and later in the action film 300 (2006), but it was the small independent film 'Hunger' (2008) that made the difference. In 'Hunger,' Fassbender played the authentic Bobby Sands, who died during a hunger strike in 1981. He lost a significant amount of weight to play the role and was subsequently honored with several awards, and today Fassbender is one of Hollywood's most sought-after actor...