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Janet Leigh biography Janet Leigh (Jeanette Helen Morrison) was born on July 6, 1927, in  Merced, California, USA. She was an American actress, married to Tony Curtis from 1951-1962, and the mother of Jamie Lee Curtis . Janet Leigh began her career as a blonde supporting actress in adventure films such as Scaramouche (1952) and The Black Shield of Falworth (1956). Still, she is best remembered as the victim in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) and for supporting roles in Touch of Evil (1958), Harper (1966), and The Fog (1980). Died on October 3, 2004. last updated October 2022

Jane Russell biography Jane Russell was born June 21, 1921, in Bemidji, Minnesota, USA. She was an American actress. She was working as a model and attending drama school when Howard Hughes offered her a role in The Outlaw (1943). The film was a huge success, not least because of Jane Russell's busty appearance and overt sexual performance, and she became a popular pinup figure during the rest of World War II. This was followed by a series of films produced by Howard Hughes, who kept Jane Russell firmly in the role of one of the fantastic sex bombs of the period. Still, in, for example, Howard Hawks' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), she was finally allowed to demonstrate her not-inconsiderable comedic talent with Marilyn Monroe . In the late 1950s, Jane Russell began to appear in television series instead of films, which she continued with widely varying intervals until her last role in 1986. Died on February 28, 2011, in Santa Maria, California, USA. last updated October 2022

Jane Fonda biography Jane Fonda (Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda) was born on December  21, 1937, in New York City, New York, USA. American actress, daughter of Henry Fonda , and sister of Peter Fonda . Jane Fonda began as an ingénue in the 1960s American comedy, for example, in the western comedy Cat Ballou (1965), and had a detour to French films, e.g., as the butt girl in her then-husband Roger Vadim's Barbarella (1968), before her breakthrough as a character actor in Sydney Pollack's They Shoot Horses Don't They? (1969) based on Horace McCoy's novel. Up through the 1970s, Jane Fonda became one of Hollywood's big stars, who often got involved in political issues, and played important roles in, for example, Alan J. Pakula's Klute (1971), Julia (1977) and Hal Ashby's drama Coming Home (1978) about the human consequences of the Vietnam War. She became an active producer with the successful The China Syndrome (1979) and Nine to Five (1981). In 1981, she published th

Jamie Foxx biography Jamie Foxx, Eric Morlon Bishop, was born December 13, 1967, in Terrell, Texas, USA. He is an American actor. After a career as, among other things, stand-up and TV comedian in, e.g., the series In Living Color 1991-2000 and The Jamie Foxx Show 1996-2001 and roles in, e.g., Oliver Stone's Any Given Sunday (1999), Jamie Foxx broke through significantly with his heartfelt portrait of the musician Ray Charles in Ray (2004), which won him an Oscar. Since then, Jamie Foxx has had eye-catching roles in, e.g., Michael Mann's extensive city dramas Collateral (2004) and Miami Vice (2006), as well as in the musical Dreamgirls (2006) and the drama The Soloist (2009) and starred in the thriller Law Abiding Citizen (2009). last updated October 2022

James Stewart biography James Stewart (James Maitland Stewart) was born May 20, 1908, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an American film actor. With his stuttering, eager line delivery, and shy sincerity, Stewart personified the folksy American everyday hero in films such as You Can't Take It With You (1938) and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). It's a Wonderful Life (1946). In the 1950s, a darker, more complex side of his talent was seen in westerns such as The Naked Spur (1953) and The Man From Laramie (1955), in Hitchcock's Rear Window (1954) and Vertigo (1958) and humorous ambiguity in John Ford's Two Rode Together (1961) and Cheyenne Autumn (1964). Stewart won an Oscar for her role in The Philadelphia Story (1940). Among his other films is The Shop Around the Corner (1940), Harvey (1950), The Glenn Miller Story (1954), Anatomy of a Murder (1959), and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962). Died July 2, 1997, in Beverly Hills, California, USA. last updated O

James Cagney biography James Cagney was born July 17, 1899, in Lower East Side, New York City, New York, USA. He was an American actor and one of Hollywood's central stars in the 1930s and 1940s. Dynamic, agile, and with dangerous smiles and machine-gun rapid lines, James Cagney played underworld types in all guises from his breakthrough in The Public Enemy (1931) to White Heat (1949). Outside the gangster genre, Cagney portrayed Broadway star George Michael Cohan (1878-1942) with gusto and vitality in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942). Cagney retired in 1961, frustrated and worn out after his verbal equilibrist role in Billy Wilder's Berlin Cold War comedy One, Two, Three (1961), which has gained cult status in Germany over the years. In 1981, James Cagney made a comeback with all his old radiance intact in Miloš Forman's Ragtime. Died on March 30, 1986, in Stanfordville, New York, USA. last updated October 2022

Jake Gyllenhaal biography Jake Gyllenhaal was born on December 19, 1980, in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an American actor who has sought quirky and challenging roles; he attracted attention in the cult film Donnie Darko (2001) and had a breakthrough with fine acting in Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain (2005). Since then, he has, among other things, seen in the war drama Jarhead (2005), David Fincher's Zodiac (2007), and as an action hero in the adventure film Prince of Persia: Sands of Time (2010). last updated October 2022