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Jeff Bridges biography Jeff Bridges was born On December 4, 1949. The versatile character star got his breakthrough in Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show (1971), followed by John Huston's Fat City (1972). Jeff Bridges has since had significant roles in, e.g., Starman (1984), Francis Ford Coppola's Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988), and The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), in which he starred with his brother Beau Bridges ( b. 9.12.1941), Terry Gilliam's The Fisher King (1991) and the Coen brothers' comedy The Big Lebowski (1998), in which Jeff Bridges shone in the role of the anti-hero The Dude. The family drama The Door in the Floor (2004) and the war comedy The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009) showed Jeff Bridges different sides of his acting, and in 2010 he was awarded an Oscar for the role of an aging and repentant country & western star in Crazy Heart. The following year, he continued his excellent portrayal of fallen heroes in the Coen brothers' west

Jeanette MacDonald biography Jeanette MacDonald, 1901-1965, American actress and singer. Jeanette MacDonald was an operetta heroine in popular constellations, first with Maurice Chevalier in The Love Parade (1929), Love Me Tonight (1932), and The Merry Widow (1934), then eight times with Nelson Eddy in i.a. Naughty Marietta (1935) and Rose Marie (1936). After World War II, she resumed her original career as a singer on Broadway. last updated October 2022

Jean Seberg biography Jean Seberg was born November 13, 1938, in Marshalltown, Iowa, USA. She was an American film actor. Seberg was chosen for the title role in Otto Preminger's Saint Joan (1957) and cashed in as a failure. Things didn't go much better in Preminger's Sagan film adaptation Bonjour Tristesse (1958), which, however, with its French theme and filming on location, points to her role as an American in Paris in collaboration with Jean-Paul Belmondo in Jean Luc Godard's À bout de souffle (1960), which made her an icon of the French New Wave and has secured her a permanent place in film history. Despite several approaches, this role was not followed up; her other career, mainly in the USA, included musicals, disaster films, etc. Only the psychotic title role in Robert Rossen's Lilith (1964) asserts itself above her other films. Jean Seberg got involved politically, i.a., in the Black Panther Party, and was monitored and harassed by the CIA. Her personal lif

Jean Harlow biography Jean Harlow (Harlean Carpenter) was born as an American actress on March 3, 1911. Jean Harlow was the first sex symbol of early tone films and, moreover, a witty comedy star who could live up to her image as a "dumb blonde" and at the same time be ironic about it. She got her breakthrough with the pilot film Hell's Angels (1930), and her first significant role was in Platinum Blonde (1931). Her other famous roles include The Public Enemy (1931, Public Enemy No. 1), Dinner at Eight (1933), and Libeled Lady (1936, Her Reputation is in Danger).  Died on June 7, 1937 - died of kidney failure at age 26. last updated October 2022

Jean Arthur biography Jean Arthur was born on October 17, 1905, and was an American actor. Jean Arthur debuted in 1923 but got his big break in John Ford's gangster comedy The Whole Town's Talking (1935). In the 1930s and 1940s, she appeared in a large number of films, often in the role of a dashing, independent, and down-to-earth woman with a romantic beating heart; the best-known films are Frank Capra's comedies Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). Jean Arthur played her last role in George Stevens' western Shane (1953). Died on June 19, 1991. last updated October 2022

Jayne Mansfield Biography Jayne Mansfield, 1933-1967, American actress. Jayne Mansfield, who has been called "the poor man's Marilyn Monroe ," caricatured the era's glamorous, platinum blonde sex symbol in the comedies The Girl Can't Help It (1956) and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957). Jayne Mansfield got more severe roles in The Wayward Bus (1957) and The Challenge (1960).  Died on June 29, 1967, in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. She was killed in a car accident. last updated October 2022

Jason Robards biography Jason Robards was born July 26, 1922, and is an American actor; he was 1961-69 and married to Lauren Bacall. After breaking through on Broadway in 1956 in Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh and other great theater performances, Jason Robards came to the film. He has often made a strong mark in portrait roles, e.g., as the editor-in-chief in Alan J. Pakula's All the President's Men (1976) and Dashiell Hammett in Julia (1977), both of which earned him an Oscar, as well as the Richard M. Nixon impersonator Richard Munckton in the television series Washington Behind Closed Doors (1977). Among Jason Robard's other roles can be mentioned the two western films, Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) and Sam Peckinpah's The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), as well as Melvin & Howard (1980), Philadelphia (1993) and A Thousand Acres (1997). Jason Robards played his last film role in Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia (1999). Died