At the 1962 Golden Globes, Marilyn was named female World Film Favorite, once again demonstrating her widespread appeal. Sadly, in a shocking turn of events on the early morning of August 5, 1962, 36-year-old Marilyn died in her sleep at her Brentwood, California home. She overdosed on sleeping pills. The world was stunned. Marilyn's vibrant spirit and beauty made it impossible to believe she was gone.
When Cher was young she was diagnosed with dyslexia but didn’t let that stop her from her dream in 1941 she saw the movie Dumbo q“and I pead my pants” she realized that she wanted to become a singer and a dancing animal. At the age of 16 Cher dropped out of Fresno high School and headed for Hollywood to start
An example of some of the things that George Henderson says in his paper about poverty is, “Poverty is staying up all night on' cold nights to watch the fire knowing one spark on the newspaper covering the walls means you’re sleeping child dies in flames. In summer poverty is watching gnats and flies devour your baby's tears when he cries.” In the novel Enrique’s Journey, by Sonia Nazario poverty is everywhere, some places are just worse than others like families living in shacks, only being able to eat one meal a day. These authors and others are pointing out an indisputable fact. Poverty is everywhere and everyone needs to be doing something about it. Sonia Nazario describes a very graphic picture of children without one or any parents, food, shelter, and clothing, which many Americans choose to ignore and go about their business like it doesn’t happen here and around the world.
Dandridge was scheduled to fly to New York the next day to prepare for her nightclub engagement at Basin Street East. Several hours after her conversation with Branton ended, Dandridge was found dead by her manager, Earl Mills. Two months later, a Los Angeles pathology institute determined the cause to be an accidental overdose of Imipramine, a tricyclic antidepressant.The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office came to a different conclusion Miss Dandridge died of a rare embolism blockage of the blood passages at the lungs and brain by tiny pieces of fat flaking off from bone marrow in a fractured right foot she sustained in a Hollywood film five days before she died. She was 42 years
The Crucible is set in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692 where God and hard work consumes the people. At the beginning of the play, Reverend Parris is lying next to the bed of his ten year old daughter Betty who is unmoving and unresponsive. Hysteria is running through Salem because of the rumor that Betty is bewitched and she and several other girls where dancing in the forest with Parris’s slave Tituba. Solely afraid of losing his job, Parris questions Abigail. Even though Abigail denies that she and the girls participate in witchcraft, Parris does not believe her because Abigail has been out of work since Elizabeth Proctor abruptly fired her.
The movie had to deal with its own problems and issues during the shooting of the movie. The characters of Dorothy and her friends, however have become forever linked with the actors who created the roles of the movie. W.C. Fields was the first choice to play the Wizard, but a disagreement between the studio and comic actor eliminated his name from the list. Actress Gale Sondergaard, that same year being famous as the Empress Eugenie in Juarez, was auditioned for the Wicked Witch role (Turner Movie Classics). Sondergaard was an accomplished actress, whose career was halted for 20 years thanks to the Hollywood Blacklist, but her exotic beauty was in favor of Margaret Hamilton's more traditionally "witchy" look (Turner Movie Classics).
After six successful reprints of the Spanish-issue, "People" decided to release a Spanish-language version of their magazine, "People en Española" which became a popular selling magazine. Selena had many nicknames as a child including preciosa, and la Rena de tex-mex. Her trademarks were her sequin purple jumpsuit, silky pure black hair, and her shiny red lip-gloss. Selena was working on her first English album at the time she was killed. Sources say she was on her way to the studio when she was murdered.
Bette Davis Bette Davis was one of the greatest actresses to come out of Hollywood. She was one of the biggest stars in the film industry in the 19th century. Bette Davis was born on April 5, 1908 in Lowell, Massachusetts to Harlow Morrell Davis (father) and Ruth Favor Davis (mother). She died on October 6, 1989 in Neuilly, France to metastasized breast cancer. Bette was married four times her first husband was Harmon Nelson 1932-1938, her second was Arthur Farnsworth 1941-1943 he died, her third was William Grant Sherry 1945 they had one child, her fourth husband was actor Gary Merrill 1950-1960 they had 2 children.
One can find more information about this stage of development of the American society from primary sources. Nannie Alderson (1942) describes the life of American women in the small towns of the West in her book A Bride Goes West. Some of the experts from the book point out to significant changes in the American people’s minds regarding the role that women played in society. In her book, Alderson also describes the reverse side of free relations and feminization. She writes, “Two-thirds of the women [engaged in prostitution] died young from sexually transmitted diseases, botched abortions, alcohol abuse, narcotics abuse, suicide, or murders.” The same shift in public mind regarding the family values is described in Galen’s Epitaph on a Tombstone.
Shirley became the number 1 box-office attraction in Hollywood between 1934 and 1938, pulling her studio out of the red. An early hit was Bright Eyes where she costarred with one of her favorite leading men, James Dunn, also introducing her signature hit, On the Good Ship Lollipop. When Fox signed her in 1934, the studio abandoned the sexpot image and let her be what she really was, an energetic, resilient, good-natured young girl. Fox needed a star and during the first years of the Depression the studio was in grave financial trouble. Within a year of her withdrawal from Fox, Shirley Temple was signed for her comeback, plans made to team her with Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney for the Andy Hardy series, and then when that idea was hastily abandoned, Shirley was teamed with Garland and Rooney for the musical Babes on Broadway.