#BOTD 1913 – 1967 Vivien Leigh, (b. Hartley), 53, (TB), English actress
Fire Over England * Dark Journey * Storm in a Teacup * Three Weeks Together * The First and Last (all 1937) * A Yank at Oxford * Sidewalks of London (both 1938) * Gone with the Wind (1939 Oscar Best Actress)
Charlie a London street performer, protects the beautiful Liberty, 'Libby', a runaway and pickpocket, and takes her into his troupe. When Libby is 'discovered' and leaves Charlie to becomes a big star, he is heartbroken.
"As God is my witness they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this and when it's over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill...I'll never be hungry again."
Gone with Wind (1939)
#BOTD 1913 – 1967 Vivien Leigh, 53, English actress.
Waterloo Bridge * 21 Days (1940) That Hamilton Woman (1941) Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) Anna Karenina (1948) A Streetcar Named Desire (1951 Oscar) Deep Blue Sea (1955) The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone (1961) Ship of Fools (1965)
"Director George Cukor described her as a 'consummate actress, hampered by beauty'. Laurence Olivier said critics should 'give her credit for being an actress and not go on forever letting their judgments be distorted by her great beauty.'"
The scandalous adulterous affair between Nelson and renowned beauty Emma, Lady Hamilton, wife of a British ambassador. The film was Winston Churchill’s favourite movie, which he claimed to have seen over eighty times. (1941) theguardian.com/film/2011/jan/…
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#BOTD 1931 – 2014 Mike Nichols, (b. Igor Mikhail Peschkowsky), 83, German-born US performer, filmmaker, writer.
He began his career in 1950s in improvisational comedy, teaming with Elaine May as 'Nichols and May' they were a big hit on Broadway and won Grammy Best Comedy Album.
#BOTD 1931 – 2014 Mike Nichols, 83, German-born US performer, director, writer.
He began directing Broadway plays, his debut, Barefoot in the Park, 1963, with Robert Redford and Elizabeth Ashley. In 2012 he won his 6th Tony for Death of a Salesman, with Philip Seymour Hoffman.
#BOTD 1931 – 2014 Mike Nichols, 83, US director, writer.
In 1966 he directed his first film Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with Taylor and Burton. It won five Oscars from 13 nominations. For The Graduate (1967) with unknown Dustin Hoffman, Nichols won the Best Director Oscar.
#OTD 1991 – Gene Tierney, 70, US actress (b. 1920)
She spent two years at a Swiss International School, and learned fluent French. In 1936 she visited Warner's studios, (where her mother's cousin was a producer), and met Anatole Litvak, who told her she should become an actress.
#OTD 1991 – Gene Tierney, 70, US actress (b. 1920)
Film debut: Return of Frank James (1940) Hudson's Bay * Tobacco Road * Belle Starr * Sundown * Shanghai Gesture (all 1941) Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake * Rings on Her Fingers * Thunder Birds * China Girl (all 1942)
#OTD 1991 – Gene Tierney, 70, US actress (b. 1920)
Heaven Can Wait (1943) Laura (1944) Bell for Adano * Leave Her to Heaven (1945 OscarNom) Dragonwyck * Razor's Edge (both 1946) Ghost and Mrs Muir (1947) Iron Curtain (1948) Wonderful Urge (1948) Whirlpool * Night and City (1950)
Best known as Detective Arbogast in #Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) Oscar as Best Supporting Actor - A Thousand Clowns (1966) Tony as Best Actor in a Play - You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running (1968)
Film debut: On the Waterfront (1954 uncredited) * 12 Angry Men (1957) * Marjorie Morningstar * Psycho * Breakfast at Tiffany's * Cape Fear * Seven Days in May * The Carpetbaggers * The Bedford Incident * A Thousand Clowns (Oscar)
Hombre * Catch-22 * Tora! Tora! Tora! * Anderson Tapes * Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 * Murder On Orient Express (1974) * All President's Men * Raid on Entebbe * St Elmo's Fire * Hotel * Cape Fear * Silence of Hams (1994 as Detective)
#BOTD 1908 – 1997 Stanley Cortez, 89, US cinematographer and photographer.
He filmed over 70 movies #OrsonWelles' The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) Charles Laughton's Night of Hunter (1955) The Three Faces of Eve (1957) Sam Fuller's Shock Corridor (1963) and The Naked Kiss (1964)
#BOTD 1908 – 1997 Stanley Cortez, US cinematographer.
#OrsonWelles adaptation of Booth Tarkington's Pulitzer Prize–winning 1918 novel. "A spoiled heir to the Amberson fortune, comes between his widowed mother and the man she has always loved."
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
#BOTD 1908 – 1997 Stanley Cortez, US cinematographer.
Black Cat (1941) * Magnificent Ambersons * Since You Went Away * Smash-Up, Story of a Woman * Secret Beyond Door * Underworld Story * Night of Hunter * Three Faces of Eve * Shock Corridor * Naked Kiss * Young Dillinger (1965)
#OTD 1955 – Robert E. Sherwood, 59, (Heart), US playwright, screenwriter (b. 1896)
Waterloo Bridge * Idiot's Delight (Pulitzer Prize) * Abe Lincoln in Illinois (Pulitzer Prize) * Rebecca * There Shall Be No Night (Pulitzer Prize) * Best Years of Our Lives (Oscar Best Screenplay)
#OTD 1955 – Robert E. Sherwood, 59, US playwright, screenwriter (b. 1896)
He fought with the Royal Highlanders of #Canada in Europe during #WW1 even though he was US born. 'Waterloo Bridge', his play, premiered on Broadway 1930, based on his experiences.
#OTD 1955 – Robert E. Sherwood, 59, US playwright, screenwriter (b. 1896)
He fought with Royal Highlanders of #Canada in #WW1 even though he was US born.
"A WW1 soldier on leave in London falls for a young woman not realising she has been driven by poverty into prostitution."