#BOTD 1974 – Chloë Sevigny, 47, US actress, director.
Kids (1995) * Trees Lounge * The Last Days of Disco * Boys Don't Cry (OscarNom) * American Psycho * Dogville * Demon lover * Party Monster * Shattered Glass * Melinda and Melinda * Broken Flowers
#BOTD 1974 – Chloë Sevigny, 47, US actress, director.
3 Needles * Sisters * Big Love * Zodiac * My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done * Beautiful Darling * Hit & Miss * American Horror Story * Linda Lovelace * The Wait * #Horror
#BOTD 1974 – Chloë Sevigny, 47, US actress, director.
Kitty (+ director) * Beatriz at Dinner * Lizzie * Love Is Blind * The Dead Don't Die * White Echo (+ Director) * True Adventures of Wolf boy * Queen & Slim * Slow Machine (2020) * Bones & All (TBA)
#BOTD 1974 – Chloë Sevigny, 47, US actress, director.
"Lizzie Borden (1860-1927) was acquitted in June 1893, of the August 1892 frenzied axe murders of her father, and her hated stepmother, in Massachusetts. No one else was ever charged." en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizzie_Bo…
Lizzie (2018)
#BOTD 1974 – Chloë Sevigny, 47, US actress, director.
#BOTD 21 Nov 1922 - 22 Nov 1996 Maria Casarès, French - Spanish actress. Les Enfants du paradise (1945) Orphée (1950 The Princess) Testament of Orpheus (1960 The Princess)
"Lizzie 32-year-old 'spinster', was in the house during the killings. His other daughter, Emma, was out of town, their live-in maid Bridget was sick in her third-floor room resting."
Many Americans still know the ditty: 'Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, she gave her father 41.'
A key witness was Irish maid, Bridget 'Maggie' Sullivan, part of her testimony is reproduced here. irishcentral.com/roots/history/…
#BOTD 1974 – Chloë Sevigny, 47, US actress, director.
#BOTD 21 Nov 1922 - 22 Nov 1996 Maria Casarès, French - Spanish actress. Les Enfants du paradise (1945) Cocteau's Orphée (1950) and Testament of Orpheus (1960), as the beautiful, Princess of Death.
"Based on real-life of Brandon Teena, (Hilary Swank), an American #transgender who attempts to live as a man and find love. Set in #Nebraska he falls victim to a brutal hate crime, perpetrated by two male acquaintances. #ChloëSevigny is Teena's girlfriend."
Boys Don't Cry (1999)
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He appeared in 8 UK films from Murder in the Family (1938) to You Will Remember (1941). Born in a London suburb, his family moved to the USA in 1940, during WW2. He made his Hollywood debut in Fritz Lang's Man Hunt (1941)
Just William (UK 1940) - Hollywood Fritz Lang's Man Hunt (1941) * This England * How Green Was My Valley * My Friend Flicka * Lassie Come Home * The White Cliffs of Dover * Keys of the Kingdom * Macbeth * Kidnapped (1948)
Midnight Lace (1960) * The Longest Day * Cleopatra * The Greatest Story Ever Told (Judas) * Inside Daisy Clover * That Darn Cat * Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin * Planet of Apes * Night Gallery (TV) Pretty Maids All in Row
#BOTD 1893 – 1956 Sir Alexander Korda, (b. Sándor Keller), 62, (Heart Attack), Hungarian-English filmmaker.
He began his career in Hungary, then Austrian and German silent films, before moving to Hollywood in 1926-30, briefly in WW2, but became a leading figure in British film.
#BOTD 1893 – 1956 Sir Alexander Korda, 62, Hungarian-English filmmaker.
Director: Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927) Lilies of Field (1930) Private Life of Henry VIII * Rise of Catherine the Great * Rembrandt * The Lion Has Wings * That Hamilton Woman * An Ideal Husband (1947)
#BOTD 1893 – 1956 Sir Alexander Korda, 62, Hungarian-English producer.
Scarlet Pimpernel (1934 + co-wrote) * Private Life of Don Juan * Things to Come * Elephant Boy * Fire Over England * Knight Without Armour * Divorce of Lady X * The Drum * The Four Feathers * The Spy in Black
She wrote 66 novels, 14 short story collections, and world's longest-running play The Mousetrap performed W. End since 1952. Created Hercule Poirot + Miss MARPLE, and ..
Mysterious Affair at Styles* Man in Brown Suit * Secret of Chimneys * Murder Roger Ackroyd * Seven Dials Mystery * Murder at Vicarage * Murder Orient Express * Why Didn't They Ask Evans? * Murder Three Acts
A.B.C. Murders * Murder in Mesopotamia * Dumb Witness * Death on Nile * Appointment with Death * Murder Is Easy * And Then There Were None * One, Two, Buckle My Shoe * Evil Under Sun * Body in the Library
Daughter of vaudevillians, she began on stage, age 3. As a child actress, her film debut Westward Passage (1932)
In, These Three (1936), she was OscarNom, age 14. She later starred Nancy Drew film series.
#BOTD 1923 – 1988 Bonita Granville, 65, US actress.
Westward Passage (1932) * Anne of Green Gables * These Three (OscarNom age 14) * Plough and Stars * Nancy Drew, Detective (1938-39) * Mortal Storm * Escape * Wild Man of Borneo * People v Dr Kildare * HM Pulham Esq * Glass Key
#BOTD 1923 – 1988 Bonita Granville, 65, US actress.
Now, Voyager * Hitler's Children * Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble * Suspense * The Guilty * Guilty of Treason * The Lone Ranger (1956) - The Magic of Lassie (1978, producer) * The Legend of The Lone Ranger (1981 cameo, final film)
When he was 8, his mother enrolled him and his brother in dance class. "We didn't like it, were always in fights with the neighborhood boys who called us sissies. I didn't dance again until I was 15."
He was forced to leave College after the 1929 crash and Depression working to help his family. He later did pursue a career as a dancer, and dropped out of school. He made his Broadway debut as a dancer in 1938.
He starred in Pal Joey (1940) bringing in film offers. Film debut For Me and My Gal (1942) * DuBarry Was a Lady * Cover Girl * Christmas Holiday * Anchors Aweigh * The Pirate * Three Musketeers * Words and Music
#OTD 1995 – Donald Pleasence, 75, English-French actor (b. 1919)
Originally a pacifist, he enlisted in 1940 after Blitz. He became a wireless-operator with Bomber Command in 60 raids over Nazi Europe. In August 1944 his plane was shot down, and he became P.O.W in Stalag Luft I.
#OTD 1995 – Donald Pleasence, 75, English actor (b. 1919)
Film debut Privates Progress (1954) Black Tent * Tale of Two Cities * Look Back in Anger * Circus of Horrors * Sons and Lovers * What a Carve Up! * The Caretaker * Great Escape * Dr Crippen * Hallelujah Trail * Cul-de-sac
#OTD 1995 – Donald Pleasence, 75, English actor (b. 1919)
Fantastic Voyage * Night of Generals * You Only Live Twice * Will Penny * Madwoman of Chaillot * Soldier Blue * THX 1138 * Henry VIII and Six Wives * Kidnapped * Beyond the Grave * Black Windmill * Count of Monte Cristo