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Here are two famous songs (performed by Frank Ifield and Arthur Prysock)...
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Here are two famous songs (performed by Frank Ifield and Arthur Prysock) chosen to enhance the special beauty of the legendary Charles Bronson.
Despite his craggy, unconventional features and sombre manner, Charles Bronson was an international star. He was born Charles Buchinsky in 1921, one of 15 children of a Lithuanian coal miner. He once said of himself: "I guess I look like a rock quarry that someone has dynamited." Young Bronson's features were hardened by his work in the coal mines of Pennsylvania, and his sport in the boxing ring. Naturally reticent, he claimed to have spoken no English in his childhood home, and only broadened his horizons when he served as a tail-gunner for the US navy during the war. On his return, Bronson decided to study art but, after spending time on set design, enrolled at the Pasadena Playhouse and transferred his attention to acting. Although he soon appeared in a catalogue of films, it was not until 1960 that he came to prominence in "The Magnificent Seven", alongside Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen. He followed this with "The Great Escape" and "The Sandpiper". In 1967, Bronson was one of "The Dirty Dozen", before taking his career in his hands and heading across the Atlantic. Just as Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef had come to prominence in the European features of Sergio Leone and his peers, so Bronson enjoyed the same success. Such films as "Guns for San Sebastian" and "Villa Rides" assured Bronson of leading man status. The role of the taciturn gunslinger in "Once Upon a Time in the West" made him a superstar. By 1971, he was awarded the accolade of the world's most popular actor, despite a limited range and unemotive style. "Red Sun" (1971), "Someone Behind the Door" (1971) and "The Valachi Papers" (1972) all did well. Back in Hollywood, some of his later roles were softened by the presence of his actress wife Jill Ireland, with whom he appeared in more than a dozen films, before her death in 1990. But it was his very staunchness and unwillingness to compromise that brought him his biggest success. In 1974, producer Michael Winner tapped into the underlying force of Bronson's appeal for the first of his "Death Wish" series. The films were an important benchmark for cinema, with their glorification of "justified" violence. Cold-blooded and without light respite, the series relied on the appeal of Bronson's central vigilante, seeking vengeance for an attack on his family. Drawing on a career spent dispensing monumental violence with minimal emotion, Bronson became the archetypal urban warrior, the defender of honour, immune to doubt. Audiences lapped it up, and Bronson made the poll of top ten box office stars for four years in a row. For many, Charles Bronson remains the original action man, an unknowable loner who let his weapons do the talking...
Enjoy the fascinating beauty of Charles Bronson!
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Here are two great standards ("If He Walked Into My Life" and ...
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Here are two great standards ("If He Walked Into My Life" and "They Say It's Wonderful") performed in French by the beautiful Annie Cordy.
Léonia Cooreman known under the stage name Annie Cordy (born in Brussels, Belgium, in 1928) is a Belgian film actress and singer. Since 1954, she has recorded more than 600 songs, starred in about ten musical comedies (with Georges Guétary, Luis Mariano), thirty films (costarring with Sacha Guitry, Bourvil, Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Charles Bronson, Charles Aznavour...) and participated in more than 6000 galas. A favourite of Maurice Chevalier, she began her career in 1950 as a meneuse de revue in the greatest Parisian cabarets. In 1956, she sang at the wedding of Grace Kelly in Monaco. She performed at the Plazza in New York, at the Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro, and in Cuba, Mexico, Porto Rico... She was offered a great contract in the USA but her manager and husband, who disliked America, refused, and, for love of him, she declined the offer! She could indeed have been a great star in the United States! Nevertheless she has toured in Berlin, Madrid, Moscow. In 1972, she starred in the French version of "Hello Dolly!" and received the award for the best European show-woman. As a singer, she received the Maurice Chevalier award in 1952 and the Grand Prix de l'Académie Charles-Cros in 1955. In 1976, she received the award for the best actress. Annie Cordy has been singing and playing for nearly 60 years and is not retired yet! She was made Baroness in 2004 by the King of Belgium.
Enjoy the typical voice (reminiscent of Alma Cogan) and beauty of Annie Cordy!
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Here are two lovely songs ("Sometimes Red Sometimes Blue" and ...
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Here are two lovely songs ("Sometimes Red Sometimes Blue" and "In The Water of Time") performed by the great actress and singer Jeanne Moreau.
Jeanne Moreau can look back to a turbulent acting career. She took part in many classics. She appeared at the end of the 1940's in movie for the first time and was so successful in the next decade that she soon became a world star. The young Jeanne Moreau studied at the conservatory of Paris and worked at the Comédie Française between 1948 and 1952. Her first important movie was "Touchez pas au grisbi" (1953). After that followed masterpieces like "La reine Margot" (1954), "Gas-Oil" (1955) and "Les liaisons dangereuses" (1959). Jeanne Moreau was often engaged in gangster movies at the beginning but then a then unknown and as outsider stamped man called Louis Malle entered her life and offered her the leading role for his first movie "Ascenseur pour l'échafaud" (1957). This and the following movie "Les amants" (1958) - also directed by Louis Malle - rang in a new era of the French film and launched the great time of Jeanne Moreau. It followed productions like "La notte" (1960), the romantic masterpiece "Jules und Jim" (1961), "Eva" (1963), "La baie des anges" (1963), "Mata-Hari" (1965), "Viva Maria" (1965) with Brigitte Bardot, "Mademoiselle" (1965) and "La marée était en noir" (1967). Jeanne Moreau soon conquered the international film, among them are "Le procès" (1963), "Monte Walsh" (1970), "The Deep" (1970), "The Last Tycoon" (1976), "Querelle" (1982), and "Ever After" (1998).
She underpinned her position as an actress of worldwide renown in over 115 movies in 50 years.
Jeanne Moreau was among others married with the director William Friedkin. Orson Welles once said of her that she was "the best actress in the world".
Enjoy Jeanne Moreau's delicate, sweet and sour voice and refined, intellectual beauty!
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Here are two famous songs (performed by Julie London and Nancy Sinatra) ...
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Here are two famous songs (performed by Julie London and Nancy Sinatra) chosen to illustrate the class and beauty of the legendary Paul Newman, one of the greatest Hollywood icons.
Is it necessary to introduce Paul Newman? Paul Newman was a screen legend and had the most famous blue eyes in movie history. Paul Leonard Newman was born in 1925 near Cleveland, Ohio, to a Jewish father (the son of immigrants from Poland and Hungary) and a Slovak mother. He acted in high school and spent a year at the Yale Drama School after being in the navy. He then moved to New York and attended the famed New York Actors Studio. His first broadway appearance was in "Picnic" which lead to a film contract with Warner Brothers. He made his first film, "The Silver Chalice", in 1954, picked for his Adonis looks to play a Greek slave. Later, he called it the worst motion picture of the 1950s. But more than 60 great movies would follow over the next 50 years. "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof", "The Hustler", "Hud", "Cool Hand Luke", "Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid", "The Sting", "Slap Shot", "Road To Perdition" - a seemingly endless list of some of the classics of 20th Century cinema. He produced and directed many quality films and was nominated 9 times for an Academy Award as Best Actor. He finally won this award for "The Color of Money". He lived in Connecticut with his second wife, actress Joanne Woodward. He was also a serious race driver and had founded a successful line of food products with all profits donated to charity.
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Here is a lovely song performed by the delicious Annette Hanshaw chosen ...
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Here is a lovely song performed by the delicious Annette Hanshaw chosen to illustrate the beauty of the great British actress Lillie Langtry.
Lillie Langtry (1853 1929), born Emilie Charlotte Le Breton on the island of Jersey, was a highly successful British actress. A renowned beauty, she had a number of prominent lovers, including the future King Edward VII.
At a reception, Lillie attracted notice for her beauty and wit despite wearing a simple black dress and no jewelry. Before the end of the evening, Frank Miles had completed several sketches of her that became very popular on postcards. Another guest, Sir John Everett Millais, eventually painted her portrait. Langtry's nickname, the "Jersey Lily", was taken from the Jersey lily flower a symbol of Jersey. She also sat for Sir Edward Poynter and is depicted in works by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. She became much sought after in London society, and invitations flooded in. Her fame soon reached royal ears. The Prince of Wales, Albert Edward, arranged to sit next to her at a dinner party. He became infatuated with Lillie and it was soon no secret that she had become his semi-official mistress. She was even presented to Edward's mother, Queen Victoria. Eventually, a cordial relationship developed between her and Princess Alexandra. The affair lasted from late 1877 to June 1880. The tradition is that their relationship finally cooled when she misbehaved at a dinner party, but she had been eclipsed when Sarah Bernhardt came to London in June 1879. With the withdrawal of royal favour, creditors closed in. In April 1879, Lillie started another affair with Prince Louis of Battenberg. In June 1880, she became pregnant. The father was definitely not her husband; Prince Louis was allowed to believe that it was he. Lillie retired to Paris with Arthur Jones, where on March 8, 1881, she gave birth to a daughter, Jeanne Marie. At the suggestion of one of her close friends, Oscar Wilde, Lillie embarked upon a stage career. In December 1881, she made her debut before the London public at the Haymarket Theatre. The following autumn, she made her first tour of America, an enormous success, which she repeated in subsequent years. From 1882 to 1891 she had been the mistress of the millionaire Fred Gebhard and from April 1891 until his death at New Orleans in March 1893 she was the mistress of George Alexander Baird, millionaire amateur jockey and pugilist. From 1900 to 1903, she was the lessee and manager of London's Imperial Theatre. In 1897, Langtry became an American citizen, and divorced her husband the same year in Lakeport, California. In 1899, she married the much younger Hugo Gerald de Bathe, and became a leading owner in the horse-racing world, before retiring to Monte Carlo where she died in 1929.
Langtry was portrayed on film by Lillian Bond in The Westerner (1940), and by Ava Gardner in The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972). Langtry's story was dramatised by London Weekend Television in 1978 as Lillie, with Francesca Annis in the title role. Jenny Seagrove played her in the 1991 made-for-television film Incident at Victoria Falls. A heavily fictionalized incarnation of Langtry was performed by Stacy Haiduk in the 1996 television series Kindred: The Embraced.
Lillie Langtry lived at 21 Pont Street, London from 1892 to 1897. A blue plaque on the hotel commemorates this, and the hotel's restaurant is named Langtry's in her honour. Whilst she was Edward VII's mistress, Lillie Langtry frequently performed at the in-house theatre of a hotel on 1-9 Inverness Terrace, in Bayswater, on the north side of Hyde Park, London W2. The in-house theatre is known as 'Lillie's theatre'.
Enjoy Lillie Langtry's beauty and charm!
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