August 22, 2020 Career Summation Occupational Inheritance: Nationality: Social Class: Race/Ethnicity: Family: Formal Education: Training: First Film: Breakthrough: First Oscar Nomination: Gap between First Film and First Nom: Other Oscars: Other Oscar Nominations: Oscar Awards: Nominations Span: Genre (specialties): Collaborators: Last Film: Contract: Career Length: Career Output: Marriage: Politics: Death: Stuart Heisler Filmography 1930s: 1 […]
Directors: Sherman, George–Background, Career, Awards, Filmography
August 18, 2022 by
Highly prolific, George Sherman had directed over 100 films, many of them westerns.
Oscar Actors: Debose, Ariana–Background, Career, Awards (Cum Advantage, Tony Nom, LGBTQ, Queer)
August 18, 2022 by
For West Side Story, she received multiple accolades, including Golden Globe Award, BAFTA Award, a Critics’ Choice Movie Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, making her the first Afro-Latina and queer woman of color to win the latter award, and the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
Oscar Actors: Grant, Cary–Circumcised; Partly Jewish; Rejection to Play Gentleman’s Agreement
August 17, 2022 by
Grant turned down the lead role in Gentleman’s Agreement in the late 1940s, playing a non-Jewish character who pretends to be Jewish, because he believed that he could not effectively play the part.
Movie Stars: Grant, Cary–Accent; Screen Test; Screen Name
August 17, 2022 by
The slight Cockney accent that Grant had picked up during his time with the Pender troupe in Bristol and London, blended with his efforts to sound American, resulted in his unique manner of speaking.
