A fiery Scots-Yankee known for her intelligence, humor and iron determination, Katharine Hepburn demonstrated remarkable staying power in a screen career that spanned more than six decades, winning three of her four Best Actress Oscars after the age of 60. Credit must go to her extraordinary parents, a noted urologist father, who at great professional risk brought the facts about venereal disease to a wider public, and his dedicated suffragette wife (an early champion of birth control), for providing an eccentric and genteel upbringing stressing Spartan physical discipline. Out of their Connecticut crucible emerged a strong-minded, outspoken, original who would become one of the nation's most admired and beloved actresses. Hepburn did it more on brains than beauty, though she was certainly not unattractive, and her strength of character, high moral fiber and regal poise were enduring qualities that continued to bring her choice parts as she aged. After graduating from Bryn Mawr College in 1928, Hepburn embarked on a stage career, making her professional debut as a lady-in-waiting in a Baltimore stock production of "The Czarina". By November of 1928 she was attracting attention on Broadway as a wealthy schoolgirl in "These Days", but her next few years on the boards passed relatively uneventfully except for her penchant for clashing with directors and crews, resulting in her dismissal from projects. It was an updating of "Lysistrata", Broadway's "The Warrior's Husband" (1932), that led to a film contract with RKO, and Typhoon Kate blew into Hollywood, intent on turning it on its ear, alienating almost everyone with her arrogance. Despite thinking her antics "subcollegiate idiotic", director George Cukor cast Hepburn in her first film, "A Bill of Divorcement" (1932), and his great discovery would pay back his trust and generosity in a collaboration encompassing eight features and two TV-movies, containing some of her finest work for the screen. The young Hepburn was a creature of enormous imaginative potency and showy breeding, whose magically compelling performance as a stage-struck young girl in her third movie, "Morning Glory" (1933), brought her the first of her four Oscars (in a record 12 nominations). Some of her early roles in pictures like Cukor's "Little Women" (1933) and Gregory La Cava's "Stage Door" (1937), both depicting women in mutually supportive relationships, anticipated feminist concerns. Cukor's "Sylvia Scarlett" (1936), in which Hepburn disguises herself as a boy throughout most of the movie, was perhaps the most notable early example of the androgyny that runs through Hepburn's career and a groundbreaking film for its undermining of socially constructed norms of femininity and masculinity.
“A well dressed woman, even though her purse is painfully empty, can conquer the world.” This quote from actress and women’s rights inspiration and icon, Louise Brooks, accurately describes her life. The quote means being independent and relying on your own ability is what will get you ahead in life. This is how Brooks lived her seventy nine year life. She is best known for her many films in Hollywood. Between the years 1925 and 1938 she was in twenty four films. Not only was she a Hollywood actress, she was also a dancer and a Broadway performer. But, Louise Brooks is also known for other things beside her performing. Louise Brooks was the most influential person of all on
Swanson American par. 1). Swanson was a standard eighteen year old girl, who did not know for sure what she wanted to do with her life after she moved out (Peterson par. 5). Unfortunately, along with being a military family, Swanson and her parents were always on the move, which then came lengthways her career in acting (Gloria Swanson American par. 4). It all started in 1916, when Swanson and her mother moved to California and she was going to try to get a job at the Mack Sennett Studios (Gloria Swanson American par. 3). Swanson was the ultimate movie star of the era. One of her best movies was called Sunset Boulevard, which it was the highest acclaimed movie of that time (Gloria Swanson American par. 2). In today’s world, Gloria Swanson, a mid-20’s reigning Queen of Hollywood, would be considered popular like “Brad Pitt (Swanson par. 1).”
Norma Rae was seen in many different ways by people. In the beginning Norma's qualities were different than those at the end. Norma Rae changes and it is for the better. One of Norma's bad qualities is that she is dependent on men. George is very abusive towards her, like when they were in the hotel room and he slapped her across the face. Her father treats her as a little girl. He is always in her business; he always wants to know where she is going, when she is coming home and who she is seeing. Norma has some good qualities; she is a very hard worker. She works at a textile factory for many hours and then she goes home and cleans and takes care of the house. She is also a very outspoken woman. If she doesn't like someone or something they say, she lets them know how she feels about it. Her boss is a major jerk. He doesn't care about their health or feelings. To give an example, when her and mother went to him because her mother couldn't hear, he was not interested, and he just brushed them off. Norma is a strong woman, but people just take advantage of her. Changes. Norma Rae definitely went through many changes. Ruben I think was her first change. Ruben was the young man from the union. I think she made her first change when he told her "your too smart for what's happing to you." I believe this is when she gave her self more respect. Ruben got her to also join the union. She than starts getting relay involved in it and during all this she meets a man named sonny. Sonny and her become very close and fall in love and end up marring. She persuades her other co-workers to also join the union. One day her father dies. This was a major change in Norma's life. She loved her father dearly. If things couldn't get better, she is fired from her job. Norma was outraged by this, and caused a scene. She stood on a machine and held up a sign that read "union." Following, where her co-workers, they all shut down their machines and quite working. She was then put in jail for this. This was a total embarrassment to her and her family. She was very angry at herself.
In the film Norma Rae, the textile workers were unsatisfied with many aspects of their Capitalistic work environment. They fought to form a union so that they could change the undesirable characteristics to better meet their needs. Political, environmental and cultural processes all played a part in the workers struggle to form an effective union.
Before and during her rapid rise to Hollywood stardom, Temple’s family played an important role in her childhood. Born in Santa Monica, California on April 23, 1928, Temple was welcomed into the world by her parents and two older brothers. Mr. George Temple worked as banker while Mrs. Gertrude Temple devoted her time to nurturing her baby girl, since her two older sons, George Jr. and John, were already independent teenagers (Dubas 7-8). ...
She got the role in the movie Gentlemen Prefer Blondes which was a very successful play on Broadway. She took the role very seriously and worked to her full potential. She was often late to set and that didn’t sit well with everyone on set. The reason she was always late was because she was nervous and had to build up the nerve to go to the set. Once she did get on set she was very professional. The film got a lot of buzz and it was a successful film. After the film both Monroe and her co star in the movie Jane Russell got a star on the Hollywood walk of fame. Getting that star on the Hollywood walk of fame really showed her success in the movie industry.
Marilyn Monroe was liked by many, society liked her for the sheer fact that she never portrayed herself as famous, but as a human. She was the epiphany of Hollywoods misguided. She created this noble character that people admired, they also admired her f...
This film is based on the real life story of Crystal Lee Sutton and her involvement with Ruben Warshovsky and the organization of the textile workers at the J.P. Stevens Company in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina (Labor Films). Sally Field plays the lead role of Norma Rae (Crystal Lee Sutton) fighting poor working conditions at O. P. Henley Company in 1978. This company is a southern textile mill, working with a union organizer to overcome pressure from management, implied dangers, and the struggle to organize her fellow employees. Although, the film is very entertaining, there are many examples of labor and management interactions including unfair labor practices by management, unfair labor practices by the union, and the procedural process of unionization process.
Pamela's seductiveness in pictures and video is often compared to other famous women who graced the big and small screens and appeared in sexy pictorials during their celebrated careers. She pays homage to notable women who paved the way for her success: Brigitte Bardot and Jane Fonda, to name a
Marilyn Monroe's career as an actress lasted 16 years. She made many films films, 24 in the first 8 years of her career.
Ingrid Bergman was born in Stockholm, Sweden on August 29, 1915. Her mother, Friedel Adler Bergman, a Hamburg, Germany native, died when Ingrid was just three years old. Ingrid’s father, Justus Samuel Bergman, a Swede, raised Ingrid until his death, when she was 12. Justus, who owned a photography shop, encouraged Ingrid’s artistic pursuits and even caught some scenes of her as a small child with a motion picture camera. Many years later, the famous director Ingmar Bergman (no relation), with whom Ingrid worked, compiled and edited these home movies. After her father’s death, Ingrid was left to the care of an unmarried aunt, who died within months, and she eventually spent her teenage years with an uncle and his family.
Think about the obstacles of a woman to become successful in the 1950s. I want to find an answer whether it was the media, which created Monroe’s sexy image or Monroe, whom herself used her sexy image to become famous. I am going to study the background of the time period, and learn if the current events such as the Civil Rights Movement and the Cold War, had any impact on Monroe's life, or whether Monroe herself had any influences politics in mid-20th century. I will also explore on how Monroe’s image influenced and redefined the feminism in the 21st century. I believe Marilyn Monroe was a clever, confident, and independent woman who was very brave and smart. Her spirit is what the girls in the new century needed. I also would like to study why Marilyn Monroe is still relevant and even famous in the 21st century to show the power of female charisma.
Julie Christie is one of my all-time favorite actresses. Her “hooker with a heart of gold” was the only character worth a damn in Robert Altman’s brilliant McCabe & Mrs. Miller; and in Dr. Zhivago, despite being surrounded by such legendary actors as Omar Sharif and Rod Steiger, she managed to shine brightly. With her excellent performances in these movies, as well as Shampoo, Don’t Look Now, Fahrenheit 451, and Away From Her, you would think that Julie Christie has amassed a slew of Oscar statuettes, but the sad reality is that she only took home that coveted award once, for her portrayal of Diana Scott in 1965’s Darling.
If you’ve seen a movie, chances are you know who Meryl Streep is. Seemingly a mainstay at every Oscar ceremony since 1978, the so-called Queen of Hollywood has miraculously avoided becoming a “Hollywood celebrity”. She’s never been caught in any scandals, and with a career spanning over 40 years, that’s saying something. It’s hard to imagine a time when we didn’t call her the Greatest Living Actress—but has it always been rainbows and butterflies for Meryl?
Hepburn was perceived as being to close to home in many scenes of the moves when compared to her own life and the role of Jo March. (New York Times) Brilliantly done for that era but truly it does not hold a candle to the novel written by Alcott but it gave those the opportunity that were intimidated by the size of the novel the opportunity to taste what was within the pages of Little Women and it became an American