Meet some of the stars who brought charisma and style to Hollywood!
Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando—born April 3, 1924, in Omaha, Nebraska—began his career on Broadway in shows such as I Remember Mama (1944). Brando starred in many films in his early career, including A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Julius Caesar (1954) and The Wild One (1954).
Brando’s career was reborn in 1972 with his depiction of Mafia chieftain Don Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, a role for which he received the Academy Award for Best Actor. The actor died of pulmonary fibrosis in a Los Angeles hospital in 2004 at the age of 80.
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Humphrey Bogart
Humphrey DeForest Bogart was born January 23, 1899, in New York City. In the late ’20s, Bogart followed a few actor friends who had decided to relocate to Hollywood. He made his first film appearance opposite Helen Hayes in the 1928 short The Dancing Town. Bogart starred in the romantic drama Casablanca, which was became of the most beloved films in Hollywood, garnering Bogart his first Academy Award nomination as well as an Oscar win in the Best Picture category. Bogart teamed with director Howard Hawks for his 1944 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not, appearing for the first time opposite actress Lauren Bacall, who he later married.
After completing the 1956 boxing drama The Harder They Fall, Bogart was forced to undergo cancer surgery and died in his sleep on January 14, 1957.
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Cary Grant
The world famous Cary Grant, born January 18, 1904, in Bristol, England, was one of the most famously known actors of all times and had contributed a ton to the success of how actors perform today. The biggest hit that many people remember Cary Grant in is the 1950’s film called “North by Northwest,” which was directed by the world pronounced Alfred Hitchcock. He went on to make many other movies including The Philadelphia Story (1940), To Catch a Thief (1955), An Affair to Remember (1957).
Carey Grant died on November 29, 1986, though he will never be forgotten in his role of the greatest classical movies of all times.
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Fred Astaire
Fred Astaire ( 1899 – 1987) was an American dancer of stage and motion pictures best known for a number of highly successful musical comedy films in which he starred with Ginger Rogers. He is regarded by many as the greatest popular-music dancer of all time. Astaire began his career on Broadway and in 1933 starred in his first film, Dancing Lady (1933), which starred Joan Crawford, Clark Gable and the Three Stooges. Fred Astaire then went on to star alongside Ginger Rogers in films such as The Gay Divorcee (1934), Top Hat (1935), and Swing Time (1936). He is regarded as a pioneer in the serious presentation of dance on film.
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James Dean
James Dean was born on February 8, 1931. James Dean was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Actor; one on his first film. That is a very rare occurrence and he is among five actors who have accomplished that massive feat.
James Dean starred in many Broadway shows and films, including Rebel Without a Cause and Giant in 1955. On September 30, 1955, a day that will live in infamy, James Dean was killed in an automobile accident.
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