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Marjorie Main
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Marjorie Main (born Mary Tomlinson, February 24, 1890 – April 10, 1975) was an American actress, best known as a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player and for her role as Ma Kettle in a series of ten Ma and Pa Kettle movies.
Main worked in vaudeville on the Orpheum circuit and in Chautauqua presentations, and debuted on Broadway in 1916. Her first film was A House Divided in 1931.
Main began playing upper class dowagers, but ultimately was typecast in abrasive, domineering, salty roles, for which her distinctive voice was well suited. She repeated her stage role in Dead End in the 1937 film version, and was subsequently cast repeatedly as the mother of gangsters. She again transferred a strong stage performance, as a dude-ranch operator in The Women, to film in 1939. At this time, she guest-starred on radio programs such as Columbia Presents Corwin and The Goldbergs.
Main was signed to a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract in 1940 and stayed with the studio until the mid-1950s. She made six films with Wallace Beery in the 1940s, including Barnacle Bill (1941), Jackass Mail (1942), and Bad Bascomb (1946). She played Sonora Cassidy, the chief cook, in The Harvey Girls (1946). The director George Sidney remarked in the commentary for the film that Miss Main was a "great lady" as well as a great actress who donated most of her paychecks over the years to the support of a school.
Perhaps her most famous role is that of Ma Kettle, which she first played in The Egg and I in 1947 opposite Percy Kilbride as Pa Kettle. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for the part and portrayed the character in nine more Ma and Pa Kettle films.
By the early 1950s, she had appeared in several MGM musicals, including, Meet Me in St. Louis and The Belle of New York. She played Mrs. Wrenley in the studio's all-star film It's a Big Country (1951). In 1954, Marjorie Main played her last roles for the studio: Mrs. Hittaway in The Long, Long Trailer and Jane Dunstock in Rose Marie. In 1956, Main's performance as the widow Hudspeth in the hit film Friendly Persuasion was well-received, earning her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
In 1958, Main appeared twice as rugged frontierswoman Cassie Tanner in the episodes "The Cassie Tanner Story" and "The Sacramento Story" on NBC's television series Wagon Train. In the first segment, she joins the wagon train, casts her romantic interest on Ward Bond as Major Adams, and helps the train locate needed horses despite a Paiute threat.
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Wanjiru M. Njendu
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Wanjiru is a Director/Writer/Producer of Kenyan Descent based in Los Angeles. Growing up with influences from many American films and TV shows , Wanjiru spent her childhood in Kenya recreating scenes from E.T, Superman, Indiana Jones and Star Wars with her siblings and neighbors earning her the nickname “Magic”. Wanjiru’s film credits include several films, her most personal, “Look Again” nominated for a 2012 African Movie Academy Award, Winner- Best Diaspora Film- Kalasha Awards(Kenya) and television credits on “Samantha Who”, ‘Super temps” and “Mostly Evil” among others. She directed the red carpet interviews for Women In Film’s 5th Annual Pre-Oscar party, a live taping the he SAG-AFTRA and Women In Film Q&A panel of the film MISSRepresentation as the 2012 Women in Film/ Variety purple carpet interviews for their celebrating the 2012 Female Prime-time Nominees. Her African and American upbringing influences her approach as a director to film and television. Acclaimed Director Jon Amiel has been her mentor for the past four years.
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Bisan Owda
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Bisan Owda (in arabic : بيسان عودة), born in 1997, is a Palestinian journalist, influencer and director. In one of his videos Owda says he comes from a village in the northern Gaza Strip. While visiting her grandparents, she would have witnessed the destruction of their orange plantation by Israeli forces at the age of fifteen.
Owda works with the United Nations on gender equality, as a member of the UN Women Agora Forum for Youth Gender Innovation2. Owda also works with the European Union on climate change, and is an EU Goodwill Ambassador.
Owda produces a show, Hakawatia, broadcast by Roya TV and works for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
Bisan Owda publishes videos, documenting the daily lives of Gazans or recounting his personal experience living through the Palestinian genocide. Owda's videos on the lives of Palestinians during the war since October 7, 2023 have been shared by ABC News, Al Jazeera, BBC1 and Le Monde. As of October 15, 2023, Owda accumulates more than 180,000 followers on Instagram. Owda and his parents fled Beit Hanoun to take refuge in Al-Shifa hospital when the IDF ordered the Gazans to evacuate. His family's home and office in Rimal are both bombed, destroying all of Owda's film equipment. She witnesses the Al-Shifa ambulance airstrike on November 3, 2023.
Bisan Owda receives an Emmy Award in 2024 for his documentary 'It's Bisan from Gaza and I'm Still Alive'.
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Hasna El Becharia
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Hasna El Becharia (in Arabic حسناء البشارية), born June 28, 1950 in Béchar (Algeria) and died in the same city on May 1, 2024, is an Algerian singer and multi-instrumentalist specializing in diwane music and guembri player. She has established herself as a monument of this music.
Born Hasniat Hosni, she is the daughter of one of the masters of the diwan from Erfoud (southeast of Morocco) and an Algerian mother from Béchar. In 1972, she formed a group of four with her friends. They first distinguished themselves in the wedding celebrations in Béchar which they hosted for the women.
In 1976, they were the stars of a huge concert organized in Béchar by the National Union of Algerian Women (UNFA). In January 1999, Hasna arrived in Paris, following an invitation from Cabaret Sauvage as part of the Femmes d'Algérie festival.
Hasna El Becharia gained recognition throughout the South-West of Algeria, in an exclusively male universe, in the town of Béchar which contains some of the secrets of desert blues. Hasna has long played only for her own people, refusing to export her music beyond her “natural” borders. There was no question of even recording a record for fear of distorting the funds of this fertile tradition.
Until she arrived in Paris in 1999, invited as part of the Femmes d'Algérie festival: the singer coupled with an astonishing guitarist immediately delighted the audience. This is the beginning of a new story which will soon establish it on international stages, following the recording of a first album supervised by guitarist Camel Zekri. On the program for the woman nicknamed the rocker of the desert: trance music enhanced with blues accents, rhythms that twist and turn...
Ten years later, the heiress signed a second and highly anticipated album, Smaa Smaa, engraved in the stones of her childhood: an old ksar, these ancient granaries which dot the desert, where the memory of the sands is preserved. The ideal place to summon, in a calm voice, the saints who irrigate each of his compositions, to evoke this universe at the limits of the sacred and the profane. Like a constantly renewed revelation.
After several years in France, Hasna returned to Bechar and continued to perform internationally, notably in Canada in 2013 and 2014, where she recorded an EP at the beginning of 2020: Les Couleurs Du Sahara, before then performing dates in Algeria .
In 2022, director Sara Nacer dedicated a multi-award-winning feature documentary portrait film to her entitled “La Rockeuse Du Désert” (2022). Guest of honor at the Atri Desert Experience, the first electronic music festival in the dunes of Taghit, Hasna El Becharia sets the scene on fire with her musical training from Béchar and marks the undeniable return of the Desert Rocker.
Selective discography: Djazaïr Johara (Label Bleu, 2001), Smaa Smaa (2010), Les Couleurs Du Sahara (2020).
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Anthony Belevtsov
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Anthony is a Russian born professional actor residing in the United States. Anthony was born in Donetsk, a large industrial, scientific and cultural city in Ukraine, Soviet Union. Belevtsov’s father abandoned his family shortly after Anthony’s birth. Anthony moved with his mother to Neryungri, a remote town in Siberia, when he was five years old. It was here where he had his first taste of the stage by taking on the role of a moose in the local School Play. He was so talented in all of his performances that his teacher encouraged him to pursue his new found love, the theatre. He was actively involved in almost every play conducted by his school.
At age twelve, his mother wanted to provide a better life for her children. She departed for the United States, leaving Anthony and his six year old sister with their Grandmother. Anthony has acknowledged his grandmother’s influence in his life as one of the greatest reasons for his success. It was his grandmother’s support and encouragement that fueled his creativity and love for the arts. She often brought her friends over to the house to be entertained by the young talent. Anthony would tell jokes and perform different monologues, scenes and comedy sketches. Anthony moved to Saint Petersburg, Russia at age 16 and immediately started taking classes at Saint Petersburg State Theatre Arts Academy.
In 2005, Anthony joined his mother in Davenport, Florida. His move to the United States was excited but difficult. He was nineteen years old and experienced tremendous difficulties overcoming the language barrier. It was almost impossible for him to pick up where he left off in Russia. Unable to communicate fluently in English made acting a daunting task. In an effort to improve his language skills, Anthony started taking classes at Valencia College in Central Florida. Once the language barrier was behind him, Anthony dove, full force, back into acting and started honing his acting skills. He moved to Orlando, Florida and studied acting at the Truthful Acting Studios.
Anthony has appeared in numerous independent and professional projects. In 2013, he played the lead role in the dramatic short film Tysis. In July 2013, Anthony made a guess appearance on the popular American TV series Burn Notice. A few months later in October 2013, Anthony played a starring role in the action thriller Haima. In June 2014, Anthony is finished up his most exciting project to date, a role alongside Kate Winslet, Woody Harrelson, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Aaron Paul in the thriller Triple Nine.
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Zacharie Malek
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Zacharie Malek was born in Athens, Ohio in the U.S., son of a teacher-researcher father and a schoolteacher mother. He has a passion for film since childhood. After returning to France at the age of two his parents separated. He attended a school in Agneaux and became involved with the dramatic arts thanks to a director who organized plays with the students and a performance at the end of each year. He then starts to imagine himself acting in place of the children he sees in the films. In 2018 he obtained his economics and social sciences baccalaureate with honors and began studying psychology at the University of Caen. He directed many short films there, which he shoots with his friends. Tired of his studies, he leaves school his third year and returns to his main passion, film, and goes on many castings. He then joins the team of Mason Ewing Corporation.
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Sean Connery
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Sir Thomas Sean Connery (August 25, 1930 - October 31, 2020) was a Scottish actor and producer who won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award), and three Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award.
Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring in seven Bond films (every film from Dr. No to You Only Live Twice, plus Diamonds Are Forever and Never Say Never Again), between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables. His films also include Marnie (1964), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Highlander (1986), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Dragonheart (1996), The Rock (1996), and Finding Forrester (2000).
Connery was polled in a 2004 The Sunday Herald as "The Greatest Living Scot" and in a 2011 EuroMillions survey as "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure". He was voted by People magazine as both the “Sexiest Man Alive" in 1989 and the "Sexiest Man of the Century” in 1999. He received a lifetime achievement award in the United States with a Kennedy Center Honor in 1999. Connery was knighted in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to film drama.
On October 31, 2020, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90.
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Emil Sitka
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Emil Sitka (December 22, 1914 – January 16, 1998) was a veteran American actor, who appeared in hundreds of movies, short films, and television shows, and is best known for his numerous appearances with The Three Stooges and he was the unofficial "last Stooge", since he was tapped to be the new middle Stooge when Larry Fine suffered a stroke in 1970. He is one of only two actors to have worked with all six Stooges (Shemp Howard, Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Joe Besser, Joe DeRita) on film in the various incarnations of the group (Harold Brauer, a recurring villain who appeared in three 1940s shorts, was the other).
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Praekwan Phongskul
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Bimbeam Praekwan Phongskul is a Thai actress and entertainer. In 2022, she graduated with a bachelor's degree majoring in marketing at Chulalongkorn Business School with second-class honours.
Bimbeam got her start in the entertainment industry when she won the 2020 star search competition "Beauty and The Babes Season 3." For winning, she signed a contract with GMMTV which ended in 2024. She made her acting debut in 2020 with a guest role in the series "The Gifted: Graduation".
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Nathan Truesdell
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Nathan Truesdell is a multi-hyphenate filmmaker who has been nominated for an Academy Award, a PGA Award, an IDA Award, was selected for the inaugural “DOC NYC 40 Under 40” list, and won a Cinema Eye Honor for Cinematography. His directorial work includes the award-winning shorts BALLOONFEST, THE WATER SLIDE, THE ART OF MAKING MONEY, IT’S COMING!, WHEN THE LAPD BLOWS UP YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD, and MYSTERY SEEDS. He was the Camera Department Head and a Cinematographer for the HBO series HOW TO WITH JOHN WILSON and produced and co-DP’ed Jessica Kingdon’s ASCENSION登楼叹 (2021).
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