American actors

“The older I get, the more I look at movies as a moving miracle. Audiences are harder to please if you're just giving them special effects, but they're easy to please if it's a good story. The audience is also the toughest critic - a good story that exists in your world may not be the first choice for an audience. So I just do the best I can.” Those were the words spoken by director Steven Spielberg when he talked about his life as a film maker. The film making industry has changed since the…

Actors, directors, playwrights, set designers, costume designers, lighting and sound designers all come together to mount this spectacle of theater. The theater has to pay these employed artists. Not only are artists involved, but stage managers, technicians…

Jerry Seinfeld Jerry Seinfeld is a comedian, actor, writer, and director. He was born April 29th 1954 in Brooklyn New York. He grew up listening to his dad tell jokes he heard in WWII and repeated them amongst friends. While telling jokes he realized how much his friends and family enjoyed them. That’s when he first fell in love with comedy. After high school he went to college at Queens College, City University of New York. There he was in little productions and comedy skits. He graduated…

Cary Grant in “North by Northwest,” John Travolta in “Saturday Night Fever,” Elvis Presley in “Jailhouse Rock,” ), and Marilyn Monroe in "The Seven Year Itch.” The final image was a play on the legendary image of Dustin Hoffman posing in front of an American flag from the 1982 film “Tootsie,” but Hoffman was depicted in a Richard Tyler butter-colored silk gown and Ralph Lauren heels instead of the original red long-sleeved sequined evening dress and high heels. One month later, Hoffman filed a…

The Last Detail, a 1973 comedy-drama, is the product of many respected industry players of the time. It was directed by Hal Ashby (Harold and Maude, Shampoo) and starred Jack Nicholson (Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces), an actor who is almost synonymous with New Hollywood. The screenplay is an adaptation by Robert Towne (Bonnie and Clyde [uncredited], Shampoo) from a 1970 novel of the same name. Although it had an all-star team behind it, that alone is not what makes it a Hollywood Renaissance…

Vanessa Hudgens Wiki, Height, Parents, Net Worth, Age and Bio Bio Hudgens is an American actress and singer. She rose to prominence when she played the role of Gabriella Montez in the High School Musical; the series brought her noteworthy mainstream success. She has tackled music, movies, and the stage with noteworthy success. She has acted in a number of good movies, Bandslam, Beastly, Sucker Punch, Journey 2: The Mysterious Island, Spring Breakers, and Machete Kill. Vanessa Hudgens was born…

old. Later on, Capra got a job at Columbia Pictures, and thirteen years later, he left the studio as Hollywood’s number one filmmaker (Capra 294). Capra was able to transform himself from a poor immigrant into a successful filmmaker. He is, “The American dream personified” (Freer). Capra’s immigrant roots may be the reason behind the trends in his films. Similarly to Smith’s political stand in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Capra used his films to show his moral duty, and that moral duty may…

I really enjoyed Water By the Spoonful. It was easy to become lost in the show and I ended up becoming very attached to the characters. Although there were some scenes where you could tell the actors spoke a line ahead, overall they did a great job. The performance by the actress playing Haikumom/Odessa brought tears to my eyes. Additionally, the production did a really good job of working with the few set pieces they had. The use of lighting for the chats was cool and made it easy to follow…

“fairytale princess”. Since her death in 1982 she still has her effect on the world today from her films and by the family she left here on Earth. She was born into a successful family in philadelphia, she was a very shy girl but she became an actor. At the age of 23 she went to hollywood and made 11 films in 3 ½ years. She modeled to pay for her acting but her film career only lasted 5 years. In 1956 she met Prince Rainier iii of Monaco, they got married right away on April 18, 1956. She…

had good working relationships with on past projects. This is a norm in so many projects. We find directors working with the same actors, cinematographers, editors, produces, and composers, over and over again. A good example of directors and composers: Spielberg/Williams, Fellini/Rota, and Eisenstein/Prokofief. Sergei Prokofiev never composed a score for an American film although his work with the Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein has produced some of the most important work in cinema to…