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4 days ago · New husband George (Jim Hutton) is suffering from stage fright, can’t deliver in the bedroom department on their honeymoon. Wife Isabel (Jane Fonda) is a bit too ditzy, far removed from the efficient nurse he fell, too fast, in love with. He’s got some odd ideas of his own, a hearse his notion of acceptable transportation.
3 days ago · Anne Bancroft (1931-2005) was born in New York City, NY, U.S. She won this award at the age of 31 for her role in the film "The Miracle Worker". Others nominated were Bette Davis ("What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?"), Katharine Hepburn ("Long Day's Journey into Night"), Geraldine Page ("Sweet Bird of Youth") and Lee Remick ("Days of Wine and ...
1 day ago · Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor DBE (27 February 1932 – 23 March 2011) was a British and American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She then became the world's highest paid movie star in the 1960s, remaining a well-known public ...
4 days ago · To Kill a Mockingbird, novel by American author Harper Lee, published in 1960. Enormously popular, it was translated into some 40 languages, sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, and is one of the most-assigned novels in American schools. In 1961 it won a Pulitzer Prize.
- To Kill a Mockingbird is set in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Great Depression (1929–39). The story centres on Jean Louise (“S...
- It is widely believed that Harper Lee based the character of Atticus Finch on her father, Amasa Coleman Lee, a compassionate and dedicated lawyer....
- Harper Lee began writing To Kill a Mockingbird in the mid-1950s. It was published in 1960, just before the peak of the American civil rights moveme...
- Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is one of the best-known and most widely read books in the United States. Since its publication in 1960, the nov...
- In 2015 Harper Lee published a second novel titled Go Set a Watchman. Although it was technically written before To Kill a Mockingbird, the novel i...
4 days ago · The other nominees in the Best Supporting Actress category were Shirley Knight ("Sweet Bird of Youth"), Angela Lansbury ("The Manchurian Candidate"), Thelma Rittter ("Birdman of Alcatraz"), and ten-year-old Mary Badham ("To Kill a Mockingbird").
3 days ago · Geraldine Page won twice for Summer and Smoke (1961) and Sweet Bird of Youth (1962). Anne Bancroft won for The Pumpkin Eater (1964). Liv Ullmann won for The Emigrants (1972). Gena Rowlands won for A Woman Under the Influence (1974).
3 days ago · Doux oiseau de jeunesse. Un barman, Chance Wayne, revient dans la petite ville du Sud des Etats-Unis où il avait déclaré sa flamme à la pétillante Heavenly. Il se souvient, avec amertume, qu'il avait accepté l'argent du père de sa promise en échange du retrait de sa demande en mariage.
