Canadian postcard by Canadian Postcard, no. A-18. Photo: Columbia TriStar. Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons, Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway and Michael J. Pollard in Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967).
American film actress Faye Dunaway (1941) is a classic beauty with high cheekbones and a husky resonant voice. She had her breakthrough as Bonnie Parker in Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and became one of Hollywood's biggest stars of the 1970s with Chinatown (1974), Three Days of the Condor (1975) and Network (1976), for which she won the Oscar.
Warren Beatty (1937) is an American film actor, director and producer. He is also the younger brother of actress Shirley MacLaine. Immediately after his debut in Splendor in the Grass (1961), he was one of Hollywood's promising 'Jeune premiers'. He had his breakthrough with Bonnie and Clyde (1967) opposite Faye Dunaway. He made such hit films as Shampoo (1975) and Heaven Can Wait (1978), but finally, he received rave reviews for Reds (1981), a film adaptation of John Reed's life. He wrote the screenplay, did the production, directed and starred in the three-hour epic. The film received 12 Oscar nominations and won four, including that for best director. Beatty was now regarded as one of the greatest American filmmakers.
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Dutch collectors card by Edito Service S.A. in the 'Filmsterren: een Portret' series, 1993, no. D5 024 62 09. Photo: A. Pelé / Stills. Warren Beatty in Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967)
Warren Beatty (1937) is an American film actor, director, producer and the younger brother of Shirley MacLaine. Immediately after his debut in Splendor in the Grass (1961), he was Hollywood's most promising 'Jeune premier'. He had his breakthrough with Bonnie and Clyde (1967) opposite Faye Dunaway. Later, he made such hit films as Shampoo (1975) and Heaven Can Wait (1978), but his most lauded film is Reds (1981). Beatty is the only person to be nominated for four Oscars (Best Picture, Directing, Lead Actor & Screenplay) in the same year in two times. First for Heaven Can Wait (1978), and later for Reds (1981).
Warren Beatty was born Henry Warren Beaty in 1937, in Richmond, Virginia, U.S. His mother, Kathlyn Corinne (née MacLean), was a teacher from Nova Scotia. His father, Ira Owens Beaty, studied for a PhD in educational psychology and was a teacher and school administrator, in addition to working in real estate. His older sister is actress Shirley MacLaine, Beatty played football in high school but was more interested in theatre, encouraged to act by the success of his sister, who established herself as a Hollywood star. He attended Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, for one year before moving to New York City, where he studied with acting coach Stella Adler. He occasionally appeared onstage and from 1957 on television as well. In 1959 he earned a recurring role in the television series The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis but left the show before the first season ended to make his only Broadway appearance, in William Inge's 'A Loss of Roses' (1959). Beatty received a Tony Award nomination for his Broadway debut. He then made a strong screen debut as a tortured teenager in love in Splendor in the Grass (Elia Kazan, 1961) opposite Natalie Wood. The film was a major critical and box office success and Beatty was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor and received the award for New Star of the Year – Actor. The film was also nominated for two Oscars, winning one. His next films were Tennessee Williams' The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (Jose Quintero, 1961), with Vivien Leigh and Lotte Lenya, All Fall Down (John Frankenheimer, 1962), with Angela Lansbury, Lilith (Robert Rossen, 1963), with Jean Seberg and Promise Her Anything (Arthur Hiller, 1964), with Leslie Caron. Although interesting efforts, these films were mostly financial disappointments.
Taking command of his career, Warren Beatty formed a production company, Tatira, in 1965. Beatty assigned himself the duties of star and producer for Bonnie and Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967), the story of Great Depression-era bank robbers Bonnie Parker (Faye Dunaway) and Clyde Barrow. When he made his deal with Warner Bros. for Bonnie and Clyde, the studio had such little faith in the future box-office results from the $2.5-million production that it agreed to give the film's star and first-time producer 40% of the box-office gross. The deal worked out quite well for Beatty. Counterculture audiences of the 1960s identified with the film’s outlaw heroes, thanks largely to Beatty’s performance, which was filled with much compassion for Barrow and the poor in America. Beatty had worked before with Penn on Mickey One (Arthur Penn, 1965). Bonnie and Clyde received much attention for the artfully rendered climactic shoot-out, which set new standards for screen violence. It became a colossal hit and a milestone in cinema history. It was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor (Beatty). Between 1967-1973 when the film played in theatres, it generated over $70 million worldwide at the box office, netting Beatty an estimated $28 million. Never one to rush into projects, Beatty acted in only four films in the next seven years. From 1967 to 1974, he lived off-and-on with British actress Julie Christie. He co-starred with her in Robert Altman’s revisionist Western McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971). He also played the lead in Alan J. Pakula’s paranoid thriller The Parallax View (1974). His next big hit was Shampoo (Hal Ashby, 1975) with Julie Christie, Goldie Hawn and Lee Grant. Britannica describes the film as "a comic sex romp, flavoured with a left-wing sensibility". Beatty plays a womanising hairdresser who finds it impossible to juggle all his lovers on the eve of Pres. Richard Nixon’s election in 1968. Beatty starred in the film, produced, and wrote it with Robert Towne. Shampoo was nominated for four Academy Awards. Even more successful was Heaven Can Wait (Warren Beatty, Buck Henry, 1978) again with Julie Christie. It was a showcase vehicle for Beatty’s comedic talents. Beatty was nominated for Academy Awards in four separate categories (Best Actor, Best Picture [as producer], Adapted Screenplay, and Best Direction), an unprecedented achievement in Hollywood history and an achievement he was to repeat with his next film.
Reds (Warren Beatty, 1981) was the film that established Warren Beatty as a serious filmmaker. The historical epic about American Communist journalist John Reed who observed the Russian October Revolution of 1917 received Oscar nominations in all the major categories and won Beatty an Oscar for Best Director. He did not direct again for nine years when he chose as his next vehicle a star-studded adaptation of the comic strip Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990). The film, co-starring Al Pacino and Madonna, received positive reviews and was one of the highest-grossing films of the year. His notable films of the 1990s include Bugsy (Barry Levinson, 1991), about the infamous gangster, and Love Affair (Glenn Gordon Caron, 1994), both costarring Annette Bening, whom Beatty married in 1992. In 1998 he co-wrote, directed, and starred in Bulworth, playing a U.S. senator whose disillusionment with the political system is fueled by his immersion in hip-hop culture. Despite the accolades he received, Beatty was also part of two of Hollywood’s most expensive failures, Ishtar (Elaine May, 1987) and Town & Country (Peter Chelsom, 2001). After a 15-year absence, he returned to the big screen with Rules Don’t Apply (Warren Beatty, 2016), about the relationship between an aspiring actress and her driver, both of whom work for Howard Hughes. In addition to starring as the eccentric millionaire, Beatty also wrote and directed the romance. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences granted Beatty the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for his body of work in 2000, and he was a 2004 Kennedy Center Honor recipient. In 2008 Beatty received a lifetime achievement award from the American Film Institute. Warren Beatty and Annette Bening have four children: Kathlyn (b. 1992), Benjamin (1994), Isabel (1997) and Ella (2000). Daughter Kathlyn transitioned to male at the age of 14 and changed her name to Stephen Ira Beatty.
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Postcard, no. C120. Photo: poster for Scarface (Brian De Palma, 1983). Collection: Daniël van der Aa.
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French poster card for Peter Greenaway's film The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover (1989), a French-Dutch-British coproduction, starring Richard Bohringer, Michael Gambon, Helen Mirren, and Alan Howard. The mise-en-scene was inspired by paintings by Frans Hals, Rubens and Van Dyck. Card editor unnown, no. 547, 'Le cuisinier, le voleur, sa femme et son amant".
On 27 September 2023, Irish actor Michael Gambon, born in Dublin, 19 October 1940, died at the hospital of Witham in Essex, UK, because of a bout of pneumonia.
Gambon moved to London with his parents when he was five years old. Initially trained as an engineer, he decided to become an actor at the age of 21. Gambon started his acting career with Laurence Olivier as one of the original members of the Royal National Theatre. Over his six-decade-long career, he received three Olivier Awards and was nominated for thirteen of them. In addition to many roles on stage in plays by Shakespeare, Ayckbourn, and Pinter, he also played for television and in films which brought him fame among the general public. Gambon made his film debut in Othello (1965). His other notable films include The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (1989), The Wings of the Dove (1997), The Insider (1999), Gosford Park (2001), Amazing Grace (2006), The King's Speech (2010), Quartet (2012), and Victoria & Abdul (2017). Gambon also appeared in the Wes Anderson films The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004) and Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009). He was also an important televsison actor. For instance, he played the role of Philip Marlow in the television series The Singing Detective based on a script by Dennis Potter, and Oscar Wilde in the 1985 BBC television series Oscar. He also starred in the BBC television series Cranford and the historical mini-series Longitude, in which he shaped the main character: clockmaker John Harrison.
From the filming of the third Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, he played the role of headmaster Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films following the death of his predecessor Richard Harris in 2002. Gambon also took on the role of Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey, an attraction at Universal's Islands of Adventure and Universal Studios Japan. In 1998, he received an OBE from the Queen of England for his contribution to British drama and thus became Sir Michael Gambon. Gambon held a pilot's licence and had a love of cars. This love led to an invitation to the BBC programme Top Gear. Gambon raced a Suzuki Liana around the circuit and, due to his aggressive driving style, flew off the track at the final corner. This corner was hence named the Gambon in the programme.
For his work on television, Gambon received four BAFTA Awards for The Singing Detective (1986), Wives and Daughters (1999), Longitude (2000), and Perfect Strangers (2001). He also received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Path to War (2002) and Emma (2009). Gambon's other notable projects include Cranford (2007) and The Casual Vacancy (2015). In 2017, he received the Irish Film & Television Academy Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2020, he was listed at No. 27 on The Irish Times's list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
Sources: Dutch and English Wikipedia, IMDb.
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American postcard by Classico San Francisco, no. 136-183. Photo: Steve Schapiro / The Ludlow Collection. Marlon Brando in The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972).
American film star Marlon Brando (1924-2004) was one of the greatest and most influential actors of all time. A cultural icon, Brando is most famous for his Oscar-winning performances as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954) and Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972).
Marlon Brando initially gained popularity for recreating the role of Stanley Kowalski in the film A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan, 1951), adapted from the Tennessee Williams play in which he became recognized as a Broadway star during its 1947–49 stage run. Then followed his Academy Award-winning performance as Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954), as well as for his iconic portrayal of the rebel motorcycle gang leader Johnny Strabler in The Wild One (Laslo Benedek, 1953), which is considered to be one of the most famous images in pop culture.
Marlon Brando was nominated for the Oscar for playing Emiliano Zapata in Viva Zapata! (Elia Kazan, 1952); Mark Antony in the film adaptation of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1953); and as Air Force Major Lloyd Gruver in Sayonara (Joshua Logan, 1957). Later he did influential performances in Reflections in a Golden Eye (John Huston, 1967), Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972) and Apocalypse Now (Francis Coppola, 1979). Brando was also an activist, supporting many causes, notably the African-American Civil Rights Movement and various American Indian Movements.
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