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1 day ago · In 1976, he saw a production of Maxim Gorky's The Lower Depths (Played by Tatsuya Nakadai) and was inspired, first to watch, and then later to take part in, as many plays as possible. In the spring of 1978 he auditioned for Tatsuya Nakadai's the Mumeijuku (Studio for Unknown Performers) acting studio, and was one of four chosen out of 800 ...
1 day ago · Fiorello Raffaele Enrico La Guardia, with Raffaele later removed and Enrico Americanized to Henry, was born in Greenwich Village, New York City, on December 11, 1882, to Achille Luigi Carlo La Guardia and Irene Luzzatto-Coen. He was named in honor of his maternal grandmother, paternal grandfather, and uncle.
2 days ago · Teenage singer Deanna Durbin starred in Pasternak's first American film, Three Smart Girls (1936). The film was a box-office hit and reputedly resolved the studio's financial problems. The film's success led Universal to offer her a contract, which for the first five years of her career, produced her most successful pictures.
2 days ago · Crosby is credited with saving the phonograph record industry during the depths of the Depression. In 1936, he became the host of the Kraft Music Hall. Paramount Studios signed him to a contract and over his career he starred in eighty films. Crosby won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1944 for his role as Father O’Malley in Going My Way.
3 days ago · Number 1 on the list is over a mile deep! Freshwater and Brackish water lakes dot the continents from North America to the far reaches of Asia, many of which provide more than just a water source; the oldest lakes hold snapshots of history, displaying geological shifts and progressions that took place millions of years ago.
3 days ago · A harrowing masterwork of postwar Nipponese noir, Stray Dog has a young Toshiro Mifune as a rookie detective disgraced after having his pistol nabbed on a Tokyo bus, driven into the city’s lower depths in order to seek clues to its recovery, the urgency…
3 days ago · The gritty, graffiti-ridden New York City subway system is quite a character in Joker. Most of the subway system in New York City no longer has that feel, so when film production crews need to...
