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Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 —November 16, 1960) was an American film actor, and the biggest box-office star of the early sound film era. He was born in Cadiz, Ohio to William H. Gable and Adeline Hershelman. Gable had German ancestry from both sides of his family tree; his maternal grandfather, John Hershelman, was German, as were Gable's paternal great-great-grandparents, Johan Philip Frankenfield and Catharine Haupt. When he was six months old, his sickly Catholic mother had him baptized Roman Catholic. She died when he was ten mon ...

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The Academy Award for Best Actress is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; nominations are made by Academy members who are actors and actresses. The winners are chosen by the Academy membership as a whole. Following the Academy's practice, the films below are listed by release year: for example, the Oscar for "Best Actress in 1999" was announced during the award ceremony he ...

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The Academy Award for Directing is an accolade given to the person that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences feels was best director of the past year. The expression of approval is given, along with an Oscar Statuette and a chance for the director to speak, at an annual Academy Awards ceremony. All but twenty of the seventy-seven Oscars for best director (before 2006) were for films that also won the award for best picture. The Academy has selected one director from five nominees each year for the past seven decades ...

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1990s to present: 2005 - Rachel McAdams (The Notebook), Naomi Watts (King Kong) 2004 - Lindsay Lohan (Mean Girls) 2003 - Scarlett Johansson (Lost in Translation), Paris Hilton (The Simple Life) 2002 - Maggie Gyllenhaal (Secretary), Keira Knightley (Bend It Like Beckham) 2001 - Kirsten Dunst (Bring It On) 2000 - Kate Hudson (Almost Famous), Lucy Liu (Shanghai Noon) 1999 - Angelina Jolie (Girl, Interrupted ...

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It girl, It girl - List of women widely considered to be the Hollywood It girl of their respective years, It girl - External link

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Born in Clinton, Massachusetts. Brown was educated as an engineer at the University of Tennessee before coming into the film industry as an assistant to Maurice Tourneur. He worked with Tourneur for seven years and they co-directed two of Brown's first three films. Brown moved to Universal in 1924 and then to MGM, where he stayed until the mid-1940s. At MGM he was one of the main director of their female stars – he directed Joan Crawford fi ...

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Clarence Brown, Clarence Brown - Biography, Clarence Brown - Filmography

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Clark Gable - Feature films. White Man (1924) Forbidden Paradise (1924) Declassee (1925) The Merry Widow (1925) The Plastic Age (1925) North Star (1925) The Johnstown Flood (1926) One Minute to Play (1926) The Painted Desert (1931) The Easiest Way (1931) Dance, Fools, Dance (1931) The Finger Points (1931) The Secret Six (1931) Laughing Sinners (1931) A Free Soul (1931) Night ...

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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer - The beginning. The name combines those of three film production companies which merged in April, 1924: Metro Pictures Corporation (formed in 1916), Goldwyn Pictures Corporation (1917), and Louis B. Mayer Pictures (1918). M-G-M was controlled by Loews, Inc., the vaudeville-and-movie theater chain founded by Marcus Loew in 1904. Because of his success as an independent producer, Louis B. Mayer was made head of the studio, with Harry Rapf and the twenty-five year old "boy wonder" Irving Thalber ...

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