Jem Finch is Scout's older brother. Jem undergoes crucial transformations in the work as he becomes a man. The trial of Tom Robinson is Jem's first real encounter with true evil, and the realization of its existence drives him into a sullen state. Prior to this, he had viewed the world innocently, thinking of people as one-sided. He viewed Boo Radley, for example, as a frightening figure. Jem was able to overcome his sullenness due to the strong presence of Atticus in his life, and became a bigger person as he achieved a greate ...

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To Kill a Mockingbird, To Kill a Mockingbird - Primary cast of the movie, To Kill a Mockingbird - Awards for the movie, To Kill a Mockingbird - Award nominations for the movie, To Kill a Mockingbird - Analysis of important characters, To Kill a Mockingbird - Trivia

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In 1961, it was made into a motion picture and released on October 18 by United Artists, directed by Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise. The film won ten Motion Picture Academy Awards including Best Picture, the most Oscars received by any movie musical. The film was #41 on American Film Institute's 100 Years, 100 Movies and #3 on its 100 Years, 100 Passions, and has been deemed "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. On AFI's 100 years, 100 songs, "Tonight" was #59, "America" was #35, and "Somewhere" was #20. See also:

West Side Story, West Side Story - Film, West Side Story - Credits, West Side Story - Academy Award wins and nominations for the movie, West Side Story - Dramatis Personae

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Ann-Margret started recording for RCA in 1961. Her recording career was not as successful as her movie career. She had a sexy singing voice which can be compared to that of Eartha Kitt or Nancy Sinatra, and RCA attempted to capitalize on her "Female Elvis" comparison by having her record a version of Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" and other songs similar in style to Presley's hits. She scored one minor hit, "I Just Don't Understand" (it entered the Billboard Top 40 in the third week of August 1961 and stayed 6 weeks, peaking at #17.) Her only charting album is The Beauty and the Beard (1964) which she did with trumpeter Al Hirt ...

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Ann-Margret, Ann-Margret - Career, Ann-Margret - Trivia, Ann-Margret - Filmography, Ann-Margret - Television work

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Peter Bogdanovich, coming off the huge successes of his films What's Up, Doc? and The Last Picture Show, and having recently formed The Director's Company with Francis Ford Coppola and William Friedkin, was looking for another project, when his ex-wife and frequent collaborator Polly Platt reccomended filming Joe David Brown's script for the novel Addie Pray. Bogdanovich, a fan of period films, and having two young daughters of his own, found himself drawn t ...

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Paper Moon film, Paper Moon film - Production, Paper Moon film - Cast

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Huston was born in Los Angeles California, the daughter of film director John Huston and granddaughter of actor Walter Huston; her mother is of Italian descent. She grew up mainly in Ireland and England. Two of the first movies she appeared in, Sinful Davey (1969) and A Walk with Love and Death (1969), were directed by her father even though he did not want her to be an actress. She also starred in The Dead (1987), which was her father's last film. She appeared in few films in ...

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Anjelica Huston, Anjelica Huston - Biography, Anjelica Huston - Filmography, Anjelica Huston - Television Work, Anjelica Huston - Director - Filmography

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Actors employ a variety of techniques that are learned through training and experience. Some of these are: The rigorous use of the voice to communicate a character's lines and express emotion. This is achieved through attention to diction and projection through correct breathing and articulation. It is also achieved through the tone and emphasis that an actor puts on words Physicalisation of a role in order to create a believable character for the audience and to use the acting space appropriately and correctly

Goddard was born Pauline Marion Levy, an only child, in Whitestone Landing, Queens, New York City to a Jewish father and an Episcopalian mother. She became a fashion model as a teenager, and a member of the Ziegfeld Follies at the age of 13 in 1924. Her stage debut was in the Ziegfeld revue production No Foolin in 1926. The next year she made her stage acting debut in The Unconquerable Male. She married the Broadway wri ...

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Paulette Goddard, Paulette Goddard - Early life and career, Paulette Goddard - Paramount pictures, Paulette Goddard - Later life, Paulette Goddard - Filmography, Paulette Goddard - External link, Paulette Goddard - Notes

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Travis Bickle (De Niro) is an alienated, sexually frustrated young man of 26 from the Midwest, who claims that he has recently been discharged from the Marines. He suffers from insomnia and consequently takes a job as taxi driver in New York City, and volunteers to work the overnight shift "anytime, anywhere". Bickle spends his spare time watching pornography in seedy theaters and driving around aimlessly through the darkest an ...

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Taxi Driver, Taxi Driver - Primary cast:, Taxi Driver - Plot summary, Taxi Driver - Analysis, Taxi Driver - Critical response, Taxi Driver - Award wins, Taxi Driver - Award nominations, Taxi Driver - Influence, Taxi Driver - John Hinckley Jr., Taxi Driver - Quotes, Taxi Driver - Trivia, Taxi Driver - Video game, Taxi Driver - Sources

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De Havilland's career began co-starring with Joe E. Brown in Alibi Ike in 1935. She appeared as Hermia in A Midsummer Night's Dream, her first stage production, at the Hollywood Bowl. The stage production was later turned into a 1935 movie with the same cast. De Havilland played opposite Errol Flynn in such highly popular films as Captain Blood and The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936), and as Maid Marian to Flynn's Robin Hood in The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). She played Melanie Wilkes in Gone wit ...

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Olivia de Havilland, Olivia de Havilland - Early life, Olivia de Havilland - Career, Olivia de Havilland - Private life, Olivia de Havilland - Filmography, Olivia de Havilland - Television work

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For Whom the Bell Tolls - Influence of Hemingway's experiences. Some experiences from the time of World War One have been worked into For Whom the Bell Tolls. According to Anthony Burgess, the farewell at the station on page 434 is the equivalent of Hemingway's departure to the Italian front. An interesting aspect is that Jordan went to school instead, maybe the war represents for Hemingway, as well as for his character Robert Jordan, a part of his education. The last thoughts of Jordan could refer to Erne ...

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For Whom the Bell Tolls, For Whom the Bell Tolls - The title, For Whom the Bell Tolls - World events context, For Whom the Bell Tolls - On the Novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls - Influence of Hemingway's experiences, For Whom the Bell Tolls - Influence of previous novels, For Whom the Bell Tolls - Narration, For Whom the Bell Tolls - Themes, For Whom the Bell Tolls - Imagery, For Whom the Bell Tolls - Dramatisations and influences

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SILENT An Unseen Enemy (1912) Two Daughters of Eve (1912) In the Aisles of the Wild (1912) The One She Loved (1912) The Painted Lady (1912) The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) Gold and Glitter (1912) My Baby (1912) The Informer (1912) The New York Hat (1912) The Burglar’s Dilemma (1912) A Cry for Help (1912) Oil and Water (19 ...

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Lillian Gish, Lillian Gish - Filmography, Lillian Gish - Books, Lillian Gish - Documentaries about Lillian Gish, Lillian Gish - Quotes, Lillian Gish - Timeline

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-won Golden Globe Award (1965) The Rogues TV Series 1964-65 at the Internet Movie Database and many other TV appearances ...

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Gladys Cooper, Gladys Cooper - Television, Gladys Cooper - Biography

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The story is look at early 20th century American race relations. In Hurst's novel, Bea Chipley is a quiet, mousey, Atlantic City teenage girl whose mother passes away, leaving her to keep house for her father (Mr. Chipley) and Bill Pullman, a boarder who peddles ketchup and relish on the boardwalk and sells maple syrup door-to-door on the side. Within a year, her father and Pullman decide that she should marry Pullman, and shortly thereafter Bea becomes pregnant. Her father suffers an incapacitating stroke, confining him to a wheelchair, and Pullman is killed in a train accident. Bea is left to fend f ...

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Imitation of Life, Imitation of Life - Synopsis of novel, Imitation of Life - Controversy surrounding novel, Imitation of Life - 1934 film, Imitation of Life - Plot, Imitation of Life - 1959 film, Imitation of Life - Plot, Imitation of Life - Release and critical reaction, Imitation of Life - Trivia

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In her native country, Dame Judi has developed a reputation as arguably the greatest actress in post-World War II history, primarily through her work in theatre, which has been her main forte throughout her career. She received her professional training at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London and made her professional debut as Ophelia in Hamlet in Liverpool in 1957. She subsequently spent several seasons in repertory in Oxford and Nottingham. In 1961 she joined the Royal Shakespeare Company and made numerous appearances with the company in Stratford and London over the next t ...

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Judi Dench, Judi Dench - Theatrical career, Judi Dench - Selected filmography, Judi Dench - James Bond, Judi Dench - Selected discography, Judi Dench - Selected awards and recognition, Judi Dench - Theatre, Judi Dench - Film and television, Judi Dench - Other

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In the opening scene, Alice (Portman) and Dan (Law) see each other for the first time from opposite sides of a street, as they are walking towards each other amongst many other rush hour pedestrians. Alice is a young American stripper who just arrived in London, while Dan is an unsuccessful British author who is on his way to work, where he writes obituaries for a newspaper. Alice looks in the wrong direction as she is crossing the street and is hit by a taxi cab right in front of Dan's eyes. Coming to a few seconds later, she smiles and say ...

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Closer film, Closer film - Synopsis, Closer film - Analysis, Closer film - Trivia

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Eddie Adams/Dirk Diggler - A handsome but dimwitted high school dropout with a 13-inch penis who is recruited into the porn industry by director Jack Horner. He changes his name to Dirk Diggler and becomes an instant success in the porn world. In the 1980s he gets hooked on cocaine and after a dispute with Jack leaves his studio. Dirk is the central character in the story and the one who has the ...

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Boogie Nights, Boogie Nights - Plot, Boogie Nights - Background, Boogie Nights - Awards, Boogie Nights - Trivia, Boogie Nights - Characters, Boogie Nights - External link

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The one actor appearing in all four films is George Kennedy in the key role of airline mechanic Joe Patroni, although the sequels seem to have confused his wife's name and how many children he had. (Marie is the wife in the first movie, an absolutely solid marriage indicated, but Helen is his wife in the second movie. Joseph Patroni Jr. is in the second movie. Whoever his wife is, by 1979, she's deceased.) Like its novel namesake, the movie gives some insight to the operations of a modern airport of its day, although the book is, of c ...

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Airport film, Airport film - Cast, Airport film - Awards, Airport film - Further Comment and Plot Outline Airport 1970, Airport film - Trivia, Airport film - Sequels

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Shelby is the one is marrying Jackson, she is diabetic and has a stroke towards the middle of the story. She ends up having her baby and dying shortly after. This play comes with a stage set up, lights cues, and sound cues. ...

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Steel Magnolias, Steel Magnolias - Clairee, Steel Magnolias - Ouiser, Steel Magnolias - Truvy, Steel Magnolias - M'Lynn, Steel Magnolias - Shelby, Steel Magnolias - External link

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Angelina Jolie was born in Los Angeles, California, to actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is the niece of Chip Taylor and the goddaughter of Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. She is also the sister of James Haven. In a 2004 article in Vogue she stated that her mother is from Chicago. At the Premiere Magazine "Women in Hollywood" Awards she said her mom was born in a bowling alley and has stated that because of her name people often assume that her mother is French. Jolie's grandparents were French Canadian. H ...

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Angelina Jolie, Angelina Jolie - Biography, Angelina Jolie - Career, Angelina Jolie - Relationships, Angelina Jolie - Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie - Humanitarian Work, Angelina Jolie - Adoptions, Angelina Jolie - Tattoos, Angelina Jolie - Other trivia, Angelina Jolie - Filmography

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The film adaptation of Mrs. Miniver was produced by MGM in 1942 with Greer Garson in the leading role and William Wyler directing. Under the influence of the American Office of War Information, the film attempted to undermine Hollywood's prewar depiction of England as a glamorous bastion of social privilege, anachronistic habits and snobbery in favour of more democratic, modern images. To this end, the social status enjoyed by the Miniver family in the print version was downgraded and increased attention was given to the erosion o ...

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Mrs. Miniver, Mrs. Miniver - Origin, Mrs. Miniver - Book publication, Mrs. Miniver - Film adaptation, Mrs. Miniver - Awards and nominations

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Driver was born to parents of English, Irish, Scottish, Italian and French descent. Prior to her success as an actress, Driver was a member of a band called "Puff, Rocks and Brown"; the band was signed to a development deal with Island Records, which ended without a release. She began a low-profile return to music in 2000; in 2004 she signed recording contracts with EMI and Rounder Records and performed at SXSW. The contract led to the release of Everything I've Got in My Pocket, an album backed by a group that includes members ...

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Minnie Driver, Minnie Driver - Music career, Minnie Driver - Filmography, Minnie Driver - Animated filmography, Minnie Driver - Personal life

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