Alfred Hitchcock entered the film industry in 1920, writing scenarios and assistant directing. In 1939 Hitchcock went to Hollywood, where his first film, Rebecca, won an Academy Award for best picture. During the next three decades Hitchcock usually made a film a year,including the classics Rear Window and Psycho. He received the AFI’s Life Achievement […]
Born in London on February 27, 1932, Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in One Born Every Minute (1942) and achieved stardom with National Velvet (1944). Although she won Academy Awards for her work in Butterfield 8 (1960) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1965), Taylor was just as famous for her many marriages, extensive […]
Sophia Loren was born as Sofia Scicolone at the Clinica Regina Margherita in Rome, Italy, on September 20, 1934. Her father Riccardo was married to another woman and refused to marry her mother Romilda, despite the fact that she was the mother of his two children (Sophia and her younger sister Maria Scicolone). Growing up […]
Mini Biography Charming, free-spirited and – above all – talented, Drew Barrymore has come a long way since her big-screen breakout in Steven Spielberg’s beloved sci-fi blockbuster, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial (1982). Despite a troubled and much-publicized adolescence during which she appeared in only a handful of films, Barrymore’s star was officially on the rise during […]
John Travolta was born on February 18, 1954, in Englewood, New Jersey. He dropped out of high school by age 16 to pursue acting and soon joined the Broadway cast of “Grease.” He became a star as Vinnie Barbarino in the TV series “Welcome Back Kotter,” followed by the hit films, “Saturday Night Fever” and […]