Actress and philanthropist Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4, 1929, in Brussels, Belgium. At age 22, she starred in the Broadway production of Gigi. Two years later, she starred in the film Roman Holiday (1953) with Gregory Peck. In 1961, she set new fashion standards as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. In her […]
“A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.” – Bruce Lee Lee gained a measure of U.S. celebrity with his role in the television series The Green Hornet, from 1966 to 1967, then went on to star in countless films until 1973, when he died […]
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 […]