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American silent film child actress (known as "Baby Peggy"), author and cinema historian [48] Christian Casadesus: 1912–2014: 101: French actor; brother of fellow actress and centenarian Gisèle Casadesus [49] Gisèle Casadesus: 1914–2017: 103: French actress; sister of fellow actor and centenarian Christian Casadesus [50] Wally Cassell ...
The following American film actresses are listed alphabetically. It contains both actresses born American and those who acquired American nationality later. Some actors who are well known for both film and TV work are also included in the list of American television actresses. Meryl Streep Michelle Pfeiffer Jodie Foster Julia Roberts
Jane Fonda did an extraordinary job with her part. She is a splendid actress with a strong analytical mind which sometimes gets in her way, and with an incredible technique and control of emotion; she can cry at will, on cue, mere drops or buckets, as the scene demands ... I thought Jane well deserved the Oscar she should have got. [39]
[1] [2] With the exception of long-time silent film director Lois Weber, from 1927 until her retirement from feature directing in 1943, Arzner was the only female director working in Hollywood. [3] [4] [5] She was one of a very few women able to establish a successful and long career in Hollywood as a film director until the 1970s.
With the death of Sidney Poitier in January 2022, all male living legends and nominees have now died. There is one surviving female living legend, Sophia Loren (90), and 4 remaining female nominees: Ann Blyth (96), Claire Bloom (93), Rita Moreno (93) and Margaret O'Brien (88). The most recent nominee to die is Mitzi Gaynor, aged 93, in October ...
Lindan Hu has documented the post-Mao re-emergence of female desire in women's cinema of the 1980s in mainland China. The films Hu considers are Army Nurse directed by Hu Mei and Women on the Long March directed by Liu Miaomiao. [65] Chloe Zhao is a Chinese born Academy Award winning filmmaker who is currently active in Hollywood.
Young women actresses tend to make more than young male actors. However, "older [male] actors make more than their female equals" in age, with "female movie stars mak[ing] the most money on average per film at age 34, while male stars earn the most at 51." [4]
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress whose career as a Hollywood leading lady spanned six decades. She was known for her headstrong independence, spirited personality, and outspokenness, cultivating a screen persona that matched this public image, and regularly playing strong-willed, sophisticated women.