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Born a few months before the twentieth century (July 7th, 1899), Cukor was a man of medium height and solid, stocky build, features sharp as perfect projection on a movie screen.
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For Chaney, acting was the art of continual transformation, and it came from a desire to become someone else, to leave his own skin and enter another's.
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She was the archetypal silent film heroine -- the delicate damsel in distress, fainting on an ice floe, cowering before a brutal bounder, languishing in a garret.
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Gregory Peck was for more than fifty years a major presence in the theater, on television, and most importantly, on the big screen.
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Known for his role in Rosemary’s Baby and directing twelve films, creating works addressing serious topics that paved the way for more vibrant American cinema.
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More than an actor (and Academy-Award winner), Sidney Poitier is an artist, a writer and director, a thinker and critic, a humanitarian and diplomat.
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Buster Keaton is considered one of the greatest comic actors of all time. His influence on physical comedy is rivaled only by Charlie Chaplin.
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Will Rogers was a ranch hand, rodeo rider, vaudeville performer, film star, columnist and author, radio personality, pioneer of aviation, tireless master of ceremonies, friend to presidents, and unofficial ambassador of good will under three administrations.
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He was brilliant and prolific, breathing life and passion into memorable characters, and like them, he was troubled and self-destructive.
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