ProfileGene Eliza Tierney (19 November 1920 – 6 November 1991) was an American film and stage actress. Acclaimed for her great beauty, she became established as a leading lady.Tierney was best known for her portrayal of the title character in the film Laura (1944), and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Ellen Berent Harland in Leave Her to Heaven (1945). BiographyGene Eliza Tierney was born on 19 November 1920, in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, the daughter and middle child of Howard Sherwood Tierney and Belle Lavinia Taylor. Her father was a successful insurance broker of Irish descent; her mother was a former physical education instructor. Tierney was raised in Westport, Connecticut. She published her first poem, entitled "Night", in the school magazine and wrote poetry occasionally throughout her life. Tierney played Jo in a student production of Little Women, based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott. Tierney spent two years in Europe, attending Brillantmont International School in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she learned to speak fluent French. She returned to the US in 1936 and attended Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut. On a family trip to the West Coast, she visited Warner Bros. studios, where her mother's cousin - Gordon Hollingshead-worked as a producer of historical short films. Director Anatole Litvak, taken by the 17-year-old's beauty, told Tierney that she should become an actress. Warner Bros. wanted to sign her to a contract, but her parents advised against it because of the relatively low salary; they also wanted her to take her position in society. Tierney's society debut occurred on September 24, 1938, when she was 17 years old. Soon bored with society life, she decided to pursue an acting career. Her father said, "If Gene is to be an actress, it should be in the legitimate theatre." Tierney studied acting at a small Greenwich Village acting studio in New York. In Tierney's first role on Broadway, she carried a bucket of water across the stage in What a Life! (1938). A Variety magazine critic declared, "Miss Tierney is certainly the most beautiful water carrier I've ever seen!" Tierney's father set up a corporation, Belle-Tier, to fund and promote her acting career. Columbia Pictures signed her to a six-month contract in 1939. She met Howard Hughes, who tried unsuccessfully to seduce her. Hughes eventually became a lifelong friend. After a cameraman advised Tierney to lose a little weight, she wrote to Harper's Bazaar magazine for a diet, which she followed for the next 25 years. When Columbia Pictures failed to find Tierney a project, she returned to Broadway and starred as Patricia Stanley to critical and commercial success in The Male Animal (1940). She was the toast of Broadway before her 20th birthday and was featured in Life. She was also photographed by Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. Tierney signed with 20th Century-Fox, after Darryl F. Zanuck, the head of 20th Century Fox saw her dancing. Her motion picture debut was in a supporting role as Eleanor Stone in Fritz Lang's Western The Return of Frank James (1940), opposite Henry Fonda. After a few films, Tierney received top billing in Ernst Lubitsch's comedy Heaven Can wait (1943) as Martha Strable Van Cleve which signaled an upward turn in her career. Tierney married Oleg Cassini, a costume and fashion designer(who later became the official designer for Jackie Kennedy when she became the first lady), on 1 June 1941, with whom she eloped as her parents opposed the marriage. She was 20 years old. In 1943, she gave birth to a daughter, Daria, who was deaf and mentally disabled, the result of a fan breaking a rubella quarantine and infecting the pregnant Tierney while she volunteered at the Hollywood Canteen. Tierney's friend Howard Hughes paid for Daria's medical expenses, ensuring the girl received the best care. Tierney never forgot his acts of kindness. Tierney starred in what became her best-remembered role: the title role in Otto Preminger's film noir Laura (1944), opposite Dana Andrews. Next year she played the jealous, narcissistic femme fatale Ellen Berent Harland in Leave Her to Heaven (1945) for which she won an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. This was 20th Century-Fox' most successful film of the 1940s. It was cited by director Martin Scorsese as one of his favorite films of all time, and he assessed Tierney as one of the most underrated actresses of the Golden Era. After that, she starred as Isabel Bradley, opposite Tyrone Power, in The Razor's Edge (1946), an adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's novel of the same name. Her performance was critically praised and her wedding dress in the film was designed by her husband Oleg Cassini. Tierney and Cassini separated October 20, 1946, and entered into a property settlement agreement on November 10. During their separation, Tierney met John F. Kennedy, a young World War II veteran, who was visiting the set of Dragonwyck in 1946. They began a romance that she ended the following year after Kennedy told her he could never marry her because of his political ambitions. (In 1960, Tierney sent Kennedy a note of congratulations on his victory in the presidential election.) In 1948, Tierney and Cassini reconciled and their second daughter Christina "Tina" Cassini was born on 19 November, on Tierney’s 28th birthday. In the course of the 1940s, Tierney reached a pinnacle of fame as a beautiful leading lady, on a par with "fellow sirens Rita Hayworth, Lana Turner and Ava Gardner". She was "called the most beautiful woman in movie history" and many of her movies in the 1940s became classic films. 1952 is a heavy year for Tierney: Her contract at 20th Century-Fox expired, she was finally divorced from Oleg Cassini, and she met Prince Aly Khan(1911-1960) when filming Personal Affair in Europe. They were engaged while Khan was going through a divorce from Rita Hayworth(1918-1987). Their marriage plans, however, met with fierce opposition from his father, Aga Khan III. Her career was also starting to suffer because of her mental illness which by now is more obvious. In 1953, she suffered problems with concentration, which affected her film appearances. She dropped out of Mogambo and was replaced by Grace Kelly. While playing Anne Scott in The Left Hand of God (1955), opposite Humphrey Bogart, Tierney became ill. Bogart's sister Frances had suffered from mental illness, so he showed Tierney great sympathy, feeding her lines during the production and encouraging her to seek help. Tierney consulted a psychiatrist and was admitted to Harkness Pavilion in New York. Later, she went to the Institute of Living in Hartford, Connecticut. After some 27 shock treatments, intended to alleviate severe depression, Tierney fled the facility, but was caught and returned. She later became an outspoken opponent of shock treatment therapy, claiming it had destroyed significant portions of her memory. In late December 1957, after a supposedly a suicide attempt while she was in her mother's apartment in Manhattan, Tierney's family arranged for her to be admitted to the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas. The following year, after treatment for depression, she was discharged. That same year, Tierney met Texas oil baron W. Howard Lee, who had been married to actress Hedy Lamarr since 1953. Later in 1958, 20th Century Fox offered Tierney a lead role in Holiday for Lovers (1959), but the stress upon her proved too great, so only days into production, she dropped out of the film and returned to Menninger for a time. Gene Tierney married W. Howard Lee on July 11, 1960 in Aspen, Colorado after his difficult divorce from Hedy Lamarr that same year. They lived quietly in Houston, Texas, and Delray Beach, Florida until his death in 1981. Despite her self-imposed exile in Texas, Tierney received work offers from Hollywood, prompting her to a comeback. Affter a few attempts, Tierney suddenly retired in the mid-60s. Her final performance was in the TV miniseries Scruples (1980). Tierney published her autobiography, Self-Portrait in 1979, in which she candidly discusses her life, career, and mental illness. In 1986, Tierney was honored alongside actor Gregory Peck with the first Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award at the San Sebastian Film Festival in Spain. Tierney has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6125 Hollywood Boulevard. Tierney died of emphysema on 16 November 1991, in Houston, 13 days before her 71st birthday. She is interred in Glenwood Cemetery in Houston. Oleg Cassini and Gene Tierney remained friends until her death. He had bequeathed $500,000 in trust to Daria Cassini and $1,000,000 to Christina Cassini. He died from complications of an aneurysm in Manhasset, New York, in 2006. Daria Cassini was institutionalized for much of her life and died in 2010, at the age of 66. Her sister Christian died 5 years later, in 2015. Certain documents of Tierney's film-related material, personal papers, letters, etc., are held in the Wesleyan University Cinema Archives, though her papers are closed to the public.
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Calvin Richard Klein (born November 19, 1942) is an American fashion designer who launched the company that would later become Calvin Klein Inc., in 1968. In addition to clothing, he also has given his name to a range of perfumes, watches, and jewellery. BiographyCalvin Klein was born on November 19, 1942, to a Jewish family in the Bronx, the son of Flore (née Stern) (1909–2006) and Leo Klein. His father Leo had immigrated to New York from Hungary, while his mother Flore was born in the United States to immigrants from Galicia and Buchenland, Austrian Empire (modern day-Ukraine). Klein attended the High School of Art and Design in Manhattan and matriculated at, but never graduated from, New York's Fashion Institute of Technology, receiving an honorary doctorate in 2003. He did his apprenticeship in 1962 at an old line cloak-and-suit manufacturer, Dan Millstein, and spent five years designing at other New York City shops. In 1968, he launched his first company with a childhood friend, Barry K. Schwartz. He became a protégé of Baron de Gunzburg, through whose introductions he became the toast of the New York elite fashion scene even before he had his first mainstream success with the launch of his first jeans line. He was immediately recognized for his talent after his first major showing at New York Fashion Week. He was hailed as the new Yves Saint Laurent, and was noted for his clean lines. Calvin Klein married Jayne Centre, a textile designer, in 1964.They have a daughter, Award-winning television producer Marci Klein, who is best known for her work on NBC's Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock. They divorced in 1974. In 1974, Klein designed the tight-fitting signature jeans that would go on to gross $200,000 in their first week of sales. In that same year he also became the first designer to receive outstanding design in men's and women's wear from the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) award show. Also in 1981, 1983, and 1993, he received an award from the CFDA. In 1983, Calvin Klein was placed on the International Best Dressed List. In September 1986 Klein married his assistant, Kelly Rector, in Rome while they were on a buying trip in Italy. She later became a well-known socialite photographer. After separating in 1996, they divorced in April 2006 after 20 years of marriage. He then had an on-and-off relationship with fashion model Nick Gruber. In 2003, Klein bought an ocean-front estate in Southampton, New York on Long Island and demolished it to build a $75 million glass-and-concrete mansion. In 2015, he put his Miami Beach, Florida mansion on the market for $16 million. The Florida home sold in February 2017 for $12,850,000. In June 2015, Klein bought a mansion in Los Angeles, California for $25 million.
ProfileSophie Marceau (born Sophie Danièle Sylvie Maupu, 17 November 1966) is a French actress, director, screenwriter, and author. As a teenager, Marceau achieved popularity with her debut films La Boum (1980) and La Boum 2 (1982), receiving a César Award for Most Promising Actress. She became a film star in Europe with a string of successful films, such as L'Étudiante (1988), Fanfan (1993), and Revenge of the Musketeers (1994). Marceau became an international film star with her performances in Braveheart (1995), Firelight (1997), and the 19th James Bond film The World Is Not Enough (1999). Sophie Maupu, dite Sophie Marceau, est une actrice et réalisatrice française, née le 17 novembre 1966 à Paris. Elle a été révélée à l'âge de 14 ans par le film La Boum, qui lui a permis de devenir d'emblée une vedette du cinéma français. Avec La Boum 2, elle obtient le César du meilleur espoir féminin. BiographySophie Marceau was born 17 November 1966 in Paris, the second child of a shop assistant and a truck driver. Her parents divorced when she was nine years old, but later remarried. In February 1980, Marceau and her mother came across a model agency looking for teenagers. Marceau had photos taken at the agency, but did not think anything would come of it. At the same time, Françoise Menidrey, the casting director for Claude Pinoteau's La Boum (1980), asked modeling agencies to recommend a new teenager for the project. After viewing the rushes, Alain Poiré, the director of the Gaumont Film Company, signed Marceau to a long-term contract. La Boum was a hit movie, not only in France, where 4,378,500 tickets were sold, but also in several other European countries. In 1982, at age 16, Marceau bought back her contract with Gaumont for one million French francs. She borrowed most of the money. After starring in the sequel film La Boum 2 (1982), Marceau focused on more dramatic roles, including the historical drama Fort Saganne in 1984 with Gérard Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve, Joyeuses Pâques (Happy Easter) with Jean-Paul Belmondo in 1984. In 1985, three years after meeting Polish director Andrzej Żuławski, Sophie Marceau became his partner. Their son Vincent was born in July 1995. In 1988, she starred in L'Étudiante (The Student) and the historical adventure film Chouans!. That year, Marceau was named Best Romantic Actress at the International Festival of Romantic Movies for her role in Chouans! In 1989, Marceau starred in My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days, which was directed by her boyfriend Andrzej Zulawski, and the next year, she starred in her third film directed by him La note bleue. In 1991, she ventured into the theater in Eurydice, which earned Marceau the Moliere Award for Best Female Newcomer. Throughout the 1990s, Marceau began making less-dramatic films, such as the comedy Fanfan in 1993 and Revenge of the Musketeers (La fille de d'Artagnan) in 1994—both popular in Europe and abroad. That year, she also returned to the theatre as Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion. Marceau achieved international recognition in 1995 playing the role of Princess Isabelle in Mel Gibson's Braveheart. In 1996, Marceau published the semi-autobiographical novel, Menteuse (the English translation, Telling Lies, was published in 2001). Marceau's work was described as "an exploration of female identity". In 1997, she continued her string of successful films with William Nicholson's Firelight, filmed in England, Véra Belmont's Marquise, filmed in France, and Bernard Rose's Anna Karenina, filmed in Russia. In 1999, she played the villainess Bond girl Elektra King in The World Is Not Enough. In the film Lost and Found of the same year, Sophie Marceau showed her skill of musician as a classically trained cellist. In 2000, Marceau teamed up again with her boyfriend Andrzej Zulawski to film Fidelity, playing the role of a talented photographer who takes a job at a scandal-mongering tabloid and becomes romantically involved with an eccentric children's book publisher. In 2001, Marceau separated from Żuławski and began a six-year relationship with American producer Jim Lemley. They have a daughter, Juliette (born June 2002 in London). In 2002, Marceau made her directorial debut in the feature film Speak to Me of Love, for which she was named Best Director at the Montreal World Film Festival. She made a nine-minute short film L'aube à l'envers in 1995, her first directorial effort. In 2007, she directed Trivial, her second feature film and fell in love with her co-star of the film actor Christopher Lambert. She separated from Jim Lemley, and became Christopher Lambert's partner. For the next decade, Marceau has continued to appear in a wide variety of roles, mainly in French films, such as Nelly (À ce soir) in 2004, Anthony Zimmer in 2005, Female Agents in 2008, and LOL (Laughing Out Loud). In 2009, she teamed up with Monica Bellucci in Don't Look Back about the mysterious connection between two women who have never met. Although the director's purpose was to put the two biggest sex symbols together, the film did not create the expected response from the audiences. It was a commercial failure. On 11 July 2014, Sophie Marceau and Christopher Lambert announced their separation. In 2016, Marceau started another relationship with the chef and restaurant owner Cyril Lignac, which lasted for about 10 months. BiographieSophie Maupu passe sa petite enfance à Chelles dans une maison avec ses parents, son frère et son cousin, puis déménage dans un appartement au 162, rue Gabriel-Péri à Gentilly. Son père, Benoît, est chauffeur routier et sa mère, Simone, travaille dans un grand magasin parisien, puis dans une brasserie. Son frère Sylvain, de trois ans son aîné, est très proche d'elle. Ses parents divorcent lorsqu'elle est âgée de 9 ans, mais ils se remarient ultérieurement. Elle fait des études secondaires, notamment au lycée Élisa-Lemonnier dans le 12e arrondissement de Paris. Pour gagner un peu d'argent, Sophie Maupu s'inscrit dans une agence de publicité pour enfants et adolescents où elle est repérée. Après une audition passée par hasard, elle obtient en 1980, à l'âge de 13 ans, le premier rôle du film culte de Claude Pinoteau, La Boum, qui semble traverser les frontières et les générations. Le personnage de Vic, adolescente romantique et rebelle, lui apporte une célébrité immédiate. Pendant le tournage de La Boum, Claude Pinoteau lui suggère de prendre un pseudonyme et lui propose de choisir dans une liste de noms d'avenues de Paris. Son choix se porte sur Marceau afin de conserver l'initiale de son nom de famille. Elle reprendra d'ailleurs le même rôle dans le second volet de la série, La Boum 2, en 1982, qui lui vaudra le César du meilleur espoir féminin en 1983. À l'âge de 16 ans, elle rachète son contrat d'exclusivité à Gaumont pour un million de francs de l'époque qu'elle emprunte. Elle est désormais libre de choisir ses films. Lors du Festival de Cannes 1981, âgée de 15 ans, Sophie Marceau fait la connaissance du Andrzej Żuławski, à l'hôtel Majestic Barrière. Trois ans plus tard, En 1984, elle est choisie par lui pour tenir le rôle de Mary dans le film L'Amour braque y elle commence sa liaison avec le réalisateur, de vingt-six ans son aîné. Ils ont un fils : Vincent, né le 24 juillet 1995. Le rôle de Mary tranche complètement avec ses premiers films et casse son image. Cette collaboration lui permet de faire quelques incursions remarquées dans le cinéma d'auteur. Claude Pinoteau lui offrira en 1988 le rôle de Valentine dans L'Étudiante, comédie romantique qui obtiendra elle aussi un franc succès. Durant les années 1990, Sophie Marceau parvient à percer à Hollywood, grâce à des rôles remarqués, tout en s'imposant comme tête d'affiche de grosses productions françaises, souvent en costumes. En 1993, elle tient le rôle-titre de la romance Fanfan, d'Alexandre Jardin, face à Vincent Perez. Puis en 1994, elle joue dans le film de cape et d'épées La Fille de d'Artagnan, de Bertrand Tavernier. En 1995, elle impressionne dans le blockbuster américain Braveheart, de Mel Gibson, où elle prête ses traits à Isabelle de France. Sa performance lui ouvre en grand les portes de Hollywood et marque le début d'une carrière internationale. En 1997, elle reste en robe d'époque pour Anna Karenine, de Bernard Rose, puis le biopic français Marquise, de Véra Belmont. Elle renie cependant le film à sa sortie. Avec sa forte personnalité, son franc-parler choque, en particulier lorsqu'elle critique le cinéma français. Sa réputation d'avoir un caractère « difficile » lui vaut d'être délaissée par les producteurs français, même si elle est décrétée par plusieurs sondages « actrice préférée des Français ». En 1999, elle fait l'unanimité en James Bond girl dans Le monde ne suffit pas de Michael Apted, où elle incarne la méchante principale du film, Elektra King. Alors qu'elle tourne Le monde ne suffit pas, elle a une liaison avec le producteur Jim Lemley. Elle l'avait croisé sur le tournage d’Anna Karenine à la fin de l’année 1996. De cette relation naît une fille, prénommée Juliette, le 13 juin 2002. En 2000, elle joue dans le drame intimiste La Fidélité, d'Andrzej Żuławski. Ils séparerent en 2001. Son dernier gros film français, le thriller fantastique Belphégor, le fantôme du Louvre, de Jean-Paul Salomé, reçoit cependant un accueil tiède en 2001. La décennie suivante va ainsi être marquée par un retour vers un cinéma plus intimiste. En 2002, Sophie Marceau passe à la réalisation avec le drame Parlez-moi d'amour, fiction largement autobiographique auréolée du prix de la mise en scène du Festival de Montréal. En 2007, elle dévoile sa seconde réalisation, le polar La Disparue de Deauville, où elle tient un double rôle, et a pour partenaire Christophe Lambert. Après le « coup de foudre » de l'actrice pour lui, Sophie Marceau et Jim Lemley se séparent en 2007. Christopher Lambert devenu son compagnon à la ville, elle le retrouve pour le drame L'Homme de chevet, sorti en 2009. Mais cette année-là, elle renoue avec le succès populaire en incarnant Anne, quadragénaire mère d'une ado rebelle de 16 ans, dans la comédie dramatique LOL, gros succès de l'année avec 3,6 millions d'entrées en France. La même année, la réalisatrice Marina de Van la fait tourner avec Monica Bellucci dans son film Ne te retourne pas, dans le but de « ... réaliser... le portrait croisé de deux sex-symbols ». Le film est présenté au Festival de Cannes 2009, mais c'est un échec commercial. Sophie Marceau et Christophe Lambert annoncent leur séparation le 11 juillet 2014. De janvier à novembre 2016, elle a été la compagne du cuisinier Cyril Lignac. En 2017, elle commence en Chine le tournage de son quatrième long-métrage comme réalisatrice, la comédie Mme Mills, une voisine si parfaite. Elle en partage aussi l'affiche avec Pierre Richard. Sophie Marceau est la marraine de l'association Arc-En-Ciel, dont la vocation est de réaliser les rêves d'enfants atteints de maladies graves. Elle s'occupe également de la protection des animaux.
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