In high school, James was a star basketball player.

Genre: drama

Description:

Faded Southern beauty Blanche DuBois (Vivien Leigh) comes to visit her sister Stella (Kim Hunter) in New Orleans after a nervous breakdown.

An actor is at most a poet and at least an entertainer - Marlon Brando

Birth: May 12, 1907
Connecticut, United States

Death: June 29, 2003
Connecticut, United States

Katharine Houghton Hepburn was born into an extraordinary family. Her father Thomas Hepburn was a urologist and helped establish the New England Social Hygiene Association which educated people about venereal disease. Her mother Katharine ‘Kit’ Houghton became the head of the Connecticut Woman Suffrage Association and campaigned for birth control. Katharine was their second child and their first daughter.

Singer-actress Deanne Durbin, who was the highest paid actress of 1947, has died at the age of 91. Her son, Peter H. David, made the announcement in a newsletter to her fans, saying she died ‘a few days ago’. 

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy – and a much better training, I think. It’s much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh – Vivien Leigh

Although Marilyn was born as Norma Jeane, she legally changed her name to Marilyn Monroe in 1956.

Genre: Drama/Musical

Description:

Norman Maine (James Mason), an alcoholic film star whose career is in decline, gives the unknown actress Esther Blodgett (Judy Garland) a big career boost.

Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic. – Rosalind Russell