#born today
animation-appreciation-education:
Barbara Luddy
actress, voice artist, radio performer
May 25th, 1908 - April 1st, 1979Lady - Lady and the Tramp, 1955
Rover - 101 Dalmatians, 1961
Merriweather - Sleeping Beauty, 1959
Mother Rabbit - Robin Hood, 1973
Kanga - The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, 1975
Mother Church Mouse - Robin Hood, 1973
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Alles Gute zum Geburtstag, liebes, Dorothea!
Suggested by @fabulouskind , realisation by dorothea-wieck’s administrator.
Another collaboration, sis
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“You are a composite of all the things you believe, and all the places you believe you can go. Your past does not define you. You can step out of your history and create a new day for yourself. Even if the entire culture is saying, ‘You can’t.’ Even if every single possible bad thing that can happen to you does. You can keep going forward.”
Happy birthday to the great, groundbreaking Oprah Winfrey!
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“Although for some people cinema means something superficial and glamorous, it is something else. I think it is the mirror of the world.”
The exceptional Jeanne Moreau, a film star who enlivened each of her roles with an intense and magnetic physicality, was born on this day in 1928.
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“The beauty of ideas is that they are like waves in the ocean and they connect with things that came before them, and I think it is very important to embrace things that interest you and influence you, and incorporate them into what you do, as all artists have always done. The ones that say they don’t, are lying. Or are afraid that their work won’t be seen as being original, somehow.”
Happy birthday to one of cinema’s fiercest and most singular nonconformists, Jim Jarmusch, whose remarkable body of work has given us some of the screen’s most unforgettable characters!
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“When I meet someone, I look at their eyes and their smile and seek out the good first—it’s easy to find when you’re looking for it. You let a person shine with their own light and try to connect it to yours. As soon as I say hello, I go right to that light and I don’t care who you are! I know we’re all pieces of the same thing—I go for that common light because I know it’s in all of us.”
Happy 74th birthday to the astonishing Dolly Parton!
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“I like to take these unusual characters and then make them as normal as possible because we all know that the tragedy and the abnormal always hides itself behind the normal.”
✨ Happy birthday to the exceptional Isabelle Huppert, one of the greatest and most fearless actors to ever grace the big screen! ✨
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Happy 74th birthday to Liza Minnelli!
“New York, New York, Scorsese’s splashy, cynical, and masterfully-made postwar musical, was egregiously cold-shouldered upon its release, as was the singular star turn of Liza Minnelli, doing an adoring yet galvanizing variation on Mama Judy Garland’s legendary A Star is Born role. As Francine Evans, an aspiring 1940s singer who falls under the influence of De Niro’s callous, captivating saxophonist, Minnelli is perpetually in motion, propelled by an insatiable need to please audiences and lovers alike. Minnelli is, of course, a stupendous, show-stopping singer-dancer with a walloping and finely honed talent that decidedly belongs to the bygone studio era in which her mother rose to otherworldly stardom. Minnelli’s artistic mastery is startlingly reminiscent of Garland’s yet differentiated by the pure, jubilant passionshe exudes at all times when performing; has any artist ever radiated more graciousness for an audience’s gaze than Minnelli, as if the enormity of her abilities didn’t already demand our undivided attention? But, more than anything else, it’s the actress’ tough-minded, deeply-felt emotionality—culminating in an elevator descent of tremulous, heartbroken stillness—that proudly places her Francine beside Garland’s Vicki Lester, Julie Andrews’ Maria von Trapp, Barbra Streisand’s Fanny Brice, and Minnelli’s own Sally Bowles in the eternal pantheon of preeminent, pitch-perfect musical performances.” — Matthew Eng
The 10 Best Female Performances in Martin Scorsese Films
(Source:TribecaFilm.com)
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Happy birthday, Sharon Stone!
“Nothing and nobody else matters in Martin Scorsese’s Casino whenever Sharon Stone’s decadent and devastating Ginger McKenna slinks into a frame. Playing a bona fide hustler unhappily betrothed to De Niro’s smitten casino honcho, Stone is the single most striking element in Scorsese’s fact-based Las Vegas crime saga. The actress can take our breath away just by strolling into a room in a beautifully beaded Bob Mackie gown, but she’s also playing a real, anguishing woman to never less than riveting effect. Stone’s voluptuous emotional shadings make us believe every stage of Ginger’s ever-shifting character, whether it be the scam artist with a criminal knowledge to rival any man’s, the codependent lover, the keyed-up addict, or the materialistic housewife itching to get out of her lavish prison at any cost, even if it means offing her husband/jailor with the help of his equally infatuated best friend. Stone never sands down Ginger’s rough edges and her strident, exceptionally physical blow-ups in the film’s final act conjure an intricate and unabating intensity that some critics like to pretend is the exclusive provenance of men in Scorsese’s movies; they’re wrong, and Stone’s superb and rightfully iconic performance is the enduring proof.” — Matthew Eng
The 10 Best Female Film Performances in Martin Scorsese Films
(Source:TribecaFilm.com)
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“Every time I stop to think about it, I’m really amazed. I think I’ve had an extraordinary life. And lots of times, I can hardly believe it’s me.”
Jennifer Jones, one of the most beguiling and unforgettable stars of Hollywood’s golden age, was born on this day in 1919.
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“Word-work is sublime because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference—the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.”
RememberingToni Morrison, a towering and unsurpassable genius whose fearless independence and vital voice will remain an eternal inspiration, on what would have been her 89th birthday.
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“I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning.”
Happy 87th birthday to the legendary Kim Novak, a wondrous actress who was capable of both deep emotion and hypnotic mystery and remains enshrined in film history forevermore!
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“I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. I try to choose the road that I have the most passion on because then you can never really blame yourself for making the wrong choices. You can always say you’re following your passion.“
Happy birthday to the always daring Darren Aronofsky!
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Chris Evans: 13 de junho de 1981
He was the protagonist of our beloved first Avenger, Captain America.
Also making the serie of movie The Avengers, with Robert Downey Jr, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Hemsworth & Mark Ruffalo.
Nickname: Dorito
Why? Well…
