Jennifer Jones was an American actress, dominated the silver screen during the Hollywood golden years

 

Jennifer Jones was an American actress, 

dominated the silver screen during 

the Hollywood golden years

ஜெனிபர் ஜோன்ஸ் ஒரு அமெரிக்க நடிகை, ஹாலிவுட்டின் பொற்காலங்களில் வெள்ளித்திரையில் ஆதிக்கம் செலுத்தினார். மூன்று தசாப்தங்களில் 20 க்கும் மேற்பட்ட படங்களில் நடித்துள்ள அவர், ‘தி சாங் ஆஃப் பெர்னாடெட்’ படத்தில் நடித்ததற்காக சிறந்த நடிகைக்கான அகாடமி விருதை வென்றார் மேலும் நான்கு படங்களில் அவரது நடிப்பிற்காக பரிந்துரைக்கப்பட்டார். அவரது பெற்றோர்கள் ஒரு பயண கூடார நிகழ்ச்சியை சொந்தமாக வைத்து நடத்தி வந்ததால் அவர் இளம் வயதிலேயே ஷோ பிசினஸில் ஈடுபட்டார். இல்லினாய்ஸில் உள்ள வடமேற்கு பல்கலைக்கழகத்தில் பயின்ற பிறகு, அவர் கப்பா ஆல்பா தீட்டா சமூகத்தின் உறுப்பினராக இருந்தார், அவர் நியூயார்க் நகரத்தில் உள்ள அமெரிக்கன் அகாடமி ஆஃப் டிராமாடிக் ஆர்ட்ஸுக்குச் சென்றார். அவர் 13 வார வானொலி நிகழ்ச்சியில் தனது வாழ்க்கையைத் தொடங்கினார், விரைவில் ஹாலிவுட்டில் நுழைந்தார். தயாரிப்பாளர் டேவிட் ஓ. செல்ஸ்னிக் உடனான சந்திப்பு, அந்த இளம் பெண்ணிடம் இருந்த திறனை உணர்ந்து, அவரது எதிர்கால வாழ்க்கைக்கு அடித்தளம் அமைத்தது. செல்ஸ்னிக் அவளை தனது பிரிவின் கீழ் அழைத்துச் சென்று அவரது சகாப்தத்தின் மிகவும் வெற்றிகரமான நடிகைகளில் ஒருவராக அவளை வளர்த்தார். அவர்களது தொழில்முறை ஒத்துழைப்பு தனிப்பட்ட ஒன்றாக மாறியது மற்றும் இருவரும் ஏற்கனவே திருமணம் செய்து கொண்ட போதிலும் இருவரும் காதல் உறவில் நுழைந்தனர். இறுதியில் ஜோன்ஸ் மற்றும் செல்ஸ்னிக் இருவரும் தங்கள் வாழ்க்கைத் துணையை விவாகரத்து செய்து ஒருவரையொருவர் திருமணம் செய்து கொண்டனர். அவரது வாழ்வின் பிற்பகுதியில், தற்கொலை செய்து கொண்ட தனது மகளின் நினைவாக மனநலம் மற்றும் கல்விக்கான ஜெனிபர் ஜோன்ஸ் சைமன் அறக்கட்டளையை நிறுவினார்.

குழந்தைப் பருவம் & ஆரம்ப வாழ்க்கை

அவர் மார்ச் 2, 1919 அன்று ஓக்லஹோமாவின் துல்சாவில் ஃப்ளோரா மே (நீ சுபர்) மற்றும் பிலிப் ரோஸ் இஸ்லி ஆகியோருக்கு ஒரே குழந்தையாக ஃபிலிஸ் லீ இஸ்லியாகப் பிறந்தார். அவரது பெற்றோர்கள் இஸ்லி ஸ்டாக் கம்பெனிக்கு சொந்தமான மற்றும் நடித்தனர், இது கிராமப்புற மத்திய மேற்கு பகுதியில் சுற்றுப்பயணம் செய்த ஒரு கூடார நிகழ்ச்சி நாடகக் குழு. இதனால் சிறுவயதிலேயே வியாபாரம் காட்டத் தெரிந்தாள்.

அவர் இல்லினாய்ஸில் உள்ள வடமேற்கு பல்கலைக்கழகத்திற்குச் செல்வதற்கு முன், பெண்கள் பள்ளியான மான்டே காசினோவில் பயின்றார், அங்கு அவர் கப்பா ஆல்பா தீட்டா சமூகத்தின் உறுப்பினராக இருந்தார். பின்னர் அவர் 1938 இல் நியூயார்க் நகரத்தில் உள்ள அமெரிக்க நாடகக் கலைகளுக்கான அகாடமிக்கு சென்றார்.

தொழில்

1939 இல் திருமணம் செய்துகொண்ட இஸ்லி தனது தந்தையால் ஏற்பாடு செய்யப்பட்ட 13 வார வானொலி நிகழ்ச்சியுடன் தனது வாழ்க்கையைத் தொடங்கினார். விரைவில் அவர் ஹாலிவுட்டில் நுழைந்தார் மற்றும் திரைப்படங்களில் சிறிய பாத்திரங்களைக் கண்டார். 1940 களின் முற்பகுதியில், தயாரிப்பாளர் டேவிட் ஓ. செல்ஸ்னிக் திரைப்படமாகத் தயாரித்து வரும் ஹிட் நாடகமான ‘கிளாடியா’வில் முக்கிய பாத்திரத்திற்காக ஆடிஷன் செய்தார். அவளுக்கு அந்த பாத்திரம் கிடைக்கவில்லை, ஆனால் செல்ஸ்னிக் அவளது திறனை உணர்ந்து அவளது எதிர்கால வாழ்க்கைக்காக அவளை சீர்படுத்தத் தொடங்கினார்.

செல்ஸ்னிக் அவளுக்கு ஜெனிபர் ஜோன்ஸ் என்ற பெயரைக் கொடுத்து ஏழு வருட ஒப்பந்தத்தில் கையெழுத்திட உதவினார். அவர் 1943 ஆம் ஆண்டு நாடகத் திரைப்படமான 'தி சாங் ஆஃப் பெர்னாடெட்' இல் பெர்னாடெட் சவுபிரஸாக தோன்றினார், இது விமர்சன ரீதியாகவும் நிதி ரீதியாகவும் பெரும் வெற்றியைப் பெற்றது. ஜோன்ஸின் நடிப்பு மிகவும் பாராட்டப்பட்டது மற்றும் அவர் அகாடமி விருதை வென்றார்.

ஒரு லட்சியமான ஆனால் உணர்ச்சி ரீதியாக பாதிக்கப்படக்கூடிய பெண்ணாக, செல்ஸ்னிக் தனது வாழ்க்கையைக் கட்டுப்படுத்தவும், அவர் நடித்த பாத்திரங்களைத் தேர்ந்தெடுக்கவும் அனுமதித்தார். 1940கள் முழுவதும் செல்ஸ்னிக் அவருக்காகத் தேர்ந்தெடுத்த பல்துறை பாத்திரங்களில் அவர் நடித்தார். 1946 இல், அவர் ‘டூயல் இன் தி சன்’ என்ற இரு இனப் பெண்ணாக பாரபட்சம் மற்றும் தடை செய்யப்பட்ட காதலில் ஈடுபட்டார்.

அவர் 1940களின் பிற்பகுதியில் 'க்ளூனி பிரவுன்' (1946), 'போர்ட்ரெய்ட் ஆஃப் ஜென்னி' (1948), 'மேடம் போவரி' (1949), மற்றும் 'வி வி வேர் ஸ்ட்ரேஞ்சர்ஸ்' (1949) போன்ற பல படங்களில் தோன்றினார். லாரன்ஸ் ஆலிவியர் இணைந்து நடித்த தியோடர் ட்ரீசரின் நாவலான ‘சிஸ்டர் கேரி’யின் திரைப்படப் பதிப்பான ‘கேரி’ (1952) இல் நடித்தார்.

அவரது வாழ்க்கை 1950கள் முழுவதும் செழித்தது, மேலும் அவரது 1955 காதல் நாடகத் திரைப்படமான ‘லவ் இஸ் எ மெனி-ஸ்ப்ளெண்டோர்டு திங்’ குறிப்பாக வெற்றி பெற்றது. அவர் ஒரு யூரேசிய மருத்துவராக நடித்தார், அவர் திருமணமான ஆனால் பிரிந்த அமெரிக்க நிருபரை காதலிக்கிறார். அவரது நடிப்பு சிறந்த நடிகைக்கான அகாடமி விருதுக்கு பரிந்துரைக்கப்பட்டது.

'குட் மார்னிங், மிஸ் டோவ்' (1955), 'தி மேன் இன் தி கிரே ஃபிளானல் சூட்' (1956), மற்றும் 'எ ஃபேர்வெல் டு ஆர்ம்ஸ் ஆகியவற்றில் அவர் மிகவும் பாராட்டப்பட்ட நடிப்பைத் தொடர்ந்தார். (1957) 1965 இல் அவரது கணவர் டேவிட் ஓ. செல்ஸ்னிக் இறந்ததைத் தொடர்ந்து 1960 களில் அவரது நடிப்பு வாழ்க்கை கிட்டத்தட்ட முடிவுக்கு வந்தது.

Selznick gave her the name Jennifer Jones and helped her sign a seven-year contract. She appeared as Bernadette Soubirous in the 1943 drama film ‘The Song of Bernadette’ which was a great success both critically and financially. Jones’ performance was much lauded and she won an Academy Award.. At first glance, “The Song of Bernadette” seems as wholesome—and as outdated—as the clink of the morning milk delivery. It’s filmed in black and white, its score is plangent and heavy on the strings, and Jennifer Jones plays the saint at its center with a sweetness and softness that played big to wartime audiences but which, to me, is a little too spun-sugar. It was a huge hit at the box office and won four Oscars, which might make it a classic or might just make it a time capsule. The final frame even includes an advertisement: Buy war bonds!

அவர் கடைசியாக பெரிய திரையில் தோன்றிய பேரழிவுத் திரைப்படமான 'தி டவரிங் இன்ஃபெர்னோ' (1974). மல்டி-ஸ்டாரர் படத்தில் லிசோலெட் முல்லராக அவர் நடித்ததன் மூலம், சிறந்த துணை நடிகைக்கான கோல்டன் குளோப் விருதுகள் பரிந்துரைக்கப்பட்டது - 

மோஷன் பிக்சர்.

முக்கிய படைப்புகள்

ஜெனிஃபர் ஜோன்ஸ் 'தி சாங் ஆஃப் பெர்னாடெட்' திரைப்படத்தில் புனிதமான பெர்னாடெட் சவுபிரஸாக நடித்தார், இது அவரது சிறந்த பாத்திரங்களில் ஒன்றாக மாறியது. படத்தில் ஒரு பக்தியுள்ள இளம் பெண்ணாக அவரது ஆரோக்கியமான, அப்பாவி உருவம் பார்வையாளர்களின் இதயங்களைக் கவர்ந்தது மற்றும் திரைப்பட விமர்சகர்களையும் கவர்ந்தது.

அவர் 'டூயல் இன் தி சன்' திரைப்படத்தில் பெர்ல் சாவேஸ் என்ற இரு இனத்தைச் சேர்ந்த இளம் பெண்ணாக நடித்தார். இத்திரைப்படம் பாலியல் உள்ளடக்கம் காரணமாக மிகவும் சர்ச்சைக்குரியதாக இருந்தாலும், பாக்ஸ் ஆபிஸில் வெற்றி பெற்றது மற்றும் ஜோன்ஸுக்கு சிறந்த நடிகைக்கான அகாடமி விருதுக்கு பரிந்துரைக்கப்பட்டது. முன்னணி பாத்திரம்.

விருதுகள் & சாதனைகள்

1944 ஆம் ஆண்டில், ஜெனிஃபர் ஜோன்ஸ் சிறந்த நடிகைக்கான அகாடமி விருதை வென்றார், பெர்னாடெட் சௌபிரஸ் என்ற திரைப்படத்தில் பெர்னாடெட் சாங் ஆஃப் பெர்னாடெட்டாக நடித்தார். அதே பாத்திரத்திற்காக சிறந்த நடிகைக்கான கோல்டன் குளோப் விருதையும் பெற்றார் - மோஷன் பிக்சர் டிராமா.

தனிப்பட்ட வாழ்க்கை & மரபு

ஜெனிபர் ஜோன்ஸ் மூன்று முறை திருமணம் செய்து கொண்டார். அவரது முதல் திருமணம் 1939 இல் நடிகர் ராபர்ட் வாக்கருடன் நடந்தது. தம்பதியருக்கு இரண்டு மகன்கள் இருந்தனர், இருவரும் நடிகர்களாக மாறினர். வாக்கரைத் திருமணம் செய்துகொண்ட போதே, திரைப்படத் தயாரிப்பாளர் டேவிட் ஓ. செல்ஸ்னிக் உடன் அவர் உறவை வளர்த்துக் கொண்டார். திருமணம் 1945 இல் முடிந்தது.

அவர் 1949 இல் செல்ஸ்னிக்கை மணந்தார் மற்றும் ஒரு மகள் இருந்தாள். 1965 இல் செல்ஸ்னிக் இறக்கும் வரை இந்த ஜோடி திருமணம் செய்துகொண்டது. அவர்களது மகள் 1976 இல் தற்கொலை செய்து கொண்டார்.

அவரது மூன்றாவது திருமணம் பல மில்லியனர் தொழிலதிபர், கலை சேகரிப்பாளர் மற்றும் பரோபகாரர் நார்டன் சைமன் 1971 இல் நடந்தது. சைமன் 1993 இல் இறந்தார்.

அவர் நீண்ட ஆயுளை வாழ்ந்து டிசம்பர் 17, 2009 அன்று தனது 90வது வயதில் இயற்கை எய்தினார்.

Jennifer Jones was an American actress, who dominated the silver screen during the Hollywood golden years. Having starred in more than 20 films in a career spanning three decades, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in ‘The Song of Bernadette’ and was nominated for her performances in four other films. She was exposed to the show business at a young age as her parents owned and operated a traveling tent show. After attending Northwestern University in Illinois, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, she proceeded to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. She began her career in a 13-week radio program and soon ventured into Hollywood. A meeting with the producer David O. Selznick who recognized the potential the young woman possessed set the foundation for her future career. Selznick took her under his wing and groomed her into one of the most successful actresses of her era. Their professional collaboration turned into a personal one and duo entered into a romantic relationship despite both of them already being married. Eventually both Jones and Selznick divorced their respective spouses and wed each other. Later in her life, she founded the Jennifer Jones Simon Foundation for Mental Health and Education in the memory of her daughter who had committed suicide.

Childhood & Early Life

She was born as Phylis Lee Isley on March 2, 1919, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Flora Mae (née Suber) and Phillip Ross Isley as their only child. Her parents owned and starred in the Isley Stock Company, a tent-show theatrical troupe that toured the rural Midwest. Thus she was exposed to show business at an early age.

She attended Monte Cassino, a girls' school, before proceeding to the Northwestern University in Illinois, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. Then she moved to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City in 1938.

Career

Married in 1939, Isley began her career with a 13-week radio program, arranged by her father. Soon she ventured into Hollywood and found small roles in movies. In the early 1940s, she auditioned for the lead role in the hit play ‘Claudia’ which producer David O. Selznick was making into a movie. She did not get the role but Selznick recognized her potential and started grooming her for her future career.

Selznick gave her the name Jennifer Jones and helped her sign a seven-year contract. She appeared as Bernadette Soubirous in the 1943 drama film ‘The Song of Bernadette’ which was a great success both critically and financially. Jones’ performance was much lauded and she won an Academy Award.

As an ambitious but emotionally vulnerable woman, she let Selznick control her career and choose the roles she played. Throughout the 1940s she acted in versatile roles that Selznick chose for her. In 1946, she appeared in ‘Duel in the Sun’ as a bi-racial woman who becomes involved in prejudice and forbidden love.

She appeared in several other films like ‘Cluny Brown’ (1946), ‘Portrait of Jennie’ (1948), ‘Madame Bovary’ (1949), and ‘We Were Strangers’ (1949) in the late 1940s. She began the 1950s on a positive note, starring in ‘Carrie’ (1952), a film version of Theodore Dreiser’s novel ‘Sister Carrie’ co-starring Laurence Olivier.

Her career flourished throughout the 1950s, and her 1955 romantic drama film ‘Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing’ was especially successful. She played a Eurasian doctor Han Suyin who falls in love with a married-but-separated American correspondent. Her performance earned her a nomination for Academy Award for Best Actress.

She followed up with much appreciated performances in ‘Good Morning, Miss Dove’ (1955), ‘The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit’ (1956), and ‘A Farewell to Arms. (1957). Her acting career almost ended in the 1960s following the death of her husband David O. Selznick in 1965.

She made her last big-screen appearance in the disaster film ‘The Towering Inferno’ (1974). Her portrayal of Lisolette Mueller in the multi-starrer film earned her the Golden Globe Awards nomination for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture.

Major Works

Jennifer Jones played the saintly Bernadette Soubirous in the movie ‘The Song of Bernadette’ which became one of her best known roles. Her wholesome, innocent image as a pious young girl in the film captured the audience’s hearts and impressed the film critics as well.

She portrayed a flirtatious bi-racial young woman Pearl Chavez in the film ‘Duel in the Sun.’ The movie though highly controversial due to its sexual content was a box-office hit and earned Jones a nomination for Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

Awards & Achievements

In 1944, Jennifer Jones won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Bernadette Soubirous in the movie ‘The Song of Bernadette.’ She also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama for the same role.

Personal Life & Legacy

Jennifer Jones was thrice married. Her first marriage was to actor Robert Walker in 1939. The couple had two sons, both of whom went on to become actors. She developed an affair with film producer David O. Selznick while still married to Walker. The marriage ended in 1945.

She married Selznick in 1949 and had one daughter. The couple remained married until Selznick’s death in 1965. Their daughter committed suicide in 1976.

Her third marriage was to multi-millionaire industrialist, art collector and philanthropist Norton Simon in 1971. Simon died in 1993.

She lived a long life and died of natural causes on December 17, 2009, at the age of 90.

JOSEPHINE DUNN ,AMERICAN ACTRESS BORN 1906 - 1983 FEBRUARY 3

 

JOSEPHINE DUNN ,AMERICAN ACTRESS

 BORN MAY 1,1906 - 1983 FEBRUARY 3

Mary Josephine Dunn[1] (May 1, 1906 – February 3, 1983) was an American stage and film actress of the 1920s and 1930s.[2]

Early years

Dunn was born in New York City[3] and educated at the Holy Cross convent.[4]

Career

Dunn's first venture into entertainment came at age 14 when she became a member of the chorus at the Winter Garden Theatre. Rather than return to school, she continued in her career, appearing in almost 20 productions, including the Ziegfeld Follies.[4] Her Broadway credits include Between Two Worlds (1934), Take a Chance (1932), Pickwick (1927), and Dear Sir (1924).[5]

Dunn began her film career with a role in Fascinating Youth (1926) after she completed the then-new Paramount Pictures School. She went on to have the lead roles in Love's Greatest Mistake (1927) and Fireman, Save My Child (1927).[4]

After nine months of inactivity in film, Dunn signed a long-term contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.[4]

She starred in 23 silent films, and in 1929 she was one of 13 girls named as "WAMPAS Baby Stars", which that year included actress Jean Arthur. In 1930 she made a successful transition, unlike many silent stars, to sound films. In 1930 she starred in Safety in Numbers (1930) alongside Carole Lombard and Kathryn Crawford. She starred in sixteen films through 1932.

Personal life

Dunn became associated with what would become known as the "Algonquin Round Table", which included actress Tallulah Bankhead.

In 1925, Dunn married William P. Cameron in Elkton, Maryland. He was a contracting engineer.[6] They were divorced in 1928.[7] She married Clyde Greathouse, an official of an oil company, in Los Angeles on January 10, 1931,[8] and they were divorced on October 26, 1931.[9] On January 6, 1933, in Great Neck, New York,[10] she married Eugene J. Lewis,[11] whom she divorced in 1935 to marry Carroll Case, whose father Frank Case owned the Algonquin Hotel in New York City, which housed the now famous "Algonquin Round Table". She retired from acting in 1938, and remained with Case for the remainder of his life, until he died in 1978.

Death

Dunn died of cancer on February 3, 1983, in Thousand Oaks, California, aged 76.[3]

Partial filmography

Fascinating Youth (1926)

It's the Old Army Game (1926)

The Sorrows of Satan (1926)

Love's Greatest Mistake (1927)

Fireman, Save My Child (1927)

With Love and Hisses (1927)

Swim Girl, Swim (1927)

She's a Sheik (1927)

Get Your Man (1927)

Excess Baggage (1928)

The Singing Fool (1928)

A Million for Love (1928)

All At Sea (1929)

Sin Sister (1929)

China Bound (1929)

A Man's Man (1929)

Black Magic (1929)

Melody Lane (1929)

Our Modern Maidens (1929)

Red Hot Rhythm (1929)

Big Time (1929)

Safety in Numbers (1930)

Madonna of the Streets (1930)

Second Honeymoon (1930)

Two Kinds of Women (1932)

Murder at Dawn (1932)

Forbidden Company (1932)

One Hour With You (1932)

Big City Blues (1932) as Jackie DeVoe (uncredited)

The Fighting Gentleman (1932)

Murder in the Library (1933)

Update: This is actress Josephine Dunn (1906-1983). The Times evidently didn’t publish an obituary on her.

Just a reminder on how this works: I post the mystery photo on Monday and reveal the answer on Friday ... or on Saturday if I have a hard time picking only five pictures; sometimes it's difficult to choose. To keep the mystery photo from getting lost in the other entries, I move it from Monday to Tuesday to Wednesday, etc., adding a photo every day.

I have to approve all comments, so if your guess is posted immediately, that means you're wrong. (And if a wrong guess has already been submitted by someone else, there's no point in submitting it again.)

If you're right, you will have to wait until Friday. There's no need to submit your guess five times. Once is enough. The only reward is bragging rights. 

The answer to last week's mystery star: Owen Crump! 

Oct. 27, 2009, Mystery Photo 

Los Angeles Times file photo

July 15, 1927: The Definite Frock – Gardenias and shimmering black satin – that combination which has never failed in chic – go to make up the frock, work at will, for either afternoon or street, by Josephine Dunn, Paramount player.

Here’s another picture of our mystery woman. Please congratulate Mike Hawks for identifying her!

Oct. 28, 2009, Mystery Photo 

Los Angeles Times file photo

Jan. 2, 1929: Pathe presents “Red Hot Rhythm” with Alan Hale. This is Josephine Dunn and Walter O’Keefe.

Oct. 29, 2009, Mystery Photo 

Los Angeles Times file photo

Ever since Josephine Dunn, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer player, appeared in Al Jolson’s picture she has been asked where her rainbow scarf is – which fits her like a glove. Now she has blossomed out in one which shows a net background and glittering sequins showing the lovely shades found in the rainbow.

Here’s another photo of our mystery woman. Please congratulate Mary Mallory and Megan for identifying her!

2009_1030_mystery_photo 

Los Angeles Times file photo

June 26, 1931: Josephine Dunn

HOLLIDAY GRAIGNER AMERICAN ACTRESS BORN 1988 MARCH 27

 

HOLLIDAY GRAIGNER AMERICAN ACTRESS 

BORN 1988 MARCH 27

Holliday Clark Grainger (born 27 March 1988), also credited as Holly Grainger, is an English screen and stage actress. Some of her prominent roles are Kate Beckett in the BAFTA award-winning children's series Roger and the Rottentrolls, Lucrezia Borgia in the Showtime series The Borgias, Robin Ellacott in Strike, DI Rachel Carey in the BBC One crime drama The Capture and Estella in Mike Newell's adaptation of Great Expectations.

Early life

Grainger was born in Didsbury, Manchester. One of her grandfathers is Italian.[1][2] Her first experience of acting was at age five when she was scouted for a BBC TV series. She appeared in many TV shows and independent films as a child actor.[2]

Grainger attended Parrs Wood High School from 1999 to 2006,[3] and in 2007 began study for a degree in English literature at the University of Leeds. However, she eventually opted for the Open University.[2]

Career

Grainger's first acting role was at five years old in the BBC comedy drama series All Quiet on the Preston Front.[4] Roles followed in Casualty, Doctors and Dalziel and Pascoe. Grainger played Megan Boothe in Where the Heart Is, Stacey Appleyard in Waterloo Road and Sophia in Merlin.

In 2011, she appeared in the television series The Borgias, playing Lucrezia Borgia with Jeremy Irons in the role of Pope Alexander VI. The series, created by Oscar-winning Neil Jordan and shot in Hungary, ran for three seasons.[5]

After her role as Emily in the film The Scouting Book for Boys (2009),[6] she played one of the Rivers sisters opposite Mia Wasikowska and Michael Fassbender in Cary Fukunaga's 2011 retelling of Jane Eyre, and had a minor role in Bel Ami alongside Robert Pattinson and Uma Thurman.

In June 2011, she gained the leading role of Estella in Mike Newell's film adaptation of Great Expectations, opposite Jeremy Irvine and Helena Bonham Carter.[7] The movie, screened at Toronto International Film Festival 2012, had its European premiere as the closing night film of the BFI London Film Festival.[8] She had a minor role in the 2012 film Anna Karenina as Baroness Shilton.

On stage, in 2013 she played a role in Disassociation, a play by Luke Bailey, at The Lowry in Salford,[9] which received largely positive reviews[10] In the same year, she played Bonnie Parker in the 2013 TV mini-series Bonnie & Clyde. She was one of the female leads in the 2014 film The Riot Club, adapted from the play Posh, alongside Max Irons. In the same year, she appeared on stage in a version of Anton Chekov's play Three Sisters at the Southwark Playhouse.[11]

Grainger played Cinderella's stepsister Anastasia Tremaine in Kenneth Branagh's 2015 film version of Cinderella.[12]

In 2016, Grainger starred in Disney's The Finest Hours.[13]

In 2017, she appeared in a film adaptation of the novel Tulip Fever alongside Alicia Vikander.[14] From 2017, she plays Robin Ellacott in the TV series Strike (aired in the United States and Canada as C.B. Strike) based on the novels by J.K. Rowling.[15]

Grainger plays one of the two lead female roles in the feature film Animals, along with Alia Shawkat. Based on the novel by Emma Jane Unsworth, who also wrote the script, the film was directed by Sophie Hyde and filmed in Dublin.[16]

In 2019, Grainger starred in the BBC conspiracy thriller The Capture.[17]

Philanthropy

On 20 June 2016, World Refugee Day, Grainger, as well as Jack O'Connell, featured in a film from the United Nations' refugee agency UNHCR to help raise awareness of the global refugee crisis.[18] The film, titled Home, has a family take a reverse migration into the middle of a war zone. Inspired by primary accounts of refugees, and is part of UNHCR's #WithRefugees campaign, which also includes a petition to governments to expand asylum to provide further shelter, integrating job opportunities, and education.[19] Home, written and directed by Daniel Mulloy, went on to win a BAFTA Award and a Gold Lion at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity among many other awards.[20]

More about the relationship

Looking towards her personal life, she has been in relationships with Luke Bailey from 2007 to 2011. After that, she was dating Francois Arnaud, an actor which last long for 1 year between 2011 and 2012.

Currently, she is in a relationship with Harry Treadaway who is an English actor. She has been dating Harry for a long time after her previous relationships broken.

LENA HORNE AMERICAN ACTRESS,DANCER BORN 1917 JUNE 30 - 2010 MAY 9

 

LENA HORNE AMERICAN ACTRESS,DANCER BORN 1917 JUNE 30 - 2010 MAY 9

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American dancer, actress, Grammy-winning singer, and civil rights activist. Horne's career spanned over 70 years, appearing in film, television, and theater. Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of 16 and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood.

Horne advocated for human rights and took part in the March on Washington in August 1963. Later she returned to her roots as a nightclub performer and continued to work on television, while releasing well-received record albums. She announced her retirement in March 1980, but the next year starred in a one-woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, which ran for more than 300 performances on Broadway. She then toured the country in the show, earning numerous awards and accolades. Horne continued recording and performing sporadically into the 1990s, retreating from the public eye in 2000. Horne died of congestive heart failure on May 9, 2010, at the age of 92.

Early life[edit]

Lena Horne was born in Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.^[1] She was reportedly descended from the John C. Calhoun family, and both sides of her family were through a mixture of African, Native American, and European descent. She belonged to the upper stratum of middle-class, well-educated black people.^[2][3]

Her father, Edwin Fletcher "Teddy" Horne Jr. (1893–1970),^[4][5] was a numbers kingpin in the gambling trade. He left the family when she was 3 years old and moved to an upper-middle-class African American community in the Hill District community of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.^[6][7] Her mother, Edna Louise Scottron (1894–1976), was a granddaughter of inventor Samuel R. Scottron. She was an actress with a black theater troupe and traveled extensively.^[8] Edna's maternal grandmother, Amelie Louise Ashton, was Senegalese.^[9] Horne was raised mainly by her grandparents, Cora Calhoun and Edwin Horne.^[5]

When Horne was five, she was sent to live in Georgia.^[10] For several years, she traveled with her mother.^[11] From 1927 to 1929, she lived with her uncle, Frank S. Horne. He was the Dean of students at Fort Valley Junior Industrial Institute (now part of Fort Valley State University) in Fort Valley, Georgia,^[11] who later served as an adviser to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.^[12] From Fort Valley, southwest of Macon, Horne briefly moved to Atlanta with her mother; they returned to New York when Horne was 12 years old.^[11] She then attended Girls High School, an all-girls public high school in Brooklyn that has since become Boys and Girls High School; she dropped out without earning a diploma. At age 18, she moved to her father's home in Pittsburgh, staying in the city's Little Harlem for almost five years and learning from native Pittsburghers Billy Strayhorn and Billy Eckstine, among others.^[6

Lena Horne, in full Lena Calhoun Horne, (born June 30, 1917, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.—died May 9, 2010, New York City), American singer and actress who first came to fame in the 1940s.

Horne left school at age 16 to help support her ailing mother and became a dancer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City. In two years at the Cotton Club she appeared with such entertainers as Cab Calloway and eventually starred in her own shows. In 1935 she joined the Noble Sissle orchestra under the name Helena Horne. Horne was married from 1937 to 1944 to Louis J. Jones. In the early 1940s she was hired to sing for Charlie Barnet’s orchestra. She was discovered by producer John Hammond, and soon after she performed in a solo show at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

In 1942 Horne moved to Los Angeles, after which she appeared in such movies as Cabin in the Sky (1943), Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956), and The Wiz (1978). Her role in the film Stormy Weather (1943) included her rendition of the title song, which became her trademark. A remarkably charismatic entertainer, Horne was one of the most popular singers of her time. One of her albums, Lena Horne at the Waldorf-Astoria (1957), was a longtime best seller, and her first featured performance on Broadway—in the musical Jamaica (1957)—won her a New York Drama Critics’ Poll Award in 1958.

Lena Horne and Eddie (“Rochester”) Anderson in Cabin in the Sky

Lena Horne and Eddie (“Rochester”) Anderson in Cabin in the Sky

Lena Horne and Eddie ("Rochester") Anderson in Cabin in the Sky (1943), directed by Vincente Minnelli.

© 1943 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.; photograph from a private collection

Though primarily known as an entertainer, Horne also was noted for her work with civil rights and political organizations; as an actress, she refused to play roles that stereotyped African American women. She was married to Lennie Hayton from 1947 until his death in 1971. Her one-woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music (1981), garnered many awards, including a Drama Critics’ Circle Award and a special achievement Tony Award. In 1984 Horne received a Kennedy Center honour for lifetime contribution to the arts, and in 1989 she was given a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement.

Lena Horne, in full Lena Calhoun Horne, (born June 30, 1917, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.—died May 9, 2010, New York City), American singer and actress who first came to fame in the 1940s.

Horne left school at age 16 to help support her ailing mother and became a dancer at the Cotton Club in Harlem, New York City. In two years at the Cotton Club she appeared with such entertainers as Cab Calloway and eventually starred in her own shows. In 1935 she joined the Noble Sissle orchestra under the name Helena Horne. Horne was married from 1937 to 1944 to Louis J. Jones. In the early 1940s she was hired to sing for Charlie Barnet’s orchestra. She was discovered by producer John Hammond, and soon after she performed in a solo show at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

In 1942 Horne moved to Los Angeles, after which she appeared in such movies as Cabin in the Sky (1943), Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956), and The Wiz (1978). Her role in the film Stormy Weather (1943) included her rendition of the title song, which became her trademark. A remarkably charismatic entertainer, Horne was one of the most popular singers of her time. One of her albums, Lena Horne at the Waldorf-Astoria (1957), was a longtime best seller, and her first featured performance on Broadway—in the musical Jamaica (1957)—won her a New York Drama Critics’ Poll Award in 1958.

Lena Horne and Eddie (“Rochester”) Anderson in Cabin in the Sky

Lena Horne and Eddie (“Rochester”) Anderson in Cabin in the Sky

Lena Horne and Eddie ("Rochester") Anderson in Cabin in the Sky (1943), directed by Vincente Minnelli.

© 1943 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.; photograph from a private collection

Though primarily known as an entertainer, Horne also was noted for her work with civil rights and political organizations; as an actress, she refused to play roles that stereotyped African American women. She was married to Lennie Hayton from 1947 until his death in 1971. Her one-woman show, Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music (1981), garnered many awards, including a Drama Critics’ Circle Award and a special achievement Tony Award. In 1984 Horne received a Kennedy Center honour for lifetime contribution to the arts, and in 1989 she was given a Grammy Award for lifetime achievement.

Personal life

Horne at her 80th birthday party, 1997

Horne married Louis Jordan Jones, a political operative,[27][28] in January 1937 in Pittsburgh. On December 21, 1937, their daughter, Gail (later known as Gail Lumet Buckley, a writer) was born. They had a son, Edwin Jones (February 7, 1940 – September 12, 1970) who died of kidney disease.[5] Horne and Jones separated in 1940 and divorced in 1944. Horne's second marriage was to Lennie Hayton, who was music director and one of the premier musical conductors and arrangers at MGM, in December 1947 in Paris. They separated in the early 1960s, but never divorced. He died in 1971.[29] In her as-told-to autobiography Lena by Richard Schickel, Horne recounts the enormous pressures she and her husband faced as an interracial couple. She later admitted in an interview in Ebony (May 1980) that she had married Hayton to advance her career and cross the color barrier in show business, but "learned to love him very much".[30]

Horne had affairs with Artie Shaw, Orson Welles, Vincente Minnelli, and the boxer Joe Louis.[15]

Horne also had a long and close relationship with Billy Strayhorn, whom she said she would have married if he had been heterosexual.[31] He was also an important professional mentor to her. Screenwriter Jenny Lumet, known for her award-winning screenplay Rachel Getting Married, is Horne's granddaughter, the daughter of filmmaker Sidney Lumet and Horne's daughter Gail.[32] Her other grandchildren include Gail's other daughter, Amy Lumet, and her son's four children, Thomas, William, Samadhi, and Lena. Her great-grandchildren include Jake Cannavale.[33]

Horne was Catholic.[34][35]

From 1946 to 1962, Horne resided in a St. Albans, Queens, New York, enclave of prosperous African Americans, where she counted among her neighbors Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, and other jazz luminaries.[36]

Death

Horne died of congestive heart failure on May 9, 2010.[37] Her funeral took place at St. Ignatius Loyola Church on Park Avenue in New York, where she had been a member.[38] Thousands gathered and attendees included Leontyne Price, Dionne Warwick, Liza Minnelli, Jessye Norman, Chita Rivera, Cicely Tyson, Diahann Carroll, Leslie Uggams, Lauren Bacall, Robert Osborne, Audra McDonald, and Vanessa Williams. Her remains were cremated.[39]

Alice White (August 25, 1904, February 19, 1983, an American film actress

Alice White (August 25, 1904,  February 19, 1983,  an American film actress

Alice White (August 25, 1904, Paterson, New Jersey – February 19, 1983, Los Angeles, California) was an American film actress.[1][2] Her career spanned late silent films and early sound film

Early years[edit]

She was born Alva White of French and Italian parents. Her mother was Marian Alexander, an actress and former chorus girl, who made headlines in 1904 for suing Sam Shubert.[3] Marian was briefly married to Alice's father, Audler White. She died when Alice was only three years old. Alice was raised by her maternal grandparents in Paterson, New Jersey she attended schools in Paterson and East Orange, New Jersey. Her grandfather owned a fruit business.[4]








Film[edit]

After leaving school, White became a secretary and "script girl" for director Josef Von Sternberg.[2] She also worked as a switchboard operator at the Hollywood Writers' Club.[5] After clashing with Von Sternberg, White left to work for Charlie Chaplin, who decided before long to place her in front of the camera.

Publicity photo, 1934

Her bubbly and vivacious persona led to comparisons with Clara Bow, but White's career was slow to progress. In his book, Silent Films, 1877-1996: A Critical Guide to 646 Movies, Robert K. Klepper wrote: "Some critics have said that Ms. White was a second-string Clara Bow. In actuality, Ms. White had her own type of charm, and was a delightful actress in her own, unique way. Whereas Clara Bow played the quintessential, flaming redheaded flapper, Alice White was more of a bubbbly, vivacious blonde."[6]


After playing a succession of flappers and gold diggers, she attracted the attention of director and producer Mervyn LeRoy, who saw potential in her. Her screen debut was in The Sea Tiger (1927).[2] Her early films included Show Girl (1928), which had Vitaphone musical accompaniment but no dialog, and its "talkie" musical sequel Show Girl in Hollywood (1930), both released by Warner Brothers and both based on novels by J. P. McEvoy. In these two films, White appeared as "Dixie Dugan". In October 1929, McAvoy started the comic strip Dixie Dugan with the character Dixie having a "helmet" hairstyle and appearance similar to actress Louise Brooks. White also used the services of Hollywood 'beauty sculptor' Sylvia of Hollywood to stay in shape.[7]

White was featured in The Girl from Woolworth's (1929), having the role of a singing clerk in the music department of a Woolworth's store. Karen Plunkett-Powell wrote in her book, Remembering Woolworth's: A Nostalgic History of the World's Most Famous Five-and-Dime: "First National Pictures produced this 60-minute musical as a showcase for up-and-coming actress Alice White."[8]









Later career[edit]

She left films in 1931 to improve her acting abilities, returning in 1933 only to have her career hurt by a scandal that erupted over her involvement with boyfriend actor Jack Warburton and future husband Sy Bartlett. Although she later married Bartlett, her reputation was tarnished and she appeared only in supporting roles after this. By 1937 and 1938, her name was at the bottom of the cast lists. She made her final film appearance in Flamingo Road (1949) and eventually resumed working as a secretary.[2]







Personal life[edit]
White married Russian-born American screenwriter Sidney Bartlett on December 3, 1933, in Magdalena, Sonora, Mexico.[9] She filed for divorced in 1937 claiming he "stayed away from home" and was awarded $65 a week alimony.[10]
White was divorced from film writer John Roberts on April 18, 1949, in Los Angeles.[11]
Death[edit]
White died of complications from a stroke on February 19, 1983, aged 78.[citation needed]
Award[edit]
White has a star at 1511 Vine Street in the Motion Pictures section of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. It was dedicated on February 8, 1960.[12]
Filmography[edit]
Features:
The Sea Tiger (1927)
The Satin Woman (1927)
American Beauty (1927)
Breakfast at Sunrise (1927)
The Private Life of Helen of Troy (1927)
The Dove (1927)
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1928)
Mad Hour (1928)
The Big Noise (1928)
Harold Teen (1928)
Three-Ring Marriage (1928)
Show Girl (1928)
Naughty Baby (1928)
Hot Stuff (1929)
Broadway Babies (1929)
The Girl from Woolworth's (1929)
The Show of Shows (1929)
Playing Around (1930)
Show Girl in Hollywood (1930)
Sweet Mama (1930)
Sweethearts on Parade (1930)
The Widow from Chicago (1930)
The Naughty Flirt (1931)
Murder at Midnight (1931)
Employees' Entrance (1933)
Luxury Liner (1933)
Picture Snatcher (1933)
King for a Night (1933)
Cross Country Cruise (1934)
Jimmy the Gent (1934)
A Very Honorable Guy (1934)
Gift of Gab (1934)
Secret of the Chateau (1934)
Sweet Music (1935)
Coronado (1935)
Big City (1937)
Telephone Operator (1937)
King of the Newsboys (1938)
Annabel Takes a Tour (1938)
The Night of January 16th (1941)
Girls' Town (1942)
Flamingo Road (1949)