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Former seaman Clinton Jones now works at a lowly job. His daughter Ruth wants to become an actress.
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- Television
Amanda Collin: “I grew up with Mother”
When Danish actress Amanda Collin was cast as an android in the Ridley Scott sci-fi series Raised by Wolves which ran from 2020 to 2022, she thought that her international career was going to take off. But that did not happen.
- Film
Alma Pöysti’s Love Affair with Acting
Storytelling is part of Alma Pöysti’s DNA. In Four Little Adults, the Finnish actor portrays a cheated career woman who decides to choose polyamory to save her marriage.
- Industry
Charlotte Sieling: My Queen of the North
The year is 1361, and a very young Margrete is witnessing the dead and wounded soldiers on the battlefield of Visby. Cut to 1402, Margrete (played by Danish actress Trine Dyrholm), has become Queen Margrete of Denmark and is negotiating with Norwegians and Swedes to create peace in the Nordic countries.
- Interviews
Oona Chaplin: “The sound in the language expresses a truth’
Before she agreed to this interview, she requested to avoid any family questions. Perhaps she is too tired for interviews that meander toward her grandfather, Charles Chaplin, her mother Geraldine Chaplin, or her grandfather, playwright Eugene O’Neill, or even her own father, a former cinematographer, the Chilean Patricio Castilla.
- Interviews
Alice Braga: ‘If a door opens I always want to go in’
Alice Braga is having a strange year, like anybody else in 2020. She had to stop filming the fifth season of Queen of the South, where she has the main role and she was ready to finally see the release of The New Mutants three years after she filmed it in Boston when all the theaters in the world closed shop.
- Industry
Forgotten Hollywood: Hattie McDaniel, First Black Oscar Winner
She is known for one thing. But Hattie McDaniel’s life and career are so much more than the Oscar for a legendary and now controversial film, even if it was the very first Academy Award ever bestowed on an African American actress.
- Interviews
Joey King: From The Act to The Kissing Booth
After blazing an unforgettable trail two years ago in Hulu’s true-crime drama The Act, Joey King is back in The Kissing Booth 2, a lighthearted new romantic comedy on Netflix. Previously known for romantic comedies and teen movies, her performance as real-life Gypsy Rose Blanchard in The Act solidified her standing as a highly talented, and versatile actress.
- Industry
In Memoriam: Olivia de Havilland, Golden Globe Winner, 1916-2020
Olivia de Havilland was known the world over for playing the saintly, doe-eyed, soft-spoken Melanie Hamilton in Gone With The Wind, which earned her the first of five Oscar nominations, this one for supporting actress which she famously lost to her co-star Hattie McDaniel. She also won two out of three Golden Globes, the first one for Best Actress for The Heiress in 1950, the second near the end of her career for her supporting role in a series, miniseries or motion picture made for television in Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna.
- Industry
Forgotten Hollywood: Florence Lawrence, Hollywood’s First Movie Star
Outside of cinema historians and movie aficionados, the name Florence Lawrence is not likely to ring a bell, although she was in over 300 films, was considered Hollywood’s first movie star, and was known as “the Girl of a Thousand Faces. ”Florence Annie Bridgwood was born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada on January 2, 1886.