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"the London Underground section of the station in November of that year (part of the lyrics read: ""Dead and wounded on either side/You know it's only a matter of time""). ""The Sun"" newspaper in the UK subsequently tried to get the track released as a charity single, but Pet Shop Boys would not allow this. Towards the end of 1987, Pet Shop Boys started work on an hour-long film that would incorporate the songs from ""Actually"". Working with director Jack Bond, the short film grew into a full-scale movie, ""It Couldn't Happen Here"", starring Barbara Windsor, Joss Ackland and Gareth"
"Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood with her mother and a film-extra friend. Her father, Jack, a former cowboy and park ranger, had done work as a stuntman and stand-in for Tom Mix in a number of his cowboy movies. Impressed by Peggy's well-behaved demeanor and willingness to follow directions from her father, director Fred Fishback hired her to appear in a series of short films with Century's canine star, Brownie the Wonder Dog. The first film, ""Playmates"" in 1921, was a success, and Peggy was signed to a long-term contract with Century. Between 1921-24, Peggy made close to 150 short comedy"
"nominated for an American Comedy Award for Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture. Pfeiffer had already begun to make a name for herself as an actress by starring in the films ""Tequila Sunrise"", ""Dangerous Liaisons"" and ""Married to the Mob"" in 1988, but it was her 1989 performance in ""The Fabulous Baker Boys"" that ultimately benefited her career the most by leaving the biggest impression on the film industry, becoming one of her defining roles. One of the actress' earliest notable performances, Susie remains Pfeiffer's most critically acclaimed role to-date, having earned her the most enthusiastic reviews of her career"
"in Paris, where she attended productions of the Comédie Française. After returning from Europe, Patterson used money from a small inheritance to move to Chicago. There she joined a theatrical troupe and subsequently toured with repertory companies. In 1913, she made her Broadway debut in the play ""Everyman"". She remained active in New York City theatre through 1954. In 1926, at the age of 51, Patterson was cast in her first movie, a silent film, ""The Boy Friend"". Transitioning successfully into the era of ""talkies"", she remained a very busy actress in Hollywood throughout the 1930s, averaging more than five"
"The Butcher Boy (1917 film) The Butcher Boy is a 1917 American two-reel silent comedy film written by, directed by, and starring Roscoe ""Fatty"" Arbuckle and featuring Buster Keaton. This was the first in Arbuckle's series of films with the Comique Film Corporation, and Keaton's film debut. Fatty, a butcher boy in a country store, is in love with Almondine (Alice Lake), the daughter of the store's general manager Mr. Grouch. Fatty's attempts to get close to her are sidetracked when the store's clerk Alum (Al St. John), a rival for Alice's affections, starts a fight with the rotund butcher."
"show, was widely popular among audiences, and the couple were frequently voted as television's favorite couple by polls and magazines. Following a four-year hiatus from cinema, Aniston returned to film work in 1996, when she performed in the ensemble cast of the romantic comedy ""She's the One"", with Cameron Diaz. Aniston's first starring vehicle was the film ""Picture Perfect"" (1997), in which she starred as a struggling young advertising executive, opposite Kevin Bacon and Jay Mohr. While the film received mixed reviews, it was a moderate commercial success, and Aniston's performance was more warmly received, with many critics suggesting that"
"a waitress and did commercials. Her breakthrough movie was ""...And Justice for All"" (1979) with Al Pacino. An important role was in ""Running on Empty"", a 1988 movie in which she and Judd Hirsch played the parents of a musically promising son; the family went underground to avoid the FBI after the parents had damaged a napalm factory, and they all must periodically move on short notice and assume new identities. She has also focused on television, beginning with her role in the made-for-TV adaptation of ""The Executioner's Song"" (1982). She appeared on Broadway in Wendy Wasserstein's seriocomic play, ""The"
"film debut was in ""Divorce American Style"" (1967). She soon became one of the most recognizable (if not precisely identifiable) supporting actresses in film and television. Her roles were usually sympathetic characters, though she played a variety of other character types, including earthy, vulgar, and sassy, but occasionally ""with a heart of gold"". A year after her feature-film debut, she became a semiregular on the comedy-variety show ""Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In"", but stayed for only two months. Although her name was not often recognized by the general public, she became a favorite of many directors, in particular Peter Bogdanovich. She"
"(1970), ""Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate"" (1971), ""I Wonder Who's Killing Her Now?"" (1975), ""American Hot Wax"" (1978) and ""Truman"" (1995). She made her final film appearance in 1999 in Ang Lee's ""Ride with the Devil"". She played school teacher ""Mrs. (Paloma) Teevee"" in ""Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory"" (1971), and appeared in ""Splash"" (1984). She was married to Alan Denney, an Art Director/illustrator for Hallmark Greeting Cards. While the couple raised their two sons, she became a popular character actress in films and television. The couple had two sons, Dix and John, founders of the Los Angeles-based"
"graduating college, she served in the military. She later gained public notice as the first female finalist in the Miller Lite Comedy Search in 1989. She won the BET ""Funniest Female Comedian on Comic View"" award in 1994 and the BET Comedy Awards' Platinum Mic Viewers Choice Award in 2005. Following her stand up success, Underwood took a number of minor acting roles including Bad Mouth Bessie in the 1998 film ""I Got the Hook Up,"" and Catfish Rita in the 2005 film ""Beauty Shop"". Underwood was the host of BET's ""Comic View"" and executive producer and host of the"
"discovered by Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle when she was serving him and dropped soup in his lap. Arbuckle introduced her to Mack Sennett who made her one of his bathing beauties. In a 1924 article Sennett declared she was the ""ideal bathing beauty of her time"".. The petite actress was just five feet tall and weighed only 100 pounds. She started working as an extra at the Sennett studios in 1919 and appeared in dozens of comedy shorts including ""Picking Peaches"" (1924) and ""The Hollywood Kid"" (1925). She was a talented comedienne and quickly moved on to featured roles. Hill starred"
"comedy debut in 1958 in ""Oh, Captain!"". She appeared in a single scene, a dance with the show's star, Tony Randall. (A year later, they performed it on an episode of ""The Dinah Shore Chevy Show"", thus preserving it for posterity.) Unfortunately, ""Oh, Captain!"" was not a commercial success and closed a few months later. She was in financial straits when she came across Balanchine on the street in 1964. When he heard of her plight he instantly hired her to teach at the School of American Ballet. In 1965, she sought and received approval from Balanchine to produce a"
"where she joined a drama group, and the City of London College for Commerce, Book-Keeping, Shorthand and Typing, and won an evening scholarship to the London School of Dramatic Art. Her first film appearance was in ""Touch and Go"" (1955), using her birth name, and ""The Smallest Show on Earth"" (1957) in which she worked with Peter Sellers for the first time. Her breakthrough role was as the daughter of Sellers' character in ""I'm All Right Jack"" (1959), for which she received a BAFTA nomination as Most Promising Newcomer. She was in several of the early ""Carry On"" films: ""Carry"
"provincial pantomimes and touring as Haidee in ""Don Juan"". She soon became known for her role in one of George Edwardes' earliest musical comedies at the Gaiety Theatre, starring as Bessie Brent, the title role in ""The Shop Girl"" (1894) opposite Seymour Hicks. She was pregnant, however, and had to be replaced in the role by Hicks' wife, Ellaline Terriss. She returned in ""All Abroad"" at the Criterion Theatre (1895), and as the title character in ""The Gay Parisienne"" at the Duke of York's Theatre (1896). She and her husband then toured Australia in 1897 with J. C. Williamson in"
"Story"". She rose to prominence in 1960s with such films as ""Period of Adjustment"" (1962), ""Sunday in New York"" (1963), ""Cat Ballou"" (1965), ""Barefoot in the Park"" (1967) and ""Barbarella"" (1968). Her first husband was ""Barbarella"" director Roger Vadim. A seven-time Academy Award nominee, she received her first nomination for ""They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"" (1969) and went on to win two Best Actress Oscars in the 1970s for ""Klute"" (1971) and ""Coming Home"" (1978). Her other nominations were for ""Julia"" (1977), ""The China Syndrome"" (1979), ""On Golden Pond"" (1981) and ""The Morning After"" (1986). Consecutive hits ""Fun with Dick"
"an illustrator. Seeking more lucrative work, she decided to become a performer and, despite having no previous acting experience, applied for a position in the stock company at Vitagraph, signing a contract in the early teens. Her first film was a bit part in a thirty-minute version of A Tale of Two Cities in 1911, which also featured future silent stars Norma Talmadge and Mabel Normand. She continued to make 70 films with Vitagraph and during these years she played opposite almost all of the Vitagraph comedians, including John Bunny and his successor Hughie Mack, as well as child star"
"and programme covers for of all his shows including ""The Boy"" (1917), ""The Beauty Spot"" (1918), ""Going Up"" (1918), ""Telling the Tale"" (1918), ""The Latest Craze"" (1919), ""The Kiss Call"" (1919), ""Very Good Eddie"" (1919) and ""Hello America"" (1919). Her comic illustrations also appeared in various British newspapers and magazines. Between 1915 and 1918 Dolly Tree appeared in five British silent films as an actress. In the United Kingdom her career as a costume designer began in the 1920s on various cabaret shows in London in particular; in 1923 she collaborated on her first film, ""Woman to Woman"", directed by"
"exhibit."" A few years after her husband's death in 1974, Corday's friend Eastwood offered her a chance to return to filmmaking with a role in his 1977 film ""The Gauntlet"". She had a brief-but-significant role in ""Sudden Impact"" (1983), where she played the waitress dumping sugar into Harry Callahan's coffee in that movie's iconic ""Go ahead, make my day"" sequence. And she acted with Eastwood again in ""Pink Cadillac"" (1989) as well as in her last film, 1990's ""The Rookie"". Corday appeared as a pinup girl in numerous men's magazines during the 1950s and was the Playmate of the October"
"became interested in acting. She moved to Hollywood, California and attended Max Reinhardt's drama school, where she was spotted by talent scouts while taking part in the school's stage workshop. She declined to attempt screen tests until after graduation. With the help of her agent, Sue Carol, wife to actor Alan Ladd, she began working with Monogram Pictures and Columbia Pictures. Most of her movies were B-movies and serials, in which she often portrayed the heroine. Her film career began in 1940, when she appeared first in ""Billy the Kid Outlawed"" and then, as a society debutante, in the Kay"
"a vamp in London, England, in ""Business Before Pleasure"" and ""Potash and Perlmutter"" (1915). In the latter she played the role of a typist. Bruns starred in ""Beware of Dogs"" (1920) at the Broadhurst Theatre. The comedy showcased the talents of William Hodge. He wrote the play in addition to being among its featured performers. She made three motion pictures in Hollywood. They are ""No Place For Father"" (1913), ""At First Sight"" (1917), and ""Quand on aime"" (1919). The first movie was directed by Lionel Barrymore and released by Biograph Studios located in The Bronx. Playing the role of ""Nell"""
"90 on October 2, 1958 (in the film version, their roles were taken over by Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick); and in ""Winterset"", presented by Playhouse 90 in 1959. She was again lured to Hollywood by the offer to co-star with Paul Newman in ""The Hustler"", which was released in 1961. She played Newman's girlfriend, Sarah Packard, and for her performance she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Substantial movie roles did not come her way after ""The Hustler"", so she and her husband moved to New York. In 1964, she appeared in two medical dramas — as"
"(1903), ""Lucky Kitten"" (1903), ""Chicks to Order"" (1903), ""In My Lady's Boudoir"" (1903), ""He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not"" (1903), and ""The Lost Child"" (1904). In 1915 she joined the World Comedy Stars Film Corporation to make silent comedy short films, including ""Housekeeping Under Cover"", and ""The Bludgeon"" (1915). In 1901, Osterman sued a tobacco company for using her likeness in a print advertisement, without permission. In 1903, actress Josephine Victor sued Osterman and her husband over a casting dispute. Kathryn Osterman married theatrical manager Jacob J. Rosenthal in 1898. Their son Jack Osterman (1902-1939) was an actor. She"
"film, """" (1983). After continuing to search for acting work, in 1987, Cartwright auditioned for a role in a series of animated shorts about a dysfunctional family that was to appear on ""The Tracey Ullman Show"". Cartwright intended to audition for the role of Lisa Simpson, the middle child; when she arrived at the audition, she found the role of Bart—Lisa's brother—to be more interesting. Matt Groening, the series' creator, allowed her to audition for Bart and offered her the role on the spot. She voiced Bart for three seasons on ""The Tracey Ullman Show"", and in 1989, the shorts"
"Kathy Baker Katherine Whitton Baker (born June 8, 1950) is an American actress. Baker began her career in theatre and made her screen debut in the 1983 drama film, ""The Right Stuff"". She received the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress and an Independent Spirit Award nomination for her performance in ""Street Smart"" (1987). Baker also has appeared in over 50 films, including "" Jacknife"" (1989), ""Edward Scissorhands"" (1990), ""The Cider House Rules"" (1999), ""Cold Mountain"" (2003), ""Nine Lives"" (2005), ""The Jane Austen Book Club"" (2007), ""Last Chance Harvey"" (2008), ""Take Shelter"" (2011), ""Saving Mr. Banks"""
"Heather Graham Heather Joan Graham (born January 29, 1970) is an American actress. After appearing in television commercials, her first starring role in a feature film came with the teen comedy ""License to Drive"" (1988), followed by the critically acclaimed film ""Drugstore Cowboy"" (1989), which gained her initial industry notice. She then played supporting roles in films such as ""Shout"" (1991), ""Diggstown ""(1992), ""Six Degrees of Separation"" (1993), ""Swingers"" (1996) and on the television series ""Twin Peaks"" (1991) and its prequel film """" (1992), before gaining critical praise in Paul Thomas Anderson's ""Boogie Nights"" (1997) as porn starlet Brandy, aka"
"& Bobby"" (2004) and ""The Mountain"" (2004), and a guest starring role as a salesgirl in the teen drama series ""The O.C."" (2005). She made her film debut in the sports drama ""Friday Night Lights"" (2004), which starred Billy Bob Thornton and was a commercial and critical success. In the next two years, she had small supporting roles in several feature films, including ""Drop Dead Sexy"" (2005), ""Price to Pay"" (2006), ""You Are Here"" (2006), and ""Alpha Dog"" (2006), and appeared in an episode of the police procedural ""Criminal Minds"" as a love interest of main character, Spencer Reid. She"
"with Ben Turpin. Arbuckle had already recruited Buster Keaton, and when Lessley came aboard Comique in 1918, he began their working relationship with ""The Bell Boy."" Lessley filmed Arbuckle, Keaton, St. John, and Arbuckle's dog Luke in the subsequent Comique films, ""Backstage"" (1919), ""The Hayseed"" (1919), and ""The Garage"" (1920). Though busy with Comique, Lessley also continued to work with Gloria Swanson, filming ""Her Decision"" and ""You Can't Believe Everything"". He also filmed Pauline Stark in ""Irish Eyes"", ""The Atom"", ""Daughter Angele"", and ""Alias Mary Brown"". Once Arbuckle moved to feature films in 1920, Keaton took over the old Comique"
"and had her first credited role in a feature film with ""The Rider of Death Valley"" (1932). By 1935, she had appeared in over twenty films. Her performance opposite Claudette Colbert and Melvyn Douglas in ""She Married Her Boss"" (1935) won her a seven-year contract with Columbia Pictures, the first such contract offered to a child. Fellows appeared in a series of leading roles for Columbia. Her performance as the precocious orphan alongside Bing Crosby in ""Pennies from Heaven"" (1936) won her critical acclaim. Her acting career was interrupted in the 1940s by serious personal problems. In the 1980s, she"
"in ""Red Riding Hood"" (1977), Anna Karen in ""Dick Whittington"" (1979), Clive Dunn, Janet Fielding and Valentine Dyall in ""Aladdin"" (1983), Dave Lee Travis in ""The Pied Piper"" (1984) and ""Babes in the Wood"" (1991), Sally James in ""Dick Whittington"" (1985), Arthur English in ""Cinderella"" (1986), Johnny Ball in ""Jack and the Beanstalk"" (1988) and ""Mother Goose"" (1989), Keith Chegwin in ""Aladdin"" (1990) and ""Cinderella"" (1992), Danny John Jules and Nigel Pivaro in ""Jack and the Beanstalk"" (1994), Carmen Ejogo in ""Robin Hood"" (1995), Michael Fenton Stevens in ""The Wizard of Oz"" (2000), Bodger & Badger in ""Jack and the"
"screwball comedy ""The Mating Season"" (1951) starring Gene Tierney and John Lund. She enjoyed steady film work for the next dozen years. She appeared in many of the episodic drama TV series of the 1950s, such as ""Alfred Hitchcock Presents"", ""General Electric Theater"", and ""The United States Steel Hour"". Other film roles were as James Stewart's nurse in ""Rear Window"" (1954) and as Doris Day's maid in ""Pillow Talk"" (1959). Although best known for comedy roles, she played the occasional dramatic role, most notably in ""With a Song in My Heart"" (1952), ""Pickup on South Street"" (1953), ""Titanic"" (1953), ""The"
"frequently used sobriquet of ""Funniest Woman in the World"". She never performed the ""Dinner Napkins"" routine in Britain, because British audiences had already seen it performed by the Australian-born English revue performer Cicely Courtneidge, for whom it was written. In 1926 she returned to New York City to perform. While there, she starred in her first film, ""Exit Smiling"" (1927), opposite fellow Canadian Jack Pickford, the younger brother of Mary Pickford. This was followed by ""The Show of Shows"" (1929). After a 1927 tour on the Orpheum Circuit, Lillie returned to Broadway in Vaudeville at the Palace Theatre in 1928"
"""The Boy Friend"" she made her Broadway debut in ""Time Gentlemen Please!"" in which she was hailed as Britain's answer to Ethel Merman. In 1966 she gave a critically acclaimed performance in ""Barefoot in the Park"" to be followed by the long running comedy ""No Sex Please, We're British"" and finally starred alongside Margaret Rutherford and Kenneth Williams in ""The Noble Spaniard"" by Somerset Maughan Returning to her roots she regularly appeared in the BBC TV series ""The Good Old Days"" compered by Leonard Sachs. Prone to stage fright which was never apparent to her audiences, she declined several professional"
"In her later years she appeared in several Walt Disney films, including ""That Darn Cat!"", ""The Love Bug"", ""The Shaggy D.A."", ""Freaky Friday"", and ""No Deposit, No Return"". Disney director Robert Stevenson considered Adrian his ""good-luck charm"". On television, she was a member of the cast of the unsuccessful situation comedy ""The Ted Knight Show"" in the spring of 1978. She also played numerous guest roles in television series such as ""Get Smart"", ""Green Acres"", ""Petticoat Junction"", ""The Munsters"", ""The Love Boat"", ""The Lucy Show"", ""The Beverly Hillbillies"", and ""The Jack Benny Show"". She was married three times, the first"