Jennifer Aniston
Born: 11 February 1969
Birthplace: Sherman Oaks, California
Best Known As: Rachel on the TV series Friends
When Friends hit the airwaves in 1994, Courteney Cox was the acknowledged "name" star. But Jennifer Aniston, as the goofy/sexy Rachel, quickly became the actress with the biggest public buzz. Her distinctively curvy haircut was, briefly, a popular craze, and she was often featured in tabloids and celebrity gossip columns. Her feature films include The Iron Giant (1999, with Vin Diesel), Rock Star (2000, with Mark Wahlberg), The Good Girl (2002, with Jake Gyllenhaal) and Along Came Polly (2004, with Ben Stiller). In 2000 she married actor Brad Pitt; early in 2005 the couple announced that they had separated.
Aniston's godfather was late actor Telly "Kojak" Savalas.
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Joan Crawford
Born: 23 March 1904
Birthplace: San Antonio, Texas
Death: 10 May 1977 (cancer)
Best Known As: Star of Mildred Pierce and subject of the book Mommie Dearest
Name at birth: Lucille Fay Le Sueur
Crawford was a bubbly ingenue of silent films during the "flapper era" of the late 1920s. As her bubbly years passed she reinvented herself as a more glamorous Hollywood star of the 1930s and 40s, winning an Oscar for her role as a housewife-turned-businesswoman in Mildred Pierce (1945). Despite these successes Crawford is often remembered for an even later persona -- a severe and neurotic former beauty in heavy makeup -- based on the horror and suspense films she made in the 1960s. Among those films was the hit Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962), in which she appeared with her real-life rival Bette Davis. Crawford's reputation was tarnished by Mommie Dearest, a 1978 biography by her adopted daughter Christina, which described Crawford as a harshly abusive alcoholic. (Christina's allegations of being beaten with a wire coat hanger gained particular fame.) The book was made into a 1981 movie starring Faye Dunaway as Crawford.
Crawford's first husband was actor Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.... Her fourth husband was Alfred Steele, chairman of the board of soft drink maker Pepsi Cola; after Steele's 1959 death, Crawford herself served on the Pepsi board... Crawford was directed by a young Steven Spielberg in a 1969 episode of the TV series Night Gallery.
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Jimmy Stewart
Born: 20 May 1908
Birthplace: Indiana, Pennsylvania
Death: 2 July 1997
Best Known As: Lanky star of It's A Wonderful Life
James (Jimmy) Stewart started in the movies in the 1930s, making his mark in studio-driven light comedies as a wide-eyed innocent. He earned an Oscar nomination for his defining role in Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, (1939) and the next year he won an Oscar for The Philadelphia Story (co-starring Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn). Stewart's movie career (he also performed frequently on radio) was interrupted by World War II, in which he served as a combat pilot. He returned from the war with a distinguished record, and soon starred in It's A Wonderful Life, (1946) again earning an Oscar nomination. He appeared in dozens of westerns, including Destry Rides Again, (1939) and Winchester '73 (1950), and made notable appearances in Alfred Hitchcock's Rope (1948), Rear Window (1954) and Vertigo (1958).
By the end of the war, Stewart was a colonel. In 1959 he was promoted in the Air Force Reserves to the rank of brigadier general... Late in life Stewart made a series of popular appearances on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show, reading his own sentimental poetry.
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Jacques Tati
French comic actor, director, and writer. He portrayed Monsieur Hulot, the embodiment of polite opposition to modern mechanization, in a series of films, beginning with Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot/Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (1953) and including Mon Oncle/My Uncle (1959), Playtime (1968), Trafic/Traffic (1971), and Parade (1974).
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