Wicked Witch of the West

Producer Mervyn Leroy's original idea for casting the Wicked Witch for The Wizard of Oz was inspired by Disney's adaption of Snow White - he wanted to make her slinky + seductive. He thought he'd found the perfect choice with actress Gale Sondergaard who'd won an Oscar the previous year for her Best Supporting Actress performance in his film Anthony Adverse.
Others however disagreed, thinking witches should be ugly. They attempted to give Sondergaard 'The Ugly Treatment' with make-up, but the actress herself decided she no longer wanted the role.

"In those days I was not about to make myself ugly! I have no regrets".

Interview, 1980 with Dick Cavett when she was 81

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💫 Actor Fred MacMurray 💫

1908-1991

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💫 Actor Fred MacMurray 💫

1908-1991

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Today News : Movie – Don't criticize the movie without watching it – Nara Rohit
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https://vaartha.com/movie-dont-criticize-a-movie-without-watching-it-nara-rohit/cinema/536171/

Great Performances

Audrey Hepburn & Shirley MacLaine

The Children's Hour (1961) Directed by William Wyler. Screenplay by Lillian Hellman and John Michael Hayes

Nominated for 4 Academy Awards

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Gasoline Rainbow

Five recent highschool graduates take to the road for one last adventure ... A beautiful ride through freedom and adventure.

Streaming on Mubi

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Water From the Moon

Moments in Oscar History ... Linda Hunt wins the 1984 Best Supporting Actress Oscar 40 years ago for The Year of Living Dangerously

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Sandra Hüller

I watched two films this week with wonderful performances by German Actress Sandra Hüller.

In Zone of Interest she plays Helga, wife of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss. In Anatomy of a Fall, a film written specifically for her, she plays a woman suspected of her husbands murder.

“Meryl Streep says you have to love every character whether they are evil or not. I thought about that for a very long time, and while I love and adore Meryl and everything she’s done, I don’t think I agree. I didn’t love Hedwig Höss, and I never will.”

She is certainly one to watch

Photographs by Yotam Shwartz for The Hollywood Reporter

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Theda Bara, ‘The Vamp’

The studios created a fictitious persona for Bara as a woman born in the Sahara ‘in the shadow of the Sphinx’ to an Italian Sculptor father and a French mother. They created an heir of mystery claiming she dabbled in the occult. Her contract requite that she wear a veil in public and only come out at night. They even mentioned the fact that her name was an anagram for ‘Arab Death’

Bara made more than 40 films in her career, but most were lost in the 1937 Fox vault fire and only 6 of her completed films remain.

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Theda Bara, ‘The Vamp’

Bara was born Theodosia Burr Goodman in 1885 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her father was a Jewish tailor from Poland and her mother was born in Switzerland. Her stage name, Bara was taken from her grandfather named Baringer. She was a popular actress of the silent era and one of cinema's early sex symbols. She earned the nickname "The Vamp" because of her sexually seductive roles. The studios created a fictitious persona for Bara as a woman born in the Sahara ‘in the shadow of the Sphinx’ to an Italian Sculptor father and a French mother. They created an heir of mystery claiming she dabbled in the occult. Her contract requite that she wear a veil in public and only come out at night. They even mentioned the fact that her name was an anagram for ‘Arab Death’

Bara made more than 40 films in her career, but most were lost in the 1937 Fox vault fire and only 6 of her completed films remain.

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International Film Star Maria Schell

Born in Vienna, Austria in 1926, her family moved to Switzerland when she was 12 after the Nazi invasion. She won the Best Actress Award in Cannes for her performance in The Last Bridge in 1954

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Actor Fred MacMurray as you may NOT remember him …

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A roller coaster ride being serviced at #MovieWorld amusement park in #Oxenford, #GoldCoast.
File under: Things you notice when you commute by #bike.

Actress Anne Bancroft at 20, signing her 1st film contract with 20th Century Fox in 1951

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Scooby-Doo Spooky Coaster in der Warner Bros. Movie World wird aufwändig renoviert. Außerdem eröffnet der Filmpark 2023 eine neue Attraktion für die ganze Familie! 🛸

🇩🇪 https://www.themepark-central.de/scooby-doo-spooky-coaster-renovierung-23/
🇺🇸 https://tpcr.de/8d

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Bild ©: Warner Bros. Movie World