![]() Today is the birthday of Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren, born Elizabeth Herring in Oklahoma City (1949). Lin-Manuel Miranda recently consulted her for advice on his cockney accent for when the two star in an upcoming remake of Mary Poppins. She took elocution lessons to master the vocal style of Margaret Thatcher for her role in The Iron Lady, a particular challenge because the real Thatcher had curated a unique accent as part of her political persona. In the Holocaust movie Sophie’s Choice, Streep spoke in English, German, and Polish - all with a consistent Polish accent. Streep has become known for her masterful ability to pick up the proper accents of her characters. ![]() In the end, it was the man who inspired her to begin, Robert De Niro, who also gave her the first big break, recommending her for the role of his girlfriend in The Deer Hunter (1978). Why did you bring me this?” Streep understood the language, however, and replied, “I’m very sorry that I’m not as beautiful as I should be but, you know - this is it. Laurentiis - in Italian - said to his son about Streep, “This is so ugly. One of her earliest auditions for a film role was for the lead in Dino De Laurentiis’s King Kong. But Robert De Niro’s performance in Taxi Driver convinced her that it was what she wanted to be. She has also won two film-industry lifetime achievement awards and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.Īfter college, Streep did not have plans to become an actor. Streep has more Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations than any other actor. ![]() It is the birthday of the “greatest-living actress,” Meryl Streep, born in New Jersey in 1949. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.” Wilder said: “An audience is never wrong. In 1986, the American Film Institute awarded him the Life Achievement Award, and at the 1988 Academy Awards, he was given the Irving G. Over the years, he directed some of the greatest Hollywood stars, including Gloria Swanson, Marlene Dietrich, Shirley MacLaine, Gary Cooper, Ray Milland, Jimmy Stewart, Jack Lemmon, and Walter Matthau. Two of Wilder’s most successful films starred Marilyn Monroe: The Seven Year Itch (1955) and Some Like it Hot (1959). Asked if it was important for a director to know how to write, Wilder replied, “No, but it helps if he knows how to read.” Wilder began directing pictures because, he said, he was tired of other directors botching up his scripts. Diamond, include Love in the Afternoon (1957), The Apartment (1961), The Fortune Cookie (1966), and The Front Page (1974). It’s the pictures that got small.” His later films, many written with I.A.L. Together they wrote scripts for such films as Ninotchka (1939), Hold Back the Dawn (1941), The Lost Weekend (1945), and Sunset Boulevard (1950), which won Wilder an Academy Award and included the famous line, “I am big. His big break came when Paramount studios paired him with the writer Charles Brackett. In 1934, he arrived in Hollywood with 11 dollars in his pocket. As Jews, they had been expunged from the program. ![]() But when the credits for What Women Dream, his 14th film, rolled by, the names of the two scriptwriters, Franz Schulz and Billy Wilder, were missing. He left Vienna in 1927 for a job as a reporter in Berlin, and eventually found work as a scriptwriter on more than a dozen German films. In Vienna, Wilder spent a lot of time watching American Western, comedy, and adventure films. His real name was Samuel, but his mother called him “Billy” because of her fascination with the legendary hero Buffalo Bill. It’s the birthday of director, producer, and screenwriter Billy Wilder, born in Vienna, Austria (1906). Even when I dream, it is about America - and when I swear, it is American.” Remarque said: “I am no more German, for I do not think in German nor feel German, nor talk German. Remarque lost his German citizenship in 1938 and eventually moved to the United States. When the film version of the book premiered in Berlin, Nazi gangs attacked the theater. It was one of the books they publicly burned in 1933. Nazis were beginning their rise to power at the time, and they hated the book because it portrayed World War I as misguided and pointless. The novel sold more than a million copies in Germany in its first year of publication. Remarque wrote: “I am young, I am twenty years old yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow.” The book describes trench warfare during World War I, told by a young man in the German army. He’s the author of the novel All Quiet on the Western Front (1929). It’s the birthday of novelist Erich Maria Remarque, born in Osnabrück, Germany (1898).
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