Vintage postcard, no. AB 79. Photo: Steven Meisel. Publicity still for Madonna: Truth or Dare/In Bed with Madonna (Alek Keshishian, 1991). Madonna impersonating Jayne Mansfield.

 

Madonna or Madonna Louise Ciccone (1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. During the MTV craze in the 1980s, Madonna pushed boundaries with her song texts and her provocative performances. She frequently reinvented herself and her music and stayed the 'Queen of Pop' for decades. Her global bestsellers were hits such as Like a Virgin (1984) and True Blue (1986), but for us she became more interesting with songs like Like a Prayer (1989), Vogue (1991) and Frozen (1998). And we're still fan, even of some of her films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Truth or Dare (1991), and Evita (1996). The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops reinventing herself, Madonna is a seven-time Grammy Award-winner who has sold over three hundred million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide.

 

Madonna was born Madonna Louise Ciccone in 1958 in Bay City, Michigan. Her father is Italian, her mother was French-Canadian. Her siblings are Anthony Ciccone (1956), Martin Ciccone (1957), Paula Ciccone (1959), Christopher Ciccone (1960), and Melanie Henry (1962). In 1962, Madonna's mother, pregnant with her sixth child, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She delayed treatment until her baby was born, but by that time it was too late. A harrowing, yearlong battle with the disease ensued. She lost her battle with cancer in 1963. In 1978, Madonna moved to New York and studied with renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey. She joined up with the Patrick Hernandez Revue, formed a pop/dance band called 'Breakfast Club', and began working with then-boyfriend Stephen Bray on recording several disco-oriented songs. New York producer/D.J. Mark Kamins passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982 and the rest is history. The 1980s was Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multimillion-selling albums. Madonna first appeared on screen in two low-budget films marketed to an adolescent audience: A Certain Sacrifice (Stephen Jon Lewicki, 1979) and Crazy for You (Harold Becker, 1985), starring Matthew Modine. Her first film, A Certain Sacrifice (1979), was released in 1985, after she became a star, but was actually shot in two parts, the first in 1979, and the other, in 1981. However, she scored a minor cult hit with Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985) starring alongside spunky Rosanna Arquette. In 1984, she started fashion trends with her unique look using rosaries and crosses as jewelry and black rubber typewriter bands as bracelets. Legions of adolescent girls mimicked her look and a Madonna clothing store was opened in New York. Again in 2001, another huge fashion trend was set off by the "Material Mom", this time with western wear - cowboy hats and mud-splattered jeans. In 1986, she starred with then-husband Sean Penn in Shanghai Surprise (Jim Goddard, 1986), which was savaged by critics. She managed to somewhat improve her standing in the cinema with her next two films, the off-beat Who's That Girl (James Foley, 1987) and the quirky Damon Runyon-inspired Bloodhounds of Broadway (Howard Brookner, 1989).

 

Madonna played in the big-budget and star-filled Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990) bad girl Breathless Mahoney flirting with Warren Beatty. The epic failed to catch fire at the box office. Taking an earthier role, Madonna was much more entertaining alongside Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall, 1992), a story about female baseball players during W.W.II. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the whodunit Body of Evidence (Uli Edel, 1992) with Willem Dafoe, an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of the sexy Sharon Stone thriller Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992). Several other minor screen roles followed, then Madonna starred as Eva Perón opposite Jonathan Pryce and Antonio Banderas in Evita (Alan Parker, 1996), a fairly well-received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Material Girl stayed away from the film cameras for several years, returning to co-star with Rupert Everett in the lukewarm romantic comedy The Next Best Thing (John Schlesinger, 2000), followed by the painful Swept Away (2002) for husband Guy Ritchie. If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure Die Another Day (Lee Tamahori, 2002) starring Pierce Brosnan. Madonna began a directing career in 2008 with the comedy Filth and Wisdom (Madonna, 2008), and a year later she reunited with Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) director Alek Keshishian to develop a script about the relationship between the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor that led to his abdication in 1936: the result, a movie named W.E. (Madonna, 2011), starring James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough as the infernal but still royal couple. The film was released in 2011 to lukewarm critics but it gathered one Oscar nomination for costumes and won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for 'Masterpiece'. Madonna has 6 children: daughter, Lourdes Leon (1996) with an ex-boyfriend, Carlos Leon, son, Rocco Ritchie (2000), and adoptive son, David Banda Mwale Ciccone Ritchie (2005) with ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, and adoptive daughters, Mercy James Ciccone (2006), Estere Ciccone and Stella Ciccone (2012).

 

Source: Wikipedia and IMDb.

 

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Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin, no. 623.

 

Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel (1952-2012) will always be remembered as Emmanuelle, thanks to the massive soft-porn hit of the 1970s. Emmanuelle’s sexual adventures attracted 500 million people to the cinema.

 

Sylvia Kristel was born in Utrecht, Netherlands, in 1952. She was the daughter of Piet and Jean-Nicholas, who ran a hotel in Utrecht. Sylvia and her sister, Marianne, were brought up in Room 21, unless the hotel was full, in which case they were shifted, often in the middle of the night, to Room 22 which, according to the actress, was like a cupboard. Her parents divorced when she was 14 years old after her father left home for another woman. She had to go to a strict Catholic boarding school and she learned to speak English, French, German and Italian. Kristel began modelling when she was 17, and in 1973 she won the Miss TV Europe contest in London. However her future was the cinema. Her film career had started a year earlier with a part in the Dutch thriller Niet voor de poesen/Because of the cats (Fons Rademakers, 1972). She also played supporting parts in the Dutch films Naakt over de schutting/Naked Over the Fence (Frans Weisz, 1973) starring Rijk de Gooijer, and Frank en Eva/Living Apart Together (Pim de la Parra, 1973) with Willeke van Ammelrooy. Winning the TV Europe contest lead to a casting audition in Paris for the title character in the softcore film Emmanuelle (Just Jaeckin, 1974) with Alain Cuny. The film was based on Emmanuelle Arsan's autobiographical novel. Although her tufty-haired tomboy appearance was far from the long-locked Eurasian the casting agents and the book's author had imagined, director Just Jaeckin was intrigued by her mix of the sensual and the pure. With her role, she gained overnight controversy and international success and notoriety. Brian Donaldson in The Herald: “In the early Seventies, eroticism was making genuine inroads to the mainstream, with Don't Look Now's ongoing debate over whether Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie actually had intercourse, and the controversial Last Tango In Paris with Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider. When Emmanuelle came along, it blurred the line between soft-core and the mainstream, and by having a largely plotless tale interspersed with random segments of masturbation, consensual sex and rape plus a scene of a Thai stripper doing unmentionable things with lit cigarettes. Despite some problems in France where for the first six months, the movie was deemed suitable only for porno cinemas rather than respectable film theatres, the first Emmanuelle was an international sensation.” 45 years later, Emmanuelle remains one of the most successful French films ever produced.

 

Sylvia Kristel also appeared in the sequel Emmanuelle: L'antivierge/ Emmanuelle - The Joys of a Woman (Francis Giacobetti, 1976) and other erotic films like La Marge/The Margin (Walerian Borowczyk, 1974) with Joe Dallesandro. She also appeared in prestigious non-erotic films, such as Une femme fidèle/A Faithful Woman (Roger Vadim, 1976), Claude Chabrol’s Alice ou le dernière fugue/Alice, or the Last Escapade (1977) with Charles Vanel, and the crime comedy René la canne/Rene the Cane (Francis Girod, 1977) featuring Gérard Depardieu. But the Emmanuelle franchise proved to be far more profitable for producers and so she appeared in part 3, Goodbye Emmanuelle/Emmanuelle 3 (François Leterrier, 1980), and later followed parts 4, 5, 6 and finally 7 in the early 1990s. In total some 500 million people around the world paid to see sexual adventures of the liberated Frenchwoman. So, Kristel found herself typecast as Emmanuelle. She continued to play roles that capitalised upon that image – title roles in an adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Lover (Just Jaeckin, 1981) and in a nudity filled biopic of World War I spy Mata Hari (Curtis Harrington, 1985). Her Emmanuelle image followed her to the United States where she played an immigrant maid who seduces a 15-year-old boy (Eric Brown), in the controversial sex comedy Private Lessons (Alan Myerson, 1981). Other American film appearances were a part as a stewardess in The Concorde... Airport '79 (David Lowell Rich, 1979) with Alain Delon as the captain, and a brief comic turn in the Get Smart revival film The Nude Bomb (Clive Donner, 1980. Although Private Lessons was one of the highest grossing independent films of 1981 ($50,000,000 worldwide), Kristel saw none of the profits. She continued to appear in films and received good reviews for some of her Dutch films, including Pastorale 1943 (Wim Verstappen, 1978), the Knut Hamsun adaptation Mysteries/Evil Mysteries (Paul de Lussanet, 1980) with Rutger Hauer, and Lijmen/Het been/The Publishers (Robbe de Hert, 2000). In 2006, Kristel received an award at the Tribeca Film Festival, New York for directing the animated short film Topor and Me. After not having acted for eight years, Kristel played a part in the Croatian-French film Two Sunny Days (Ognjen Svilicic, 2010) and in the same year she played the mother of the Dutch Trio Lescano in the Italian TV film Le ragazze dello swing/The Swing Girls (Maurizio Zaccaro, 2010).

 

During her turbulent life, Sylvia Kristel had a string of lovers, including Roger Vadim and Warren Beatty. Her first major relationship was with Belgian author Hugo Claus, twenty-seven years her senior with whom she had a son, Arthur (1975). She left him for Ian McShane, whom she met on the set of the film The Fifth Musketeer (1979). They moved in together in Los Angeles where he had promised to help her launch her American career. However their five year affair would lead to no significant career break for Kristel. About two years into the relationship she began using cocaine. This proved to be her downfall, though at the time she thought of it as a necessary fuel to stay in swing. Since McShane, she has been married twice, first only five months to American businessman Alan Turner (1982) and then five years to film producer Phillippe Blot (1986-1991). She spent a decade with Belgian radio producer Fred De Vree before he died. A heavy smoker from the age of eleven, Kristel was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2001 and underwent three courses of chemotherapy, and surgery after it spread to her lung. In June 2012, Sylvia Kristel suffered a stroke and was hospitalized in life threatening condition. In her autobiography Nue/Undressing Emmanuelle: A Memoir (2006/2007), she tells of her addictions, and her quest for a father figure. Carole Cadwalladr reviewed the book for the Observer: “it is, all in all, a strangely gripping tale. There's no bitterness or regret, and although there's a Francophone quality to the writing - the use of the present tense, short chapters and liberally sprinkled pensees - it gives the book a reflective edge that lifts it above the kind of celeb memoir commissioned here in Britain.” On 17 October 2012, Sylvia Kristel died in her sleep from esophageal and lung cancer. She was survived by her son, Arthur Claus, and her younger sister, Marianne.

 

Sources: Carole Cadwalladr (The Observer), Brian Donaldson (The Herald), Film Reference, Wikipedia and IMDb.

 

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French postcard, no. 1232. Photo: Steven Meisel. Publicity still for Madonna: Truth or Dare/In Bed with Madonna (Alek Keshishian, 1991).

 

Madonna or Madonna Louise Ciccone (1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. During the MTV craze in the 1980s, Madonna pushed boundaries with her song texts and her provocative performances. She frequently reinvented herself and her music and stayed the 'Queen of Pop' for decades. Her global bestsellers were hits such as Like a Virgin (1984) and True Blue (1986), but for us she became more interesting with songs like Like a Prayer (1989), Vogue (1991) and Frozen (1998). And we're still fan, even of some of her films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Truth or Dare (1991), and Evita (1996). The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops reinventing herself, Madonna is a seven-time Grammy Award-winner who has sold over three hundred million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide.

 

Madonna was born Madonna Louise Ciccone in 1958 in Bay City, Michigan. Her father is Italian, her mother was French-Canadian. Her siblings are Anthony Ciccone (1956), Martin Ciccone (1957), Paula Ciccone (1959), Christopher Ciccone (1960), and Melanie Henry (1962). In 1962, Madonna's mother, pregnant with her sixth child, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She delayed treatment until her baby was born, but by that time it was too late. A harrowing, yearlong battle with the disease ensued. She lost her battle with cancer in 1963. In 1978, Madonna moved to New York and studied with renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey. She joined up with the Patrick Hernandez Revue, formed a pop/dance band called 'Breakfast Club', and began working with then-boyfriend Stephen Bray on recording several disco-oriented songs. New York producer/D.J. Mark Kamins passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982 and the rest is history. The 1980s was Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multimillion-selling albums. Madonna first appeared on screen in two low-budget films marketed to an adolescent audience: A Certain Sacrifice (Stephen Jon Lewicki, 1979) and Crazy for You (Harold Becker, 1985), starring Matthew Modine. Her first film, A Certain Sacrifice (1979), was released in 1985, after she became a star, but was actually shot in two parts, the first in 1979, and the other, in 1981. However, she scored a minor cult hit with Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985) starring alongside spunky Rosanna Arquette. In 1984, she started fashion trends with her unique look using rosaries and crosses as jewelry and black rubber typewriter bands as bracelets. Legions of adolescent girls mimicked her look and a Madonna clothing store was opened in New York. Again in 2001, another huge fashion trend was set off by the "Material Mom", this time with western wear - cowboy hats and mud-splattered jeans. In 1986, she starred with then-husband Sean Penn in Shanghai Surprise (Jim Goddard, 1986), which was savaged by critics. She managed to somewhat improve her standing in the cinema with her next two films, the off-beat Who's That Girl (James Foley, 1987) and the quirky Damon Runyon-inspired Bloodhounds of Broadway (Howard Brookner, 1989).

 

Madonna played in the big-budget and star-filled Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990) bad girl Breathless Mahoney flirting with Warren Beatty. The epic failed to catch fire at the box office. Taking an earthier role, Madonna was much more entertaining alongside Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall, 1992), a story about female baseball players during W.W.II. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the whodunit Body of Evidence (Uli Edel, 1992) with Willem Dafoe, an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of the sexy Sharon Stone thriller Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992). Several other minor screen roles followed, then Madonna starred as Eva Perón opposite Jonathan Pryce and Antonio Banderas in Evita (Alan Parker, 1996), a fairly well-received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Material Girl stayed away from the film cameras for several years, returning to co-star with Rupert Everett in the lukewarm romantic comedy The Next Best Thing (John Schlesinger, 2000), followed by the painful Swept Away (2002) for husband Guy Ritchie. If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure Die Another Day (Lee Tamahori, 2002) starring Pierce Brosnan. Madonna began a directing career in 2008 with the comedy Filth and Wisdom (Madonna, 2008), and a year later she reunited with Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) director Alek Keshishian to develop a script about the relationship between the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor that led to his abdication in 1936: the result, a movie named W.E. (Madonna, 2011), starring James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough as the infernal but still royal couple. The film was released in 2011 to lukewarm critics but it gathered one Oscar nomination for costumes and won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for 'Masterpiece'. Madonna has 6 children: daughter, Lourdes Leon (1996) with an ex-boyfriend, Carlos Leon, son, Rocco Ritchie (2000), and adoptive son, David Banda Mwale Ciccone Ritchie (2005) with ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, and adoptive daughters, Mercy James Ciccone (2006), Estere Ciccone and Stella Ciccone (2012).

 

Source: Wikipedia and IMDb.

 

And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.

Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin.

 

Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel (1952-2012) will always be remembered as Emmanuelle, thanks to the massive soft-porn hit of the 1970s. Emmanuelle’s sexual adventures attracted 500 million people to the cinema.

 

Sylvia Kristel was born in Utrecht, Netherlands, in 1952. She was the daughter of Piet and Jean-Nicholas, who ran a hotel in Utrecht. Sylvia and her sister, Marianne, were brought up in Room 21, unless the hotel was full, in which case they were shifted, often in the middle of the night, to Room 22 which, according to the actress, was like a cupboard. Her parents divorced when she was 14 years old after her father left home for another woman. She had to go to a strict Catholic boarding school and she learned to speak English, French, German and Italian. Kristel began modelling when she was 17, and in 1973 she won the Miss TV Europe contest in London. However her future was the cinema. Her film career had started a year earlier with a part in the Dutch thriller Niet voor de poesen/Because of the cats (Fons Rademakers, 1972). She also played supporting parts in the Dutch films Naakt over de schutting/Naked Over the Fence (Frans Weisz, 1973) starring Rijk de Gooijer, and Frank en Eva/Living Apart Together (Pim de la Parra, 1973) with Willeke van Ammelrooy. Winning the TV Europe contest lead to a casting audition in Paris for the title character in the softcore film Emmanuelle (Just Jaeckin, 1974) with Alain Cuny. The film was based on Emmanuelle Arsan's autobiographical novel. Although her tufty-haired tomboy appearance was far from the long-locked Eurasian the casting agents and the book's author had imagined, director Just Jaeckin was intrigued by her mix of the sensual and the pure. With her role, she gained overnight controversy and international success and notoriety. Brian Donaldson in The Herald: “In the early Seventies, eroticism was making genuine inroads to the mainstream, with Don't Look Now's ongoing debate over whether Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie actually had intercourse, and the controversial Last Tango In Paris with Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider. When Emmanuelle came along, it blurred the line between soft-core and the mainstream, and by having a largely plotless tale interspersed with random segments of masturbation, consensual sex and rape plus a scene of a Thai stripper doing unmentionable things with lit cigarettes. Despite some problems in France where for the first six months, the movie was deemed suitable only for porno cinemas rather than respectable film theatres, the first Emmanuelle was an international sensation.” 45 years later, Emmanuelle remains one of the most successful French films ever produced.

 

Sylvia Kristel also appeared in the sequel Emmanuelle: L'antivierge/ Emmanuelle - The Joys of a Woman (Francis Giacobetti, 1976) and other erotic films like La Marge/The Margin (Walerian Borowczyk, 1974) with Joe Dallesandro. She also appeared in prestigious non-erotic films, such as Une femme fidèle/A Faithful Woman (Roger Vadim, 1976), Claude Chabrol’s Alice ou le dernière fugue/Alice, or the Last Escapade (1977) with Charles Vanel, and the crime comedy René la canne/Rene the Cane (Francis Girod, 1977) featuring Gérard Depardieu. But the Emmanuelle franchise proved to be far more profitable for producers and so she appeared in part 3, Goodbye Emmanuelle/Emmanuelle 3 (François Leterrier, 1980), and later followed parts 4, 5, 6 and finally 7 in the early 1990s. In total some 500 million people around the world paid to see sexual adventures of the liberated Frenchwoman. So, Kristel found herself typecast as Emmanuelle. She continued to play roles that capitalised upon that image – title roles in an adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Lover (Just Jaeckin, 1981) and in a nudity filled biopic of World War I spy Mata Hari (Curtis Harrington, 1985). Her Emmanuelle image followed her to the United States where she played an immigrant maid who seduces a 15-year-old boy (Eric Brown), in the controversial sex comedy Private Lessons (Alan Myerson, 1981). Other American film appearances were a part as a stewardess in The Concorde... Airport '79 (David Lowell Rich, 1979) with Alain Delon as the captain, and a brief comic turn in the Get Smart revival film The Nude Bomb (Clive Donner, 1980. Although Private Lessons was one of the highest grossing independent films of 1981 ($50,000,000 worldwide), Kristel saw none of the profits. She continued to appear in films and received good reviews for some of her Dutch films, including Pastorale 1943 (Wim Verstappen, 1978), the Knut Hamsun adaptation Mysteries/Evil Mysteries (Paul de Lussanet, 1980) with Rutger Hauer, and Lijmen/Het been/The Publishers (Robbe de Hert, 2000). In 2006, Kristel received an award at the Tribeca Film Festival, New York for directing the animated short film Topor and Me. After not having acted for eight years, Kristel played a part in the Croatian-French film Two Sunny Days (Ognjen Svilicic, 2010) and in the same year she played the mother of the Dutch Trio Lescano in the Italian TV film Le ragazze dello swing/The Swing Girls (Maurizio Zaccaro, 2010).

 

During her turbulent life, Sylvia Kristel had a string of lovers, including Roger Vadim and Warren Beatty. Her first major relationship was with Belgian author Hugo Claus, twenty-seven years her senior with whom she had a son, Arthur (1975). She left him for Ian McShane, whom she met on the set of the film The Fifth Musketeer (1979). They moved in together in Los Angeles where he had promised to help her launch her American career. However their five year affair would lead to no significant career break for Kristel. About two years into the relationship she began using cocaine. This proved to be her downfall, though at the time she thought of it as a necessary fuel to stay in swing. Since McShane, she has been married twice, first only five months to American businessman Alan Turner (1982) and then five years to film producer Phillippe Blot (1986-1991). She spent a decade with Belgian radio producer Fred De Vree before he died. A heavy smoker from the age of eleven, Kristel was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2001 and underwent three courses of chemotherapy, and surgery after it spread to her lung. In June 2012, Sylvia Kristel suffered a stroke and was hospitalized in life threatening condition. In her autobiography Nue/Undressing Emmanuelle: A Memoir (2006/2007), she tells of her addictions, and her quest for a father figure. Carole Cadwalladr reviewed the book for the Observer: “it is, all in all, a strangely gripping tale. There's no bitterness or regret, and although there's a Francophone quality to the writing - the use of the present tense, short chapters and liberally sprinkled pensees - it gives the book a reflective edge that lifts it above the kind of celeb memoir commissioned here in Britain.” On 17 October 2012, Sylvia Kristel died in her sleep from esophageal and lung cancer. She was survived by her son, Arthur Claus, and her younger sister, Marianne.

 

Sources: Carole Cadwalladr (The Observer), Brian Donaldson (The Herald), Film Reference, Wikipedia and IMDb.

 

And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.

French postcard in the série chanteurs by Les Editions GIL, no. 125. Madonna in Who's That Girl (James Foley, 1987).

 

Madonna or Madonna Louise Ciccone (1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. During the MTV craze in the 1980s, Madonna pushed boundaries with her song texts and her provocative performances. She frequently reinvented herself and her music and stayed the 'Queen of Pop' for decades. Her global bestsellers were hits such as Like a Virgin (1984) and True Blue (1986), but for us she became more interesting with songs like Like a Prayer (1989), Vogue (1991) and Frozen (1998). And we're still fan, even of some of her films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Truth or Dare (1991), and Evita (1996). The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops reinventing herself, Madonna is a seven-time Grammy Award-winner who has sold over three hundred million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide.

 

Madonna was born Madonna Louise Ciccone in 1958 in Bay City, Michigan. Her father is Italian, her mother was French-Canadian. Her siblings are Anthony Ciccone (1956), Martin Ciccone (1957), Paula Ciccone (1959), Christopher Ciccone (1960), and Melanie Henry (1962). In 1962, Madonna's mother, pregnant with her sixth child, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She delayed treatment until her baby was born, but by that time it was too late. A harrowing, yearlong battle with the disease ensued. She lost her battle with cancer in 1963. In 1978, Madonna moved to New York and studied with renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey. She joined up with the Patrick Hernandez Revue, formed a pop/dance band called 'Breakfast Club', and began working with then-boyfriend Stephen Bray on recording several disco-oriented songs. New York producer/D.J. Mark Kamins passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982 and the rest is history. The 1980s was Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multimillion-selling albums. Madonna first appeared on screen in two low-budget films marketed to an adolescent audience: A Certain Sacrifice (Stephen Jon Lewicki, 1979) and Crazy for You (Harold Becker, 1985), starring Matthew Modine. Her first film, A Certain Sacrifice (1979), was released in 1985, after she became a star, but was actually shot in two parts, the first in 1979, and the other, in 1981. However, she scored a minor cult hit with Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985) starring alongside spunky Rosanna Arquette. In 1984, she started fashion trends with her unique look using rosaries and crosses as jewelry and black rubber typewriter bands as bracelets. Legions of adolescent girls mimicked her look and a Madonna clothing store was opened in New York. Again in 2001, another huge fashion trend was set off by the "Material Mom", this time with western wear - cowboy hats and mud-splattered jeans. In 1986, she starred with then-husband Sean Penn in Shanghai Surprise (Jim Goddard, 1986), which was savaged by critics. She managed to somewhat improve her standing in the cinema with her next two films, the off-beat Who's That Girl (James Foley, 1987) and the quirky Damon Runyon-inspired Bloodhounds of Broadway (Howard Brookner, 1989).

 

Madonna played in the big-budget and star-filled Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990) bad girl Breathless Mahoney flirting with Warren Beatty. The epic failed to catch fire at the box office. Taking an earthier role, Madonna was much more entertaining alongside Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall, 1992), a story about female baseball players during W.W.II. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the whodunit Body of Evidence (Uli Edel, 1992) with Willem Dafoe, an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of the sexy Sharon Stone thriller Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992). Several other minor screen roles followed, then Madonna starred as Eva Perón opposite Jonathan Pryce and Antonio Banderas in Evita (Alan Parker, 1996), a fairly well-received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Material Girl stayed away from the film cameras for several years, returning to co-star with Rupert Everett in the lukewarm romantic comedy The Next Best Thing (John Schlesinger, 2000), followed by the painful Swept Away (2002) for husband Guy Ritchie. If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure Die Another Day (Lee Tamahori, 2002) starring Pierce Brosnan. Madonna began a directing career in 2008 with the comedy Filth and Wisdom (Madonna, 2008), and a year later she reunited with Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) director Alek Keshishian to develop a script about the relationship between the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor that led to his abdication in 1936: the result, a movie named W.E. (Madonna, 2011), starring James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough as the infernal but still royal couple. The film was released in 2011 to lukewarm critics but it gathered one Oscar nomination for costumes and won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for 'Masterpiece'. Madonna has 6 children: daughter, Lourdes Leon (1996) with an ex-boyfriend, Carlos Leon, son, Rocco Ritchie (2000), and adoptive son, David Banda Mwale Ciccone Ritchie (2005) with ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, and adoptive daughters, Mercy James Ciccone (2006), Estere Ciccone and Stella Ciccone (2012).

 

Source: Wikipedia and IMDb.

 

And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.

French postcard by Editions Humour à la Carte, Paris, no. ST-56.

 

Madonna or Madonna Louise Ciccone (1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. During the MTV craze in the 1980s, Madonna pushed boundaries with her song texts and her provocative performances. She frequently reinvented herself and her music and stayed the 'Queen of Pop' for decades. Her global bestsellers were hits such as Like a Virgin (1984) and True Blue (1986), but for us she became more interesting with songs like Like a Prayer (1989), Vogue (1991) and Frozen (1998). And we're still fan, even of some of her films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Truth or Dare (1991), and Evita (1996). The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops reinventing herself, Madonna is a seven-time Grammy Award-winner who has sold over three hundred million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide.

 

Madonna was born Madonna Louise Ciccone in 1958 in Bay City, Michigan. Her father is Italian, her mother was French-Canadian. Her siblings are Anthony Ciccone (1956), Martin Ciccone (1957), Paula Ciccone (1959), Christopher Ciccone (1960), and Melanie Henry (1962). In 1962, Madonna's mother, pregnant with her sixth child, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She delayed treatment until her baby was born, but by that time it was too late. A harrowing, yearlong battle with the disease ensued. She lost her battle with cancer in 1963. In 1978, Madonna moved to New York and studied with renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey. She joined up with the Patrick Hernandez Revue, formed a pop/dance band called 'Breakfast Club', and began working with then-boyfriend Stephen Bray on recording several disco-oriented songs. New York producer/D.J. Mark Kamins passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982 and the rest is history. The 1980s was Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multimillion-selling albums. Madonna first appeared on screen in two low-budget films marketed to an adolescent audience: A Certain Sacrifice (Stephen Jon Lewicki, 1979) and Crazy for You (Harold Becker, 1985), starring Matthew Modine. Her first film, A Certain Sacrifice (1979), was released in 1985, after she became a star, but was actually shot in two parts, the first in 1979, and the other, in 1981. However, she scored a minor cult hit with Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985) starring alongside spunky Rosanna Arquette. In 1984, she started fashion trends with her unique look using rosaries and crosses as jewelry and black rubber typewriter bands as bracelets. Legions of adolescent girls mimicked her look and a Madonna clothing store was opened in New York. Again in 2001, another huge fashion trend was set off by the "Material Mom", this time with western wear - cowboy hats and mud-splattered jeans. In 1986, she starred with then-husband Sean Penn in Shanghai Surprise (Jim Goddard, 1986), which was savaged by critics. She managed to somewhat improve her standing in the cinema with her next two films, the off-beat Who's That Girl (James Foley, 1987) and the quirky Damon Runyon-inspired Bloodhounds of Broadway (Howard Brookner, 1989).

 

Madonna played in the big-budget and star-filled Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990) bad girl Breathless Mahoney flirting with Warren Beatty. The epic failed to catch fire at the box office. Taking an earthier role, Madonna was much more entertaining alongside Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall, 1992), a story about female baseball players during W.W.II. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the whodunit Body of Evidence (Uli Edel, 1992) with Willem Dafoe, an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of the sexy Sharon Stone thriller Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992). Several other minor screen roles followed, then Madonna starred as Eva Perón opposite Jonathan Pryce and Antonio Banderas in Evita (Alan Parker, 1996), a fairly well-received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Material Girl stayed away from the film cameras for several years, returning to co-star with Rupert Everett in the lukewarm romantic comedy The Next Best Thing (John Schlesinger, 2000), followed by the painful Swept Away (2002) for husband Guy Ritchie. If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure Die Another Day (Lee Tamahori, 2002) starring Pierce Brosnan. Madonna began a directing career in 2008 with the comedy Filth and Wisdom (Madonna, 2008), and a year later she reunited with Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) director Alek Keshishian to develop a script about the relationship between the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor that led to his abdication in 1936: the result, a movie named W.E. (Madonna, 2011), starring James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough as the infernal but still royal couple. The film was released in 2011 to lukewarm critics but it gathered one Oscar nomination for costumes and won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for 'Masterpiece'. Madonna has 6 children: daughter, Lourdes Leon (1996) with an ex-boyfriend, Carlos Leon, son, Rocco Ritchie (2000), and adoptive son, David Banda Mwale Ciccone Ritchie (2005) with ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, and adoptive daughters, Mercy James Ciccone (2006), Estere Ciccone and Stella Ciccone (2012).

 

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French postcard by Editions Spiral Rock, Réf. SP 23.

 

Madonna or Madonna Louise Ciccone (1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. During the MTV craze in the 1980s, Madonna pushed boundaries with her song texts and her provocative performances. She frequently reinvented herself and her music and stayed the 'Queen of Pop' for decades. Her global bestsellers were hits such as Like a Virgin (1984) and True Blue (1986), but for us she became more interesting with songs like Like a Prayer (1989), Vogue (1991) and Frozen (1998). And we're still fan, even of some of her films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Truth or Dare (1991), and Evita (1996). The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops reinventing herself, Madonna is a seven-time Grammy Award-winner who has sold over three hundred million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide.

 

Madonna was born Madonna Louise Ciccone in 1958 in Bay City, Michigan. Her father is Italian, her mother was French-Canadian. Her siblings are Anthony Ciccone (1956), Martin Ciccone (1957), Paula Ciccone (1959), Christopher Ciccone (1960), and Melanie Henry (1962). In 1962, Madonna's mother, pregnant with her sixth child, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She delayed treatment until her baby was born, but by that time it was too late. A harrowing, yearlong battle with the disease ensued. She lost her battle with cancer in 1963. In 1978, Madonna moved to New York and studied with renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey. She joined up with the Patrick Hernandez Revue, formed a pop/dance band called 'Breakfast Club', and began working with then-boyfriend Stephen Bray on recording several disco-oriented songs. New York producer/D.J. Mark Kamins passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982 and the rest is history. The 1980s was Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multimillion-selling albums. Madonna first appeared on screen in two low-budget films marketed to an adolescent audience: A Certain Sacrifice (Stephen Jon Lewicki, 1979) and Crazy for You (Harold Becker, 1985), starring Matthew Modine. Her first film, A Certain Sacrifice (1979), was released in 1985, after she became a star, but was actually shot in two parts, the first in 1979, and the other, in 1981. However, she scored a minor cult hit with Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985) starring alongside spunky Rosanna Arquette. In 1984, she started fashion trends with her unique look using rosaries and crosses as jewelry and black rubber typewriter bands as bracelets. Legions of adolescent girls mimicked her look and a Madonna clothing store was opened in New York. Again in 2001, another huge fashion trend was set off by the "Material Mom", this time with western wear - cowboy hats and mud-splattered jeans. In 1986, she starred with then-husband Sean Penn in Shanghai Surprise (Jim Goddard, 1986), which was savaged by critics. She managed to somewhat improve her standing in the cinema with her next two films, the off-beat Who's That Girl (James Foley, 1987) and the quirky Damon Runyon-inspired Bloodhounds of Broadway (Howard Brookner, 1989).

 

Madonna played in the big-budget and star-filled Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990) bad girl Breathless Mahoney flirting with Warren Beatty. The epic failed to catch fire at the box office. Taking an earthier role, Madonna was much more entertaining alongside Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall, 1992), a story about female baseball players during W.W.II. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the whodunit Body of Evidence (Uli Edel, 1992) with Willem Dafoe, an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of the sexy Sharon Stone thriller Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992). Several other minor screen roles followed, then Madonna starred as Eva Perón opposite Jonathan Pryce and Antonio Banderas in Evita (Alan Parker, 1996), a fairly well-received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Material Girl stayed away from the film cameras for several years, returning to co-star with Rupert Everett in the lukewarm romantic comedy The Next Best Thing (John Schlesinger, 2000), followed by the painful Swept Away (2002) for husband Guy Ritchie. If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure Die Another Day (Lee Tamahori, 2002) starring Pierce Brosnan. Madonna began a directing career in 2008 with the comedy Filth and Wisdom (Madonna, 2008), and a year later she reunited with Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) director Alek Keshishian to develop a script about the relationship between the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor that led to his abdication in 1936: the result, a movie named W.E. (Madonna, 2011), starring James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough as the infernal but still royal couple. The film was released in 2011 to lukewarm critics but it gathered one Oscar nomination for costumes and won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for 'Masterpiece'. Madonna has 6 children: daughter, Lourdes Leon (1996) with an ex-boyfriend, Carlos Leon, son, Rocco Ritchie (2000), and adoptive son, David Banda Mwale Ciccone Ritchie (2005) with ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, and adoptive daughters, Mercy James Ciccone (2006), Estere Ciccone and Stella Ciccone (2012).

 

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Italian postcard by B.F.F. Edit., no. 3813. Photo: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Collection: Marlene Pilaete.

 

Eva Marie Saint, born 4 July 1924, is an American actress with a career spanning 70 years. She is best known for starring in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954), for which she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, and Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959). She received Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations for A Hatful of Rain (1957) and won a Primetime Emmy Award for the television miniseries People Like Us (1990).

 

Eva Marie Saint was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1924. Her parents were Quakers: Eva Marie née Rice and John Merle Saint. She had one older sister, Adelaide Louise Saint. Eva Marie attended Bethlehem Central High School in Delmar, New York, near Albany, graduating in 1942. According to her yearbook, Eva Marie's nickname was "Bubbles" and her ambition was to be a teacher. She was also a cheerleader as well as senior class secretary. Saint studied acting at Bowling Green State University. Her introduction to television began as an NBC page. She appeared in the very early live NBC TV show Campus Hoopla in 1946–47. She also appeared in the Bonnie Maid's Versa-Tile Varieties on NBC in 1949 as one of the original singing 'Bonnie Maid'" used in the live commercials. She appeared in a 1947 Life Magazine special about television, and also in a 1949 feature Life article about her as a struggling actress earning minimum amounts from early TV while trying to make ends meet in New York City. In the late 1940s, Saint continued to make her living by extensive work in radio and television. In 1953, she won the Drama Critics Award for her Broadway stage role in the Horton Foote play, 'The Trip to Bountiful' (1953), in which she co-starred with Lillian Gish and Jo Van Fleet. In 1955, Saint was nominated for her first Emmy for "Best Actress In A Single Performance" on The Philco Television Playhouse, for playing the young mistress of middle-aged E. G. Marshall in Middle of the Night by Paddy Chayefsky. She won another Emmy nomination for the 1955 television musical version of Our Town, adapted from the Thornton Wilder play of the same name. Co-stars were Paul Newman and Frank Sinatra. A TV critic dubbed her 'the Helen Hayes of television.'"

 

Eva Marie Saint made her feature film debut in On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954), starring Marlon Brando. She played Edie Doyle whose brother's death sets the film's drama in motion. Although the role of Edie properly is a lead, producer Sam Spiegel listed her as a Supporting Actress in the hopes of getting her a nomination for the Academy Award. The ploy worked and she won the Oscar. Her performance also earned her a BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Award) nomination for 'Most Promising Newcomer.' In his review for The New York Times, film critic A. H. Weiler wrote, "In casting Eva Marie Saint—a newcomer to movies from TV and Broadway—Mr. Kazan has come up with a pretty and blond artisan who does not have to depend on these attributes. Her parochial school training is no bar to love with the proper stranger. Amid scenes of carnage, she gives tenderness and sensitivity to genuine romance." The film was a major success and launched Saint's movie career. She received $7,500 for the role. She next appeared alongside Bob Hope in That Certain Feeling for which she received $50,000. She was then offered $100,000 to star in the lavish Civil War epic Raintree County (Edward Dmytryk, 1957) with Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift. After that, she next starred with Don Murray in A Hatful of Rain (Fred Zinnemann, 1957), the pioneering drug-addiction drama, which although made later than Raintree Country was released earlier in 1957. She received a BAFTA nomination for the 'Best Foreign Actress' for her performance. Alfred Hitchcock surprised many by choosing Saint over dozens of other candidates for the femme fatale role in the suspense classic North by Northwest (1959) with Cary Grant and James Mason. Pedro Borges at IMDb: "Written by Ernest Lehman, the film updated and expanded upon the director's early "wrong man" spy adventures of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, including The 39 Steps (1935), Young and Innocent (1937), and Saboteur (1942)". North by Northwest became a box-office hit. In his review in The New York Times, critic Abe H. Weiler wrote, "In casting Eva Marie Saint as [Cary Grant's] romantic vis-a-vis, Mr. Hitchcock has plumbed some talents not shown by the actress heretofore. Although she is seemingly a hard, designing type, she also emerges both the sweet heroine and a glamorous charmer."

 

Although North by Northwest might have propelled her to the top ranks of stardom, Eva Marie Saint chose to limit her film work in order to spend time with her husband since 1951, director Jeffrey Hayden, and their two children. In the 1960s, Saint continued to distinguish herself in both high-profile and offbeat pictures. She co-starred with Paul Newman in Exodus (Ottoi Preminger, 1960), a historical drama about the founding of the state of Israel adapted from the novel of the same name by Leon Uris. She also co-starred with Warren Beatty, Karl Malden, and Angela Lansbury as a tragic beauty in the drama All Fall Down (John Frankendheimer, 1962), based upon a novel by James Leo Herlihy and a screenplay by William Inge. She appeared with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in the melodrama The Sandpiper (Vincente Minnelli, 1965) and with James Garner in the World War II thriller 36 Hours (George Seaton, 1965). Saint joined an all-star cast in the comedic satire, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, (Norman Jewison, 1966), and the international racing drama, Grand Prix (John Frankenheimer, 1966), presented in Cinerama.

 

Saint received some of her best reviews for co-starring as the wife of George Segal in Loving (Irvin Kershner, 1970), about a commercial artist's relationship with his wife and other women. It was critically acclaimed but did not have wide viewership. Because of the mostly second-rate film roles that came her way in the 1970s, Saint returned to television and the stage in the 1980s. She appeared in a number of made-for-television films. She played the mother of Cybill Shepherd on the television series, Moonlighting (1986-1988), which lasted three years. She received an Emmy nomination for the TV series, How The West Was Won (Vincent McEveety, Bernard McEveety, 1976-1977), and an Emmy nomination for Taxi!!! (1978). She was reunited with On the Waterfront co-star Karl Malden in the TV Mini-Series Fatal Vision (David Greene, 1984), this time as the wife of his character, as he investigated the murder of his daughter and granddaughters. Saint returned to the big screen for the first time in over a decade in Nothing in Common (Garry Marshall, 1986), in which she played the mother of Tom Hanks's character. Critics applauded her return to features. Saint was soon back on the small screen in numerous projects. After receiving five nominations, she won her first Emmy Award for the TV movie People Like Us (William Hale, 1990). She appeared in a number of television productions in the 1990s and was cast as the mother of radio producer, Roz Doyle, in a 1999 episode of the comedy series Frasier. Saint returned to feature films in I Dreamed of Africa (Hugh Hudson, 2000) with Kim Basinger. In 2005 she co-starred with Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard in Don't Come Knocking (Wim Wenders, 2005), and appeared in the family film Because of Winn-Dixie (Wayne Wang, 2005). Saint appeared as Martha Kent, the adoptive mother of Superman, in Superman Returns (Bryan Singer, 2006) alongside Brandon Routh. In 2009, she made a rare public appearance at the 81st Academy Awards ceremony as a Best Supporting Actress presenter. Saint has lent her voice to the 2012 Nickelodeon animated series The Legend of Korra, a sequel to the hit TV show Avatar: The Last Airbender, playing the now-elderly Katara, a main character from the original series. She played the adult version of Willa in the film adaptation of the novel Winter's Tale (Mark Helprin, 2014). Most recently, Saint appeared at the 2018 Academy Award ceremonies and played in the drama Mariette in Ecstasy (John Bailey, 2019), set in a turn-of-the-century religious community about a nun who has recently taken her vows. She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures at 6624 Hollywood Boulevard, and one for television at 6730 Hollywood Boulevard. Eva Marie Saint was married to producer and director Jeffrey Hayden from 1951 till his death in 2016. They had two children together: son Darrell Hayden (1955) and daughter Laurette Hayden (1958). Eva Marie Saint lives in Santa Monica, California.

 

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American postcard Classico, San Francisco /Winterland Productions / Rock Express, no. 460-053. Photo: Herb Ritts / Boy Toy Inc., 1991.

 

Madonna or Madonna Louise Ciccone (1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. During the MTV craze in the 1980s, Madonna pushed boundaries with her song texts and her provocative performances. She frequently reinvented herself and her music and stayed the 'Queen of Pop' for decades. Her global bestsellers were hits such as Like a Virgin (1984) and True Blue (1986), but for us she became more interesting with songs like Like a Prayer (1989), Vogue (1991) and Frozen (1998). And we're still fan, even of some of her films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Truth or Dare (1991), and Evita (1996). The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops reinventing herself, Madonna is a seven-time Grammy Award-winner who has sold over three hundred million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide.

 

Madonna was born Madonna Louise Ciccone in 1958 in Bay City, Michigan. Her father is Italian, her mother was French-Canadian. Her siblings are Anthony Ciccone (1956), Martin Ciccone (1957), Paula Ciccone (1959), Christopher Ciccone (1960), and Melanie Henry (1962). In 1962, Madonna's mother, pregnant with her sixth child, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She delayed treatment until her baby was born, but by that time it was too late. A harrowing, yearlong battle with the disease ensued. She lost her battle with cancer in 1963. In 1978, Madonna moved to New York and studied with renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey. She joined up with the Patrick Hernandez Revue, formed a pop/dance band called 'Breakfast Club', and began working with then-boyfriend Stephen Bray on recording several disco-oriented songs. New York producer/D.J. Mark Kamins passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982 and the rest is history. The 1980s was Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multimillion-selling albums. Madonna first appeared on screen in two low-budget films marketed to an adolescent audience: A Certain Sacrifice (Stephen Jon Lewicki, 1979) and Crazy for You (Harold Becker, 1985), starring Matthew Modine. Her first film, A Certain Sacrifice (1979), was released in 1985, after she became a star, but was actually shot in two parts, the first in 1979, and the other, in 1981. However, she scored a minor cult hit with Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985) starring alongside spunky Rosanna Arquette. In 1984, she started fashion trends with her unique look using rosaries and crosses as jewelry and black rubber typewriter bands as bracelets. Legions of adolescent girls mimicked her look and a Madonna clothing store was opened in New York. Again in 2001, another huge fashion trend was set off by the "Material Mom", this time with western wear - cowboy hats and mud-splattered jeans. In 1986, she starred with then-husband Sean Penn in Shanghai Surprise (Jim Goddard, 1986), which was savaged by critics. She managed to somewhat improve her standing in the cinema with her next two films, the off-beat Who's That Girl (James Foley, 1987) and the quirky Damon Runyon-inspired Bloodhounds of Broadway (Howard Brookner, 1989).

 

Madonna played in the big-budget and star-filled Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990) bad girl Breathless Mahoney flirting with Warren Beatty. The epic failed to catch fire at the box office. Taking an earthier role, Madonna was much more entertaining alongside Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall, 1992), a story about female baseball players during W.W.II. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the whodunit Body of Evidence (Uli Edel, 1992) with Willem Dafoe, an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of the sexy Sharon Stone thriller Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992). Several other minor screen roles followed, then Madonna starred as Eva Perón opposite Jonathan Pryce and Antonio Banderas in Evita (Alan Parker, 1996), a fairly well-received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Material Girl stayed away from the film cameras for several years, returning to co-star with Rupert Everett in the lukewarm romantic comedy The Next Best Thing (John Schlesinger, 2000), followed by the painful Swept Away (2002) for husband Guy Ritchie. If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure Die Another Day (Lee Tamahori, 2002) starring Pierce Brosnan. Madonna began a directing career in 2008 with the comedy Filth and Wisdom (Madonna, 2008), and a year later she reunited with Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) director Alek Keshishian to develop a script about the relationship between the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor that led to his abdication in 1936: the result, a movie named W.E. (Madonna, 2011), starring James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough as the infernal but still royal couple. The film was released in 2011 to lukewarm critics but it gathered one Oscar nomination for costumes and won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for 'Masterpiece'. Madonna has 6 children: daughter, Lourdes Leon (1996) with an ex-boyfriend, Carlos Leon, son, Rocco Ritchie (2000), and adoptive son, David Banda Mwale Ciccone Ritchie (2005) with ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, and adoptive daughters, Mercy James Ciccone (2006), Estere Ciccone and Stella Ciccone (2012).

 

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British postcard New-Line, no. 229. Photo: Madonna and Warren Beatty in Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990).

 

Madonna or Madonna Louise Ciccone (1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. During the MTV craze in the 1980s, Madonna pushed boundaries with her song texts and her provocative performances. She frequently reinvented herself and her music and stayed the 'Queen of Pop' for decades. Her global bestsellers were hits such as Like a Virgin (1984) and True Blue (1986), but for us she became more interesting with songs like Like a Prayer (1989), Vogue (1991) and Frozen (1998). And we're still fan, even of some of her films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Truth or Dare (1991), and Evita (1996). The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops reinventing herself, Madonna is a seven-time Grammy Award-winner who has sold over three hundred million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide.

 

Madonna was born Madonna Louise Ciccone in 1958 in Bay City, Michigan. Her father is Italian, her mother was French-Canadian. Her siblings are Anthony Ciccone (1956), Martin Ciccone (1957), Paula Ciccone (1959), Christopher Ciccone (1960), and Melanie Henry (1962). In 1962, Madonna's mother, pregnant with her sixth child, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She delayed treatment until her baby was born, but by that time it was too late. A harrowing, yearlong battle with the disease ensued. She lost her battle with cancer in 1963. In 1978, Madonna moved to New York and studied with renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey. She joined up with the Patrick Hernandez Revue, formed a pop/dance band called 'Breakfast Club', and began working with then-boyfriend Stephen Bray on recording several disco-oriented songs. New York producer/D.J. Mark Kamins passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982 and the rest is history. The 1980s was Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multimillion-selling albums. Madonna first appeared on screen in two low-budget films marketed to an adolescent audience: A Certain Sacrifice (Stephen Jon Lewicki, 1979) and Crazy for You (Harold Becker, 1985), starring Matthew Modine. Her first film, A Certain Sacrifice (1979), was released in 1985, after she became a star, but was actually shot in two parts, the first in 1979, and the other, in 1981. However, she scored a minor cult hit with Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985) starring alongside spunky Rosanna Arquette. In 1984, she started fashion trends with her unique look using rosaries and crosses as jewelry and black rubber typewriter bands as bracelets. Legions of adolescent girls mimicked her look and a Madonna clothing store was opened in New York. Again in 2001, another huge fashion trend was set off by the "Material Mom", this time with western wear - cowboy hats and mud-splattered jeans. In 1986, she starred with then-husband Sean Penn in Shanghai Surprise (Jim Goddard, 1986), which was savaged by critics. She managed to somewhat improve her standing in the cinema with her next two films, the off-beat Who's That Girl (James Foley, 1987) and the quirky Damon Runyon-inspired Bloodhounds of Broadway (Howard Brookner, 1989).

 

Madonna played in the big-budget and star-filled Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990) bad girl Breathless Mahoney flirting with Warren Beatty. The epic failed to catch fire at the box office. Taking an earthier role, Madonna was much more entertaining alongside Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall, 1992), a story about female baseball players during W.W.II. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the whodunit Body of Evidence (Uli Edel, 1992) with Willem Dafoe, an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of the sexy Sharon Stone thriller Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992). Several other minor screen roles followed, then Madonna starred as Eva Perón opposite Jonathan Pryce and Antonio Banderas in Evita (Alan Parker, 1996), a fairly well-received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Material Girl stayed away from the film cameras for several years, returning to co-star with Rupert Everett in the lukewarm romantic comedy The Next Best Thing (John Schlesinger, 2000), followed by the painful Swept Away (2002) for husband Guy Ritchie. If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure Die Another Day (Lee Tamahori, 2002) starring Pierce Brosnan. Madonna began a directing career in 2008 with the comedy Filth and Wisdom (Madonna, 2008), and a year later she reunited with Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) director Alek Keshishian to develop a script about the relationship between the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor that led to his abdication in 1936: the result, a movie named W.E. (Madonna, 2011), starring James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough as the infernal but still royal couple. The film was released in 2011 to lukewarm critics but it gathered one Oscar nomination for costumes and won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for 'Masterpiece'. Madonna has 6 children: daughter, Lourdes Leon (1996) with an ex-boyfriend, Carlos Leon, son, Rocco Ritchie (2000), and adoptive son, David Banda Mwale Ciccone Ritchie (2005) with ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, and adoptive daughters, Mercy James Ciccone (2006), Estere Ciccone and Stella Ciccone (2012).

 

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Romanian postcard by Casa Filmului Acin.

 

Dutch actress Sylvia Kristel (1952) will always be remembered as Emmanuelle, thanks to the massive soft-porn hit of the 1970’s. Emmanuelle’s sexual adventures attracted 500 million people to the cinema.

 

Sylvia Kristel was born in Utrecht, Netherlands, in 1952. She was the daughter of Piet and Jean-Nicholas, who ran a hotel in Utrecht. Sylvia and her sister, Marianne, were brought up in Room 21, unless the hotel was full, in which case they were shifted, often in the middle of the night, to Room 22 which, according to the actress, was like a cupboard. Her parents divorced when she was 14 years old after her father left home for another woman. She had to go to a strict Catholic boarding school and she learned to speak English, French, German and Italian. Kristel began modelling when she was 17, and in 1973 she won the Miss TV Europe contest in London. However her future was the cinema. Her film career had started a year earlier with a part in the Dutch thriller Niet voor de poesen/Because of the cats (1972, Fons Rademakers). She also played supporting parts in the Dutch films Naakt over de schutting/Naked Over the Fence (1973, Frans Weisz ) starring Rijk de Gooijer, and Frank en Eva/Living Apart Together (1973, Pim de la Parra) with Willeke van Ammelrooy. Winning the TV Europe contest lead to a casting audition in Paris for the title character in the softcore film Emmanuelle (1974, Just Jaeckin) with Alain Cuny. The film was based on Emmanuelle Arsan's autobiographical novel. Although her tufty-haired tomboy appearance was far from the long-locked Eurasian the casting agents and the book's author had imagined, director Just Jaeckin was intrigued by her mix of the sensual and the pure. With her role, she gained overnight controversy and international success and notoriety. Brian Donaldson in The Herald: “In the early Seventies, eroticism was making genuine inroads to the mainstream, with Don't Look Now's ongoing debate over whether Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie actually had intercourse, and the controversial Last Tango In Paris with Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider. When Emmanuelle came along, it blurred the line between soft-core and the mainstream, and by having a largely plotless tale interspersed with random segments of masturbation, consensual sex and rape plus a scene of a Thai stripper doing unmentionable things with lit cigarettes. Despite some problems in France where for the first six months, the movie was deemed suitable only for porno cinemas rather than respectable film theatres, the first Emmanuelle was an international sensation.” Forty years later, Emmanuelle remains one of the most successful French films ever produced.

 

Sylvia Kristel also appeared in the sequel Emmanuelle: L'antivierge/ Emmanuelle - The Joys of a Woman (1976, Francis Giacobetti) and other erotic films like La Marge/The Margin (1976, Walerian Borowczyk) with Joe Dallesandro. She also appeared in prestigious non-erotic films, such as Une femme fidèle/A Faithful Woman (1976, Roger Vadim), Claude Chabrol’s Alice ou le dernière fugue/Alice, or the Last Escapade (1977) with Charles Vanel, and the crime comedy René la canne/Rene the Cane (1977, Francis Girod) featuring Gérard Depardieu. But the Emmanuelle franchise proved to be far more profitable for producers and so she appeared in part 3, Goodbye Emmanuelle/Emmanuelle 3 (1980, François Leterrier), and later followed parts 4, 5, 6 and finally 7 in the early 1990’s. In total some 500 million people around the world paid to see sexual adventures of the liberated Frenchwoman. So, Kristel found herself typecast as Emmanuelle. She continued to play roles that capitalised upon that image – title roles in an adaptation of Lady Chatterley's Lover (1981, Just Jaeckin) and in a nudity filled biopic of World War I spy Mata Hari (1985, Curtis Harrington). Her Emmanuelle image followed her to the United States where she played an immigrant maid who seduces a 15-year-old boy (Eric Brown), in the controversial sex comedy Private Lessons (1981, Alan Myerson). Other American film appearances were a part as a stewardess in The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979, David Lowell Rich) with Alain Delon as the captain, and a brief comic turn in the Get Smart revival film The Nude Bomb (1980, Clive Donner). Although Private Lessons was one of the highest grossing independent films of 1981 ($50,000,000 worldwide), Kristel saw none of the profits. She continued to appear in films and received good reviews for some of her Dutch films, including Pastorale 1943 (1978, Wim Verstappen), the Knut Hamsun adaptation Mysteries/Evil Mysteries (1980, Paul de Lussanet) with Rutger Hauer, and Lijmen/Het been/The Publishers (2000, Robbe de Hert). In 2006, Kristel received an award at the Tribeca Film Festival, New York for directing the animated short film Topor and Me. After not having acted for eight years, Kristel played a part in the Croatian-French film Two Sunny Days (2010, Ognjen Svilicic) and in the same year she played the mother of the Dutch Trio Lescano in the Italian TV film Le ragazze dello swing/The Swing Girls (2010, Maurizio Zaccaro).

 

During her turbulent life, Sylvia Kristel had a string of lovers, including Roger Vadim and Warren Beatty. Her first major relationship was with Belgian author Hugo Claus, twenty-seven years her senior with whom she had a son, Arthur (1975). She left him for Ian McShane, whom she met on the set of the film The Fifth Musketeer (1979). They moved in together in Los Angeles where he had promised to help her launch her American career. However their five year affair would lead to no significant career break for Kristel. About two years into the relationship she began using cocaine. This proved to be her downfall, though at the time she thought of it as a necessary fuel to stay in swing. Since McShane, she has been married twice, first only five months to American businessman Alan Turner (1982) and then five years to film producer Phillippe Blot (1986-1991). She spent a decade with Belgian radio producer Fred De Vree before he died. A heavy smoker from the age of eleven, Kristel was diagnosed with throat cancer in 2001 and underwent three courses of chemotherapy, and surgery after it spread to her lung. In June 2012, Sylvia Kristel suffered a stroke and was hospitalized in life threatening condition. In her autobiography Nue/Undressing Emmanuelle: A Memoir (2006/2007), she tells of her addictions, and her quest for a father figure. Carole Cadwalladr reviewed the book for the Observer: “it is, all in all, a strangely gripping tale. There's no bitterness or regret, and although there's a Francophone quality to the writing - the use of the present tense, short chapters and liberally sprinkled pensees - it gives the book a reflective edge that lifts it above the kind of celeb memoir commissioned here in Britain.” Sylvia Kristel lives in Amsterdam.

 

Sources: Carole Cadwalladr (The Observer), Brian Donaldson (The Herald), Film Reference, Wikipedia and IMDb.

Vintage postcard, no. DK 647.

 

Madonna or Madonna Louise Ciccone (1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. During the MTV craze in the 1980s, Madonna pushed boundaries with her song texts and her provocative performances. She frequently reinvented herself and her music and stayed the 'Queen of Pop' for decades. Her global bestsellers were hits such as Like a Virgin (1984) and True Blue (1986), but for us she became more interesting with songs like Like a Prayer (1989), Vogue (1991) and Frozen (1998). And we're still fan, even of some of her films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Truth or Dare (1991), and Evita (1996). The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops reinventing herself, Madonna is a seven-time Grammy Award-winner who has sold over three hundred million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide.

 

Madonna was born Madonna Louise Ciccone in 1958 in Bay City, Michigan. Her father is Italian, her mother was French-Canadian. Her siblings are Anthony Ciccone (1956), Martin Ciccone (1957), Paula Ciccone (1959), Christopher Ciccone (1960), and Melanie Henry (1962). In 1962, Madonna's mother, pregnant with her sixth child, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She delayed treatment until her baby was born, but by that time it was too late. A harrowing, yearlong battle with the disease ensued. She lost her battle with cancer in 1963. In 1978, Madonna moved to New York and studied with renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey. She joined up with the Patrick Hernandez Revue, formed a pop/dance band called 'Breakfast Club', and began working with then-boyfriend Stephen Bray on recording several disco-oriented songs. New York producer/D.J. Mark Kamins passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982 and the rest is history. The 1980s was Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multimillion-selling albums. Madonna first appeared on screen in two low-budget films marketed to an adolescent audience: A Certain Sacrifice (Stephen Jon Lewicki, 1979) and Crazy for You (Harold Becker, 1985), starring Matthew Modine. Her first film, A Certain Sacrifice (1979), was released in 1985, after she became a star, but was actually shot in two parts, the first in 1979, and the other, in 1981. However, she scored a minor cult hit with Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985) starring alongside spunky Rosanna Arquette. In 1984, she started fashion trends with her unique look using rosaries and crosses as jewelry and black rubber typewriter bands as bracelets. Legions of adolescent girls mimicked her look and a Madonna clothing store was opened in New York. Again in 2001, another huge fashion trend was set off by the "Material Mom", this time with western wear - cowboy hats and mud-splattered jeans. In 1986, she starred with then-husband Sean Penn in Shanghai Surprise (Jim Goddard, 1986), which was savaged by critics. She managed to somewhat improve her standing in the cinema with her next two films, the off-beat Who's That Girl (James Foley, 1987) and the quirky Damon Runyon-inspired Bloodhounds of Broadway (Howard Brookner, 1989).

 

Madonna played in the big-budget and star-filled Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990) bad girl Breathless Mahoney flirting with Warren Beatty. The epic failed to catch fire at the box office. Taking an earthier role, Madonna was much more entertaining alongside Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall, 1992), a story about female baseball players during W.W.II. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the whodunit Body of Evidence (Uli Edel, 1992) with Willem Dafoe, an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of the sexy Sharon Stone thriller Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992). Several other minor screen roles followed, then Madonna starred as Eva Perón opposite Jonathan Pryce and Antonio Banderas in Evita (Alan Parker, 1996), a fairly well-received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Material Girl stayed away from the film cameras for several years, returning to co-star with Rupert Everett in the lukewarm romantic comedy The Next Best Thing (John Schlesinger, 2000), followed by the painful Swept Away (2002) for husband Guy Ritchie. If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure Die Another Day (Lee Tamahori, 2002) starring Pierce Brosnan. Madonna began a directing career in 2008 with the comedy Filth and Wisdom (Madonna, 2008), and a year later she reunited with Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) director Alek Keshishian to develop a script about the relationship between the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor that led to his abdication in 1936: the result, a movie named W.E. (Madonna, 2011), starring James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough as the infernal but still royal couple. The film was released in 2011 to lukewarm critics but it gathered one Oscar nomination for costumes and won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for 'Masterpiece'. Madonna has 6 children: daughter, Lourdes Leon (1996) with an ex-boyfriend, Carlos Leon, son, Rocco Ritchie (2000), and adoptive son, David Banda Mwale Ciccone Ritchie (2005) with ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, and adoptive daughters, Mercy James Ciccone (2006), Estere Ciccone and Stella Ciccone (2012).

 

Source: Wikipedia and IMDb.

 

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Vintage postcard.

 

Madonna or Madonna Louise Ciccone (1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. During the MTV craze in the 1980s, Madonna pushed boundaries with her song texts and her provocative performances. She frequently reinvented herself and her music and stayed the 'Queen of Pop' for decades. Her global bestsellers were hits such as Like a Virgin (1984) and True Blue (1986), but for us she became more interesting with songs like Like a Prayer (1989), Vogue (1991) and Frozen (1998). And we're still fan, even of some of her films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Truth or Dare (1991), and Evita (1996). The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops reinventing herself, Madonna is a seven-time Grammy Award-winner who has sold over three hundred million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide.

 

Madonna was born Madonna Louise Ciccone in 1958 in Bay City, Michigan. Her father is Italian, her mother was French-Canadian. Her siblings are Anthony Ciccone (1956), Martin Ciccone (1957), Paula Ciccone (1959), Christopher Ciccone (1960), and Melanie Henry (1962). In 1962, Madonna's mother, pregnant with her sixth child, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She delayed treatment until her baby was born, but by that time it was too late. A harrowing, yearlong battle with the disease ensued. She lost her battle with cancer in 1963. In 1978, Madonna moved to New York and studied with renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey. She joined up with the Patrick Hernandez Revue, formed a pop/dance band called 'Breakfast Club', and began working with then-boyfriend Stephen Bray on recording several disco-oriented songs. New York producer/D.J. Mark Kamins passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982 and the rest is history. The 1980s was Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multimillion-selling albums. Madonna first appeared on screen in two low-budget films marketed to an adolescent audience: A Certain Sacrifice (Stephen Jon Lewicki, 1979) and Crazy for You (Harold Becker, 1985), starring Matthew Modine. Her first film, A Certain Sacrifice (1979), was released in 1985, after she became a star, but was actually shot in two parts, the first in 1979, and the other, in 1981. However, she scored a minor cult hit with Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985) starring alongside spunky Rosanna Arquette. In 1984, she started fashion trends with her unique look using rosaries and crosses as jewelry and black rubber typewriter bands as bracelets. Legions of adolescent girls mimicked her look and a Madonna clothing store was opened in New York. Again in 2001, another huge fashion trend was set off by the "Material Mom", this time with western wear - cowboy hats and mud-splattered jeans. In 1986, she starred with then-husband Sean Penn in Shanghai Surprise (Jim Goddard, 1986), which was savaged by critics. She managed to somewhat improve her standing in the cinema with her next two films, the off-beat Who's That Girl (James Foley, 1987) and the quirky Damon Runyon-inspired Bloodhounds of Broadway (Howard Brookner, 1989).

 

Madonna played in the big-budget and star-filled Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990) bad girl Breathless Mahoney flirting with Warren Beatty. The epic failed to catch fire at the box office. Taking an earthier role, Madonna was much more entertaining alongside Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall, 1992), a story about female baseball players during W.W.II. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the whodunit Body of Evidence (Uli Edel, 1992) with Willem Dafoe, an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of the sexy Sharon Stone thriller Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992). Several other minor screen roles followed, then Madonna starred as Eva Perón opposite Jonathan Pryce and Antonio Banderas in Evita (Alan Parker, 1996), a fairly well-received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Material Girl stayed away from the film cameras for several years, returning to co-star with Rupert Everett in the lukewarm romantic comedy The Next Best Thing (John Schlesinger, 2000), followed by the painful Swept Away (2002) for husband Guy Ritchie. If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure Die Another Day (Lee Tamahori, 2002) starring Pierce Brosnan. Madonna began a directing career in 2008 with the comedy Filth and Wisdom (Madonna, 2008), and a year later she reunited with Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) director Alek Keshishian to develop a script about the relationship between the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor that led to his abdication in 1936: the result, a movie named W.E. (Madonna, 2011), starring James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough as the infernal but still royal couple. The film was released in 2011 to lukewarm critics but it gathered one Oscar nomination for costumes and won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for 'Masterpiece'. Madonna has 6 children: daughter, Lourdes Leon (1996) with an ex-boyfriend, Carlos Leon, son, Rocco Ritchie (2000), and adoptive son, David Banda Mwale Ciccone Ritchie (2005) with ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, and adoptive daughters, Mercy James Ciccone (2006), Estere Ciccone and Stella Ciccone (2012).

 

Source: Wikipedia and IMDb.

 

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French postcard by Editions Humour à la Carte, Paris, no. A-C 1216. Photo: UGC Distribution. Madonna in Shanghai Surprise (Jim Goddard, 1986).

 

Madonna or Madonna Louise Ciccone (1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. During the MTV craze in the 1980s, Madonna pushed boundaries with her song texts and her provocative performances. She frequently reinvented herself and her music and stayed the 'Queen of Pop' for decades. Her global bestsellers were hits such as Like a Virgin (1984) and True Blue (1986), but for us she became more interesting with songs like Like a Prayer (1989), Vogue (1991) and Frozen (1998). And we're still fan, even of some of her films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Truth or Dare (1991), and Evita (1996). The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops reinventing herself, Madonna is a seven-time Grammy Award-winner who has sold over three hundred million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide.

 

Madonna was born Madonna Louise Ciccone in 1958 in Bay City, Michigan. Her father is Italian, her mother was French-Canadian. Her siblings are Anthony Ciccone (1956), Martin Ciccone (1957), Paula Ciccone (1959), Christopher Ciccone (1960), and Melanie Henry (1962). In 1962, Madonna's mother, pregnant with her sixth child, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She delayed treatment until her baby was born, but by that time it was too late. A harrowing, yearlong battle with the disease ensued. She lost her battle with cancer in 1963. In 1978, Madonna moved to New York and studied with renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey. She joined up with the Patrick Hernandez Revue, formed a pop/dance band called 'Breakfast Club', and began working with then-boyfriend Stephen Bray on recording several disco-oriented songs. New York producer/D.J. Mark Kamins passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982 and the rest is history. The 1980s was Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multimillion-selling albums. Madonna first appeared on screen in two low-budget films marketed to an adolescent audience: A Certain Sacrifice (Stephen Jon Lewicki, 1979) and Crazy for You (Harold Becker, 1985), starring Matthew Modine. Her first film, A Certain Sacrifice (1979), was released in 1985, after she became a star, but was actually shot in two parts, the first in 1979, and the other, in 1981. However, she scored a minor cult hit with Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985) starring alongside spunky Rosanna Arquette. In 1984, she started fashion trends with her unique look using rosaries and crosses as jewelry and black rubber typewriter bands as bracelets. Legions of adolescent girls mimicked her look and a Madonna clothing store was opened in New York. Again in 2001, another huge fashion trend was set off by the "Material Mom", this time with western wear - cowboy hats and mud-splattered jeans. In 1986, she starred with then-husband Sean Penn in Shanghai Surprise (Jim Goddard, 1986), which was savaged by critics. She managed to somewhat improve her standing in the cinema with her next two films, the off-beat Who's That Girl (James Foley, 1987) and the quirky Damon Runyon-inspired Bloodhounds of Broadway (Howard Brookner, 1989).

 

Madonna played in the big-budget and star-filled Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990) bad girl Breathless Mahoney flirting with Warren Beatty. The epic failed to catch fire at the box office. Taking an earthier role, Madonna was much more entertaining alongside Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall, 1992), a story about female baseball players during W.W.II. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the whodunit Body of Evidence (Uli Edel, 1992) with Willem Dafoe, an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of the sexy Sharon Stone thriller Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992). Several other minor screen roles followed, then Madonna starred as Eva Perón opposite Jonathan Pryce and Antonio Banderas in Evita (Alan Parker, 1996), a fairly well-received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Material Girl stayed away from the film cameras for several years, returning to co-star with Rupert Everett in the lukewarm romantic comedy The Next Best Thing (John Schlesinger, 2000), followed by the painful Swept Away (2002) for husband Guy Ritchie. If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure Die Another Day (Lee Tamahori, 2002) starring Pierce Brosnan. Madonna began a directing career in 2008 with the comedy Filth and Wisdom (Madonna, 2008), and a year later she reunited with Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) director Alek Keshishian to develop a script about the relationship between the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor that led to his abdication in 1936: the result, a movie named W.E. (Madonna, 2011), starring James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough as the infernal but still royal couple. The film was released in 2011 to lukewarm critics but it gathered one Oscar nomination for costumes and won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for 'Masterpiece'. Madonna has 6 children: daughter, Lourdes Leon (1996) with an ex-boyfriend, Carlos Leon, son, Rocco Ritchie (2000), and adoptive son, David Banda Mwale Ciccone Ritchie (2005) with ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, and adoptive daughters, Mercy James Ciccone (2006), Estere Ciccone and Stella Ciccone (2012).

 

Source: Wikipedia and IMDb.

 

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British postcard, no. FA 213. Rosanna Arquette and Madonna in Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985).

 

Madonna or Madonna Louise Ciccone (1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. During the MTV craze in the 1980s, Madonna pushed boundaries with her song texts and her provocative performances. She frequently reinvented herself and her music and stayed the 'Queen of Pop' for decades. Her global bestsellers were hits such as Like a Virgin (1984) and True Blue (1986), but for us she became more interesting with songs like Like a Prayer (1989), Vogue (1991) and Frozen (1998). And we're still fan, even of some of her films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Truth or Dare (1991), and Evita (1996). The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops reinventing herself, Madonna is a seven-time Grammy Award-winner who has sold over three hundred million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide.

 

Madonna was born Madonna Louise Ciccone in 1958 in Bay City, Michigan. Her father is Italian, her mother was French-Canadian. Her siblings are Anthony Ciccone (1956), Martin Ciccone (1957), Paula Ciccone (1959), Christopher Ciccone (1960), and Melanie Henry (1962). In 1962, Madonna's mother, pregnant with her sixth child, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She delayed treatment until her baby was born, but by that time it was too late. A harrowing, yearlong battle with the disease ensued. She lost her battle with cancer in 1963. In 1978, Madonna moved to New York and studied with renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey. She joined up with the Patrick Hernandez Revue, formed a pop/dance band called 'Breakfast Club', and began working with then-boyfriend Stephen Bray on recording several disco-oriented songs. New York producer/D.J. Mark Kamins passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982 and the rest is history. The 1980s was Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multimillion-selling albums. Madonna first appeared on screen in two low-budget films marketed to an adolescent audience: A Certain Sacrifice (Stephen Jon Lewicki, 1979) and Crazy for You (Harold Becker, 1985), starring Matthew Modine. Her first film, A Certain Sacrifice (1979), was released in 1985, after she became a star, but was actually shot in two parts, the first in 1979, and the other, in 1981. However, she scored a minor cult hit with Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985) starring alongside spunky Rosanna Arquette. In 1984, she started fashion trends with her unique look using rosaries and crosses as jewelry and black rubber typewriter bands as bracelets. Legions of adolescent girls mimicked her look and a Madonna clothing store was opened in New York. Again in 2001, another huge fashion trend was set off by the "Material Mom", this time with western wear - cowboy hats and mud-splattered jeans. In 1986, she starred with then-husband Sean Penn in Shanghai Surprise (Jim Goddard, 1986), which was savaged by critics. She managed to somewhat improve her standing in the cinema with her next two films, the off-beat Who's That Girl (James Foley, 1987) and the quirky Damon Runyon-inspired Bloodhounds of Broadway (Howard Brookner, 1989).

 

Madonna played in the big-budget and star-filled Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990) bad girl Breathless Mahoney flirting with Warren Beatty. The epic failed to catch fire at the box office. Taking an earthier role, Madonna was much more entertaining alongside Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall, 1992), a story about female baseball players during W.W.II. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the whodunit Body of Evidence (Uli Edel, 1992) with Willem Dafoe, an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of the sexy Sharon Stone thriller Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992). Several other minor screen roles followed, then Madonna starred as Eva Perón opposite Jonathan Pryce and Antonio Banderas in Evita (Alan Parker, 1996), a fairly well-received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Material Girl stayed away from the film cameras for several years, returning to co-star with Rupert Everett in the lukewarm romantic comedy The Next Best Thing (John Schlesinger, 2000), followed by the painful Swept Away (2002) for husband Guy Ritchie. If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure Die Another Day (Lee Tamahori, 2002) starring Pierce Brosnan. Madonna began a directing career in 2008 with the comedy Filth and Wisdom (Madonna, 2008), and a year later she reunited with Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) director Alek Keshishian to develop a script about the relationship between the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor that led to his abdication in 1936: the result, a movie named W.E. (Madonna, 2011), starring James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough as the infernal but still royal couple. The film was released in 2011 to lukewarm critics but it gathered one Oscar nomination for costumes and won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for 'Masterpiece'. Madonna has 6 children: daughter, Lourdes Leon (1996) with an ex-boyfriend, Carlos Leon, son, Rocco Ritchie (2000), and adoptive son, David Banda Mwale Ciccone Ritchie (2005) with ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, and adoptive daughters, Mercy James Ciccone (2006), Estere Ciccone and Stella Ciccone (2012).

 

Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.

 

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English postcard by Anabas, Romford, no. AP182, 1986.

 

Madonna or Madonna Louise Ciccone (1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. During the MTV craze in the 1980s, Madonna pushed boundaries with her song texts and her provocative performances. She frequently reinvented herself and her music and stayed the 'Queen of Pop' for decades. Her global bestsellers were hits such as Like a Virgin (1984) and True Blue (1986), but for us she became more interesting with songs like Like a Prayer (1989), Vogue (1991) and Frozen (1998). And we're still fan, even of some of her films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Truth or Dare (1991), and Evita (1996). The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops reinventing herself, Madonna is a seven-time Grammy Award-winner who has sold over three hundred million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide.

 

Madonna was born Madonna Louise Ciccone in 1958 in Bay City, Michigan. Her father is Italian, her mother was French-Canadian. Her siblings are Anthony Ciccone (1956), Martin Ciccone (1957), Paula Ciccone (1959), Christopher Ciccone (1960), and Melanie Henry (1962). In 1962, Madonna's mother, pregnant with her sixth child, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She delayed treatment until her baby was born, but by that time it was too late. A harrowing, yearlong battle with the disease ensued. She lost her battle with cancer in 1963. In 1978, Madonna moved to New York and studied with renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey. She joined up with the Patrick Hernandez Revue, formed a pop/dance band called 'Breakfast Club', and began working with then-boyfriend Stephen Bray on recording several disco-oriented songs. New York producer/D.J. Mark Kamins passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982 and the rest is history. The 1980s was Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multimillion-selling albums. Madonna first appeared on screen in two low-budget films marketed to an adolescent audience: A Certain Sacrifice (Stephen Jon Lewicki, 1979) and Crazy for You (Harold Becker, 1985), starring Matthew Modine. Her first film, A Certain Sacrifice (1979), was released in 1985, after she became a star, but was actually shot in two parts, the first in 1979, and the other, in 1981. However, she scored a minor cult hit with Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985) starring alongside spunky Rosanna Arquette. In 1984, she started fashion trends with her unique look using rosaries and crosses as jewelry and black rubber typewriter bands as bracelets. Legions of adolescent girls mimicked her look and a Madonna clothing store was opened in New York. Again in 2001, another huge fashion trend was set off by the "Material Mom", this time with western wear - cowboy hats and mud-splattered jeans. In 1986, she starred with then-husband Sean Penn in Shanghai Surprise (Jim Goddard, 1986), which was savaged by critics. She managed to somewhat improve her standing in the cinema with her next two films, the off-beat Who's That Girl (James Foley, 1987) and the quirky Damon Runyon-inspired Bloodhounds of Broadway (Howard Brookner, 1989).

 

Madonna played in the big-budget and star-filled Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990) bad girl Breathless Mahoney flirting with Warren Beatty. The epic failed to catch fire at the box office. Taking an earthier role, Madonna was much more entertaining alongside Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall, 1992), a story about female baseball players during W.W.II. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the whodunit Body of Evidence (Uli Edel, 1992) with Willem Dafoe, an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of the sexy Sharon Stone thriller Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992). Several other minor screen roles followed, then Madonna starred as Eva Perón opposite Jonathan Pryce and Antonio Banderas in Evita (Alan Parker, 1996), a fairly well-received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Material Girl stayed away from the film cameras for several years, returning to co-star with Rupert Everett in the lukewarm romantic comedy The Next Best Thing (John Schlesinger, 2000), followed by the painful Swept Away (2002) for husband Guy Ritchie. If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure Die Another Day (Lee Tamahori, 2002) starring Pierce Brosnan. Madonna began a directing career in 2008 with the comedy Filth and Wisdom (Madonna, 2008), and a year later she reunited with Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) director Alek Keshishian to develop a script about the relationship between the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor that led to his abdication in 1936: the result, a movie named W.E. (Madonna, 2011), starring James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough as the infernal but still royal couple. The film was released in 2011 to lukewarm critics but it gathered one Oscar nomination for costumes and won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for 'Masterpiece'. Madonna has 6 children: daughter, Lourdes Leon (1996) with an ex-boyfriend, Carlos Leon, son, Rocco Ritchie (2000), and adoptive son, David Banda Mwale Ciccone Ritchie (2005) with ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, and adoptive daughters, Mercy James Ciccone (2006), Estere Ciccone and Stella Ciccone (2012).

 

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French postcard by L.P., no. 35.

 

Madonna or Madonna Louise Ciccone (1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. During the MTV craze in the 1980s, Madonna pushed boundaries with her song texts and her provocative performances. She frequently reinvented herself and her music and stayed the 'Queen of Pop' for decades. Her global bestsellers were hits such as Like a Virgin (1984) and True Blue (1986), but for us she became more interesting with songs like Like a Prayer (1989), Vogue (1991) and Frozen (1998). And we're still fan, even of some of her films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Truth or Dare (1991), and Evita (1996). The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops reinventing herself, Madonna is a seven-time Grammy Award-winner who has sold over three hundred million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide.

 

Madonna was born Madonna Louise Ciccone in 1958 in Bay City, Michigan. Her father is Italian, her mother was French-Canadian. Her siblings are Anthony Ciccone (1956), Martin Ciccone (1957), Paula Ciccone (1959), Christopher Ciccone (1960), and Melanie Henry (1962). In 1962, Madonna's mother, pregnant with her sixth child, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She delayed treatment until her baby was born, but by that time it was too late. A harrowing, yearlong battle with the disease ensued. She lost her battle with cancer in 1963. In 1978, Madonna moved to New York and studied with renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey. She joined up with the Patrick Hernandez Revue, formed a pop/dance band called 'Breakfast Club', and began working with then-boyfriend Stephen Bray on recording several disco-oriented songs. New York producer/D.J. Mark Kamins passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982 and the rest is history. The 1980s was Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multimillion-selling albums. Madonna first appeared on screen in two low-budget films marketed to an adolescent audience: A Certain Sacrifice (Stephen Jon Lewicki, 1979) and Crazy for You (Harold Becker, 1985), starring Matthew Modine. Her first film, A Certain Sacrifice (1979), was released in 1985, after she became a star, but was actually shot in two parts, the first in 1979, and the other, in 1981. However, she scored a minor cult hit with Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985) starring alongside spunky Rosanna Arquette. In 1984, she started fashion trends with her unique look using rosaries and crosses as jewelry and black rubber typewriter bands as bracelets. Legions of adolescent girls mimicked her look and a Madonna clothing store was opened in New York. Again in 2001, another huge fashion trend was set off by the "Material Mom", this time with western wear - cowboy hats and mud-splattered jeans. In 1986, she starred with then-husband Sean Penn in Shanghai Surprise (Jim Goddard, 1986), which was savaged by critics. She managed to somewhat improve her standing in the cinema with her next two films, the off-beat Who's That Girl (James Foley, 1987) and the quirky Damon Runyon-inspired Bloodhounds of Broadway (Howard Brookner, 1989).

 

Madonna played in the big-budget and star-filled Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990) bad girl Breathless Mahoney flirting with Warren Beatty. The epic failed to catch fire at the box office. Taking an earthier role, Madonna was much more entertaining alongside Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall, 1992), a story about female baseball players during W.W.II. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the whodunit Body of Evidence (Uli Edel, 1992) with Willem Dafoe, an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of the sexy Sharon Stone thriller Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992). Several other minor screen roles followed, then Madonna starred as Eva Perón opposite Jonathan Pryce and Antonio Banderas in Evita (Alan Parker, 1996), a fairly well-received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Material Girl stayed away from the film cameras for several years, returning to co-star with Rupert Everett in the lukewarm romantic comedy The Next Best Thing (John Schlesinger, 2000), followed by the painful Swept Away (2002) for husband Guy Ritchie. If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure Die Another Day (Lee Tamahori, 2002) starring Pierce Brosnan. Madonna began a directing career in 2008 with the comedy Filth and Wisdom (Madonna, 2008), and a year later she reunited with Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) director Alek Keshishian to develop a script about the relationship between the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor that led to his abdication in 1936: the result, a movie named W.E. (Madonna, 2011), starring James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough as the infernal but still royal couple. The film was released in 2011 to lukewarm critics but it gathered one Oscar nomination for costumes and won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for 'Masterpiece'. Madonna has 6 children: daughter, Lourdes Leon (1996) with an ex-boyfriend, Carlos Leon, son, Rocco Ritchie (2000), and adoptive son, David Banda Mwale Ciccone Ritchie (2005) with ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, and adoptive daughters, Mercy James Ciccone (2006), Estere Ciccone and Stella Ciccone (2012).

 

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Vintage postcard, no. PP 059. Caption: Madonna IV.

 

Madonna or Madonna Louise Ciccone (1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. During the MTV craze in the 1980s, Madonna pushed boundaries with her song texts and her provocative performances. She frequently reinvented herself and her music and stayed the 'Queen of Pop' for decades. Her global bestsellers were hits such as Like a Virgin (1984) and True Blue (1986), but for us she became more interesting with songs like Like a Prayer (1989), Vogue (1991) and Frozen (1998). And we're still fan, even of some of her films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Truth or Dare (1991), and Evita (1996). The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops reinventing herself, Madonna is a seven-time Grammy Award-winner who has sold over three hundred million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide.

 

Madonna was born Madonna Louise Ciccone in 1958 in Bay City, Michigan. Her father is Italian, her mother was French-Canadian. Her siblings are Anthony Ciccone (1956), Martin Ciccone (1957), Paula Ciccone (1959), Christopher Ciccone (1960), and Melanie Henry (1962). In 1962, Madonna's mother, pregnant with her sixth child, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She delayed treatment until her baby was born, but by that time it was too late. A harrowing, yearlong battle with the disease ensued. She lost her battle with cancer in 1963. In 1978, Madonna moved to New York and studied with renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey. She joined up with the Patrick Hernandez Revue, formed a pop/dance band called 'Breakfast Club', and began working with then-boyfriend Stephen Bray on recording several disco-oriented songs. New York producer/D.J. Mark Kamins passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982 and the rest is history. The 1980s was Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multimillion-selling albums. Madonna first appeared on screen in two low-budget films marketed to an adolescent audience: A Certain Sacrifice (Stephen Jon Lewicki, 1979) and Crazy for You (Harold Becker, 1985), starring Matthew Modine. Her first film, A Certain Sacrifice (1979), was released in 1985, after she became a star, but was actually shot in two parts, the first in 1979, and the other, in 1981. However, she scored a minor cult hit with Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985) starring alongside spunky Rosanna Arquette. In 1984, she started fashion trends with her unique look using rosaries and crosses as jewelry and black rubber typewriter bands as bracelets. Legions of adolescent girls mimicked her look and a Madonna clothing store was opened in New York. Again in 2001, another huge fashion trend was set off by the "Material Mom", this time with western wear - cowboy hats and mud-splattered jeans. In 1986, she starred with then-husband Sean Penn in Shanghai Surprise (Jim Goddard, 1986), which was savaged by critics. She managed to somewhat improve her standing in the cinema with her next two films, the off-beat Who's That Girl (James Foley, 1987) and the quirky Damon Runyon-inspired Bloodhounds of Broadway (Howard Brookner, 1989).

 

Madonna played in the big-budget and star-filled Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990) bad girl Breathless Mahoney flirting with Warren Beatty. The epic failed to catch fire at the box office. Taking an earthier role, Madonna was much more entertaining alongside Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall, 1992), a story about female baseball players during W.W.II. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the whodunit Body of Evidence (Uli Edel, 1992) with Willem Dafoe, an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of the sexy Sharon Stone thriller Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992). Several other minor screen roles followed, then Madonna starred as Eva Perón opposite Jonathan Pryce and Antonio Banderas in Evita (Alan Parker, 1996), a fairly well-received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Material Girl stayed away from the film cameras for several years, returning to co-star with Rupert Everett in the lukewarm romantic comedy The Next Best Thing (John Schlesinger, 2000), followed by the painful Swept Away (2002) for husband Guy Ritchie. If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure Die Another Day (Lee Tamahori, 2002) starring Pierce Brosnan. Madonna began a directing career in 2008 with the comedy Filth and Wisdom (Madonna, 2008), and a year later she reunited with Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) director Alek Keshishian to develop a script about the relationship between the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor that led to his abdication in 1936: the result, a movie named W.E. (Madonna, 2011), starring James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough as the infernal but still royal couple. The film was released in 2011 to lukewarm critics but it gathered one Oscar nomination for costumes and won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for 'Masterpiece'. Madonna has 6 children: daughter, Lourdes Leon (1996) with an ex-boyfriend, Carlos Leon, son, Rocco Ritchie (2000), and adoptive son, David Banda Mwale Ciccone Ritchie (2005) with ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, and adoptive daughters, Mercy James Ciccone (2006), Estere Ciccone and Stella Ciccone (2012).

 

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Spanish postcard by Editions Mercuri, no. 809. Madonna in Body of Evidence (Uli Edel, 1992).

 

Madonna or Madonna Louise Ciccone (1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. During the MTV craze in the 1980s, Madonna pushed boundaries with her song texts and her provocative performances. She frequently reinvented herself and her music and stayed the 'Queen of Pop' for decades. Her global bestsellers were hits such as Like a Virgin (1984) and True Blue (1986), but for us she became more interesting with songs like Like a Prayer (1989), Vogue (1991) and Frozen (1998). And we're still fan, even of some of her films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Truth or Dare (1991), and Evita (1996). The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops reinventing herself, Madonna is a seven-time Grammy Award-winner who has sold over three hundred million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide.

 

Madonna was born Madonna Louise Ciccone in 1958 in Bay City, Michigan. Her father is Italian, her mother was French-Canadian. Her siblings are Anthony Ciccone (1956), Martin Ciccone (1957), Paula Ciccone (1959), Christopher Ciccone (1960), and Melanie Henry (1962). In 1962, Madonna's mother, pregnant with her sixth child, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She delayed treatment until her baby was born, but by that time it was too late. A harrowing, yearlong battle with the disease ensued. She lost her battle with cancer in 1963. In 1978, Madonna moved to New York and studied with renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey. She joined up with the Patrick Hernandez Revue, formed a pop/dance band called 'Breakfast Club', and began working with then-boyfriend Stephen Bray on recording several disco-oriented songs. New York producer/D.J. Mark Kamins passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982 and the rest is history. The 1980s was Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multimillion-selling albums. Madonna first appeared on screen in two low-budget films marketed to an adolescent audience: A Certain Sacrifice (Stephen Jon Lewicki, 1979) and Crazy for You (Harold Becker, 1985), starring Matthew Modine. Her first film, A Certain Sacrifice (1979), was released in 1985, after she became a star, but was actually shot in two parts, the first in 1979, and the other, in 1981. However, she scored a minor cult hit with Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985) starring alongside spunky Rosanna Arquette. In 1984, she started fashion trends with her unique look using rosaries and crosses as jewelry and black rubber typewriter bands as bracelets. Legions of adolescent girls mimicked her look and a Madonna clothing store was opened in New York. Again in 2001, another huge fashion trend was set off by the "Material Mom", this time with western wear - cowboy hats and mud-splattered jeans. In 1986, she starred with then-husband Sean Penn in Shanghai Surprise (Jim Goddard, 1986), which was savaged by critics. She managed to somewhat improve her standing in the cinema with her next two films, the off-beat Who's That Girl (James Foley, 1987) and the quirky Damon Runyon-inspired Bloodhounds of Broadway (Howard Brookner, 1989).

 

Madonna played in the big-budget and star-filled Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990) bad girl Breathless Mahoney flirting with Warren Beatty. The epic failed to catch fire at the box office. Taking an earthier role, Madonna was much more entertaining alongside Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall, 1992), a story about female baseball players during W.W.II. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the whodunit Body of Evidence (Uli Edel, 1992) with Willem Dafoe, an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of the sexy Sharon Stone thriller Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992). Several other minor screen roles followed, then Madonna starred as Eva Perón opposite Jonathan Pryce and Antonio Banderas in Evita (Alan Parker, 1996), a fairly well-received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Material Girl stayed away from the film cameras for several years, returning to co-star with Rupert Everett in the lukewarm romantic comedy The Next Best Thing (John Schlesinger, 2000), followed by the painful Swept Away (2002) for husband Guy Ritchie. If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure Die Another Day (Lee Tamahori, 2002) starring Pierce Brosnan. Madonna began a directing career in 2008 with the comedy Filth and Wisdom (Madonna, 2008), and a year later she reunited with Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) director Alek Keshishian to develop a script about the relationship between the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor that led to his abdication in 1936: the result, a movie named W.E. (Madonna, 2011), starring James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough as the infernal but still royal couple. The film was released in 2011 to lukewarm critics but it gathered one Oscar nomination for costumes and won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for 'Masterpiece'. Madonna has 6 children: daughter, Lourdes Leon (1996) with an ex-boyfriend, Carlos Leon, son, Rocco Ritchie (2000), and adoptive son, David Banda Mwale Ciccone Ritchie (2005) with ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, and adoptive daughters, Mercy James Ciccone (2006), Estere Ciccone and Stella Ciccone (2012).

 

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British postcard by Santoro Graphics, London, no. BW123. Photo: Steven Meisel. Photo for the cover of the album 'Like a Virgin' (1984).

 

Madonna or Madonna Louise Ciccone (1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. During the MTV craze in the 1980s, Madonna pushed boundaries with her song texts and her provocative performances. She frequently reinvented herself and her music and stayed the 'Queen of Pop' for decades. Her global bestsellers were hits such as Like a Virgin (1984) and True Blue (1986), but for us she became more interesting with songs like Like a Prayer (1989), Vogue (1991) and Frozen (1998). And we're still fan, even of some of her films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Truth or Dare (1991), and Evita (1996). The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops reinventing herself, Madonna is a seven-time Grammy Award-winner who has sold over three hundred million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide.

 

Madonna was born Madonna Louise Ciccone in 1958 in Bay City, Michigan. Her father is Italian, her mother was French-Canadian. Her siblings are Anthony Ciccone (1956), Martin Ciccone (1957), Paula Ciccone (1959), Christopher Ciccone (1960), and Melanie Henry (1962). In 1962, Madonna's mother, pregnant with her sixth child, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She delayed treatment until her baby was born, but by that time it was too late. A harrowing, yearlong battle with the disease ensued. She lost her battle with cancer in 1963. In 1978, Madonna moved to New York and studied with renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey. She joined up with the Patrick Hernandez Revue, formed a pop/dance band called 'Breakfast Club', and began working with then-boyfriend Stephen Bray on recording several disco-oriented songs. New York producer/D.J. Mark Kamins passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982 and the rest is history. The 1980s was Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multimillion-selling albums. Madonna first appeared on screen in two low-budget films marketed to an adolescent audience: A Certain Sacrifice (Stephen Jon Lewicki, 1979) and Crazy for You (Harold Becker, 1985), starring Matthew Modine. Her first film, A Certain Sacrifice (1979), was released in 1985, after she became a star, but was actually shot in two parts, the first in 1979, and the other, in 1981. However, she scored a minor cult hit with Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985) starring alongside spunky Rosanna Arquette. In 1984, she started fashion trends with her unique look using rosaries and crosses as jewelry and black rubber typewriter bands as bracelets. Legions of adolescent girls mimicked her look and a Madonna clothing store was opened in New York. Again in 2001, another huge fashion trend was set off by the "Material Mom", this time with western wear - cowboy hats and mud-splattered jeans. In 1986, she starred with then-husband Sean Penn in Shanghai Surprise (Jim Goddard, 1986), which was savaged by critics. She managed to somewhat improve her standing in the cinema with her next two films, the off-beat Who's That Girl (James Foley, 1987) and the quirky Damon Runyon-inspired Bloodhounds of Broadway (Howard Brookner, 1989).

 

Madonna played in the big-budget and star-filled Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990) bad girl Breathless Mahoney flirting with Warren Beatty. The epic failed to catch fire at the box office. Taking an earthier role, Madonna was much more entertaining alongside Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall, 1992), a story about female baseball players during W.W.II. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the whodunit Body of Evidence (Uli Edel, 1992) with Willem Dafoe, an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of the sexy Sharon Stone thriller Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992). Several other minor screen roles followed, then Madonna starred as Eva Perón opposite Jonathan Pryce and Antonio Banderas in Evita (Alan Parker, 1996), a fairly well-received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Material Girl stayed away from the film cameras for several years, returning to co-star with Rupert Everett in the lukewarm romantic comedy The Next Best Thing (John Schlesinger, 2000), followed by the painful Swept Away (2002) for husband Guy Ritchie. If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure Die Another Day (Lee Tamahori, 2002) starring Pierce Brosnan. Madonna began a directing career in 2008 with the comedy Filth and Wisdom (Madonna, 2008), and a year later she reunited with Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) director Alek Keshishian to develop a script about the relationship between the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor that led to his abdication in 1936: the result, a movie named W.E. (Madonna, 2011), starring James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough as the infernal but still royal couple. The film was released in 2011 to lukewarm critics but it gathered one Oscar nomination for costumes and won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for 'Masterpiece'. Madonna has 6 children: daughter, Lourdes Leon (1996) with an ex-boyfriend, Carlos Leon, son, Rocco Ritchie (2000), and adoptive son, David Banda Mwale Ciccone Ritchie (2005) with ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, and adoptive daughters, Mercy James Ciccone (2006), Estere Ciccone and Stella Ciccone (2012).

 

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Vintage card.

 

Madonna or Madonna Louise Ciccone (1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. During the MTV craze in the 1980s, Madonna pushed boundaries with her song texts and her provocative performances. She frequently reinvented herself and her music and stayed the 'Queen of Pop' for decades. Her global bestsellers were hits such as Like a Virgin (1984) and True Blue (1986), but for us she became more interesting with songs like Like a Prayer (1989), Vogue (1991) and Frozen (1998). And we're still fan, even of some of her films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Truth or Dare (1991), and Evita (1996). The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops reinventing herself, Madonna is a seven-time Grammy Award-winner who has sold over three hundred million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide.

 

Madonna was born Madonna Louise Ciccone in 1958 in Bay City, Michigan. Her father is Italian, her mother was French-Canadian. Her siblings are Anthony Ciccone (1956), Martin Ciccone (1957), Paula Ciccone (1959), Christopher Ciccone (1960), and Melanie Henry (1962). In 1962, Madonna's mother, pregnant with her sixth child, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She delayed treatment until her baby was born, but by that time it was too late. A harrowing, yearlong battle with the disease ensued. She lost her battle with cancer in 1963. In 1978, Madonna moved to New York and studied with renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey. She joined up with the Patrick Hernandez Revue, formed a pop/dance band called 'Breakfast Club', and began working with then-boyfriend Stephen Bray on recording several disco-oriented songs. New York producer/D.J. Mark Kamins passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982 and the rest is history. The 1980s was Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multimillion-selling albums. Madonna first appeared on screen in two low-budget films marketed to an adolescent audience: A Certain Sacrifice (Stephen Jon Lewicki, 1979) and Crazy for You (Harold Becker, 1985), starring Matthew Modine. Her first film, A Certain Sacrifice (1979), was released in 1985, after she became a star, but was actually shot in two parts, the first in 1979, and the other, in 1981. However, she scored a minor cult hit with Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985) starring alongside spunky Rosanna Arquette. In 1984, she started fashion trends with her unique look using rosaries and crosses as jewelry and black rubber typewriter bands as bracelets. Legions of adolescent girls mimicked her look and a Madonna clothing store was opened in New York. Again in 2001, another huge fashion trend was set off by the "Material Mom", this time with western wear - cowboy hats and mud-splattered jeans. In 1986, she starred with then-husband Sean Penn in Shanghai Surprise (Jim Goddard, 1986), which was savaged by critics. She managed to somewhat improve her standing in the cinema with her next two films, the off-beat Who's That Girl (James Foley, 1987) and the quirky Damon Runyon-inspired Bloodhounds of Broadway (Howard Brookner, 1989).

 

Madonna played in the big-budget and star-filled Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990) bad girl Breathless Mahoney flirting with Warren Beatty. The epic failed to catch fire at the box office. Taking an earthier role, Madonna was much more entertaining alongside Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall, 1992), a story about female baseball players during W.W.II. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the whodunit Body of Evidence (Uli Edel, 1992) with Willem Dafoe, an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of the sexy Sharon Stone thriller Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992). Several other minor screen roles followed, then Madonna starred as Eva Perón opposite Jonathan Pryce and Antonio Banderas in Evita (Alan Parker, 1996), a fairly well-received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Material Girl stayed away from the film cameras for several years, returning to co-star with Rupert Everett in the lukewarm romantic comedy The Next Best Thing (John Schlesinger, 2000), followed by the painful Swept Away (2002) for husband Guy Ritchie. If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure Die Another Day (Lee Tamahori, 2002) starring Pierce Brosnan. Madonna began a directing career in 2008 with the comedy Filth and Wisdom (Madonna, 2008), and a year later she reunited with Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) director Alek Keshishian to develop a script about the relationship between the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor that led to his abdication in 1936: the result, a movie named W.E. (Madonna, 2011), starring James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough as the infernal but still royal couple. The film was released in 2011 to lukewarm critics but it gathered one Oscar nomination for costumes and won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for 'Masterpiece'. Madonna has 6 children: daughter, Lourdes Leon (1996) with an ex-boyfriend, Carlos Leon, son, Rocco Ritchie (2000), and adoptive son, David Banda Mwale Ciccone Ritchie (2005) with ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, and adoptive daughters, Mercy James Ciccone (2006), Estere Ciccone and Stella Ciccone (2012).

 

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German postcard by Ufa/Film-Foto, Berlin-Tempelhof, no. FK 3295. Photo: Eberhard Schmidt / UFA.

 

Christiane Maybach (1932–2006) was a German film and television actress, who became known as 'Berlin's Marilyn Monroe' due to her work on stage and in films from the 1950s to the 1970s. Later, Maybach worked often with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Maybach continued to act in soap series until shortly before her death in 2006.

 

Christiane Maybach was born as Uschi Müller in Berlin, Germany in 1932. She graduated from high school and attended from 1956 the drama school of the Schiller Theater in Berlin. She then studied ballet and played at the Schauspielhaus Zurich (1957 to 1958) and dtudied acting with Gustaf Gründgens at the Schauspielhaus in Hamburg (1959). During the 1950s, she worked on the stage before becoming a film actress. During the 1950s, she was also seen in several films mostly in smaller roles. She had a supporting part in the Heimatfilm Ich hab' mein Herz in Heidelberg verloren/I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg (Ernst Neubach, 1952) starring Eva Probst, Adrian Hoven and Paul Hörbiger. She also appeared in the comedy Das Mädchen ohne Pyjama/The Girl Without Pyjamas (Hans Quest, 1957) starring Ingeborg Christiansen. She had a bigger part as a sexy harem dancer in the comedy Zwei Bayern im Harem/Two Bavarians in the Harem (Joe Stöckel, 1957) starring Stöckel and Beppo Brem. It was one of three sequels made to the hit Zwei Bayern in St. Pauli/Two Bavarians in St. Pauli (Hermann Kugelstadt, 1956).

 

Because of her resemblance to Marilyn Monroe, Christiane Maybach was cast for stage roles which the American sex goddess had portrayed in the cinema during the early 1960s. Her international films included Axel Munthe - The Doctor of San Michele (1962) starring O.W. Fischer, and the English-language Eurospy comedy Estambul 65/That Man in Istanbul (Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi, 1965) starring Horst Buchholz. She played a small part in the British thriller A Study in Terror (James Hill, 1965) starring John Neville as Sherlock Holmes and Donald Houston as Dr. Watson. Maybach played the female lead in the Eurospy film Rembrandt 7 antwortet nicht.../Z7 Operation Rembrandt (Giancarlo Romitelli, 1966) starring Lang Jeffries and Joachim Hansen. It was shot in Macau, Tangier, Rome, Málaga and Torremolinos. After the Eurospy wave was over, Maybach also appeared in the following sexploitation genre, like in Das Freudenhaus/The Bordello (Alfred Weidenmann, 1971). She also had a small part in the American caper film $/Dollars (Richard Brooks, 1971), starring Warren Beatty and Goldie Hawn.

 

During the 1970s, Christiane Maybach worked a lot with Rainer Werner Fassbinder. She appeared in his TV film Welt am Draht (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1973), with Klaus Löwitsch and Barbara Valentin, the gay drama Faustrecht der Freiheit/Fox and his Friends (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1975), starring Fassbinder, Peter Chatel and Karlheinz Böhm, the black comedy Satansbraten/Satan's Brew (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1976) starring Kurt Raab and Margit Carstensen, and the classic TV series Berlin Alexanderplatz (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1980). She also had a small role in Schöner Gigolo, armer Gigolo/Just a Gigolo (David Hemmings, 1978) starring David Bowie. Set in post-World War I Berlin, it also featured Sydne Rome, Kim Novak and Marlene Dietrich in her final film role.As a voice actress she lent her voice to Stella Stevens in Girls! Girls! Girls! (Norman Taurog, 1962) and Diane Fletcher in The Tragedy of Macbeth (Roman Polanski, 1971) and . She also made a name for herself as a chanson singer. Later on she mostly appeared on television. She gained her first soap opera experiences in 1992 in the role of Isabelle Bornat in Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten (GZSZ)/Good Times, Bad Times, the first Daily Soap in Germany. From episode 1 on, she appeared in the daily soap Unter uns (UU)/Among us (1994-now) as the homeowner Margot Weigel. It was the third German daily soap. She played this role until December 2005. In 2006, Christiane Maybach passed away of cancer in her apartment in Cologne, where she lived with her cat Gigi. She was not married and had no children. In honour of the deceased actress, RTL broacasted a commemorative episode of Unter uns on 29 August 2006.

 

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French postcard in the 'série chanteurs' by Editions Gil/Edition F. Nugeron, no. 131. Madonna in Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985).

 

Madonna or Madonna Louise Ciccone (1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. During the MTV craze in the 1980s, Madonna pushed boundaries with her song texts and her provocative performances. She frequently reinvented herself and her music and stayed the 'Queen of Pop' for decades. Her global bestsellers were hits such as Like a Virgin (1984) and True Blue (1986), but for us she became more interesting with songs like Like a Prayer (1989), Vogue (1991) and Frozen (1998). And we're still fan, even of some of her films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Truth or Dare (1991), and Evita (1996). The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops reinventing herself, Madonna is a seven-time Grammy Award-winner who has sold over three hundred million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide.

 

Madonna was born Madonna Louise Ciccone in 1958 in Bay City, Michigan. Her father is Italian, her mother was French-Canadian. Her siblings are Anthony Ciccone (1956), Martin Ciccone (1957), Paula Ciccone (1959), Christopher Ciccone (1960), and Melanie Henry (1962). In 1962, Madonna's mother, pregnant with her sixth child, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She delayed treatment until her baby was born, but by that time it was too late. A harrowing, yearlong battle with the disease ensued. She lost her battle with cancer in 1963. In 1978, Madonna moved to New York and studied with renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey. She joined up with the Patrick Hernandez Revue, formed a pop/dance band called 'Breakfast Club', and began working with then-boyfriend Stephen Bray on recording several disco-oriented songs. New York producer/D.J. Mark Kamins passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982 and the rest is history. The 1980s was Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multimillion-selling albums. Madonna first appeared on screen in two low-budget films marketed to an adolescent audience: A Certain Sacrifice (Stephen Jon Lewicki, 1979) and Crazy for You (Harold Becker, 1985), starring Matthew Modine. Her first film, A Certain Sacrifice (1979), was released in 1985, after she became a star, but was actually shot in two parts, the first in 1979, and the other, in 1981. However, she scored a minor cult hit with Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985) starring alongside spunky Rosanna Arquette. In 1984, she started fashion trends with her unique look using rosaries and crosses as jewelry and black rubber typewriter bands as bracelets. Legions of adolescent girls mimicked her look and a Madonna clothing store was opened in New York. Again in 2001, another huge fashion trend was set off by the "Material Mom", this time with western wear - cowboy hats and mud-splattered jeans. In 1986, she starred with then-husband Sean Penn in Shanghai Surprise (Jim Goddard, 1986), which was savaged by critics. She managed to somewhat improve her standing in the cinema with her next two films, the off-beat Who's That Girl (James Foley, 1987) and the quirky Damon Runyon-inspired Bloodhounds of Broadway (Howard Brookner, 1989).

 

Madonna played in the big-budget and star-filled Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990) bad girl Breathless Mahoney flirting with Warren Beatty. The epic failed to catch fire at the box office. Taking an earthier role, Madonna was much more entertaining alongside Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall, 1992), a story about female baseball players during W.W.II. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the whodunit Body of Evidence (Uli Edel, 1992) with Willem Dafoe, an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of the sexy Sharon Stone thriller Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992). Several other minor screen roles followed, then Madonna starred as Eva Perón opposite Jonathan Pryce and Antonio Banderas in Evita (Alan Parker, 1996), a fairly well-received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Material Girl stayed away from the film cameras for several years, returning to co-star with Rupert Everett in the lukewarm romantic comedy The Next Best Thing (John Schlesinger, 2000), followed by the painful Swept Away (2002) for husband Guy Ritchie. If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure Die Another Day (Lee Tamahori, 2002) starring Pierce Brosnan. Madonna began a directing career in 2008 with the comedy Filth and Wisdom (Madonna, 2008), and a year later she reunited with Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) director Alek Keshishian to develop a script about the relationship between the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor that led to his abdication in 1936: the result, a movie named W.E. (Madonna, 2011), starring James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough as the infernal but still royal couple. The film was released in 2011 to lukewarm critics but it gathered one Oscar nomination for costumes and won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for 'Masterpiece'. Madonna has 6 children: daughter, Lourdes Leon (1996) with an ex-boyfriend, Carlos Leon, son, Rocco Ritchie (2000), and adoptive son, David Banda Mwale Ciccone Ritchie (2005) with ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, and adoptive daughters, Mercy James Ciccone (2006), Estere Ciccone and Stella Ciccone (2012).

 

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Vintage postcard, no. PP 086. Caption: Madonna XIII.

 

Madonna or Madonna Louise Ciccone (1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. During the MTV craze in the 1980s, Madonna pushed boundaries with her song texts and her provocative performances. She frequently reinvented herself and her music and stayed the 'Queen of Pop' for decades. Her global bestsellers were hits such as Like a Virgin (1984) and True Blue (1986), but for us she became more interesting with songs like Like a Prayer (1989), Vogue (1991) and Frozen (1998). And we're still fan, even of some of her films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Truth or Dare (1991), and Evita (1996). The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops reinventing herself, Madonna is a seven-time Grammy Award-winner who has sold over three hundred million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide.

 

Madonna was born Madonna Louise Ciccone in 1958 in Bay City, Michigan. Her father is Italian, her mother was French-Canadian. Her siblings are Anthony Ciccone (1956), Martin Ciccone (1957), Paula Ciccone (1959), Christopher Ciccone (1960), and Melanie Henry (1962). In 1962, Madonna's mother, pregnant with her sixth child, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She delayed treatment until her baby was born, but by that time it was too late. A harrowing, yearlong battle with the disease ensued. She lost her battle with cancer in 1963. In 1978, Madonna moved to New York and studied with renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey. She joined up with the Patrick Hernandez Revue, formed a pop/dance band called 'Breakfast Club', and began working with then-boyfriend Stephen Bray on recording several disco-oriented songs. New York producer/D.J. Mark Kamins passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982 and the rest is history. The 1980s was Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multimillion-selling albums. Madonna first appeared on screen in two low-budget films marketed to an adolescent audience: A Certain Sacrifice (Stephen Jon Lewicki, 1979) and Crazy for You (Harold Becker, 1985), starring Matthew Modine. Her first film, A Certain Sacrifice (1979), was released in 1985, after she became a star, but was actually shot in two parts, the first in 1979, and the other, in 1981. However, she scored a minor cult hit with Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985) starring alongside spunky Rosanna Arquette. In 1984, she started fashion trends with her unique look using rosaries and crosses as jewelry and black rubber typewriter bands as bracelets. Legions of adolescent girls mimicked her look and a Madonna clothing store was opened in New York. Again in 2001, another huge fashion trend was set off by the "Material Mom", this time with western wear - cowboy hats and mud-splattered jeans. In 1986, she starred with then-husband Sean Penn in Shanghai Surprise (Jim Goddard, 1986), which was savaged by critics. She managed to somewhat improve her standing in the cinema with her next two films, the off-beat Who's That Girl (James Foley, 1987) and the quirky Damon Runyon-inspired Bloodhounds of Broadway (Howard Brookner, 1989).

 

Madonna played in the big-budget and star-filled Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990) bad girl Breathless Mahoney flirting with Warren Beatty. The epic failed to catch fire at the box office. Taking an earthier role, Madonna was much more entertaining alongside Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall, 1992), a story about female baseball players during W.W.II. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the whodunit Body of Evidence (Uli Edel, 1992) with Willem Dafoe, an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of the sexy Sharon Stone thriller Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992). Several other minor screen roles followed, then Madonna starred as Eva Perón opposite Jonathan Pryce and Antonio Banderas in Evita (Alan Parker, 1996), a fairly well-received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Material Girl stayed away from the film cameras for several years, returning to co-star with Rupert Everett in the lukewarm romantic comedy The Next Best Thing (John Schlesinger, 2000), followed by the painful Swept Away (2002) for husband Guy Ritchie. If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure Die Another Day (Lee Tamahori, 2002) starring Pierce Brosnan. Madonna began a directing career in 2008 with the comedy Filth and Wisdom (Madonna, 2008), and a year later she reunited with Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) director Alek Keshishian to develop a script about the relationship between the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor that led to his abdication in 1936: the result, a movie named W.E. (Madonna, 2011), starring James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough as the infernal but still royal couple. The film was released in 2011 to lukewarm critics but it gathered one Oscar nomination for costumes and won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for 'Masterpiece'. Madonna has 6 children: daughter, Lourdes Leon (1996) with an ex-boyfriend, Carlos Leon, son, Rocco Ritchie (2000), and adoptive son, David Banda Mwale Ciccone Ritchie (2005) with ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, and adoptive daughters, Mercy James Ciccone (2006), Estere Ciccone and Stella Ciccone (2012).

 

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One of the most intense American films ever made, influenced by the more serious and realistic foreign films of the period but still quintessentially American.

 

(MGM's Louis B. Mayer would have had a heart attack.)

 

Score by the great Alex North.

Swiss-British postcard by News Productions, Baulmes and Stroud, no. 56760, 1996. Photo: Larry Shaw. Elia Kazan on the set of Splendor in the Grass (1960) in NYC, 1960.

 

American film and stage director Elia Kazan (1909-2003) made his name with two plays by writer Tennessee Williams, 'The Glass Menagerie' and 'A Streetcar Named Desire' and two by Arthur Miller 'All My Sons' and 'Death of a Salesman'. His provocative films were concerned with personal or social issues such as anti-Semitism and racism. Noted for drawing out the best dramatic performances from his actors, he directed 21 actors to Oscar nominations, resulting in nine wins. For his films, he was himself nominated five times for an Academy Award as best director. He won two Oscars for Gentleman's Agreement (1947) and On the Waterfront (1954). A turning point in his life came in 1952 when Kazan appeared as a witness before Senator Joseph McCarthy's committee and named people with alleged Communist sympathies. His testimony helped end the careers of several former colleagues who were blacklisted. When Kazan was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1999, his anti-Communist testimony continued to cause controversy.

 

Elia Kazan was born as Elias Kazancıoğlu (Greek: Ηλίας Καζαντζόγλου) in 1909 in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now Istanbul, Turkey). Kazan moved to New York when he was four years old. He graduated from Yale College in 1932 with the desire to become a film director. In the same year he married Molly Day Thatcher. The couple had four children. In the 1930s there were still no training opportunities for film directors and so he first joined the Group Theatre as an actor. The participants in the politically left-wing independent theatre group lived together in the summer months like in a commune and worked on their socially critical productions. Between 1934 and 1936, Kazan's work with the Group Theatre led to his membership in the Communist Party. He broke with the party in 1936 after 19 months of membership because it interfered too much in the Group Theatre's theatre work. In the same year he played a supporting role in Kurt Weill's first all-American production, 'Johnny Johnson'. In 1937 Kazan went to Hollywood for screen tests with some of the Group Theatre actors. He played his first Hollywood role in City for Conquest (Anatole Litvak, 1940) alongside James Cagney. Kazan went on to get smaller film roles. Members of the group, Franchot Tone and John Garfield, went on to become film stars. Kazan, however, went back to New York and had his first great success as a director on Broadway in 1942. Then his long-cherished dream came true and he made his first film, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Elia Kazan, 1943). Kazan's film Gentleman's Agreement (Elia Kazan, 1947) was produced by Darryl F. Zanuck. It was the first Hollywood film to deal with the subject of anti-Semitism. Kazan did not like the film very much. He said it was too polite and did not show how bad anti-Semitism was. Zanuck demanded that the audience be introduced to the subject through a love story between Dorothy McGuire and Gregory Peck. Although Kazan felt that this detracted from the realism of the story, Zanuck succeeded with this method. The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture of the year and Kazan received his first directing Oscar.

 

In 1947 Elia Kazan co-founded the Actors Studio alongside Cheryl Crawford and Robert Lewis, which produced actors such as Marlon Brando, James Dean and Julie Harris, all of whom also starred in Kazan's later films. Kazan repeatedly cast actors from this school, which had been led by Lee Strasberg as an authoritative acting teacher since 1951, in his films. Kazan was drawn back to the theatre. He directed the Arthur Miller successes 'All My Sons' and 'Death of a Salesman' between 1947 and 1949. Lee J. Cobb played Willy Loman and the production made Kazan one of the most important theatre directors of the time. With the drama student Marlon Brando, he staged Tennessee Williams' 'A Streetcar Named Desire' on Broadway in 1947. The play actually centred on the story of the two sisters Blanche and Stella, but Brando changed the perception of the play with his brilliant portrayal of Stanley Kowalski. On Broadway, Jessica Tandy played Blanche. However, the producers at Warner Brothers swapped her for Vivien Leigh, who was rated higher as a star, in the later 1951 film version. Vivien Leigh received her second acting Oscar for this work. Kim Hunter and Karl Malden, like Brando, were already part of the cast of the successful Broadway production. In addition to his theatre work, Kazan made the Western The Sea of Grass (Elia Kazan, 1947) with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. He continued to pursue his actual idea of realistic filmmaking with the Film Noir Boomerang (Elia Kazan, 1946) starring Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt and Lee J. Cobb. For this film he went with the crew to the small town of Stamford (Connecticut) and filmed in the streets and buildings of the town. At times the production had thousands of spectators, as people were not yet used to film productions in real locations. Boomerang is about a man suspected of murdering a priest and is based on a true story about Homer S. Cummings, who later became US Attorney General. Elia Kazan felt a great closeness to the people of the southern states of the United States. In 1937, he had already gained his first experience here with the short documentary film The People of Cumberland, which captured the poverty of the people during the Great Depression in frightening images. In 1949 he made his first feature film about the South. Pinky (Elia Kazan, 1949) with Jeanne Crain, Ethel Barrymore and Ethel Waters, is one of Kazan's lesser-known works. Kazan developed this way of making films further when he went to New Orleans to shoot the thriller Under Secret Order (Elia Kazan, 1950) with Richard Widmark, Barbara Bel Geddes and Jack Palance in original locations.

 

His film version of A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan, 1951) won a total of four Academy Awards, including three acting awards for Vivien Leigh, Kim Hunter and Karl Malden. After this huge success, Kazan went to Mexico to tell the story of the revolutionary Emiliano Zapata in Viva Zapata! (Elia Kazan, 1952) with Marlon Brando. John Steinbeck had written the script about the rise of a peasant who rebels politically against conditions in his country to become a successful revolutionary. In line with the anti-communist zeitgeist of the 1950s, Kazan twisted the historical background into an anti-Soviet and anti-revolutionary propaganda parable. It came to American cinemas at the height of Senator Joseph McCarthy's "witch hunt" and played into the hands of his anti-communist smear campaign. Kazan himself was a member of the Communist Party in the 1930s, at the beginning of his work with the Group Theatre, but left when the party interfered in the group's theatre work. As a staunch liberal, Kazan felt betrayed by the military atrocities committed by Stalin and the ideological rigidity of the Stalinist regime. Kazan found it necessary to collaborate with McCarthy's anti-communist activities and testified before the so-called "Committee on Un-American Activities". He told the committee of his disgust with alleged "red methods" and readily denounced colleagues who had been party members in the 1930s until the Hitler-Stalin pact. Kazan's former Group Theatre colleagues, such as John Garfield and director Jules Dassin, were blacklisted and banned from the profession after Kazan's statements. American playwrights Lillian Hellman and Arthur Miller publicly disagreed with Kazan's reasoning. Kazan's subsequent work was inluenced by his experiences during the McCarthy era. A Man on a Tightrope (Elia Kazan, 1953) showed the lives of people in Czechoslovakia under the pressure of Soviet totalitarianism. Fredric March and Gloria Grahame played the leading roles. Kazan's critics accused him, after On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954), about a heroic snitch, is generally considered Kazan's answer to his critics. The film deals with corruption and betrayal among New York trade unionists and ends with the hero of the film being forgiven for his betrayal. Kazan came closest to his ideal of realism with this film. On the Waterfront was shot in the harsh winter of 1954 on the streets of New York and in Hoboken, New Jersey. The cold played an important role and is palpable in every scene. The actors never seem artificial as a result. However, the focus was on the love story between Marlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint and not on the social drama. Elia Kazan received his second directing Oscar for this work. Arthur Miller's play 'The Crucible', about a Puritan who would rather die than make false accusations against a witchcraft suspect, was a response. Kazan later described his situation before the McArthy Committee as a "choice between plague and cholera". The distrust of Kazan by the left and the partial rejection by the Hollywood community was to last until his death.

 

Marlon Brando was certainly the first and, for Kazan, the most important young actor to become a world star under his guidance. Other acting discoveries were to follow in the years to come. In 1954, he worked with author John Steinbeck to find an actor for the role of young Cal in East of Eden (Elia Kazan, 1955) who was in a generational conflict with his father, typical of the 1950s, and found him in James Dean. Kazan thus established the world fame of the teenage idol par excellence. Dean lived out the conflict with his father, played by Raymond Massey, to the full during filming. Their scenes together are marked by the enmity of the two actors on the set. Dean never learned his lines and improvised the arguments with the father, which almost drove the perfectly prepared actor Massey mad. Kazan took advantage of this and never interrupted when Dean spoke a completely different line from what was in the script. These scenes thus achieved an enormous authenticity. East of Eden was the only film with James Dean that premiered during the young actor's lifetime. Alongside Dean, Julie Harris also played her first major role in a film. With Baby Doll (Elia Kazan, 1956) Kazan went back to the southern states of the United States and ensured the breakthrough of the leading actress Carroll Baker. Baby Doll developed into one of the biggest scandals of the prudish 1950s. Karl Malden, already one of Kazan's most important and loyal actors since Kazan's theatre successes of the 1940s, is seen here in a leading role after numerous supporting roles. He plays the clueless Archie Lee, who marries the underage Baby Doll and promises not to have sexual intercourse with her until she is 19. The provocative film was vehemently attacked, especially from church circles. In an interview, Kazan described Karl Malden and Eli Wallach, who both star in Baby Doll, as his most important discoveries: "They're rather unimpressive guys, but they've almost perfected method acting." Kazan stayed in the South and his next film A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan, 1957) criticised the influence of the fledgling medium of television in shaping the political opinions of American citizens. Andy Griffith played Lonesome Rhodes, who rises from a provincial local hero to a national star through television. The film already shows what has become commonplace: television as a manipulator of the masses. A man of limited intellect gains political power through his charm and popularity. Griffith himself later became a popular TV star. Kazan discovered the young actress Lee Remick for this film, who made her cinema debut just like Griffith. Lee Remick was then also given a leading role in Kazan's next film Wild River (Elia Kazan, 1960). She plays the wife of Montgomery Clift, who is sent to Alabama in the 1930s to buy up the land needed by the Depression-ravaged people so that a river can be diverted. An old woman fights back most fiercely. This woman is played by Jo Van Fleet, who was only half her character's age in 1960 when the film was made.

 

In 1961 Elia Kazan filmed a story by William Inge, who also wrote the screenplay for Splendor in the Grass (Elia Kazan, 1961). In this film, Natalie Wood falls in love with the son of the most important family in a small Kansas town, but they will never have the chance to get together. The boy is played by another of Kazan's discoveries, who subsequently embarks on a world career: Warren Beatty. In 1963 Kazan made a film he had already been working on for over 30 years. America, America (Elia Kazan, 1963) is the story of his uncle and his family. After great difficulties with financing, he was able to realise the film about his Greek ancestors and their way to America with Warner Brothers. The main role was played by the amateur actor Stathis Giallelis, who first had to come to the United States for months to learn English. While working on this film, Kazan's first wife died. In 1967, he married the actress Barbara Loden, who had appeared in his films Wild River and Splendor in the Grass. They had one child together. It became increasingly difficult for him to finance his film projects. He made only three more films. The Arrangement (Elia Kazan, 1969) was based on Kazan's novel of the same name and starred Kirk Douglas and Faye Dunaway. Then he made The Visitors (Elia Kazan, 1972). His final film was The Last Tycoon (Elia Kazan, 1976), a major production starring Robert De Niro and Jack Nicholson. It is a rather atypical Kazan film, based on the novel of the same name by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The cast also included stars such as Tony Curtis, Robert Mitchum, Jeanne Moreau, Donald Pleasence, Ray Milland, Dana Andrews and John Carradine. Despite the huge effort, the film was not a box-office success and Kazan left the director's chair. Kazan wrote seven novels and his autobiography. In 1980 Elia Kazan's second wife Barbara Loden died of cancer. A widower twice over, Kazan married a third time in 1982. He lived with his third wife Frances Rudge until his death. In 1988, Kazan was the director of the 7th Istanbul Film Festival. Since the 1970s, he has spent a lot of time in his old homeland. He connected with the Turkish musician, author and filmmaker Zülfü Livaneli, in whose film Sis he also had a small guest role. He also had a close friendship with the Turkish actor and director Yılmaz Güney and visited Güney in Toptaşı Prison in Istanbul in 1978. As a result, Kazan published an article "The View from a Turkish Prison" for the New York Times, in which he reported on the meeting with Güney and the conditions in the prison. In 1999, Kazan received an honorary Oscar for his entire career from the hands of Robert De Niro. Although many in Hollywood felt that enough time had passed to finally bury the hatchet and it was time to recognise his great artistic achievements, there was still much debate over this decision. Footage from the Oscar ceremony in question shows that only three-quarters of those present took part in the standing ovation. In 2003, Elia Kazan died at the age of 94 in Manhattan, New York City. Children from his first marriage were writer-producer Chris Kazan (1938–1991) and screenwriter Nicholas Kazan (1950), who is married to director and screenwriter Robin Swicord. Their daughter Zoe Kazan, Elia Kazan's granddaughter, is an actress. Another granddaughter is actress-writer-director Maya Kazan. Martin Scorsese co-directed the documentary film A Letter to Elia (Kent Jones, Martin Scorsese, 2010) as a personal tribute to Kazan.

 

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French postcard by Editions P.I., offered by Les Carbones Korès 'Carboplane', no. 877. Photo: Paramount Pictures.

 

Eva Marie Saint, born 4 July 1924, is an American actress with a career spanning 70 years. She is best known for starring in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954), for which she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, and Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959). She received Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominations for A Hatful of Rain (1957) and won a Primetime Emmy Award for the television miniseries People Like Us (1990).

 

Eva Marie Saint was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1924. Her parents were Quakers: Eva Marie née Rice and John Merle Saint. She had one older sister, Adelaide Louise Saint. Eva Marie attended Bethlehem Central High School in Delmar, New York, near Albany, graduating in 1942. According to her yearbook, Eva Marie's nickname was "Bubbles" and her ambition was to be a teacher. She was also a cheerleader as well as senior class secretary. Saint studied acting at Bowling Green State University. Her introduction to television began as an NBC page. She appeared in the very early live NBC TV show Campus Hoopla in 1946–47. She also appeared in the Bonnie Maid's Versa-Tile Varieties on NBC in 1949 as one of the original singing 'Bonnie Maid'" used in the live commercials. She appeared in a 1947 Life Magazine special about television, and also in a 1949 feature Life article about her as a struggling actress earning minimum amounts from early TV while trying to make ends meet in New York City. In the late 1940s, Saint continued to make her living by extensive work in radio and television. In 1953, she won the Drama Critics Award for her Broadway stage role in the Horton Foote play, 'The Trip to Bountiful' (1953), in which she co-starred with Lillian Gish and Jo Van Fleet. In 1955, Saint was nominated for her first Emmy for "Best Actress In A Single Performance" on The Philco Television Playhouse, for playing the young mistress of middle-aged E. G. Marshall in Middle of the Night by Paddy Chayefsky. She won another Emmy nomination for the 1955 television musical version of Our Town, adapted from the Thornton Wilder play of the same name. Co-stars were Paul Newman and Frank Sinatra. A TV critic dubbed her 'the Helen Hayes of television.'"

 

Eva Marie Saint made her feature film debut in On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954), starring Marlon Brando. She played Edie Doyle whose brother's death sets the film's drama in motion. Although the role of Edie properly is a lead, producer Sam Spiegel listed her as a Supporting Actress in the hopes of getting her a nomination for the Academy Award. The ploy worked and she won the Oscar. Her performance also earned her a BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Award) nomination for 'Most Promising Newcomer.' In his review for The New York Times, film critic A. H. Weiler wrote, "In casting Eva Marie Saint—a newcomer to movies from TV and Broadway—Mr. Kazan has come up with a pretty and blond artisan who does not have to depend on these attributes. Her parochial school training is no bar to love with the proper stranger. Amid scenes of carnage, she gives tenderness and sensitivity to genuine romance." The film was a major success and launched Saint's movie career. She received $7,500 for the role. She next appeared alongside Bob Hope in That Certain Feeling for which she received $50,000. She was then offered $100,000 to star in the lavish Civil War epic Raintree County (Edward Dmytryk, 1957) with Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift. After that, she next starred with Don Murray in A Hatful of Rain (Fred Zinnemann, 1957), the pioneering drug-addiction drama, which although made later than Raintree Country was released earlier in 1957. She received a BAFTA nomination for the 'Best Foreign Actress' for her performance. Alfred Hitchcock surprised many by choosing Saint over dozens of other candidates for the femme fatale role in the suspense classic North by Northwest (1959) with Cary Grant and James Mason. Pedro Borges at IMDb: "Written by Ernest Lehman, the film updated and expanded upon the director's early "wrong man" spy adventures of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, including The 39 Steps (1935), Young and Innocent (1937), and Saboteur (1942)". North by Northwest became a box-office hit. In his review in The New York Times, critic Abe H. Weiler wrote, "In casting Eva Marie Saint as [Cary Grant's] romantic vis-a-vis, Mr. Hitchcock has plumbed some talents not shown by the actress heretofore. Although she is seemingly a hard, designing type, she also emerges both the sweet heroine and a glamorous charmer."

 

Although North by Northwest might have propelled her to the top ranks of stardom, Eva Marie Saint chose to limit her film work in order to spend time with her husband since 1951, director Jeffrey Hayden, and their two children. In the 1960s, Saint continued to distinguish herself in both high-profile and offbeat pictures. She co-starred with Paul Newman in Exodus (Ottoi Preminger, 1960), a historical drama about the founding of the state of Israel adapted from the novel of the same name by Leon Uris. She also co-starred with Warren Beatty, Karl Malden, and Angela Lansbury as a tragic beauty in the drama All Fall Down (John Frankendheimer, 1962), based upon a novel by James Leo Herlihy and a screenplay by William Inge. She appeared with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in the melodrama The Sandpiper (Vincente Minnelli, 1965) and with James Garner in the World War II thriller 36 Hours (George Seaton, 1965). Saint joined an all-star cast in the comedic satire, The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming, (Norman Jewison, 1966), and the international racing drama, Grand Prix (John Frankenheimer, 1966), presented in Cinerama.

 

Saint received some of her best reviews for co-starring as the wife of George Segal in Loving (Irvin Kershner, 1970), about a commercial artist's relationship with his wife and other women. It was critically acclaimed but did not have wide viewership. Because of the mostly second-rate film roles that came her way in the 1970s, Saint returned to television and the stage in the 1980s. She appeared in a number of made-for-television films. She played the mother of Cybill Shepherd on the television series, Moonlighting (1986-1988), which lasted three years. She received an Emmy nomination for the TV series, How The West Was Won (Vincent McEveety, Bernard McEveety, 1976-1977), and an Emmy nomination for Taxi!!! (1978). She was reunited with On the Waterfront co-star Karl Malden in the TV Mini-Series Fatal Vision (David Greene, 1984), this time as the wife of his character, as he investigated the murder of his daughter and granddaughters. Saint returned to the big screen for the first time in over a decade in Nothing in Common (Garry Marshall, 1986), in which she played the mother of Tom Hanks's character. Critics applauded her return to features. Saint was soon back on the small screen in numerous projects. After receiving five nominations, she won her first Emmy Award for the TV movie People Like Us (William Hale, 1990). She appeared in a number of television productions in the 1990s and was cast as the mother of radio producer, Roz Doyle, in a 1999 episode of the comedy series Frasier. Saint returned to feature films in I Dreamed of Africa (Hugh Hudson, 2000) with Kim Basinger. In 2005 she co-starred with Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard in Don't Come Knocking (Wim Wenders, 2005), and appeared in the family film Because of Winn-Dixie (Wayne Wang, 2005). Saint appeared as Martha Kent, the adoptive mother of Superman, in Superman Returns (Bryan Singer, 2006) alongside Brandon Routh. In 2009, she made a rare public appearance at the 81st Academy Awards ceremony as a Best Supporting Actress presenter. Saint has lent her voice to the 2012 Nickelodeon animated series The Legend of Korra, a sequel to the hit TV show Avatar: The Last Airbender, playing the now-elderly Katara, a main character from the original series. She played the adult version of Willa in the film adaptation of the novel Winter's Tale (Mark Helprin, 2014). Most recently, Saint appeared at the 2018 Academy Award ceremonies and played in the drama Mariette in Ecstasy (John Bailey, 2019), set in a turn-of-the-century religious community about a nun who has recently taken her vows. She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, one for motion pictures at 6624 Hollywood Boulevard, and one for television at 6730 Hollywood Boulevard. Eva Marie Saint was married to producer and director Jeffrey Hayden from 1951 till his death in 2016. They had two children together: son Darrell Hayden (1955) and daughter Laurette Hayden (1958). Eva Marie Saint lives in Santa Monica, California.

 

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British postcard by Film Review, no. Set E, Card 2. Photo: Guild Film Distribution. Madonna in Body of Evidence (Uli Edel, 1992).

 

Madonna or Madonna Louise Ciccone (1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. During the MTV craze in the 1980s, Madonna pushed boundaries with her song texts and her provocative performances. She frequently reinvented herself and her music and stayed the 'Queen of Pop' for decades. Her global bestsellers were hits such as Like a Virgin (1984) and True Blue (1986), but for us she became more interesting with songs like Like a Prayer (1989), Vogue (1991) and Frozen (1998). And we're still fan, even of some of her films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Truth or Dare (1991), and Evita (1996). The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops reinventing herself, Madonna is a seven-time Grammy Award-winner who has sold over three hundred million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide.

 

Madonna was born Madonna Louise Ciccone in 1958 in Bay City, Michigan. Her father is Italian, her mother was French-Canadian. Her siblings are Anthony Ciccone (1956), Martin Ciccone (1957), Paula Ciccone (1959), Christopher Ciccone (1960), and Melanie Henry (1962). In 1962, Madonna's mother, pregnant with her sixth child, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She delayed treatment until her baby was born, but by that time it was too late. A harrowing, yearlong battle with the disease ensued. She lost her battle with cancer in 1963. In 1978, Madonna moved to New York and studied with renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey. She joined up with the Patrick Hernandez Revue, formed a pop/dance band called 'Breakfast Club', and began working with then-boyfriend Stephen Bray on recording several disco-oriented songs. New York producer/D.J. Mark Kamins passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982 and the rest is history. The 1980s was Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multimillion-selling albums. Madonna first appeared on screen in two low-budget films marketed to an adolescent audience: A Certain Sacrifice (Stephen Jon Lewicki, 1979) and Crazy for You (Harold Becker, 1985), starring Matthew Modine. Her first film, A Certain Sacrifice (1979), was released in 1985, after she became a star, but was actually shot in two parts, the first in 1979, and the other, in 1981. However, she scored a minor cult hit with Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985) starring alongside spunky Rosanna Arquette. In 1984, she started fashion trends with her unique look using rosaries and crosses as jewelry and black rubber typewriter bands as bracelets. Legions of adolescent girls mimicked her look and a Madonna clothing store was opened in New York. Again in 2001, another huge fashion trend was set off by the "Material Mom", this time with western wear - cowboy hats and mud-splattered jeans. In 1986, she starred with then-husband Sean Penn in Shanghai Surprise (Jim Goddard, 1986), which was savaged by critics. She managed to somewhat improve her standing in the cinema with her next two films, the off-beat Who's That Girl (James Foley, 1987) and the quirky Damon Runyon-inspired Bloodhounds of Broadway (Howard Brookner, 1989).

 

Madonna played in the big-budget and star-filled Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990) bad girl Breathless Mahoney flirting with Warren Beatty. The epic failed to catch fire at the box office. Taking an earthier role, Madonna was much more entertaining alongside Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall, 1992), a story about female baseball players during W.W.II. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the whodunit Body of Evidence (Uli Edel, 1992) with Willem Dafoe, an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of the sexy Sharon Stone thriller Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992). Several other minor screen roles followed, then Madonna starred as Eva Perón opposite Jonathan Pryce and Antonio Banderas in Evita (Alan Parker, 1996), a fairly well-received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Material Girl stayed away from the film cameras for several years, returning to co-star with Rupert Everett in the lukewarm romantic comedy The Next Best Thing (John Schlesinger, 2000), followed by the painful Swept Away (2002) for husband Guy Ritchie. If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure Die Another Day (Lee Tamahori, 2002) starring Pierce Brosnan. Madonna began a directing career in 2008 with the comedy Filth and Wisdom (Madonna, 2008), and a year later she reunited with Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) director Alek Keshishian to develop a script about the relationship between the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor that led to his abdication in 1936: the result, a movie named W.E. (Madonna, 2011), starring James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough as the infernal but still royal couple. The film was released in 2011 to lukewarm critics but it gathered one Oscar nomination for costumes and won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for 'Masterpiece'. Madonna has 6 children: daughter, Lourdes Leon (1996) with an ex-boyfriend, Carlos Leon, son, Rocco Ritchie (2000), and adoptive son, David Banda Mwale Ciccone Ritchie (2005) with ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, and adoptive daughters, Mercy James Ciccone (2006), Estere Ciccone and Stella Ciccone (2012).

 

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Sept. 6, 2010. For the half-marathon race, the following local runners have registered with the Running Room for the Sept. 19th Canada Army Run in Ottawa. The list is sorted by community (Ottawa first) and then by first name.

 

Part A. Ottawa

Part B. Other Communities (e.g., Kanata, Nepean, Gatineau)

 

A. Ottawa

 

1…Adam Martin

2…Adriana Ducic

3…Adrien Barrieau

4…Adwin Gallant

5…Aideen Smith

6…Aili Ignacy

7…Alain Vermette

8…Alan Born

9…Alan Mulawyshyn

10…Alan Yeadon

11…Alecks Zarama

12…Alex Peach

13…Alexa Hutchinson

14…Alexis Tervo

15…Alia Waterfall

16…Alice Adamo

17…Alison Cunningham

18…Alison McCray

19…Alison Mulawyshyn

20…Alison Young

21…Allan Gauci

22…Allison Seymour

23…Amanda Brown

24…Amanda Haddad

25…Amanda Halladay

26…Amanda Main

27…Amanda Mulawyshyn

28…Amanda Pavlovic

29…Amber Steeves

30…Amelie Armstrong

31…Amy Donaghey

32…Amy Johnson

33…Amy Rose

34…André François Giroux

35…Andre Morency

36…Andre Rancourt

37…Andrea Matthews

38…Andrea Wenham

39…Andrew Ha

40…Andrew Hawley

41…Andrew Kelly

42…Andrew Matwick

43…Andrew Mendes

44…Andrew Ng

45…Andrew Norgaard

46…Andrew Postma

47…andrew staples

48…Andrew Young

49…Andy Acelvari

50…Angela Lamb

51…Angela Romany

52…Angela Walter

53…Anika Clark

54…Anita Barewal

55…Anita Choquette

56…Anita Portier

57…Anka Crowe

58…Ann Lanthier

59…Ann MacDonald

60…Anna Aylett

61…Anna Dabros

62…Anna Wilkinson

63…Anna-Maria Frescura

64…Anne Finn

65…Anthony Robertson

66…Antonia Marrs

67…Ashleigh Craig

68…Ashley Allott

69…Ashley Harrington

70…Audra Swinton

71…Audrey Corsi Caya

72…B Schmidt

73…Barbara Burkhard

74…Barbara Chisholm

75…Barbara Mingie

76…Barry Walker

77…Beate Pradel

78…Ben-Zion Caspi

79…Bernard Charlebois

80…Berny Gordon

81…Betty Bulman

82…Beverly Clarkson

83…Bhaskar Gopalan

84…Bill McEachern

85…Billy Wilson

86…Bob McGillivray

87…Bonnie Stewart

88…Brad Mackay

89…Brad Wood

90…Brandon McArthur

91…Breanne Merklinger

92…Brent Miller

93…Brian Davis

94…Brian O'Higgins

95…Brian Ray

96…Brian Senecal

97…Brian Storosko

98…Brian Tweedie

99…Brigitte Jackstien

100…Brittany Hinds

101…Bruce McLaurin

102…Bruce Sheppard

103…Bryan Hofmeister

104…Cal Mitchell

105…Cameron Fraser

106…Candice Therien

107…Carly Lachance

108…Carmelle Sullivan

109…Carmen Vierula

110…Catherine Caron

111…Catherine Pound

112…Catherine Wallace

113…Cathy Green

114…Cecilia Ho

115…Chad Scarborough

116…Chad Wilson

117…Chantal Campbell

118…Chantal Pilon

119…Chantelle Lalonde

120…Charlene Mathias

121…Charlene Ruberry

122…Charlotte Newton

123…Cherrie Meloche

124…Cheryl Kardish-Levitan

125…Cheryl McIntyre

126…Cheryl Shore

127…Chris Bowen

128…Chris Bright

129…Chris Brown

130…Chris Dannehl

131…Chris Durham-Valentino

132…Chris Morris

133…Chris Rath

134…Chris Spiteri

135…Chris Weicker

136…Chris Woodcock

137…Christian Cattan

138…Christie Bitar

139…Christina Jensen

140…Christina Mullally

141…Christine Geraghty

142…Christine Hodge

143…Christine Meldrum

144…Christine Pratley-Moore

145…Christine Rath

146…Christine Smith

147…Christine Vaillancourt

148…Christopher Kelly

149…Christopher Mallette

150…Cindy Lim

151…Cindy Robinson

152…Clare MacRae

153…Claude Béland

154…Claude Papineau

155…Claudia Brown

156…Claudia Veas

157…Clyde MacLellan

158…Colette Nault

159…Colin Daniel

160…Colleen Bigelow

161…Colleen Crane

162…Connie Acelvari

163…Constance Craig

164…Coreen Corcoran

165…Corri Barr

166…Cory Kwasny

167…Courtenay Beauregard

168…Craig Blair

169…Curtis McGrath

170…Cynthia Elliott

171…Dan Moore

172…Dana Derousie

173…Dana Wall

174…Danene Whiting

175…Daniel Barnes

176…Daniel Munro

177…Daniel Pharand

178…Daniel Pohl

179…Danielle Leguard-White

180…Dara Hakimzadeh

181…Daria Strachan

182…Darlene Joyce

183…Darlene Whiting

184…Darrell Bridge

185…Dave Goods

186…Dave Johnston

187…Dave Marcotte

188…Dave Poff

189…Dave Silvester

190…Dave Yurach

191…David Aaltonen

192…David Delaney

193…David Fobert

194…David Gerrard

195…David Gregory

196…David Kirk

197…David Lemieux

198…David Liimatainen

199…David Murray

200…David Stewart

201…David Tischhauser

202…David Wright

203…Dawn Bruyere

204…Dawn Fallis

205…Dawn Montgomery

206…Dawn More

207…Dean Justus

208…Deanna Murray

209…Deb Hogan

210…Debby Duford

211…Deborah Kacew

212…Deborah Newhook

213…Denis Carriere

214…Denise Senecal

215…Denise Thibault

216…Dennis Bulman

217…Derek Love

218…Derek Spriet

219…Derrick Ward

220…Diana Harrison

221…Diane Boisvert

222…DJ Butcher

223…Djordje Zutkovic

224…Dominique Au-Yeung

225…Don Andersen

226…Don Cooper

227…Don Orr

228…Dona Hill

229…Dona Pino

230…Donald Waldock

231…Donna Justus

232…Donna Manweiler

233…Donna Moffatt

234…Doreen Lipovski

235…Doris McLean

236…Dorothy Kitchen

237…Dot Harvey

238…Douglas Cooper

239…Duaine Simms

240…Dung Bui

241…Edie Knight

242…Edith Anderson

243…Edith Bostwick

244…Edith Duarte

245…Edith Grienti

246…Edmund Thomas

247…Eileen Tosky-McKinnon

248…Eira Macdonell

249…Elaine Rufiange

250…Eleanor Thomas

251…Eleonora Karabatic

252…Elisabeth Fowler

253…Elizabeth Jones

254…Elizabeth Millaire

255…Elle Bouliane

256…Ellen Carter

257…Ellen O'Halloran

258…Emilee Lloyd-Krusky

259…Emilie Brouzes

260…Émilie Comtois-Rousseau

261…Emily Gusba

262…Emily MacLean

263…Emily Mantha

264…Emmanuelle Arnould-Lalonde

265…Ena Malvern

266…Enya Hamel

267…Eric Arnold

268…Erin Wall

269…Erin White

270…Esther Seto

271…Eva Burnett

272…Evamarie Weicker

273…Evan May

274…Evelyne Gionet

275…Fannie Gouault

276…Felice Pleet

277…Fiona Grant

278…Frances Furmankiewicz

279…Francine Millen

280…Francois Dumaine

281…Francois Pineau

282…Francoise Mulligan

283…Frank D'Angelo

284…Franz Kropp

285…Fuen Leal-Santiago

286…Gabe Batstone

287…Gabriel Castro

288…Gabriela Balajova

289…Gabriela Fonseca

290…Gail Baker-Gregory

291…Gary Bazdell

292…Gary Guymer

293…Gary Wilkes

294…Gavin Lemoine

295…Geb Marett

296…Geneva Collier

297…Gennifer Stainforth

298…Geof Dudding

299…Geoff Cooper

300…Geoff Dunkley

301…George Ferrier

302…Gerald Nigra

303…Gerry Doucette

304…Gilles St-Pierre

305…Gillian Andersen

306…Ginette Lalonde-Kontio

307…Ginny Strachan

308…Glen Chiasson

309…Golmain Percy

310…Gord Baldwin

311…Gord Coulson

312…Graham Thatcher

313…Graig Halpin

314…Grant Stewart

315…Graziella Panuccio

316…Greg Godsell

317…Greg Morris

318…Greta Chase

319…Greta Smith

320…Gurminder Singh

321…Guy Giguere

322…Hali Smith

323…Harold Geller

324…Heather Baker

325…Heather Bigelow

326…Heather Hopkins

327…Heather Paulusse

328…Heather Phillips

329…Heather Watts

330…Heather Williams

331…Heidi Schissel

332…Helen Yemensky

333…Héléne Lepine

334…Holly Johnson

335…Hong Pang

336…Ian Beausoleil-Morrison

337…Ian Graham

338…Ian MacVicar

339…Ian McNaughton

340…Ingrid Koenig

341…Irène Dionne

342…Irv Marucelj

343…Irvin Hill

344…Isabelle Deschenes

345…Jack Jensen

346…Jackie Kachuik

347…Jacqueline Thorne

348…Jade Sillick

349…Jaime Girard

350…James Fraser

351…James Godefroy

352…Jamie Hurst

353…Jane Gibson

354…Jane Maxwell

355…Jane Rooney

356…Jane Scott

357…Jane Spiteri

358…Jane Waterfall

359…Jane Weldon

360…Janet Cooper

361…Janet Curran

362…Janet Huffman

363…Janice Richard

364…Jared Broughton

365…Jasmine Brown

366…Jason Chouinard

367…Jason Frew

368…Jason Stewart

369…Jay Rached

370…Jay Shaw

371…Jayne Barlow

372…Jeff Hausmann

373…Jeff Waterfall

374…Jeffery Vanderploeg

375…Jeffrey Green

376…Jeffrey Muller

377…Jeffrey Reid

378…Jen Peirce

379…Jenelle Power

380…Jennea Grison

381…Jennifer Ajersch

382…Jennifer Baudin

383…Jennifer Bucknall

384…Jennifer Elliott

385…Jennifer Fraser

386…Jennifer Kaufman

387…Jennifer Leblanc

388…Jennifer Morris

389…Jessalynn Miller

390…Jessica Brown

391…Jessica Evans

392…Jessica Lanouette

393…Jessica McKittrick

394…Jessica Ouvrard

395…Jill Ainsworth

396…Jill Baker

397…Jill Dickinson

398…Jill Frook

399…Jim Carter

400…Jim Walsh

401…Jimmy Novak

402…Joann Garbig

403…Joanne Collins

404…Joanne Foley-Grimes

405…Joanne Fox

406…Joanne Merrett

407…JoAnne Schmid

408…Jocelyne Grandlouis

409…Jodi Ashton

410…Jody McKinnon

411…Joel Proulx

412…Joelle D'Aoust

413…Johanna Jennings

414…Johanne Bertrand

415…John Emard

416…John Manwaring

417…John Oliver

418…John Welsh

419…John-Paul Yaraskavitch

420…Jolene Harvey

421…Jolene Savoie

422…Jonathan Charbonneau

423…Jonathan Freedman

424…Jonathan Lemieux

425…Jonathan Woodman

426…Joni Ogawa

427…Josee Surprenant

428…Josette Day

429…Josh Bowen

430…Josh McKinnon

431…Joy Halverson

432…Julia Brothers

433…Julia De Ste Croix

434…Julia Johnston

435…Juliann Castell

436…Julie Burke

437…Julie Dale

438…Julie Farmer

439…Julie Laplante

440…Julie Lefebvre

441…Julie Rutberg

442…Justin Maheux

443…Justin McAtamney

444…Justin McKinnon

445…Kara Wheatley

446…Karen Burns

447…Karen Cook

448…Karen Dillon

449…Karen Genge

450…Karen Sauve

451…Karina Tuyen Hua

452…Karl St-Hilaire

453…Kate Corsten

454…Kate Kurys

455…Kate Sherwood

456…Kate Truglia

457…Katherine Ann Aldred

458…Katherine MacDonald

459…Katherine Richardson

460…Katherine Ryan

461…Kathleen Gifford

462…Kathleen Talarico

463…Kathryn Laflamme

464…Kathy Heney

465…Kathy Lewis

466…Kathy McGilvray

467…Kathy Rutledge

468…Katie Rutledge-Taylor

469…Kazutoshi NISHIZAWA

470…Keith Holman

471…Keith Johnson

472…Keith Mulligan

473…Keith Savage

474…Kelly Bell

475…Kelly Harrington

476…Kelly St-Jacques

477…Ken Hardage

478…Ken McNair

479…Ken Whiting

480…Kendall Miller

481…Kendra Kehoe

482…Kerri Cook

483…Kevin Hubich

484…Kevin Mercer

485…Kevin O'Brien

486…Kiley Thompson

487…Kim Benjamin

488…Kim Moir

489…Kim Shelp

490…Kimberley Low

491…Kimberley Salisbury

492…Krista MacDonald

493…Kristin Harrison

494…Kristina Jensen

495…Kristine Dempster

496…Kristine Simpson

497…Krysten Chase

498…Kyla Kelly

499…Kyle Miersma

500…Lalonde Martine

501…Lambros Pezoulas

502…Laura Cluney

503…Laura Smith

504…Laura Walker-Ng

505…Lauren Gamble

506…Laurent Roy

507…Laurie Gorman

508…Laurie Hardage

509…Lawrence Wong

510…Leah Beaudette

511…Lee Blue

512…Leigh Howe

513…Leona Emberson

514…Leslie McLean

515…Leslie-Anne Bailliu

516…Lia Eichele

517…Lian Bleckmann

518…Liliane Langevin

519…Linda Doyle

520…Lindsay Grace

521…Lindsay Wilson

522…Lisa Francis

523…Lisa Gibson

524…Lisa Grison

525…Lisa Hans

526…Lisa Headley

527…Lisa Hogan

528…Lisa Kawaguchi

529…Lise Perrier

530…Liz Van Dijk

531…Lori Blais

532…Lori Howell

533…Lorina Herbert

534…Lorna MCCREA

535…Lorretta Pinder

536…Louise Morin

537…Lucas Smith

538…Luis Ramirez

539…Luis Villegas

540…Lyndsey Hill

541…Lynn Diggins

542…Lynn McLewin

543…Lynn Nightingale

544…Lynn Sewell

545…Lynn Stewart

546…Lyse Langevin

547…Madeleine Gravel

548…Magali Johnson

549…Malcolm Williams

550…Mandy Smith

551…Maple Yap

552…marc cholette

553…Marc Patry

554…Marcel Mathurin

555…Marcella Ost

556…Marci Dearing

557…Margaret Davidson

558…Margaret Michalski

559…Marian McMahon

560…Marilyn Warren

561…Mario Villemaire

562…Mark Boyle

563…Mark Burchell

564…Mark McGill

565…Mark Whiting

566…Martin Dinan

567…Martin Sullivan

568…Mary Jean Price

569…Mary Kate Williamson

570…Mary Murphy

571…Mathew Pearson

572…Matt Parenteau

573…Matthew Chan

574…Matthew Eglin

575…Matthew Payne

576…Maureen Feagan

577…Mauricio Salgado

578…Meagan Morris

579…Meaghan Curran

580…Melanie Caulfield

581…Melinda Newman

582…Melissa Hammell

583…Melissa Hyde

584…Melissa Madill

585…Melissa White

586…Meredith Rocchi

587…Michael Arts

588…Michael Blois

589…Michael Corneau

590…Michael D'Asti

591…Michael Gilligan

592…Michael Hogan

593…Michael Lang

594…Michael Maranto

595…Michael McAuley

596…Michael McNeill

597…Michael Yetman

598…Michel Bouchard

599…Micheline Lalonde

600…Michelle Cicalo

601…Michelle Keough

602…Michelle McAuliffe

603…Michelle Saunders

604…Mike Chambers

605…Mike Cummings

606…Mike Elston

607…Mike Henry

608…Mike Hopper

609…Mike Kowal

610…Mike Lavery

611…Mike Mazerolle

612…Mike Peralta

613…Mike White

614…Monica Martinez

615…M-Rosa Mangone-Laboccetta

616…Murielle Cassidy

617…Nada Milosevic

618…Nadine Tischhauser

619…Nancy Amos

620…Nancy C Green

621…Nancy Colton

622…Nancy Dlouhy

623…Nancy Ferguson

624…Nancy Fowler

625…Nancy Green

626…Nancy Lau

627…Nardine Kwasny

628…Natalie Quimper

629…Natasha Carraro

630…Nathan Rotman

631…Nelson Lewis

632…

633…Nick Brunette-D'Souza

634…Nick Leswick

635…Nicky Saldanha

636…Nicole Byrne

637…Nicole Duguay

638…Nicole Mikhael

639…Nicole Slunder

640…Nina Franchina

641…Ondina Buttle

642…Paige Waldock

643…Pamela Biron

644…Pamela Ellison

645…Pascal Michaux

646…Pat Farley

647…Patricia Hachey

648…Patricia Wait

649…Patrick Byrne

650…Patrick Finn

651…Patrick Hebert

652…Patrick Marion

653…Patrick Miron

654…Patti Gamble

655…Paul dalgleish

656…Paul Denys

657…Paul MacNeil

658…Paul Malvern

659…Paul Masson

660…Paul Rosenberg

661…Paul Steeves

662…Paul Tessier

663…Paula Gherasim

664…Paula Piilonen

665…Peter Bayne

666…Peter Green

667…Peter Hammond

668…Peter Linkletter

669…Peter Mason

670…Peter Morel

671…Peter Winfield

672…Phillip Edwards

673…Prichya Sethchindapong

674…Quinn Murphy

675…Rachelle LeBlanc

676…Rajkumar Nagarajan

677…Ramy Abaskharoun

678…Rand Freeman

679…Randy Biberdorf

680…Randy McElligott

681…Ratnesh Singh

682…Raymond Boucher

683…Raymonde Langevin

684…Rebecca Dorval

685…Rebekah Swatton

686…Regan Mathurin

687…Remi Bourlon

688…Renata Manchak

689…Rene van Diepen

690…Renee Lamoureux

691…Rene-Louis Bourgeau

692…Reza Mashkoori

693…Rhiannon Andersen

694…Rhiannon Vogl

695…Rich Manery

696…Richard Bourassa

697…Richard Cheng

698…Richard Hanson

699…Richard Lewis

700…Richard Wall

701…Rick Dobson

702…Rick Emond

703…Rick O'Shaughnessy

704…Rob Criger

705…Rob Joseph

706…Robert Brown

707…Robert Christie

708…Robert Lee

709…Robert McGrath

710…Robert Moulie

711…Robin Sheedy

712…Rodney Ryan

713…Roger Langevin

714…Roger Pankhurst

715…Roger Zemek

716…Romeo Monette

717…Ron Armstrong

718…Ron Jande

719…Ron Mierau

720…Rose Parent

721…Russ Mirasty

722…Ruth Farey

723…RuthAnne Corley

724…Ryan Gillies

725…Ryan Kidman

726…S. Jack

727…Samantha 'Fatty' Hunter

728…Sandra Boyko

729…Sandra Chong

730…Sandra Moorman

731…Sanja Denic

732…Sara Mohr

733…Sara Tubman

734…Sarah Chalk

735…Sarah Dooley

736…Sarah Scott

737…Scott Beauchamp

738…Scott Colvin

739…Scott Doran

740…Scott Felman

741…Scott Gibson

742…Scott Townley

743…Sean Conrad

744…Sean McGrath

745…Sean O'Brien

746…Sébastien Taillefer

747…Sera Chiuchiarelli

748…Serge Richard

749…Shannon Renaud

750…Shari Goodfellow

751…Shari Nurse

752…Sharleen Conrad-Beatty

753…Sharon Chomyn

754…Sharon Ferdinand

755…Sharon Tobin

756…Shauna Graham

757…Shawn Murray

758…Shawn Rycroft

759…Sheila Barth

760…Sheila McIsaac

761…Shelley Chambers

762…She-Yang Lau-Chapdelaine

763…Simon Roussin

764…Sondra MacDonald

765…Sonia Gilroy

766…Sonia Granzer

767…Sophie Gravel

768…Soraya Moghadam

769…Stacey Brennan

770…Stèfan Tobin

771…Stephane Castonguay

772…Stephanie Brodeur

773…Stephanie Crisford

774…Stephanie Gauthier

775…Stephanie Gordon

776…Stephen LaPlante

777…Stephen Woroszczuk

778…Steve Astels

779…Steve Forrest

780…Steven Craft

781…Steven Turner

782…Stuart Laubstein

783…Susan Durrell

784…Susan Farrell

785…Susan Johnston

786…Susan Lacosta

787…Susan Mak Chin

788…Susan Richards

789…Suzanne Belzile

790…Suzanne MacLean

791…Sylvain Huard

792…Sylvie Rochon

793…Takuya Tazawa

794…Tammey Degrandpre

795…Tammy Frye

796…Tanya Frye

797…Tara Benjamin

798…Tarjinder Kainth

799…Terri Bolster

800…Terri-Lee Lefebvre

801…Terry Monger

802…Terry Muldoon

803…Terry Porter

804…Theresa Tam

805…Thomas Robinson

806…Tim Irwin

807…Timon LeDain

808…Tina Fallis

809…Tina Head

810…Tom Boudreau

811…Tom Brown

812…Tong Pang

813…Tonja Leach

814…Tony Kittridge

815…Tracie Royal

816…Tracy Corneau

817…Travis Smith

818…Trevor Johnson

819…Tricia Brown

820…Trina Bender

821…Tyler Dickerson

822…Val Lafranchise

823…Vanessa Brochet

824…Vanessa Buchanan

825…Vello Mijal

826…Vernon White

827…Veronique Boily

828…Vic Baker

829…Viola Caissy

830…Wade Smith

831…Walter Pamic

832…Walter Wood

833…Wayne Williams

834…Wendy Low

835…Will Simmering

836…Will Summers

837…Will Youngson

838…Willem Stevens

839…William Chisholm

840…William Morley

841…Winter Fedyk

842…Yan Zawisza

843…Yandu Oppacher

844…Yolande Simoneau

845…Zach McKeown

 

B. Other Communities

 

846…Terry Koronewski……..Alexandria

847…Ashley Page……..Almonte

848…Christina Kealey……..Almonte

849…Jenny Sheffield……..Almonte

850…Judi Sutherland……..Almonte

851…Linda Berkloo……..almonte

852…Tanya Yuill……..Almonte

853…Bette-Anne Dodge……..Arnprior

854…Constance Palubiskie……..Arnprior

855…Erin Tighe……..Ashton

856…Angela Hartley……..Athens

857…Christina Ward……..Athens

858…Heather Johnston……..Athens

859…Kevin Hartley……..Athens

860…Barbara Sweeney……..Aylmer

861…Chelsea Honeyman……..Aylmer

862…David Michaud……..Aylmer

863…Natalie Frodsham……..Beachburg

864…Carol-Anne McInnes……..Belleville

865…Craig McInnes……..Belleville

866…Edward Kooistra……..Belleville

867…Norma Barrett……..Belleville

868…Rhonda Cassibo……..Belleville

869…Christine Lalonde……..Bourget

870…Luc Lalonde……..Bourget

871…Pierre Lacasse……..Bourget

872…Kylie Howison……..Brockville

873…Tim Audet……..Brockville

874…Richard Bisson……..Cantley

875…Bonnie Levesque……..Carleton Place

876…Jennifer Blackburn……..Carleton Place

877…John Graham……..Carleton Place

878…Leanna Knox……..Carleton Place

879…Roger Kinsman……..Carleton Place

880…Ron Romain……..Carleton Place

881…Tom Kemp……..Carleton Place

882…Anna Li……..Carp

883…Elysa Esposito……..Carp

884…Gerard Rumleskie……..Carp

885…Hans Buser……..Carp

886…Ileana Tierney……..Carp

887…Lana Reid……..Carp

888…Peter Parkhill……..Carp

889…Raina Ho……..Carp

890…Rob Gaudet……..Carp

891…Shona Daniels……..Carp

892…Bob Sweetlove……..casselman

893…Mary Sweetlove……..casselman

894…Andy Best……..Chalk River

895…Angela Nuelle……..Chelsea

896…Ariane Brunet……..Chelsea

897…Benoit Perry……..Chelsea

898…Guillaume D'aoust……..Chelsea

899…Ian Hunter……..Chelsea

900…Jeff Bardsley……..Chelsea

901…Murielle Brazeau……..Chelsea

902…Raymond Brunet……..Chelsea

903…Sophie Brunet……..Chelsea

904…Yvan Dion……..Chelsea

905…Cathleen Bourret……..Chesterville

906…Bruce Oattes……..Cobden

907…Carole Buxcey……..Cobden

908…Chris Hornell……..Cobourg

909…Abigail Fontaine……..Cornwall

910…Cathy Richer……..Cornwall

911…Garth Wigle……..Cornwall

912…Joanne Filliol……..Cornwall

913…John St. Marseille……..Cornwall

914…Kathleen Hay……..Cornwall

915…Laurie Parisien……..Cornwall

916…Marc Besner……..Cornwall

917…Nancy Kelly……..Cornwall

918…Norman Marcotte……..Cornwall

919…Scott Heath……..cornwall

920…Stacie King……..Cornwall

921…Terry Quenneville……..Cornwall

922…Jane McLaren……..Cornwall,

923…John Speirs……..Deep River

924…Robin Engel……..Dundas

925…Timothy Engel……..Dundas

926…Christine Andrus……..Dunrobin

927…Gordon Colquhoun……..Dunrobin

928…Janet Campbell……..Dunrobin

929…Pamela Colquhoun……..Dunrobin

930…Alexandrea Watters……..Elgin

931…David McCulloch……..Embrun

932…Eric Deschamps……..Embrun

933…Robert Lindsay……..Embrun

934…Stéphane Gougeon……..Embrun

935…Sylvie Beauchamp……..Embrun

936…Richard Kellett……..Farnham

937…Jay Buhr……..Finch

938…Glenda O'Rourke……..Fitzroy Harbour

939…Jessica Craig……..Fitzroy Harbour

940…Denise Roy……..Fournier

941…Pierre Doucette……..Gananoque

942…Steacy Kavaner……..Gananoque

943…Alexandre Boudreault……..Gatineau

944…Alexandria Wilson……..Gatineau

945…Allan Wilson……..Gatineau

946…Anne-Marie Chapman……..Gatineau

947…Anne-Marie Regimbal……..Gatineau

948…Augusto Gamero……..Gatineau

949…Benoit Gagnon……..Gatineau

950…Bernard Audy……..Gatineau

951…Brenda Cox……..Gatineau

952…Carolyne Dube……..Gatineau

953…Céline Couture……..Gatineau

954…Chad Levac……..Gatineau

955…Chantale Lussier-Ley……..Gatineau

956…Christian Bourgeois……..Gatineau

957…Cristiano Rezende……..Gatineau

958…Dani Grandmaître……..Gatineau

959…Darya Shapka……..Gatineau

960…Dominique Kane……..Gatineau

961…Eric Silins……..Gatineau

962…François Laferrière……..Gatineau

963…Frédéric Thibault-Chabot……..Gatineau

964…Gilly Griffin……..Gatineau

965…Graham Wilson……..Gatineau

966…Greg Stainton……..Gatineau

967…Guy Corneau……..Gatineau

968…Guy Desjardins……..Gatineau

969…Hannah Juneau……..Gatineau

970…Hélène Belleau……..Gatineau

971…Isabelle Moses……..Gatineau

972…Isabelle Teolis……..Gatineau

973…Jean-Francois Pouliotte……..Gatineau

974…Jean-Philippe Dumont……..Gatineau

975…Jinny Williamson……..Gatineau

976…Jonathan Gilbert……..Gatineau

977…Josee Labonte……..Gatineau

978…Julie Demers……..Gatineau

979…Julie Piche……..Gatineau

980…Karine Leblond……..Gatineau

981…Katie Webster……..Gatineau

982…Kyle Hunter……..Gatineau

983…Lalonde Lucie……..Gatineau

984…Leisa McGillivray……..Gatineau

985…Lissa Comtois-Silins……..Gatineau

986…Louis Christophe Laurence……..Gatineau

987…Louis Simon……..Gatineau

988…Louise Boudreault……..Gatineau

989…Louise Fortier……..Gatineau

990…Mabel Wapachee……..Gatineau

991…Magali Couture……..Gatineau

992…Manon Damboise……..Gatineau

993…Manon Laliberté……..Gatineau

994…Marc André Nault……..Gatineau

995…Marc-Etienne Lesieur……..Gatineau

996…Mark Ellison……..Gatineau

997…Martin Labelle……..Gatineau

998…Martin Larose……..Gatineau

999…Michel Mercier……..Gatineau

1000…Michele Simpson……..Gatineau

1001…Mika Raja……..Gatineau

1002…Mikaly Gagnon……..Gatineau

1003…Nancy Jean……..Gatineau

1004…Natalie Brun del Re……..Gatineau

1005…Nathalie Brunet……..Gatineau

1006…Noel Paine……..Gatineau

1007…Pascal Tremblay……..Gatineau

1008…Patty Soles……..Gatineau

1009…Paul Gould……..Gatineau

1010…Philippe Houle……..Gatineau

1011…Pierre Villeneuve……..Gatineau

1012…Ray Burke……..Gatineau

1013…Raymond Desjardins……..Gatineau

1014…Réjean Lacroix……..Gatineau

1015…Robert Chassé……..Gatineau

1016…Sandra Roberts……..Gatineau

1017…Sanjay Vachali……..Gatineau

1018…Shelley Milton……..Gatineau

1019…Somphane Souksanh……..Gatineau

1020…Sonja Adcock……..Gatineau

1021…Sophie Caron……..Gatineau

1022…Stephane Boudrias……..Gatineau

1023…Stéphane Siegrist……..Gatineau

1024…Stéphanie Séguin……..Gatineau

1025…Steves Tousignant……..Gatineau

1026…Susie Simard……..Gatineau

1027…Suzanne Ramsay……..Gatineau

1028…Tanya O'Callaghan……..Gatineau

1029…Tayeb Mesbah……..Gatineau

1030…Terry SanCartier……..Gatineau

1031…Todd Keesey……..Gatineau

1032…Wayne Saunders……..Gatineau

1033…Zachary Healy……..Gatineau

1034…Belinda Coballe……..Gloucester

1035…Cam Wilson……..Gloucester

1036…Catherine Clifford……..Gloucester

1037…Cathy Gould……..Gloucester

1038…Danielle Thibeault……..Gloucester

1039…Dave Currie……..Gloucester

1040…David Clement……..Gloucester

1041…Gillian Todd-Messinger……..Gloucester

1042…Ingrid Brosseau……..Gloucester

1043…Jackie Millette……..Gloucester

1044…John Frappier……..Gloucester

1045…John Girard……..Gloucester

1046…Joseph Rios……..Gloucester

1047…Karen Beattie……..Gloucester

1048…Ken McFarlane……..Gloucester

1049…Keri Burgess……..Gloucester

1050…Lee Dixon……..Gloucester

1051…Lucie Villeneuve……..Gloucester

1052…Michele Boyer……..Gloucester

1053…Nicole Labelle……..Gloucester

1054…Sonja Renz……..Gloucester

1055…Tiffany Belair……..Gloucester

1056…Tom Fottinger……..Gloucester

1057…Virginia Mofford……..Gloucester

1058…Ann Westell……..Greely

1059…Carol Boucher……..Greely

1060…Claire Johnstone……..Greely

1061…Claire Maxwell……..Greely

1062…David Benyon……..Greely

1063…Jennifer Frechette……..Greely

1064…Randall Holmes……..Greely

1065…Scott Evans……..Greely

1066…Stephanie Courcelles……..greely

1067…Louise Galipeau……..Hammond

1068…Adam Boyle……..Kanata

1069…Adam Pelham……..Kanata

1070…Adrian Salt……..Kanata

1071…Afshan Thakkar……..Kanata

1072…Alistair Edwards……..Kanata

1073…Allen Piddington……..Kanata

1074…Amanda Archibald……..Kanata

1075…Anand Srinivasan……..Kanata

1076…Andrea Carisse……..Kanata

1077…Andrew Fewtrell……..Kanata

1078…Anne Collis……..Kanata

1079…Bernie Armour……..Kanata

1080…Bill Gilchrist……..Kanata

1081…Brenda Pavlovic……..Kanata

1082…Brian Archibald……..Kanata

1083…Brittney Pavlovic……..Kanata

1084…Carmen Davidson……..Kanata

1085…Cecilia Jorgenson……..Kanata

1086…Chandan Banerjee……..Kanata

1087…Cherie Koshman……..Kanata

1088…Cheryl Levi……..Kanata

1089…Chris Cowie……..Kanata

1090…Christine Pollex……..Kanata

1091…Cindy Molaski……..Kanata

1092…Colleen Gilchrist……..Kanata

1093…Colleen Kilty……..Kanata

1094…Crystal Thompson……..Kanata

1095…Dan Kelly……..Kanata

1096…Daniel Farrell……..Kanata

1097…Danny Schwager……..Kanata

1098…Deanne Van Rooyen……..Kanata

1099…Debbie Olive……..Kanata

1100…Deirdre Luesby……..Kanata

1101…Dhanya Thakkar……..Kanata

1102…Diane Boyle……..Kanata

1103…Fiona Valliere……..Kanata

1104…Francine Giannotti……..Kanata

1105…Gina Rossi……..Kanata

1106…Ginette Ford……..Kanata

1107…Greg Dow……..Kanata

1108…Greg Layhew……..Kanata

1109…Greg McNeill……..Kanata

1110…Jan Donak……..Kanata

1111…Janet Chadwick……..Kanata

1112…Janice Tughan……..Kanata

1113…Jeff Goold……..Kanata

1114…Jeff Zhao……..Kanata

1115…Jeffrey O'Connor……..Kanata

1116…Jennifer Delorme……..Kanata

1117…Jennifer Donohue……..Kanata

1118…Jennifer Nason……..Kanata

1119…Jennifer Prieur……..Kanata

1120…Jody Vallati……..Kanata

1121…John Cooper……..Kanata

1122…John Sullivan……..Kanata

1123…Karen Piddington……..Kanata

1124…Katalijn MacAfee……..Kanata

1125…Kathleen Westbury……..Kanata

1126…Kelly Ann Davis……..Kanata

1127…Kelly Livingstone……..Kanata

1128…Kelly Ross……..Kanata

1129…Kennerth Klassen……..Kanata

1130…Keri Hillier……..Kanata

1131…Kevin Boyd……..Kanata

1132…kevin rankin……..Kanata

1133…Kimberley Bohn……..Kanata

1134…Krista Ferguson……..Kanata

1135…Kristin Eagan……..Kanata

1136…Lauren Eyre……..Kanata

1137…Laurie Davis……..Kanata

1138…Lesley Dewsnap……..Kanata

1139…Lida Koronewskij……..Kanata

1140…Lillian Ng……..Kanata

1141…Lise Gray……..Kanata

1142…Lois Kirkup……..Kanata

1143…Louise King……..Kanata

1144…Luisa De Amicis……..Kanata

1145…Lynda Ciavaglia……..Kanata

1146…Lyne Denis……..Kanata

1147…Mark Brownhill……..Kanata

1148…Mark Jorgenson……..Kanata

1149…Mark Ruddock……..Kanata

1150…Marlene Alt……..Kanata

1151…Mary Anne Jackson-Hughes……..Kanata

1152…Melanie Coulson……..Kanata

1153…Melissa Hall……..Kanata

1154…Michael Brennan……..Kanata

1155…Michael Sutherland……..Kanata

1156…Michele LeMay……..Kanata

1157…Michelle Calder……..Kanata

1158…Mikkyal Koshman……..Kanata

1159…Nancy McGuire……..Kanata

1160…Neil Maxwell……..Kanata

1161…Neil Thomson……..Kanata

1162…Nolan MacAfee……..Kanata

1163…Pamela Ford……..Kanata

1164…Patricia Brown……..Kanata

1165…Peter Clark……..Kanata

1166…Peter Zimmerman……..Kanata

1167…Philip Tughan……..Kanata

1168…Rhonda Boudreau……..Kanata

1169…Robyn Hardage……..Kanata

1170…Sandra Plourde……..Kanata

1171…Sandy Brennan……..Kanata

1172…Scott Jewer……..Kanata

1173…Sharon Lee……..Kanata

1174…Sharon Skerritt……..Kanata

1175…Shelly Nesbitt……..Kanata

1176…Sheri Cayouette……..Kanata

1177…Shirley Ivan……..Kanata

1178…Sindy Dobson……..Kanata

1179…Smitha Srinivasan……..Kanata

1180…Sridhar Erukulla……..Kanata

1181…Steven Cowie……..Kanata

1182…Stuart Swanson……..Kanata

1183…Terry Koss……..Kanata

1184…Thomas Cain……..Kanata

1185…Tiffany Boire……..Kanata

1186…Tim Moses……..Kanata

1187…Tom Auger……..Kanata

1188…Tom Winter……..Kanata

1189…Vicky Neufeld……..Kanata

1190…Vincent_Andy Fong……..Kanata

1191…Wei Zhou……..Kanata

1192…Wendy Patton……..Kanata

1193…Guy Laliberte……..Kars

1194…Carole Perkins……..Kemptville

1195…Cheryl Brennan……..Kemptville

1196…Dave Springer……..Kemptville

1197…David Brennan……..Kemptville

1198…Karen Nickleson……..Kemptville

1199…Paul Bedard……..Kemptville

1200…Roxanne Harrington……..Kemptville

1201…Stephanie Mombourquette……..Kemptville

1202…Teena Dacey……..Kemptville

1203…Jackie Stadnyk……..Kinburn

1204…Kathy Twardek……..Kinburn

1205…Ronald Stadnyk……..Kinburn

1206…Joey Beaudin……..Limoges

1207…Judy Gagne……..Limoges

1208…Susan Draper……..Low

1209…Jennifer Duffy……..Maitland

1210…Penny Duffy……..Maitland

1211…Jennifer Kellar……..Mallorytown

1212…Robert Browne……..Mallorytown

1213…Andrew Colautti……..Manotick

1214…Chris Bourne……..Manotick

1215…Guy Beaudoin……..Manotick

1216…Robert Fabes……..Manotick

1217…Robert Lange……..Manotick

1218…Shirley MacGregor Ford……..Manotick

1219…Theresa Roberts……..Manotick

1220…Yvonne Brandreth……..Manotick

1221…Julianna Choi……..Markham

1222…Heather Purdy……..Martintown

1223…Michele Steeves……..Maxville

1224…Jodi Brennan……..Merrickville

1225…Michael Barkhouse……..Merrickville

1226…Andre Lasalle……..Metcalfe

1227…Kazimierz Krzyzanowski……..Metcalfe

1228…Michelle Crook……..Metcalfe

1229…Sylvie J Lapointe……..Metcalfe

1230…Isabella Jordan……..Morrisburg

1231…Allan Smith……..Munster

1232…Nancy Ann Smith……..Munster

1233…Carole Charlebois……..Navan

1234…Marcella MacDonald……..Navan

1235…Marie-France Lévesque……..Navan

1236…Mychele Malette……..navan

1237…Paul de Grandpré……..Navan

1238…Rosemary Barber……..Navan

1239…Veronique Bergeron……..Navan

1240…Wally Burns……..Navan

1241…Alain Phaneuf……..Nepean

1242…Alan Rushforth……..Nepean

1243…Alison Hill……..Nepean

1244…Allen Mackinder……..Nepean

1245…Andrew Johnston……..Nepean

1246…Angela MacNeil……..Nepean

1247…Angie MacDonald……..Nepean

1248…Anne-Josée Marion……..Nepean

1249…Caroline Bachynski……..Nepean

1250…Carolyn Frank……..Nepean

1251…Carolyn Perkins……..Nepean

1252…Cassandra Williams……..Nepean

1253…Chris Fitzgerald……..Nepean

1254…Chris Van Norman……..Nepean

1255…Christopher Hill……..Nepean

1256…Corey Wilson……..Nepean

1257…Dan Lacasse……..Nepean

1258…Dana Lee……..Nepean

1259…Dave Summerbell……..Nepean

1260…David Holmes……..Nepean

1261…David Mersereau……..Nepean

1262…Debbie Van Norman……..Nepean

1263…Denis Therrien……..Nepean

1264…Donna McKibbon……..Nepean

1265…Doug Simpson……..Nepean

1266…Erik Kristjansson……..Nepean

1267…Exequiel Alcober……..Nepean

1268…Face Wallace……..Nepean

1269…Gary Vrckovnik……..Nepean

1270…Helen Lum Young……..Nepean

1271…Ian MacLean……..Nepean

1272…Jack Kwan……..Nepean

1273…Jamie Hayami……..Nepean

1274…Jane Hext……..Nepean

1275…Jason Pantalone……..Nepean

1276…Jeff Slavin……..Nepean

1277…Jennifer McDonell……..Nepean

1278…Jeremy Garbas-Tyrrell……..Nepean

1279…John Cooke……..Nepean

1280…John Tegano……..Nepean

1281…Jon Schmeler……..Nepean

1282…Joseph Emas……..Nepean

1283…Karleen Heer……..Nepean

1284…Kathleen O'Leary……..Nepean

1285…Kathleen Stringer……..Nepean

1286…Katya Duhamel……..Nepean

1287…Kelly MacGregor……..Nepean

1288…Kerry Nolan……..Nepean

1289…Marie-Andree Dubreuil……..Nepean

1290…Marika Holmes……..Nepean

1291…Mark White……..Nepean

1292…Martyn Hodgson……..Nepean

1293…Mary Cooke……..Nepean

1294…Miranda Cole……..Nepean

1295…Moiz Syed……..Nepean

1296…Nicole Steinert……..Nepean

1297…Norm Duhamel……..Nepean

1298…Patti-Lynn Dougan……..Nepean

1299…Peter Dinsdale……..Nepean

1300…Rena Fulton……..Nepean

1301…Richard Thomas……..Nepean

1302…Ruth Glenwright……..Nepean

1303…Sandra Lett……..Nepean

1304…Sarah Hudson……..Nepean

1305…Sarah Matthews……..Nepean

1306…Scott Hems……..Nepean

1307…Scott MacMillan……..Nepean

1308…Shannon Matheson……..Nepean

1309…Sharye Marcus……..Nepean

1310…Shawna Thornhill……..Nepean

1311…Stephanie Dunne……..Nepean

1312…Steve Zinck……..Nepean

1313…Tanya Mykytyshyn……..Nepean

1314…Tim McNaughton……..Nepean

1315…Tony Blake……..Nepean

1316…Yusu Guo……..Nepean

1317…Christopher Sylvestre……..North Dundas Township

1318…Natalie Smith……..North Gower

1319…Alain Brulé……..Orleans

1320…André Larouche……..Orleans

1321…Andria George-Worth……..Orleans

1322…Andy Coughlin……..Orleans

1323…Anik Adam……..Orleans

1324…Anke Berndt……..Orleans

1325…Ann Marie David……..Orleans

1326…Anne McCarthy……..Orleans

1327…Arlene O'Brien……..Orleans

1328…Bonnie Ferguson……..Orleans

1329…Brad Hart……..Orleans

1330…Brenda Paquet……..Orleans

1331…Brian Wiens……..Orleans

1332…Carl Hume……..Orleans

1333…Carmen Saumure……..Orleans

1334…Carol Cameron……..Orleans

1335…Chantal Delangy……..Orleans

1336…Charles Momy……..Orleans

1337…Charles Sincennes……..Orleans

1338…Chris Henderson……..Orleans

1339…Chris Morrison……..Orleans

1340…Christina Michaud……..Orleans

1341…CIndy Ettinger……..Orleans

1342…Claire Chretien……..Orleans

1343…Claude Desgagne……..Orleans

1344…Coco Comtois……..Orleans

1345…Cynthia Taylor……..Orleans

1346…Dan Matthews……..Orleans

1347…Dana Nalley……..Orleans

1348…Daniel Caron……..Orleans

1349…Dave Trumpower……..Orleans

1350…Dean Durnford……..Orleans

1351…Deborah Baldwin……..Orleans

1352…Denis Hogan……..Orleans

1353…Donna Johnston……..Orleans

1354…Eann Hodges……..Orleans

1355…Elise Grenier……..Orleans

1356…Eric Fortier……..Orleans

1357…Frédéric-Francois Desmarais……..Orleans

1358…Ginette Jolin……..Orleans

1359…Jacqueline Barry……..Orleans

1360…Jacqueline Evans……..Orleans

1361…James Carere……..Orleans

1362…Jane Schofield……..Orleans

1363…JaneAnn Swim……..Orleans

1364…Jason Roberts……..Orleans

1365…Jean Magne……..Orleans

1366…Jean Stewart……..Orleans

1367…Jeff Danforth……..Orleans

1368…Jennifer Aaltonen……..Orleans

1369…Jennifer Caldbick……..Orleans

1370…Jillian Stow……..Orleans

1371…Jocelyne Boivin……..Orleans

1372…John Potter……..Orleans

1373…John Roach……..Orleans

1374…Judith Finn……..Orleans

1375…Judy Thomson……..Orleans

1376…Julie Bossé……..Orleans

1377…Julie Dregas……..Orleans

1378…Karen Bowers……..Orleans

1379…Kathleen Gould Morin……..Orleans

1380…Kathryn McNicoll……..Orleans

1381…Kathy Wiens……..Orleans

1382…Keith David……..Orleans

1383…Ken Bernard……..Orleans

1384…Ken Cavanagh……..Orleans

1385…Kevin Piccott……..Orleans

1386…Kim Tremblay……..Orleans

1387…Kimberly Croft……..Orleans

1388…Kristy Singleton……..Orleans

1389…Laura Regnier……..Orleans

1390…Linda LeBlanc……..Orleans

1391…Line Richard……..Orleans

1392…Lise King……..Orleans

1393…Louise Smith……..Orleans

1394…Luc St-Jean……..Orleans

1395…Lyne Orser……..Orleans

1396…Marie-Josee Homsy……..Orleans

1397…Marieve Lavigne……..Orleans

1398…Marshall Clark……..Orleans

1399…Marthe Bergevin……..Orleans

1400…Max LeBreton……..Orleans

1401…Megan Thomson……..Orleans

1402…Melanie Trumpower……..Orleans

1403…Melissa Vroom……..Orleans

1404…Na Lin……..Orleans

1405…Nadine Mattingly……..Orleans

1406…Nancy Camacho……..Orleans

1407…Nancy Neilson……..Orleans

1408…Natacha Kenney……..Orleans

1409…Nick Tang……..Orleans

1410…Nicole Clark……..Orleans

1411…Nicole Flanagan……..Orleans

1412…Nicolle Saulnier……..Orleans

1413…Ninon Parent……..Orleans

1414…Pamela Wilson……..Orleans

1415…Patricia Coons……..Orleans

1416…Patti Craven……..Orleans

1417…Peter Belair……..Orleans

1418…Pierrette Caron……..Orleans

1419…Randy Boucher……..Orleans

1420…Rob Dinardo……..Orleans

1421…Robert Sauve……..Orleans

1422…Ronald Fitzgerald……..Orleans

1423…Sandra Craig-Browne……..Orleans

1424…Sandra Faubert……..Orleans

1425…Sandy Clark……..Orleans

1426…Sandy Moger……..Orleans

1427…Scot Bryant……..Orleans

1428…Shanna Bancroft……..Orleans

1429…Shari DeJong……..Orleans

1430…Sonia Laneuville……..Orleans

1431…Stan Baldwin……..Orleans

1432…Stella Gaerke……..Orleans

1433…Stephan Cronier……..Orleans

1434…Stephane Burelle……..Orleans

1435…Stephane Parent……..Orleans

1436…Stephanie Currie-McCarragher……..Orleans

1437…Stéphanie Ducharme……..Orleans

1438…Stephen Boyd……..Orleans

1439…Susan Poisson……..Orleans

1440…Suzanne Daleman……..Orleans

1441…Tammy Peters……..Orleans

1442…Tanja Scharf……..Orleans

1443…Tara Redmond……..Orleans

1444…Terri-Lynn Kennedy……..Orleans

1445…Terry Flynn……..Orleans

1446…Todd Overtveld……..Orleans

1447…Tony Thatcher……..Orleans

1448…Trevor Gillis……..Orleans

1449…Trevor Kirkland……..Orleans

1450…Trina Perras……..Orleans

1451…Yves Ducharme……..Orleans

1452…Jane Holski……..Oxford Mills

1453…Shaun Dunne……..Oxford Mills

1454…Steve Thompson……..Oxford Mills

1455…Anitra Bennett……..Pembroke

1456…Carole Groleau……..Pembroke

1457…Cheryl-Lynn Luffman……..Pembroke

1458…Douglas Thorlakson……..Pembroke

1459…Edward Alexander……..Pembroke

1460…Frank Grattan……..Pembroke

1461…Garry Hartlin……..Pembroke

1462…George Garrard……..Pembroke

1463…Laurie Thorlakson……..Pembroke

1464…Leanne Van Bavel……..Pembroke

1465…Michelle Rousselle……..Pembroke

1466…Mike Desjardins……..Pembroke

1467…Nevin Gaudon……..Pembroke

1468…Shawn Dickie……..Pembroke

1469…Cairyn Spence……..Perth

1470…Dana Lennox……..Perth

1471…Francis Gillespie……..Perth

1472…Lynn Marsh……..Perth

1473…Sue Matte……..Perth

1474…Tania Ireton……..Perth

1475…Brodie Doyle……..Petawawa

1476…Dave Macmillan……..Petawawa

1477…Dennene Huntley……..Petawawa

1478…Dwayne Lushman……..Petawawa

1479…Hector Clouthier……..Petawawa

1480…Joanne Mallet……..Petawawa

1481…Josh Bruinsma……..Petawawa

1482…Leah MacArthur……..Petawawa

1483…Mary Jensen……..Petawawa

1484…Meaghan Purdy……..Petawawa

1485…Robert Jensen……..Petawawa

1486…Selena Neily……..Petawawa

1487…Tracy Gorman……..Petawawa

1488…Vivian Overton……..Petawawa

1489…Jeanne D'Arc Lapointe……..Plantagenet

1490…Johanne Larabie……..Plantagenet

1491…Robert Lapointe……..Plantagenet

1492…Tony Larabie……..Plantagenet

1493…Amanda Lamoureux……..Pontiac

1494…Stephanie McKinnon……..Port Elgin

1495…Claudine Dirksen-Fenard……..Prescott

1496…Joe Noonan……..Prescott

1497…Mark Dirksen……..Prescott

1498…Richard Hart……..Prescott

1499…Alan Orton……..Pte-Claire

1500…Jeanne Rowan……..Renfrew

1501…John Jr. Fuller……..Renfrew

1502…Nina De Bos……..Renfrew

1503…Paul Rowan……..Renfrew

1504…Catherine McKenna……..Richmond

1505…Cheryl Gillies……..Richmond

1506…Colleen Piercey……..Richmond

1507…Dan Todd……..Richmond

1508…Gabby Doiron……..Richmond

1509…Joanne Kadoski……..Richmond

1510…Kristina Pistor……..Richmond

1511…Lea Sutherland……..Richmond

1512…Michael McKenna……..Richmond

1513…Robin Annas……..Richmond

1514…Matthew Churchill……..Rideau Ferry

1515…Ana Pereira……..Rockland

1516…Charles Carriere……..Rockland

1517…Frank Lalonde……..Rockland

1518…Julie MacDonald……..Rockland

1519…Nathalie J. Arseneault……..Rockland

1520…Therese Contant……..Rockland

1521…Brett Kendall……..Rosemere

1522…Peter Cicalo……..Russell

1523…Laura James……..Smiths Falls

1524…Rebecca Holmes……..South Mountain

1525…Amanda Smith……..Spencerville

1526…Cheryl Smith……..ST Pascal Baylon

1527…Leo Riendeau……..St.Albert

1528…Alexander Loslo……..Stittsville

1529…Angus MacDonald……..Stittsville

1530…Ben Legault……..Stittsville

1531…Brent Hodgson……..Stittsville

1532…Carole Hargrave……..Stittsville

1533…Catherine Postma……..Stittsville

1534…Cathy Pomeroy……..Stittsville

1535…Cheryl Lathrope……..Stittsville

1536…Chris Stacey……..Stittsville

1537…Corey Cole……..Stittsville

1538…Danielle Comeau-MacMillan……..Stittsville

1539…Darlene Nielsen……..Stittsville

1540…Dave McLean……..Stittsville

1541…Debbie Brown……..Stittsville

1542…Debbie Seltitz……..Stittsville

1543…Denis Boucher……..Stittsville

1544…Don Fletcher……..Stittsville

1545…Doug Nielsen……..Stittsville

1546…Elaine Sicoli……..Stittsville

1547…Elizabeth McHugh……..Stittsville

1548…Elizabeth Rhodenizer……..Stittsville

1549…Fred Owen……..Stittsville

1550…Garth Loslo……..Stittsville

1551…Greg Rusch……..Stittsville

1552…Jane Martin……..Stittsville

1553…Janet MacDonald……..Stittsville

1554…Jeff Conrad……..Stittsville

1555…Jennifer Anderson……..Stittsville

1556…Joaquin Fernandez……..Stittsville

1557…Joe MacMillan……..Stittsville

1558…Kirsten Maludzinski……..Stittsville

1559…Kyle MacKay……..Stittsville

1560…Laurel Rosene……..Stittsville

1561…Linda Corriveau……..Stittsville

1562…Louise MacKay……..Stittsville

1563…Lynn Messager……..Stittsville

1564…Marie-Elyse Boucher……..Stittsville

1565…Mark Rhodenizer……..Stittsville

1566…Mary Young……..Stittsville

1567…Matthew McKinnell……..Stittsville

1568…Mike McDonald……..Stittsville

1569…Ralph Richardson……..Stittsville

1570…Rebecca Richardson……..Stittsville

1571…René Lessard……..Stittsville

1572…Robert Canthal……..Stittsville

1573…Robert Postma……..Stittsville

1574…Roger Egan……..Stittsville

1575…Sean Gagnon……..Stittsville

1576…Shelley Baran……..Stittsville

1577…Steve Cashman……..Stittsville

1578…Stuart MacKay……..Stittsville

1579…Suzanne Savoie……..Stittsville

1580…Walter Hawes……..Stittsville

1581…Ed Overton……..Val-des-Monts

1582…Meaghan Henry……..Val-des-Monts

1583…Richard Blanchette……..Val-des-Monts

1584…Arlene Dupuis……..Vars

1585…Aimee Lemieux……..Wakefield

1586…Archie Smith……..Wakefield

1587…Julie Payette……..Wakefield

1588…Shirley Curran……..Wakefield

1589…Bob Reddick……..Westport

1590…Diane Graham-Lynn……..Westport

1591…John Fuoco……..Westport

1592…Pat Reddick……..Westport

1593…Richard Simard……..White Lake

1594…Chantal Lajoie……..Williamstown

1595…Amy Collins……..Winchester

1596…Chris Phillips……..Winchester

1597…Gillian Erickson……..Winchester

1598…Gina Porteous……..Winchester

1599…Kelly Geddis……..Woodlawn

1600…Renee Crompton……..Woodlawn

1601…Richard Crompton……..Woodlawn

 

Vintage postcard, no. X334. Caption: Madonna, Blonde Ambition Tour.

 

Madonna or Madonna Louise Ciccone (1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. During the MTV craze in the 1980s, Madonna pushed boundaries with her song texts and her provocative performances. She frequently reinvented herself and her music and stayed the 'Queen of Pop' for decades. Her global bestsellers were hits such as Like a Virgin (1984) and True Blue (1986), but for us she became more interesting with songs like Like a Prayer (1989), Vogue (1991) and Frozen (1998). And we're still fan, even of some of her films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Truth or Dare (1991), and Evita (1996). The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops reinventing herself, Madonna is a seven-time Grammy Award-winner who has sold over three hundred million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide.

 

Madonna was born Madonna Louise Ciccone in 1958 in Bay City, Michigan. Her father is Italian, her mother was French-Canadian. Her siblings are Anthony Ciccone (1956), Martin Ciccone (1957), Paula Ciccone (1959), Christopher Ciccone (1960), and Melanie Henry (1962). In 1962, Madonna's mother, pregnant with her sixth child, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She delayed treatment until her baby was born, but by that time it was too late. A harrowing, yearlong battle with the disease ensued. She lost her battle with cancer in 1963. In 1978, Madonna moved to New York and studied with renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey. She joined up with the Patrick Hernandez Revue, formed a pop/dance band called 'Breakfast Club', and began working with then-boyfriend Stephen Bray on recording several disco-oriented songs. New York producer/D.J. Mark Kamins passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982 and the rest is history. The 1980s was Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multimillion-selling albums. Madonna first appeared on screen in two low-budget films marketed to an adolescent audience: A Certain Sacrifice (Stephen Jon Lewicki, 1979) and Crazy for You (Harold Becker, 1985), starring Matthew Modine. Her first film, A Certain Sacrifice (1979), was released in 1985, after she became a star, but was actually shot in two parts, the first in 1979, and the other, in 1981. However, she scored a minor cult hit with Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985) starring alongside spunky Rosanna Arquette. In 1984, she started fashion trends with her unique look using rosaries and crosses as jewelry and black rubber typewriter bands as bracelets. Legions of adolescent girls mimicked her look and a Madonna clothing store was opened in New York. Again in 2001, another huge fashion trend was set off by the "Material Mom", this time with western wear - cowboy hats and mud-splattered jeans. In 1986, she starred with then-husband Sean Penn in Shanghai Surprise (Jim Goddard, 1986), which was savaged by critics. She managed to somewhat improve her standing in the cinema with her next two films, the off-beat Who's That Girl (James Foley, 1987) and the quirky Damon Runyon-inspired Bloodhounds of Broadway (Howard Brookner, 1989).

 

Madonna played in the big-budget and star-filled Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990) bad girl Breathless Mahoney flirting with Warren Beatty. The epic failed to catch fire at the box office. Taking an earthier role, Madonna was much more entertaining alongside Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall, 1992), a story about female baseball players during W.W.II. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the whodunit Body of Evidence (Uli Edel, 1992) with Willem Dafoe, an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of the sexy Sharon Stone thriller Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992). Several other minor screen roles followed, then Madonna starred as Eva Perón opposite Jonathan Pryce and Antonio Banderas in Evita (Alan Parker, 1996), a fairly well-received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Material Girl stayed away from the film cameras for several years, returning to co-star with Rupert Everett in the lukewarm romantic comedy The Next Best Thing (John Schlesinger, 2000), followed by the painful Swept Away (2002) for husband Guy Ritchie. If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure Die Another Day (Lee Tamahori, 2002) starring Pierce Brosnan. Madonna began a directing career in 2008 with the comedy Filth and Wisdom (Madonna, 2008), and a year later she reunited with Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) director Alek Keshishian to develop a script about the relationship between the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor that led to his abdication in 1936: the result, a movie named W.E. (Madonna, 2011), starring James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough as the infernal but still royal couple. The film was released in 2011 to lukewarm critics but it gathered one Oscar nomination for costumes and won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for 'Masterpiece'. Madonna has 6 children: daughter, Lourdes Leon (1996) with an ex-boyfriend, Carlos Leon, son, Rocco Ritchie (2000), and adoptive son, David Banda Mwale Ciccone Ritchie (2005) with ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, and adoptive daughters, Mercy James Ciccone (2006), Estere Ciccone and Stella Ciccone (2012).

 

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Happy birthday on this July 4th to this supreme picture of "old skool" elegance & Golden Age Hollywood glamour will celebrate another birthday. Eva will turn 100 years old on this day and I couldn't be happier for her. A living legend and big screen icon that's been there and got the t-shirt to prove it. Eva was never a child star like Judy Garland or Shirley Temple were in their beginnings, Beautiful Eva didn't start acting until she was already 22 years old on old live television variety programs in 1946. In 1949 Eva moved into acting on stage and was successful enough to be given a shot on Broadway in the early 1950s. With enough subtle dramatic acting chops to her range, she began a film career, and she couldn't have dreamt up a better start, a better film project and better cast of actors to share the screen with landed in her lap for her big screen debut. "On the Waterfront" (1954) is the film and one of the greatest films ever made to this very day. Highly regarded and remembered today as Marlon Brando's landmark film that also announced him in Hollywood as the newest exciting prospects for a long while, and Brando's unique singular screen performance as the "down on his luck" pugilistic ex-boxer now embittered "longshoreman" working just to exist on one of New York City's many waterfront ports held tight in the grip of Labor Union corruption that was rife in real life in America during the 1950s taking on the crime mob fronts that engulfed New York, New Jersey, Los Angeles etc. Brando's performance in this film is still held up by credible actors today from the likes of Dustin Hoffman, Jack Nicolson, Al Pacino, Kevin Costner etc, lauded almost 70 years later as the single most influential screen performance of all time. I mean it has the often quoted Brando magnificent speech "I coulda' been a contender, instead of being a bum" as he sits slumped in the back of a car pouring his heart out to "Karl Malden's tough but fair "Father Barry". You'd get no argument from me if you agree with that, in part I absolutely agree. I think certainly since Robert De Niro landed in the 1970s with his own brand of "method acting", De Niro has possibly surpassed Brando's legendary work with his own collection of all time great acting, and unlike Brando that could be perfection in one film, then quite ordinary in his next film, De Niro paved the road of knockout performances one after another from Mean Streets, The Godfather Part II, Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, Raging Bull, The King of Comedy...and so on. Not forgetting this is an Eva retrospective review, Eva's performance alongside Brando in the 1954 classic was also spot on perfection, tender, forthright and compassionate trying to get Brando's "Terry Malloy", a self confessed "loser, a bum, a nobody" to finally do the right thing and take a stand against the corruption and murder that sweeps throughout the waterfront. For her toil and effort, Eva was Oscar nominated along with Brando, other supporting great actors like Malden, Lee J Cobb, Rod Steiger and director Elia Kazan rounded off with a raft of technical film nominations. At the 27th Academy Awards in 1955 Eva won Best Supporting Actress Oscar along with Brando and Kazan with the film finishing with a total of 8 wins from 12 nominations. Despite this achievement the sought after roles didn't immediately come in for her. It would take two years before even getting her 2nd film under her belt with the charming comedy "That Certain Feeling" in 1956 co-starring Bob Hope. Then in 1957 things looked brighter in two films in that year, first was her 1st lead role starrer with serious drama "A Hatful of Rain" (1957) with Don Murray, and rounding off the year was the heavyweight western epic "Raintree County" (1957) playing third lead to big hitters Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor who was at her most ravishing looking during this period of her career. It took another yeas for Eva to line up her next film and this film perhaps eclipses the status of her debut masterpiece film of "On the Waterfront" five years earlier. The dynamic pairing of Hollywood heavyweights Alfred Hitchcock directing and the smooth debonair talents of screen icon Cary Grant, they just needed the classic "ice cool sexy blonde" to complete the required trifecta. Eva after having dinner with Hitchcock impressed him enough, he told MGM studios he had found his next leading lady, they weren't about to refuse the Great Man. The film would become known to millions of fans as "North by Northwest" (1959), an instant classic, a masterpiece of complex storytelling, red herrings, mistaken identity and shady government agents showcased Hitchcock's directing talents on a far grander scale like his earlier films have never been done before. Mixed with the thrilling thrashing ramped-up film score by the master composer Bernard Herrmann and the glorious widescreen old style Technicolor visuals that really hit their stride in the 1950s, the film is a hit on every level. While this is Cary's film though and though, the injection of Eva's character "Eve Kendall" halfway through famously bumping into Cary's man-on-the-run "Roger Thornhill" trying to evade the police and government spies on the departing New York to Chicago train, she is clearly attracted to the cool under pressure Thornhill and hides him in her sleeper carriage room as the police coming knocking and she sees them off with a few lies. Thus begins one of the most stirring unforgettable romantic screen duos of the 1950s as they flirt and tease one another over the accompanying dining car table then later in bed as she gets upto speed with what Thornhill has been going through and involves herself to help him while falling in love with him. The climax on top of Mount Rushmore as Thornhill races to save Eve from the clutches of screen baddies played suitably oily and nasty by legends James Mason and Martin Landau has since become the stuff of Hollywood filmmaking legend and finally gave Eva the worldwide appeal and presence her talents deserved once and for all. Reviewing her filmography again after 1959, it's clear her era of films were at it's pinnacle in the 1950s. The 1960s started with the hugely ambitious undertaking of balancing the famous novel of 1958 "Exodus" and turning it into a massive film of the same name in 1960. Starring lead actor Paul Newman and lead actress Eva, it's the historical story behind the founding of the state of Israel after the Second World War. A touchy subject matter back then given it was still 13 years before the unforeseen bloody conflict between Israel against coalition states of Egypt and Syria in 1973. The film itself skirts around the Arab stuff the best it can in attempt of not being wholly supportive of Zionism. Watch it for yourself and see if it achieved it's goal? As the decade got going, a few snappy dramas and comedies came in fast like "All Fall Down" (1962) with a young Warren Beatty, "36 Hours" (1965) with James Garner, another team-up with Elizabeth Taylor in "The Sandpiper" (1965) and riveting sports epic, most likely for fans of classic racing cars of the dangerous but glamourous 1960s era with "Grand Prix" (1966) with James Garner again. With a running time of around 3 hours long, you had better like classic grand prix cars otherwise you gonna struggle to sit through this time capsule of a film. It's the racing that makes the film, truly exceptional visceral experience. The human story between Garner, Saint and Yves Montand can and does drag unfortunately. The year 1966 also marked the slowing decline in Eva's filmmaking. Only three more films she made after this to 1972's "Cancel my Reservation" co-starring Bob Hope in his last ever film before retiring from acting, none were remarkable and the quality given to this great actress was sorely lacking now. Her comeback was a lengthy 14 years away from the big screen although she had long had a very successful tv career running alongside her film career so the fans got to see and mature with Eva over the decades and into middle age. Her last notable big screen roles were in "Superman Returns" in 2006 and "Winter's Tale" in 2014 aged 90 at the time. In 2021 she finally announced her fulltime retirement from acting and stage acting after 76 years in showbusiness that no doubt saw all the greats of the industry up close, in most cases has since become the last sole living survivor of so many of her greatest films and still provides a vital link to a far flung bygone era of Hollywood that shows us all what we are losing each year the strings to the past get cut by the passing of time. When the life book of Eva Marie Saint ultimately closes for good, she'd have left us some remarkable performances, all time legendary films, and a legacy of one of the most beautiful classy naturally poised actresses of her era. *Above photo of gorgeous Eva posing for stills leading upto her classic film "North by Northwest in 1959.

French postcard by Editions Humour à la Carte, Paris, no. A-C 1218. Photo: UGC Distribution. Madonna and Sean Penn in Shanghai Surprise (Jim Goddard, 1986).

 

Madonna or Madonna Louise Ciccone (1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. During the MTV craze in the 1980s, Madonna pushed boundaries with her song texts and her provocative performances. She frequently reinvented herself and her music and stayed the 'Queen of Pop' for decades. Her global bestsellers were hits such as Like a Virgin (1984) and True Blue (1986), but for us she became more interesting with songs like Like a Prayer (1989), Vogue (1991) and Frozen (1998). And we're still fan, even of some of her films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Truth or Dare (1991), and Evita (1996). The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops reinventing herself, Madonna is a seven-time Grammy Award-winner who has sold over three hundred million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide.

 

Madonna was born Madonna Louise Ciccone in 1958 in Bay City, Michigan. Her father is Italian, her mother was French-Canadian. Her siblings are Anthony Ciccone (1956), Martin Ciccone (1957), Paula Ciccone (1959), Christopher Ciccone (1960), and Melanie Henry (1962). In 1962, Madonna's mother, pregnant with her sixth child, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She delayed treatment until her baby was born, but by that time it was too late. A harrowing, yearlong battle with the disease ensued. She lost her battle with cancer in 1963. In 1978, Madonna moved to New York and studied with renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey. She joined up with the Patrick Hernandez Revue, formed a pop/dance band called 'Breakfast Club', and began working with then-boyfriend Stephen Bray on recording several disco-oriented songs. New York producer/D.J. Mark Kamins passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982 and the rest is history. The 1980s was Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multimillion-selling albums. Madonna first appeared on screen in two low-budget films marketed to an adolescent audience: A Certain Sacrifice (Stephen Jon Lewicki, 1979) and Crazy for You (Harold Becker, 1985), starring Matthew Modine. Her first film, A Certain Sacrifice (1979), was released in 1985, after she became a star, but was actually shot in two parts, the first in 1979, and the other, in 1981. However, she scored a minor cult hit with Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985) starring alongside spunky Rosanna Arquette. In 1984, she started fashion trends with her unique look using rosaries and crosses as jewelry and black rubber typewriter bands as bracelets. Legions of adolescent girls mimicked her look and a Madonna clothing store was opened in New York. Again in 2001, another huge fashion trend was set off by the "Material Mom", this time with western wear - cowboy hats and mud-splattered jeans. In 1986, she starred with then-husband Sean Penn in Shanghai Surprise (Jim Goddard, 1986), which was savaged by critics. She managed to somewhat improve her standing in the cinema with her next two films, the off-beat Who's That Girl (James Foley, 1987) and the quirky Damon Runyon-inspired Bloodhounds of Broadway (Howard Brookner, 1989).

 

Madonna played in the big-budget and star-filled Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990) bad girl Breathless Mahoney flirting with Warren Beatty. The epic failed to catch fire at the box office. Taking an earthier role, Madonna was much more entertaining alongside Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall, 1992), a story about female baseball players during W.W.II. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the whodunit Body of Evidence (Uli Edel, 1992) with Willem Dafoe, an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of the sexy Sharon Stone thriller Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992). Several other minor screen roles followed, then Madonna starred as Eva Perón opposite Jonathan Pryce and Antonio Banderas in Evita (Alan Parker, 1996), a fairly well-received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Material Girl stayed away from the film cameras for several years, returning to co-star with Rupert Everett in the lukewarm romantic comedy The Next Best Thing (John Schlesinger, 2000), followed by the painful Swept Away (2002) for husband Guy Ritchie. If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure Die Another Day (Lee Tamahori, 2002) starring Pierce Brosnan. Madonna began a directing career in 2008 with the comedy Filth and Wisdom (Madonna, 2008), and a year later she reunited with Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) director Alek Keshishian to develop a script about the relationship between the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor that led to his abdication in 1936: the result, a movie named W.E. (Madonna, 2011), starring James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough as the infernal but still royal couple. The film was released in 2011 to lukewarm critics but it gathered one Oscar nomination for costumes and won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for 'Masterpiece'. Madonna has 6 children: daughter, Lourdes Leon (1996) with an ex-boyfriend, Carlos Leon, son, Rocco Ritchie (2000), and adoptive son, David Banda Mwale Ciccone Ritchie (2005) with ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, and adoptive daughters, Mercy James Ciccone (2006), Estere Ciccone and Stella Ciccone (2012).

 

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German lobbycard by Twentieth Century Fox. Photo: Orion. Madonna in Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985).

 

Madonna or Madonna Louise Ciccone (1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. During the MTV craze in the 1980s, Madonna pushed boundaries with her song texts and her provocative performances. She frequently reinvented herself and her music and stayed the 'Queen of Pop' for decades. Her global bestsellers were hits such as Like a Virgin (1984) and True Blue (1986), but for us she became more interesting with songs like Like a Prayer (1989), Vogue (1991) and Frozen (1998). And we're still fan, even of some of her films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Truth or Dare (1991), and Evita (1996). The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops reinventing herself, Madonna is a seven-time Grammy Award-winner who has sold over three hundred million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide.

 

Madonna was born Madonna Louise Ciccone in 1958 in Bay City, Michigan. Her father is Italian, her mother was French-Canadian. Her siblings are Anthony Ciccone (1956), Martin Ciccone (1957), Paula Ciccone (1959), Christopher Ciccone (1960), and Melanie Henry (1962). In 1962, Madonna's mother, pregnant with her sixth child, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She delayed treatment until her baby was born, but by that time it was too late. A harrowing, yearlong battle with the disease ensued. She lost her battle with cancer in 1963. In 1978, Madonna moved to New York and studied with renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey. She joined up with the Patrick Hernandez Revue, formed a pop/dance band called 'Breakfast Club', and began working with then-boyfriend Stephen Bray on recording several disco-oriented songs. New York producer/D.J. Mark Kamins passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982 and the rest is history. The 1980s was Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multimillion-selling albums. Madonna first appeared on screen in two low-budget films marketed to an adolescent audience: A Certain Sacrifice (Stephen Jon Lewicki, 1979) and Crazy for You (Harold Becker, 1985), starring Matthew Modine. Her first film, A Certain Sacrifice (1979), was released in 1985, after she became a star, but was actually shot in two parts, the first in 1979, and the other, in 1981. However, she scored a minor cult hit with Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985) starring alongside spunky Rosanna Arquette. In 1984, she started fashion trends with her unique look using rosaries and crosses as jewelry and black rubber typewriter bands as bracelets. Legions of adolescent girls mimicked her look and a Madonna clothing store was opened in New York. Again in 2001, another huge fashion trend was set off by the "Material Mom", this time with western wear - cowboy hats and mud-splattered jeans. In 1986, she starred with then-husband Sean Penn in Shanghai Surprise (Jim Goddard, 1986), which was savaged by critics. She managed to somewhat improve her standing in the cinema with her next two films, the off-beat Who's That Girl (James Foley, 1987) and the quirky Damon Runyon-inspired Bloodhounds of Broadway (Howard Brookner, 1989).

 

Madonna played in the big-budget and star-filled Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990) bad girl Breathless Mahoney flirting with Warren Beatty. The epic failed to catch fire at the box office. Taking an earthier role, Madonna was much more entertaining alongside Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall, 1992), a story about female baseball players during W.W.II. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the whodunit Body of Evidence (Uli Edel, 1992) with Willem Dafoe, an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of the sexy Sharon Stone thriller Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992). Several other minor screen roles followed, then Madonna starred as Eva Perón opposite Jonathan Pryce and Antonio Banderas in Evita (Alan Parker, 1996), a fairly well-received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Material Girl stayed away from the film cameras for several years, returning to co-star with Rupert Everett in the lukewarm romantic comedy The Next Best Thing (John Schlesinger, 2000), followed by the painful Swept Away (2002) for husband Guy Ritchie. If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure Die Another Day (Lee Tamahori, 2002) starring Pierce Brosnan. Madonna began a directing career in 2008 with the comedy Filth and Wisdom (Madonna, 2008), and a year later she reunited with Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) director Alek Keshishian to develop a script about the relationship between the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor that led to his abdication in 1936: the result, a movie named W.E. (Madonna, 2011), starring James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough as the infernal but still royal couple. The film was released in 2011 to lukewarm critics but it gathered one Oscar nomination for costumes and won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for 'Masterpiece'. Madonna has 6 children: daughter, Lourdes Leon (1996) with an ex-boyfriend, Carlos Leon, son, Rocco Ritchie (2000), and adoptive son, David Banda Mwale Ciccone Ritchie (2005) with ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, and adoptive daughters, Mercy James Ciccone (2006), Estere Ciccone and Stella Ciccone (2012).

 

Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.

 

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French postcard by Editions Humour à la Carte, Paris, no. A-C 1217. Photo: UGC Distribution. Madonna and Sean Penn in Shanghai Surprise (Jim Goddard, 1986).

 

Madonna or Madonna Louise Ciccone (1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. During the MTV craze in the 1980s, Madonna pushed boundaries with her song texts and her provocative performances. She frequently reinvented herself and her music and stayed the 'Queen of Pop' for decades. Her global bestsellers were hits such as Like a Virgin (1984) and True Blue (1986), but for us she became more interesting with songs like Like a Prayer (1989), Vogue (1991) and Frozen (1998). And we're still fan, even of some of her films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Truth or Dare (1991), and Evita (1996). The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops reinventing herself, Madonna is a seven-time Grammy Award-winner who has sold over three hundred million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide.

 

Madonna was born Madonna Louise Ciccone in 1958 in Bay City, Michigan. Her father is Italian, her mother was French-Canadian. Her siblings are Anthony Ciccone (1956), Martin Ciccone (1957), Paula Ciccone (1959), Christopher Ciccone (1960), and Melanie Henry (1962). In 1962, Madonna's mother, pregnant with her sixth child, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She delayed treatment until her baby was born, but by that time it was too late. A harrowing, yearlong battle with the disease ensued. She lost her battle with cancer in 1963. In 1978, Madonna moved to New York and studied with renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey. She joined up with the Patrick Hernandez Revue, formed a pop/dance band called 'Breakfast Club', and began working with then-boyfriend Stephen Bray on recording several disco-oriented songs. New York producer/D.J. Mark Kamins passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982 and the rest is history. The 1980s was Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multimillion-selling albums. Madonna first appeared on screen in two low-budget films marketed to an adolescent audience: A Certain Sacrifice (Stephen Jon Lewicki, 1979) and Crazy for You (Harold Becker, 1985), starring Matthew Modine. Her first film, A Certain Sacrifice (1979), was released in 1985, after she became a star, but was actually shot in two parts, the first in 1979, and the other, in 1981. However, she scored a minor cult hit with Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985) starring alongside spunky Rosanna Arquette. In 1984, she started fashion trends with her unique look using rosaries and crosses as jewelry and black rubber typewriter bands as bracelets. Legions of adolescent girls mimicked her look and a Madonna clothing store was opened in New York. Again in 2001, another huge fashion trend was set off by the "Material Mom", this time with western wear - cowboy hats and mud-splattered jeans. In 1986, she starred with then-husband Sean Penn in Shanghai Surprise (Jim Goddard, 1986), which was savaged by critics. She managed to somewhat improve her standing in the cinema with her next two films, the off-beat Who's That Girl (James Foley, 1987) and the quirky Damon Runyon-inspired Bloodhounds of Broadway (Howard Brookner, 1989).

 

Madonna played in the big-budget and star-filled Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990) bad girl Breathless Mahoney flirting with Warren Beatty. The epic failed to catch fire at the box office. Taking an earthier role, Madonna was much more entertaining alongside Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall, 1992), a story about female baseball players during W.W.II. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the whodunit Body of Evidence (Uli Edel, 1992) with Willem Dafoe, an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of the sexy Sharon Stone thriller Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992). Several other minor screen roles followed, then Madonna starred as Eva Perón opposite Jonathan Pryce and Antonio Banderas in Evita (Alan Parker, 1996), a fairly well-received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Material Girl stayed away from the film cameras for several years, returning to co-star with Rupert Everett in the lukewarm romantic comedy The Next Best Thing (John Schlesinger, 2000), followed by the painful Swept Away (2002) for husband Guy Ritchie. If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure Die Another Day (Lee Tamahori, 2002) starring Pierce Brosnan. Madonna began a directing career in 2008 with the comedy Filth and Wisdom (Madonna, 2008), and a year later she reunited with Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) director Alek Keshishian to develop a script about the relationship between the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor that led to his abdication in 1936: the result, a movie named W.E. (Madonna, 2011), starring James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough as the infernal but still royal couple. The film was released in 2011 to lukewarm critics but it gathered one Oscar nomination for costumes and won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for 'Masterpiece'. Madonna has 6 children: daughter, Lourdes Leon (1996) with an ex-boyfriend, Carlos Leon, son, Rocco Ritchie (2000), and adoptive son, David Banda Mwale Ciccone Ritchie (2005) with ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, and adoptive daughters, Mercy James Ciccone (2006), Estere Ciccone and Stella Ciccone (2012).

 

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Mrs. Imelda Romualdez Marcos (center) is flanked by World renowned pianist Mr. Van Cliburn and famous Hollywood actor Mr.George Hamilton in a party at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York..

  

Hamilton was the youngest son of bandleader George "Spike" Hamilton[1][2] and his first wife, Ann Stevens (formerly Mrs. William Potter). He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and lived in Blytheville, Arkansas. He won many awards as a student at Palm Beach High School, West Palm Beach, Florida. The 2009 film My One and Only is loosely based on Hamilton's early life and relationship with his mother.

 

After moving to California, he was put under contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which showcased him in films such as Home from the Hill, All the Fine Young Cannibals, Light in the Piazza and Two Weeks in Another Town.

 

His stepfathers were Carleton Hunt and Jesse Spalding; his stepmother was June Howard, with whom Hamilton has said he had an affair when he was 12, shortly after she married his father.[3][4] His elder half-brother, William Potter, became an interior decorator for such prestigious firms as Eva Gabor Interiors in Palm Springs, where Hamilton owned a home a few blocks away from Elvis Presley and his manager Colonel Tom Parker, who became his good friend. Hamilton also has a younger brother, David Hamilton.

[edit] Career

 

Hamilton began his film career in 1952. Although he has a substantial body of work in film and television, he is perhaps most famous for his debonair style and his perfect and perpetual suntan.

 

With his matinee-idol looks, it was sometimes noted that he physically resembled Warren Beatty; Beatty's political satire Bulworth contained a running gag about this, with Hamilton appearing as himself in a brief cameo.

 

One of his best-known MGM films was the 1960s' Where the Boys Are, a coming-of-age romantic comedy set during a college-student spring break in the Fort Lauderdale area of Florida in which Hamilton played a smooth Ivy League type. Hamilton received a Golden Globe award in 1960 as Most Promising Newcomer (Male).

 

He went on to a starring role along with George Peppard as a soldier in 1963's The Victors, a World War II story, and as a Confederate captain who kidnaps the wife of a Union officer (Glenn Ford) in a 1967 drama, A Time for Killing.

 

Hamilton made two memorable bio-pics: Your Cheatin' Heart (1964), in which he portrayed the country-western music legend Hank Williams, followed by Evel Knievel (1971), the life story of the motorcycle daredevil.

 

A surprise blockbuster hit came his way in 1979 when Hamilton showed an unforeseen flair for comedy. Love at First Bite was the story of vampire Count Dracula's pursuit of a young Manhattan socialite, played by Susan Saint James. It included such funny scenes as Dracula and his conquest dancing to "I Love the Night Life" at a disco.

 

That film's box-office success created a popularity surge for Hamilton, who followed it with a comic portrayal of a famed swordsman in 1981's Zorro, the Gay Blade. He was nominated for Golden Globe awards for both Love at First Bite and Zorro.

 

Film leads dried up quickly, however. In the mid-1980s, Hamilton starred in the sixth season of the ABC Aaron Spelling-produced nighttime television serial Dynasty. Having once played a doctor who uses hypnosis to commit a murder on a 1975 episode of Columbo, Hamilton returned for a second homicide on that long-running Peter Falk detective series in 1991, this time playing the host of an America's Most Wanted-style television show. He later became a semi-regular panelist on the 1998 revival of Match Game.

 

In 1998, Hamilton co-starred alongside future Disney darling Hilary Duff, in the direct-to-dvd, Casper Meets Wendy, playing the villain in the film.

 

A big movie break for Hamilton came in 1990 when Francis Coppola cast him as the Corleone family's lawyer in a much-anticipated film, The Godfather, Part III.

 

In 2003, he hosted The Family, a reality television series on ABC spanning one season in 2003. It starred 10 members from a traditional Italian-American family, each fighting for a $1,000,000 prize.

 

In 2006, he competed in the second season of ABC's Dancing with the Stars[5] and lasted until the sixth round before being voted off. At age 66 and recovering from knee injuries, Hamilton, unable to match the limber dance moves of his younger competitors, charmed the audience and judges with endearingly silly dances utilizing props including a Zorro mask and sword from Zorro, The Gay Blade.

 

Also in 2006, it was rumored Hamilton would replace Bob Barker on The Price Is Right. He did an audition and in March 2007, TMZ reported that Hamilton was a frontrunner to replace Barker. According to Reuters, Hamilton was one of the final three contenders to host the show, alongside Mark Steines and Todd Newton.[6] Soon thereafter, however, Drew Carey was named as Barker's successor. Subsequently, Hamilton has hosted the live stage adaptation of the show, The Price Is Right Live!.

 

In August 2008, Hamilton co-starred in Coma, a web series on Crackle.[7]

 

Released in 2009, the film My One and Only is a dramatization of his earlier life.

 

Hamilton was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame on 12 August 2009 - his 70th birthday.[8]

 

Hamilton appeared as a contestant on the UK edition of I'm a Celebrity…Get Me out of Here! (UK series 9) in November 2009. Hamilton walked out of the jungle on 30 November 2009, telling the other contestants that he wasn't there to win, but to have fun.[9][10] Hamilton was considered one of the favorites to win the series.

 

In 2010 Hamilton was chosen as one of David Hasselhoff's roasters in the Comedy Central Roast of David Hasselhoff.

[edit] Personal life

 

In 1966, Hamilton had a relationship with Lynda Bird Johnson, the daughter of the President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson.[11]

 

Hamilton was married to actress Alana Stewart from 1972 to 1975. Their son, Ashley Hamilton, was born in 1974. George Thomas Hamilton is his younger son (born in January 2000) with his girlfriend Kimberly Blackford.

 

The divorced Hamiltons reunited in the mid-1990s to co-host a daytime talk show, George and Alana.

 

In I'm A Celebrity, he revealed he had dated at least four Miss Worlds.

 

Hamilton had a well known social relationship with Imelda Marcos, the wife of former Philippines president Ferdinand Marcos. It was later revealed that he also had business ties to the Marcoses. In 1990, Hamilton was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a federal fraud and racketeering case against the Marcoses involving looting Philippine government funds. Mrs. Marcos was acquitted in the case.

    

VAN CLIBURN is an American hero. He has been hailed as one of the most persuasive ambassadors of American culture, as well as one of the greatest pianists in the history of music. With his historic 1958 victory at the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, at the height of the Cold War, Van Cliburn tore down cultural barriers years ahead of glasnost and perestroika, transcending politics by demonstrating the universality of classical music.

 

Returning home from Moscow, Mr. Cliburn received a ticker-tape parade in New York City, the only time a classical musician was ever honored with the highest tribute possible by the City of New York. Upon Mr. Cliburn's invitation, Kiril Kondrashin, the conductor with whom the pianist had played his prizewinning performances, came from Moscow to repeat the celebrated concert program with Van Cliburn at Carnegie Hall in New York, at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia, and in Washington, D.C. Their recording of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto, made during Kondrashin's visit, was the first classical recording ever to be awarded a platinum record, and has now sold well over three million copies.

 

Following his triumph in Moscow, Mr. Cliburn played in several cities in the Soviet Union. From that time on, he toured widely and frequently with every important orchestra and conductor, in the most renowned international concert halls. Mr. Cliburn toured the Soviet Union many times between 1960 and 1972 for extended periods. He made numerous timeless and beloved recordings, including many major piano concerti and a wide variety of solo repertoire.

 

Early in his career, a group of friends and admirers began the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition as a living legacy to Mr. Cliburn's constant efforts to aid the development of young artists. The first competition was held in 1962.

 

In 1987, at the invitation of President Ronald Reagan, Mr. Cliburn performed a formal recital in the East Room of the White House during the State Visit honoring Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union's then general secretary. Two years later, and thirty-one years after his triumph at the Tchaikovsky Competition, Mr. Cliburn returned to the Soviet Union to perform at the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory and in the Philharmonic Hall of Leningrad.

 

Carnegie Hall then requested that he play for its 100th anniversary season as soloist with the New York Philharmonic. Over the years, Mr. Cliburn has opened many U. S. concert halls, including the famous I. M. Pei Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas; the Lied Center for the Performing Arts in Lincoln, Nebraska; and the Bob Hope Cultural Center in Palm Springs, California.

 

Mr. Cliburn has performed with all the great orchestras of the world. He considers the Nancy Lee and Perry R. Bass Performance Hall in Fort Worth to be an architectural and acoustical triumph, and he appeared at the 1998 opening both in recital and as soloist with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra.

 

To honor Mr. Cliburn, the RCA Victor label created an eight-disc Van Cliburn Collection to commemorate his world-revered interpretations of great classical works. The collection contains: Tchaikovsky Concerto No. 1, Rachmaninoff Concerti Nos. 2 and 3, Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Prokofiev Concerto No. 3, and Brahms' Concerti Nos. 1 and 2, as well as concertos by MacDowell, Grieg, Beethoven, Liszt, and Chopin. A documentary titled Van Cliburn, Concert Pianist has been featured on A&E and other venues.

 

Mr. Cliburn has received more than twenty honorary doctorate degrees. He has provided scholarships at many schools, including Juilliard, the Cincinnati Conservatory, Texas Christian University, Louisiana State University, the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and the Moscow Conservatory.

 

Mr. Cliburn has performed for every President of the United States since Harry Truman and for royalty and heads of state in Europe, Asia, and South America. He has received Kennedy Center Honors and the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. In a 2004 Kremlin ceremony he received the Order of Friendship from President Vladimir Putin, and in 2003 President George W. Bush bestowed upon him the Presidential Medal of Freedom in a ceremony at the White House.

 

On March 2, 2011 President Barack Obama honored Mr. Cliburn with the National Medal of Arts in a ceremony at the White House. The National Medal of Arts is the highest honor given to artists and art patrons by the United States Government and acknowledges the extraordinary lifetime achievements of those individuals who have made a lasting impact on the country's cultural landscape. The award is presented by the President to those who have exhibited a commitment to the excellence, growth, and availability of the arts in the U.S. according to the

White House press release. Watch the video of the award ceremony here.

 

Van Cliburn was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, on July 12, 1934. His father, Harvey Lavan Cliburn, was an executive with Magnolia Petroleum, now ExxonMobil. At the age of three he began piano studies with his mother, Rildia Bee O'Bryan Cliburn, a talented student of Arthur Friedheim, who was a pupil of Franz Liszt. He was twelve when he made his orchestral debut with the Houston Symphony Orchestra. After graduating from Kilgore High School in the spring of 1951, his mother wanted him to study with Madame Rosina Lhevinne at the famed Juilliard School in New York City.

 

In 1954, Van Cliburn won the Levintritt Competition, which had not awarded a first-place prize since 1949. The prestigious Levintritt Competition offered important appearances with such major orchestras as Cleveland, Denver, Indianapolis, and Pittsburgh, as well as a coveted New York Philharmonic debut with the great Dimitri Mitropoulos, which took place in Carnegie Hall on November 14, 1954.

The SS 11 Hornick School, Kaladar Township. Photo taken Sept 21, 1937.

 

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French promotion card. Photo: J. B. Mondino / WEA. The postcard promotes Madonna's album and single 'Music'. The album premiered in France on 18 September 2000 and the single on 22 August 2000.

 

Madonna or Madonna Louise Ciccone (1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. During the MTV craze in the 1980s, Madonna pushed boundaries with her song texts and her provocative performances. She frequently reinvented herself and her music and stayed the 'Queen of Pop' for decades. Her global bestsellers were hits such as Like a Virgin (1984) and True Blue (1986), but for us she became more interesting with songs like Like a Prayer (1989), Vogue (1991) and Frozen (1998). And we're still fan, even of some of her films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Truth or Dare (1991), and Evita (1996). The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops reinventing herself, Madonna is a seven-time Grammy Award-winner who has sold over three hundred million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide.

 

Madonna was born Madonna Louise Ciccone in 1958 in Bay City, Michigan. Her father is Italian, her mother was French-Canadian. Her siblings are Anthony Ciccone (1956), Martin Ciccone (1957), Paula Ciccone (1959), Christopher Ciccone (1960), and Melanie Henry (1962). In 1962, Madonna's mother, pregnant with her sixth child, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She delayed treatment until her baby was born, but by that time it was too late. A harrowing, yearlong battle with the disease ensued. She lost her battle with cancer in 1963. In 1978, Madonna moved to New York and studied with renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey. She joined up with the Patrick Hernandez Revue, formed a pop/dance band called 'Breakfast Club', and began working with then-boyfriend Stephen Bray on recording several disco-oriented songs. New York producer/D.J. Mark Kamins passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982 and the rest is history. The 1980s was Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multimillion-selling albums. Madonna first appeared on screen in two low-budget films marketed to an adolescent audience: A Certain Sacrifice (Stephen Jon Lewicki, 1979) and Crazy for You (Harold Becker, 1985), starring Matthew Modine. Her first film, A Certain Sacrifice (1979), was released in 1985, after she became a star, but was actually shot in two parts, the first in 1979, and the other, in 1981. However, she scored a minor cult hit with Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985) starring alongside spunky Rosanna Arquette. In 1984, she started fashion trends with her unique look using rosaries and crosses as jewelry and black rubber typewriter bands as bracelets. Legions of adolescent girls mimicked her look and a Madonna clothing store was opened in New York. Again in 2001, another huge fashion trend was set off by the "Material Mom", this time with western wear - cowboy hats and mud-splattered jeans. In 1986, she starred with then-husband Sean Penn in Shanghai Surprise (Jim Goddard, 1986), which was savaged by critics. She managed to somewhat improve her standing in the cinema with her next two films, the off-beat Who's That Girl (James Foley, 1987) and the quirky Damon Runyon-inspired Bloodhounds of Broadway (Howard Brookner, 1989).

 

Madonna played in the big-budget and star-filled Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990) bad girl Breathless Mahoney flirting with Warren Beatty. The epic failed to catch fire at the box office. Taking an earthier role, Madonna was much more entertaining alongside Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall, 1992), a story about female baseball players during W.W.II. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the whodunit Body of Evidence (Uli Edel, 1992) with Willem Dafoe, an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of the sexy Sharon Stone thriller Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992). Several other minor screen roles followed, then Madonna starred as Eva Perón opposite Jonathan Pryce and Antonio Banderas in Evita (Alan Parker, 1996), a fairly well-received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Material Girl stayed away from the film cameras for several years, returning to co-star with Rupert Everett in the lukewarm romantic comedy The Next Best Thing (John Schlesinger, 2000), followed by the painful Swept Away (2002) for husband Guy Ritchie. If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure Die Another Day (Lee Tamahori, 2002) starring Pierce Brosnan. Madonna began a directing career in 2008 with the comedy Filth and Wisdom (Madonna, 2008), and a year later she reunited with Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) director Alek Keshishian to develop a script about the relationship between the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor that led to his abdication in 1936: the result, a movie named W.E. (Madonna, 2011), starring James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough as the infernal but still royal couple. The film was released in 2011 to lukewarm critics but it gathered one Oscar nomination for costumes and won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for 'Masterpiece'. Madonna has 6 children: daughter, Lourdes Leon (1996) with an ex-boyfriend, Carlos Leon, son, Rocco Ritchie (2000), and adoptive son, David Banda Mwale Ciccone Ritchie (2005) with ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, and adoptive daughters, Mercy James Ciccone (2006), Estere Ciccone and Stella Ciccone (2012).

 

Sources: Wikipedia and IMDb.

 

And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.

Dutch-Swiss postcard in Top Ten Card Series by Verkerke, The Netherlands / Küssnacht am Rigi, Switzerland, no. 34603, 1986. Photo: Boy Toy Inc., 1986.

 

Madonna or Madonna Louise Ciccone (1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. During the MTV craze in the 1980s, Madonna pushed boundaries with her song texts and her provocative performances. She frequently reinvented herself and her music and stayed the 'Queen of Pop' for decades. Her global bestsellers were hits such as Like a Virgin (1984) and True Blue (1986), but for us she became more interesting with songs like Like a Prayer (1989), Vogue (1991) and Frozen (1998). And we're still fan, even of some of her films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Truth or Dare (1991), and Evita (1996). The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops reinventing herself, Madonna is a seven-time Grammy Award-winner who has sold over three hundred million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide.

 

Madonna was born Madonna Louise Ciccone in 1958 in Bay City, Michigan. Her father is Italian, her mother was French-Canadian. Her siblings are Anthony Ciccone (1956), Martin Ciccone (1957), Paula Ciccone (1959), Christopher Ciccone (1960), and Melanie Henry (1962). In 1962, Madonna's mother, pregnant with her sixth child, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She delayed treatment until her baby was born, but by that time it was too late. A harrowing, yearlong battle with the disease ensued. She lost her battle with cancer in 1963. In 1978, Madonna moved to New York and studied with renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey. She joined up with the Patrick Hernandez Revue, formed a pop/dance band called 'Breakfast Club', and began working with then-boyfriend Stephen Bray on recording several disco-oriented songs. New York producer/D.J. Mark Kamins passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982 and the rest is history. The 1980s was Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multimillion-selling albums. Madonna first appeared on screen in two low-budget films marketed to an adolescent audience: A Certain Sacrifice (Stephen Jon Lewicki, 1979) and Crazy for You (Harold Becker, 1985), starring Matthew Modine. Her first film, A Certain Sacrifice (1979), was released in 1985, after she became a star, but was actually shot in two parts, the first in 1979, and the other, in 1981. However, she scored a minor cult hit with Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985) starring alongside spunky Rosanna Arquette. In 1984, she started fashion trends with her unique look using rosaries and crosses as jewelry and black rubber typewriter bands as bracelets. Legions of adolescent girls mimicked her look and a Madonna clothing store was opened in New York. Again in 2001, another huge fashion trend was set off by the "Material Mom", this time with western wear - cowboy hats and mud-splattered jeans. In 1986, she starred with then-husband Sean Penn in Shanghai Surprise (Jim Goddard, 1986), which was savaged by critics. She managed to somewhat improve her standing in the cinema with her next two films, the off-beat Who's That Girl (James Foley, 1987) and the quirky Damon Runyon-inspired Bloodhounds of Broadway (Howard Brookner, 1989).

 

Madonna played in the big-budget and star-filled Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990) bad girl Breathless Mahoney flirting with Warren Beatty. The epic failed to catch fire at the box office. Taking an earthier role, Madonna was much more entertaining alongside Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall, 1992), a story about female baseball players during W.W.II. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the whodunit Body of Evidence (Uli Edel, 1992) with Willem Dafoe, an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of the sexy Sharon Stone thriller Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992). Several other minor screen roles followed, then Madonna starred as Eva Perón opposite Jonathan Pryce and Antonio Banderas in Evita (Alan Parker, 1996), a fairly well-received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Material Girl stayed away from the film cameras for several years, returning to co-star with Rupert Everett in the lukewarm romantic comedy The Next Best Thing (John Schlesinger, 2000), followed by the painful Swept Away (2002) for husband Guy Ritchie. If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure Die Another Day (Lee Tamahori, 2002) starring Pierce Brosnan. Madonna began a directing career in 2008 with the comedy Filth and Wisdom (Madonna, 2008), and a year later she reunited with Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) director Alek Keshishian to develop a script about the relationship between the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor that led to his abdication in 1936: the result, a movie named W.E. (Madonna, 2011), starring James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough as the infernal but still royal couple. The film was released in 2011 to lukewarm critics but it gathered one Oscar nomination for costumes and won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for 'Masterpiece'. Madonna has 6 children: daughter, Lourdes Leon (1996) with an ex-boyfriend, Carlos Leon, son, Rocco Ritchie (2000), and adoptive son, David Banda Mwale Ciccone Ritchie (2005) with ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, and adoptive daughters, Mercy James Ciccone (2006), Estere Ciccone and Stella Ciccone (2012).

 

Source: Wikipedia and IMDb.

 

And, please check out our blog European Film Star Postcards.

“This memorial was erected to the glory of God

And in honour of those

Men of this Parish

Who gave their lives for their country

In the Great War

1914 - 1918”

 

The memorial outside the church lists

Arthur Perceval Green Lieut. 7th Norfolk Regt.

 

A memorial plaque inside the church asks us to pray for William Arthur Green, 35 year rector of this church, who died on August 29th 1928 and of Alice Mary, his wife, who died on December 30th 1928. Remember also the souls of their sons, Arthur Perceval 1st Lt 7th Norfolk Regiment who died in France on July 6th 1916 and Thomas Cuthbert, Mercantile Marine, Awarded the D.S.M, died on May 25th 1927.

 

Name: GREEN, ARTHUR PERCEVAL

Rank: Lieutenant

Regiment: Norfolk Regiment Unit Text: "D" Coy. 7th Bn.

Age: 21 Date of Death: 06/07/1916

Additional information: Son of the Rev. William Arthur and Alice Mary Green, of Winterdon Rectory, Great Yarmouth.

Grave/Memorial Reference: I. I. 22. Cemetery: ALBERT COMMUNAL CEMETERY EXTENSION

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=551889

 

No match on Norlink

 

The 7 year old Arthur P. (born Winterton), can be found on the 1901 census at The Rectory, Winterton. This is the household of his parents, William, (aged 44 and a CoE Clergymman from Gadby, Leicestershire), and Alice M, (aged 34 and from Hants). Their other children are :

Claude S…………………………..aged 6

Dorothy M………………………..aged 8

Evelyn F…………………………..aged 2

Marjorie F………………………..aged 4

Thomas C………………………..aged u/1

 

Alice’s sister, Dorothy K Percival, aged 28 and single, is also living with them. The family have four domestic servants, including a 17 year old Flora Larner from Winterton, (there is a George Larner below for whom I can’t find any CWGC details)

 

The 12th Division, of which the 7th Norfolks were part, suffered very heavy casualties in an attack on the 3rd July, and appear to have been pulled from the line, returning on the 7th July. While Lt Green may possibly have been killed while reconnoitring the trenches his men were going to take over the next day, or for a variety of other reasons, the suspicion must be that he succumbed to wounds received.

 

For anyone researching Lt Green, there are several sites offering a picture and obituary of him, but at a price.

www.lulu.com/product/media-download/green-a-p-lt-7th-norf...

 

Herbert Hacon ASC

 

Name: HACON, HERBERT

Rank: Driver Regiment/Service: Army Service Corps Unit Text: 35th Reserve Park

Age: 38 Date of Death: 02/09/1915 Service No: T4/045157

Additional information: Husband of Ethel Maria Hacon, of The Street, West Somerton, Great Yarmouth.

Grave/Memorial Reference: Screen Wall. 3 "C." A. 4. Cemetery: GREENWICH CEMETERY

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=386071

 

No match on Norlink

 

The 24 year old Herbert, (born Hockering), can be found on the 1901 Census at Clint Street, Ludham. He is the head of the household, and employed as a Ordinary Agricultural Labourer. His wife is called Ethel, she is aged 21 and from Martham. They already have a 3 year old daughter, Ethel, born Rollesby.

 

The 13 year Herbert in on the 1891 Census at the High Street, Catfield. This is the household of his parents, Dennis and Jane, and various brothers and sisters.

 

Herbert gets a brief mention on this family web-site, but an accompanying photo shows us that he is also remembered on the memorial to the fallen of East and West Somerton.

www.jackie-jackson.com/family/haconsww1.htm

 

Richard Shreeve 7th Norfolk Regt

 

Name: SHREEVE, RICHARD EDWARD

Rank: Private Regiment/Service: Norfolk Regiment Unit Text: 1st Bn.

Age: 18 Date of Death: 31/07/1916 Service No: 16752

Additional information: Son of Robert and Elizabeth Shreeve, of High Barn, East Somerton, Norfolk.

Grave/Memorial Reference: XXIX. G. 11. Cemetery: SERRE ROAD CEMETERY No.2

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=609861

 

No match on Norlink

 

The 3 year old Richard, (born Rollesby), can be found on the 1901 Census at Low Street, Rollesby. This was the household of his parents, Robert, (aged 40 and an Ordinary Agricultural Labourer from Rollesby), and Elizabeth, (aged 38 and from Great Yarmouth). Their other children are:-

Bertie………………….aged u/1

Gladys………………..aged 6

Isaac…………………aged 9

Lily……………………aged 12

 

Taken from the war diary of a unit in the same brigade, the 1st Bedfords.

OPERATION ORDERS NO.7 1/BEDFORDSHIRE RGT. Ref. Sheet LONGUEVAL 31st July 1916

1. The Battn. will be relieved at dark by 1/NORFOLK Rgt.

2. On Relief Battn. will withdraw to area East of Church, where they will get into SLIT Trenches they dug on arrival in LONGUEVAL last night.

3. O.C. Coys. will report their arrival in this area to Battn. H.Q.

4. O.C. Coys. will send one guide each to Bn.H.Q. at once to guide NORFOLK coys up.

5. Later (about 11 p.m.) the 1/CHESHIRE RGT. will arrive in the area.

6. On arrival of 1/CHESHIRE Rgt, coys will withdraw independently to POMMIERS Redoubt, without being relieved.

7. O.C. Coys. will report the final departure of their coys to Bn.H.Q.

Report on Operations 30 July - 1st August 1916. REF. Sheet LONGUEVAL 1/BEDFORDSHIRE RGT 30.7.'16 6.45 P.M.

Orders received to reinforce in LONGUEVAL 2/K.O.S.B. holding Line. 1/R.W.Kents in support. Leading platoon moved off at 6.53 p.m. and reached LONGUEVAL at 7.45 p.m. relieving 1/R.W.KENTS 10.12 p.m. O.C. 2/K.O.S.B. reported that his men were retiring from Line S.11.d.9/5 to S.11.c.5/8. A & C Coys were directed to proceed with guides of K.O.S.B. to hold & consolidate this line. B & D Coys were directed to hold line S.11.d.9/5 to S.17.b.0/9. It was proposed to withdraw K.O.S.B. into reserve at dawn. 11.45 p.m. Message received by O.C. K.O.S.B. that GORDONS 51st DIVISION were in Sunken Road & that K.O.S.B. were to bomb towards them. 31.7.'16 12.10 A.M. Enemy started intense bombardment 12.45 A.M. Orderly returned from A & C Coys & reported K.O.S.B. Guides could not show them the way up to front line. O.C. A & C Coys were instructed to establish themselves on the Line B.C.D.E. (S.11.d.4/8 to S.11.c.5.5) & to send out patrols to ascertain if any K.O.S.B. were holding forward line. 2.30 A.M. All Coys reported heavy casualties [2 officers Killed & several wounded]. B & D Coys reported themselves to be in position as ordered from S.11.d.5/5 to S.11.b.0/9. Two wounded prisoners were taken by 'A' Coy. Reinforcements had been asked for at 10.54 A.M. O.C. D Coy reported that he had been able to get in touch with Division on right. O.C. C Coy reported that owing to mist darkness & shell fire it was impossible to recognise the line B.C.D.E, that he was in touch with K.O.S.B. & would establish himself in the forward position at dawn. Telephone communication established between Bn. H.Q. & front line 6.25 A.M. Order received from Bde to relieve K.O.S.B. who were to move into reserve. O.C. C.Coy. reported by Telephone that his patrols were unable to get forward. Two Machine Guns enfilading NORTH STREET & heavy sniping from his front. Companies were now as follows: - D.Coy from PICCADILLY to NORTH ST. on DUKE ST. B.Coy. continuing this line into DELVILLE WOOD. A.Coy. crossroads NORTH ST./FLERS RD. to ORCHARD. C.Coy. in support of A.Coy. with refused flank about S.11.d.8/3 & two platoons North of FLERS Rd. about S.11.d.4/4. C.Coy. were still endeavouring to gain touch with 2nd Divn. The position taken up could be seen from the opposite ridge & any movement attracted heavy shell fire. There was also considerable sniping from the direction of FLERS Rd. 6.0. P.M. 1/NORFOLK RGT. arrived and relieved 2/K.O.S.B. and the forward BEDF. coys, who were moved back to reserve position E. of Church. 10.30 P.M. 1/CHESHIRE RGT. arrived & relief of 1/BEDF. R. was completed by Midnight. 1/BEDF. R. returned to POMMIERS REDOUBT. 11 P.M. A patrol from C.Coy. trying to get into touch with 2nd Division approached the German line in NORTH of DELVILLE WOOD & attracted a big burst of fire.

www.bedfordregiment.org.uk/1stbn/1stbtn1916appendices.html

  

Charles Chettleburgh 7th Norfolk Regt

 

Name: CHETTLEBURGH, CHARLES WILLIAM

Rank: Private Regiment/Service: Norfolk Regiment Unit Text: 7th Bn.

Date of Death: 11/10/1915 Service No: 16877

Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 30 and 31. Memorial: LOOS MEMORIAL

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=729719

 

Norlink has a Charles Chettleburgh of Thorpe St Andrews, and as there is only one Charles Chettleburgh listed on the CWGC database, this is potentially the same person - however, there is nothing in the accompanying notes to indicate that the Thorpe man actually died in the war.

norlink.norfolk.gov.uk/02_Catalogue/02_013_PictureTitleIn...

 

The 5 year old Charles, (born Postwick), can be found on the 1901 Census at Pound Lane, Thorpe St Andrew. This is the household of his parents, Charles, (aged 31 and a Teamster on a Farm, from Thorpe St Andrew), and Mary, (aged 28 and from Itteringham). Their other children are:

Christianna……………………….aged 7.………………….born Thorpe St.Andrew

Frances……………………………..aged 2.…………………born Lammas

Mary………………………………....aged u/1.……………..born Thorpe.

 

The nearest Chettleburgh family to Winterton at this time appears to be in Worstead,

 

The Charles from Thorpe is remembered on the local War Memorial

www.flickr.com/photos/43688219@N00/2352404838/

 

On the 11th, the 7th Norfolks were in billets. They would return to the front line the next in anticipation of their first major attack on the 13th, which unfortunately for the Norfolks was to be fairly disastrous.

 

Bertie Popay 7th Norfolk Regt

 

Name: POPAY, BERTIE

Rank: Private Regiment/Service: Norfolk Regiment Unit Text: 7th Bn.

Age: 27 Date of Death: 09/04/1917 Service No: 24091

Additional information: Son of James Daniel Popay, of Beach Rd., Winterton, Norfolk. Grave/Memorial Reference: Bay 3. Memorial: ARRAS MEMORIAL

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=1604332

 

No match on Norlink

 

The 10 year old Bertie, (born Winterton), can be found on the 1901 Census at Beach Road, Winterton. This is the household of his parents, James, (aged 45 and a Gardeners Assistant from Winterton), and Margaret, (aged 42 and from Winteron).

Their other children are:-

Henry………………….aged 16.……………………Fisherman

James………………….aged 20.…………………..Fisherman

Louisa………………….aged 7

Walter………………….aged 14.…………………Ordinary Agricultural Labourer.

 

9th - Battle of Arras. Wancourt-Feuchy line. 37th on right, 36th on left. 35th Brigade (from Arras cellars via catacomb tunnels) pass through (12.15pm) after 2nd line reached (1,800 yards). 35th Brigade attack Wancourt-Feuchy trench and Feuchty Chapel Redoubt on Cambrai Road. 9th Essex gain Feuchy Chapel

(7th Norfolks were part of 35th Brigade)

1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=487...

 

Thomas Thirtle 11th Sussex Regt

 

No match on the CWGC database. No Thirtle recorded who was a member of the Sussex Regiment. Also tried Thistle. Approximately half the 14 Thirtle’s listed have a Norfolk connection.

 

No match on Norlink

 

There are two potential matches on the 1901 Census. An 8 year old Thomas G. (born Stratford, London) and currently living at 13 Gordon Road, Leyton, Essex. The possible link is his father, Robert, a 39 year old Railway Engine Driver from Burgh in Norfolk. Robert’s wife is Jessie, aged 32 and from Hertford.

The other is a 16 year old Thomas, (born Worstead) and employed as an Ordinary Agricultural Labourer. He is recorded on the 1901 census at Meeting Hill, Worstead, the household of his parents, Henry J, (aged 45 and a Teaman on Farm from Swafield) and Elizabeth, (aged 45 and from Worstead).The Thirtle’s have various children, including Elizabeth’s child from before the marriage, but all are born Worstead, so there is no obvious Winterton link there.

 

Even this information does not throw up an obvious match, although it does narrow the possible down to 6 with age unknown and no family and origin details.

 

The Winterton Holy Trinity baptism records for the period to 1881 are on line.

freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tinstaafl/Chur...

 

They include the baptism of Lily Maria Thirtle on the 02/11/1879. Parents are Thomas Austin Thirtle and Emily Thirtle. None of these appear to be on the Genes Re-united transcription of the 1901 Census for England and Wales. Checking the 1891 Census, there is an Emily, (aged 30) living “On the Green” at Alborough, Norfolk. Her husband is an Arthur W. There is no Lily in the household, so on both counts doesn’t seem a very likely match.

 

John Robert Watson RNR

 

Name: WATSON, JOHN ROBERT

Rank: Seaman Regiment/Service: Royal Naval Reserve Unit Text: H.M.S. "Aboukir." Age: 22 Date of Death: 22/09/1914 Service No: 4751A

Additional information: Son of John Watson, of Winterton, Norfolk; husband of L. M. Watson, of Hillside Cottages, Winterton, Norfolk.

Grave/Memorial Reference: 8. Memorial: CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=3050332

 

No match on Norlink

 

The 8 year old John, (born Winterton), can be found at “The Clink”, Winterton on the 1901 Census. This is the household of his parents, John, (aged 38 and a Fisherman from Martham), and Elizabeth (aged 36 and from Winterton).

Their other children are:-

Caroline…………………….aged 3

Daisy…………………………aged 1

Leah…………………………..aged 5

Milly…………………………..aged 10

 

The 22 year old was a casualty of the early success that German U-Boats enjoyed against dated British warships in the North Sea.

 

“U9 sinks HMS Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy. The patrol by these elderly ships was much criticised, they were too old and slow with inexperienced crews to put up a decent fight against modern German surface ships. Although the submarine threat at the time was not considered, even by critics of the patrol, the fact that the three ships didn't zigzag was criticised by the board of inquiry, a practice that was widely ignored at the time and even by some ships after the loss of the three cruisers.”

www.worldwar1.co.uk/cressy.htm

 

George James Chapman RNR

 

Name: CHAPMAN Initials: G J

Rank: Deck Hand

Service: Royal Naval Reserve Unit Text: H.M. Drifter "Norford Suffling"

Date of Death: 14/11/1915 Service No: 3152/DA

Grave/Memorial Reference: North of church. Cemetery: WINTERTON (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2802671

 

No match on Norlink

 

The most likely match on the 1901 Census is a 7 year old George J. (born Runham), and currently residing at Cotts Lane Cottages, East Somerton. This is the household of his parents, James, (aged 35 and a Teamster from Runham), and Ellen M. (aged 31 and from Stokesby). Their other children are:-

Edith C………………….aged u/1.………….born Somerton

Ernest W C J…………aged 2.……………..born Thrigby

James A………………..aged 5.……………..born Thrigby

Maud M…………………aged 9.……………..born Runham

 

Norford Suffling, hired net drifter

CHAPMAN, George E, Deck Hand, RNR, 3152 DA, illness

www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1915-11Nov.htm

 

George Edward Larner AB

 

No match on CWGC. The only Larner listed as a Royal Navy casualty was an A.B, but his first name was Henry and all the additional family information relates to London.

 

No match on Norlink

 

The 4 year old George H.or possibly N, but definitely not E (born Winteron) can be found on the 1901 Census at Miriam Terrace, The Clink, Winterton. This is the household of his maternal grandparents, James H Daysh, (aged 56 and a Naval Pensioner from Winterton), and Louisa, (aged 60 and from Winterton). George’s mother Louisa J. makes up the household. She is aged 30, born Winterton, In the occupation column there is a nore - “Wife of Fisherman (at sea)”

 

The normally very reliable Naval Net web-site doesn’t list any Larner’s at all for the first world war casualties. (The Henry referred to above didn’t die until 1920.)

www.naval-history.net/xDKCasAlpha1914-18L.htm

   

John King RNR

 

Name: KING, JOHN FREDERICK

Rank: Engineman Service: Royal Naval Reserve Unit Text: H.M. Drifter "Girl Eva." Age: 39 Date of Death: 02/10/1916 Service No: 3703ES

Additional information: Son of John King; husband of Sarah Elizabeth King, of 2, May Cottages, Winterton, Norfolk.

Grave/Memorial Reference: 19. Memorial: CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=3051202

 

No match on Norlink

 

The 24 year old John, (born Winterton and employed as a Fisherman), can be found on the 1901 Census at Beach Road, Winterton. This is the household of his widowed Mother-in-Law, Caroline Bessey, aged 64 and from Winterton. John’s wife is Mary R, aged 24 and from Winteron. Caroline’s son, Charles Bessey, (aged 27 and a fisherman from Winterton), makes up the household. This doesn’t tie up with the CWGC information that John’s wife was a Sarah Elizabeth, although of course he could have been widowed.

 

On the 1891 Census there are two William King’s of the right age. One aged 14 is recorded at King Street, and his parents are a John, (aged 45 and a Fisherman from Yarmouth), and Sebrina, (aged 34 and from Hemsby). Their other children are:-

Maryann……………..aged 7

Caroline………………aged 5(?)

William……………….aged 8(?) months

 

The other has been interpreted as 14, but to me it looks more like 19 - emphasised by the fact that he is already listed as a Fisherman. His father is also a Robert.

 

See also William Utting below, who also lost his life on the Girl Eva.

 

Girl Eva, hired net drifter, mined and sunk in North Sea

CRISP, George, Deck Hand, RNR, DA 7652

KING, John F, Engineman, RNR, ES 3703

KNIGHTS, William J, 2nd Hand, RNR, DA 7614

LOUDEN, William, Trimmer, RNR, ST 1307

MURRAY, Frederick G, Deck Hand, RNR, DA 7684

PULFORD, George B, Ty/Skipper, RNR

UTTING, William E, Engineman, RNR, TS 3092

www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1916-10Oct.htm

 

William King RNR

 

Most likely - is it possible that address for parents is wrong?

 

Name: KING, WILLIAM ROBERT

Rank: Engineman Service: Royal Naval Reserve Unit Text: H.M. Drifter "Waveney II." Age: 27 Date of Death: 26/10/1916 Service No: 4251TS

Additional information: Son of William and Eliza King, of Winterton, Scunthorpe, Lincs.; husband of Ellen E. King, of High Rd., Repps, Great Yarmouth.

Grave/Memorial Reference: 19. Memorial: CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=3051204

There are two other William King’s who were in the Royal Navy Reserve - both have no additional information and both died in France serving in the Royal Naval Division.

 

No match on Norlink

 

On the 1891 Census, the 1 year old William is to be found at Beach Road, Winteron. This is the household of his parents, William, (aged 45 and a Fisherman from Somerton), and Eliza, (aged 45 and from Winterton). Their other children are:-

Sebrina……………………..aged 23

John…………………………..aged 17

Mary A……………………………….........aged 16

Alice………………………………............aged 14

Susanna……………………………….......aged 4

Ethel………………………………............aged 2

 

By the 1901 Census, the family had moved to The Clink, Top Road, Winterton. The older William King was now an Agricultural Labourer.

 

On the night of the 26th/27th there was a strong German Destroyer raid on the Dover Straits. The small boats of the Dover Patrol stood little chance and a number were damaged or sunk.

 

Waveney II, hired net drifter, damaged, later foundered

CATCHPOLE, Frederick C, Trimmer, RNR, TS 4276

DOWSING, Thomas W, Deck Hand, RNR, DA 8581

KING, William R, Engineman, RNR, TS 4251

NESLEN, Robert, 2nd Hand, RNR, SA 2068

WALKER, John, Trimmer, RNR, TS 4714

www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1916-10Oct.htm

 

William Utting RNR

 

Name: UTTING, WILLIAM EDWARD

Rank: Engineman Service: Royal Naval Reserve Unit Text: H.M. Drifter "Girl Eva."

Date of Death: 02/10/1916 Service No: 3902TS

Grave/Memorial Reference: 19. Memorial: CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=3051779

 

No match on Norlink

 

The 13 year old William, (born Winterton), is recorded on the 1901 Census at The Loke, Winterton. This is the household of his parents, John, (aged 42 and a Fisherman from Martham), and Clara, (aged 37 and from Winterton). Their other children are:

George…………………………..aged u/1

Gladys……………………………aged 9

John……………………………….aged 2

Violet……………………………..aged 7

  

See also John King above, who also lost his life on the “Girl Eva”

 

Girl Eva, hired net drifter, mined and sunk in North Sea

CRISP, George, Deck Hand, RNR, DA 7652

KING, John F, Engineman, RNR, ES 3703

KNIGHTS, William J, 2nd Hand, RNR, DA 7614

LOUDEN, William, Trimmer, RNR, ST 1307

MURRAY, Frederick G, Deck Hand, RNR, DA 7684

PULFORD, George B, Ty/Skipper, RNR

UTTING, William E, Engineman, RNR, TS 3092

www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1916-10Oct.htm

 

Lewis Charles Powles RND

 

Name: POWLES, LEWIS CHARLES

Rank: Able Seaman

Service: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Unit Text: Hood Bn. R.N. Div.

Age: 30 Date of Death: 05/09/1917 Service No: London Z/1126

Additional information: Son of Robert Henry and Elizabeth Powles; husband of Laura May Powles, of Winterton, Great Yarmouth.

Grave/Memorial Reference: IV. F. 7. Cemetery: VALENCIENNES (ST. ROCH) COMMUNAL CEMETERY

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=577829

 

The 13 year old Lewis, (born Winterton), is recorded on the 1901 Census at Beach Road East Winterton. This is the household of his widower father Robert, (a 46 year old fisherman from Winterton). His other children are Edward, (aged 11) and Walter (aged u/1).

 

No match on Norlink

 

RND, Hood Battalion

POWLES, Lewis C, Able Seaman, RNVR, London Z 1126, prisoner of war, illness

www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1917-09Sep.htm

 

see update in the first comments box below

 

James Sutton RNR

 

Name: SUTTON, JAMES WILLIAM

Rank: Deck Hand Service: Royal Naval Reserve Unit Text: H.M. Drifter "Maggies."

Age: 17 Date of Death: 16/12/1917 Service No: 4226DA

Additional information: Son of James and Amelia Sutton, of Beach Rd., Winterton, Norfolk.

Grave/Memorial Reference: 26. Memorial: CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=3053714

 

No match on Norlink

 

The 1 year old James, (born Winterton), is recorded on the 1901 Census at Beach Road, Winterton. This is the household of his parents, James, (aged 43 and a Fisherman from Ormesby), and Amelia, (aged 41 and from Winterton). Their other children are:-

Hilda………………………aged 8

Kathleen………………..aged 6

Violet…………………….aged 3.

 

Another member of the household is also listed as a daughter - Edith Larner, however, Edith, (aged 22 and a Laundrymaid), is listed as single. Making up the household is James and Amelia’s grand-daughter, May Larner, aged 7 months.

 

Maggies, hired net drifter

SUTTON, James W, Deck Hand, RNR, DA 4226, drowned

www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1917-12Dec.htm

 

Stanley Gislam RNR

 

Name: GISLAM, STANLEY WILLIAM

Rank: Deck Hand Service: Royal Naval Reserve Unit Text: H.M. Drifter "Select."

Age: 20 Date of Death: 16/04/1918 Service No: 3623DA

Additional information: Son of William and Susannah Gislam, of Winterton, Great Yarmouth.

Grave/Memorial Reference: 30. Memorial: CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=3047394

 

No match on Norlink

 

No match on the Genes Re-united transcription of the 1901 Census for England and Wales.

 

Select, hired net drifter, sunk in collision in Bristol Channel

GISLAM, Stanley W, Deck Hand, RNR, DA 3623

www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1918-04Apr.htm

 

Henry Dyble RNR

 

Name: DYBLE, HARRY STEPHEN

Rank: Engineman Service: Royal Naval Reserve Unit Text: H.M. Drifter "Ocean Fisher." Age: 27 Date of Death: 16/06/1918 Service No: 523ES

Additional information: Son of George Thomas and Evaline Dyble; husband of Alice Dyble, of The Lane, Winterton, Great Yarmouth.

Grave/Memorial Reference: 31. Memorial: CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=3047308

 

No match on Norlink

 

The 10 year old Henry S. (born Caister on Sea), can be found on the 1901 census at California, Caister on Sea. This is the household of his parents, George I, (aged 45 and a Fisherman from Winterton), and Eveline A.(aged 40 and from Scratby). Their other children are:-

Ann E………………………………....aged 3.……………..born Caister on Sea

Daisy M……………………………….aged 4.……………..born Caister on Sea

There is no obvious “Harry”, and the Census details for Henry S and the additional information for Harry Stephen seem to tie up.

 

Ocean Fisher, hired drifter, patrol boat/Q-ship, mined and sunk in North Sea

BROAD, Frank, Ty/Skipper, RNR

DYBLE, Harry S, Engineman, RNR, ES 523

HARVEY, Henry G, Leading Deck Hand, RNR, DA 10427

MINGAY, William F, Deck Hand, RNR, DA 10117

MITCHELL, John W, Engineman, RNR, ES 515

MORTON, William A D, Deck Hand, RNR, DA 2425

QUANTRILL, James W, Deck Hand, RNR, DA 19075

SMITH, William H, 2nd Hand, RNR, DA 5503

TOMLINSON, Harry L, Deck Hand, RNR, DA 1769

www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1918-06Jun.htm

 

Tom Claude Powles RNR

 

Name: POWLES, TOM CLAUDE

Rank: Second Hand

Service: Royal Naval Reserve Unit Text: H.M. Trawler "William Beatty."

Age: 21 Date of Death: 02/11/1918 Service No: 1049DA

Additional information: Son of Walter and Isabella Powles, of Winterton, Norfolk. Grave/Memorial Reference: L. 16. Cemetery: PORT SAID WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=110679

 

No match on Norlink

 

Tom Powles, (aged 3, born Winterton), is recorded on the 1901 Census at Beach Road, Winterton. This is the household of his parents, Isabella Powles, (aged 45), who is described as the wife of a Fisherman at sea. Making up the household are Tom’s brother, Alfred G, (aged 10) , and Mildred E, (aged 7).

 

No match for either William Beatty or Tom Powles on the naval net site.

 

The only match for a ship called William Beatty that I can find is:-

 

Built in 1917 at Middlesbrough as an Admiralty 'Castle' Class trawler WILLIAM BEATTY.

She was subsequently owned by Boston Deep Sea Fishing Ltd as CRESSWELL (M129).

Sunk by gunfire from the German submarine U41 in November1939.

One of a number of Fleetwood ships that fell victim to U-Boats while the rest of Britain waited for action in the Phony War Nov 1939, 6 lost 7 saved.

float-trawlers.lancashire.gov.uk/index.php?a=showall&...

  

George Varley Brown RNR

 

Name: BROWN, GEORGE VARLEY

Rank: Trimmer Service: Royal Naval Reserve Unit Text: H.M. Drifter "Rene"

Age: 31 Date of Death: 25/02/1919 Service No: 3905/TS

Additional information: Husband of Betsy Brown, of King St., Winterton.

Grave/Memorial Reference: North of church. Cemetery: WINTERTON (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD

 

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2802670

 

No match on Norlink

 

The 13 year old George Brown, (born Winterton), is to be found on the 1901 census at King Street, Winterton. This is the household of his parents, Samuel, (aged 34 and a Carpenter from Winterton), and Elvina, (aged 33 and from Winterton). Their other children are:-

Harold……………………………aged 2

Leonard…………………………aged 6

Maurice…………………………aged 10

Samuel…………………………aged 14.…….Workiing on Farm \ Guard Boy

Stanley…………………………aged 4

 

Rene, hired drifter

BROWN, George V, Trimmer, RNR, TS 3905, illness

www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1919a.htm

  

The memorial outside the church lists

 

John Robert Watson RNR........................

 

Name: WATSON, JOHN ROBERT

Rank: Seaman

Service: Royal Naval Reserve

Unit Text: H.M.S. "Aboukir."

Age: 22

Date of Death: 22/09/1914

Service No: 4751A

Additional information: Son of John Watson, of Winterton, Norfolk; husband of L. M. Watson, of Hillside Cottages, Winterton, Norfolk.

Grave/Memorial Reference: 8. Memorial: CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=3050332

 

No match on Norlink

 

The 8 year old John, (born Winterton), can be found at “The Clink”, Winterton on the 1901 Census. This is the household of his parents, John, (aged 38 and a Fisherman from Martham), and Elizabeth (aged 36 and from Winterton).

Their other children are:-

Caroline…………………….aged 3

Daisy…………………………aged 1

Leah…………………………..aged 5

Milly…………………………..aged 10

 

The 22 year old was a casualty of the early success that German U-Boats enjoyed against dated British warships in the North Sea.

 

“U9 sinks HMS Aboukir, Hogue and Cressy. The patrol by these elderly ships was much criticised, they were too old and slow with inexperienced crews to put up a decent fight against modern German surface ships. Although the submarine threat at the time was not considered, even by critics of the patrol, the fact that the three ships didn't zigzag was criticised by the board of inquiry, a practice that was widely ignored at the time and even by some ships after the loss of the three cruisers.”

www.worldwar1.co.uk/cressy.htm

 

George James Chapman RNR........................

 

Name: CHAPMAN Initials: G J

Rank: Deck Hand

Service: Royal Naval Reserve

Unit Text: H.M. Drifter "Norford Suffling"

Date of Death: 14/11/1915

Service No: 3152/DA

Grave/Memorial Reference: North of church. Cemetery: WINTERTON (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2802671

 

No match on Norlink

 

The most likely match on the 1901 Census is a 7 year old George J. (born Runham), and currently residing at Cotts Lane Cottages, East Somerton. This is the household of his parents, James, (aged 35 and a Teamster from Runham), and Ellen M. (aged 31 and from Stokesby). Their other children are:-

Edith C………………….aged u/1.………….born Somerton

Ernest W C J…………aged 2.……………..born Thrigby

James A………………..aged 5.……………..born Thrigby

Maud M…………………aged 9.……………..born Runham

 

Norford Suffling, hired net drifter

CHAPMAN, George E, Deck Hand, RNR, 3152 DA, illness

www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1915-11Nov.htm

 

George Edward Larner AB............................

 

No match on CWGC. The only Larner listed as a Royal Navy casualty was an A.B, but his first name was Henry and all the additional family information relates to London.

 

No match on Norlink

 

The 4 year old George H.or possibly N, but definitely not E (born Winteron) can be found on the 1901 Census at Miriam Terrace, The Clink, Winterton. This is the household of his maternal grandparents, James H Daysh, (aged 56 and a Naval Pensioner from Winterton), and Louisa, (aged 60 and from Winterton). George’s mother Louisa J. makes up the household. She is aged 30, born Winterton, In the occupation column there is a note - “Wife of Fisherman (at sea)”

 

The normally very reliable Naval Net web-site doesn’t list any Larner’s at all for the first world war casualties. (The Henry referred to above didn’t die until 1920.)

www.naval-history.net/xDKCasAlpha1914-18L.htm

 

John King RNR....................................

 

Name: KING, JOHN FREDERICK

Rank: Engineman

Service: Royal Naval Reserve

Unit Text: H.M. Drifter "Girl Eva."

Age: 39

Date of Death: 02/10/1916

Service No: 3703ES

Additional information: Son of John King; husband of Sarah Elizabeth King, of 2, May Cottages, Winterton, Norfolk.

Grave/Memorial Reference: 19. Memorial: CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=3051202

 

No match on Norlink

 

The 24 year old John, (born Winterton and employed as a Fisherman), can be found on the 1901 Census at Beach Road, Winterton. This is the household of his widowed Mother-in-Law, Caroline Bessey, aged 64 and from Winterton. John’s wife is Mary R, aged 24 and from Winteron. Caroline’s son, Charles Bessey, (aged 27 and a fisherman from Winterton), makes up the household. This doesn’t tie up with the CWGC information that John’s wife was a Sarah Elizabeth, although of course he could have been widowed.

 

On the 1891 Census there are two William King’s of the right age. One aged 14 is recorded at King Street, and his parents are a John, (aged 45 and a Fisherman from Yarmouth), and Sebrina, (aged 34 and from Hemsby). Their other children are:-

Maryann……………..aged 7

Caroline………………aged 5(?)

William……………….aged 8(?) months

 

The other has been interpreted as 14, but to me it looks more like 19 - emphasised by the fact that he is already listed as a Fisherman. His father is also a Robert.

 

See also William Utting below, who also lost his life on the Girl Eva.

 

Girl Eva, hired net drifter, mined and sunk in North Sea

CRISP, George, Deck Hand, RNR, DA 7652

KING, John F, Engineman, RNR, ES 3703

KNIGHTS, William J, 2nd Hand, RNR, DA 7614

LOUDEN, William, Trimmer, RNR, ST 1307

MURRAY, Frederick G, Deck Hand, RNR, DA 7684

PULFORD, George B, Ty/Skipper, RNR

UTTING, William E, Engineman, RNR, TS 3092

www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1916-10Oct.htm

 

William King RNR....................

 

Most likely - is it possible that address for parents is wrong?

 

Name: KING, WILLIAM ROBERT

Rank: Engineman

Service: Royal Naval Reserve

Unit Text: H.M. Drifter "Waveney II."

Age: 27

Date of Death: 26/10/1916

Service No: 4251TS

Additional information: Son of William and Eliza King, of Winterton, Scunthorpe, Lincs.; husband of Ellen E. King, of High Rd., Repps, Great Yarmouth.

Grave/Memorial Reference: 19. Memorial: CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=3051204

There are two other William King’s who were in the Royal Navy Reserve - both have no additional information and both died in France serving in the Royal Naval Division.

 

No match on Norlink

 

On the 1891 Census, the 1 year old William is to be found at Beach Road, Winteron. This is the household of his parents, William, (aged 45 and a Fisherman from Somerton), and Eliza, (aged 45 and from Winterton). Their other children are:-

Sebrina……………………..aged 23

John…………………………..aged 17

Mary A……………………………….........aged 16

Alice………………………………............aged 14

Susanna……………………………….......aged 4

Ethel………………………………............aged 2

 

By the 1901 Census, the family had moved to The Clink, Top Road, Winterton. The older William King was now an Agricultural Labourer.

 

On the night of the 26th/27th there was a strong German Destroyer raid on the Dover Straits. The small boats of the Dover Patrol stood little chance and a number were damaged or sunk.

 

Waveney II, hired net drifter, damaged, later foundered

CATCHPOLE, Frederick C, Trimmer, RNR, TS 4276

DOWSING, Thomas W, Deck Hand, RNR, DA 8581

KING, William R, Engineman, RNR, TS 4251

NESLEN, Robert, 2nd Hand, RNR, SA 2068

WALKER, John, Trimmer, RNR, TS 4714

www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1916-10Oct.htm

 

William Utting RNR............................

 

Name: UTTING, WILLIAM EDWARD

Rank: Engineman

Service: Royal Naval Reserve

Unit Text: H.M. Drifter "Girl Eva."

Date of Death: 02/10/1916

Service No: 3902TS

Grave/Memorial Reference: 19.

Memorial: CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=3051779

 

No match on Norlink

 

The 13 year old William, (born Winterton), is recorded on the 1901 Census at The Loke, Winterton. This is the household of his parents, John, (aged 42 and a Fisherman from Martham), and Clara, (aged 37 and from Winterton). Their other children are:

George…………………………..aged u/1

Gladys……………………………aged 9

John……………………………….aged 2

Violet……………………………..aged 7

 

See also John King above, who also lost his life on the “Girl Eva”

 

Girl Eva, hired net drifter, mined and sunk in North Sea

CRISP, George, Deck Hand, RNR, DA 7652

KING, John F, Engineman, RNR, ES 3703

KNIGHTS, William J, 2nd Hand, RNR, DA 7614

LOUDEN, William, Trimmer, RNR, ST 1307

MURRAY, Frederick G, Deck Hand, RNR, DA 7684

PULFORD, George B, Ty/Skipper, RNR

UTTING, William E, Engineman, RNR, TS 3092

www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1916-10Oct.htm

 

Lewis Charles Powles RND....................

 

Name: POWLES, LEWIS CHARLES

Rank: Able Seaman

Service: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

Unit Text: Hood Bn. R.N. Div.

Age: 30

Date of Death: 05/09/1917

Service No: London Z/1126

Additional information: Son of Robert Henry and Elizabeth Powles; husband of Laura May Powles, of Winterton, Great Yarmouth.

Grave/Memorial Reference: IV. F. 7. Cemetery: VALENCIENNES (ST. ROCH) COMMUNAL CEMETERY

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=577829

 

The 13 year old Lewis, (born Winterton), is recorded on the 1901 Census at Beach Road East Winterton. This is the household of his widower father Robert, (a 46 year old fisherman from Winterton). His other children are Edward, (aged 11) and Walter (aged u/1).

 

No match on Norlink

 

RND, Hood Battalion

POWLES, Lewis C, Able Seaman, RNVR, London Z 1126, prisoner of war, illness

www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1917-09Sep.htm

see update in second comment below.

 

James Sutton RNR............................

 

Name: SUTTON, JAMES WILLIAM

Rank: Deck Hand

Service: Royal Naval Reserve

Unit Text: H.M. Drifter "Maggies."

Age: 17

Date of Death: 16/12/1917

Service No: 4226DA

Additional information: Son of James and Amelia Sutton, of Beach Rd., Winterton, Norfolk.

Grave/Memorial Reference: 26. Memorial: CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=3053714

 

No match on Norlink

 

The 1 year old James, (born Winterton), is recorded on the 1901 Census at Beach Road, Winterton. This is the household of his parents, James, (aged 43 and a Fisherman from Ormesby), and Amelia, (aged 41 and from Winterton). Their other children are:-

Hilda………………………aged 8

Kathleen………………..aged 6

Violet…………………….aged 3.

 

Another member of the household is also listed as a daughter - Edith Larner, however, Edith, (aged 22 and a Laundrymaid), is listed as single. Making up the household is James and Amelia’s grand-daughter, May Larner, aged 7 months.

 

Maggies, hired net drifter

SUTTON, James W, Deck Hand, RNR, DA 4226, drowned

www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1917-12Dec.htm

 

Stanley Gislam RNR..............................

 

Name: GISLAM, STANLEY WILLIAM

Rank: Deck Hand

Service: Royal Naval Reserve

Unit Text: H.M. Drifter "Select."

Age: 20

Date of Death: 16/04/1918

Service No: 3623DA

Additional information: Son of William and Susannah Gislam, of Winterton, Great Yarmouth.

Grave/Memorial Reference: 30. Memorial: CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=3047394

 

No match on Norlink

 

No match on the Genes Re-united transcription of the 1901 Census for England and Wales.

 

Select, hired net drifter, sunk in collision in Bristol Channel

GISLAM, Stanley W, Deck Hand, RNR, DA 3623

www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1918-04Apr.htm

 

Henry Dyble RNR............................

 

Name: DYBLE, HARRY STEPHEN

Rank: Engineman

Service: Royal Naval Reserve

Unit Text: H.M. Drifter "Ocean Fisher."

Age: 27

Date of Death: 16/06/1918

Service No: 523ES

Additional information: Son of George Thomas and Evaline Dyble; husband of Alice Dyble, of The Lane, Winterton, Great Yarmouth.

Grave/Memorial Reference: 31. Memorial: CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=3047308

 

No match on Norlink

 

The 10 year old Henry S. (born Caister on Sea), can be found on the 1901 census at California, Caister on Sea. This is the household of his parents, George I, (aged 45 and a Fisherman from Winterton), and Eveline A.(aged 40 and from Scratby). Their other children are:-

Ann E………………………………....aged 3.……………..born Caister on Sea

Daisy M……………………………….aged 4.……………..born Caister on Sea

There is no obvious “Harry”, and the Census details for Henry S and the additional information for Harry Stephen seem to tie up.

 

Ocean Fisher, hired drifter, patrol boat/Q-ship, mined and sunk in North Sea

BROAD, Frank, Ty/Skipper, RNR

DYBLE, Harry S, Engineman, RNR, ES 523

HARVEY, Henry G, Leading Deck Hand, RNR, DA 10427

MINGAY, William F, Deck Hand, RNR, DA 10117

MITCHELL, John W, Engineman, RNR, ES 515

MORTON, William A D, Deck Hand, RNR, DA 2425

QUANTRILL, James W, Deck Hand, RNR, DA 19075

SMITH, William H, 2nd Hand, RNR, DA 5503

TOMLINSON, Harry L, Deck Hand, RNR, DA 1769

www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1918-06Jun.htm

 

Tom Claude Powles RNR.....................

 

Name: POWLES, TOM CLAUDE

Rank: Second Hand

Service: Royal Naval Reserve

Unit Text: H.M. Trawler "William Beatty."

Age: 21

Date of Death: 02/11/1918

Service No: 1049DA

Additional information: Son of Walter and Isabella Powles, of Winterton, Norfolk. Grave/Memorial Reference: L. 16. Cemetery: PORT SAID WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=110679

 

No match on Norlink

 

Tom Powles, (aged 3, born Winterton), is recorded on the 1901 Census at Beach Road, Winterton. This is the household of his parents, Isabella Powles, (aged 45), who is described as the wife of a Fisherman at sea. Making up the household are Tom’s brother, Alfred G, (aged 10) , and Mildred E, (aged 7).

 

No match for either William Beatty or Tom Powles on the naval net site.

 

The only match for a ship called William Beatty that I can find is:-

 

Built in 1917 at Middlesbrough as an Admiralty 'Castle' Class trawler WILLIAM BEATTY.

She was subsequently owned by Boston Deep Sea Fishing Ltd as CRESSWELL (M129).

Sunk by gunfire from the German submarine U41 in November1939.

One of a number of Fleetwood ships that fell victim to U-Boats while the rest of Britain waited for action in the Phony War Nov 1939, 6 lost 7 saved.

float-trawlers.lancashire.gov.uk/index.php?a=showall&...

 

George Varley Brown RNR.....................

 

Name: BROWN, GEORGE VARLEY

Rank: Trimmer

Service: Royal Naval Reserve

Unit Text: H.M. Drifter "Rene"

Age: 31

Date of Death: 25/02/1919

Service No: 3905/TS

Additional information: Husband of Betsy Brown, of King St., Winterton.

Grave/Memorial Reference: North of church. Cemetery: WINTERTON (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD

 

CWGC www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=2802670

 

No match on Norlink

 

Update

 

The baptism of a George Benjamin Varley Brown, no date of birth was recorded, took place at Holy Trinity & All Saints Winterton on the 1st February 1889. Parents were listed as George, a Fisherman, and Alice, with the family abode given as Winteron.

This obviously didn't tie in with the census details I'd originally identified which had George's parents down as a Samuel and Elvina, (and indeed there was a George William who was baptised in the same church in 1888 with those parents).

 

The 12 year old George V. born Winterton, was recorded on the 1901 census at The Loke, Winterton. This was the household of his Paternal Grand-Parents, George Brown, (aged 56 and a Fisherman from Winterton) and Eliza, (aged 53 and from Winterton), They still have some of their own children living with them, Charles W, (aged 17, Fisherman) and Ellen L, (aged 8) as well as another Grand-child, Edith E.Brown, (aged 4 and born Winterton) . Looking at the baptism records, young Edith Eliza Brown had been born to a single parent mother, Eliza Brown.

 

The marriage of a George B V Brown to a Betsy Hodds was recorded in the October to December 1917 quarter in the Flegg District of Norfolk.

 

It looks like Betsy was a Winterton girl - there is only one person on the 1901 census - an 11 year old girl who had been born Winteron and who was recorded at The Loke, Winterton.

This was the household of her widowed mother, Harriet Hodds, aged 41 and a Charwoman from Winterton.

 

Rene, hired drifter

BROWN, George V, Trimmer, RNR, TS 3905, illness

www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1919a.htm

  

Directed by John Frankenheimer

First row: Mary Kloeckner, Carol Wellman, Betty Salih, Sandy Sher, Alice Mitchell, Jerry Castillon, Wallis Warren, Linda Kalicak, Robert Weaver

 

Second row: Glenda Finnie, Alice Koritta, Anne Frohman, Cheryl Rafert, Barbara Lehmier, Donna Steinhoff, Anne Kirkpatrick, Pauline Ashton, Lisa Nansteel, Phyllis Weber, Shirley Bardenheier, Carol Swink

 

Third row: Robert Faupel, Don Caldwell, Jim Fellhauer, Arnold Donald, PHR, John McCormack, Marie Jaeger, Linda Waugh, Emil Beier, Julian Fleischman, Bob Thornberry

 

Not pictured: Lee Adams, Eva Marie Adams, Audrey Beatty, Polly Coxe, Judy Evans, Kitty Ferrell, Natalie Feste, Barbara Floom, Pam Fournier, Mil Glaser, Emery Harmon, Pam Hass, Laure Hullverson, Jerry Lehman, Dorothy Martels, Lavonne McClain, June Mueller, Mary Ellen Neilson, Bernadine Richard, Nancy Schikore, Nancy Solodar, Betty Struckhoff, Shirley Valentino

 

Photo Credit: Sonya Buerck

Cardinal Giant Edition - 1960

Movie Tie-In

"...an even more startling MGM release....."

Herlihy would later write MIDNIGHT COWBOY.

Dutch postcard by Verkerke Postcard, no. 30248. Photo: Herb Ritts / Boy Toy Inc.

 

Madonna or Madonna Louise Ciccone (1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. During the MTV craze in the 1980s, Madonna pushed boundaries with her song texts and her provocative performances. She frequently reinvented herself and her music and stayed the 'Queen of Pop' for decades. Her global bestsellers were hits such as Like a Virgin (1984) and True Blue (1986), but for us she became more interesting with songs like Like a Prayer (1989), Vogue (1991) and Frozen (1998). And we're still fans, even of some of her films, including Desperately Seeking Susan (1985), Truth or Dare (1991), and Evita (1996). The remarkable, hyper-ambitious Material Girl who never stops reinventing herself, Madonna is a seven-time Grammy Award-winner who has sold over three hundred million records and CDs to adoring fans worldwide.

 

Madonna was born Madonna Louise Ciccone in 1958 in Bay City, Michigan. Her father was Italian, her mother was French-Canadian. Her siblings are Anthony Ciccone (1956), Martin Ciccone (1957), Paula Ciccone (1959), Christopher Ciccone (1960), and Melanie Henry (1962). In 1962, Madonna's mother, pregnant with her sixth child, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She delayed treatment until her baby was born, but by that time, it was too late. A harrowing, yearlong battle with the disease ensued. She lost her battle with cancer in 1963. In 1978, Madonna moved to New York and studied with renowned choreographer Alvin Ailey. She joined up with the Patrick Hernandez Revue, formed a pop/dance band called 'Breakfast Club', and began working with then-boyfriend Stephen Bray on recording several disco-oriented songs. New York producer/D.J. Mark Kamins passed her demo tapes to Sire Records in early 1982, and the rest is history. The 1980s was Madonna's boom decade, and she dominated the music charts with a succession of multimillion-selling albums. Madonna first appeared on screen in two low-budget films marketed to an adolescent audience: A Certain Sacrifice (Stephen Jon Lewicki, 1979) and Crazy for You (Harold Becker, 1985), starring Matthew Modine. Her first film, A Certain Sacrifice (1979), was released in 1985, after she became a star, but was shot in two parts, the first in 1979, and the other in 1981. However, she scored a minor cult hit with Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seidelman, 1985), starring alongside spunky Rosanna Arquette. In 1984, she started fashion trends with her unique look, using rosaries and crosses as jewelry and black rubber typewriter bands as bracelets. Legions of adolescent girls mimicked her look, and a Madonna clothing store was opened in New York. Again in 2001, another huge fashion trend was set off by the "Material Mom", this time with western wear - cowboy hats and mud-splattered jeans. In 1986, she starred with then-husband Sean Penn in Shanghai Surprise (Jim Goddard, 1986), which was savaged by critics. She managed to somewhat improve her standing in the cinema with her next two films, the off-beat Who's That Girl (James Foley, 1987) and the quirky Damon Runyon-inspired Bloodhounds of Broadway (Howard Brookner, 1989).

 

Madonna played in the big-budget and star-filled Dick Tracy (Warren Beatty, 1990) bad girl Breathless Mahoney flirting with Warren Beatty. The epic failed to catch fire at the box office. Taking an earthier role, Madonna was much more entertaining alongside Tom Hanks and Geena Davis in A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall, 1992), a story about female baseball players during WWII. However, she again drew the wrath of critics with the whodunit Body of Evidence (Uli Edel, 1992) with Willem Dafoe, an obvious attempt to cash in on the success of the sexy Sharon Stone thriller Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992). Several other minor screen roles followed, then Madonna starred as Eva Perón opposite Jonathan Pryce and Antonio Banderas in Evita (Alan Parker, 1996), a fairly well-received screen adaptation of the hugely successful Broadway musical, for which she received a Golden Globe for Best Actress. The Material Girl stayed away from the film cameras for several years, returning to co-star with Rupert Everett in the lukewarm romantic comedy The Next Best Thing (John Schlesinger, 2000), followed by the painful Swept Away (2002) for husband Guy Ritchie. If those films weren't bad enough, she was woefully miscast as a vampish fencing instructor in the James Bond adventure Die Another Day (Lee Tamahori, 2002) starring Pierce Brosnan. Madonna began a directing career in 2008 with the comedy Filth and Wisdom (Madonna, 2008), and a year later she reunited with Madonna: Truth or Dare (1991) director Alek Keshishian to develop a script about the relationship between the Duke of Windsor and the Duchess of Windsor that led to his abdication in 1936: the result, a movie named W.E. (Madonna, 2011), starring James D'Arcy and Andrea Riseborough as the infernal but still royal couple. The film was released in 2011 to lukewarm critics, but it gathered one Oscar nomination for costumes and won the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for 'Masterpiece'. Madonna has 6 children: daughter, Lourdes Leon (1996) with an ex-boyfriend, Carlos Leon, son, Rocco Ritchie (2000), and adoptive son, David Banda Mwale Ciccone Ritchie (2005) with ex-husband, Guy Ritchie, and adoptive daughters, Mercy James Ciccone (2006), Estere Ciccone and Stella Ciccone (2012).

 

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Company E, 11th Ohio Infantry

JOHN ORLANDO FUGATE

 

Ohio has given to Ottawa county, Kansas, many men who have been among its leading citizens in the past and present. One Ohioan whose career in Kansas covers a considerable period of her modern history is John Orlando Fugate, who lives in section 33, Garfield township, Ottawa county, and whose post-office address is Minneapolis. Mr. Fugate, who is a veteran of the Civil war, in which he served in the Eleventh Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry, was a homesteader in Kansas in 1870 and has since been a factor in the progress and prosperity of Ottawa county.

John Orlando Fugate was born at Oakland, Clinton county, Ohio, May 4, 1838, a son of Enoch Fugate, a native of Pennsylvania and a member of an old and patriotic family of that state. Enoch Fugate’s grandfather fought for American freedom in the war of the Revolution, and Thomas Fugate was a soldier in the war of 1812. By trade the last mentioned was a carpenter. He married Mary Hilerman, a native of Georgia, and whose father was a native of Germany, and she bore him twelve children. The family moved to Clarksville, Ohio, where Enoch Fugate died in 1895 at the age of eighty-five years, and where his wife died at the age of sixty-six. The following data concerning the children will be of interest in this connection. John Orlando is the immediate subject of this sketch. Almira became Mrs. Burroughs and lives in Ohio. Harriet Beatty lives in Greenfield, Ohio. Eva, who became Mrs. Touchstone, lives in Winfield, Kansas. James Monroe, of Frankfort, Ohio, was a second lieutenant in the United States army in the Spanish American war and was a gallant officer. Mary and Lucy died in infancy, and Blanche died at the age of three years. Amanda became Mrs. Large and died at Pomeroy, Kansas. Hannah became Mrs. Slogden, and Susan became Mrs. Hallan, and both died at Greenfield, Ohio. Jerome H. lives in Greenfield, Ohio.

The subject of this sketch was reared to farm life and educated in the public schools of Clinton county, Ohio. He responded to President Lincoln’s call for troops in 1861, and after a brief connection with the Twelfth Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry he became a member of Company E, Eleventh Regiment of Ohio Volunteer Infantry. His regimental commander was Colonel P. P. Lane and his company commanded by Captain L. G. Brown. He saw thirty-seven months of active service under the stars and stripes, and was in battle at Chickaumauga, Chattanooga and other points, after which he was transferred to Company G, Seventh Veteran Reserve Corps. He fought against Early at Fort Stevens, and in 1863 was for sixty days in the hospital. On one occasion he was in a memorable railroad accident in Ohio, between Belmont and Bellaire. His dog Curley was with him throughout his entire service, and during the time it was twice wounded, and once, by being thrown from the cars, had its leg broken. It died at the Soldier’s Home at Dayton, Ohio.

Mr. Fugate was married in Warren county, Ohio to Miss Jerusha A Penquite, a woman of good family and of much education and refinement, who proved to be a worthly helpmeet. Mrs. Fugate was born in Warren county, Ohio, a daughter of William and Julia (Ford) Penquite, both of whom died at Clarksville, Clinton county, Ohio, respected and regretted by all who had known them. Mr. Penquite, who was a successful farmer, was an influential citizen who affiliated with the Republican party. The following facts concerning his children will be found interesting in this connection. Mrs. Jerusha A. Fugate is the wife of the subject of this sketch. John W. Penquite lives a Minneapolis, Kansas. Nat B. Penquite is one of the old settlers of Garfield township, Ottawa county. E. F. and A. M. Penquite are well known citizens of Clarksville, Ohio. Anna became Mrs. Robertson and lives at Lebanon, Ohio. James F. Penquite, who served in the Civil war as a member of Company H, Thirty-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, died at Minneapolis, Ottawa county, Kansas, May 16, 1897. Nancy E., a twin sister of Nat B. Penquite, was the next in the order of birth, and died in infancy, and one daughter died in infancy unnamed.

Mr. Fugate in 1871 took up a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres in Garfield township and built upon it a box house, in which he lived while he made improvements and put his land under cultivation. His farm is now one of the best in its vicinity and his home is one of the most hospitable in the township. In politics Mr. Fugate is a Republican. He is a member of Giffee Post, No. 266, Grand Army of the Republic, of Ada, and Mrs. Fugate is a member of the Relief Corps No. 801. For thirty years he has been a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and he is one of the proud recipients of the twenty-five-year medal. Mr. and Mrs. Fugate are members of the Christian church. Their daughter May Julia, who was formerly a successful teacher, married Lewis Pickrell and lives at Minneapolis. Their daughter Mary F. married George L. Smith, of Fountain township, Ottawa county. Their son Charles H. married Gertrude Delcamp of Ottawa county, and is a well known citizen of Garfield township.

   

From left to right: Sergey Gavrilets, Stuart Newman, David Sloan Wilson, John Beatty, John Odling-Smee, Michael Purugganan, Greg Wray, David Jablonski, Marc Kirschner, Eörs Szathmary, Günter Wagner, Werner Callebaut, Eva Jablonka, Gerd Müller, Massimo Pigliucci, Alan Love

Photo by Bill Lorenz

Front- Eva Jane (Dutton) Cerett, Nola (Merryman) Rice, Dorothy (Watson) Fletcher, Helen 'Nettie' (Dowdle) Albaugh, Deanna (Arbaugh) Glaser

2nd Row- Greg Curry, Junior Ankrom, Ron Zimmerman, Jim Lowmiller, Diane (Walters) Sims, Diana (Morris) Dowdle, Doris (McClain) Westphal, Danny Schuman

3rd Row- Ray Gross, Tom Trotter, Leroy Van Horne, Danny Beatty, Ed Rose, Ronnie Wolfe, Ron Caldwell