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Welles Discovery Ford Dead At 98

17 August 2009 2:56 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

Actress and model Ruth Ford has died at her home in New York at the age of 98.

A former member of Orson Welles’ Mercury Theatre troupe, Ford was a regular leading light on Broadway throughout the 1950s, 60s and 70s.

She won rave reviews for role in plays like No Exit, Dinner at Eight and Requiem for a Nun, in which she co-starred with her husband, Zachary Scott.

Her longtime home in the Dakota building was a gathering spot for her many artist and writer friends, including Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote and Edward Albee, according to the New York Times.

Born in Mississippi, she arrived in New York in the 1930s and found work as a model for photographers Cecil Beaton and Man Ray.

In 1938, Ford joined Welles’ Mercury Theatre group and made her Broadway debut the same year in Shoemaker’s Holiday.

She moved to Hollywood in 1941 and went on to appear in films like Wilson, The Woman Who Came Back and Murder on the Waterfront. »

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Greta Garbo's life and loves get the big screen treatment

16 July 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | AfterEllen.com | See recent AfterEllen.com news »

Through her life, Greta Garbo was famously for saying she vanted to be alone. But even almost 20 years after her death, we just can’t seem to let her have her wish. With a life and career as rich and interesting as Garbo’s, how could we? Well now, a new film project will delve further into the private life of the screen icon.

Tapped to play the reclusive screen icon is relative unknown Swedish-born, New York-based actress Anna-Karin Eskilsson. She looks a little like Garbo and Padma Lakshmi had a love child, no?

Eskilsson has had small, largely cameo roles in films like The Wrestler (as a flirt in the supermarket) and Sex and the City movie (as one of Charlotte’s girlfriends). Before being tapped for the lead in the new biopic she was a bartender at the Empire State Building Bar. From cocktail slinger to screen icon, »

- dorothy snarker

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Costume Design in the Digital Age in Hollywood

16 April 2009 5:06 PM, PDT | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »

Left to right: Costume worn by Danny Kaye in The Inspector General (1949), designed by Travilla. Costume worn by Viveca Lindfors in The Adventures of Don Juan (1948), designed by Leah Rhodes. Costume worn by Natalie Wood in The Great Race (1965). designed by Edith Head. Costume worn by Judy Garland in A Star is Born (1954), designed by Irene Sharaff. Costume worn by Frank Sinatra in 4 for Texas (1963), designed by Norma Koch.   "Costume Design in the Digital Age" is the title of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences program presenting the "opportunities and challenges facing motion picture costume designers working in the current era of digital technology." "Costume Design in the Digital Age" will take place on Friday, April 24, at 8 p.m. at the Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood. (Image, right: Costumes designed by Cecil Beaton for My Fair Lady [...] »

- Andre Soares

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Keira Knightley to star in My Fair Lady’s remake

13 February 2009 3:30 AM, PST | Celeb9.com | See recent Celeb9 news »

Keira Knightley is reportedly up with some real good news for her huge fan base. Keira according to reports, is lined up to play Eliza Doolittle in Stephen Daldry's remake of My Fair Lady. The remake is being considered a big one, since even Stephen feels that the earlier version was a fake in earning big name for just nothing. So Keira might just prove to be a better player in taking the much coveted step. As always the sought after star, Keira has reportedly confirmed her role in the film which is yet to be scheduled for shoot. Daldry had made a bombing effect on the film fraternity when he had claimed that film audiences had been 'fooled' in the 1964 version of the great movie saying: 'It's all about Cecil Beaton's sets and costumes, isn't it? Which are fantastic  -  as are the.... »

- angana

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2009 | 2005

4 articles from 2009

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