They were… They are


They are stars

We know them as we saw them in the movies.

But time has passed and everyone is changing.

Here how we knew them
Here they are now mature and greater than before

 

ABBA

ABBA

ABBA

 

 

ART GARFUNKEL (Simon and Garfunkel 

ART AND GARFUNKEL

ART AND GARFUNKEL

 

 

BARBARA EDEN 

Barbara Eden

Barbara Eden

 

 

BARRY GIBB  (Bee Gees )

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barry gibb bee gees

 

 

BOB DYLAN

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan

 

 

CAT STEVENS

cat stevens

cat stevens

 

 

DAVID MC CALLUM

David Mc Callum

David Mc Callum

 

 

HARISON FORD

Harison Ford

Harison Ford

 

 

JOAN BAEZ

Joan baez

Joan baez

 

 

JULIE ANDREWS

JULIE ANDREWS

JULIE ANDREWS

 

SOUND OF MUSIC TEAM  ( Von Trapp family in movie)

Sound of music team

Sound of music team

 

 

PAUL ANKA

PAUL ANKA

PAUL ANKA

 

 

LEE  AAKER ( Aka RUSTY in RINTINTIN )

LEE AAKER AKA RUSTY in RINTINTIN

LEE AAKER AKA RUSTY in RINTINTIN

 

 

TOM HANKS

Tom Hanks

Tom Hanks

 

 

TOM JONES

TOM JONES

TOM JONES

 

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Julie Andrews


Dame Julie Andrews DBE (born Julia Elizabeth Wells; 1 October 1935) is an English actress, singer, and author. Throughout her career of over 75 years, she has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, three Grammy Awards, and six Golden Globe Awards.

Andrews was made a Disney Legend in 1991, and has been honoured with a Honorary Golden Lion as well as the AFI Life Achievement Award. In 2000, Andrews was made a dame by Queen Elizabeth II for services to the performing arts.

Andrews, a child actress and singer, appeared in the West End in 1948 and made her Broadway debut in The Boy Friend (1954). Billed as “Britain’s youngest prima donna“, she rose to prominence starring in Broadway musicals such as My Fair Lady (1956) playing Eliza Doolittle and Camelot (1960) playing Queen Guinevere. On 31 March 1957, Andrews starred in the premiere of Rodgers and Hammerstein‘s written-for-television musical Cinderella, a live, colour CBS network broadcast seen by over 100 million viewers. Andrews made her feature film debut in Walt Disney‘s Mary Poppins (1964) and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the title role. The following year she starred in the musical film The Sound of Music (1965), playing Maria von Trapp and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Comedy or Musical.

Between 1964 and 1986, Andrews starred in various films working with directors including her husband Blake EdwardsGeorge Roy Hill, and Alfred Hitchcock in The Americanization of Emily (1964), Hawaii (1966), Torn Curtain (1966), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), Star! (1968), The Tamarind Seed (1974), 10 (1979), S.O.B. (1981), Victor/Victoria (1982), That’s Life! (1986), and Duet for One (1986). After 1986 her workload decreased, appearing in two films in 1991 and not again until 2000. After the turn of the new millennium, however, her career had a revival. From 2001 to 2004 Andrews starred in The Princess Diaries (2001) and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004). From 2004 to 2018 she lent her voice to the Shrek and Despicable Me animated films and Aquaman (2018). In 2017 she co-created and hosted a children’s educational show titled Julie’s Greenroom, for which she received two Daytime Emmy Award nominations. Beginning in 2020, Andrews voiced the narrator Lady Whistledown in the Netflix series Bridgerton. She has also worked hosting performance shows such as Great Performances and narrating documentaries such as the 2004 Emmy-winning series Broadway: The American Musical.

In 2002, Andrews was ranked No. 59 in the BBC’s poll of the 100 Greatest Britons. In 2003, she revisited her first Broadway success, this time as a stage director, with a revival of The Boy Friend. Apart from her musical career, she is also an author of children’s books and has published two autobiographies, Home: A Memoir of My Early Years (2008) and Home Work: A Memoir of My Hollywood Years (2019).

Julia Elizabeth Wells was born on 1 October 1935 in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England. Her mother, Barbara Ward Wells (née Morris; 1910–1984) was born in Chertsey and married Edward Charles “Ted” Wells (1908–1990), a teacher of metalwork and woodwork, in 1932.

Andrews was conceived as a result of an affair her mother had with a family friend. Andrews discovered her true parentage from her mother in 1950, although it was not publicly disclosed until her 2008 autobiography.

With the outbreak of World War II, her parents went their separate ways and were soon divorced. Each remarried: Barbara to Ted Andrews, in 1943, and Ted Wells in 1944 to Winifred Maud (Hyde) Birkhead, a war widow and former hairstylist at a war work factory that employed them both in Hinchley Wood, Surrey. Wells assisted with evacuating children to Surrey during the Blitz, while Andrews’s mother joined her husband in entertaining the troops through the Entertainments National Service Association. Andrews lived briefly with Wells and her brother, John in Surrey. In 1940, Wells sent her to live with her mother and stepfather, who Wells thought would be better able to provide for his talented daughter’s artistic training. According to Andrews’s 2008 autobiography Home, while Andrews had been used to calling her stepfather “Uncle Ted”, her mother suggested it would be more appropriate to refer to her stepfather as “Pop”, while her father remained “Dad” or “Daddy” to her, a change which she disliked. The Andrews family was “very poor” and “lived in a bad slum area of London,” at the time, stating that the war “was a very black period in my life.” According to Andrews, her stepfather was violent and an alcoholic. He twice, while drunk, tried to get into bed with his stepdaughter, resulting in Andrews fitting a lock on her door.

As the stage career of her mother and stepfather improved, they were able to afford better surroundings, first to Beckenham and then, as the war ended, back to the Andrews’s hometown of Hersham. The family took up residence at the Old Meuse, in West Grove, Hersham, a house (now demolished) where Andrews’s maternal grandmother had served as a maid. Andrews’s stepfather sponsored lessons for her, first at the independent arts educational school Cone-Ripman School (ArtsEd) in London, and thereafter with concert soprano and voice instructor Madame Lilian Stiles-Allen. Andrews said of Stiles-Allen, “She had an enormous influence on me,” adding, “She was my third mother – I’ve got more mothers and fathers than anyone in the world.” In her memoir Julie Andrews – My Star Pupil, Stiles-Allen records, “The range, accuracy and tone of Julie’s voice amazed me … she had possessed the rare gift of absolute pitch”, though Andrews herself refutes this in her 2008 autobiography Home. According to Andrews, “Madame was sure that I could do Mozart and Rossini, but, to be honest, I never was”. Of her own voice, she says, “I had a very pure, white, thin voice, a four-octave range – dogs would come from miles around.” After Cone-Ripman School, Andrews continued her academic education at the nearby Woodbrook School, a local state school in Beckenham.

The sound of music

The sound of Music

The sound of Music

The sound of music Julie Andrews /Christopher Plummer
Cast of Sound of Music

Termed “Britain’s youngest prima donna”, Andrews’s classically trained soprano voice, lauded for its “pure and clear” sound, has been described as light, bright and operatic in tone. When a young Andrews was taken by her parents to be examined by a throat specialist, the doctor concluded that she had “an almost adult larynx.” Despite the continual encouragement to pursue opera by her voice teacher, English soprano Lilian Stiles-Allen, Andrews herself felt that her voice was unsuited for the genre and “too big a stretch”. At the time, Andrews described her own voice as “extremely high and thin”, feeling that it lacked “the necessary guts and weight for opera”, preferring musical theatre instead.

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As Andrews aged, so did her voice, which began to naturally deepen. Losing her vast upper register, her “top notes” became increasingly difficult to sing while “her middle register matured into the warm golden tone” for which she has become known, according to Tim Wong of The Daily Telegraph.

Musically, she had always preferred singing music that was “bright and sunny”, choosing to avoid songs that were sad or otherwise written in a minor key, for fear of losing her voice “in a mess of emotion”. She cited this as another reason for avoiding opera.

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Mary Poppins
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Julie Andrews

Additional informations about “the sound of music” : The original Broadway cast. The original Broadway cast was started by Mary Martin. Her singing style was very different than Julie Andrews’s style.

(Mary Martin was Larry hagman’s mother)

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CLAUDIA CARDINALE


Claudia Cardinale est une actrice et mannequin italienne francophone, née le 15 avril 1938 à Tunis (Tunisie).

Véritable sex-symbol des années 1960, elle a joué dans de nombreux films à succès, notamment dans les films Le Pigeon (1958), Le Guépard (1963) et Il était une fois dans l’Ouest (1968).

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Claude Joséphine Rose Cardinale est née à Tunis à l’époque du protectorat français, dans un immeuble de l’avenue Jules-Ferry (aujourd’hui avenue Habib-Bourguiba), le « Foyer du combattant », derrière le quartier de la Petite Sicile. Son père, François, est ingénieur à la compagnie des chemins de fer de Tunis. Elle est l’aînée d’une fratrie de quatre enfants avec Blanche, Bruno et Adrien élevés par sa mère Yolande Greco. Ses grands-parents paternels et maternels sont originaires de Sicile.

Garçon manqué et enfant sauvage, elle est fascinée comme beaucoup d’adolescentes de sa génération, par Brigitte Bardot. Elle étudie au lycée Cambon, rue de Marseille. Le sicilien est la langue parlée dans sa famille et le français la langue apprise pendant sa scolarité, de sorte que, bien qu’étant de nationalité italienne, elle n’apprend l’italien qu’à l’âge adulte, afin de pouvoir tourner.

Ses premiers contacts avec le cinéma ont lieu en 1955 à Venise, durant la Biennale, au cours d’un voyage qui lui a été offert après qu’elle a gagné, à 17 ans, l’élection de « la plus belle Italienne de Tunis », concours de beauté organisé par l’office du cinéma italien. Cependant, désirant être institutrice, elle décline toutes les propositions qui lui sont faites et ne fait qu’une brève apparition dans un court métrage, Anneaux d’or de René Vautier. Violée à l’âge de 19 ans, elle refuse de se faire avorter et c’est ce qui la pousse à s’engager dans le cinéma pour gagner sa vie et être indépendante dans le but de pouvoir élever son fils Patrick.

Ses véritables débuts dans un long métrage se font en 1958 dans Goha de Jacques Baratier et surtout Le Pigeon de Mario Monicelli, sous l’égide du producteur Franco Cristaldi, qu’elle épouse en 1966.

Dans les années 1960, on la retrouve à l’affiche de nombreux succès critiques et publics. De célèbres et nombreux réalisateurs tiennent à sa présence devant leurs caméras. Ce sont notamment Mauro Bolognini, Abel Gance, Luchino Visconti, Henri Verneuil, Philippe de Broca, Luigi Comencini, Federico Fellini, Blake Edwards, Henry Hathaway et Sergio Leone. Avec le drame La Fille à la valise de Valerio Zurlini, elle devient la petite fiancée de l’Italie.

À cause de sa voix rauque et de son italien alors approximatif, l’actrice est systématiquement doublée dans ses films, jusqu’à Huit et demi.

Sur le tournage, Claudia Cardinale parle le français dans les scènes avec Alain Delon, l’anglais avec Burt Lancaster et l’italien dans ses autres scènes.

Ces doublages ont eu une conséquence négative au début de sa carrière, car pour le film La Fille à la valise, elle reçoit le ruban d’argent de la meilleure actrice, qui lui est aussitôt retiré, le jury s’étant rappelé après coup que le règlement interdit aux lauréats d’être doublés.

Sa présence aux côtés d’Alain Delon dans Rocco et ses frères et dans Le Guépard de Visconti, et aux côtés de Jean-Paul Belmondo dans Cartouche la font connaître du public français, alors que le succès aux États-Unis et la renommée internationale lui viennent en 1963 avec Huit et demi de Federico Fellini puis, en 1964, avec Le Plus Grand Cirque du monde d’Henry Hathaway ; ils se confirment en 1968 par Il était une fois dans l’Ouest de Sergio Leone. 

Les années 1970 et 1980 la voient alterner les rôles : réalisations italiennes avec Marco Ferreri, Luigi Comencini, Franco Zeffirelli, Marco Bellocchio,

Luchino Visconti (sous la direction duquel elle a joué quatre fois) et surtout avec son compagnon (à partir de 1974), le réalisateur et scénariste Pasquale Squitieri ; réalisations françaises avec Christian-Jaque, José Giovanni, Michel Lang, Nadine Trintignant, Diane Kurys ou Robert Enrico ; réalisations internationales avec Jerzy Skolimowski, Mikhaïl Kalatozov, George Cosmatos, Alan Bridges, Werner Herzog ou Blake Edwards.

Sur le tournage difficile des Aventures du brigadier Gérard, elle empêche le renvoi du réalisateur polonais Jerzy Skolimowski en menaçant de quitter le film.

Durant les années 1970, elle se prête aussi à une parenthèse discographique qui lui vaut des succès discos en Europe et au Japon avec plusieurs passages télévisés et une large diffusion sur les ondes des radios périphériques en France de titres comme Love affair (classé no 16 au hit-parade), et Sun… I love you en 1977 et en 1978.

À partir de la fin des années 1990, Claudia Cardinale réduit le nombre de tournages de films pour se consacrer davantage au théâtre ou à l’écriture.

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Dans les années 2000, elle monte sur scène à Paris, interprétant, en 2000, La Vénitienne (anonyme du xvie siècle) et Doux oiseaux de jeunesse de Tennessee Williams en 2005.

En 1993, elle est membre du jury de la sélection officielle au Festival de Cannes. Par ailleurs, à la Mostra de Venise 1993, elle reçoit un lion d’or saluant sa contribution au patrimoine cinématographique mondial. Cette année marque le début d’une succession de récompenses saluant l’ensemble de sa carrière cinématographique.

L’Italie continue à la saluer : elle reçoit en 1997 un David di Donatello, en 1998 un Flaiano International Prizes, en 2000 le ruban d’argent d’honneur du Syndicat national des journalistes cinématographiques italiens.

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Elle enchaîne avec des prix européens : en 2002, l’ours d’or d’honneur au Festival de Berlin mais aussi le prix Platinum du Viareggio EuropaCinema. En 2003, elle est lauréate du prix des acteurs européens au Festival du Film de Ludwigsburg.

Puis c’est la France qui prend le relais : en 2006, elle est lauréate du prix Henri-Langlois de Vincennes puis en 2008 reçoit l’ordre national de la Légion d’honneur. En 2013, à la 18e cérémonie des prix Lumières 2013, elle est lauréate du prix pour l’ensemble de sa carrière. Son pays d’origine suit rapidement : en 2009, elle reçoit les insignes du grand cordon de l’ordre national du Mérite (Tunisie).

Jusqu’en 2015, elle reçoit une dizaine d’autres récompenses dans des festivals internationaux à travers le monde.

Elle continue de tourner, mais dans des productions beaucoup moins exposées médiatiquement, et souvent pour des seconds rôles..

Après un viol, elle donne naissance discrètement à Londres à un garçon, Patrick, le 19 octobre 1958, alors qu’elle est âgée de 20 ans. Son producteur, Franco Cristaldi, lui conseille de le faire passer pour son petit frère pour ne pas contrarier sa carrière. Alors que son fils a 6 ou 7 ans, elle révèle ce secret pesant à un journaliste.

Le père lui aurait envoyé de nombreuses lettres, toutes déchirées par Cristaldi sans qu’elle ne  le sache, et souhaitera des années plus tard le reconnaître, ce que Patrick refusera.

Après un mariage malheureux de 1966 à 1975 avec Cristaldi (lequel a adopté Patrick) qui organise lui-même la cérémonie sans l’avertir, elle est la compagne de 1974 à 2011 du réalisateur Pasquale Squitieri (1938-2017), avec lequel elle a une fille, Claudia. Celle-ci aura un fils, Milo, avec l’artiste plasticien Samon Takahashi.

Les rumeurs sur sa relation avec Rock Hudson à l’époque sont en réalité fausses, l’actrice révèle plus tard avoir fait croire à cela pour protéger la carrière de l’acteur, à une époque où l’homosexualité était plutôt mal perçue.

Elle a toujours adopté des positions politiques marquées par des idées progressistes. Femme de gauche, elle est engagée depuis longtemps dans la lutte contre le sida, dans la défense des droits des femmes et des homosexuels. Elle a apporté sa contribution à nombre de causes humanitaires. En 1999, l’UNESCO l’a désignée « ambassadrice de bonne volonté ».

« J’ai été une star, très jeune. Je n’ai pas de mérite, le destin en a décidé ainsi. Une étoile a toujours veillé sur moi. »

En 2009, elle publie « Ma Tunisie » aux éditions Timée, un livre de photos sur les traces de son enfance tunisienne.

En 2014, elle est membre du comité de soutien à la candidature d’Anne Hidalgo à la mairie de Paris.

Le 29 mars 2017, elle est désignée comme l’égérie des 70 ans du Festival de Cannes en figurant sur l’affiche du festival. Les retouches apportées à la photographie, qui ont pour objet de la mincir davantage, suscitent une controverse relative aux canons de beauté féminin dans le cinéma et la communication, que Claudia Cardinale finit par écarter en la qualifiant de fausse polémique

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Julie Andrews – Jack Lemmon in THAT’S LIFE


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Julie Andrews – Jack Lemmon in THAT’S LIFE


That’s Life! is a 1986 American comedy-drama film starring Jack Lemmon and Julie Andrews, directed by Blake Edwards.

 

 

The film was made independently by Edwards using largely his own finances and was distributed by Columbia Pictures. Although Columbia released the film, Artisan Entertainment holds the rights to distribute it on DVD.

That’s Life! was shot in Edwards and his wife Andrews’ own beachside home in Malibu and features their family in small roles, including two daughters. Lemmon’s son Chris Lemmon plays his character’s son Josh, while his wife Felicia Farr puts in a brief cameo appearance as a fortune teller.

Because of the film’s independent status, many of the cast and crew were paid below union-level wages, resulting in the American Society of Cinematographers picketing the film during production and taking an advertisement in Variety in protest. As a result, the original director of photography, Harry Stradling Jr., was forced to quit the film and was subsequently replaced by Anthony Richmond, a British cinematographer.

 

Harvey Fairchild is a wealthy, Malibu-based architect who is turning 60 and suffering from a form of male menopause. He feels aches and pains, real or imaginary, and seems unhappy with his professional and personal life.

Harvey’s patient wife Gillian tries to cheer him with family get-togethers and an elaborately planned birthday party. But she secretly has worries of her own, a throat condition that could result in the loss of her voice.

 

Whining his way through day after day, Harvey snaps at his pregnant daughter Megan and makes rude remarks to his actor son Josh. He tries going to a priest, only to discover that the man to whom he is confessing is an old rival from their college years at Notre Dame. He also consults a local psychic, Madame Carrie, sex with whom leaves Harvey with a venereal disease.

The miserable Harvey is furious with a client named Janice Kern who can’t stop revising her plans for a magnificent house Harvey has been building, but he has meaningless sex with her as well. Gillian bravely hides her cancer fear from the family, but finally, overcome with emotion, she confides in her friend and neighbor, Holly.

Harvey threatens to spoil the birthday party for everybody. He is in such a foul mood that just because a friend named Belmont tells him a depressing story about an illness, he amuses himself by introducing Belmont to the VD-infected psychic.

Gillian warns her husband that he is going to lose everything if he continues to behave this way. During his party, Gillian’s doctor arrives to inform her that the biopsy test results are negative and she is going to be all right. She takes Harvey aside to let him know just how precious life really can be.

Jack Lemmon as Harvey Fairchild

Julie Andrews as Gillian Fairchild

Sally Kellerman as Holly Parrish

Robert Loggia as Father Baragone

Jennifer Edwards as Megan Fairchild Bartlet

Rob Knepper as Steve Larwin

Matt Lattanzi as Larry Bartlet

Chris Lemmon as Josh Fairchild

Cynthia Sikes as Janice Kern

Dana Sparks as Fanny Ward

Emma Walton as Kate Fairchild

Felicia Farr as Madame Carrie

 

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MUSIC …REMEMBER THE SOUND AND THE MOVIE


The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer.

 

The film is an adaptation of the 1959 Broadway musical The Sound of Music, composed by Richard Rodgers with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. The film’s screenplay was written by Ernest Lehman, adapted from the stage musical’s book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse.

Based on the memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers by Maria von Trapp, the film is about a young Austrian woman studying to become a nun in Salzburg in 1938 who is sent to the villa of a retired naval officer and widower to be governess to his seven children.

After bringing love and music into the lives of the family through kindness and patience, she marries the officer and together with the children they find a way to survive the loss of their homeland through courage and faith.

The original Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical score was enhanced by two new songs by Richard Rodgers.

Arranger and conductor Irwin Kostal prerecorded the songs with a large orchestra and singers on a stage prior to the start of filming, and later adapted instrumental underscore passages based on the songs.

Choreographers Marc Breaux and Dee Dee Wood, who had worked with Andrews on Mary Poppins, worked out all new choreography sequences that incorporated many of the Salzburg locations and settings. The Sound of Music was filmed from March 26 through September 1, 1964, with external scenes shot on location in Salzburg, Austria, and the surrounding region, and interior scenes filmed at the 20th Century Fox studios in California.

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The movie was photographed in 70 mm Todd-AO by Ted McCord and produced with DeLuxe Color processing and six-track sound recording.

The film was released on March 2, 1965 in the United States, initially as a limited roadshow theatrical release. The critical response to the film was widely mixed, with Bosley Crowther of The New York Times calling it “romantic nonsense and sentiment”, and Philip K. Scheuer of the Los Angeles Times describing it as “three hours of visual and vocal brilliance”.

The film was a major commercial success, becoming the number one box office movie after four weeks, and the highest-grossing film of 1965.

By November 1966, The Sound of Music became the highest-grossing film of all-time—surpassing Gone with the Wind—and held that distinction for five years. The film was just as popular throughout the world, breaking previous box-office records in twenty-nine countries.

Following an initial theatrical release that lasted four and a half years, and two successful re-releases, the film sold 283.3 million admissions worldwide and earned a total worldwide gross of $286,214,076. Adjusted for inflation, the film earned $2.366 billion at 2014 prices—the fifth highest grossing film of all time.

The Sound of Music received five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.

 

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Julie Andrews & Christopher Plummer (The sound of Music )

The film also received two Golden Globe Awards, for Best Motion Picture and Best Actress, the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement, and the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Written American Musical.

In 1998, the American Film Institute (AFI) listed The Sound of Music as the fifty-fifth greatest American movie of all time, and the fourth greatest movie musical.

In 2001, the United States Library of Congress selected the film for preservation in the National Film Registry, finding it “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.

 

 

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