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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Jennifer Lawrence "looks like" Brigitte Bardot.


Jennifer Lawrence (born August 15, 1990), first major role was in, The Bill Engvall Show (2007–2009) and she also performed in the independent films: The Burning Plain (2008) and Winter's Bone (2010), for which she received nominations for the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress.

At age 20, she was the second-youngest actress ever to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress.

In 2013, at age 22, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress, for her performance in the romantic comedy, Silver Linings Playbook (2012), making her the second youngest winner of the Oscar for Best Actress and youngest person ever to be nominated for two Best Actress Oscars.

Lawrence is also known for playing Raven Darkholme/Mystique in the 2011 film X-Men: First Class, a role she will reprise in X-Men: Days of Future Past in 2014.

In 2012, she achieved international recognition starring as the heroine Katniss Everdeen in, The Hunger Games, an adaptation of Suzanne Collins' best-selling novel of the same name.




Brigitte Bardot (born 28 September 1934), was one of the best known sex symbols of the 1950's and '60's. Starting in 1969, Bardot's features became the official face of Marianne to represent the liberty of France.

Bardot was an aspiring ballet dancer in early life.

She started her acting career in 1952 and, after appearing in 16 films, became world-famous in 1957 with the release of the controversial film, And God Created Woman.

She later starred in Jean-Luc Godard's 1963 film Le Mepris.

Bardot was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress for her role in Louis Malle's 1965 film Viva Maria!.

She was the subject of Simone de Beauvoir's 1959 essay, The Lolita Syndrome, which described Bardot as a "locomotive of women's history" and built upon existentialist themes to declare her the first and most liberated woman of post-war France.

Bardot retired from the entertainment industry in 1973.

During her career in show business, she starred in 47 films, performed in several musical shows, and recorded over 50 songs.

She was awarded the Legion of Honour in 1985, but refused to receive it.

After her retirement, Bardot established herself as an animal rights activist.



Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Shelley Hack "looks like" Lauren Bacall.


Shelley Hack (born July 6, 1947), began her career as a fashion model and became the face of Revlon's Charlie perfume. She was one smart cookie and was able to negotiate lucrative deals with giant cosmetics companies.

Her film debut was, Annie Hall (1977).

She maybe best known for her role as Tiffany Welles in the television series Charlie's Angels for one season (1979–80). Unfortunately, the series lacked ratings during Hack's time on the show and she was let go.

She then went on to perform in Martin Scorsese's film, The King of Comedy (1983).

She starred with Annette O'Toole and Meredith Baxter Birney in, Vanities (1981), on HBO.

She also had a leading role in the horror film, The Stepfather and was a regular on two short-lived TV series: Cutter to Houston (1983) and Jack and Mike (1986–87).

After Hack left acting in the '90s, she entered politics. Hack became a registration and polling station supervisor in the 1997 elections in Bosnia-Herzegovina and produced the first-ever televised presidential debates there. She also produced the debates in Sarajevo, Mostar, and the two in Banja Luka.

She became a media consultant for pre- and post-conflict countries helping spread independent newspapers, radio and television.

Hack became a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

In October 2000, Hack returned to the Charlie's Angels Townsend Agency office as guest host on A&E Biography, which featured profiles of several Charlie's Angels stars during Hello Angels Week.





Lauren Bacall (born September 16, 1924), film and stage actress and model, known for her husky voice and sultry looks. She first leading lady performance was in the Humphrey Bogart film, To Have And Have Not (1944) and continued on with the Bogart movies: The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947), and Key Largo(1948).

She gave a wonderful performance in, How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) with Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable and in, Designing Woman (1957) with Gregory Peck.

Bacall has also worked on Broadway in musicals, gaining Tony Awards for Applause in 1970 and Woman of the Year in 1981.

Her performance in the movie, The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) earned her a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination.


Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Joaquin Phoenix "looks like" Chester Morris.


Chester Morris (February 16, 1901 – September 11, 1970), was born the son of Broadway stage actor William Morris and the performer Etta Hawkins.

He made his Broadway debut at 17 in Lionel Barrymore's The Copperhead. At 17, he billed himself as "the youngest leading man in the country".

His film career began in the film, An Amateur Orphan(1917). He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film, Alibi (1929). He also starred in, The Bat Whispers (1930) and Corsair (1931).

He starred in the early prison film, The Big House (1930). After that his career faded, but made a come back with roles in B-movies: Smashing the Rackets(1938) and Five Came Back (1939).

 From 1941 to 1949 he played the character Boston Blackie, in 14 low-budget movies produced by Columbia Pictures.

Before the screening of some of his films, Morris performed magic acts, with live animals and larger stage tricks such as nearly severing an audience volunteer's head in a prop guillotine.

During World War II he performed hundreds of free magic shows for the U.S.O. at army and navy camps, war bond drives and hospitals.

In 1944, a B-24 "Liberator" airplane was christened "The Chester and Lili Morris" in honor of him and his wife, and their contributions to the United States war effort.

Morris also contributed tricks to magician's journals and often added magic into his film performances, including: "Boston Blackie and The Law" (1946.)

Through the 1950s and 1960s, Morris worked mainly in television, with a recurring role as detective Lieutenant Max Ritter in the CBS summer replacement series, Diagnosis: Unknown, which aired from July to September 1960.

He also remembered for his performance in the science-fiction film, The She Creature, where he played Dr. Carlo Lombardi.

After his last Boston Blackie movie, he only performed in three more films, including his final role in, The Great White Hope (1970) which was released after his death.


Joaquin Phoenix (born October 28, 1974). Became well known for his performance as Commodus, in the 2000 historical epic film Gladiator, which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor as well as nominations for the Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild, Satellite Award, and BAFTA.

He is probably best known for playing the famous musician, Johnny Cash, in the 2005 biographical film, Walk the Line and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor.

Phoenix, was once again nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in the 2012 film, The Master.

He also worked behind the camera, directing music videos as well as producing movies and television shows, and has recorded an album, the soundtrack to Walk the Line, for which he won a Grammy Award.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Tom Cruise "Looks Like" Ernest Hemingway.



Tom Cruise( born July 3, 1962), has been nominated for three Academy Awards and has won three Golden Globe Awards for the same movies: Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Jerry Maguire (1996), Magnolia (1999). He started his career with the movie Endless Love. Cruise's first appearance in a major film was in 1981's Taps. His first leading role was in the film Risky Business, (1983). Cruise played the role of a heroic naval pilot in the popular and successful 1986 film Top Gun, and also secret agent Ethan Hunt in the series of Mission: Impossible . He has performed in many other successful films, including: Rain Man (1988), Days of Thunder (1990), A Few Good Men (1992), Vanilla Sky (2001),Minority Report (2002), The Last Samurai (2003), Collateral (2004), and War of the Worlds (2005).




Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction, while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. He published seven novels, six short story collections and two non-fiction works. Three novels, four collections of short stories and three non-fiction works were published posthumously.

Sunday, November 13, 2011

Actress: Charlize Theron, my pick for the Marilyn Monroe Movie.


No disrespect to Michelle Williams, but in my opinion.. I would have loved to have seen Charlize Theron, get the part in the new movie.. My Week With Marilyn Monroe. I think that she looks more like, Marilyn Monroe.

Charlize Theron(born 7 August 1975). At the age of sixteen, Theron travelled to Milan after winning a local competition. She went to New York with Pauline's Model Management. After her one year contract ended, she attended the Joffrey Ballet School, where she trained as a ballet dancer. A knee injury ended her career at 19.

After which, Theron flew to Los Angeles on a one-way ticket. Soon after, she went to a bank to cash a cheque her mother had sent her, the teller refused to cash it. After getting into a shouting match with her, a talent agent in line behind her handed her his business card and introduced her to some casting agents and got her into acting school.

After several months, she was cast in a non-speaking role in the film, Children of the Corn III (1995). Her first speaking role was in the film, 2 Days in the Valley. Larger roles films followed, The Devil's Advocate (1997), Mighty Joe Young (1998), and The Cider House Rules (1999). She was on the cover of the January 1999 issue of Vanity Fair as the "White Hot Venus".


Theron, later starred as the serial killer in the film, Monster (2003). Film critic Roger Ebert called it "one of the greatest performances in the history of the cinema". For this role, Theron won the Academy Award for Best Actress at the 76th Academy Awards in February 2004,as well as the SAG Award and the Golden Globe Award.She is the first South African to win an Oscar for Best Actress.

On 30 September 2005, Theron received her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In the same year, she starred in the science fiction thriller, Æon Flux. Theron received Best Actress Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations for her performance in the drama, North Country.

In 2005 Theron portrayed Rita, in the television series, Arrested Development. She also received Golden Globe and Emmy nominations for her role in the 2004 HBO film, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers.

In 2008, she also starred in the film, Hancock and in late 2008 she was asked to be a UN Messenger of Peace by the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon.

In October 2009, Theron was cast to star in a sequel to the Mad Max films, titled Mad Max: Road Fury, which filmed at Broken Hill in New South Wales, Australia in late 2010. Theron has been cast in the role of the Wicked Queen in Snow White and the Huntsman.

Charlize Theron
Charlize Theron

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Susan Sarandon "looks like" Bette Davis

Susan Sarandon (born October 4, 1946)
Got her start in daytime soap operas in the early 70's such as A World Apart and
Search For Tomorrow. Made some notable films in the 70's including
The Front Page, The Great Waldo Pepper and cult fave, The Rocky Horror Picture Show.
She broke out in the 80's as one of film's most dependable actresses in such films like
Atlantic City (with Hollywood legend Burt Lancaster), The Witches of Eastwick, Bull Durham,
and A Dry White Season. Susan would continue into the 90's with the modern classic,
Thelma and Louise. Other notable films include The Client, a remake of Little Women, and
Dead Man Walking, for which she won an Oscar for Best Actress.
Bette Davis (April 5, 1908 - October 6, 1989)
Classic leading lady who told it like it was. Won 2 Best Actress Oscars (Jezebel, Dangerous)
Nominated a total of 11 Academy Awards. Starred in many notable classics such as
The Little Foxes, Now Voyager, All About Eve, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?,
The Man Who Came to Dinner and Old Acquaintance. There is only one Bette.
Noted rivalries with Joan Crawford and Miriam Hopkins.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Lindsay Lohan "looks like" Lana Turner.


Lindsay Lohan (born July 2, 1986). Began her career as a child fashion model before making her movie debut in Disney's remake of, The Parent Trap(1998). Lohan gained further fame between 2003 and 2005 with leading roles in the films: Freaky Friday, Mean Girls and Herbie.


Lana Turner (February 8, 1921 – June 29, 1995), was discovered and signed to a film contract by MGM at the age of sixteen, Turner first attracted attention in the film, They Won't Forget (1937). She also performed in the films: Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938), Johnny Eager (1941), Ziegfeld Girl (1941) and Somewhere I'll Find You (1942). She is known as one of the first Hollywood scream queens for her role in the horror film, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(1941) and her reputation as a glamorous femme fatale was enhanced by her performance in the film noir, The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946). Her popularity continued through the 1950s, in such films: The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) and Peyton Place (1957), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

Monday, August 15, 2011

Jessica Lange "Looks like" Barbara Bedford.



Jessica Lange, (born April 20, 1949), best known for her performances in Frances, and Tootsie. Both from 1982, for which she was nominated on Oscars in two categories at the same time. Her other well known roles were in the films, Sweet Dreams (1985), in Blue Sky (1994), A Streetcar Named Desire (1995), Normal (2003), Grey Gardens (2009).



Barbara Bedford (19 July 1900—25 October 1981). She wanted to perform on the silver screen after graduating from High School and set out for Hollywood, where she impressed Lambert Hillyer, with her beauty and charm. Despite the fact that she had no stage or screen experience, he cast her for a role in, The Cradle of Courage (1920). She starred in the 1927 silent film, Mockery with Lon Chaney. The story takes place in Siberia, during the Russian Civil War. Peasant Sergei, is searching for food, when He meets a mysterious young woman traveling to the town of Novokursk. She asks Sergei to tell people along the way that he is her husband. Even though they do not really look like a couple. They find an abandoned house where they rest...



but... a stranger is hiding inside. Sergei soaks the woman's feet and makes a bed for her. The stranger comes out of hiding and is soon joined by his friends, who beat Sergei. The two are rescued by White cavalry. The woman turns out to be, Countess Alexandrova. In Novokursk, the countess stays with the wealthy Gaidaroff family. After Sergei leaves hospital, he goes to see the countess, who finds him a job. When the Whites leave town, to fight off the Reds, the Reds go looking for the countess...

I thought Chaney gave a emotional performance through a wonderfully transforming makeup job. His character is rude, dirty and sometimes evil, but.. by the end of the film you find yourself sympathizing with him. Bedford, is wonderful as the Countess Alexandrova, his love interest.

Sunday, July 10, 2011

Anne Hathaway "Looks Like" Elaine Stewart .



Anne  Hathaway (born November 12, 1982),  first major role came in the short-lived television series "Get Real" (1999). She gained widespread recognition for her roles in The Princess Diaries (2001) and its 2004 sequel. She also performed in, Nicholas Nickleby (2002) and a starring role in, Ella Enchanted (2004). Hathaway, appeared topless in the films: Havoc (2005) and Brokeback Mountain (2005) .



Elaine Stewart (May 31, 1930 – June 27, 2011)  Nearing the end of her television career, she married actor Bill Carter. After her divorce from Carter, she married television producer Merrill Heatter on December 31, 1964. They had a son, Stewart, and a daughter, Gabrielle. Stewart made her debut by winning Miss See in See Magazine in 1952. She was in many magazines such as Playboy and Photoplay.

She had a supporting role in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), as Laila. She appeared in other films, such as Brigadoon, Night Passage and The Adventures of Hajji Baba.

Stewart was also known as the co-hostess on two 1970s game shows, Gambit with Wink Martindale and the nighttime edition of High Rollers with Alex Trebek, which were both produced by her husband.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Dame Judith Anderson " Looks Like" Cornelia Otis Skinner .


Dame Judith Anderson(10 February 1898 – 3 January 1992), was an Australian actress of stage and screen. She won two Emmy Awards and a Tony Award and was also nominated for a Grammy Award and an Academy Award.



Cornelia Otis Skinner (May 30, 1899 – July 9, 1979) was an American author and actress.

Ladyeve, has always felt "Cornelia Otis Skinner's Miss Holloway must've been a not-too-distant relative of Judith Anderson's Mrs. Danvers".

I agree.. they do look alike.

Saturday, March 5, 2011

Drew Barrymore " Looks Like" Sylvia Sidney.


Drew Barrymore (born February 22, 1975), actress, producer, and director. She is the granddaughter of actor John Barrymore. She first performed in an advertisement when she was eleven months old. Barrymore made her film debut in, Altered States (1980). Afterwards, she starred in her breakout role in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. She quickly became one of Hollywood's most recognized child actors, going on to perform in mostly comedy films.


Sylvia Sidney (August 8, 1910 – July 1, 1999), who was best known in the 1930s for performing in gangster films.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Genna Davis "looks like" Frances Farmer.


Geena" Davis (born January 21, 1957) is an American actress, film producer, writer, former fashion model, and a women's Olympics archery team semi-finalist. She is known for her roles in The Fly, Beetlejuice, Thelma and Louise, and The Accidental Tourist, for which she won the 1988 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In 2004, she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama for her role in Commander in Chief.



Frances Farmer (September 19, 1913 – August 1, 1970) was an American actress of stage and screen.

Films:
1936 Too Many Parents
Border Flight
Rhythm on the Range
Come and Get It
1937 Exclusive
1938 Ride a Crooked Mile
1940 South of Pago Pago
1942 Son of Fury
1943 I Escaped
1958 The Party Crashers

Friday, December 17, 2010

Joan Allen "Looks Like" Yvette Mimieux

 (1942 - present) American actress best known for playing Weena in the sci-fi classic The Time Machine (1960). Other films include Where The Boys Are (1960), Toys in the Attic (1963), Jackson County Jail (1976) and The Black Hole (1980)


(1956 - present) American actress that started out on stage before doing films. Most known films include The Bourne films, Pleasantville (1998), Face/Off (1997), The Ice Storm (1997), and The Upside of Anger (2005).

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Edward Kirk Herrmann "Looks Like" Rudy Vallee.

Rudy Vallee (July 28, 1901 – July 3, 1986) was an American singer, actor, bandleader, and entertainer.



Edward Kirk Herrmann (born July 21, 1943), is a television and film actor. He is best known for his Emmy-nominated portrayals of Franklin D. Roosevelt on television, and to younger generations for his role as Richard Gilmore in Gilmore Girls, as a ubiquitous narrator for historical programs on the History Channel, and as the spokesperson for Dodge automobiles in the 1990s.

Friday, November 19, 2010

Angie Harmon "Looks Like" Ali McGraw

Ali MacGraw (1938 - present) Most known for the tear-jerker Love Story (1970) with Ryan O'Neal and being the wife of Steve McQueen at one point in time. Ali other film roles include The Getaway (1972) where she met McQueen, Convoy (1978) and Just Tell Me What You Want (1980).

Angie Harmon (1972 - present) Popular TV actress of such shows as Law And Order, Women's Murder Club and the recent hit series Rizzoli Isles.

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Bernadette Peters "Looks Likes" Anny Ondra.


Anny Ondra(May 15 1903 – February 28 1987), acted in Czech, Austrian and German comedies in the 1920s, and in some British dramas,best known for her performance in Alfred Hitchcock's The Manxman and Blackmail (both in 1929). When Blackmail was remade with sound, Ondra's thick accent was considered unacceptable, so her dialogue was recorded by actress Joan Barry. Ondra made some forty more films in the sound era before retiring in the late-1930s.



Bernadette Peters( February 28, 1948), actress, singer and children's book author. Her career has spanned over five decades, she has starred in musical theatre, films and television, as well as performing in solo concerts and recordings. She is one of the most critically-acclaimed Broadway performers, having received nominations for seven Tony Awards, winning two, and eight Drama Desk Awards, winning three. Four of the Broadway cast albums on which she has starred have won Grammy Awards.

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Jaime King "Looks Like" Romy Schneider

Romy Schneider (1938 - 1982) Austrian actress most known for such films as Good Neighbor Sam (1964) with Jack Lemmon, The Trial (1962), and What's New Pussycat (1965) with Peter Sellers. Romy died at the early age of 43 due to cardiac arrest.

Jaime King (1979 - present) American model/actress who has been prolific in films over the last few years. She has starred in such films as Pearl Harbor (2001), Sin City (2005), The Spirit (2008), My Bloody Valentine (2008) and Fanboys (2008). She has also starred in the TV series Kitchen Confidential in 2005 and The Class in 2006.

Monday, October 11, 2010

John Candy "looks like" Charles Laughton.

Charles Laughton (July 1, 1899 – December 15, 1962). Was an English-American stage and film actor, screenwriter, producer and two-time director. Laughton was best known for his historical roles in films.


John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 – March 4, 1994). Best known for his role as "Ox" in the comedy film Stripes(1981). Another well known performances was that of Del Griffith in the comedy Planes, Trains and Automobiles.

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Nita Naldi "Looks like" Carrie Fisher.


Nita Naldi, (March 1895 – February 17, 1961). Was one of the most successful actresses in Hollywood during the "Roaring Twenties. She often performed in the role of the "femme fatale".



Carrie Fisher (born October 21, 1956). Born in Beverly Hills, California, the daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds. She is best know for her performance as Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Patricia Neal "Looks Like" Sophie Dahl or maybe...Christa Miller.

When I first started to put this "Looks Like" article together, I was pleasently suprised to learn that Patricia Neal, was the Grandmother, to her "look likes" granddaughter, Sophie Dahl. I also think that Patricia Neal "Looks Like", Christa Miller. To keep it fair :)
Patricia Neal, was best known for her performance as World War II widow Helen Benson in the film, The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), wealthy matron Emily Eustace Failenson in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), and middle-aged housekeeper Alma Brown in Hud (1963), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress.


Sophie Dahl (15 September 1977), is an English author, cookbook writer and former model. She was born in London, the daughter of actor Julian Holloway and writer Tessa Dahl. Her maternal grandparents were author Roald Dahl and actress Patricia Neal. Her paternal grandfather was actor Stanley Holloway. She was the inspiration for Sophie, the main character in her maternal grandfather's book The BFG.





Christa Miller(born May 28, 1964), Is best known for her performances as Kate O'Brien on The Drew Carey Show and Jordan Sullivan on Scrubs (which was created by her husband Bill Lawrence). She has also made performances on Seinfeld, and CSI Miami. Since 2009, she has a starring role in the ABC sitcom Cougar Town, also created by husband Bill Lawrence.