All Entries Tagged With: "The Song of Bernadette"
Jennifer Jones
Date of Birth: 2 March 1919 Birth Name: Phylis Lee Isley Height: 5′ 7″ (1.70 m) Mini Biography: When Jennifer Jones arrived in Hollywood in 1939, she still called herself Phylis Isley. Her face and especially her eyes drew the attention of the producer David O. Selznick, who did not only allow her a great [...]
William Goetz
Date of Birth: 24 March 1903 Mini Biography: William Goetz, a producer and studio boss who revolutionized the industry with the development of the profit participation deal, was born on March 24, 1903, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to ship’s purser Theodore Goetz and his wife Fanny. William was the youngest in a brood of eight children [...]
William Eythe
Date of Birth: 7 April 1918 Birth Name: John Joseph Eythe Mini Biography: He had the requisite charm and dark, thick-browed good-looks of a Tyrone Power that often spelled “film stardom” but it was not to be in the case of actor William Eythe. Spotted for Hollywood while performing on Broadway, he made nary a [...]
Jean Arthur
Date of Birth: 17 October 1900 Birth Name: Gladys Georgianna Greene Height: 5′ 3″ (1.60 m) Mini Biography: This marvelous screen comedienne’s best asset was only muffled during her seven years’ stint in silent films. That asset? It was, of course, her squeaky, frog-like voice, which silent-era cinema audiences had simply no way of perceiving, [...]