Carole
Lombard was born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on October 6, 1908.
Her parents divorced in 1916 and her mother took the family on a trip out West.
While there they decided to settle down in the Los Angeles area. After being
spotted playing baseball in the street with the neighborhood boys by a film
director, Carole was signed to a one-picture contract in 1921 when she was 12.
The film in question was A
Perfect Crime (1921).
In 1925 she passed a screen test and was
signed to a contract with Fox Films. Her first role as a Fox player was Hearts
and Spurs (1925), in which she had the lead. Right
after that film she appeared in a western called Durand
of the Bad Lands (1925). She rounded out 1925
in the comedy Marriage
in Transit.
In
1926 Carole was seriously injured in an automobile accident that resulted in
the left side of her face being scarred. Once she had recovered, Fox canceled
her contract. She did find work in a number of shorts during 1928 (13 of them,
many for slapstick comedy director Mack
Sennett), but did go back for a one-time shot
with Fox called Me,
Gangster (1928). By now the film industry was
moving from the silent era to "talkies". While some stars' careers
ended because of heavy accents, poor diction or a voice unsuitable to sound,
Carole's light, breezy, sexy voice enabled her to transition smoothly during
this period.
In
1931 she was teamed with William
Powell in Man
of the World (1931). She and Powell hit
it off and soon married, but the marriage didn't work out and they divorced in
1933. No
Man of Her Own (1932) put Carole opposite Clark
Gable for the first and only time (they
married seven years later in 1939). By now she was with Paramount Pictures and
was one of its top stars. However, it was Twentieth
Century (1934) that showed her true comedic
talents and proved to the world what a fine actress she really was. In 1936
Carole received her only Oscar nomination for Best Actress for My
Man Godfrey (1936). She was superb as
ditzy heiress Irene Bullock. Unfortunately, the coveted award went to Luise
Rainer in The
Great Ziegfeld (1936), which also won for
Best Picture.
Carole was now putting out about one film
a year of her own choosing, because she wanted whatever role she picked to be a
good one. She was adept at picking just the right part, which wasn't surprising
as she was smart enough to see through the good-ol'-boy syndrome of the studio
moguls. She commanded and received what was one of the top salaries in the
business - at one time it was reported she was making $35,000 a week.
Tragically, she didn't live to see its
release. The film was completed in 1941 just at the time the US entered World
War II, and was subsequently held back for release until 1942. Meanwhile,
Carole went home to Indiana for a war bond rally. On January 16, 1942, Carole,
her mother, and 20 other people were flying back to California when the plane
went down outside of Las Vegas, Nevada. All aboard perished.
Masanobu Sato starts his day 'training' in his living room for
two hours. His girlfriend times him.
Natalie Denning
first found fame in the British reality TV series Poor Little Rich Girls and has since
gone on to pose topless in many of the major British lads mag's including Nuts,
ZOO,
Loaded and Maxim.
In recent years Natalie has branched out into other types of modelling
including presenting prizes on British Gameshows such as The Price Is Right and Gameshow Marathon.
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Bond. James Bond.
007 is a masculine film icon. He’s handsome, debonair, and
dangerous. He completely epitomizes the French idea of savoir faire — the
ability to know what to do in any situation.
Bond is so damn manly, it’d be easy to think that he was purely
the creation of author Ian Fleming’s imagination. But in fact, Bond was inspired
by a real-life WWII spy, and his life and career was even more Bond-like than
James Bond himself.
Here is a biography of the real-life inspiration for James
Bond. Larry Loftis is the author of the
book Into The Lion’s Mouth: The
True Story of Dusko Popov: World War II Spy, Patriot, and the Real-Life
Inspiration for James Bond.
Dušan "Duško" Popov OBE (10 July 1912 –
10 August 1981) was a Serbian triple agent. During World
War II he worked for the military intelligence and counterintelligence
of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia under the code name
"Duško" He also
worked for MI6 under
the code
name "Tricycle" and the German Abwehr under the
code name "Ivan
Popov was noted as a ladies'
man – while in the US, he lived an extravagant lifestyle and had an
affair with the well-known French actress Simone
Simon He published his memoirs Spy, Counterspy
in 1974. He has been cited as an inspiration for Ian
Fleming's James Bond. Leming use code number of James Bond based on
Duško's testimony that every time he need it some advice he would call his
uncle Milivoj Popov who lived in Belgrade, street Miloša Velikog 46 (today
Kneza Miloša 50) Phone
number for his apartment was 26-007. Today that building is one that
was part of former Embassy of United States in Serbia
and number doesn't exist any more in phonebook, since embassy used 3 buildings
(street numbers 46, 48, and 50) and merged in one.
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