Encouraged to enroll in acting lessons after entering a beauty pageant, Loren began her film career at age sixteen in 1950. She appeared in several bit parts and minor roles in the early part of the decade, until her five-picture contract with Paramount in 1956 launched her international career. Her film appearances around this time include The Pride and the Passion, Houseboat, and It Started in Naples. During the 1950s, she starred in films as a sexually emancipated persona and was one of the best known sex symbols of the time.
Sheba said
10:29 PM Mar 1, 2023
Thanks Santa. This one should be easy for you guys.
Encouraged to enroll in acting lessons after entering a beauty pageant, Loren began her film career at age sixteen in 1950. She appeared in several bit parts and minor roles in the early part of the decade, until her five-picture contract with Paramount in 1956 launched her international career. Her film appearances around this time include The Pride and the Passion, Houseboat, and It Started in Naples. During the 1950s, she starred in films as a sexually emancipated persona and was one of the best known sex symbols of the time.
At the start of the 1980s, Loren chose to make rarer film appearances. Since then, she has appeared in films such as Prêt-à-porter (1994), Grumpier Old Men (1995), Nine (2009), and The Life Ahead (2020).
Santa said
01:08 AM Mar 2, 2023
My era Sheba, Betty (legs) Grable.
Sheba said
01:56 AM Mar 2, 2023
Santa wrote:
My era Sheba, Betty (legs) Grable.
Thought she would be. Who do we look for now ?
Elizabeth Ruth Grable (December 18, 1916 July 2, 1973) was an American actress, pin-up girl, dancer, model, and singer.
Her 42 films during the 1930s and 1940s grossed more than $100 million; for 10 consecutive years (19421951) she reigned in the Quigley Poll's top 10 box office stars (a feat only matched by Doris Day, Julia Roberts and Barbra Streisand, although all were surpassed by Mary Pickford, who was in for 13 times). The U.S. Treasury Department in 1946 and 1947 listed her as the highest-salaried American woman; she earned more than $3 million during her career.[1]
Grable began her film career in 1929 at age 12, after which she was fired from a contract when it was learned she signed up under false identification.[2] She had contracts with RKO and Paramount Pictures during the 1930s, and appeared in a string of B movies, mostly portraying college students. Grable came to prominence in the Broadway musical DuBarry Was a Lady (1939), which brought her to the attention of 20th Century-Fox.[2]
She replaced Alice Faye in Down Argentine Way (1940), her first major Hollywood film, and became Fox's biggest film star throughout the next decade.[3] Fox cast Grable in a succession of Technicolor musicals during the decade that were immensely popular, co-starring with such leading men as Victor Mature, Don Ameche, John Payne, and Tyrone Power. In 1943, she was the number-one box office draw in the world and, in 1947, she was the highest-paid entertainer in the United States.[4] Two of her bigger film successes were the musical Mother Wore Tights (1947) and the comedy How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), one of her later films. Grable retired from screen acting in 1955 after she withdrew from her Fox contract, but she continued to perform on the stage and on television.[5]
Throughout her career, Grable was a celebrated sex symbol.[6] Her bathing suit poster made her the number-one pin-up girl of World War II, surpassing Rita Hayworth. It was later included in the Life magazine project "100 Photographs That Changed the World". Hosiery specialists of the era often noted the ideal proportions of her legs and thighs (18.5 in (47 cm)), calf (12 in (30 cm)), and ankle (7.5 in (19 cm)).[7] Grable's legs were insured by her studio for $1 million as a publicity stunt.[8] Describing her film career, Grable said "I became a star for two reasons, and I'm standing on them."[9]
Face is familiar, but can't remember the name yet.
Sheba said
10:12 PM Mar 6, 2023
Surely some-one else must have an idea.
Santa said
11:29 PM Mar 6, 2023
Clue time!
He was an artist.
Sheba said
01:16 AM Mar 7, 2023
Wish I was 5 Years younger.
Big Gorilla said
07:52 AM Mar 8, 2023
Sheba wrote:
Wish I was 5 Years younger.
Don't we all !!!
Big Gorilla said
07:58 AM Mar 8, 2023
He's a writer: John Bowlby
Santa said
09:10 AM Mar 8, 2023
Big Gorilla wrote:
He's a writer: John Bowlby
Not John Bowlby.
Sheba said
10:33 PM Mar 8, 2023
Surely not Pro Hart ?
Santa said
10:56 PM Mar 8, 2023
Not Pro Hart.
Sheba said
12:53 AM Mar 9, 2023
Santa wrote:
Not Pro Hart.
Didn't think so. Still can't get him though. May-be tomorrow. Come on people. One of you must know him.
Hugh Sawrey ?
Santa said
08:55 AM Mar 9, 2023
Sheba wrote:
Santa wrote:
Not Pro Hart.
Didn't think so. Still can't get him though. May-be tomorrow. Come on people. One of you must know him.
Hugh Sawrey ?
Not Hugh Sawry.
Well known for his landscapes, he was not a member of the Heidelberg school.
Sheba said
08:59 PM Mar 9, 2023
Arthur Boyd.
Santa said
08:28 AM Mar 10, 2023
Sheba wrote:
Arthur Boyd.
Arthur Boyd it is Sheba, who's next?
Arthur Merric Bloomfield BoydACOBE (24 July 1920 24 April 1999) was a leading Australian painter of the middle to late 20th century. Boyd's work ranges from impressionist renderings of Australian landscape to starkly expressionist figuration, and many canvases feature both. Several famous works set Biblical stories against the Australian landscape, such as The Expulsion (194748),[1] now at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Having a strong social conscience, Boyd's work deals with humanitarian issues and universal themes of love, loss and shame.[2]
Boyd was a member of the Antipodeans, a group of Melbourne painters that also included Clifton Pugh, David Boyd, John Brack, Robert Dickerson, John Perceval and Charles Blackman.
Her name is in the properties of the image Sheba, never heard of her.
watsea said
11:19 PM Mar 14, 2023
It looks a bit like Joan Crawford.
I could not remember her name a couple of days ago, but her name just popped into my head immediately, as I looked at the photo again today.
Sheba said
11:51 PM Mar 14, 2023
She was an Aussie Artist, who resided in the Kings' Cross area of Sydney, and earned an unusual reputation. If no one gets her tonight, I'll change her tomorrow night.
Big Gorilla said
08:14 AM Mar 15, 2023
Rosaleen Norton.
Sheba said
09:55 PM Mar 15, 2023
Correct BG. Who's next ?
Rosaleen Miriam Norton (2 October 1917 5 December 1979),[1] who used the name of Thorn, was a New Zealand-born Australian artist and occultist, in the latter capacity adhering to a form of pantheistic / NeopaganWitchcraft largely devoted to the mythological Greek god Pan. She lived much of her later life in the bohemian area of Kings Cross, Sydney, leading her to be termed the "Witch of Kings Cross" in some of the tabloids,[2] and from where she led her own coven of Witches.
Her paintings, which have been compared to those of British occult artist Austin Osman Spare,[3] often depicted images of supernatural entities such as pagan gods and demons, sometimes involved in sexual acts. These caused particular controversy in Australia during the 1940s and '50s, when the country "was both socially and politically conservative" with Christianity as the dominant faith and at a time when the government "promoted a harsh stance on censorship."[2] For this reason the authorities dealt with her work harshly, with the police removing some of her work from exhibitions, confiscating books that contained her images, and attempting to prosecute her for public obscenity on a number of occasions.
According to her later biographer, Nevill Drury, "Norton's esoteric beliefs, cosmology and visionary art are all closely intertwined and reflect her unique approach to the magical universe." She was inspired by "the 'night' side of magic", emphasising darkness and studying the Qliphoth, alongside forms of sex magic which she had learned from the writings of English occultist Aleister Crowley.[
-- Edited by Sheba on Wednesday 15th of March 2023 09:56:33 PM
Thats her Sheba.
20 September 1934 (age 88)
Sofia Lazzaro
Edoardo Ponti
Alessandra Mussolini (niece)
Sasha Alexander (daughter-in-law)
Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone (Italian: [sofia villani ikolone]; born 20 September 1934), known professionally as Sophia Loren (/lrn/ l-REN,[1]Italian: [lren]), is an Italian and French actress. She was named by the American Film Institute as one of the greatest stars of Classical Hollywood cinema.[2] As of 2023, she is one of the last surviving major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema and is the only remaining living person to appear on AFI's list of the 50 greatest stars of American film history, positioned at number 21.
Encouraged to enroll in acting lessons after entering a beauty pageant, Loren began her film career at age sixteen in 1950. She appeared in several bit parts and minor roles in the early part of the decade, until her five-picture contract with Paramount in 1956 launched her international career. Her film appearances around this time include The Pride and the Passion, Houseboat, and It Started in Naples. During the 1950s, she starred in films as a sexually emancipated persona and was one of the best known sex symbols of the time.
Thanks Santa. This one should be easy for you guys.
Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone (Italian: [sofia villani ikolone]; born 20 September 1934), known professionally as Sophia Loren (/lrn/ l-REN,[1] Italian: [lren]), is an Italian and French actress. She was named by the American Film Institute as one of the greatest stars of Classical Hollywood cinema.[2] As of 2023, she is one of the last surviving major stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood cinema and is the only remaining living person to appear on AFI's list of the 50 greatest stars of American film history, positioned at number 21.
Encouraged to enroll in acting lessons after entering a beauty pageant, Loren began her film career at age sixteen in 1950. She appeared in several bit parts and minor roles in the early part of the decade, until her five-picture contract with Paramount in 1956 launched her international career. Her film appearances around this time include The Pride and the Passion, Houseboat, and It Started in Naples. During the 1950s, she starred in films as a sexually emancipated persona and was one of the best known sex symbols of the time.
Loren's performance as Cesira in the film Two Women (1961) directed by Vittorio De Sica won her the Academy Award for Best Actress, making her the first actor to win an Oscar for a non-English-language performance. She holds the record for having earned seven David di Donatello Awards for Best Actress: Two Women; Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963); Marriage Italian Style (1964, for which she was nominated for a second Oscar); Sunflower (1970); The Voyage (1974); A Special Day (1977) and The Life Ahead (2020). She has won five special Golden Globes (including the Cecil B. DeMille Award), a BAFTA Award, a Laurel Award, a Grammy Award, the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival and the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival. In 1991, she received the Academy Honorary Award for lifetime achievements.
At the start of the 1980s, Loren chose to make rarer film appearances. Since then, she has appeared in films such as Prêt-à-porter (1994), Grumpier Old Men (1995), Nine (2009), and The Life Ahead (2020).
My era Sheba, Betty (legs) Grable.
Elizabeth Ruth Grable (December 18, 1916 July 2, 1973) was an American actress, pin-up girl, dancer, model, and singer.
Her 42 films during the 1930s and 1940s grossed more than $100 million; for 10 consecutive years (19421951) she reigned in the Quigley Poll's top 10 box office stars (a feat only matched by Doris Day, Julia Roberts and Barbra Streisand, although all were surpassed by Mary Pickford, who was in for 13 times). The U.S. Treasury Department in 1946 and 1947 listed her as the highest-salaried American woman; she earned more than $3 million during her career.[1]
Grable began her film career in 1929 at age 12, after which she was fired from a contract when it was learned she signed up under false identification.[2] She had contracts with RKO and Paramount Pictures during the 1930s, and appeared in a string of B movies, mostly portraying college students. Grable came to prominence in the Broadway musical DuBarry Was a Lady (1939), which brought her to the attention of 20th Century-Fox.[2]
She replaced Alice Faye in Down Argentine Way (1940), her first major Hollywood film, and became Fox's biggest film star throughout the next decade.[3] Fox cast Grable in a succession of Technicolor musicals during the decade that were immensely popular, co-starring with such leading men as Victor Mature, Don Ameche, John Payne, and Tyrone Power. In 1943, she was the number-one box office draw in the world and, in 1947, she was the highest-paid entertainer in the United States.[4] Two of her bigger film successes were the musical Mother Wore Tights (1947) and the comedy How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), one of her later films. Grable retired from screen acting in 1955 after she withdrew from her Fox contract, but she continued to perform on the stage and on television.[5]
Throughout her career, Grable was a celebrated sex symbol.[6] Her bathing suit poster made her the number-one pin-up girl of World War II, surpassing Rita Hayworth. It was later included in the Life magazine project "100 Photographs That Changed the World". Hosiery specialists of the era often noted the ideal proportions of her legs and thighs (18.5 in (47 cm)), calf (12 in (30 cm)), and ankle (7.5 in (19 cm)).[7] Grable's legs were insured by her studio for $1 million as a publicity stunt.[8] Describing her film career, Grable said "I became a star for two reasons, and I'm standing on them."[9]
Thanks Sheba.
Who is this?
Face is familiar, but can't remember the name yet.
Surely some-one else must have an idea.
Clue time!
He was an artist.
Wish I was 5 Years younger.
Don't we all !!!
He's a writer: John Bowlby
Not John Bowlby.
Surely not Pro Hart ?
Not Pro Hart.
Didn't think so. Still can't get him though. May-be tomorrow.
Come on people. One of you must know him.
Hugh Sawrey ?
Not Hugh Sawry.
Well known for his landscapes, he was not a member of the Heidelberg school.
Arthur Boyd.
Arthur Boyd it is Sheba, who's next?
Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd AC OBE (24 July 1920 24 April 1999) was a leading Australian painter of the middle to late 20th century. Boyd's work ranges from impressionist renderings of Australian landscape to starkly expressionist figuration, and many canvases feature both. Several famous works set Biblical stories against the Australian landscape, such as The Expulsion (194748),[1] now at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Having a strong social conscience, Boyd's work deals with humanitarian issues and universal themes of love, loss and shame.[2]
Boyd was a member of the Antipodeans, a group of Melbourne painters that also included Clifton Pugh, David Boyd, John Brack, Robert Dickerson, John Perceval and Charles Blackman.
Thanks Santa. This should be easy.
Thought she'd be gone by now.
Think Occult.
Her name is in the properties of the image Sheba, never heard of her.
I could not remember her name a couple of days ago, but her name just popped into my head immediately, as I looked at the photo again today.
She was an Aussie Artist, who resided in the Kings' Cross area of Sydney, and earned an unusual reputation. If no one gets her tonight, I'll change her tomorrow night.
Rosaleen Norton.
Correct BG. Who's next ?
Rosaleen Miriam Norton (2 October 1917 5 December 1979),[1] who used the name of Thorn, was a New Zealand-born Australian artist and occultist, in the latter capacity adhering to a form of pantheistic / Neopagan Witchcraft largely devoted to the mythological Greek god Pan. She lived much of her later life in the bohemian area of Kings Cross, Sydney, leading her to be termed the "Witch of Kings Cross" in some of the tabloids,[2] and from where she led her own coven of Witches.
Her paintings, which have been compared to those of British occult artist Austin Osman Spare,[3] often depicted images of supernatural entities such as pagan gods and demons, sometimes involved in sexual acts. These caused particular controversy in Australia during the 1940s and '50s, when the country "was both socially and politically conservative" with Christianity as the dominant faith and at a time when the government "promoted a harsh stance on censorship."[2] For this reason the authorities dealt with her work harshly, with the police removing some of her work from exhibitions, confiscating books that contained her images, and attempting to prosecute her for public obscenity on a number of occasions.
According to her later biographer, Nevill Drury, "Norton's esoteric beliefs, cosmology and visionary art are all closely intertwined and reflect her unique approach to the magical universe." She was inspired by "the 'night' side of magic", emphasising darkness and studying the Qliphoth, alongside forms of sex magic which she had learned from the writings of English occultist Aleister Crowley.[
-- Edited by Sheba on Wednesday 15th of March 2023 09:56:33 PM
Thank You Sheba. Next ?
Morning Ken.
Pablo Picasso.
Hi Santa. Spot on:
25 October 1881
Thanks Ken.
And this is?