To the average American, this must sound like an incredible tale from a Saturday night TV movie.

In American romance, almost nothing rates higher than what the movie men have called `` meeting cute '' -- that is, boy-meets-girl seems more adorable if it doesn't take place in an atmosphere of correct and acute boredom.

Unfortunately, few of the artists ( writers, movie producers, dramatists and musicians ) who have used American folklore since 1900 have known enough to distinguish between the two streams even in the most general of ways.

* 2012 – Martin Poll, American movie producer ( b. 1922 )

The movie was nominated for three Academy Awards, and is ranked No. 6 on the American Film Institute's 100 Years ... 100 Laughs list.

Another later movie from De Palma, Redacted, unleashed a torrent of controversy over its subject of American involvement in Iraq, and supposed atrocities committed there.

American English movie ) and then later returned to Greece as σινεμά ( sinema, " the art of film ", " movie theater ").

While the Super Bowl XX Champion Bears were a fixture of mainstream American pop culture in the 1980s, the Bears made a prior mark with the 1971 American TV movie Brian's Song starring Billy Dee Williams as Gale Sayers and James Caan as Brian Piccolo.

In 2007 rapper, Jay-Z, released American Gangster, his first concept album, inspired by the movie of the same name.

In the mid-1970s, a review of the American movie Jaws marked the magazine's return to more commercial perspectives, and an editorial turnover: ( Serge Daney, Serge Toubiana, Thierry Jousse, Antoine de Baecque and Charles Tesson ).

Daniel Robert " Danny " Elfman ( born May 29, 1953 ) is an American composer, best known for scoring music for television and film and creating The Simpsons main title theme as well as the 1989 Batman movie theme.

Dirk Benedict ( born March 1, 1945 ) is an American movie, television and stage actor, perhaps best known for playing the characters Lieutenant Templeton " Faceman " Peck in The A-Team television series and Lieutenant Starbuck in the original Battlestar Galactica film and television series.

* Long Duk Dong or " the Donger ," a character in the 1984 American movie Sixteen Candles

Elyssa Davalos ( born May 30, 1959 ) is a former American television and movie actress.

Following the success of You're a Big Boy Now, Coppola was offered the reins of the movie version of the Broadway musical Finian's Rainbow, starring Petula Clark, in her first American film, and veteran Fred Astaire.

The movie opens with Scott's rendering of Patton's famous military " Pep Talk " to members of the Third Army, set against a huge American flag.

* The Irony of Fate, or Enjoy Your Bath !, a comedy-drama so beloved in Russia that it is broadcasted on television every New Year Eve, similarly to the American movie It ’ s a Wonderful Life being broadcast every Christmas.

The period after the American Occupation led to a rise in diversity in movie distribution thanks to the increased output and popularity of the film studios of Toho, Daiei, Shochiku, Nikkatsu, and Toei.

He refers to British director Christopher Nolan ’ s The Dark Knight and Inception as British rather than as American films, and yet " when a movie which looks quintessentially ‘ British ’, such as The King's Speech, achieves equivalent success, everyone suddenly starts writing articles about the state of our national cinema as if it somehow exists in isolation.

* 1943 – Aaron Russo, American movie producer ( d. 2007 )

In 1926, American film association the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers selected Wray as one of the " WAMPAS Baby Stars ", a group of women who they believed to be on the threshold of movie stardom.

* 1970 – Jonathan Ward, American television and movie actor

* 1943 – American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.

One of the most famous involved star second baseman Napoleon Lajoie, who in 1901 went across town in Philadelphia from the National League Phillies to the American League Athletics.

Set on an oceanliner, it was to star Marlon Brando as an American ambassador, and Sophia Loren as a beautiful stowaway found in his cabin.

* 1987 – Linda Wong, American porn star ( b. 1951 )

* 1981 – Haley Paige, American porn star ( d. 2007 )

In 1935, American radio commentator Walter Winchell coined the term " disc jockey " ( the combination of disc, referring to the disc records, and jockey, which is an operator of a machine ) as a description of radio announcer Martin Block, the first announcer to become a star.

American Pies success made McLean an international star and piqued interest in his first album, which charted more than two years after its initial release.

This development was contemporary with the growth of the studio system and its greatest publicity method, the star system, which characterized American film for decades to come and provided models for other film industries.

* 1972 – Sunset Thomas, American porn star

* 1986 – Stephen Colletti, American TV star

Julius Henry " Groucho " Marx ( October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977 ) was an American comedian and film and television star.

Hollywood dramas used horror themes, including versions of The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1923 ) and The Monster ( 1925 ) both starring Lon Chaney, the first American horror movie star.

The American Film Institute ranked Bogart as the greatest male star in the history of American cinema.

* Mickey Rooney, American actor, former child star

* 1972 – Kobe Tai, American porn star

* 2012 – Leslie Carter, American reality star, sister of Nick and Aaron Carter ( b. 1986 )

* 1978 – Jake Pavelka, American reality TV star

* Jewel De ' Nyle ( born Stephany Schwarz ), American pornographic movie star, sometimes credited as " Jewel "

Spacey won universal praise and a Best Actor Oscar for his role as a depressed suburban father who re-evaluates his life in 1999's American Beauty ; the same year, he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Present-day translations have " morning star " ( New International Version, New Century Version, New American Standard Bible, Good News Translation, Holman Christian Standard Bible, Contemporary English Version, Common English Bible, Complete Jewish Bible ), " daystar " ( New Jerusalem Bible, English Standard Version, The Message ), " shining one " ( New Life Version ) or " shining star " ( New Living Translation ).

* 1959 – Nina Hartley, American porn star, author and feminist

In the book Movies in American History: An Encyclopedia, James Delmont wrote: " Marlon Brando was arguably the finest screen actor of the twentieth century, winning worldwide acceptance as both a movie star of the first rank and as a performer of uncommon skill.

Brando was named the fourth greatest male star in the history of American cinema by the American Film Institute, and part of Time magazine's Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century.