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He became a favorite actor of director Billy Wilder, starring in his films Some Like It Hot ( for which he was awarded Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival ), The Apartment, Irma la Douce, The Fortune Cookie, Avanti !, The Front Page, and Buddy Buddy.
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The show became a cult favorite, and a truncated original cast recording released by Columbia Records sold well among Sondheim fans and musical theatre buffs.
Campus radicals and “ hippies ” inevitably became one of Capp ’ s favorite targets in the sixties.
" In 1977 the Commodores scored a ballad hit with " Easy ", which became the group's biggest hit yet, reaching No. 4 in the U. S., followed by the funky favorite " Brick House ", also Top 5, both from their landmark album " The Commodores ", as was the utopian album favorite " Zoom ".
In Spain, it quickly became a court favorite.
During the Middle Ages, dicing became the favorite pastime of the knights, with dicing schools and guilds.
“ On the Amazon ” from the 1920s musical Mr Cinders was an unusual choice but became an audience favorite in concerts and featured in “ Till Tomorrow ”, a documentary film about McLean produced by Bob Elfstrom.
That same year, Luc Besson's The Fifth Element became a cult favorite.
Greenberg immediately became the favorite to become the new team's first owner and persuaded Veeck to join him as his partner.
After the stroke, Cagney was no longer able to undertake many of his favorite pastimes, including horse riding and dancing, and as he became more depressed, he even gave up his beloved painting.
It became Stalin ’ s favorite film and he gave it as a gift to President Roosevelt during WWII.
The government had to fight smuggling — which became a favorite American technique in the 18th century to circumvent the restrictions on trading with the French, Spanish or Dutch.
" Lake of Fire " became a cult favorite for its particularly wrenching vocal performance from Cobain.
In 2009, he named Kinji Fukasaku's violent action film Battle Royale as his favorite film released since he became a director in 1992.
In the period following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the RPG became a favorite weapon of the insurgent forces fighting U. S. troops.
But she used the episode as a learning experience and learned more about her character, and in turn it became one of her favorite episodes.
" Solomon became a favorite author and contributor of different kinds of wisdom literature, " including not only the collections of Proverbs, but also of Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon and the later apocryphal book the Wisdom of Solomon.
Tight end Ben Coates also became a major contributor as a favorite target of Drew Bledsoe.
He soon became a crowd favorite, much to the resentment of the Pallantides, and they assassinated him, incurring the wrath of Minos.
Apparently, in later times, owing to its sanctity, Ur became a favorite place of sepulchres, so that even after it had ceased to be inhabited, it continued to be used as a necropolis.
Over the years since its creation, vi became the de facto standard Unix editor and a nearly undisputed hacker favorite outside of MIT until the rise of Emacs after about 1984.
While always a success in Japan, Iron Chef became a surprise cult favorite in the United States when it was picked up by the Food Network and dubbed in English.
It became a cult favorite but did not cross over into large mainstream sales.
The Tale of Genji became a favorite subject of Japanese woodblock artists for centuries with artists such as Hiroshige, Kiyonaga, and Utamaro illustrating various editions of the novel.
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Dwan also helped launch the career of two other very successful Hollywood directors, Victor Fleming, who went on to direct The Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind, and Marshall Neilan, who became an actor, director, writer and producer.
John became a painter and illustrator ; Richard was an actor in films such as Yankee Doodle Dandy and later an Emmy-nominated television director of such shows as The Beverly Hillbillies.
He became a highly regarded character actor and guest-starred in many 1960s TV series including Ben Casey, The Twilight Zone, The Andy Griffith Show, Dr. Kildare and Hennesey.
Afterwards it became the only Godzilla film to receive a television premiere on a major U. S network, as NBC aired it on prime time television in the summer of 1977, where it was hosted by actor John Belushi dressed in a Godzilla costume.
Spencer Tracy was a serious Broadway actor whom Bogart liked and admired, and they became good friends and drinking buddies.
Later that year, Booth played the part of an Indian, Uncas, in a play staged in Petersburg, Virginia, and then became a stock company actor at the Richmond Theatre in Virginia, where he became increasingly popular with audiences for his energetic performances.
" As the Confederacy's defeat became more certain in 1865, Booth decried the end of slavery and Lincoln's election to a second term, " making himself a king ", the actor fumed, in " wild tirades ", his sister recalled.
Some of the extras on set actually became terrified of the actor because of his violent portrayal.
Following his release at the end of the war he became an actor, set designer and director.
While imprisoned, he became actively involved, as an actor, writer, producer, and set-designer, in the amateur theatrical productions which took place in the camp, finding them " a source of great pleasure and amusement ".
Their elder brother Sydney Boulting became an actor and stage producer as Peter Cotes ; he was the original director of The Mousetrap.
After his swimming career, he became the sixth actor to portray Edgar Rice Burroughs's ape man, Tarzan, a role he played in twelve motion pictures.
Spacey's father was unconvinced that Spacey could make a career for himself as an actor, and did not change his mind until Spacey became well-known.
Audiences frequently became rowdy, and brawls occasionally broke out, sometimes over the favors of a particularly handsome young actor, leading the shogunate to ban first onnagata and then wakashū roles.
He went on to study law at Prague University ; during that time he also became involved in theatre ( as an actor he first appeared in Jan Nepomuk Štěpánek's play Czech and German in July 1832 in Benešov ), where he met Eleonora Šomková, with whom he had a son out of wedlock.
In New York City, Sennett became an actor, singer, dancer, clown, set designer and director for Biograph.
He argued that the child was given the name William Hughes, who became an actor under the stage-name " William Shakespeare ".
The album includes a tribute song to actor Richard Harris, who became Crowe's friend during the making of Gladiator.
In 1989, Wright became involved with actor Sean Penn following his divorce from Madonna.
The director's health became a continuing problem, so friend and actor James Coburn was brought in to serve as second unit director, and he filmed many of the scenes while Peckinpah remained in his on-location trailer.
In order to complete four Shemp-era shorts, film actor Joe Palma was used as a temporary body double before Joe Besser became the long-term replacement as the third Stooge.
After a short stint as a DJ on Radio Luxembourg, in 1951, Mitchell became a versatile professional actor with straight and comedy roles on stage, radio, film and television.
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