About 1939, he started to collect autographed cards of film stars.

It stars Jack Warner as an England cricketer playing the last Test of his career, which is the last of an Ashes series ; the film contains cameo appearances from cricketers, including Jim Laker and Denis Compton, who were part of England's 1953 triumph.

Woolfson came up with the idea of making an album based on developments in the film industry, where directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick were the focal point of the film's promotion, rather than individual film stars.

The film was written by Sam Raimi and his brother Ivan, produced by Robert Tapert, and stars Bruce Campbell and Embeth Davidtz.

Roger Ebert gave the film two out of four stars and wrote, " The movie isn't as funny or entertaining as Evil Dead II, however, maybe because the comic approach seems recycled ".

The cast was young and relatively new, though the stars Sissy Spacek and John Travolta had gained considerable attention for previous work in, respectively, film and episodic sitcoms.

Comedy, unlike other film genres, puts much more focus on individual stars, with many former stand-up comic transitioning to the film industry due to their popularity.

Films in this sub-genre blend comic antics and action where the film stars combine wit and one-liners with a thrilling plot and daring stunts.

In the United Kingdom, film adaptations of stage farces were popular in the early 1930s, while the music hall tradition strongly influenced film comedy into the 1940s with Will Hay and George Formby among the top comedy stars of the time.

A drag queen may imitate famous female film or pop-music stars.

Celebrities may be known around the world ( e. g., pop stars and film actors ), within a specific country ( e. g., a top Australian rugby player ); or within a region ( e. g., a local television news anchor ).

While it ’ s true that the top television and film actors have become movie and television stars, musicians and pop singers that become pop stars, or athletes that become sports stars often become celebrities, the other professionals that play a more peripheral role in the entertainment sphere, such as television, music, and film directors and producers, screenwriters, playwrights, and animators are less likely to attain celebrity status ( albeit there are some exceptions, such as directors Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino and animator Seth MacFarlane ).

Except for one shot of the woman mentioned above sleeping and suddenly waking up, the film is composed entirely of photographs by Jean Chiabaud and stars Davos Hanich as the man, Hélène Chatelain as the woman and filmmaker William Klein as a man from the future.

The film stars Christina Milian ( who previously played cheerleaders in Love Don't Cost a Thing and Man of the House ) and Rachelle Brook Smith, and was released directly to DVD and Blu-ray on September 1, 2009.

Having worked with many Hollywood stars, Cronenberg says that he did not get to make a film with an actor he wanted to work with for a long time, Burt Reynolds.

As a result, she slipped from the list of top box office stars, last appearing in the top ten in 1966 with the hit film The Glass Bottom Boat.

" Leonard Maltin originally rated the film with two stars, but later increased the rating to three stars.

With less time to spend songwriting as she focused on a burgeoning film career, during the early 1980s Parton recorded a larger percentage of material from noted pop songwriters, such as Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil, Rupert Holmes, Gary Portnoy and Carole Bayer Sager.

* 1942 – Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.

In 1984, Arnaud Sélignac produced and directed a film called Nemo or Dream One, starring Jason Connery, Harvey Keitel and Carole Bouquet.

The film suggests that Crist's 2008 marriage to Carole Rome was a strategic political decision designed to deflect attention away from rumors about his sexual orientation.

* Both Maurice Sendak ’ s Chicken Soup with Rice and his animated film and stage production Really Rosie ( with music by Carole King ) make multiple references to the dish.

A Hollywood film titled Bolero ( 1934 ), starring Carole Lombard and George Raft, made major use of the theme.

Arthur was not the first choice for the role, but Carole Lombard, the original female lead, " ankled " the film just three days before principal photography, in favor of a starring role in My Man Godfrey.

Laughton soon gave up the stage in preference for a film career and returned to Hollywood where his next film was White Woman ( 1933 ) in which he co-starred with Carole Lombard as a Cockney river trader in the Malaysian jungle.

Five Easy Pieces is a 1970 American drama film written by Carole Eastman ( as Adrien Joyce ) and Bob Rafelson, and directed by Rafelson.

The film stars William Powell and Carole Lombard.

The film stars Carole Lombard, Jack Benny, Robert Stack, Felix Bressart, Lionel Atwill, Stanley Ridges and Sig Ruman.

The film was released two months after actress Carole Lombard was killed in an airplane crash.

A prescient line was cut out of the film after the death of Carole Lombard: when Lombard is invited by Robert Stack's smitten airman to fly in a plane with him, she says: " What can happen on a plane?

Lubitsch went independent to direct That Uncertain Feeling ( 1941, a remake of his 1925 film Kiss Me Again ), and the dark anti-Nazi farce To Be or Not to Be ( 1942 ), which was Jack Benny's only major screen success and Carole Lombard's last picture.

In 1940, he directed Carole Lombard in Vigil in the Night, and the film has an alternate ending for European audiences in recognition of World War II, which the US had not yet entered.

In the film, Mr. & Mrs. Smith ( 1941 ) a comedy directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Carole Lombard and Gene Raymond visit the fair after a dinner date and find themselves stuck high in the air on the fair's popular parachute ride when it malfunctions.

The film was directed by Howard Hawks, stars John Barrymore and Carole Lombard, and features Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns and Edgar Kennedy.

Its success propelled Carole Lombard into the front ranks of film comediennes.

In its induction, the Registry said that the " sophisticated farce about the tempestuous romance of an egocentric impresario and the star he creates did not fare well on its release, but has come to be recognized as one of the era ’ s finest film comedies, one that gave John Barrymore his last great film role and Carole Lombard her first.

Marvin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer Sager wrote three original songs for the film: " Easy For You ," " Better Than Ever ," and " Starting Over.

The 1939 film In Name Only, starring Cary Grant, Carole Lombard and Kay Francis, is partially set in Ridgefield, and the opening shot is of the wooden sign at the corner of Main St. and Branchville Road opposite what is now Jesse Lee Memorial United Methodist Church.

* In 2000 a sketch group called The Benders parody Test Card F in a short film sequence where Carole Hersee is kidnapped by a hooded figure and taken round various locations in a wheelbarrow before meeting with a sad demise.

* A made-for-TV film version of the novel called The Red and the Black was first broadcast in 1997 by Koch Lorber Films, starring Kim Rossi Stuart, Carole Bouquet and Judith Godrèche ; it was directed by Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe.

Lombard made her film debut at the age of twelve after she was seen playing baseball in the street by director Allan Dwan ; he cast her as a tomboy in A Perfect Crime ( 1921 ).

1936 proved to be a big year for Lombard with her casting in the screwball comedy My Man Godfrey alongside ex-husband William Powell who refused to do the film unless Lombard was cast opposite him.

At the time of her death, Lombard had been scheduled to star in the film " They All Kissed the Bride "; when production started, her role was given to Joan Crawford.

The film also provided Lombard with an opportunity to work with friend Robert Stack, whom she had known since he was an awkward teenager.

The film was shot at United Artists, which allowed Lombard to say that she had worked at every major studio in Hollywood.

* Yvonne Lombard ( born 1929 ), a Swedish actress known from the film A Lesson in Love

The film will adapt a serialized graphic novel written by Aronofsky and Ari Handel, published in French in October 2011 by the Belgian publisher Le Lombard.

However, Hawks believed that Lombard was a brilliant actress who had yet to be unleashed on film.

For the rest of her career, before beginning a film, Lombard would always send a telegram to Hawks saying, " I'm going to kick him!

When Barrymore's career was declining, Lombard raised hell to get him to work on her film True Confession ( 1937 ).