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.

In the late 1950s she shared an exchange which was called " la croisée de deux sillages " (" the crossing of two wakes ") with actor and true-crime author John Gilmore, then an actor in France who was working on a New Wave film with Jean Seberg.

The film won the 1954 Prix Jean Vigo, but was banned by French censors for its criticism of French colonialism.

The film has been compared to the Cinéma vérité films of Jean Rouch, and criticized by its practitioners at the time.

It developed from the earlier magazine Revue du Cinéma ( Review of the Cinema ) involving members of two Paris film clubs — Objectif 49 ( Objective 49 ) ( Robert Bresson, Jean Cocteau and Alexandre Astruc, among others ) and Ciné-Club du Quartier Latin ( Cinema Club of the Latin Quarter ).

In Jean Cocteau's 1946 film La Belle et la Bête it is Diana's power which has transformed and imprisoned the beast.

The album bore the transatlantic top ten hit " Blue Jean ", itself the inspiration for a short film that won Bowie a Grammy Award for Best Short Form Music Video, " Jazzin ' for Blue Jean ".

But the first public screening of film ever is due to Jean Aimé " Acme " Le Roy, a French photographer.

The historical drama film Jean de Florette ( 1986 ) and its sequel Manon des Sources ( 1986 ) were among the highest grossing French films in history and brought Daniel Auteuil international recognition.

It largely evolved from the works of directors like Germaine Dulac, Louis Delluc, Jean Epstein, Sergei Eisenstein, Lev Kuleshov, and Dziga Vertov and film theorists like Rudolf Arnheim, Béla Balázs and Siegfried Kracauer.

According to Wray, Jean Harlow had been RKO's original choice, but because MGM put Harlow under exclusive contract during the pre-production phase of the film, she became unavailable and Wray was approached by director Merian C. Cooper to play the role of Ann Darrow, the blonde captive of King Kong.

* 1939 – Jean Beaudin, Canadian film director and screenwriter

The film also starred Jean Arthur, Thomas Mitchell, Rita Hayworth and Richard Barthelmess.

Belgian player Jean " Toots " Thielemans is a well-known master of jazz chromatic harmonica, as well as a champion whistler, who has been recorded on many notable songs in film and television, such as the theme from Sesame Street, and the score from the Academy Award winning film Midnight Cowboy.

Jean Renoir did the French narration for the film and Hemingway did the English version only after Orson Welles's sounded too theatrical ..

She made one British film as well, the 1947 film version of Uncle Silas, starring Jean Simmons.

* 1912 – Jean Vilar, French stage and film actor ( d. 1971 )

In 1953's The Actress, Gordon's film adaptation of her own autobiographical play, Years Ago, became a Hollywood production, with Jean Simmons portraying the girl from Quincy, Massachusetts, who convinced her sea captain father to let her go to New York to become an actress.

* Stop, a 1972 Quebec film by Jean Beaudin

Scholarly analysis of the film has focused on Captain Jean Luc Picard's parallels to Herman Melville's Ahab and the nature of the Borg.

The campaigns began with a series of adverts based on the 1986 French film Jean de Florette, directed by the British duo Anthea Benton and Vaughan Arnell, moving on to other genres including war movies, silent comedy and even surrealism.

In 1999, Gilliam attempted to film The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, budgeted at US $ 32. 1 million, among the highest-budgeted films to use only European financing ; but in the first week of shooting, the actor playing Don Quixote ( Jean Rochefort ) suffered a herniated disc, and a flood severely damaged the set.

It stars Jean Reno as the titular mob hitman ; Gary Oldman as corrupt DEA agent Stansfield ; a young Natalie Portman, in her feature film debut, as Mathilda, a 12-year-old girl who is taken in by the hitman after her family is murdered ; and Danny Aiello as Tony, the mobster who gives the hitman his assignments.

Mark Deming at Allmovie awarded the film four stars out of five, describing it as " As visually stylish as it is graphically violent ", and featuring " a strong performance from Jean Reno, a striking debut by Natalie Portman, and a love-it-or-hate-it, over-the-top turn by Gary Oldman ".

The film stars Jean-Marc Barr, Rosanna Arquette, Jean Reno and depicts a fictionalized account of the sporting rivalry between two famed free divers.

The film charts the competition and friendship of real-life champions Jacques Mayol ( played by Barr ) and Enzo Maiorca ( renamed in the film to " Enzo Molinari ", and played by Reno ).

DeVito also produced the Comedy Central series Reno 911 !, as well as the film spin off Reno 911!

Reno is romantically involved with another of Buckaroo's teammates, a woman named Pecos ( referenced in a line of dialogue as being in Tibet, she appears in the novel, but not in the film ).

The novelization by Mac Rauch is told through fake documents written and compiled by Reno Nevada, and further expands on the backstory of the film, including the murder of Peggy Banzai ( her twin sister Penny plays a role in the movie ) by the minions of Asian crime lord Hanoi Xan, the deaths of Buckaroo's parents in an early Jet Car accident, and at least two other fictitious novels.

Luc Besson's film Léon also was inspired by Gloria, with actor Jean Reno playing the accidental guardian of a young girl ( Natalie Portman ) whose family was murdered by corrupt DEA agents.

* Léon: The Professional ( first released as The Professional in the United States ), a 1994 French film starring Jean Reno, Gary Oldman and Natalie Portman

The series spawned a film, Reno 911!

Also in early 2007, a theatrical film based upon the series entitled Reno 911!

The film gets its title from a scene where the protagonist, Hubert Fiorentini ( Reno ), eats a whole serving of wasabi at a Japanese restaurant without flinching.

There were three film sets on which they battled off-screen: the second half of Rose Marie, after MacDonald's refusal to elope to Reno with Eddy ; The Girl of the Golden West, filmed immediately after MacDonald's marriage ; and New Moon, filmed after Eddy's marriage.

Additional film credits include The Parent Trap ( 1998 ), Blow Dry ( 2001 ), Chelsea Walls ( 2001 ), Waking Up in Reno ( 2002 ), Maid in Manhattan ( 2002 ), Asylum ( 2005 ), which won her a second Evening Standard Award for Best Actress, The White Countess ( 2005 ), and Evening ( 2007 ).

* Reno, a member of the " Turks " in the videogame Final Fantasy VII, and in the CGI film Final Fantasy VII Advent Children

Love Me Tender was originally to be titled The Reno Brothers, but when advanced sales of Presley's " Love Me Tender " single passed one million — a first for a single — the film title was changed to match.

The subplot of unresolved passion carries the film ; it is clear from the outset upon the Reno brothers return home that Cathy still loves Vance, although she is true to the younger Clint.

A somewhat more realistic film telling the story of the Reno Brothers, Rage at Dawn starring Randolph Scott, had been released by RKO Radio Pictures only the year before.

as " Guy Gerricault " ( pronounced " jericho "), the coach of a lamaze class, and portrayed a drug lord in the film Reno 911!

* In the 2009 comedy film Couples Retreat, four couples attend therapy sessions conducted by a therapist ( Jean Reno ) described as " couple whisperer ".

In tangential developments, in 1993 Walker co-wrote and co-performed ( with Goran Bregović ) the single " Man from Reno " for the soundtrack of the film Toxic Affair.

The film was filmed in Reno, Nevada and various locations in Utah.