At times when he was confined to bed, he drew, listened to the radio and collected pictures of movie stars around his bed.

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 ".

This factor is a natural outcome of Hollywood script development which wishes to highlight one or two major characters which can be played by major stars, and thus a good way of marketing the movie is established but that rings false upon examination.

Informal references by the general public and media have used to refer to celebrities as: The stars, sports stars, rock stars, rap stars, supermodels, movie stars, TV stars, radio stars, music stars, superstars, stardom, and media personalities.

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 ).

On August 1, 2007 laws were passed banning health care professionals and public figures such as movie stars or pop singers from appearing in advertisements for drugs or nutritional supplements.

* A 2006 movie about Esther and Ahasuerus, entitled One Night with the King, stars Tiffany Dupont and Luke Goss.

In addition, French movie stars began to claim fame abroad as well as at home.

The film established the names of Capra, Columbia Pictures, stars Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable, in the movie industry.

By the time the Marxes made their first movie, they were major stars with sharply honed skills, and when Groucho was relaunched to stardom on You Bet Your Life, he had already been performing successfully for half a century.

The movie includes seasoned actors such as Ava Gardner, Burgess Meredith and Eli Wallach and such future stars as Christopher Walken and Jeff Goldblum.

Opened by Charlton Heston and introduced by Frank Sinatra, the ceremony was attended by so many Hollywood stars — said to be more than for any event in history — that one columnist wrote at the time that a bomb in the dining room would have brought about the end of the movie industry.

This film was financed by Archibald MacLeish, Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Lillian Hellman, Luise Rainer, Dudley Nichols, Franchot Tone and other Hollywood movie stars, moguls, and writers who composed a group known as the Contemporary Historians.

Amateur actors replace their favorite movie stars in popular movies.

The movie garnered mixed reviews, with the Chicago Tribune rating it one out of four stars and describing Dunst's portrayal of a flight attendant as " cloying.

Like most movie stars of the silent era, Pickford found her career fading as talkies became more popular among audiences.

III, in 1994, his final film project was the animated movie Cats Don't Dance, released in 1997 and dedicated to him, on which Kelly acted as uncredited choreographic consultant.

The first verse of the 1927 version is sung by Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra at the start of the MGM musical film, Take Me Out to the Ball Game ( 1949 ), a movie that also features a song about the famous and fictitious double play combination, O ' Brien to Ryan to Goldberg.

Although Kelly won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for best actress for her performances in her three big movie roles of 1954 ( Rear Window, Dial M For Murder, and The Country Girl ), she and Garland both received Golden Globe Awards for their respective performances.

The movie was shot at Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas between September 7, 1926 and April 7, 1927.

In addition to a live-action Kelly dancing with Jerry the cartoon mouse, the movie also features José Iturbi, Pamela Britton, Dean Stockwell, and Sharon McManus.

The movie is famous for a musical number where Gene Kelly dances seamlessly with the animated Jerry Mouse ( voiced by Sara Berner ).

Between 1953 and 1958 he worked steadily in films and television, including the 1956 movie The Swan ( which starred Grace Kelly ).

Ojai is shown in a mile marker in the Steven Seagal movie Hard to Kill after Kelly Lebrock's nurse character rescues him from an assassination attempt at a hospital.

The Scaroon Manor was the site for the 1957 Warner Brothers movie " Marjorie Morningstar " which starred Gene Kelly, Natalie Wood.

There is a scene in the movie where the-then Grace Kelly drives a car very quickly-and dangerously-along the steep winding roads of Monaco that surround the heights of Monte Carlo ; an interesting coincidence to her actual fate in 1982.

The most famous of these was a scene during the movie Anchors Aweigh, in which actor Gene Kelly danced with an animated Jerry Mouse ( of Tom and Jerry fame ).

His story was dramatized in the television movie Crime in Connecticut: The Story of Alex Kelly.

In 2002, Romano became the first person to act in three Disney Channel projects simultaneously, supplementing her work on Even Stevens with a starring role in a movie named Cadet Kelly, alongside Hilary Duff, and voice acting as the title character in Kim Possible, for which she was nominated for a Daytime Emmy.

The plot of the movie concerns Kelly Collins, a free-spirited eighth grade girl whose mother gets married to Brigadier General Joe " Sir " Maxwell ( Gary Cole ).

Nancy Kelly ( March 25, 1921 – January 2, 1995 ) was an American actress, who was a movie leading lady in the late 1930s, making 36 movies between 1926 and 1977, including portraying Tyrone Power's love interest in the classic Jesse James ( 1939 ), which also featured Henry Fonda, and playing opposite Spencer Tracy in Stanley and Livingstone later that same year.

Nancy Kelly, Patty McCormack and the majority of the original cast acted in the 1956 movie.

Over the next few years the site expanded by adding associate contributors across the globe, most of whom would go by pseudonyms, such as Chicago movie critic Steve Prokopy, who goes by the name " Capone " on AICN, Moises Chiullan (" Monty Cristo ") and UK-based critic Adam Stephen Kelly (" Britgeek ").

* In the 1951 movie The Emperor and the Golem, Edward Kelly is fake occultist and conspirator.

In fact, the first feature length movie ever produced was The Story of the Kelly Gang ( 1906 ), an Australian production that traced the life of the outlaw Ned Kelly ( 1855 – 1880 ).

After leaving Hawaii Five-O, McArthur guest-starred on such television shows as Murder, She Wrote, The Love Boat, Fantasy Island and Vega $, as well as in the mini series Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story and The Night the Bridge Fell Down, and in the 1998 television movie Stormchasers: Revenge of the Twister, with Kelly McGillis.

She was in the movie The Seat Filler, co-produced by Will Smith and starring Destiny's Child star Kelly Rowland.

* 61A is the London address of Margot Wendice ( Grace Kelly ) and Tony Wendice ( Ray Milland ) in the movie " Dial M for Murder "

An uncut version of the movie, adding seven minutes to its runtime, was released on DVD in 2004 and includes a change to Kelly and Suzie's relationship.

She has since built a successful career, appearing in films from a wide range of genres, including the comedy Waking Up in Reno ( 2002 ), the thriller Gothika ( 2003 ), the Christmas movie Noel ( 2004 ), and the action adventure Sahara ( 2005 ).

The movie continues many years later where Enzo ( Jean Reno ) rescues a diver from a shipwreck.

The 1949 Mercury Coupe James Dean drove in the movie is part of the permanent collection at the National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada.

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.

Magnum Photos had been given exclusive rights to photograph the making of the movie, and Morath and Cartier-Bresson were the first of nine photographers to work on location outside Reno, Nevada during the process.

The movie was followed in 1983 by a sequel, The Black Stallion Returns, which also starred Reno.

In 2006 she appeared with James Franco and Jean Reno in the movie Flyboys playing the role of Clarisse, a brothel Madame.

The movie won the Audience Prize for Best Comedy at the Marco Island Film Festival, the Silver Screen Accolade in the Reno Film Festival and the 10 Degrees Hotter Best Feature Award during the Valley Film Festival.

Ann also sang the duet " Almost Paradise " with Mike Reno in the movie Footloose from 1984 which reached number seven on Billboard's Hot 100.

The Texas King meal is shown in the movie Waking Up in Reno, with Billy Bob Thornton taking the challenge.

She also continues to appear on television, with appearances on Boston Legal, Reno 911 !, The Boondocks, and as a guest movie critic on several episodes of At the Movies with Ebert & Roeper, filling in for the absent Roger Ebert while he recuperated from surgery.

A movie of the same name, starring Jean Reno, was based on the book and released in 2004.

In 2007, Carter filmed the independent movie Fast Glass with Brandon Quinn, Andrew Keegan, Natalia Cigliuti, Greg Grunberg, and Reno Wilson.

* The Crimson Rivers ( Les rivières pourpres ) is the title of a movie played by Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel.

The movie was shut down in the small Oklahoma town of El Reno when the Chief of Police, T. D.

The studio, 20th Century Fox, originally wanted to call the movie The Reno Brothers but instead re-titled it Love Me Tender to capitalize on the song's popularity.

In the Driller Killer trailer, Reno is heard to say a line from a scene that does not appear in the finished movie: " It's just a window, Dalton.