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Clark Gable Clark Gable
Clark Gable 1901-60, American film actor, b. Cadiz, Ohio. He began his career in films in 1930 and soon after became a star. He won an Academy Award in 1934 for his brilliant comic performance in It Happened One Night. His best-remembered role was that of Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind ... Read more
Clark Clark
Clark ♂ Transferred use of the surname, which originated as an occupational name denoting a clerk (Latin clericus), in the Middle Ages a man in minor holy orders who earned his living by his ability to read and write. It is recorded as a given name in Britain from the late 17th century... Read more
Alan Jay Lerner Alan Jay Lerner
Alan Jay Lerner 1918-86, American lyricist and librettist, b. New York City. After two years as a radio scriptwriter, Lerner began an association with the composer Frederick Loewe that resulted in several popular musicals, including Brigadoon (1947, film 1954), Paint Your Wagon (1951, film... Read more
Tiresias Tiresias
Tiresias , in Greek mythology, a blind soothsayer who appears in many legends. According to one myth, when he saw Athena bathing she blinded him, but by way of compensation granted him prophetic powers. Another story is that Hera blinded him for disparaging her sex when he claimed that women enjoyed... Read more
Ava Gardner Ava Gardner
Ava Gardner Actress Ava Lavinia Gardner (1922–1990), who many still consider the most beautiful woman to have appeared on film, starred in such popular films as The Killers (1946) and Night of the Iguana (1964). Known for her dark, incandescent beauty, earthy nature, and... Read more
Sidney Poitier Sidney Poitier
Sidney Poitier 1927-, American actor, b. Miami, raised in the Bahamas, returned to the United States at 15. The first African-American actor to achieve leading man status in Hollywood films, Poitier combines attractiveness and poise with an innate projection of dignity and self-assurance. Many of... Read more
gable gable
gable, gavel. Wall (gable-end), of a building, closing the end of a pitched roof: its top may be bounded by the two slopes of the roof forming parged verges or overhangs with barge-boards, or it may be a parapet following (more or less) the slopes of the roof behind. Thus Romanesque gables were... Read more
Vivien Leigh Vivien Leigh
Vivien Leigh To legions of movie fans, Vivien Leigh (1913-1967) will best be remembered as the defiant and beautiful Scarlett O'Hara, heroine of the 1939 movie classic Gone With the Wind. Leigh had only a brief career on the British stage and screen when she was plucked out of relative... Read more
Sportswear Sportswear
Sportswear During the 1920s many men and women began to participate in such sports as golf, tennis, and swimming. Affluent people enjoyed yachting and polo. To provide comfort and ease of movement, new styles of sportswear were designed. Additionally, with young people increasingly aware of style... Read more
Footwear Footwear
Footwear, 1900–18 Men and women both enjoyed access to a wide range of footwear in the first decades of the twentieth century. In the last half of the nineteenth century several important breakthroughs had made shoes more comfortable and cheaper than ever before. The comfort came from the... Read more

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