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Gruen Watch Company advertisement featuring the Autowind models, circa 1951
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Amalia Fuentes (1940-2019).
Filipino actress.
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She was a Filipino actress who reigned as a “Movie Queen” in the 1960s and 1970s. She was once dubbed as the “Elizabeth Taylor of the Philippines”. She was the first Filipino Lux Soap model.
She produced and starred in her own films in the 1960s to the end of the 1970s. Her movies were big moneymakers making her the highest paid movie actress of her generation and a certified Movie and Box Office Queen. She later starred in productions by Viva Films (My Only Love). She also starred in later Regal Films such as Asawa Ko Huwag Mong Agawin, starring Vilma Santos, Eddie Guttierrez and Gabby Concepcion.
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Her father died during the war and as the eldest child, she became the family breadwinner. Her two younger brothers, Alex and Alvaro, are also actors.
In 1956, Fuentes and fellow actor Juancho Gutierrez won Sampaguita Pictures’ Mr. & Ms. Number One contest. Sampaguita Pictures launched Amalia and Juancho into full stardom in the 1956 film Movie Fan. They were initially paired as a “love team” – popular in Philippine cinema – by Sampaguita Pictures.
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Fuentes wrote the screenplay for the films Tatlong Kasaysayan Ng Pag-ibig (1966), and Ito Ang Aming Kasunduan (1973). She starred in and directed Mga Reynang Walang Trono (1976). Fuentes has her own production company, AM (Amalia Muhlach) Productions. She produced several movies.
Fuentes was a member of the Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB). She appeared in more than 130 films.
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Amalia married fellow actor Romeo Vasquez in 1965 but they separated in 1969. They had a daughter, Liezl Sumilang (wife of actor Albert Martinez). After her divorce from Vasquez, Amalia married Joey Stevens, an American businessman with whom she adopted a son, Geric Stevens. She divorced Stevens after 28 years of marriage.
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Famous movies:
Estela Mondragon
Amy, Susie, Tessie
Rodora
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James Dean (1931-1955).
American actor.
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He is remembered as a cultural icon of teenage disillusionment and social estrangement, as expressed in the title of his most celebrated film, Rebel Without a Cause (1955), in which he starred as troubled teenager Jim Stark.
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He studied theatre for two years at the University of California at Los Angeles. His first professional acting assignment was for a soft drink commercial. He played bit parts in three Hollywood films before moving to New York City on the advice of actor James Whitmore, with whom he had briefly studied. After a series of short-term jobs, he was cast in a key role in the Broadway flop See the Jaguar (1952). More successful was his performance as a blackmailing homosexual houseboy in another Broadway production, The Immoralist (1954).
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The Immoralist brought Dean to the attention of film director Elia Kazan, who cast the 23-year-old actor in the leading role of troubled teenager Cal Trask in East of Eden (1955). When East of Eden premiered, Dean was seen as a movie star of the first magnitude and was nominated for an Academy Award.
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Dean’s second starring film appearance, as sensitive high-school misfit Jim Stark in director Nicholas Ray’s Rebel Without a Cause (1955), made him into the embodiment of his generation. Dean’s performance spoke eloquently on behalf of disenchanted, disenfranchised teenagers and gave them a hero they could respect and admire.
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Dean was next cast in producer-director George Stevens’s Giant (1956), a drama set on a Texas ranch that also starred Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor. Shortly after completing the film, the restless Dean drove off in his silver Porsche to compete in a sports car rally in Salinas, California. Speeding down the highway, he crashed headlong into a Ford sedan and was killed instantly. Almost immediately an intensely loyal cult was established, and within days of his death he became a film icon. Both Rebel Without a Cause and Giant were released posthumously, and he received an Oscar nomination for the latter film.
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While at UCLA, Dean dated Beverly Wills, an actress with CBS, and Jeanette Lewis, a classmate. While in New York, he then dated Barbara Glenn for two years.
Dean’s best-remembered relationship was with young Italian actress Pier Angeli. He also dated actresses Liz Sheridan and Ursula Andress.
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Famous movies:
Rebel Without a Cause
East of Eden
Giant
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. September, 1943.
Photographer: Esther Bubley.
1-2. The Greyhound bus station.
3. A house as seen from the window of a Greyhound bus
LOC Lot: 882.
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when quarantine is over and I finally get to go to an antique store again it’ll be over for you all
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Christy Turlington and Kara Young by Sante D'Orazio for Vogue Italia, December 1993
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