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mydigitalartwork · 6 years ago
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Pietro Paolo Mennea #colorized by @mydigitalartwork 28 June 1952 – 21 March 2013 was an Italian #sprinter and politician. He was most successful in the 200 m event, in which he won a gold medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics and set a #worldrecord at 19.72 seconds in September 1979. This record stood for almost 17 years – the longest duration in the event history – and is still listed as the European record. #pietromennea, who was born in #Barletta, started his long international #athletic career in 1968 when he took part in a junior race in Termoli and he was registered in AVIS Barletta club; in 1971, he won the first of his 14 Italian outdoor titles in the 100 and 200 m. He went on to win two indoor titles in 60 m and #400m, along with five Mediterranean Games gold medals in 100 m and 200 m. He competed at the European Championships with a third place in the 4 × 100 m relay. He made his Olympic debut at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, where he made the final of the 200 m, his strongest event. He finished in third place, behind #ValeriBorzov and #LarryBlack. Three more consecutive #Olympics 200 metre finals would follow later in his career, the longest roe ever in this event. At the 1974 European Championships, Mennea claimed the 200 m gold in front of his home crowd in #Rome, while also placing second behind Borzov in the #100m and the 4×100m. After some poor performances in the 1976 #Olympicseason, Mennea decided to skip the Olympics, but when the Italian public protested Mennea went to Montreal. He finished fourth in the 200 m and sixth in the 4 × 100 m relay. In 1977 he finished second in the world cup 200, where a #photofinish separated him from #ClancyEdwards of the United States. He successfully defended his European #200m title in 1978 but displayed his capabilities in the 100 metres by also winning that event in Prague. #sportlife #sportsman #runnerlife #colorizedphoto #colorizedpicture (presso Barletta) https://www.instagram.com/p/BteiW_Anicp/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1jfi5tnfq7lhd
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mydigitalartwork · 6 years ago
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Claudine Auger #colorized by @mydigitalartwork (born Claudine Oger; 26 April 1941) is a French actress best known for her role as #Bondgirl, Dominique "Domino" Derval, in the #JamesBond film #Thunderball (1965). She earned the title of #MissFrance Monde and was also the first runner-up in the 1958 Miss World contest. Jean Cocteau cast Auger in an uncredited role as a tall ballerina in Testament of #Orpheus (1960). When she was 18, she married the 43-year-old writer-director Pierre Gaspard-Huit, and he cast her in several films, including Le Masque de fer (1962) and Kali Yug: Goddess of Vengeance (1963). In 1966 she co-starred in the World War II drama Triple Cross with #YulBrynner and #ChristopherPlummer. When she was on holiday in #Nassau, writer-producer Kevin McClory saw her and recommended that she audition for his film Thunderball (1965). The most immediate byproduct of claudineauger stardom was a semi-nude #Playboy spread. Thunderball launched Auger into a successful European #movie career, but did little for her otherwise in the United States. She did however star in a Danny Thomas Special called ‘The Road to Lebanon’ with #BingCrosby which was shown on NBC on 20 April 1966. In 1968, she co-starred with another Bond girl, #UrsulaAndress, in the Italian comedy Anyone Can Play. In 1971, she starred with two future Bond girls, #BarbaraBach and #BarbaraBouchet, in Black Belly of the Tarantula, a giallo mystery. She had some roles in European films such as Triple Cross (1966) (reuniting her with her James Bond director Terence Young), and The Killing Game (1967). In 1994, Auger appeared in the British television series The Memoirs of #SherlockHolmes, in "The Three Gables" as Isadora Klein, in one of the last episodes of that series starring Jeremy Brett. https://www.instagram.com/p/Btb_3ANHmAb/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=xbzfq9gx2hvi
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mydigitalartwork · 6 years ago
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A #shot #bynight with my #xiaomiredminote5 #roma #palazzaccio #cortedicassazione #lungotevere #tordinona #xiaomi #phoneshot (presso Suprema Corte Di Cassazione) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtXv-oXnllL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=6enq7cdnb4n5
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mydigitalartwork · 6 years ago
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Istvanka "Istvan" Reiner #colorized by @mydigitalartwork #mydigitalartwork was the son of #Jewish parents Livia Vermes and Bela Reiner. Bela converted to #protestantism and their son #Istvanreiner was never #circumcised per the Jewish custom since she was no longer Jewish. Regardless, Istvan and his parents were deemed to be #Jews and were eventually placed in the #Miskolc #ghetto (Hungary). It wasn't long until they were sent to the concentration camps at #Auschwitz. Once there, Istvan and his mother were separated and he ended up in the care of his grandmother. He wasn't there long when he and his grandmother met the same #fate in the #gaschamber. 11,000 people from Miskolc were killed in the concentration camps along with Istan. Amazingly, his mother and brother survived the war and migrated to the #UnitedStates in #1947. Istvan's year of death may have been in #1943. #Hungarian #ww2 #warvictims https://www.instagram.com/p/BtMfXkxnbRZ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1fqcyh5xlu9ok
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mydigitalartwork · 6 years ago
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Margaret A. Nolan #colorized by @mydigitalartwork #mydigitalartwork (born 29 October 1943) is an English visual #artist, #actress and former #glamour model. She was born in Norton #Radstock, Somerset to an English mother and Irish father, and grew up in #Hampstead, London. #margaretNolan was married to English #playwright #TomKempinski in 1967 and divorced in 1972. She has two sons. Margaret Nolan began her career in front of a camera lens as a model. As her glamour modelling career took off, she was briefly known as Vicky Kennedy in the early #1960s. Nolan reverted to her birth name as soon as acting roles beckoned; appearing in numerous television #shows, #theatre productions and films. The latter included A Hard Day's Night with the #Beatles, Ferry Cross the Mersey with Gerry and the Pacemakers and Marcel Carné's Three Rooms in Manhattan. In 1964, Nolan played the small role of Dink, Bond's masseuse, in the #JamesBond film #Goldfinger. She was painted #gold and wore a gold #bikini for Robert Brownjohn's title-sequence, advertisements and soundtrack-cover (not Shirley Eaton as in the narrative of the film). This led to photographs in #Playboy magazine's #JamesBond's Girls edition of November 1965. #silverscreen #60smovies #jamesbondgirl #vintagelady #jamesbond007 https://www.instagram.com/p/BtJ94DhnBXU/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1g6cz6opqrwkm
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mydigitalartwork · 6 years ago
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#RitaHayworth #colorized by @mydigitalartwork and @lavy_rayzacher (born Margarita Carmen Cansino; October 17, 1918 – May 14, 1987) was an American actress and #dancer. She achieved #fame during the #1940s as one of the era's top stars, appearing in a total of 61 #films over 37 years. The press coined the term "The Love Goddess" to describe Hayworth after she had become the most #glamorous screen #idol of the 1940s. She was the top #pinup girl for GIs during #WorldWarII. Hayworth is perhaps best known for her performance in the 1946 film noir, #Gilda, opposite #GlennFord, in which she played the femme fatale in her first major dramatic role. #FredAstaire, with whom she made two films, called her his favorite dance partner. Her greatest success was in the #Technicolor musical Cover Girl (1944), with #GeneKelly. She is listed as one of the top 25 female motion picture stars of all time in the American Film Institute's survey, AFI's 100 Years...100 Stars. In 1980, Hayworth was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, which contributed to her death at age 68. The public disclosure and discussion of her illness drew attention to Alzheimer's, which was largely unknown by most people at the time, and helped to increase public and private funding for Alzheimer's research. #oldmovies #silverscreen https://www.instagram.com/p/BtHTRnkn8OR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1idk11khir694
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mydigitalartwork · 6 years ago
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#colorized by @mydigitalartwork #RalphFiennes Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes born 22 December 1962 is an English actor, film producer, and director. A #Shakespeare interpreter, he first achieved success onstage at the Royal National Theatre. Fiennes's portrayal of Nazi war criminal Amon Göth in Schindler's List (1993) earned him nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor, and he won the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. His performance as Count Almásy in The English Patient (1996) garnered him a second Academy Award nomination, for Best Actor, as well as BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations. #SchindlersList #ww2 #secondworldwar #stevenSpielberg #auschwitz #Totenkopf #Schutzstaffel #coloredphoto #historical #mydigitalartwork https://www.instagram.com/p/BtEGpPUH7Uy/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1r0zp5d4nh01e
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mydigitalartwork · 6 years ago
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Anna Mucha #colorized by @mydigitalartwork (born Anna Maria Mucha; 26 April 1980, Warsaw) is a #Polish #film and #television #actress and #journalist. She is best known to Western audiences as the character Danka Dresner (the little girl with the round glasses) in the film #SchindlersList directed by #StevenSpielberg. In #Poland she is known for her regular role in soap opera #Mjakmilosc (2003-present). The winner of the Polish version of 10th season of Dancing with the Stars - Taniec z Gwiazdami. In 2010 she became a member of the jury in the Polish version of So You Think You Can Dance (You can dance: Po prostu tancz). Mucha posed nude in the October 2009 Polish edition of #Playboy. #AnnaMucha was born and grew up in #Warsaw. She graduated from Stefan Batory Gymnasium and Lyceum in Warsaw in 1999 #colourized #filmforever #colorista #colored #ww2film #warmovie https://www.instagram.com/p/BtFAaYbHqXB/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=yo96ckjy1gay
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mydigitalartwork · 6 years ago
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An old Italian woman shows her gratitude to one of the American #soldiers following the liberation of Italy in #1945 The Italian Campaign of #WorldWarII consisted of the Allied operations in and around #Italy, from #1943 to the end of the war in Europe. Joint Allied Forces Headquarters (AFHQ) was operationally responsible for all Allied land forces in the Mediterranean theatre, and it planned and commanded the invasion of Sicily in July 1943, followed shortly thereafter in September by the invasion of the Italian mainland and the campaign on Italian soil until the surrender of the German Armed Forces in Italy in #May1945. It is estimated that between September 1943 and April 1945, some 60,000–70,000 Allied and 38,805-150,660 German soldiers died in Italy. Overall Allied casualties during the campaign totaled about 320,000 and the corresponding German figure (excluding those involved in the final surrender) was over 330,000. Fascist Italy, prior to its collapse, suffered about 200,000 casualties, mostly POWs taken in the Allied invasion of Sicily, including more than 40,000 killed or missing. Besides them, over 150,000 Italian civilians died, as did 35,828 anti-Fascist #partisans and some 35,000 #troops of the Italian Social Republic. In the West, no other campaign cost more than Italy in terms of lives lost and wounds suffered by infantry forces of both sides, during bitter small-scale fighting around strongpoints at the Winter Line, the Anzio beachhead and the #GothicLine. The campaign ended when Army Group C surrendered unconditionally to the Allies on May 2, 1945, one week before the formal German Instrument of Surrender. The independent states of San Marino and the Vatican, both surrounded by Italian territory, also suffered damage during the campaign. #blackandwhitephoto #colorized by @mydigitalartwork #mydigitalartwork #colorizedphoto #colorizedpicture #colorizedphotos #colorizedpictures #ww2 #history #warhistory #historicalphotos #secondworldwar a special thank's to @colors.of.time and @colorizedsuburbia (presso Rome, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtCW4WkHeY6/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=p0250qfgn90l
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mydigitalartwork · 6 years ago
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Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American #actor and director. #dustinhoffman is best known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and emotionally vulnerable characters. He is the recipient of various accolades including two Academy Awards, six Golden Globe Awards (including the Cecil B. DeMille Award), four BAFTAs, three Drama Desk Awards, two Emmy Awards, and a Genie Award. Hoffman received the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1999 and the Kennedy Center Honors Award in 2012. Hoffman first drew critical praise for starring in the play, Eh?, for which he won a Theatre World Award and a Drama Desk Award. This achievement was soon followed by his breakthrough 1967 film role as Benjamin Braddock, the title character in The Graduate. Since that time, Hoffman's career has largely been focused on the cinema, with sporadic returns to #television and to the stage. Hoffman's #films include Midnight Cowboy, Little Big Man, Straw Dogs, Papillon, Lenny, #marathonman, All the President's Men, #kramervskramer, #tootsie, Rain Man, Hook, and Wag the Dog. He made his directorial debut in 2012, with Quartet. In 2016, he won the International Emmy Award for Best Actor for his work on Roald Dahl's Esio Trot. #robertzemeckis #filmhistory #classicmovie #martinscorsese #merylstreep #tomcruise #thegraduate #rainman #blackandwhitephoto #colorized by @mydigitalartwork #mydigitalartwork #colorizedphoto #colorizedphotos #colorizedpicture #colorizedpictures (presso Los Angeles, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs_oH8aHzB5/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=74mih5csn29c
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mydigitalartwork · 6 years ago
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#JaneSeymour, OBE (born Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg; 15 February 1951), is an English-American #actress. Best known for her performances in the #JamesBond #film #LiveandLetDie (1973); #SomewhereInTime (1980); #EastofEden (1981); #TheScarletPimpernel (1982 film); #Onassis: The Richest Man in the World (1988); #WarandRemembrance (1988); the French epic La Révolution française (1989) as the ill-fated queen Marie Antoinette; Wedding Crashers (2005); and the American television series #DrQuinn, #MedicineWoman (1993–1998), she has earned an #EmmyAward, two #GoldenGlobe Awards and a #star on the #Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2000, she was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. Joyce Penelope Wilhelmina Frankenberg was born on 15 February 1951 in Hayes, England, to Mieke (van Tricht), a nurse, and Benjamin John Frankenberg FRCOG (1914–1990), a distinguished gynaecologist and obstetrician. Her father was Jewish; he was born in #England, to a family from Nowe Trzepowo, a village in #Poland. Her mother was a Dutch Protestant (with family from Deventer) who was a prisoner of war during #WorldWarII, and had lived in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia)...continue on #wikipedia #blackandwhitephoto #colorized by @mydigitalartwork #mydigitalartwork #colorizedphoto #colorizedphotos #colorizedpicture #colorizedpictures (presso England) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs-V97ynD7e/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=38nqou25bvb4
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mydigitalartwork · 6 years ago
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Phyllis Ann Davis (July 17,1940 September 27,2013) was an #American #actress who appeared primarily on #television. She was most notably a co star with the cast of the Aaron Spelling-produced dramatic series #Vega$, which was shot entirely on location in Las Vegas, #Nevada throughout its prime time run. Davis acted in the role of Beatrice Travis, secretary and Girl Friday of Dan Tanna (Robert Urich), the private investigator who was the show's main character. Davis appeared in all 66 prime-time episodes of the show. Vega$ aired from 1978 to 1981 on #ABC. #PhyllisDavis was born and raised in #Nederland, #Texas. Growing up, Phyllis and her family lived in her parent's mortuary business, in their home on the second floor. Davis recalled when a funeral service was being held, the children had to be very quiet on the second floor. Phyllis attended Lamar University, then went to Los Angeles in the mid-'60s. While in Los Angeles Davis attended acting classes at the Pasadena #Playhouse. Her #films include The Big Bounce (1969), Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970), Sweet Sugar (1972), Terminal Island (1973), The Day of the Dolphin (1973), The Choirboys (1977), The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch (1982) and Guns (1990). Davis appeared in guest roles on the prime time seriesLove, American Style (1969) for five seasons. Davis also appeared in television series such as Knight Rider; she acted out the role of the villainous Tanya Walker in its pilot installment, "Knight of the Phoenix." She had guest roles in Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., #Magnumpi, #TheLoveBoat, #FantasyIsland, #TheWildWildWest and was a regular performer in the vignettes in Love, American Style. She was in an episode of Adam-12 titled "You Blew It," in 1969. She was also a Match Game panelist on occasion and during her tenure on ABC's Vega$, appeared on a Battle of the Network Stars special. #blackandwhitephoto #colorized by @mydigitalartwork #mydigitalartwork #colorizedphoto #colorizedpicture https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs86wMpHRq8/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=z5d44tdh6ds1
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mydigitalartwork · 6 years ago
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#SharonMarieTate Polanski (January 24, 1943 – August 9, 1969) was an American #actress and #model. During the #1960s, she played small #television roles before appearing in #films and was regularly featured in #fashion magazines as a model and #covergirl. After receiving positive reviews for her comedic and dramatic acting performances, Tate was hailed as one of #Hollywood's most promising newcomers. She made her film debut in 1961 in #Barabbas with #AnthonyQuinn. She was seen next in 1966 with the occult-themed Eye of the Devil. Her most remembered performance was as Jennifer North in the 1967 cult classic film, #ValleyoftheDolls, earning her a #GoldenGlobe Award nomination. Tate's last completed film, 12+1, was released posthumously in 1969, with the actress receiving top billing. On January 20, 1968, Tate married #RomanPolanski, her director and co-star in 1967's The Fearless Vampire Killers. On August 9, 1969, Tate and four others were murdered by members of #theMansonFamily in the home she shared with Polanski. At the time of her death, she was eight-and-a-half months pregnant with the couple's son. A decade after Tate's murder, the actress' mother, #DorisTate, in response to the growing cult status of the killers and the possibility of them being granted parole, organized a public campaign that resulted in amendments to the California criminal law. Tate's mother went on to say that the law would "help transform Sharon's legacy from murder victim to a symbol of victims' rights". A book by Tate's sister, #DebraTate, titled #SharonTate: Recollection, was released in 2014. #blackandwhitephoto #colorized by @mydigitalartwork #mydigitalartwork #colorizedphoto #colorizedphotos #colorizedpicture #colorizedpictures https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs5xXIln34o/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1o9cocyva5xvv
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mydigitalartwork · 6 years ago
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*Buster keaton* Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966) was an American #actor, #comedian, #film director, producer, screenwriter, and stunt performer.  He was best known for his #silentfilms, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistently stoic, deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face". Critic Roger Ebert wrote of Keaton's "extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929, [when] he worked without interruption on a series of films that make him, arguably, the greatest actor–director in the history of the movies". His career declined afterward with a dispiriting loss of his artistic independence when he was hired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, his wife divorced him, and he descended into alcoholism. He recovered in the 1940s, remarried, and revived his career to a degree as an honored comic performer for the rest of his life, earning an Academy Honorary Award #busterkeaton #silentmovie #metrogoldenmayer #stoneface #stuntman #vintagemovies https://www.instagram.com/p/BkX0fnyj_7l/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1nljo5i1b27xd
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mydigitalartwork · 6 years ago
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Phyllis Ann Davis (July 17,1940 September 27,2013) was an #American #actress who appeared primarily on #television. She was most notably a co star with the cast of the Aaron Spelling-produced dramatic series #Vega$, which was shot entirely on location in Las Vegas, #Nevada throughout its prime time run. Davis acted in the role of Beatrice Travis, secretary and Girl Friday of Dan Tanna (Robert Urich), the private investigator who was the show's main character. Davis appeared in all 66 prime-time episodes of the show. Vega$ aired from 1978 to 1981 on #ABC. #PhyllisDavis was born and raised in #Nederland, #Texas. Growing up, Phyllis and her family lived in her parent's mortuary business, in their home on the second floor. Davis recalled when a funeral service was being held, the children had to be very quiet on the second floor. Phyllis attended Lamar University, then went to Los Angeles in the mid-'60s. While in Los Angeles Davis attended acting classes at the Pasadena #Playhouse. Her #films include The Big Bounce (1969), Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970), Sweet Sugar (1972), Terminal Island (1973), The Day of the Dolphin (1973), The Choirboys (1977), The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch (1982) and Guns (1990). Davis appeared in guest roles on the prime time seriesLove, American Style (1969) for five seasons. Davis also appeared in television series such as Knight Rider; she acted out the role of the villainous Tanya Walker in its pilot installment, "Knight of the Phoenix." She had guest roles in Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., #Magnumpi, #TheLoveBoat, #FantasyIsland, #TheWildWildWest and was a regular performer in the vignettes in Love, American Style. She was in an episode of Adam-12 titled "You Blew It," in 1969. She was also a Match Game panelist on occasion and during her tenure on ABC's Vega$, appeared on a Battle of the Network Stars special. #blackandwhitephoto #colorized by @mydigitalartwork #mydigitalartwork #colorizedphoto #colorizedpicture https://www.instagram.com/p/BswCgAtHRBi/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1fl4eqn7yr8fx
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mydigitalartwork · 6 years ago
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Patricia Lee Smith (born December 30, 1946) is an American #singer #songwriter, #poet, and #visualartist who became an influential component of the New York City #punkrock movement with her 1975 debut #albumHorses. Called the "punk poet laureate," #pattiSmith fused #rock and poetry in her work. Her most widely known song is "Because the Night," which was co-written with #BruceSpringsteen. It reached number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1978 and number five in the U.K. In 2005, Smith was named a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. In 2007, she was inducted into the #RockandRoll Hall of Fame. On November 17, 2010, Smith won the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids. The book fulfilled a promise she had made to her former long-time roommate and partner, #RobertMapplethorpe. She placed 47th in #RollingStone magazine's list of 100 Greatest #Artists published in December 2010 and was also a recipient of the 2011 #PolarMusicPrize. #blackandwhitephoto #colorized by @mydigitalartwork #mydigitalartwork #colorizedphoto #colorizedpicture #colorizedphotos #colorizedpictures https://www.instagram.com/p/BstlIImHN3I/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1anpdteeh8awh
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mydigitalartwork · 6 years ago
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#blackandwhitephoto #colorized by @mydigitalartwork #colorizedphoto #colorizedphotos #colorizedpicture #colorizedpictures Ursula Andress; born 19 March 1936 is a #Swiss #film and #television #actress, former #model and sex symbol, who has appeared in American, British and Italian films. She is best known for her breakthrough role as #Bondgirl #HoneyRyder in the first #JamesBond film, Dr. No. She later starred as Vesper Lynd in the James Bond film #CasinoRoyale. Her other films include The Southern Star, Fun in Acapulco, She, The 10th Victim, The Blue Max, Perfect Friday, The Sensuous Nurse, The Mountain of the Cannibal God, The Fifth Musketeer and Clash of the Titans. #ursulaandress, the third of six children, was born in Ostermundigen, Canton of Bern, Switzerland to a German couple, Anna, a landscape gardener, and Rolf Andress, a German diplomat who was expelled from Switzerland for political reasons. He disappeared during World War II. She has a brother and four sisters. She went to school in Berne until she was 16 and became fluent in French, German and #Italian. She studied art in Paris for a year, then went to #Rome, where she did jobs such as nannying children. Andress was at a party when she met a producer who offered her a screen test for a role in an Italian film. She was successful and appeared in The Sins of Casanova (1955) (starring later Bond ally Gabriele Ferzetti). She followed it with An American in Rome (1954) (starring #AlbertoSordi) and La catena dell'odio (1955). She was seen by a Hollywood executive who persuaded her to try her luck in Hollywood. Andress arrived in #Hollywood in January 1955. In March she was signed to a seven-year contract with #Paramount Pictures starting at $287 a week. The contract resulted in no acting roles due to her inability to learn English at the time. "I spent most of my time watching old #MarleneDietrich movies," she said. Andress did receive some publicity for dating #JamesDean shortly before the actor's death. She bought herself out of her contract. In March 1956 it was announced she signed to Columbia Pictures. She made no films for them either, and was #MissWorld Trade of 1956. #John Derek https://www.instagram.com/p/BsrIdgznXgF/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=15qmvkmge7l3f
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