Monday, June 5, 2023
Simon MacCorkindale
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| Simon Charles Pendered MacCorkindale was a British actor, film director, writer and producer. MacCorkindale spent much of his childhood moving around due to his father's commission with the Royal Air Force. |
Deborah Kerr
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Deborah Kerr CBE; (30 September 1921 – 16 October 2007) was a Scottish-born film, theatre and television actress. During her career, she won a Golden Globe for her performance as Anna Leonowens in the motion picture The King and I (1956) and the Sarah Siddons Award for her performance as Laura Reynolds in the play Tea and Sympathy (a role she originated on Broadway). She was also a three-time winner of the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress.
Kerr was nominated six times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, more than any other actress without ever winning. In 1994, however, having already received honorary awards from the Cannes Film Festival and BAFTA, she received an Academy Honorary Award with a citation recognising her as "an artist of impeccable grace and beauty, a dedicated actress whose motion picture career has always stood for perfection, discipline and elegance". As well as The King and I, her films include An Affair to Remember; From Here to Eternity; Quo Vadis; The Innocents; Black Narcissus; Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison; King Solomon's Mines; The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp; The Sundowners and Separate Tables.
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Carmen Miranda
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| Carmen Miranda, GCIH • OMC, February 9, 1909 – August 5, 1955 was a Luso-Brazilian[2] samba singer, dancer, Broadway actress, and film star who was popular from the 1930s to the 1950s. |
Celebrities and the dapple gangers
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| Two Forward Thinking Gentlemen Jon Stewart and Henry Ward Beecher |
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| Soccer Star Mesut Ozil and Enzo Ferrari Could Be the Same Guy |
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| Sacha Baron Cohen as Borat is a Dead Ringer for Stalin |
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| Queen Latifah and Writer Zora Neale Hurston Might as Well Be Twins |
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| Rupert Grint Looks Great Dressed as Painter Sir David Wilkie |
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| Pope Gregory IX and Sylvester Stallone – Italian Doppelgängers |
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| Painter Louis-Maurice Boutet Is Really the Immortal Keanu Reeves |
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| Orlando Bloom and Painter-Writer Nicolae Grigorescu Are Cut from the Same Cloth |
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| Jimmy Fallon Is the Spitting Image of Turkish Revolutionist Mahir Cayan |
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| Hugh Grant and Oscar Wilde Could Be Twins |
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| Hermann Rorschach Reincarnated as Brad Pitt |
Muhammad Ali
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| Muhammad Ali; with his larger than life persona, athletic ability, and accomplishments there are many photos of him that are considered iconic. Because of this there are many that slip through the cracks. This is one such gem; it shows Ali literally sitting on a million dollars in 1963. The best aspect of the photo is his facial expression. |
Louis Armstrong plays a song for his wife while in Egypt in 1961
Louis Armstrong plays a song for his wife while in Egypt in 1961. The Sphinx seems to be enjoying it too. He’s not singing along because he doesn’t know the words.
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