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Discovering Film volume 1
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Peter O'Toole was one of Hollywood's most highly regarded actors. He was best known for playing T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia.
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Discovering Film volume 7
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Discovering Film, celebrates the lives of those who soared the highest. From Marlon Brando to Elizabeth Taylor, we uncover what drove them and why the world loved them. This episode focuses on Christopher Plummer.
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Discovering Film volume 9
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Discovering Film, celebrates the lives of those who soared the highest. From Marlon Brando to Elizabeth Taylor, we uncover what drove them and why the world loved them. This episode focuses on Karl Malden.
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Discovering Film volume 4
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Discovering Film, celebrates the lives of those who soared the highest. From Marlon Brando to Elizabeth Taylor, we uncover what drove them and why the world loved them. This episode focuses on Peter Lorre.
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Discovering Film volume 11
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Humphrey DeForest Bogart was an American actor and cultural icon.
Bogart began acting in 1921 and became a regular in Broadway productions in the 1920s and 1930s.
Bogart turned to film when the stock market crashed in 1929. His first great success was as Duke Mantee in The Petrified Forest (1936), and this led to a period of typecasting as a gangster with films such as Angels with Dirty Faces (1938).
Bogart's breakthrough as a leading man came...
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Discovering Film volume 2
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Discovering Film, celebrates the lives of those who soared the highest. From Marlon Brando to Elizabeth Taylor, we uncover what drove them and why the world loved them. This episode focuses on Lana Turner.
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Discovering Film volume 7
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Discovering Film, celebrates the lives of those who soared the highest. From Marlon Brando to Elizabeth Taylor, we uncover what drove them and why the world loved them. This episode focuses on Charlton Heston.
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Discovering Film volume 2
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Grace Patricia Kelly was an American actress who famously, in April 1956, married Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, The Princess of Monaco, and commonly referred to as Princess Grace.
This programme illustrates how her film roles provided a journey to become a Princess in the roles she chose.
After embarking on an acting career in 1950, at the age of 20, Grace Kelly appeared in New York City theatrical productions in more than forty episodes of live...
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Discovering Film volume 1
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Discovering Film, celebrates the lives of those who soared the highest. From Marlon Brando to Elizabeth Taylor, we uncover what drove them and why the world loved them. This episode focuses on Orson Welles.
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Discovering Film volume 12
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Burton Stephen "Burt" Lancaster was an American film actor noted for his athletic physique, blue eyes and distinctive smile (which he called "The Grin"). After initially building his career on "tough guy" roles Lancaster abandoned his "all-American" image in the late 1950s in favor of more complex and challenging roles, and came to be regarded as one of the best actors of his generation as a result.
Lancaster was nominated four times for Academy...
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Discovering Film volume 6
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Discovering Film, celebrates the lives of those who soared the highest. From Marlon Brando to Elizabeth Taylor, we uncover what drove them and why the world loved them. This episode focuses on Sidney Poitier.
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Discovering Film volume 1
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Discovering Film, celebrates the lives of those who soared the highest. From Marlon Brando to Elizabeth Taylor, we uncover what drove them and why the world loved them. This episode focuses on Jean Harlow.
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Discovering Film volume 5
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Discovering Film, celebrates the lives of those who soared the highest. From Marlon Brando to Elizabeth Taylor, we uncover what drove them and why the world loved them. This episode focuses on James Cagney.
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Discovering Film volume 2
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Discovering Film, celebrates the lives of those who soared the highest. From Marlon Brando to Elizabeth Taylor, we uncover what drove them and why the world loved them. This episode focuses on Greta Garbo.
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Discovering Film volume 12
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Discovering Film, celebrates the lives of those who soared the highest. From Marlon Brando to Elizabeth Taylor, we uncover what drove them and why the world loved them. This episode focuses on Rock Hudson.
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Discovering Film volume 13
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Discovering Film, celebrates the lives of those who soared the highest. From Marlon Brando to Elizabeth Taylor, we uncover what drove them and why the world loved them. This episode focuses on James Mason.
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Discovering Film volume 8
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A film industry phenomenon with an unparalleled cross-over appeal in both European and American cinema, Sophia Loren was equally at home playing gritty realism, in Two Women, as delivering frothy comedy opposite Cary Grant on a Houseboat. Loren's remarkable talent has been recognised with two Oscars and been immortalised in classics including, The Pride And The Passion, El Cid, Yesterday, Today And Tomorrow and Nine. Her 50-year marriage to film producer...
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Discovering Film volume 7
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Discovering Film, celebrates the lives of those who soared the highest. From Marlon Brando to Elizabeth Taylor, we uncover what drove them and why the world loved them. This episode focuses on Dirk Bogarde.
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Discovering Film volume 13
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Discovering Film, celebrates the lives of those who soared the highest. From Marlon Brando to Elizabeth Taylor, we uncover what drove them and why the world loved them. This episode focusess on Charles Bronson.
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Discovering Film volume 3
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Discovering Film, celebrates the lives of those who soared the highest. From Marlon Brando to Elizabeth Taylor, we uncover what drove them and why the world loved them. This episode focuses on Clint Eastwood.