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Frank Capra

Frank Capra was Hollywood's leading director in the mid-1930s and 1940s, when he won three best director Oscars in just five years for his films It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (…

Kristin Scott Thomas

Proud, fine-boned and just a bit remote, Kristin Scott Thomas jumped to international stardom as the gorgeous-but-doomed lover in 1996 Oscar champ The English Patient (also starring Juliette Binoche…

Liam Hemsworth

Liam Hemsworth is an Australian actor whose breakout screen role was as Gale, the childhood friend of protagonist Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence), in the 2012 film The Hunger Games. Liam…

Mel Blanc

Name at birth: Melvin Jerome BlankThe most famous voice talent in cartoon history, Mel Blanc was the Looney Tunes star who voiced Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and dozens of others. Blanc grew up…

Nancy Kwan

Name at birth: Kwan Ka ShenNancy Kwan was a ballet dancer in London before she made her acting debut in the hit movie The World of Suzie Wong (1960, with William Holden). Her second movie, Flower…

Zachary Quinto

Actor Zachary Quinto broke through with the role of serial mutant-killer Sylar on the TV series Heroes; he then played Mr. Spock in the 2009 film version of Star Trek (with Chris Pine as James T.…

Artie Shaw

Name at birth: Arthur ArshawskyArtie Shaw was a leading jazz clarinetist and big band leader of the mid-20th century. His hit 1938 recording of Begin the Beguine made him a popular rival to superstar…

Adam Brody

Actor Adam Brody is best known to American television viewers as adorably geeky Seth Cohen, from the series The O.C. He grew up in San Diego and began his acting career in the late 1990s, moving to…

Kelly Oxford

Kelly Oxford was a young Canadian mother whose successful Twitter account led to a career in Hollywood and a best-selling memoir, Everything is Perfect When You're a Liar (2013). Oxford grew up in…

Christina Hendricks

Christina Hendricks began playing Joan, the red-haired siren of the secretarial pool, on the TV show Mad Men in 2007. Her Kennedy-era curves and hot red lipstick made Hendricks an instant favorite…