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| Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers | first film together (1933) |
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Flying Down to Rio |
| Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall | first film together (1944) |
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To Have and Have Not |
| Michael Caine | first Hollywood film (1966) |
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Gambit |
| James Dean | first starring role (1955) |
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East of Eden |
| last film released in his lifetime (1955) |
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Rebel Without a Cause | |
| last film (1956) |
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Giant | |
| Kirk Douglas & Burt Lancaster | first on–screen collaboration (1986) |
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Tough guys |
| Errol Flynn | made famous (1935) as a physician turned pirate in |
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Captain Blood |
| Henry Fonda | last film (1981 – he won an Oscar for it) |
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On Golden Pond |
| Audrey Hepburn | became a star in (1953) |
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Roman Holiday |
| Laurel & Hardy | first film together (1921) |
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The Lucky Dog |
| Grace Kelly | first film (1951) |
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Fourteen Hours |
| first starring role (1952) |
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High Noon | |
| last film (1956) |
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High Society | |
| Heath Ledger | died (in January 2008) during filming of (film released in October 2009) | |
The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus |
| Shirley MacLaine | first film (directed by Hitchcock) |
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The Trouble with Harry |
| Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable | last film (for either of them) |
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The Misfits |
| Marilyn Monroe | Died during the making of |
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Something's Got to Give |
| Paul Newman | last "live action" film (i.e. excluding voice roles): 2002 crime thriller directed by Sam Mendes, also starring Tom Hanks and Jude Law |
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The Road to Perdition |
| Elvis Presley | first film (1956) |
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Love me Tender |
| Ronald Reagan | last film (1964) |
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The Killers |
| Oliver Reed | died during filming of |
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Gladiator |
| Cliff Richard | first starring role (1959) – based on the stage musical of the same title; see also below |
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Expresso Bongo |
| Edward G. Robinson | became a star (1930) in |
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Little Caesar |
| Omar Sharif | first leading role |
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Sherif Ali |
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Lawrence of Arabia | |
| Elizabeth Taylor | became a child star (1944) in |
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National Velvet |
| Spencer Tracy | last film (1967) |
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Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner |
| John Wayne | first film appearance (as an extra – 1926) |
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Brown of Harvard |
| first credited, as Duke Morrison (1929) |
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Words and Music | |
| first starring role (1930) |
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The Big Trail | |
| the film that made him a star (1939 – his 83rd!) |
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Stagecoach | |
| role in Stagecoach |
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The Ringo Kid | |
| 184th and last film (1976) |
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The Shootist |
| Breakthrough role was in Spielberg's Empire of the Sun (1987), as Jamie (Jim) Graham – the central character |
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Christian Bale |
| Last appearance was in The Harder they Fall (1956) |
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Humphrey Bogart |
| Film debut in Lady Jane (1984) |
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Helena Bonham–Carter |
| Already an acclaimed theatre actress, shot to fame when chosen by Chaplin to star opposite him in Limelight (1951) |
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Claire Bloom |
| Breakthrough acting role came in the 2007 action movie 300 |
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Gerard Butler |
| Became a star in Public Enemy (1931) |
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James Cagney |
| First major role was Lt. Gonville Bromhead in Zulu |
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Michael Caine |
| First film appearance was as a con-man called Edgar English, who runs foul of the Keystone Cops, in Making a Living (1914) |
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Charlie Chaplin |
| Last film Monkeys Go Home (1967, aged 79); died Paris 1972 |
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Maurice Chevalier |
| First major film role was as Liz in Billy Liar (1963) |
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Julie Christie |
| Debut in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962) |
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Tom Courtenay |
| Last film role was Mr. Bridger, the jailed criminal mastermind, in The Italian Job (1969) |
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Noel Coward |
| Debut as one of Freddy Krueger’s victims in Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) |
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Johnny Depp |
| Debut was the female lead, as gangster's moll Tina Carlyle (later Jim Carrey's love interest) in The Mask (1994) |
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Cameron Diaz |
| Shot to stardom by The Blue Angel, 1930 |
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Marlene Dietrich |
| Rose to fame as The Man with No Name (in A Fistful of Dollars, 1964) |
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Clint Eastwood |
| Last starring role was as himself in Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941) |
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W. C. Fields |
| Last film was Cuban rebel girls (1959) – a semi–documentary tribute to Castro |
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Errol Flynn |
| Last film was Two–faced woman (1941) |
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Greta Garbo |
| Debut aged 15 in Whoopee (1930) |
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Betty Grable |
| Debut aged 61 in The Maltese Falcon |
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Sidney Greenstreet |
| Fourteen hours: first film of |
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Grace Kelly |
| Brothers (not twins) who made their film debuts in the title roles of The Krays (1990). Previously bass and guitar players, respectively, in Spandau Ballet |
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Martin & Gary Kemp |
| Debut as "pleasantly plump" teenager Tracy Turnblad in the original version of Hairspray (1988); best known for her TV talk show (1993-2004) |
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Ricki Lake |
| Debut in The Killers (1946), based ona Hemingway short story; last appearance was as a former baseball player in Field of Dreams (1994); died in October 1994, aged 80 |
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Burt Lancaster |
| Former model, made her acting debut in the title role of The Woman in Red (1984) |
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Kelly LeBrock |
| Remains best known for her debut as 16–year–old Lynda Mansell in Wish You Were Here (1987) | |
Emily Lloyd |
| Debut as Jane in Greystoke (1984); voice dubbed by Glenn Close |
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Andi MacDowell |
| The Blob: first starring role for |
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Steve McQueen |
| The Cocoanuts (first, 1929); Love Happy (1949 – the last one in which they starred and appeared together) |
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The Marx brothers |
| First major role was as a robber on parole in the feminist road movie Thelma & Louise (1991) |
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Brad Pitt |
| First film appearance was in No Way Out (1950) |
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Sidney Poitier |
| The Invisible Man (1933): title role was the first starring role for |
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Claud Rains |
| Serious Charge (1959) is notable for the screen acting debut (in a minor supporting role as Curley, the younger brother of petty criminal Larry Thompson) of |
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Cliff Richard |
| The part of 13–year–old Briony Tallis in Atonement (2007) was the breakthrough role for 12–year–old |
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Saoirse Ronan |
| Made her debut in The Outlaw (1943) – producer and director Howard Hughes designed a special bra to showcase her ample breasts, although she later claimed that she didn't actually wear it during filming |
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Jane Russell |
| Conan the Barbarian was the first leading role for |
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Arnold Schwarzenegger |
| French actress: first achieved international recognition for her lead role in Amélie (2001) |
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Audrey Tautou |
| A Kiss for Corliss (1949 – she was 21): last film of |
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Shirley Temple |
| Scottish ballet dancer: film debut in The Red Shoes |
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Moira Shearer |
| Rose to stardom in the title role of Mr. Smith goes to Washington (1939) |
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James Stewart |
| Shot to stardom in Body Heat (1981) |
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Kathleen Turner |
| Shot to stardom in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) |
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Rudolf Valentino |
| Made his Hollywood debut in 1965, as Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told (died in 2020, aged 90) |
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Max von Sydow |
| First Hollywood role was as the narrator of The Swiss Family Robinson (1940) |
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Orson Welles |
| Last appearance was as himself in the comedy Someone to Love (released in 1987, two years after his death) | ||
| Swam to fame in Bathing Beauty |
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Esther Williams |
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