Stardom research project

Work in pairs

Choose a star:

Steve McQueen

Audrey Hepburn

Judy Garland

John Wayne

Elizabeth Taylor

James Dean

Marlon Brando

Cary Grant

Humphrey Bogart

Paul Newman

James Stewart

Gregory Peck

Bette Davis

Lesson 1,

Do some research about their star persona. Questions to consider:

1. What kinds of roles did they play?

American actor (The King of cool)

2. Who did they work with? Are they associated with any studio/director etc?

          

Movie: The Thomas Crown Affair

Actor: Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke, Jack Weston,  

Studio: Solar Production, simkoe

Director: Norman Jewison

3. What awards did they win?

4. What are their most memorable performances?

    The Great Escape (1963), Bullitt (1968)

5. What notable information do you know about their real lives?

He was married a actress(1973), McQueen was married three times and had two          children. On November 2, 1956, he married actress Neile Adams,[46] by whom he had a daughter, Terry Leslie (June 5, 1959 – March 19, 1998[47]), and a son, Chad (born December 28, 1960).

He died from malignant Mesotheliom

6. In what way do their roles cross over from their real lives?

             

            

7. Anything else?

8. Find some examples of clips/pictures?