Mark Serrurier is the son of Dutch-born electrical engineer, Iwan Serrurier, who created the Moviola in 1924 which became the technology used for film editing. Mark was a graduate of Caltech and went on to work on designs for the Mt. Palomar 200
Mark Stevens
Mark Stevens was an American actor. Born Richard William Stevens in Cleveland, Ohio, he first studied to become a painter before becoming active in theater work. He then launched a radio career as an announcer in Akron, Ohio.
Moving to Hollywood, he became a Warner Brothers contract actor at $100 a week in 1943. The studio darkened and straightened his curly ginger-colored hair and covered his freckles. At first he was billed as Stephen Richards, but it was changed to Mark Stevens at the suggestion of Darryl Zanuck when he moved to 20th Century Fox.
Stevens emerged as a film noir leading man in such films as Within These Walls and The Dark Corner, the latter pairing him with Lucille Ball. He played an FBI man going undercover to arrest a gangster played by Richard Widmark in The Street with No Name, and appeared as Olivia de Havilland’s loyal husband in The Snake Pit. Stevens also performed in musicals including I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now? and Oh, You Beautiful Doll. From 1954-1956, he played a newspaper managing editor in the CBS series Big Town, having replaced Patrick McVey, who starred in the role from 1950-1954.
Mark Wahlberg
ACTOR MARK WAHLBERG HONORED WITH 2,414th STAR ON THE HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME
Emcee Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, President/CEO Leron Gubler
Guest speaker: Will Ferrell
WHERE: 6259 Hollywood Boulevard in front of Dillon's Irish Pub
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Mark Wahlberg was honored with a star in the motion picture category on July 29, at 11:30 a.m. The star ceremony coincides with the release of Sony Pictures' action-comedy The Other Guys, in which Wahlberg stars opposite Will Ferrell and will open nationwide on August 6. Director David O' Russell will be guest speaker at the event.
Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg, the youngest of Alma & Donald Wahlberg's nine children, was born June 5, 1971 in Dorchester, a neighborhood in Boston, Massachusetts.
Wahlberg's remarkable film career began with Penny Marshall's Renaissance Man and The Basketball Diaries with Leonardo DiCaprio, followed by a star turn opposite Reese Witherspoon in the thriller Fear. He has enjoyed playing diverse characters for visionary filmmakers such as David O. Russell, Tim Burton and Paul Thomas Anderson. His breakout role in Boogie Nights established Wahlberg as one of Hollywood's most sought-after talents. He later headlined Three Kings and The Perfect Storm with George Clooney and The Italian Job with Charlize Theron. He then starred in the football biography Invincible with Greg Kinnear, and in Shooter, based on the best-selling novel Point of Impact. He reunited with The Yards director James Gray and co-star Joaquin Phoenix in We Own the Night, which he also produced. In 2008, he starred in M. Night Shyamalan's The Happening and also in Max Payne.
Wahlberg earned Academy Award® and Golden Globe nominations for his standout performance in Martin Scorsese's acclaimed drama The Departed.
He appeared recently in director Peter Jackson's adaptation of The Lovely Bones and in a cameo role in the comedy Date Night. Later this year, he will star in The Fighter for director David O. Russell.
Wahlberg is also executive producer of the HBO series "Entourage," "In Treatment," and "How to Make It in America," for which he has received six Golden Globe and three Emmy nominations. "Boardwalk Empire," his next producing project with Martin Scorsese, will premiere on HBO this fall.
A committed philanthropist, in 2001 he founded the Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation which benefits inner-city youth.
Marlee Matlin
Oscar Winning actress Marlee Matlin was honored with the 2,383rd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Leron Gubler, President and CEO of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce presided over the ceremony. Guests included actor Henry Winkler, Anne Sweeney, President of Disney-ABC Television Group, actresses Marrissa Jaret Winokur and Jennifer Beals, and Fabian Sanchez, Matlin's partner on "Dancing with the Stars." Children from The International Center of Deafness & the Arts performed a song for Matlin and guests.
6667 Hollywood Boulevard on May 6, 2009.
BIOGRAPHY
Marlee Matlin received worldwide critical acclaim for her film debut in Paramount Pictures' "Children of a Lesser God," for which she received the Academy Award for Best Actress. At 21, she became the youngest recipient of the Best Actress Oscar and only one of four actresses to receive the honor for her film debut. In addition to the Oscar, Marlee received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama.
Marlee followed her debut with "Walker" starring opposite Ed Harris, filmed in Nicaragua. While filming there, Marlee took time to visit Deaf and hard of hearing children, as she has continued to so throughout her travels worldwide. Since then, Marlee starred in the features, "The Player," "Hear No Evil," in the AIDS drama "It's My Party, " and "What the Bleep Do We Know."
Marlee made her TV debut starring opposite Lee Remick in CBS' "Bridge to Silence," a film that marked her first speaking role. She went on to star in other tele-films including "Against Her Will: The Carrie Buck Story," "Dead Silence," "Freak City," "Where the Truth Lies," and Hallmark Hall of Fame's "Sweet Nothing in my Ear." Marlee also starred in her own NBC series "Reasonable Doubts" opposite Mark Harmon and the Emmy Award winning "Picket Fences" for CBS. Marlee was twice nominated for both a Golden Globe Award as Best Actress in a Drama as well as the People's Choice Awards and has been nominated for four Emmy awards for her guest appearances on "Seinfeld, "Picket Fences," "The Practice" and "Law and Order: SVU." Marlee also starred for seven years on the award winning drama, "The West Wing, " and has made numerous guest appearances including "ER," Desperate Housewives," CSI: New York," "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" and "Desperate Housewives." In 2007, she joined the cast of the groundbreaking Showtime series, "The L Word" and in 2008 challenged America to "Read My Hips" when she starred on ABC's "Dancing with the Stars."
In 1994, Marlee was appointed by President Clinton to the Corporation for National Service and served as Chairperson for National Volunteer Week and was honored in a Rose Garden ceremony. Marlee currently serves as a national celebrity spokesperson for The American Red Cross and was instrumental in getting legislation passed in Congress in support of Closed Captioning. She also serves on the boards of a number of charitable organizations including The Children Affected by AIDS Foundation and Easter Seals. She has received numerous awards for her charity work and was chosen as America On Line's "Chief Everything Officer." She has authored three novels for children, "Deaf Child Crossing," "Nobody's Perfect" and "Leading Ladies" and in 2009, published her New York Times Best Selling autobiography, "I'll Scream Later."
Marlene Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich was a German-American actress and singer.
Dietrich remained popular throughout her long career by continually re-inventing herself. In 1920s Berlin, she acted on the stage and in silent films. Her performance as Lola-Lola in The Blue Angel, directed by Josef von Sternberg, brought her international fame and a contract with Paramount Pictures in the US. Hollywood films such as Shanghai Express and Desire capitalised on her glamour and exotic looks, cementing her stardom and making her one of the highest paid actresses of the era. Dietrich became a US citizen in 1939; during World War II, she was a high-profile frontline entertainer. Although she still made occasional films in the post-war years, Dietrich spent most of the 1950s to the 1970s touring the world as a successful show performer.
In 1999 the American Film Institute named Dietrich the ninth greatest female star of all time.
Dietrich was born Marie Magdalene Dietrich on 27 December 1901 in Schöneberg, a district of Berlin, Germany. She was the younger of two daughters of Louis Erich Otto Dietrich and Wilhelmina Elisabeth Josephine Dietrich. Dietrich's mother was from a well-to-do Berlin family who owned a clockmaking firm and her father was a police lieutenant. Her father died in 1911. His best friend, Eduard von Losch, an aristocrat first lieutenant in the Grenadiers courted Wilhelmina and eventually married her in 1916, but he died soon after as a result of injuries sustained during World War I.
Marlin Hurt
Marlin Hurt was an American stage entertainer and radio actor who was best known for originating the dialect comedy role of Beulah made famous on the Fibber McGee and Molly program and the first season of the Beulah radio series.
A saxophone player and vocalist, Hurt was once a singer with the Vincent Lopez band before becoming part of a vocal trio with Bud and Gordon Vandover billed as "Tom, Dick, and Harry".
When the act was dissolved due to Bud Vandover's death in 1943, Hurt became a solo performer with a combination of saxophone and dialect humor.
Hurt's inspiration for the Beulah voice was an African-American woman named Mary who cooked for his family. While he was using this characterization on The Fred Brady Show, the summer, 1943 replacement for The Bob Burns Show on NBC, Fibber McGee writer Don Quinn "discovered" Hurt for a widespread audience, and cast Hurt/Beulah as the McGees' maid on what was one of the highest rated radio programs.
Marion Martin
Marion Martin was an American movie and stage actress.
Martin was born, Marion Suplee in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of a Bethlehem Steel executive. She became an actress after her family fortune was lost in the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and appeared in the Broadway productions Lombardi Ltd. and Sweet Adeline. She made her film debut in She’s My Lillie, I’m Her Willie and subsequently played minor roles, often as showgirls. Several of her early roles were in musicals and she achieved some success as a singer.
By the end of the decade she had played leading female roles in several “B” pictures, playing one of her most notable roles in James Whale’s Sinners in Paradise. Despite her success she was often cast in minor roles in more widely seen films such as His Girl Friday. The majority of her roles were in comedies but she also appeared in dramas such as Boomtown in which she played a dance hall singer who is briefly romanced by Clark Gable. She played secondary roles in a three Lupe Velez “Mexican Spitfire” films in the early 1940s, and was the comic foil for the Marx Brothers in The Big Store, where the back of her skirt is cut away by Harpo. She played a ghost in Gildersleeves Ghost, and was the subject of a legendary fistfight between Gildersleeve star Harold Peary and Warner Bros studio mogul Bud Stevens at the Mocambo nightclub in 1943. Her more substantial roles included Alice Angel, a dizzy showgirl, in the murder mystery Lady of Burlesque with Barbara Stanwyck and Angel on My Shoulder. She also appeared in The Big Street with Lucille Ball.
By the late 1940s, her roles were often minor. Three Stooges fans will remember her as western cowgirl Gladys in Merry Mavericks. Shortly afterward, she made her final film appearance in 1952. Married to a physicist, Martin retired, and although she expressed the desire to return to show business, suitable roles were not offered to her.
Marjorie Rambeau
Marjorie Rambeau was an American film and stage actress.
Rambeau was born in San Francisco, California. She began performing on the stage at the age of 12.
In her youth she was a Broadway leading lady. In 1921, Dorothy Parker memorialized her in verse:
Her few silent film roles such as Mary Moreland, The Dazzling Miss Davison, The Mirror, The Debt, Motherhood and The Greater Woman were not major successes. By the time talkies came along she was in her early forties and she began to take on character roles in films such as Min and Bill, The Secret Six, Laughing Sinners, Grand Canary, Palooka, and Primrose Path, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Marjorie Reynolds
Marjorie Reynolds was an American film actress. She appeared in more than 70 films.
Born Marjorie Goodspeed, in Buhl, Idaho, as her parents made the cross-country trip from Maine to settle in California, she was featured as a child actress
in silent films such as Scaramouche. Her first speaking role was in Murder in Greenwich Village. She also appeared in bit parts in many A-pictures including Gone with the Wind. A stand-out role for Reynolds was as the waitress and loyal girlfriend opposite wrongly-accused Richard Cromwell in Universal Pictures’s anti-Nazi action drama entitled, Enemy Agent. That same year, in The Fatal Hour, Reynolds appeared for Monogram Pictures as a reporter on the trail of Boris Karloff’s detective James Lee Wong, and opposite Grant Withers as a cop. Her later films included Holiday Inn, Fritz Lang’s Ministry of Fear and Up in Mabel’s Room. Her career progression was hindered by the premature death of her mentor, Mark Sandrich.
Mark & Brian
The Mark & Brian Show is an American radio talk show hosted by Mark Thompson and Brian Phelps, known on the air as “Mark & Brian.” The syndicated program originates weekday mornings from KLOS-FM in Los Angeles, California, and blends comedy sketches, listener phone calls, interviews with in-studio guests, and the occasional road trip.
In 1985, Thompson was working as a disc jockey when he was introduced to Phelps, whose background was in improvisational comedy. Their first joint on-air appearance was on WAPI-FM in Birmingham, Alabama. An offer to move west and take over the morning slot at KLOS culminated in the premiere of The Mark & Brian Show in September 1987.
Mark & Brian are two-time winners of the Billboard Magazine “Air Personalities of the Year” award, and received a 1991 National Association of Broadcasters Marconi Award as “Air Personalities of the Year.” They have also received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The Mark & Brian Show includes various sketches and annual events. Popular sketches include “The Red Carpet Minute” with Edward Gordon, “Miniature Theater”, and other celebrity-based sketches. In 2006, they conducted a reality TV-based contest called “Two Strangers and a Wedding,” in which single women auditioned to be the bride, then chose from five male finalists to marry–without ever meeting prior to the wedding. In 2007, the concept was modified to “Three Strangers and a Wedding,” in which the bride chose two of the five male finalists to come to the wedding. Upon meeting the bride at the wedding, the grooms had the option of proposing to the bride, who could then accept either proposal or decline them both. Both resulting marriages were brief, and ended in divorce.