Charles Farrell was an American film actor of the 1920s silent era and into the 1930s, and later a television actor. Farrell is probably best recalled for his onscreen romances with actress Janet Gaynor in more than a dozen films, including Seventh Heaven, Street Angel, and Lucky Star.

Born in Walpole, Massachusetts, Farrell began his career in Hollywood as a bit player for Paramount Pictures. Farrell did extra work for films ranging from The Hunchback of Notre Dame with Lon Chaney, Sr., Cecil B. DeMille’s The Ten Commandments, and The Cheat with Pola Negri.

Farrell continued to work throughout the next few years in relatively minor roles without much success until he was signed by Fox Studios and was paired with fellow newcomer Janet Gaynor in the romantic drama Seventh Heaven. The film was a public and critical success and Farrell and Gaynor would go on to star opposite one another in more than a dozen films throughout the late 1920s and into the talkie era of the early 1930s. Unlike many of his silent screen peers, Farrell had little difficulty with “voice troubles” and remained a publicly popular actor throughout the sound era.

During the early 1950s, after his career in motion pictures began to slow, Farrell began appearing on the television series My Little Margie. The series ran from 1952 to 1955 and Farrell starred opposite actress Gale Storm, who played his daughter. In 1956 Farrell hosted in his own television program, The Charles Farrell Show.

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Cate Blanchett was honored with the 2,376th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Leron Gubler, President and CEO of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, presided over the ceremony. Guests included Steven Spielberg, Kathleen Kennedy, and David Fincher.

6712 Hollywood Boulevard on December 5, 2008.

BIOGRAPHY

Cate Blanchett was born on the 14th of May, 1969, in Melbourne, Australia to a Texas Navy officer and a school teacher. Blanchett attended Melbourne's Methodist Ladies College (where she became the school drama captain and appeared in various plays), and from there went on to Melbourne University to study Fine Arts and Economics. She decided to leave school to travel and to gain experience before deciding on a career. She later went on to graduate from Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art.

Cate Blanchett has worked extensively in the theater, with Company B, a loose ensemble of actors including Geoffrey Rush, Gillian Jones and Richard Roxburgh. Her roles include: Miranda ("The Tempest"), Ophelia ("Hamlet" -for which she was nominated for a Green Room Award), Nina ("The Seagull") and Rose ("The Blind Giant is Dancing").

For the Sydney Theater Company (STC) she appeared in "Top Girls", David Mamet's "Oleanna" (awarded The Sydney Theater Critics Award for Best Actress), "Sweet Phoebe", "Kafka Dances" (also for The Griffin Theatre Company) for which she received the Critics Circle award for best newcomer.

Her television credits include lead roles in "Bordertown" and "Heartland," both for the Australian Broadcasting Commission.

Cate's film roles include "Paradise Road," "Thank God He Met Lizzie," "Oscar and Lucinda" opposite Ralph Fiennes. This role earned her an AFI nomination for Best Actress. She went on to work in the following films: "Pushing Tin," "An Ideal Husband", "The Talented Mr. Ripley," "The Gift," "The Man Who Cried," "Bandits," "An Ideal Husband," "The Shipping News," "Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring," "Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers." Our honoree went on to win the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama and a BAFTA for Best Actress in a leading role for her portrayal of Queen Elizabeth in the critically acclaimed "Elizabeth." She also received a Best Actress nomination from the Screen Actors Guild and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

In 2002, Cate was also seen in the title role of "Charlotte Gray," directed by Gillian Armstrong and based on Sebastian Faulks' best-selling novel. Cate also appeared in "Heaven," opposite Giovanni Ribisi and directed by Tom Tykwer, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival where the film was awarded the Golden Camera Award.

In 2003, Cate was seen in "Veronica Guerin." Her performance earned her a Golden Globe nomination in the category of Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama and a nomination by the Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association for Best Actress. The film was released in October, 2003. She also starred in the Columbia Pictures' thriller, "The Missing," opposite Tommy Lee Jones for director Ron Howard. The film was released in November, 2003.

In early 2004, Cate appeared in the film "Coffee & Cigarettes". In this United Artists release, Cate played two roles – herself and the role of her cousin. Her performances earned her a Best Supporting Female nomination for the 2005 Independent Spirit Awards.

In July, 2004, Cate returned to the Sydney Theatre Company to play the title role in Andrew Upton's adaptation of "Hedda Gabler." The play was a critical success earning her the prestigious Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Play. She also starred in her first Australian film in several years, "Little Fish," directed by Rowan Woods, for which she was awarded Best Actress by the Australian Film Institute.

Cate received an Academy Award for her portrayal as Katharine Hepburn in "The Aviator," directed by Martin Scorsese. She was also honored with the BAFTA Award and a SAG Award for her role in this 2004 release.

In 2006 Cate was seen in "Babel," opposite Brad Pitt. The film received a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Academy Award and a SAG Ensemble Award. Cate was also seen in "The Good German," costarring with George Clooney. She received a Golden Globe nomination, a SAG nomination and an Academy Award nomination for "Notes on A Scandal," opposite Judi Dench. Also in 2006, Cate and her husband, Andrew Upton, were named co-directors of the Sydney Theatre Company. Their debut season begins in 2009.

In 2007, Cate reprised her role as Queen Elizabeth in Shekhar Kapur's "Elizabeth: The Golden Age" for Universal. She was recognized with several award nominations for "Best Actress" by organizations including the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Screen Actors Guild, BAFTA and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Cate is one of only five actors in the history of the Oscars to receive a nomination for portraying the same role in two different films. Also in 2007, Cate co-starred with Christian Bale, Richard Gere and Heath Ledger in Todd Haynes' "I'm Not There," for which she was awarded Best Actress at the Venice International Film Festival. Additionally, Cate received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, an Independent Spirit Award for Best Actress and nominations by the Broadcast Film Critics Association, British Academy of Film, the Screen Actors Guild and The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

Cate was seen alongside Harrison Ford and Shia LaBeouf in the fourth installment of the "Indiana Jones" franchise, directed by Steven Spielberg.

Cathy Downs was an American film actress. Born in Port Jefferson, New York, Downs began her film career with a small role in The Dolly Sisters and the following year played the title role in My Darling Clementine. Following the success of the latter, Downs was cast in a prison drama For You I Die, an Abbott & Costello comedy The Noose Hangs High, and several western films.

By the beginning of the 1950s she was appearing in lower budget films, including some science fiction films, with one of these films Missile to the Moon marking her last screen appearance, in 1958.

She worked sporadically in television during the 1960s but was unemployed for several years before her death in Los Angeles, California.

Downs has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Television, at 6646 Hollywood Boulevard.

Sir Cedric Webster Hardwicke was a noted English actor.

Hardwicke was born in Lye, West Midlands, the son of Dr. Edwin Webster Hardwicke by his spouse Jessie. He attended Bridgnorth Grammar School in Shropshire and then trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He made his first appearance on stage at London's Lyceum Theatre in 1912 during the run of Frederick Melville's melodrama The Monk and the Woman, when he took up the part of Brother John. During that year he was at Her Majesty's Theatre understudying, and subsequently appeared at the Garrick Theatre in Charles Klein's play Find the Woman, and Trust the People. In 1913 he joined Benson's Company and toured in the provinces, South Africa, and Rhodesia. During 1914 he toured with Miss Darragh in Laurence Irving's play The Unwritten Law, and he appeared at the Old Vic in 1914 as Malcolm in Macbeth, Tranio in The Taming of the Shrew, gravedigger in Hamlet, etc.

From 1914 to 1921 he served with the British Army in France. In January 1922 he joined the Birmingham Repertory Company. He played many classical roles on stage, appearing at London's top theatres, making his name on the stage performing works by George Bernard Shaw, who said that Hardwicke was his fifth favourite actor after the four Marx Brothers. As one of the leading Shavian actors of his generation, Hardwicke starred in such Shavian works as Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, The Apple Cart, Candida, Too True to Be Good, and Don Juan in Hell, making such an impression that at age 41 he became one of the youngest actors to be knighted. Other stage successes included The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse, Antigone and A Majority of One, winning a Tony Award nomination for his performance as a Japanese diplomat. In 1928 he married English actress Helena Pickard.

His first appearance in an English film was in 1931. In December 1935, Cedric Hardwicke was elected Rede Lecturer to Cambridge University for 1936. In 1939 Hardwicke was in Hollywood for film work there. He played Dr. David Livingstone opposite Spencer Tracy's Henry Morton Stanley in the 1939 film Stanley and Livingstone and was also memorable that year as Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, with Charles Laughton as Quasimodo. He also starred in The Ghost of Frankenstein. He continued his stage career touring and in New York.

Celeste Holm is an American stage, film, and television actress, known for her Academy Award-winning performance in Gentleman’s Agreement, as well as for her Oscar-nominated performances in Come to the Stable and All About Eve. Born and raised in New York City, Holm grew up as an only child. She attended Friends Seminary. Her mother, Jean Parke, was an American portrait artist and author; her father, Theodor Holm, was a Norwegian insurance adjuster for Lloyd’s of London. Holm studied acting at the University of Chicago before becoming a stage actress in the late 1930s following a brief first marriage, which produced her first child, son Ted Nelson.

Holm’s first professional theatrical role was in a production of Hamlet starring Leslie Howard. Holm’s first major Broadway part was as Mary L. in William Saroyan’s 1940 revival of The Time of Your Life co-starring fellow newcomer Gene Kelly. The role that got her the most recognition from critics and audiences was as Ado Annie in the flagship production of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! in 1943.

After she starred in the Broadway production of Bloomer Girl, 20th Century Fox signed Holm to a movie contract in 1946, and in 1947 she won an Oscar and Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in Gentleman’s Agreement. After her performance in All About Eve, however, Holm realized she preferred live theater to movie work, and took on few film roles over the following decade. The most successful of these were the comedy The Tender Trap and the musical High Society, both co-starring Holm with Frank Sinatra. Holm starred as a professor-turned-reporter in New York City in the CBS television series Honestly, Celeste! and was thereafter a panelist on Who Pays?. She starred as a reporter in an unsold television pilot called The Celeste Holm Show in 1958, based on the book No Facilities for Women. Holm also starred in the musical The Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall.

Cesar Julio Romero, Jr. was a Cuban American film and television actor, who played The Joker in the 1960s television series Batman. In 1966, the show was transferred to movie theaters, and Romero became the first actor to portray the Joker in a motion picture.

Romero was born in New York to prosperous Cuban parents. That lifestyle, however, changed dramatically when his parents lost their sugar import business and suffered losses in the Stock Market Crash of 1929. Fortunately, Romero’s Hollywood earnings allowed him to support his large family, all of whom followed him to the West Coast, years later. Romero lived on and off with various family members, especially his sister, for the rest of his life.

In October 1942, he voluntarily enlisted in the U.S. Coast Guard and served in the Pacific Theater. He reported aboard the Coast Guard-manned assault transport USS Cavalier in November, 1943. According to a press release from the period he saw action during the invasions of Tinian and Saipan. The same article mentioned that he preferred to be a regular part of the crew and was eventually promoted to the rank of chief Boatswain’s Mate.

Romero played “Latin lovers” in films from the 1930s until the 1950s, usually in supporting roles. He starred as The Cisco Kid in six westerns made between 1939 and 1941. Romero danced and performed comedy in the 20th Century Fox films he starred in opposite Carmen Miranda and Betty Grable, such as Week-End in Havana and Springtime in the Rockies, in the 1940s.