Mark Robson was a Canadian-born film editor, film director and producer in Hollywood.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, he moved to the United States at a young age. He studied at the University of California, Los Angeles then found work in the prop department at 20th Century Fox studios. He eventually went to work at RKO Pictures where he began training as a film editor. In 1940 he worked as an assistant to Robert Wise on the editing of Citizen Kane in addition to several other films. Both he and Wise benefited tremendously from producer and screenwriter Val Lewton, who promoted Robson from film editor to production assistant and later as director. In 1943, at the insistence of Lewton, Robson assisted Lewton and famed director Jacques Tourneur in a series of low-budget horror films produced by Val Lewton that today are regarded as some of RKO’s best, including Cat People and I Walked with a Zombie. Later, Lewton was instrumental in promoting Robson to the director’s chair for films such as The Seventh Victim, Robson’s first directing credit, and the troubled Isle of the Dead. His success at RKO lead to work on major film projects and in 1949 he was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures for his work on the film noir drama Champion. That same year, he directed the popular romance My Foolish Heart and Home of the Brave, one of the first films to deal with the issue of racism. Robson briefly brought back his old mentor Val Lewton with fellow protege Robert Wise in a partnership for film and television production, only to drop the ailing Lewton without explanation a few months later. Robson was nominated by the DGA again for the 1955 war drama The Bridges at Toko-Ri, starring William Holden and Grace Kelly.

In 1958, Mark Robson was nominated for an Academy Award for Directing for the major box office success Peyton Place and again the following year for directing Ingrid Bergman in the acclaimed film The Inn of the Sixth Happiness. For these films he also received his third and fourth Directors Guild of America nomination. Robson also produced a number of films which he also directed including Von Ryan’s Express in 1965. He directed 1967’s Valley of the Dolls, a film panned by the critics but a success at the box office. In 1974 he directed the blockbuster Earthquake, the film that introduced “Sensurround”.

Mark Sandrich was a Jewish American film director, writer and producer.

One of the most gifted and least heralded directors of the 1930s and early 1940s, Sandrich was an engineering student at Columbia University when he started the movie business by accident. When visiting a friend on a film set, he saw that the director had a problem in setting up a shot; Sandrich offered his advice. It worked. He then entered into the movies in the prop department, and became a director specializing in several comedy shorts in 1927. He then made his first feature the next year, but returned to shorts after the sound arrival. In 1933 he directed the Academy Award-winning short, So This Is Harris!. He later returned to feature films, most notably comedies, starring the team of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey in Hips, Hips, Hooray!. In 1934, Sandrich soon got his first directing assignment on the Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers musical Gay Divorce, which proved a success.

The following year, he directed what is widely regarded as the best movie ever made by the legendary dance team, Top Hat, which excelled in every department, including music and choreography. It was all pulled together seamlessly by Sandrich. After that, several other movies such as Follow the Fleet, Shall We Dance, and Carefree followed. In 1940, Sandrich left RKO for Paramount, which offered him a chance to be not only a director but as well as a producer. He made other several successful films in this capacity, including two with Jack Benny, Buck Benny Rides Again and Love Thy Neighbor, both released in 1940, and the romantic comedy Skylark, starring Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland. However, while all these were hits, it was Holiday Inn in 1942 starring Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby, with music by Irving Berlin that showed Sandrich at his best. The musical/comedy actually started on the eve of America’s entry into World War II. It featured sufficient serious overtones to capture the mood of the time, and showed Crosby and Astaire to brilliant advantage as performers who are rivals for the same woman; and it introduced the song “White Christmas”, highlighted by the crooner Crosby which remained the biggest selling popular song in history for fifty-two years. So Proudly We Hail! was a Sandrich-produced and directed adaptation of the hit play. It was extremely popular and successful, and featured a pair of performers ? Adrian Booth and George Reeves — whom Sandrich had intended to bring to stardom after the war. However, it wasn’t to be.

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

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.

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 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.

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.