Jessica Tandy became the oldest actress to receive the Academy Award for
Best Actress for her role in Driving Miss Daisy (1989), for which she also won
a BAFT and a Golden Globe, and was nominated for an Academy Award for
Best Supporting Actress for Fried Green Tomatoes (1991). She was named
as one of People’s “50 Most Beautiful People” in 1990.
Jessica Tandy in The Birds (1963)
Tandy with her husband, actor Hume Cronyn
Actor Liam Neeson has been nominated for an Oscar, the United Kingdom’s
BAFTA and three Golden Globe Awards. He is best remembered in the role
of Oskar Schindler in Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List (1993). Neeson was
also in Batman Begins (2005), Star Wars Episode l:The Phantom Menace
(1999), and Taken (2009).
Liam Neeson in Taken
Neeson in a scene from Schindler’s List
Liam Neeson as he appears in Star Wars Episode l: The Phantom Menace
In 1885, Edwin Binney and his cousin C. Harold Smith (above) took control of
the Peekskill Chemical Company and re-named it Binney & Smith. While doing
experiment with a mixture of slate waste, cement, and talc, Binney created the
first dustless white chalk. His invention was awarded a gold medal at the St.
Louis World’s Fair in 1904. It was one year later that Benny & Smith
produced the first box of Crayola crayons (shown below).
Advertisement for Crayola from March 1905
Andy Griffith is a actor, director, producer, Grammy Award-winning Southern-
gospel singer and a writer. In 1957 Griffith made his film debut starring in Elia
Kazan’s epic film A Face in the Crowd. Griffith starred in a one-hour teleplay
version of No Time for sergeants in March 1955 on The united Steel Hour on
ABC. Griffith later reprised his role for the film version of the same name in
1958. He became better known for his TV roles, playing the lead characters
in the 1960-1968 sitcom, The Andy Griffith Show on CBS, and in the 1986 to
1995 legal drama, Matlock on NBC and ABC. Griffith was awarded the
Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush on
November 9, 2005.
Andy Griffith in A Face in the Crowd
"P.L.O." (Permanent Latrine Orderly) Pvt. Will Stockdale, played
by Andy Griffith in No Time for Sergeants.
Andy Griffith as Sheriff Andy Taylor, The Andy Griffith Show
Andy Griffith receiving the Medal of Freedom from President
George W. Bush.
Following his breakthrough role on the TV series Rawhide (1959–65), Clint
Eastwood starred as the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone’s Dollars Trilogy
of spaghetti westerns in the 1960s. He also known for his portrayal of San
Francisco PD Inspector Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry films during the 1970
and 1980s. Eastwood won Academy Awards for Best Director and Producer of
the Best Picture,for his work in the films Unforgiven (1992) and Million Dollar
Baby (2004). Since 1967 Eastwood has run his own production company,
Malpaso, which has produced the vast majority of his films. He also served as
the nonpartisan mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, from 1986 to 1988.
1966
Sudden Impact,1983
Gran Torino, 2008
