Kim Novak and James Stewart in Vertigo

The 1958 psychological thriller Vertigo was directed by Alfred Hitchcock
and stars James Stewart, Kim Novak, and Barbara Bel Geddes. The initial
release of the film received mixed reviews, but has since garnered acclaim
and is now considered a classic, defining work of Hitchcock’s career. It was
recently named the best film of all time in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics’ pool.

Peter Seamus Lorcan O’Toole is a retired Irish actor of stage and screen 
who achieved stardom in 1962 playing T. E. Lawrence in Lawrence of 
Arabia, and then went on to become a highly acclaimed film and stage 
actor. O’toole has been nominated for eight Academy Awards, and holds
the record for most competitive Academy Award acting nominations without 
a win. He has won four Golden Globes, a BAFTA, and an Emmy and was 
the recipient of an Honorary Academy Award in in 2003 for his work. 

1964

Sandra Bullock was awarded a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, a 
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female
Actor in a Leading Role, and the Academy Award for Best Actress, for
her role as Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side (2009). She is listed in
the 2012 edition of the Guinness Book Of World Records as the highest-
paid actress, with $56 million.

Sandra Bullock portraying Annie Porter in the 1994 action film Speed

Diller was born Phyllis Ada Driver in Lima, Ohio. She began her career working at
KROW radio in Oakland in 1952. Phyllis first appeared in March of 1955 as a stand-
up at The Purple Onion, a cellar club in the North Beach area of San Francisco.

Although she has made her career in comedy, Diller studied the piano for many
years. She later decided against a career in music after hearing her teachers
and mentors play with much more ability than she thought that she would be able
to achieve. She still plays in her private life, however, and owns a custom-made harpsichord.

Cheryl Ladd (born Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor in Huron, South Dakota) is 61
today. She is best known for her role as Kris Munroe in the ABC television
series Charlie’s Angels, hired prior to its second season in 1977 to replace
the departing Farrah Fawcett-Majors. Ladd remained with the show until its
cancellation in 1981.