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Cynthia Ann Crawford (born February 20, 1966), known as Cindy Crawford, is an American model, actress and television personality. During the 1980s and 1990s, she was among the most popular supermodels and a ubiquitous presence on magazine covers and runways, as well as fashion campaigns. She subsequently expanded into acting and business ventures.
Crawford was born in DeKalb, Illinois, on February 20, 1966, the daughter of Dan Crawford and Jennifer Sue Crawford-Moluf (née Walker).[3] She has two sisters, Chris and Danielle, and a brother, Jeffery, who died of childhood leukemia at age 3. On social media, she has stated that her family had been in the United States for generations and that her ancestry was mostly German, English, and French.[6] She is Christian. Appearing in an episode of Who Do You Think You Are? in 2013, she discovered that her ancestors included European nobility and that she was descended from Charlemagne.[8]
Cynthia Ann Crawford (born February 20, 1966), known as Cindy Crawford, is an American model, actress and television personality. During the 1980s and 1990s, she was among the most popular supermodels and a ubiquitous presence on magazine covers and runways, as well as fashion campaigns. She subsequently expanded into acting and business ventures.
Crawford was born in DeKalb, Illinois, on February 20, 1966, the daughter of Dan Crawford and Jennifer Sue Crawford-Moluf (née Walker).[3] She has two sisters, Chris and Danielle, and a brother, Jeffery, who died of childhood leukemia at age 3. On social media, she has stated that her family had been in the United States for generations and that her ancestry was mostly German, English, and French.[6] She is Christian. Appearing in an episode of Who Do You Think You Are? in 2013, she discovered that her ancestors included European nobility and that she was descended from Charlemagne.[8]



![Jackie Gleason on his many characters
John Herbert Gleason (February 26, 1916 – June 24, 1987) was an American actor, comedian, writer, and composer known affectionately as The Great One.[1][2][3] Developing a style and characters from growing up in Brooklyn, New York, he was known for his brash visual and verbal comedy, exemplified by his city-bus-driver character Ralph Kramden in the television series The Honeymooners. He also developed The Jackie Gleason Show, which maintained high ratings from the mid-1950s through 1970. After originating in New York City, videotaping moved to Miami Beach, Florida, in 1964 after Gleason took up permanent residence there.
Among his notable film roles were Minnesota Fats in 1961s The Hustler (co-starring with Paul Newman) and Buford T. Justice in the Smokey and the Bandit series from 1977 to 1983 (co-starring Burt Reynolds).
Gleason enjoyed a prominent secondary music career during the 1950s and 1960s, producing a series of best-selling mood music albums. His first album, Music for Lovers Only, still holds the record for the longest stay on the Billboard Top Ten Charts (153 weeks), and his first 10 albums sold over a million copies each.[4] His output spans some 20-plus singles, nearly 60 long-playing record albums, and over 40 CDs. Jackie Gleason on his many characters](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Bu2smhl_74o/mqdefault.jpg)


![Catherine Deneuve on being chosen as the model for Marianne simple of French Republic
Catherine Fabienne Dorléac (born 22 October 1943), known professionally as Catherine Deneuve (UK: /dəˈnɜːv/,[1] US: /dəˈnʊv/,[2] French: [katʁin dənœv] ), is a French actress. She is considered one of the greatest European actresses on film. In 2020, The New York Times ranked her as one of the greatest actors of the 21st century.
Deneuve made her screen debut in 1957 at age 13, in a film shot the previous year when she was only 12. A major figure of the New Wave, she became, like Brigitte Bardot and Alain Delon, one of the best-known French artists in the world.[5][6] In a career spanning nearly 70 years, she has played more than a hundred roles and is recognized in France and internationally for being one of the key faces of the musical film genre with appearances in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Young Girls of Rochefort, Donkey Skin, 8 Women and The Beloved. Early in her career, she gained acclaim for her portrayals of aloof and mysterious beauties for well-known directors, including Luis Buñuel, François Truffaut, Jacques Demy, Roman Polanski, and Agnès Varda.[7] She played in films attracting a total of nearly 99 million spectators in theaters, making her the working actress with the most admissions in France.
In 1985, she succeeded Mireille Mathieu as the official face of Marianne, Frances national symbol of liberty. Catherine Deneuve on being chosen as the model for Marianne simple of French Republic](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/C__N2a7TiiM/mqdefault.jpg)


![Leslie Caron on working with Gene Kelly on An American in Paris
An American in Paris is a 1951 American musical romantic comedy film inspired by the 1928 orchestral composition An American in Paris by George Gershwin. Starring Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron (her film debut), Oscar Levant, Georges Guétary, and Nina Foch, the film is set in Paris, and was directed by Vincente Minnelli from a script by Alan Jay Lerner. The music is by George Gershwin, with lyrics by his brother Ira, with additional music by Johnny Green, and Saul Chaplin, the music directors.
The story of the film is interspersed with dance numbers choreographed by Gene Kelly and set to Gershwins music. MGM executive Arthur Freed bought the Gershwin musical catalog from Georges brother Ira in the late 1940s, since George died in 1937. Some of the tunes in this catalog were included in the movie, such as I Got Rhythm and Love Is Here to Stay.[4] Other songs in the movie include Ill Build A Stairway to Paradise and S Wonderful. The climax of the film is The American in Paris ballet, a 17-minute dialogue-free dance featuring Kelly and Caron set to Gershwins An American in Paris. The ballet sequence cost almost half a million dollars to shoot. It was filmed on 44 sets in MGMs back lot.[4] According to Leslie Caron in a 2009 interview on Paul OGradys interview show, the film ran into controversy with the Hays Office over part of her dance sequence with a chair; the censor viewing the scene called it sexually provocative, which surprised Caron, who answered What can you do with a chair? Leslie Caron on working with Gene Kelly on An American in Paris](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DYe1VVD0R3o/mqdefault.jpg)
