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Greta Garbo, born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson, is a Swedish and American actress.
Greta was born into a poor family and early went to work - in a beauty salon, salesman, modeling for photos in local advertising magazines. And also studied at the drama school of the Royal Stockholm Drama Theater. The girl was noticed by agents, invited to a cameo in the movie "Peter the Tramp" and soon she became a star of silent movies in Sweden and Germany. In 1923, she changed her last name to Garbo. It was at this time that she caught the eye of Hollywood mogul Louis B. Mayer, who signed her to a one-year contract with MGM. Her first American film role was in Torrent (1926), followed by The Temptress (1926), which brought Garbo stardom.
Garbo was the highest paid actress of the pre-war era. Greta's talented and dramatic performance brought her worldwide fame and the title of one of the best actresses in Hollywood history. Anna Karenina and Mata Hari are two of the most significant roles of the actress. When the era of silent movies ended, a languid low voice with a slight hoarseness became a trademark of Garbo. For his contribution to the development of cinematography in 1954, Garbo was awarded an Oscar.
The life of Greta Garbo is still shrouded in mystery and myths. She was silent, preferred privacy and therefore was surrounded by an atmosphere of mystery. But under the outer facade of aloofness beat sensitive and passionate heart. Greta was a style icon of her time, she was imitated and envied by the stars of Hollywood.
After the outbreak of World War II in 1941, Greta Garbo never returned to the big movie, only sometimes playing occasional roles in small pictures. After the war, she returned to America and lived in seclusion in New York City for another 50 years. She did not give interviews, avoided reporters and went out on the street only when necessary and with dark glasses.
Joséphine de Beauharnais, born Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de La Pagerie, was Empress of France from 1804 to 1809, the first wife of Napoleon I.
At the age of 16, Rose came to France to marry a young officer, Alexandre de Beauharnais. However, after the birth of their two children, the couple separated but maintained a relationship. During the French Revolution, her husband, who served in the revolutionary army, was guillotined in June 1794. Rose herself was imprisoned, but after the coup d'état of July 27, which ended the terror, she was released.
She was soon introduced to General Napoleon Bonaparte, and although she was a poor widow with two children, he was charmed and married her in a civil marriage in 1796. He and began to call her Josephine. She was with him all the way from general to First Consul and in May 1804 to Emperor of France. However, Josephine failed to produce an heir, prompting Napoleon, in the interest of the country, to divorce her in 1809. Retaining the title of empress and queen, she went to live at Château Malmaison near Paris and then at her Château of Navarre in Normandy, where she died in 1814, a few weeks after Napoleon's abdication.
Marilyn Monroe, born Norma Jeane Mortenson, baptized Norma Jeane Baker, is an American actress, singer and model.
Norma spent almost all of her childhood in foster homes and orphanages, and did not even graduate from high school. In 1945, at a military aircraft factory where she worked as a dyer, she was taking pictures of female employees for propaganda posters, which encouraged her to pursue a modeling career. Norma began appearing in commercials and men's magazines, and in 1946 contracted with Twentieth Century Fox movie studio as an extra. Then she also took the creative pseudonym Marilyn Monroe, combining the name of actress Marilyn Miller and her mother's maiden name.
She starred in small roles and studied acting. Marilyn Monroe got her first major role in the musical "The Lady of the Corps" (1948, directed by Phil Carlson), beginning to create her image of a charming blonde. The movie "Niagara" (1953) brought her fame as a sex symbol of Hollywood, and filmed in the same year the movie "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," where she played the lead role, turned a spectacular beauty in the world star. In 1955, the actress created her own film company Marilyn Monroe Productions. And in 1959, the rental came Billy Wilder comedy "In Jazz Only Girls", later entered the classics of world cinema and received several awards, including "Oscar".
Throughout her career, the actress performed about 30 roles in various films. Her last work was the role of a female photographer in the unfinished movie George Cukor "Something Must Happen" (1962). On August 5, 1962, the actress was found dead in her home in Los Angeles, the official cause of death was given as an overdose of sleeping pills. She was only 36 years old.
Marilyn Monroe is a three-time Golden Globe Award winner. Her life is devoted to hundreds of books and documentaries, and created by her image of spectacular and sexy, but naive blonde is still popular in art, fashion and advertising. However, behind this brilliant screen image hid a sensitive and intelligent personality. Few people know that Marilyn loved to read and collected a rich library.
Abraham Lincoln was an American statesman and politician, the 16th President of the United States (March 4, 1861 - April 15, 1865).
The son of a frontiersman and a Kentucky farmer, Lincoln worked hard from an early age and struggled to learn. He was a militiaman in the Indian War, practiced law, and sat in the Illinois legislature for eight years. He was an opponent of slavery and gradually gained a national reputation that earned him victory in the 1860 presidential election.
After becoming the 16th president of the United States, Abraham Lincoln turned the Republican Party into a strong national organization. In addition, he drew most Northern Democrats to the Union side. On January 1, 1863, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which declared permanently free those slaves who were in Confederate territory. Lincoln considered secession illegal and was prepared to use force to defend federal law and the Union. Four more slave states joined the Confederacy, but four remained in the Union, and the Civil War of 1861-1865 began.
Lincoln personally directed the military action that led to victory over the Confederacy. Abraham Lincoln was reelected in 1864, and on April 14, 1865, he was fatally shot at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. by actor John Wilkes Booth.
Abraham Lincoln is a national hero of the American people, he is considered one of the best and most famous presidents of the United States until today.
William Shakespeare was a British poet and playwright and writer.
William's father, John Shakespeare, was a merchant and official in Stratford. There are reports that he was a sailor for a time before joining a theater company in London. Beginning in the 1590s, Shakespeare began writing plays, and in 1593 he published a poem, Venus and Adonis, which became popular. He dedicated it to the Duke of Southampton, who was a philanthropist and patron of talent, and soon his business was booming.
From 1592 to 1600 Shakespeare wrote his dramas and romantic comedies "Richard III", "The Taming of the Shrew", "Romeo and Juliet", "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "The Merchant of Venice", as well as the comedies "Much Ado About Nothing", "Twelfth Night" and the tragedy "Julius Caesar". The playwright's business was so successful that he even bought a large house in Stratford. In 1599, Shakespeare became one of the owners, playwright and actor of the new theater "Globe". In 1603 King James took Shakespeare's troupe under his direct patronage. In the mature period, the great playwright turned to tragedies, there were "Hamlet", "Othello", "King Lear", "Macbeth" and others.
Although in the 19th century researchers had some doubts about the authorship of many of these works, William Shakespeare is considered the greatest English playwright, one of the best playwrights in the world. His plays have been translated into all major languages and to this day form the basis of the world theatrical repertoire, most of them have been screened many times. According to the Guinness Book of Records, Shakespeare remains the world's best-selling playwright, and his plays and poems have sold more than 4 billion copies in the nearly 400 years since his death.
