May 16
TAMARA DE LEMPICKA (May 16, 1898)
May 16 is the birthday of Polish painter TAMARA DE LEMPICKA (1898-1980).
"I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don't apply to those who live on the fringe."
Lempicka "was a Polish painter who spent her working life in France and the United States. She is best known for her polished Art Deco portraits of aristocrats and the wealthy, and for her highly stylized paintings of nudes." (Wikipedia)
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HENRY FONDA (May 16, 1905)
May 16 is the birthday of American actor HENRY FONDA (1905-1982).
"I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it."
"Later in his career, Fonda moved into darker roles, such as the villain in the epic Once Upon a Time in the West (1968), a box office success in Europe, now regarded as one of the best Westerns of all time. He also played in lighter-hearted fare such as Yours, Mine and Ours with Lucille Ball and My Name is Nobody with Terence Hill, but also often played important military figures, such as a colonel in Battle of the Bulge (1965), and Admiral Nimitz in Midway (1976). He won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 54th Academy Awards for his final film role in On Golden Pond (1981), which also starred Katharine Hepburn and his daughter Jane Fonda, but was too ill to attend the ceremony. He died from heart disease a few months later." (Wikipedia)
MARGRET REY (May 16, 1906)
May 16 is the birthday of German-born American writer and illustrator MARGRET REY (1906-1996).
Rey is best known for the Curious George series of children's picture books that she and her husband H. A. Rey created from 1939 to 1966.
LIBERACE (May 16, 1919)
May 16 is the birthday of LIBERACE (1919-1987).
"Why don't I just step out and slip into something more spectacular?"
Liberace's "fame in the United States was matched for a time in the United Kingdom. In 1956, an article in the Daily Mirror by columnist Cassandra (William Connor) described Liberace as 'the summit of sex—the pinnacle of masculine, feminine and neuter. Everything that he, she and it can ever want...a deadly, winking, sniggering, snuggling, chromium-plated, scent-impregnated, luminous, quivering, giggling, fruit-flavoured, mincing, ice-covered heap of mother love.'" (Wikipedia)
BETTY CARTER (May 16, 1929)
May 16 is the birthday of American singer-songwriter BETTY CARTER (1929-1998).
"You can do anything you want to do, if you know what to do."
Carter "was an American jazz singer known for her improvisational technique, scatting and other complex musical abilities that demonstrated her vocal talent and imaginative interpretation of lyrics and melodies. Vocalist Carmen McRae once remarked: 'There's really only one jazz singer—only one: Betty Carter.'" (Wikipedia)