Cinecon 45 Guests

The guests for Cinecon 45 have not been announced yet but until they are you can take a look at the celebs that we honored last year.

The Cinecon 45 Career Achievement Award banquet will be held at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel on Sunday evening, September 6, 2009.

Among the celebrity guests that we honored last year at the Cinecon 44 Career Achievement Award banquet were Celeste Holm, Warren Stevens, Elena Verdugo and Walter Mirisch

	CELESTE HOLM Although she began her stage career in 1936, it was her portrayal of Ado Annie in the original Broadway production of Oklahoma! made Celeste Holm a star. She signed with 20th Century-Fox in 1946, and won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for 1947's Gentlemen's Agreement. Nominated twice more for Come to the Stable (1949) and All About Eve (1950), Celeste found herself frustrated by the studio system and bought out her contract to appear in the more challenging roles offered in live theater. She returned to Hollywood on her own terms for various projects, including The Tender Trap (1955) and High Society (1956). Celeste headlined the TV series Honestly Celeste in 1954 and has guested in over 50 other series. Celeste maintains a commitment to charities like UNICEF and its US Fund, and still active professionally. She can next be seen in the independent film Driving Me Crazy alongside Dick Cavett and Mickey Rooney, as well as NBC’s The Philanthropist set to air in 2008.
	WARREN STEVENS Warren Stevens whose career spans eight decades, has made his mark on Broadway (Detective Story), television (Studio One, The Twilight Zone, Star Trek, M*A*S*H) and feature motion Pictures. Among his movie credits are such films as The Barefoot Contessa (1954), Forbidden Planet (1956), Deadline U.S.A. (1952), Gorilla At Large (1954) and No Name On The Bullet (1959). Mr. Stevens will be joining us for a screening of the top notch film noir thriller, The Case Against Brooklyn (1958).
	WALTER MIRISCH Walter Mirisch began his career as a producer at Monogram in the 1940s with Fall Guy (1947) and Bomba the Jungle Boy (1949). He has produced such classics as Man of the West (1958), West Side Story (1961), The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming! (1966), In the Heat of the Night (1967), and served as Motion Picture Academy president from 1973 to 1977. Mirisch will attend a screening of his film Man of the West and will be signing copies of his newly-published autobiography, I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History.
	ELENA VERDUGO Although best remembered for her Emmy-nominated role as Consuelo Lopez on the long-running TV series Marcus Welby, M.D., Elena Vedugo began her film career in the 1940s and has appeared in such films as Down Argentine Way (1940), Blood and Sand (1941), House of Frankenstein (1944), The Frozen Ghost (1945), and worked with America's Singing Cowboy, Gene Autry, in The Big Sombrero (1949) and Gene Autry and the Mounties (1951).