Cinecon 46 Guests
We have not announced the guests for Cinecon 46 but hope to soon. Until we do please take a look at the guests that we honored at the Cinecon 45 Career Achievement Awards banquet
The Cinecon 45 Career Achievement Award banquet was held at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel on Sunday evening, September 6, 2009. Our special guests that night were actresses Adrian Booth, Stella Stevens, Denise Darcel and composer Richard M. Sherman
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ADRIAN BOOTH
Discovered by a Columbia Pictures agent while modeling in a fashion show, Virginia Pound was given a screen test, signed to a contract, and given the name "Lorna Gray", which she kept until 1945, when she changed her professional name to "Adrian Booth").
Adrian Booth has the distinction of having worked with W.C. Fields, Buster Keaton and The Three Stooges, but is perhaps best remembered for her work at Republic Pictures, where she appeared regularly in Westerns and serials. Her role as the villain, Vultura, in The Perils of Nyoka (1942) has made her a cult figure among serial fans. She married actor David Brian in 1948, and retired from the screen in 1951.
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STELLA STEVENS
She was one of the most photographed women in the world in the 1960s, along with Jacqueline Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Brigitte Bardot, Ann-Margret and Raquel Welch. She shared the 1960 Golden Globe Award for "Most Promising Newcomer - Female" with Tuesday Weld, Angie Dickinson and Janet Munro for Say One For Me (20th Century-Fox, 1959). After earning the role of "Appassionata Von Climax" in the film adaptation of the musical Li'l Abner (1959), she signed a contract with Paramount Pictures (1959-1963) and later Columbia Pictures (1964-1968). In 1960, Stevens was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for January. She starred opposite Elvis Presley in Girls! Girls! Girls!, Jerry Lewis in The Nutty Professor, and Dean Martin in The Silencers and How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life, and she has worked with such legendary directors as Sam Peckinpah (The Ballad of Cable Hogue) and Vincente Minnelli (The Courtship of Eddie's Father). She also co-starred in Irwin Allen's disaster epic, The Poseidon Adventure. Stevens has appeared in dozens of TV shows and was a regular on the 1981-1982 prime-time soap opera Flamingo Road. She toured on stage with Sandy Dennis in an all-female production of Neil Simon's The Odd Couple, and was on NBC's daytime drama Santa Barbara from 1989 to 1990. Stella Stevens has also produced and directed two films, The Ranch (1989) and The American Heroine (1979).
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DENISE DARCEL
Born in France, Denise was working as a dime store cashier when she entered a beauty contest and was crowned "The Most Beautiful Girl in France". She capitalized on this by developing her own nightclub act and touring the Riviera. Denise came to the U.S. as the wife of an American Army captain. Although the marriage did not last, Denise found work in Hollywood. In her first film, To the Victor (1948), she made an unbilled appearance as a club singer, singing "La vie en rose." She played the sole female role in Battleground (1949), and provided a little extra jungle steam in Tarzan and the Slave Girl (1950) with Lex Barker. Also in 1950 Darcel survived a Broadway encounter with the kings of mirthful mayhem, Olsen and Johnson, co-starring in Pardon My French. Other films followed, including Westward the Women (1951) starring Robert Taylor and directed by William Wellman, Young Man with Ideas (1952) starring Glenn Ford, Flame of Calcutta (1953) with Patric Knowles, and Vera Cruz (1954) co-starring Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster. Miss Darcel was a guest star on such TV variety shows as Ed Sullivan's Toast of the Town and The Frank Sinatra Show. She was interviewed by Edward R. Murrow on Person to Person, was a mystery guest on What's My Line?, and even hosted her own short-lived TV quiz show Gamble on Love (1954). Besides making numerous nightclub appearances she also returned to Broadway in Oh, Captain! (1958), as well as appearing on the road in such plays as The Little Hut (1961) and Can-Can (1961).
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RICHARD M. SHERMAN
Richard M. Sherman, one half of the famous Sherman Brothers songwriting team, is a leading composer-lyricist in family enter- tainment. His career spans five decades and includes winning two Academy Awards for Mary Poppins (score) and Chim Chim Cher-ee (song). The Sherman Brothers also wrote the world’s most translated and performed song, It's a Small World (After All).
He has written songs and song scores for over fifty films, including Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Jungle Book, The Happiest Millionaire, Winnie the Pooh, Charlotte's Web, Tom Sawyer, Bedknobs and Broomsticks and The Slipper and the Rose. Richard’s stage musicals include Over Here!, Busker Alley, and the current hit stage versions of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Mary Poppins (now in its third year on Broadway).
Musical honors include nine Oscar nominations, three Grammy Awards, twenty-four Gold and Platinum albums, a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In November of 2008, the Shermans were awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Bush in a ceremony at the White House.
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