Lucy Liu and Jack Black Premiere Kung Fu Panda
Lucy Liu and Jack Black Premiere Kung Fu Panda
When it comes to movie premieres, it doesn’t get more fun than the Hollywood debut of Kung Fu Panda featuring stars Jack Black and Lucy Liu.
It all went down in Hollywood, California as the “Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny” funnyman and his “Charlie’s Angels” babe co-star charmed the crowd and posed for pictures outside the theatre.
Miss Liu looked stunning in a multi-tiered ruffly halter-style pink dress with a pair of gladiator heels, while Jack kept it simple in a panda t-shirt, track pants and a pair of Puma sneakers.
Speaking of Mr. Black, Jack and his wife Tanya have just become parents again, as they welcomed their second child (a boy named Jack) into the world. They have an almost-two-year-old named Samuel as well.
Jane March Biography
A delicate young English model turned actress of partially Chinese and Spanish descent, the slightly exotic-looking Jane March provided a quietly stunning star turn as the Young Girl in director Jean-Jacques Annaud’s adaptation of Marguerite Duras’ sensual autobiographical novel “The Lover” (1992). Starring opposite Bruce Willis in the “Color of Night” (1994), she played a flaky aspiring actress who has several steamy nude scenes with Willis. While March garnered favorable reviews, the film itself was not so warmly received. March continued to act in forgettable features before landing the plum assignment of playing Jane to Casper Van Dien’s Lord of the Jungle in “Tarzan and the Lost City” (1998).
- Also Credited As:
Jane Horwood - Born:
on 03/20/1973 in Edgeware, England - Job Titles:
Actor, Model
Significant Others
- Husband: Carmine Zozzora. born c. 1958; married June 14, 1993; met when she auditioned for “Color of Night”, a Bruce Willis vehicle that Zozzora produced
Milestones
- 1987 Won a local “Become a Model” contest at age 14
- 1992 Acting debut in Jean-Jacques Annaud’s “The Lover”
- 1994 Hollywood debut, “Color of Night”
Rita Hayworth Biography
This immensely popular red-haired beauty of the 1940s began dancing professionally with her father from childhood. In 1935, Rita Hayworth was “discovered” and made her Hollywood debut the same year. She appeared in mostly small parts in some 25 films before giving her first substantial performance in Howard Hawks’ “Only Angels Have Wings” (1939). In the following decade she became one of Hollywood’s great stars, dubbed the “Love Goddess”, a genuinely talented actress and dancer as well as a celebrated WWII pinup.
Hayworth played a vulnerable femme fatale in the memorable “Gilda” (1946) and delivered a superbly ruthless variation on the same theme in second husband Orson Welles’ “The Lady from Shanghai” (1948), with her trademark long red hair cut short and dyed blonde. Most of her later films were unexceptional, though both “Pal Joey” (1957) and, particularly, “Separate Tables” (1958), demonstrated a mature talent.
Hayworth died of Alzheimer’s disease at age 68 and for the last six years of her life had been cared for by Princess Yasmin Aga Khan, her daughter by third husband, international playboy, Prince Aly Khan.
- Also Credited As:
Margarita Cansino, Margarita Carmen Cansino, Rita Cansino - Born:
on 10/17/1918 in Brooklyn, New York - Died:
14-MAY-87. - Job Titles:
Actor, Dancer
Family
- Cousin: Ginger Rogers. popular film star of the 1930s, 40s and 50s who later returned to the musical comedy stage where she first enjoyed success; won Oscar as Best Actress of 1940 for “Kitty Foyle”; starred in a segment of the anthology film “Tales of Manhattan” (1942), but a different one from the one which highlighted Hayworth
- Daughter: Rebecca Welles. born on December 17, 1944 in California; father, Orson Welles
- Daughter: Yasmin Aga Khan. born on December 28, 1949 in Lausanne, Switzerland; father, Aly Khan
- Father: Eduardo Cansino. formed vaudeville act with wife
- Mother: Volga Haworth. appeared in the “Ziegfeld Follies” and formed vaudeville act with husband
- Uncle: Vinton Haworth.
Significant Others
- Husband: Aly Khan. married on May 27, 1949; separated in 1951 over his infidelities; divorced in January 1953; father of Princess Yasmin Aga Khan
- Husband: Dick Haymes. married on September 24, 1953; divorced in 1955
- Husband: Edward Judson. eloped with 18-year-old Hayworth on May 23, 1937; divorced on May 22, 1942; acted as Hayworth’s manager-agent in the early days of her film career
- Husband: James Hill. married in 1958; divorced in 1961
- Husband: Orson Welles. married on September 27, 1943; separated in 1948 just before shooting of “The Lady From Shanghai”; divorced in 1948; father of Rebecca
- Companion: Gary Merrill. had four-year relationship
Milestones
- 1926 Film debut dancing with her parents in the shorts, “La Fiesta” and “Anna Case with the Dancing Cansinos”
- 1934 Acted in the Spanish-language feature “Cruz Diablo”
- 1935 Appeared in “Under the Pampas Moon” and “Dante’s Inferno”, both for Fox
- 1935 Put under contract by Fox
- 1936 First garnered attention for small role as a dancer in “Cargo”
- 1937 Signed with Columbia; in B pictures until Howard Hawks cast her in “Only Angels Have Wings” (1939)
- 1940 First of five films with Glenn Ford, “The Lady in Question”, directed by Charles Vidor
- 1941 Career further boosted by appearances in two musical opposite Fred Astaire, “You’ll Never Get Rich” and “You Were Never Lovelier”
- 1941 Appeared for first time with red hair in “The Strawberry Blonde” (filmed in black-and-white)
- 1942 Had lead in “My Gal Sal”
- 1946 Starred in the title role of her best-remembered film, “Gilda”; Ford co-starred and Vidor directed; singing voice dubbed by Anita Ellis
- 1948 Directed by then estranged husband Orson Welles in “The Lady From Shanghai”;
- 1948 Third film with Ford and Vidor, “The Loves of Carmen”
- 1958 Co-starred with Burt Lancaster in “Separate Tables”, produced by then-husband James Hill
- 1959 Played a dissolute Mexican woman in “They Came to Corduba” opposite Gary Cooper
- 1960 Essayed an adulterous wife on trial for murdering her husband in “The Story on Page One”
- 1962 Was miscast opposite Rex Harrison in the comedy “The Happy Thieves”
- 1966 Fifth movie with Glenn Ford, “The Money Trap”
- 1966 Made sole venture into TV movies, co-starring in “The Poppy Is Also a Flower” (ABC); had brief theatrical run in NYC after TV airing
- 1972 Last film, “The Wrath of God”, co-starring Robert Mitchum
- Absent from film for three years during her affair with and marriage to Aly Khan; returned to films with “Affair in Trinidad” (1952), co-starring Ford
- Another similar absence from film after “Salome” and “Miss Sadie Thompson” (both 1953) during marriage to singer Dick Haymes; returned to film in 1957 to appear in “Pal Joey” and “Fire Down Below”
- Began dancing career at age six, performing with parents; worked in Mexican nightclubs as a Spanish dancer from age 13