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Flashcards by Elena Demina, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Elena Demina
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John Constable
(1776-1837)
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Constable was one of the major English landscape painters of the 19th century |
| Frank Sinatra (1915 - 1998) | an American singer, actor and producer, one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century, who has sold more than 150 million records worldwide. |
| Clark Gable (1901 - 1960) | an American film actor, often referred to as "The King of Hollywood". He had roles in a wide variety of genres in a career that lasted 37 years. Remembered in " Gone with the Wind "(1939), as Rhett Butler opposite Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O'Hara |
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James Fenimor Cooper
(1789 - 1851)
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American writer. His historical romances depicting frontier and Native American life from the 17th to the 19th centuries created a unique form of American literature. |
| Al Pacino (b. in 1940) | an American actor and filmmaker. Wide recognition came with his breakthrough role as Michael Corleone in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972). |
| Charles Dickens (1812-1870) | was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era |
| Hugh Grant (b. 1960) | an Ameican actor and film producer. He first received attention after earning the Volpi Cup for his performance in the film Maurice (1987) but achieved international success after appearing in Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) |
| Benedict Cumberbatch (b. 1976) | an English actor. He performed as Frankenstein (2011) in the Royal National Theatre, Hamlet at the Barbican Theatre. He starred as Stephen Hawking in film "Hawking" (2004), Sherlock Holmes (2010) in the series of Sherlock. |
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Ella Fitzgerald
(1917- 1996)
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was an American jazz singer sometimes referred to as the First Lady of Song, Queen of Jazz, and Lady Ella. She was noted for her purity of tone, impeccable diction, phrasing, intonation, and a "horn-like" improvisational ability, particularly in her scat singing. |
| Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) | was an American author, painter and illustrator. His works have a broad popular appeal in the United States for their reflection of American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations of everyday life he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over nearly five decades. |
| F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896 -1940) | is now widely regarded as one of the greatest American writers of the 20th century. He finished four novels: This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby, and Tender Is the Night. |
| Andew Lloyd Webber (b. 1948) | is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his songs were hits, notably "The Music of the Night" and "All I Ask of You" from The Phantom of the Opera, "I Don't Know How to Love Him" from Jesus Christ Superstar and "Memory" from Cats. |
| Andy Warhol (1928-1987) | was an American artist, who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, advertising, and celebrity culture. His works span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture. |
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