Coming Soon!

I'm hoping to do a post once a month on a famous actor or actress in film. So far I've been planning to do posts on the following stars:

- James Cagney                   - Clark Gable
- Ava Gardner                     - Audrey Hepburn
- Grace Kelly                       - Vivien Leigh
- Ginger Rogers                   - Jimmy Stewart
- Spencer Tracy                   - John Wayne

Many of the actors that I have picked are from the American Film Institute's list of 50 Greatest American Screen Legends. AFI put this list together for a series they did celebrating 100 years of film. You might know about the American Film Institute from the annual Lifetime Achievement Award they give out. It is a very prestigious award meant to honor a dedicated motion picture artist.

Forty-four years ago, in 1967, the AFI was created. According to the history page on the AFI website, the institute was started "as a national arts organization to train filmmakers and preserve America's vanishing film heritage" (AFI History). The first Lifetime Achievement Award was given to director John Ford in 1973. Their work is not only concerned with recognizing the great talents and works of the motion picture field. There is also an AFI conservatory that trains new artists of film.

Anyway, please comment and let me know which of the actors listed above you'd like to know more about.