Arts and Entertainment

GRANDMA MOSES

Grandma Moses started a new job at age 76.

She worked on other people's farms to make money. In 1930 Anna Mary Moses was 70 and a grandmother, she painted pictures. She made paintings of country life. One day, her daughter took her paintings to a store in town. A man from New York saw the paintings in the window and bought them.

The man liked Grandma Moses's paintings. So he took her paintings to galleries in New York. Otto Kallir had a famous gallery there. In 1940 Grandma Moses's paintings were in Kallir's gallery. She was 80 years old and suddenly became famous. So she painted more and more. She won many prizes for her paintings. She became famous in the United States and Europe. She was on television, and people made a movie about her.

When she was 100 years old, the state of New York made her birthday "Grandma Moses Day." After her 100th birthday, she painted 26 more paintings. She died at age 101.

Charlie Chaplin

Birth name - Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr.

Born - 16 April 1889(1889-04-16)Walworth, London, England

Died - 25 December 1977 (aged 88) Vevey, Switzerland

Years active - 1914 - 1967

Spouse(s) - Mildred Harris (1918-1920)

Lita Grey (1924-1928)

Paulette Goddard (1936-1942)

Oona Chaplin (1943-1977)

Notable roles

The Tramp (1914-1936)

Monsieur Verdoux in Monsieur Verdoux (1947)

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr. KBE (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977), better known as Charlie Chaplin, was an English comedy actor. Chaplin became one of the most famous performers as well as a notable director and musician in the early to mid Hollywood cinema era. He is considered to be one of the finest mimes and clowns ever caught on film and has greatly influenced performers in this field.

Chaplin was also one of the most creative and influential personalities in the silent film era. He acted in, directed, scripted, produced, and eventually scored his own films. His working life in entertainment spanned over 65 years, from the Victorian stage and music hall in England as a child performer, almost until his death at the age of eighty-eight. Chaplin's high-profile public and private life encompassed highs and lows with both adulation and controversy.

His principal character was "The Tramp" (known as "Charlot" in France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal and Turkey). "The Tramp" is a vagrant with the refined manners and dignity of a gentleman. The character wears a tight coat, oversized trousers and shoes, a derby, carries a bamboo cane, and has a signature toothbrush moustache.

Walt Disney

Born - December 05, 1901(1901-12-05) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Died - December 15, 1966 (aged 65) Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Occupation - Film producer, Co-founder of The Walt Disney Company, formerly known as Walt Disney Productions

Spouse - Lillian Disney

Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966) was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. Disney is notable as one of the most influential figures in the field of entertainment during the twentieth century. As the co-founder (with his brother Roy O. Disney) of Walt Disney Productions, Walt became one of the best-known motion picture producers in the world. Walt Disney is particularly noted for being a film producer and a popular showman, as well as an innovator in animation and theme park design. He received twenty-two Academy Awards and forty-eight nominations during his lifetime, holding the record for the individual with the most awards and the most nominations. Disney has also won seven Emmy Awards. Disney and his staff created a number of the world's most famous fictional characters, including the one many consider Disney's alter ego, Mickey Mouse. He is also well-known for giving his name to Disneyland and Walt Disney World Resort theme parks in the United States, France, Japan and China.

Walt Disney died of lung cancer on December 15, 1966, a few years prior to the opening of his Walt Disney World dream project in Orlando, Florida