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Episode 24 / Produced by Andrew Thomson and Merran Williams
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Greats
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science and Technology.
- Actors.
- Athletes.
- Boxing.
- Celebrities.
- Inventions.
- Scientific research.
- Singers.
- Local Subjects:
- Science and Technology.
- Actors.
- Athletes.
- Boxing.
- Celebrities.
- Inventions.
- Scientific research.
- Singers.
- Genre:
- Documentary
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (24 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Geelong, Victoria : World Wide Entertainment, 2007.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Benjamin Franklin: American founding father, scientists, inventor, activist, statesman, diplomat and author, they don't come much greater than Benjamin Franklin. Born in Boston in 1706, Franklin was schooled until the age of 10 when he went to work first for his father, then as an apprentice in his brother James's printing business. Bette Davis: The epitaph on her tombstone reads 'She did it the hard way', a line suggested to her by Joseph L. Mankiewicz shortly after they made All About Eve together. And those six words simply and elegantly sum up why Bette Davis was one of the greatest of all the Hollywood screen stars. Joe Louis: One of the greatest heavyweight champions the world has ever seen, African-American prize-fighter Joe Louis was once described by sportswriter Jimmy Cannon as 'A credit to his race - the human race'. Madonna: In March 2008, five months before her 50th birthday, one of the most successful women in the history of popular music was inducted into the American Rock and Roll Hall of Game. Madonna Louise Veronica Ciconne Ritchie, or Madonna as she is known across the entire planet, has an incredible list of accomplishments to her name. Orson Welles: Precocious, opinionated and the bane of Hollywood moguls, Orson Welles once said he through an artist should always be out of step with his time. That was certainly the case for him, with Citizen Kane taking years to be seen as a masterpiece.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed December 12, 2018).
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