BioGraph
Connecting Gwen Verdon and Caitlyn Jenner
Gwen Verdon
American actress and dancer (1925–2000)
The show is loosely based on Federico Fellini's screenplay for '' Nights of Cabiria.'' It was followed by a movie version starring Shirley MacLaine as Charity, featuring Ricardo Montalbán, Sammy Davis Jr. and Chita Rivera, with Fosse at the helm of his very first film as director and choreographer.
Shirley MacLaine
MacLaine continued to act in films such as ''Used People'' (1992), with Jessica Tandy and Kathy Bates; '' Guarding Tess'' (1994), with Nicolas Cage; '' Mrs. Winterbourne'' (1996), with Ricki Lake and Brendan Fraser; ''The Evening Star'' (1996); ''Rumor Has It…''(2005) with Kevin Costner and Jennifer Aniston;'' In Her Shoes'' (also 2005), with Cameron Diaz and Toni Collette; and'' Closing the Ring'' (2007), directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Christopher Plummer.
Ricki Lake
American television host and actress
After making the finals, Lake was announced as the contestant in third place, losing to television personality Rob Kardashian and actor and Army veteran J. R. Martinez, despite having higher scores than either.
Rob Kardashian
His parents divorced in 1991, and his mother married Olympic decathlete Caitlyn Jenner{{efn|name=a|Jenner's name changed from Bruce to Caitlyn during a gender transition in 2015.}} the same year.
Gwen Verdon
American actress and dancer (1925–2000)
Verdon appeared as the title character's mother in the Woody Allen movie '' Alice'' (1990) and as Ruth in ''Marvin's Room'' (1996), co-starring Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton, and Leonardo DiCaprio.
Meryl Streep
She reunited with Nicole Kidman for Netflix, in Ryan Murphy's '' The Prom'', a film adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name; and with director Steven Soderbergh for his HBO Max comedy film '' Let Them All Talk''.
Ryan Murphy (writer)
Joining Canals, Murphy and Falchuk in the writing room were Our Lady J and Janet Mock, who Murphy also encouraged to direct an episode, making her the first trans woman of colour to do so, as well as the first trans woman of colour in a TV series writing room.
Janet Mock
American writer, TV host, director, and activist
Mock also interviewed the cast, which features eleven prominent transgender figures: Laverne Cox, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, Buck Angel, Kylar Broadus, Caroline Cossey, Shane Ortega, Alok Vaid-Menon, Nicole Maines, Bamby Salcedo, Amos Mac and Caitlyn Jenner.
Gwen Verdon
American actress and dancer (1925–2000)
''Fosse/Verdon'' is an 8-part American miniseries starring Sam Rockwell as Fosse and Michelle Williams as Verdon.
She was portrayed by Michelle Williams in the FX limited series '' Fosse/Verdon'' opposite Sam Rockwell as Bob Fosse.
Michelle Williams (actress)
It was later reported that her co-star Mark Wahlberg had been paid $1.5 million to Williams's $1,000 for the reshoots, which sparked a debate on gender pay gap in Hollywood.
Mark Wahlberg
American actor
In 2016, he starred in two Peter Berg films, ''Deepwater Horizon'', a film about the 2010 ''Deepwater Horizon'' oil spill, and ''Patriots Day,'' a film about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.
Peter Berg
American actor and director
On July 15, 2015, Berg criticized ESPN's decision to honor Caitlyn Jenner with the Arthur Ashe Courage Award with an Instagram post in which he shared a Facebook photo of Army veteran Gregory D. Gadson (a double amputee who played a role in Berg’s '' Battleship'' film) alongside one of Jenner.
Gwen Verdon
American actress and dancer (1925–2000)
Verdon appeared as the title character's mother in the Woody Allen movie '' Alice'' (1990) and as Ruth in ''Marvin's Room'' (1996), co-starring Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton, and Leonardo DiCaprio.
John McCain
I like people who weren't captured{{nbsp}}... perhaps he was a war hero, but right now he's said a lot of very bad things about a lot of people." This was widely condemned by much of the Republican Party, with Senator Marco Rubio referring to Trump's comments as "offensive rantings", commentator Rick Santorum tweeting that "@SenJohnMcCain is an American hero, period", and Governor Scott Walker using the comments as the basis for his denunciation of Trump in a campaign event in Sioux City.
Rick Santorum
American politician and commentator
A Republican convention in South Carolina in 2015, Santorum responded to a question about Caitlyn Jenner by saying: "if [Jenner] says he's a woman, then he's a woman.
