BioGraph
Connecting Kathleen Turner and Lucille Ball
Lauren Bacall
In October 1947, Bacall and Bogart traveled to Washington, D.C., along with a number of other Hollywood stars in a group that called itself the Committee for the First Amendment (CFA), which also included Danny Kaye, John Garfield, Gene Kelly, John Huston, Groucho Marx, Olivia De Havilland, Ira Gershwin, and Jane Wyatt.
Gene Kelly
After appearing in a B movie drama, ''Pilot No. 5'' (1943) and in '' Christmas Holiday'' (1944), he took the male lead in Cole Porter's '' Du Barry Was a Lady'' (1943) with Lucille Ball (in a part originally intended for Ann Sothern).
Kathleen Turner
American actress
Albee later explained to the ''New York Times'' that when Turner read for the part with her eventual co-star Bill Irwin, he heard "an echo of the 'revelation' that he had felt years ago when the parts were read by Uta Hagen|[Uta] Hagen and Arthur Hill." He added that Turner had "a look of voluptuousness, a woman of appetites, yes ...
Uta Hagen
German-born American actress and drama teacher
She was a voice coach to Judy Garland, teaching a German accent, for the picture '' Judgment at Nuremberg''.{{citation needed|date=December 2009}} Garland's performance earned her an Academy Award nomination.
Judy Garland
American actress and singer (1922–1969)
Like Charlie Chaplin and Lucille Ball, she created a template that the powers that be have forever been trying, with varied levels of success, to replicate."
Kathleen Turner
American actress
(Amy Irving provided Jessica Rabbit's singing voice in the scene in which the character first appears in the movie.) That same year, Turner also appeared in ''Switching Channels'', which was a loose remake of the 1940 hit film '' His Girl Friday''; this, in turn, was a loose remake of the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur comedy '' The Front Page''.
Amy Irving
American actress and singer
Within six months of returning to Los Angeles from London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art in the mid-1970s, Irving was cast in a major motion picture and was working on various TV projects such as guest spots in '' Police Woman'', ''Happy Days'', and a lead role in the mini-series epic '' Once an Eagle'' opposite veterans Sam Elliott and Glenn Ford, and a young Melanie Griffith.
Glenn Ford
Ford also documented his many relationships by taping every phone conversation he ever had with all of his celebrity lovers and friends for 40 years. Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan are on these recordings, as well as Rita Hayworth, Frank Sinatra, William Holden, John Wayne, Cary Grant, Ava Gardner, Gregory Peck, James Mason, Lucille Ball, James Stewart, Henry Fonda, Angie Dickinson, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Charlton Heston and Debbie Reynolds.
Kathleen Turner
American actress
Consequently, her first project after this was the 1983 comedy '' The Man With Two Brains''. Turner co-starred in '' Romancing the Stone'' with Michael Douglas and Danny DeVito. Film critic Pauline Kael wrote of her performance as writer Joan Wilder, "Turner knows how to use her dimples amusingly and how to dance like a woman who didn't know she could; her star performance is exhilarating." ''Romancing the Stone'' was a surprise hit: she won a Golden Globe for her role in the film, and it became one of the top-ten-grossing movies of 1984.
Pauline Kael
Kael further alleged that Orson Welles had actively schemed to deprive Mankiewicz of screen credit.{{Rp|494}} Welles considered suing Kael for libel.
In "Raising Kane" (1971), an essay she wrote on Orson Welles' ''Citizen Kane'', she points out how the film made extensive use of the distinctive talents of co-writer Herman J. Mankiewicz and cinematographer Gregg Toland.
Orson Welles
American actor, director, writer, and producer (1915–1985)
He began filming a projected pilot for Desilu, owned by Lucille Ball and her husband Desi Arnaz, who had recently purchased the former RKO studios. The film was '' The Fountain of Youth'', based on a story by John Collier.
Despite an urban legend promoted by Welles,{{efn|While bantering with Lucille Ball on a 1944 broadcast of '' The Orson Welles Almanac'' before an audience of U.S. Navy service members, Welles says, "My great-granduncle was Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy in Lincoln's cabinet".
(Lucille Ball AFRS broadcast, May 3, 1944, 2:42.)}}{{efn|Welles repeats the claim in a 1970 appearance on the Dick Cavett Show.}} he was not related to Abraham Lincoln's wartime Secretary of the Navy, Gideon Welles.
