EXCLUSIVE: Ami Canaan Mann (Texas Killing Fields) is gearing up to direct the biopic Audrey’s Children for Amasia Entertainment (Wild Mountain Thyme) and Resonate Entertainment (Sitting in Bars with Cake).
16.04.2022 - 00:05 / abcnews.go.com
PHOENIX -- Gerda Weissmann Klein, a Holocaust survivor who wrote about her ordeal and went on to receive a presidential medal of freedom, will be remembered at a memorial May 1 after her death this month.Klein died April 3 in Phoenix, where she had lived since 1985. She was 97.
Her granddaughter Alysa Cooper confirmed the death but did not give a cause.Klein was born May 8, 1924, to Helene and Julius Weissmann in Bielsko, Poland.She was a teenager when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939 and the family was forced to live in the basement of their home for three years. Klein's parents were later deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp and she never saw them or her brother again.Klein spent the next three years in Nazi camps.
She met her future husband Army Lt. Kurt Klein when American soldiers liberated her and others from an abandoned bicycle factory in Volary, Czechoslovakia, on May 7, 1945, the eve of her 21st birthday.At the time, she weighed just 68 pounds (30.8 kg) and her hair was prematurely gray.Married in Paris on June 18, 1946, the couple started a new life in Buffalo, New York, and raised three children: Vivian, Leslie and James.Klein described her wartime experiences in her memoir “All But My Life,” which has been widely used in high school and college curricula.President Bill Clinton appointed Klein to the U.S.
EXCLUSIVE: Ami Canaan Mann (Texas Killing Fields) is gearing up to direct the biopic Audrey’s Children for Amasia Entertainment (Wild Mountain Thyme) and Resonate Entertainment (Sitting in Bars with Cake).
Actor Jerry verDorn, known for his work in long-running daytime titles Guiding Light and One Life to Live, has died after a long battle with cancer on Sunday. He was 72. His family shared the news of the actor’s passing.
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Directors Greta Gerwig and Christopher Nolan are both seemingly attempting to cram as many actors as humanly possible into their respective films. The former is behind a live-action “Barbie” movie that sees Aussie actress Margot Robbie star/produce with a script that was co-written by Noah Baumbach (“Marriage Story“), which has been collecting as many names as there are versions of the iconic doll.
EXCLUSIVE: Having already landed an A-list ensemble for its upcoming Barbie pic, Warner Bros. and Mattel have upped the anty by rounding out the cast with some high level talent. Sources tell Deadline that Kingsley Ben-Adir, Rhea Perlman, Ncuti Gatwa, Oscar winner Emerald Fennell, Sharon Rooney, Scott Evans, Ana Cruz Kayne, Connor Swindells, Ritu Arya and Jamie Demetriou. They join a cast that includes Margot Robbie, who will star in the titular role, Ryan Gosling, America Ferrara, Kate McKinnon, Simu Liu, Ariana Greenblatt, Emma Mackey, Alexandra Shipp, Issa Rae, Michael Cera, Hari Nef and Will Ferrell.
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's children are all carving out their own careers, with their youngest Audrey following in their footsteps as an actress.MORE: Tim McGraw saddens 1883 fans with latest Instagram postAnd it's safe to say that performing has always been in Audrey's blood, as an unearthed home video proves!Taking to Instagram over the weekend, the 20-year-old shared incredible footage of herself dancing to Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal as a little girl.VIDEO: Faith Hill and Tim McGraw's love story Audrey's dance moves were more than impressive and her family were quick to react to the video.MORE: Faith Hill's daughter is her mom's double in gorgeous modelling photoMORE: Inside Faith Hill and Tim McGraw's incredible Nashville mega-mansion Big sister Gracie simply wrote: "Legs," while other famous faces also reacted. Rita Wilson wrote: "How did you learn all that at such a young age? You're good!" while Faith and Tim's 1883 co-star Eric Nelson wrote: "The door choreo is what really took it to another level."A post shared by Audrey McGraw (@audreymcgraw)Faith Hill and Tim McGraw's daughter Audrey impressed with her throwback dance video Faith and Tim are also parents to Maggie, 23, and Grace, 24 and have a very close bond with all three of their children.MORE: See the cast of Yellowstone and their real-life familiesMORE: Tim McGraw shares never-before-seen family photos to mark special reasonAudrey even played the lead role in her father's music video, 7000 OBO.