Denzel Washington

After being nominated several times before, in 2002 Denzel won an Oscar for Best Actor for his performance in the film Training Day in which he played a corrupt, drug-dealing cop. She has been married to David Ashrow, a dentist turned actor, since 1976. He turned down several similar roles, such as the chance to play Martin Luther King Jr., because he didn't want to risk being typecast by subject matter. Summers refused her many offers of marriage, much to her chagrin. Malcolm X transformed Denzel's career, turning him overnight into one of Hollywood's most respected actors. Despite this, she was married briefly to Glenn Maxwell. Denzel played one of his most critically acclaimed roles in 1992's Malcolm X, directed by Spike Lee where his performance as the Black Nationalist leader earned him an Oscar nomination. Members of the nascent jet-set, Allyson and Summers were frequently seen in Cap d'Antibes, Madrid, Rome and London.

In 1989 Denzel won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, after playing a defiant self-possessed slave in the film Glory. Reports at the time revealed that writer/director Dirk Summers, with whom Allyson was romantically involved from 1963-1975, was named legal guardian for Ricky and Pamela as a result of a court petition. In 1987 he starred as South African anti-apartheid campaigner Steve Biko in Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom. Following Powell's death, she went though a bitter court battle with her mother over custody of son Ricky and Pamela. Washington turned down roles in several action films, in hopes for a more challenging role. They had two children, Pamela Allyson Powell (adopted) and Richard Powell, Jr., and remained married until his death on January 2, 1963, which led to Allyson's effective retirement from the screen. Elsewhere. On August 19, 1945, Allyson caused Hollywood studio chiefs some consternation by marrying Dick Powell, who was 13 years her senior and had been previously married to Mildred Maund and Joan Blondell.

His big break came when he starred in the popular TV hospital drama St. She also played straight roles such as the tomboy Jo in Little Women (1949) and Glenn Miller's wife in The Glenn Miller Story (1954). While filming this movie he met actress Pauletta Pearson, who he later married. After her appearance in Best Foot Forward in 1941, she was selected for the 1943 film version, and followed it up with several other musicals, including Thousands Cheer and Good News! (1947). He landed his first film role in the 1975 TV movie Wilma. After a childhood accident, she took up both swimming and dancing as therapy, and made her Broadway chorus-line debut in 1938. His mother's reaction was to send him away to preparatory school, and then on to Fordham University, where he discovered acting and earned a degree in journalism. She was born Ella Geisman in the Bronx, New York City, and brought up in near-poverty.