Leonardo DiCaprio

DiCaprio is currently starring in the critically acclaimed film The Aviator, directed by Martin Scorsese, portraying the eccentric Howard Hughes. He was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California, beside his beloved wife Carole Lombard. He is especially fond of the environment. Gable died in 1960 of a massive heart attack in Los Angeles, at the age of 59. Recently DiCaprio has taken to political issues. Gable's last film was The Misfits, which also featured Marilyn Monroe in her last screen performance. The case was settled June 29, 1998, for an undisclosed amount. She was the mother of Gable's posthumous son and only legitimate child, born in 1961.

Some reports claim the photos were secretly taken while the actor was lounging in the nude, while others say they came from stills of his nude scenes in, or from outtakes of, the movie Total Eclipse. His fifth wife was Kathleen Williams, a thrice-married former fashion model and stock actress from the town of North East, Pennsylvania. DiCaprio sued Playgirl to stop the New York-based monthly magazine from publishing unauthorized photos of him in its July 1998 issue. His second wife had been Texas socialite Marie Franklin, and his fourth was British Sylvia Lady Stanley, the widow of Douglas Fairbanks, Sr. He was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for What's Eating Gilbert Grape; Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for Titanic; and Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama for Catch Me If You Can (2002), which co-starred Tom Hanks. During the next ten years, he made films which did not match the quality of his earlier roles. In 1994, DiCaprio was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for What's Eating Gilbert Grape. It was not really successful, and MGM did not renew his contract in view of his high salary.

The highest grossing movie ever, it tied with Ben-Hur (1959) for receiving the most Academy Awards, though DiCaprio himself was not nominated (The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King would later match Ben Hur and Titanic's eleven Oscars). His first movie after returning from service in WWII was the 1945 production of Adventure. The move from star to superstar came when DiCaprio played Jack Dawson in Titanic (1997). Army Air Force. It premiered February 10, 2001 in Berlin and Variety called it an "unpleasant and tedious ensembler." DiCaprio also played the male lead in Romeo + Juliet (1996), a very updated modern day version of Shakespeare's play. He was deeply grieved and joined the U.S. and Canada by DiCaprio and Maguire, who argued they never intended to make a theatrical feature. Gable's marriage in 1939 to his third wife, actress Carole Lombard, was reportedly the happiest episode in his personal life, but it ended with her death in a plane crash in 1942.

The black-and-white movie Don's Plum, a low-budget drama featuring the actor and some of his friends, including Tobey Maguire, making crude jokes while hanging out in a Los Angeles diner, was filmed in 1995-1996. Its release was later blocked in the U.S. In addition, Gable was one of the few actors to appear in three films that have won an Academy Award for Best Picture. He portrayed a mentally retarded boy so convincingly in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) that some people thought he really was. A few years before, he had also earned an Academy Award nomination for his role as Fletcher Christian in 1935's Mutiny on the Bounty. His break-through came with the role of Toby in This Boy's Life (1993) co-starring with Robert De Niro and Ellen Barkin, which led the New York Film Critics and the National Society of Film Critics to name him runner-up for Best Supporting Actor. He is, however, best-known for his performance as Rhett Butler in the 1939 classic Gone With the Wind, which earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. His debut role was as Josh in Critters 3 (1991). Gable won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his 1934 performance in the film It Happened One Night.

DiCaprio is most famous for his roles in theatrical motion pictures. In the following years he acted in several pictures which soon made him become a megastar, earning the title of "King of Hollywood". From 1991 to 1992, he had the role of Luke Brower, a homeless boy, on the sitcom Growing Pains. He acted in small roles and returned to the theater, until in 1930 he finally signed a contract with MGM. In that same year, DiCaprio appeared on the soap opera Santa Barbara in the role of Mason Capwell. In 1924 he went to Hollywood with the financial aid of theater manager Josephine Dillon, who was more than 10 years older than he was and became both his manager and his first wife. His acting career began in 1990 when he was cast in the role of Garry Buckman on the TV comedy/drama series Parenthood, where he met his best friend, actor Tobey Maguire. He started to tour with several second class theater companies, and worked also as a salesman and in the industry.

But DiCaprio refused. After seeing a play which impressed him, he made the decision to become an actor. He was rejected by an agent early in his career for having a name that sounded too foreign, suggesting that it should be changed to Lenny Williams. At the age of 16 he left high school and started to work in a factory. He attended John Marshall High School in Los Angeles. When he was seven months old, his mother died. At age five, he appeared on his favorite TV series, Romper Room, and was almost fired for misbehaving. He was born in Cadiz, Ohio.

He grew up in Echo Park. William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 - November 16, 1960) was an American film actor, and the biggest box-office star of the early sound film era. His parents divorced when he was a year old. White Man (1924). Leo's father, a distributor of comic books, is Italian-American and his mother, a former legal secretary, is German-American. The Plastic Age (1925). His name allegedly came about because his pregnant mother was standing in front of a Leonardo da Vinci painting at a museum in Italy when he kicked, which made her decide to name him after the famous artist. North Star (1925).

He was born Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio in Los Angeles, California, the son of George DiCaprio and Irmalin Idenbirkin. The Pacemakers (1925). Leonardo DiCaprio (born November 11, 1974) is an American actor. The Painted Desert (1931). "All you math teachers who've been scolding me all my life, HA HA! I laugh.". The Easiest Way (1931). Dance, Fools, Dance (1931).

Finger Points (1931). The Secret Six (1931). Laughing Sinners (1931). A Free Soul (1931).

Night Nurse (1931). Sporting Blood (1931). Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise (1931). Possessed (1931).

Hell Divers (1931). Polly of the Circus (1932). Red Dust (1932). No Man of Her Own (1932).

Strange Interlude (1932). The White Sister (1933). Hold Your Man (1933). Night Flight (1933).

Dancing Lady (1933). It Happened One Night (1934). Men in White (1934). Manhattan Melodrama (1934).

Chained (1934). Forsaking All Others (1934). After Office Hours (1935). China Seas (1935).

The Call of the Wild (1935). Starlit Days at the Lido (1935). Mutiny on the Bounty (1935). Wife vs. Secretary (1936).

San Francisco (1936). Cain and Mabel (1936). Love on the Run (1936). Parnell (1937).

Saratoga (1937). Test Pilot (1938). Too Hot to Handle (1938). Idiot's Delight (1939).

Gone with the Wind (1939). Strange Cargo (1940). Boom Town (1940). Comrade X (1940).

They Met in Bombay (1941). Honky Tonk (1941). Somewhere I'll Find You (1942). Adventure (1945).

The Hucksters (1947). Homecoming (1948). Command Decision (1948). Any Number Can Play (1949).

Key to the City (1950). To Please a Lady (1950). Across the Wide Missouri (1951). Lone Star (1952).

Never Let Me Go (1953). Mogambo (1953). Betrayed (1954). Soldier of Fortune (1955).

The Tall Men (1955). The King and Four Queens (1956). Band of Angels (1957). Run Silent, Run Deep (1958).

Teacher's Pet (1958). But Not for Me (1959). It Started in Naples (1960). The Misfits (1961).