Alice White

Alice White has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Motion Pictures, at 1501 Vine Street. Zeta-Jones has determined that her children grow up aware of their Welsh heritage and has built a seaside dream home in her hometown of Swansea. She died in Los Angeles, California from a stroke. Her daughter, Carys Zeta Douglas was born April 20, 2003. She made her final film appearance in Flamingo Road (1949). (Her American admirers like to think that he is named after Bob Dylan - a favourite of Douglas - while her British admirers like to think that Dylan Thomas, also born in Swansea, was the inspiration). Although she married one of these men, her reputation was tarnished and she appeared only in supporting roles after this. Her son, Dylan Michael Douglas was born August 8, 2000.

With the advent of talking pictures, White began to attract a level of popularity she had not achieved in silent movies, but her career was severely damaged by a scandal with two men she was sexually involved with. Zeta-Jones is married to the actor Michael Douglas, with whom she has two children. After playing a succession of flappers and gold diggers, she attracted the attention of the director Mervyn Leroy who saw potential in her. She has also starred on the Lifetime Television event of Titanic, also starring Tim Curry and Peter Gallagher. Her bubbly and vivacious persona led to comparisons with Clara Bow, but White's career was slow to progress. She is currently the global spokeswoman for cosmetics giant, Elizabeth Arden. Born Alva White in Paterson, New Jersey, White attended Hollywood High School along with future actors Joel McCrea and Mary Brian and after leaving school became a secretary and "script girl" for director Joseph Von Sternberg. After clashing with Von Sternberg, White left his employment to work for Charlie Chaplin who decided before long to place her in front of the cameras. Apart from her acting career, Zeta-Jones is also an advertising spokesperson for the mobile phone company T-Mobile.

Alice White (August 24, 1904 - February 19, 1983) was an American film actress. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the movie Chicago in 2003 (when she quoted the Welsh chant "Oggy Oggy Oggy" in her acceptance speech). E. Bates' The Darling Buds of May (1991), that she made her name. Her exotic good looks, teamed with her singing and dancing ability, suggested a promising future, but it was in a straight acting role, as Mariette in the successful television adaptation of H. Sheherazade), her feature film debut.

Once the show closed, Zeta-Jones travelled to France, where she received the lead role in French director Phillippe De Broca's 1001 Nights (a.k.a. She sang and danced her way to local stardom as a part of a Catholic congregation's performing troupe before she was ten years of age, and by 1987 she was appearing in Forty-Second Street in the West End. Zeta-Jones' stage career began in childhood. As a child she had a tracheotomy leaving a scar.

She was born to a Welsh father and a mother of Irish Catholic extraction and has two other brothers, besides English she speaks Welsh fluently. Born Catherine Jones in Mumbles, Wales, her last name stems from two different grandmothers; one grandmother is named Catherine, while the other is "Zeta," named after a ship that her great-grandfather sailed on. Catherine Zeta-Jones (born September 25, 1969) is an Academy Award-winning Welsh actress. Ocean's Twelve (2004).

The Terminal (2004). Intolerable Cruelty (2003). Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) (voice). Chicago (2002).

America's Sweethearts (2001). Traffic (2000). High Fidelity (2000). The Haunting (1999).

Entrapment (1999). The Mask of Zorro (1998). Titanic (1996) (TV). The Phantom (1996).

Katharina die Große (1995) (TV). Blue Juice (1995). The Cinder Path (1994) (TV). The Return of the Native (1994) (TV).

Splitting Heirs (1993). The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones (1992) (voice). Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992). The Darling Buds of May (1991) (TV).

Out of the Blue (1991). Les Mille et une nuits (1990).