Born in New York City on April 4, Robert Downey Jr. began acting as a young child. He made his first film appearances and was a cast member on Saturday Night Live in the 1980s, but his growing success was marred by years of struggles with drug abuse. Eventually turning his life around, he earned a resurgence of critical and popular acclaim, and is considered one of Hollywood’s A-list actors. Admittedly, Robert has had his bad moments but he has still made positive influences in America. Downey was raised in an artistic household in New York City’s Greenwich Village; his father was a noted underground filmmaker who gave the five-year-old Downey his first part.
When he was 19 years old, he enlisted in the Navy. His musical abilities were discovered when he joined the Melody Masters, which played jazz and swing tunes. After his duties, he was a leader in the band, and then he produced his first ever recording with other band members, in which they played jazz and bebop songs. He was discharged from the Navy and went home, to Philadelphia, where he joined
He lived in Virginia Beach until the age of four. Afterwards, he moved to Norfolk, Virginia. Being in Norfolk meant
His father was a diamond dealer, and George grew up in Long Island. He attended and graduated from the navel prep school Admiral Farragut Academy. From there he attended the Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. George loved comedy and he used his talent on board a navy submarine during the Korean War. He would do comedy programs and air them over the ship 's radio.
Dick Butkus was born on December 9th, 1942, in Chicago, Illinois. He weighed only thirteen pounds and six ounces. Out of the eight children in his family, he was the first to be born in a hospital. Don Butkus and Emma Butkus was his parents. They lived on the south side of the city, which meant that his family and him lived in a bad neighborhood.
Jay grew up in Rye New York. One of his earliest influences was his mother, Mary Van Cortlandt, who educated him until age 8. In addition, he
When he finished high school in 1945, he enlisted in the Navy, but World War II ended that same year. After his discharge, he created a dancing team with his first wife, Mary Niles, and performed in variety television shows and the musical stage. He career really began to take off in 1953, when he went to Hollywood and got a signed. That year he made
His music career began while he was serving in the army. While stationed in Hawaii, he sang in a army sponsored band called “Rambling Country.” When he was honorably discharged
He was raised in Montebello and attended Pasadena Junior College. In College, his instructors motivated him to write plays and to play characters as well and made him realize about the natural gift. During college days he wrote musicals like "Fantasy in
He was born January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia. His dad left when he was just an infant. Like most of the small population of blacks in the area he lived a life of poverty and toil (Conrads 2). This passage shows he had a tough childhood. When he was young they moved to Pasadena, California
After that he joined the US Navy. He eventually served as a diving instructor at a base in San Diego, California, during the Korean War. After he was discharged in 1955, he worked in several different jobs. He was a public school teacher, a production helper for several high-profile Broadway shows, stock analyst and Wall Street investment banker. After getting bored of his finance work, he made friends with some gay radicals who lived in Greenwich Village.
Elvis Presley Elvis and his family moved to Tennessee, and later on he then graduated from Humes Middle School in Tennessee, 1953. By 1954 his singing career started with the legendary “Sun Records” label in Memphis. Then by 1956 he became an international sensation! He became known as the “Rock and Roll King.” Said Adam Woog.
As a boy he spent his years living with his family in his hometown Tupelo, and he a had also shared two-room house. The stages of becoming a teen he then moved and lived in Memphis, Tennessee. When finishing High School in 1953, Elvis began driving a delivery truck for the Crown Electric Company,
She was always really close with her paternal grandfather. She was raised in Franklin, Tennessee, where she attended the Heritage Elementary School. Later in 2001, when she was 8 years old, her family moved to Toronto, Canada. It was when watching her father act in the television series ‘Doc’ that she was inspired to take up acting professionally. To pursue the same, she started attending singing and acting classes at the Armstrong Acting Studio in Toronto.
Armstrong was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1901, even though he sometimes said later in his life that he was born on July 4, 1900. He was raised by his mother and grandmother after his father, who was a factory worker, left the family while Armstrong was still a child. His family was very poor, and as a child Armstrong worked many odd jobs to help support the family. Armstrong was surrounded by music while working and playing in the streets of New Orleans. Since he could not afford an instrument, he learned to sing and joined a vocal quartet that sang on street corners for a little extra money.
