"Four legged animals are very rewarding, two legged animals are not always so."

Oh lauren Bacall. So classy, so powerful, so striking. The woman amazes me although I know little about her life and stage career, but I love her movies. I just watched her on a re-run of Parkey (where she voiced the above quote) from 2004 and she is so quick-witted and wonderful still (she is now 82!). So I decided to do a post of my all-time favourite actors and actresses, beggining with Lauren Bacall (Betty Joan Perske).
Fact#23: Lauren Bacall and late husband Humphrey Bogart have a speech disorder named after them due to their famously low and husky voices! Bogart-Bacall Syndrome (or BBS) is a form of muscle tension
dysphonia most common in professional voice users (actors, singers, TV/radio presenters, etc) who habitually use a very low speaking pitch.
Paul Newman (Paul Leonard Newman)

Oh baby, hot hot hot hot hot. I love Paul Newman. The man is a gem. Not only is he too hollywood royalty, in corker movies and a stunning actor he also makes the best Caesar dressing ever. THEN he donates millions of dollars to charity! So, I'm not just shallow.
Fact#382: While on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno Newman was dared to have a taste of his own brand name label dog food. He tried it and was pleased with its taste.
Audrey Hepburn (Audrey Kathleen Hepburn-Ruston)

Audrey is one of my favourite actresses for her timeless, classical quality. Plus I grew up watching her films and envying her Givenchy outfits. She was a famously kindhearted person (she was a UNICEF ambassador who LOVED children) which is also why I admire her.
Fact#1: Audrey was born in Brussels, Belgium to an English father and Dutch mother. Her mother was a Dutch baroness who was descendent of French nobility and English royalty.
Richard Burton (Richard Walter Jenkins Jr.)

The man with the voice. Richard Burton was well known for a few reasons: firstly he liked a drink, he married and divorced Liz Taylor twice (he was her 5th and 6th husband and gave her a 69.42 carat diamond!!) and his voice could make any woman (including me and evidently Liz Taylor's) weak at the knees. Mainly, it's his voice that draws me to him, but he wasn't unattractive.
Fact#73: In 1974 he was permanently banned from BBC productions for questioning the sanity of Winston Churchill during WWII.
Dustin Hoffman (Dustin Lee Hoffman)

I LOVE DUSTIN. I have never ever seen a film with Dustin Hoffman that I did not enjoy. He is brilliant in both dramatic and comedic roles and I love every minute in which he is on the screen.
Fact#56: Dustin once pissed Ol'Blue Eyes off by saying the Oscars were "obscene, dirty and no better than a beauty contest".
Kevin Spacey (Kevin Spacey Fowler)

I am drawn to Kevin Spacey. Like with Dustin, I like him purely because he is an intruiging actor not because I think he's hot (sorry Spacey, but you're as old as my dad). His eyes are mesmirising though. In any case, he's done some killer films.
Fact#193: In year 12 he played the role of Georg Von Trapp in his school's production of The Sound of Music.
Julie Andrews (Julia Elizabeth Wells)

Dame Jules is one of my favourite actresses of all time. I love musicals as much as any gay man and Jules is the QUEEN of musicals. YOU know her for The Sound of Music, but she never originally appeared in the theatre productions of the R&H classic. She became famous for her role opposite Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady in the West End (and later on Broadway) but was flicked by Jack Warner for the film version because she was unknown (he opted for the well-known, tone deaf Audrey Hepburn instead). So Dame Jules went on to do her first film for Disney - Mary Poppins. Both she and Audrey were up for Oscars for their films in the same year. Jules won and in her acceptance speech thanked Jack Warner for making her Oscar win possible. God I love you Jules.
Fact#33: Jules starred opposite Richard Burton in the theatre production of R&H's Camelot (lucky bitch). AND she is married to the man who directed Audrey in Breakfast at Tiffany's, Blake Edwards (really I know so many facts, I could go on forever).
Steve Buscemi (Steven Vincent Buscemi)

Steve is a champ. He has acted in more of my favourite films than any one of my other favourite actors: Fargo, The Weding Singer, Reservoir Dogs, Monsters Inc., Big Daddy, Coffee and Cigarettes, Pulp Fiction and he directed Lonesome Jim. He is an incredibly diverse actor and a talented director.
Fact#771: Born in Brooklyn, NY Buscemi was a NYC fire fighter between 1980 and 1984. On September 12th 2001 he returned to his old fire station and worked shifts for a week at "the pile" searching for survivors, anonymously.
Scarlett Johansson

Finally, Scarlett. I not only think that she is one of the hottest actresses ever, she is an almighty talent. She is a classic beauty, with a hint of 1940s screen siren and is simply stunning (yes I am secretly in love with her). Her films are diverse and interesting (she was in North! I didnt know that). I love that she is a role model for a healthy body image.
Fact#22: Scarlett has a twin brother called Hunter Johansson who is also an actor.