Kwan was an important figure in Hollywood accepting actors of Asian ancestry. Kwan's best known roles were "The World of Suzie Wong", "Flower Drum Song", "The Wrecking Crew", "Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N.", "Fate Is the Hunter", "The Main Attraction" and "Drop Dead Darling".
In 1961, Kwan won a Golden Globe Award for her role in "The World of Suzie Wong".
In 1976, she married Norbert Meisel. They had one son, Bernie. He died of AIDS in the 1990s. Kwan retired in 2016.
Pier Angeli
Pier Angeli (19 June 193210 September 1971) was an Italian actress. She was known for her role in the 1951 movie "Teresa", for which she won a Golden Globe Award.
She had one son with Vic Damone, her first husband, and another son with Armando Trovajoli, her second husband. She was born in Cagliari, Sardinia. She had a twin sister actress Marisa Pavan.
Angeli overdosed with barbiturate on 10 September 1971 at her home in Beverly Hills, California at the age of 39.
Marisa Pavan
Marisa Pavan (born Maria Luisa Pierangeli; 19 June 1932) is an Italian actress. She is known as the twin sister of actress Pier Angeli. She was born in Cagliari, Sardinia.
Her first movie role was in "The Rose Tattoo" (1955). Her performance earned a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also won the Golden Globe Award.
She also starred in "Diane" (1956), "The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit" (1956), "The Midnight Story" (1957) and "John Paul Jones" (1959).
In 1956, Pavan married French actor Jean-Pierre Aumont. They were married until his death in 2001. They had two sons.
The Concorde... Airport '79
The Concorde... Airport '79 is a 1979 American thriller movie directed by David Lowell Rich and is the final movie in the Airport franchise. It stars Robert Wagner, Alain Delon, Susan Blakely, Sylvia Kristel, George Kennedy, Eddie Albert, Bibi Andersson, Ed Begley Jr., Harry Shearer, Cicely Tyson, Sybil Danning and was distributed by Universal Pictures. It was a box office failure.
Bella Darvi
Bajla Węgier (October 23, 1928 – September 11, 1971), better known as Bella Darvi, was a Polish movie actress. She was born in Sosnowiec, Poland. She was known for her role as Richard Widmark's lover in Samuel Fuller's movie "Hell and High Water" (1954).
Darvi was bisexual. She killed herself with carbon monoxide at her home in Monte Carlo, aged 42.
Dana Wynter
Dana Wynter (born Dagmar Winter; 8 June 19315 May 2011) was a German-born English actress. Her best-known movie being "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" (1956). She won a Golden Globe Award. Wynter was born in Berlin.
Wynter died of congestive heart failure on 5 May 2011 in Ojai, California at the age of 79.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Invasion of the Body Snatchers is a 1956 American science fiction horror movie produced by Walter Wanger and directed by Don Siegel. It stars Kevin McCarthy and Dana Wynter. It is a black-and-white movie. It was based on Jack Finney's 1954 science fiction novel "The Body Snatchers".
Diane Varsi
Diane Marie Antonia Varsi (February 23, 1938 – November 19, 1992) was an American actress and dancer. She was best known for her roles in "Peyton Place" and "Wild in the Streets". She won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Academy Award. Varsi was born in San Mateo, California.
Varsi died on November 19, 1992 in Los Angeles of respiratory failure caused by Lyme disease, aged 54.
Linda Cristal
Linda Cristal (; born Marta Victoria Moya Peggo Burges, February 23, 1934 – June 27, 2020) was an Argentine-American actress. She appeared in many Western movies during the 1950s. She won a Golden Globe Award for her role in the 1958 comedy movie "The Perfect Furlough".
From 1967 to 1971, Cristal starred as Victoria Cannon in the NBC series "The High Chaparral". For her role she won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama in 1970, and received two Emmy Award nominations.
Cristal was born in Buenos Aires. She died at her home in Beverly Hills, California on June 27, 2020 at the age of 89.
Janet Munro
Janet Neilson Horsburgh (28 September 1934 – 6 December 1972), known as Janet Munro, was an English actress. She won a Golden Globe Award for her role in the movie "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" (1959). She also appeared in "Life for Ruth" (1962).
Munro starred in three Disney movies: "Darby O'Gill and the Little People" (1959), "Third Man on the Mountain" (1959) and "Swiss Family Robinson" (1960).
Other best known roles include "The Trollenberg Terror" (1958) and "The Day the Earth Caught Fire" (1961).
List of Priyanka Chopra Jonas performances
This is a list of performances by the Indian actress and singer Priyanka Chopra Jonas.
Wuhan Institute of Virology
The Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (WIV) is a research institute. It was designed to study virology. It is run by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The institute is in Jiangxia District, Wuhan, Hubei. It opened China's first biosafety level 4 (BSL–4) laboratory in 2015.
In January 2020, conspiracy theories spread which said that the the COVID-19 pandemic came from a virus made by the WIV. But scientific evidence says that the virus is natural. One story in the "Washington Post" said that US State Department had raised safety concerns about WIV's research on bat coronaviruses in 2018. In April 2020, U.S. intelligence officials looked into reports the virus may have started by an accident by WIV scientists studying bats.
Experts do not believe the virus escaped from the institute. One expert said that up to seven million people in Southeast Asia are infected each year with bat coronaviruses. He said there are probably only about six people who work with the viruses at the institute. It does not make sense that virus came from one of these of people compared with the millions of other people affected by bats. The staff at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were trained at US labs and follow high safety standards. The evidence shows that this is not a laboratory accident.
The WIV started in 1956 as the Wuhan Microbiology Laboratory under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). In 1961, it became the South China Institute of Microbiology, and in 1962 was renamed Wuhan Microbiology Institute. In June 1978 it was named Wuhan Institute of Virology.
In 2015, the WIV's National Bio-safety Laboratory was completed at a cost of 300 million yuan ($44 million). It was built with help from the French government's CIRI lab. Some of the money to build the laboratory was given by the U.S. government.
In 2005, a group including researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology published research into the origin of the SARS coronavirus. They found China's horseshoe bats have a lot of SARS-like coronaviruses. Scientists took samples from thousands of horseshoe bats in locations across China, and found over 300 bat coronaviruses.
In 2015, an international team including two scientists from the Institute made a hybrid virus, combining a bat coronavirus with a SARS virus. The SARS virus had been changed to grow in mice and copy human disease. The hybrid virus was able to infect human cells.
In 2017, a team from the Institute found that coronaviruses from horseshoe bats at a cave in Yunnan had all the genetic pieces of the SARS virus. They said this could be the source, and that the human SARS virus probably came from this cave. The team studied the bats for five years. They said there was a village only a kilometer away, and because of this there was the risk of another bat virus like SARS affecting people.
In December 2019, cases of pneumonia linked with an unknown coronavirus were reported to health authorities in Wuhan. The Institute checked its coronavirus collection and found the new virus was 96 percent identical to a sample its researchers had taken from horseshoe bats in southwest China.