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Joanna Marie Shimkus [1] was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Joseph Shimkus, [4] a Jewish father of Lithuanian descent, [5] and Marie Petrie, [4] a Roman Catholic of Irish descent. [6] Her father worked for the Royal Canadian Navy. [7] She attended a convent school [8] and was brought up in Montreal. [9]
The Virgin and the Gypsy is a 1970 British drama film directed by Christopher Miles and starring Joanna Shimkus and Franco Nero.The screenplay by Alan Plater was based on the novella of the same name by D. H. Lawrence.
Sidney Poitier (/ ˈ p w ɑː t j eɪ / PWAH-tyay; [1] February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian-American actor, film director, activist, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. [2]
Sidney Poitier and Joanna Shimkus Poitier in 1969's 'The Lost Man' Sidney was really an amazing person, and the most interesting and intellectual man that I’ve ever known — and I’ve known ...
The Last Adventure (French: Les Aventuriers) is a 1967 French-Italian adventure drama film directed by Robert Enrico and based on a novel by José Giovanni.Two men, Alain Delon and Lino Ventura, and a girl, Joanna Shimkus, escape setbacks in France to go in search of sunken treasure off the coast of Africa.
The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker is a 1971 American romantic comedy-drama film produced and directed by Lawrence Turman (in his directorial debut) and written by Lorenzo Semple Jr., based on a novel of the same title by Charles Webb.
Robert Alan Aurthur (director); Sidney Poitier, Joanna Shimkus, Al Freeman Jr. 13 Me, Natalie: National General Pictures: Fred Coe (director); Patty Duke, James Farentino, Martin Balsam: 14 Easy Rider: Columbia Pictures: Dennis Hopper (director); Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson: 18 The Appointment: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
A Time for Loving is a 1972 British film directed by Christopher Miles and starring Joanna Shimkus and Mel Ferrer. [1] The screenplay was by the French playwright Jean Anouilh. It is a bitter-sweet nostalgic look at Paris just before and during the second World War as seen by three couples, who over the years rent the same artist's studio in ...