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Thursday, March 21st, 2019 7:28 AM

LIVE POLL: Inspirational Women's History - Performance Arts Biopics

Each March in the USA, we recognize female achievements during Women's History Month. The highlight of the month-long celebration is International Women's Day on March 8 to commemorate the cultural, political, and socioeconomic achievements of women. The actionable theme for 2022 is "Gender equality today for a sustainable tomorrow." Help create a world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination by learning more @ IWD 2022 — Break The Bias and tweet in support on the Twitter hashtag #BreakTheBias. Movie biopics are a great way to honor, educate and celebrate the contributions of great women with the star power they deserve. In honor of these trailblazing women: Which of these female performance artists* inspires you the most, or alternatively their biopic? *PERFORMANCE ARTS: Actresses, Dancers, Vaudeville/Theater Performers, Comedians, Circus Performers, Models, Entertainers, Etc. Women's History Month Companion Polls Female Leader Biopics : Female Trailblazer Biopics : Female Humanitarian Biopics : Female Sports Biopics : Female Writer Biopics : Visual Artist Biopics : Performance Artist Biopics   Live Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/--8eJeLzERs/ See the partial lists of inspirational female performance artists and their MOVIE BIOPIC list here: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls046955352/

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Okay very quick list but not complete by any measureValeria LakhinaEmily BloomMartina RajicVictoria Winters/Moran (models)Natalie PortmanLady GagaScarlett JohansonAnna FarisKendra WilkinsonCharlize TheronSharon StoneMichelle PfeifferElizabeth TaylorHillaryMerkeland many moreIs it okay if I add more names later? I can also add my list of favorite people

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Yes, but in order to be listed they must have both a movie biopic about them and must be some type of performance artist.A lot of these suggestions have yet to have a movie biopic made about them,P.S. I removed Singers and Musicians from the scope and have given them their own poll suggestion, (given the volume of actress and musician biopics) Inspirational Women's History Singer and Musician Biopics,P.S.S. I left some widely seen and more negative role model biopics like Mommie Dearest (1981) on the the list. I took a contrarian view that it might inspire some to be a better mother or better father or not want to be that type of parent.

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Honorable Mentions Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B 2014 | TV Movie 3.1 (1,237) Aaliyah: Singer, Actress and Model Hilde 2009 | Movie 6.8 (683) Hildegard Knef: Actress Monica Z  2013 | Movie 6.9 (3,395) Monica Zetterlund: Singer and Actress Liz & Dick 2012 | TV Movie 4.1 (3,812) Elizabeth Taylor: ActressLiz: The Elizabeth Taylor Story (1995) | TV Movie Britney Ever After 2017 | TV Movie 2.5 (841) Britney Spears: Singer and Actress The Jayne Mansfield Story 1980 | TV Movie 5.2 (703) Jayne Mansfield: Actress Harlow 1965 | Movie 5.6 (638) Jean Harlow: Actress

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5 years ago

I personally find this list to be a slightly odd mix of people. I would perhaps focus on stage performers and actors, and move Marina Abramovich to your other artist list.

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5 years ago

Performance Art is intended to be a catch all category, the type of acts is constant while the technology to showcase them has evolved over the past century.

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Calling most of these people "performance artists" is a stretch.

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I using the classification as in the broadly defined performance arts vs. visual arts meaning, not the obsurce, electric subset type that you are conjuring.

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5 years ago

FYC (1) Radioactive (2019), about Marie Curie(2) Girl, Interrupted (1999), about BP/BPD sufferer Susanna Kaysen (Kaysen is not much of a celebrity, but her story does resonate with a lot of us who have mood disorders, Will leave the film's inclusion to your discretion.)

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Marie Curie and Radioactive are listed in the inspirational Women's History trailblazer edition. https://www.imdb.com/poll/4iuL35Cav5E/

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3 years ago

Performance Arts

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3 years ago

Tuesday, March 8th is International Women's Day

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3 years ago

This poll suggestion is ready for publication. 

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3 years ago

Typo: Tippi Hendren

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@Peter_pbn​ Thanks, corrected 

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3 years ago

@urbanemovies , The Poll Admin Tool is complaining that the description is too long. I suspect that the tool counts the formatting text and links, not just the rendered characters. Unfortunately, the Poll Admin Tool does not indicate by how much the description exceeds the limit or what the limit is. For this poll to go live, we will have to iteratively remove links until description fits within the maximum number of characters.

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@dan_dassow​ Try it now, it should work. I removed all the introduction hyperlinks. It is basically an identical introduction to the IWD Visual Artist poll that was featured two days ago. It must have been at the tipping point then; since I did add the Visual Artist hyperlink to this one in the companion poll section. That character addition must have put this poll suggestion over the top, chatacterwise. Women's History Month Companion Polls Leader Biopics : Trailblazer Biopics : Humanitarian Biopics : Sports Biopics : Writer Biopics : Singer/Musician Biopics : Visual Artist Biopics

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@urbanemovies , It worked.

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@dan_dassow​ Thanks, sorry for the extra work.

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@urbanemovies​ , Even after more than 8 years, I still occasionally find unexpected quirks with the Poll Admin Tool.

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@dan_dassow​  Thanks, It is a constant battle for me not to fully explain the premises, as a result the introductions tend to be lengthy. But, you were right the text was shocking long between the IWD hyperlinks and the companion poll hyperlinks from previous years' IWD polls.

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@urbanemovies​ , I personally did not believe that your previous version of the introduction is too long, although it probably was at the bleeding edge of being between being just right and too long.

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@dan_dassow​ I like the restriction, it forces brevity. FYI, the complete text was double to triple the visible length when the hyperlink code was uncompressed and exposed.

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3 years ago

Congratulations, @urbanemovies​! Inspirational Women's History Performer Biopics Live Poll: https://www.imdb.com/poll/--8eJeLzERs/

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3 years ago

La vie en Rose 2007 - Edith Piaf - singer Dreamgirls 2006 - The Supremes - singer

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@mariojacobs​ Thanks, those are good suggestions. I was forced to split off singers and musicians into their own poll, https://www.imdb.com/poll/eSNflAFW1xA/