A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Originally from Pittsburgh, Linda started her career at the age of fourteen. She's a multitalented entertainer with a cutting edge vocal ability. She has worked with Great Performers such as Tony Bennett, Dizzy Gillispie, Frankie Valli, Joe Cocker, Shirley Bassey, Diana Ross, Joan Rivers, Al Martino, Chuck Berry, Chubby Checkers & More. She has fronted prestigious big bands & Jazz combos at elegant venues such as the White House and New York's Legendary Rainbow Room. Linda is also an established actress with appearances on several TV shows including Law & Order, Hope & Faith, Just Shoot Me, As The World Turns & many more. She has also been seen in National Commercials and Feature Films. Performing also for two United States Presidents. Her versatile singing has brought her around the world from The United States, China, Germany, Canada, Bermuda, Italy, France & Mexico with her smooth Jazz sounds in Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese & Hebrew
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.