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Jan 18, 2020Jan 2020

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Lana Turner 1920-1995 Born Julia Turner in Wallace, Idaho. Moved to California at age 9 with her mother after her father was a robbery-murder victim. Nominated for Best Actress Oscar in "Peyton Place," 1957. 1958: Her daughter, Cheryl Crane, was ...

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Jan 12, 2020Jan 2020

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Jean Harlow 1911-1937 A talented comedienne and actress of great humor and glamor. Born Harlean Carpenter in Kansas City, Missouri. Married wealthy businessman at age 16, moving to Beverly Hills, California. Began acting in small roles, usually in ...

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Dec 6, 2019Dec 2019

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Gina Lollobrigida Born Luigina Lollobrigida in 1927 in Subiaco, Italy, she is now 92 years old. She was educated and worked as a photojournalist and sculptor before she was noticed by Italian film producers and offered an acting career in movies. ...

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Nov 30, 2019Nov 2019

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Lillian Gish 1893-1993 Born in Springfield, Ohio Stage debut at age 5 years. Began her 75 year-long movie career in 1911 after being introduced to D. W. Griffith. Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for "Duel in the Sun" 1946 .Special Academy ...

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Nov 20, 2019Nov 2019

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Shirley Temple 1928-2014 For several years in the 1930s the little curly-haired girl was the biggest box office draw. I recall my parents saying they never missed a Shirley Temple movie in those days. Born in Santa Monica, California, her mother ...

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Nov 7, 2019Nov 2019

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Gloria Grahame 1923-1981 Born Gloria Grahame Hallward in Los Angeles. She began her acting at age 9 with the Pasadena Community Playhouse. Made her Broadway debut in 1943, and in films in 1944. She was nominated twice for Best Supporting Actress ...

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Nov 3, 2019Nov 2019

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Brigitte Bardot Born in Paris, France in 1934. Became a model before going into acting and films. She rose to international fame after starring in the 1956 film "...And God Created Woman," directed by her future husband Roger Vadim. The film broke ...

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Oct 26, 2019Oct 2019

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Gale Sondergaard 1899-1985 Note: if you are not familiar with movies of the 1930s & 40s her name may not be known to you. She became well known in those years playing mostly sinister and female villians. Born Edith Holm Sondergaard in Litchfield, ...

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Oct 23, 2019Oct 2019

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Wendy Hiller 1912-2003 Born in Bramhall, Cheshire, England. She was educated at Winceby House School, and later in Manchester Repertory Theatre. She was an accomplished, award-winning stage actress, touring London and New York for most of her nearly...

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Oct 21, 2019Oct 2019

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Jeanne Moreau 1928-2017 Born in Paris, France, she was once the youngest student,at age 20, to join the French repertory company Theatre Nationale Populaire ( Comedie Francaise ) . At 21 she made her film debut in the 1949 French film "Last Love." ...

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Oct 17, 2019Oct 2019

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Olympia Dukakis I haven't watched many of her movies, but what I've seen of her is top-quality acting. Born in Lowell, Massachusetts in 1931, the daughter of Greek imagrants. She was educated at Boston University, and began appearing in stage ...

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Oct 13, 2019Oct 2019

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Susan Hayward 1918-1975 Born Edythe Marrener in Brooklyn, N.Y. She became a model whose photograph came to the attention of Hollywood Producers. She was nominated for Oscars five times: "Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman" 1947, "My Foolish Heart" 1949, ...

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Oct 10, 2019Oct 2019

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Ann-Margret Born Ann-Margret Olsson in Stockholm, Sweden in 1941. After her family moved to the U.S. in 1946, she was discovered years later singing and dancing in a nightclub and offered a film part. She was once voted 'least promising actress' by ...

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Oct 8, 2019Oct 2019

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Uma Thurman Born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1970, she began her career in front of the spotlight as a model at age 15. Her movie debut came in 1987, at age 17, in the thriller "Kiss Daddy Goodnight." She has received one Oscar nomination for "Pulp ...

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Oct 7, 2019Oct 2019

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Sally Field Born in Pasadena, California in 1946. Her mother was actress Margret Field who acted in several movies of the late 1940s and early 50s. Her step-father was actor Jock Mahoney. She started out in television starring in several sitcoms: ...

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Oct 6, 2019Oct 2019

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Jean Arthur 1900-1991 Born Gladys Greene in N.Y.City. As a teen she did some work as a model - which led to some minor roles in the New York theater. In 1923 she made her first screen appearance in "Cameo Kirby" which was directed by John Ford. She ...

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Oct 3, 2019Oct 2019

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Charlize Theron Born in Benoni, Transvaal Province, South Africa in1975. She was a model by age 16 while living in Italy. After moving to New York a year later to study ballet, she suffered a knee injury that put a stop to her training. She moved to ...

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Sep 28, 2019Sep 2019

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Rosalind Russell 1908-1976 Born in Waterbury, Connecticut, she made her stage debut in the 1920s, and film debut in "Evelyn Prentice" in 1934. She never won an Oscar, but was nominated four times for "My Sister Eileen" 1942, "Sister Kenny" 1946, ...

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Sep 28, 2019Sep 2019

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Shirley Jones Born in Smithton, Pennsylvania in 1934. She began a singing career at age 6, and while still a teenager she joined a touring theater company in the musical "Oklahoma." While mostly cast in musicals or comedies, she ironically won a ...

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Sep 24, 2019Sep 2019

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Shirley MacLaine Born in Richmond, Virginia in 1934. Shirley is the older sister of actor Warren Beatty. She joined the chorus line in New York, performing in several different shows including a revival of "Oklahoma" in 1953. Made her screen debut in...

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Sep 19, 2019Sep 2019

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Loretta Young 1913-2000 Born Gretchen Young in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her mother moved to Hollywood with Loretta and her two sisters in 1918 and opened up a boarding house. Loretta and her sisters went to work as child extras in films. Her debut as an...

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Sep 16, 2019Sep 2019

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Patricia Neal 1926-2010 Born in Packard, Kentucky, she was a very successful stage actress on Broadway before going into motion pictures. She won a Tony Award in 1946 for the lead in the Broadway production of Lillian Hellman's "Another Part of the ...

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Sep 14, 2019Sep 2019

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Greta Garbo 1905-1990 Born Greta Louisa Gustafsson in Stockholm, Sweden. She left school at age 13 to help care for her sick father, who died one year later. She made her film debut, after her photo was seen in an advertisement, in the 1922 Swedish ...

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Sep 13, 2019Sep 2019

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Karen Black 1939-2013 Born Karen Blanche Zeigler in Park Ridge, Illinois. After studying acting with Lee Strasberg at the Actors' Studio in New York she debuted on Broadway in 'The Playroom' in 1965. She was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress ...

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Sep 9, 2019Sep 2019

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Lee Remick 1935-1991 Born in Boston, Massachusettes, she attended the Swaboda School of Dance, and studied acting at Barnard College in New York. Remick acted and danced on stage and did some television appearances before her film debut in "A Face ...

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Sep 7, 2019Sep 2019

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Mary Pickford 1892-1979 Most film fans have probably heard of her, but a lot of what she did has been long forgotten. Born Gladys Smith in Toronto, Canada, she started acting on the stage at age 6 to help earn money for her family after her father ...

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Sep 6, 2019Sep 2019

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Carrie Fisher 1956-2016 Born in Los Angeles to actress Debbie Reynolds and singer Eddie Fisher. Carrie began performing at age 12 in her mother's night club act, and at 17 made her Broadway debut in a chorus line. She was quite noticable in her ...

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Sep 5, 2019Sep 2019

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Ida Lupino 1918-1995 Born in London, England, she was the daughter of British comedian Stanley Lupino ( 1893-1942 ) . She made her first movie appearance in England in 1933 in "Her First Affaire." She became one of the more popular actresses of the...

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Sep 2, 2019Sep 2019

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Geraldine Page 1924-1987 Born in Kirksville, Missouri, she began acting as a teen and by the early 1950s she was on Broadway, winning the New York Critics Award for Best Actress in two Tennessee Williams plays: "Summer & Smoke" and "Sweet Bird of ...

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Aug 30, 2019Aug 2019

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Claire Bloom Born Patricia Claire Blume in 1931 in London, England. Determined to be a Shakespearean actress at an early age, at age 15 she began acting with Oxford Repertory Theater. Later she did Shakepeare at Stratford-on-Avon. Bloom made her ...

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Aug 27, 2019Aug 2019

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Julia Roberts Born in Smyrna, Georgia in 1967. Julia was introduced to acting at a young age by her parents who ran an actors and writers workshop in Atlanta. She had a few supporting roles before starring as a Beverly Hills prostitute in "Pretty ...

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Aug 26, 2019Aug 2019

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Barbara Stanwyck 1907-1990 Born Ruby Stevens in Brooklyn, New York, she was orphaned at age 4 and was raised by her older sister and assorted relatives. She began as a dancer in night clubs and by age 15 she became a Ziegfeld chorus dancer. She also ...

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Aug 22, 2019Aug 2019

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Mia Farrow Born in Los Angeles in 1945, the daughter of actress Maureen O'Sullivan and director John Farrow. Her major film debut was in the 1964 film "Guns at Batasi" for which she received a Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year. From 1964 ...

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Aug 20, 2019Aug 2019

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Halle Berry Born Halle Maria Berry in Cleveland, Ohio in 1966. After winning a number of beauty pageants, Berry had a brief career as a model. She moved to Hollywood in 1990 and managed to get a small role as a drug addict in Spike Lee's 1991 film ...

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Aug 18, 2019Aug 2019

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Olivia de Havilland Born Olivia Mary de Havilland in Tokyo on July 1, 1916 - which makes her now 103 years old, and presently living in Paris, France having been retired from movies since 1986. Her younger sister was actress Joan Fontaine. ( ...

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Aug 17, 2019Aug 2019

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Joan Fontaine 1917-2013 Born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland in Tokyo to English parents, and the younger sister of actress Olivia de Havilland. Her parents separated when Joan was 2 years old and she took her step-father's name, Fontaine. She made ...

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Aug 14, 2019Aug 2019

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Juliette Binoche Born in Paris in 1964. She became interested in becoming an actress as a teenager, but after trying drama school she dropped out because she was unhappy with the cirriculum, and began training with an acting coach and joined a ...

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Aug 13, 2019Aug 2019

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Susan Sarandon Born Susan Tomalin in New York City in 1946. She used the last name of her actor-husband, Chris Sarandon, as her acting name. Susan started her career in TV soap operas. Her first big role came in 1970 with the movie "Joe." But she ...

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Aug 9, 2019Aug 2019

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Barbra Streisand Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1942. After she graduated high school she worked as a switchboard operator while trying to become an actress. After winning a talent contest at a Greenwich Village night club, in 1960, she began ...

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Aug 7, 2019Aug 2019

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Rita Moreno Born Rosita Dolores Alverio in Puerto Rico in 1931. She was a professional dancer and singer, and made her Broadway stage debut at age 13. The following year, 1945, she went to Hollywood for a small part in "A Medal for Benny," which ...

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Aug 3, 2019Aug 2019

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Sophia Loren Born Sofia Villani Scicolone in Rome, Italy in 1934. She grew up near Naples, living in poverty with her mother during WW2. She was noticed at age 15, after winning a beauty contest, by film producer Carlo Ponti - who she later married. ...

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Jul 29, 2019Jul 2019

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Angelica Huston Born in Los Angeles in 1951, the daughter of ballerina Enrica Soma and film director John Huston. She made her first film in 1969 - "A Walk with Love and Death" - but when the film failed to be a hit she turned to doing stage acting ...

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Jul 27, 2019Jul 2019

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Elsa Lanchester 1902-1986 Born Elizabeth Sullivan in London, England. She began her acting career at age 16, originally trained as a singer, she was a prominent actress on the British stage and screen. In 1929 she married actor Charles Laughton and ...

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Jul 25, 2019Jul 2019

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Ava Gardner 1922-1990 Born in Smithfield, North Carolina, Ava was one of 6 children of a poor tenant farmer. While visiting her older married sister in New York, her brother-in-law - a professional photographer - took her photo which somehow reached...

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Jul 22, 2019Jul 2019

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Ethel Barrymore. 1879-1959 Born Ethel May Barrymore in Philadelphia. She was the daughter of renowned actor Maurice Barrymore and actress Georgiana Drew. Ethel was known as the first lady of the theatre for 40 years and made her stage debut at age ...

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Jul 20, 2019Jul 2019

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Ethel Merman. 1908-1984 Born Agnes Zimmerman in Astoria, Queens, New York, she was a former secretary who sang in small night clubs. She changed her name and got her big break singing on Broadway in Gershwin's "Girl Crazy," introducing the song that ...

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Jul 19, 2019Jul 2019

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Nicole Kidman Born in Hawaii to Australian parents in 1966. She appeared in low-budget Australian films, finally being noticed in the 1989 Austrailian thriller "Dead Calm." The following year she made her first appearance in an American film, "Days ...

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Jul 16, 2019Jul 2019

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Agnes Moorehead. 1906-1974 Born in Clinton, Massachusetts. She started out as a singer and ballet dancer, did acting in the theatre, and then did radio programs and joined Orson Welles Mercury Theatre Players...making her film debut in 1941 in ...

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Jul 11, 2019Jul 2019

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Joan Crawford. 1904-1977 + + her birth year seems to be in question. Some sources say 1905 & some 1906. Most say 1904.. Born Lucille LeSueur in San Antonio, Texas. Her parents divorced when she was a baby and her father disappeared from her life. ...

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Jul 4, 2019Jul 2019

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Shelly Winters. 1922-2006 Born Shirley Schrift in St. Louis, Missouri, she grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., her acting career covers nearly 60 years. She appeared on Broadway in her late teens and soon had a contract with Columbia Pictures. Her first film ...

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Jun 30, 2019Jun 2019

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Julie Christie Born Julie Frances Christie in 1941 in India to British parents, he father ran a tea plantation. She started studying art in Paris, then went to acting on the London stage and British Tv. Christie soon became one of the most popular ...

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Jun 25, 2019Jun 2019

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Jane Fonda Born Jayne Seymour Fonda in New York City in 1937. Although her father was famed film star Henry Fonda, Jane showed little interest in acting at first. After attending Vassar Collage she decided to go to Paris, France to study art. Later ...

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Jun 21, 2019Jun 2019

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Judi Dench Born Judith Olivia Dench in York, England in 1934, Dame Judi Dench had been an accomplished and respected actress of the stage long before her film career got off the ground. She studied at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in ...

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Jun 20, 2019Jun 2019

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Vanessa Redgrave Born in London, England in 1937, the daughter of actor Sir Michael Redgrave, and older sister to actress Lynn Redgrave. She started preparing for her acting career at the Central School of Speech and Drama in London. After joining ...

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Jun 18, 2019Jun 2019

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Lucille ball. 1911-1989 Known for her character Lucy Ricardo on the TV's comedy sit-com "I Love Lucy," (which was an overnight sensation - and ran from 1951-1961) Lucille Ball was also in more than 50 motion pictures during her career. Beginning in ...

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Jun 16, 2019Jun 2019

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Ginger Rogers. 1911-1995 Born Virginia McMath in Independence, Missouri. At age 14 she joined Eddie Foy's vaudeville troupe. Later she sang with a band, appeared in several film shorts, and had success in Broadway musicals. She first appeared with ...

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Jun 14, 2019Jun 2019

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Faye Dunaway Born in Bascome, Florida, she appeared in off-Broadway plays before going to Hollywood in 1966. Almost overnight she became a star for her portrayal of Bonnie Parker in the 1967 crime drama "Bonnie and Clyde." It also brought Faye her ...

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Jun 13, 2019Jun 2019

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Ellen Burstyn Born Edna Rae Gillooly in Detroit, Michigan, 1932. She began her career as a model, then a dancer, and in the late 1950s as an actress on Broadway and some TV appearances under the name Ellen McRae that included being a regular in the ...

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Jun 11, 2019Jun 2019

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Rita Hayworth. 1918-1987 Born Margarita Carmen Cansino in Brooklyn, N.Y, she was the daughter of a well known Latin dancer, Eduardo Cansino. She began her dancing career at age 6, and was dancing in films by age 18 under the name Rita Cansino. After ...

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Jun 10, 2019Jun 2019

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Judy Garland 1922-1969 Born Frances Gumm on June 10, 1922 in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, Judy had an early introduction to show business. Her father was the manager of the New Theatre in Grand Rapids, and often had his three daughters, Judy the ...

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Jun 8, 2019Jun 2019

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Bette Midler Born in Paterson, New Jersey in 1945, she grew up in Hawaii where she made her film debut in a bit part in the 1965 film "Hawaii." With the money she saved she went to Los Angeles and then New York where she joined the chorus of the ...

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Jun 6, 2019Jun 2019

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Anne Bancroft. 1931-2005 Born Anna Maria Louise Italiano, she began singing and dancing at age 4. While attending the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and The Actors Studio in New York she began appearing on TV and made her movie debut in "Don't ...

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Jun 1, 2019Jun 2019

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On June 1, 1926, Norma Jean Baker was born. She would be 93 today. She became Marilyn Monroe.

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May 31, 2019May 2019

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Bette Davis 1908-1989 Born Ruth Elizabeth Davis in Lowell, Massachusetts. After moving to New York City with her mother and sister, she began to train as a dancer but soon dropped out to pursue an acting career. After making some appearances on ...

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May 29, 2019May 2019

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Marlene Dietrich 1901-1992 Born Maria Magdalene Dietrich in West Berlin, Germany. Noticing her daughter's musical talent, Marlene's mother enrolled her in Berlin's highly acclaimed Hochschule fur Musik, the State musical academy. There she studied ...

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May 24, 2019May 2019

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Greer Garson 1904-1996 Born: Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson in London, England. Started on stage in England. She won a Best Actress Oscar for "Mrs. Miniver" in 1942. She also received Oscar nominations for "Goodbye Mr. Chips" 1939, "Blossoms in the Dust"...

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May 11, 2019May 2019

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Maureen O'Hara. 1920-2015 Born Maureen Fitzsimons in the suburb of Ranelagh of Dublin, Ireland, she began her training in acting, singing and dancing at age 6 and performing later at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. Her first major film role was in ...

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Apr 19, 2019Apr 2019

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JODIE FOSTER: Born Alicia Christian Foster in Los Angeles, California in 1962. Made her first screen appearance at age 3 in a TV commercial, she now has over 50 years in films. She has won 2 Best Actress Oscars for "The Accused" -1988 and "Silence of...

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Apr 17, 2019Apr 2019

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Elizabeth Taylor 1932-2011 Born in London, England, to American parents. Her family was evacuated to the United States in 1939, at the beginning of WW2. She was fashioned to be an actress by her Mother at an early age, beginning her film career...

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