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    Rita Gam (born April 2, 1928) is an American film and television actress and documentary film maker. She was nominated for a Golden Globe and won the Silver Bear for Best Actress. Career Gam's career began on Broadway and in television, after which she moved on to films, appearing first in the 1952 film noir The Thief with Ray Milland. Another notable role was Herodias in the 1961 film King of Kings. She shared the Silver Bear for Best Actress award with Viveca Lindfors at the 1962 Berlin Film Festival, for their performances in Tad Danielewski's No exit. She appeared in a few more American films before finding work in Europe. Gam returned to the U.S. to appear in sm…

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    Sally Forrest (born Sally Feeney, May 28, 1928, San Diego, California), is an American film actress of the 1940s and 1950s. Forrest began her film career as a dancer in films in the 1940s before moving on to small film roles. After meeting director Ida Lupino, she was cast in a few of her films including Not Wanted and Hard Fast and Beautiful. After moving to New York with her husband, writer and producer Milo Frank, her film work all but stopped. She appeared in summer-stock theater and on Broadway appearing in shows such as The Seven Year Itch. Forrest and her husband owned the former home of Jean Harlow and Paul Bern on Easton Drive, off Benedict Canyon Drive, Beverl…

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    Date of birth : 24 may 1985 she is a turkish model and actress she has study bussines managment... 2007 she takes part at miss turkey and won third place ... she also played in two soap baba ocagi-özge arka siradakiler- filiz

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    Michele Ann Marie "Shelley" Fabares (born January 19, 1944) is an American actress and singer. Fabares is known for her roles as Donna Reed's oldest child, "Mary Stone," on The Donna Reed Show (from 1958 to 1963), and as Craig T. Nelson's love interest and eventual wife, Christine Armstrong Fox, on the sitcom Coach. She was also Elvis Presley's costar in three films. Early life and career Born Michele Ann Marie Fabares in Santa Monica, California, she is the niece of Nanette Fabray. Fabares began acting at age three and at age 10 made her television debut in an episode of Letter to Loretta. After guest-starring on various television series, Fabares landed the role of "M…

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    Dorothy Ford (born April 4, 1923, in Perris, California) is an American actress and model active during the 1940s through 1960s. She began her career as a model, largely due to her extreme height of 6 feet, 2 inches (188 cm) and a 38-26-38-and-a-half figure. In 1944, she made her screen debut in Lady in the Dark and as Coffy Smith in an Andy Hardy movie Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946). She continued her acting career, including a role in Abbott and Costello's 1952 film, Jack and the Beanstalk, Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1947)]] until 1966, when she put in her final (and uncredited) performance in British film The Wrong Box. She made 39 movies from 1943 to 1962.

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    17 July 1928 is born in Tulsa, Oklahoma November 1945 tagged a school girl actress, she is appraised as Merle Oberon's 12-year-old daughter in This Love of Ours marries producer-director Laurence S. Sauber, a.k.a. Larry Stewart 5 July 1958 her daughter Carrie L. is born in Los Angeles 22 October 1960 her daughter Kathleen E. is born in Los Angeles 1997 Stewart dies at age 66 in 1997 in Los Angeles Sue England Stewart, she resides in Van Nuys, California untitled.bmp untitled.bmp

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    Esmeralda Moya 31 August 1985, Madrid, Madrid, Spain www.imdb.com/name/nm2380112/ Esmeralda Moya /monthly_08_2009/post-33085-0-1446121622-74541_thumb.jpg" data-fileid="4397603" alt="post-33085-0-1446121622-74541_thumb.jpg" data-ratio="160.75"> /monthly_08_2009/post-33085-0-1446121622-88234_thumb.jpg" data-fileid="4397609" alt="post-33085-0-1446121622-88234_thumb.jpg" data-ratio="143.13"> /monthly_08_2009/post-33085-0-1446121622-89773_thumb.jpg" data-fileid="4397610" alt="post-33085-0-1446121622-89773_thumb.jpg" data-ratio="143.13">

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    Whitney Blake (February 20, 1926 — September 28, 2002) was an American film and television actress, director and producer. Blake was born as Nancy Ann Whitney in 1926 in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California, the first child of Martha Mae Wilkensen and Harry Whitney. She appeared on a number of television programs, including the syndicated Johnny Midnight, Sheriff of Cochise, and twice on Rod Cameron's State Trooper. Blake is best remembered for having portrayed Dorothy Baxter, an interior designer and the wife of George Baxter (Don DeFore), a lawyer, on the NBC sitcom Hazel (1961), starring Shirley Booth in the title role. Before Hazel, she guest-starred on Mike Connors…

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    Lina Basquette (April 19, 1907 – September 30, 1994) was an American actress noted as much for her more than 75 years in entertainment beginning in the silent film era, as her tumultuous personal life and nine marriages. Early years She was born Lena Copeland Baskette to shop owner Frank Baskette and Gladys Rosenberg in San Mateo, California. After the death of her father and subsequent marriage of her mother to dance director Ernest Belcher, she and half-sister Marge Champion got an early start in dance and entertaining. She danced in the Ziegfeld Follies in New York City, and secured her first film contract at the age of nine in 1916 with Universal Studios for the si…

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    Marnette Patterson was born on April 26, 1980 in Los Angeles, California. She is best known for her role as Nicole Farrell on the NBC series Something So Right, starring Mel Harris and Jere Burns. She also starred in the short-lived WB sitcom Movie Stars and the made-for-TV movie The Stalking of Laurie Show. Outside of television, Marnette has also appeared in films such as Camp Nowhere, Who's Your Daddy?, Pope Dreams and Cloud Nine. She also was in "It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown" and "It's Spring Training, Charlie Brown". In October 2005, she guest starred on the hit WB show Supernatural as a young high school student caught in the wrath of Bloody Mary. She al…

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    Faye Margaret Emerson (July 8, 1917 – March 9, 1983) was an American film actress and television interviewer, known as "The First Lady of Television". She acted in in many Warner Brothers films beginning in 1941. In 1944, she played one of her more memorable roles as Zachary Scott's ex in The Mask of Dimitrios. She was born to Lawrence and Emma (Smythe) in the tiny community of Elizabeth, Allen Parish in southwestern Louisiana. In 1948, she made a move to television and began acting in various anthology series including The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre, The Philco Television Playhouse and Goodyear Television Playhouse. She served as host for several short-lived talk shows and …

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    Beverly Bayne (born Pearl Beverly Bain) (November 11, 1894 – August 18, 1982) was an American actress who appeared in silent films beginning in 1910 in Chicago, Illinois, where she worked for Essanay Studios. Early life Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, she moved to Chicago when she was six. She stayed there for a time, and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, before she settled in Chicago. She was sixteen when by curiosity she happened by the Essanay Studios. She was told she had a camera face. She began working there at a salary of $35/week. It was soon increased to $75 a week. In a few years the actress was earning $350 weekly. Film career Her first films were The Rivals …

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    Sally Blane (July 11, 1910 – August 27, 1997) was an American actress. Blane was the sister of actresses Polly Ann Young and Loretta Young, and half-sister to actress Georgiana Young, the wife of actor Ricardo Montalban. She appeared in over 70 movies. Born Elizabeth Jane Young in Salida, Colorado, she had her film debut at the age of seven when she appeared in Sirens of the Sea in 1917. She returned to the film business as an adult in the 1920s where she played small parts in a number of silent films. Her career continued into the 1930s when Blane appeared in a number of low-budget films, among them Once a Sinner (1930), A Dangerous Affair (1930), Arabian Knights (1931…

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    Bessie Barriscale (September 30, 1884 – June 30, 1965) was an American silent film and stage actress, and a major star for producer Thomas Ince in the late 1910s. Early life and career Barriscale was born Elizabeth Barry Scale, in Hoboken, New Jersey to Irish immigrants from County Cork. Her cousins were actresses Edith and Mabel Taliaferro. Barriscale began her film career in 1913, and worked intensively for New York Motion Picture Company and Triangle Film Corporation (among other studios) until she announced her retirement in the early 1930s. In 1918, Barriscale was contracted by J.L. Frothingham of B.B. Features and the Roberson Cole Company to make sixteen films. B…

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    Gladys Brockwell (September 26, 1893 – July 2, 1929) was an American actress whose career began during the silent film era. Early life Born Gladys Lindeman in Brooklyn, New York, she was the daughter of a chorus girl who put her on stage at a very early age. By the time she reached her middle teens, she was already a veteran and taking on dramatic leading roles. She made her East Coast film debut in 1913 as Gladys Brockwell for Lubin Studios and within a short time was starring in a number of films. Developing her craft, Brockwell moved to Hollywood where she earned herself an important role in the acclaimed 1922 version of Oliver Twist and in The Hunchback of Notre Dam…

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    Rosemarie Bowe (born September 17, 1932) is an American film and television actress. Her father was a building contractor and her mother was a dress designer. The family moved to Tacoma, Washington when Bowe was a child. She graduated from Stadium High School in Tacoma just before moving to Los Angeles, California. Beauty contestant She was crowned Miss Tomica and Miss Montana in 1950. In May 1951 Bowe competed in a contest to choose the queen of the sixth annual Home Show and Building Exposition. Along with Mary Ellen Nichols, she was a runner-up to the contest winner, Linda Peterson. Model When she arrived in California, Bowe secured work as a model. Her measureme…

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    Barbara Bedford (19 July 1900—25 October 1981) was born in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin and was educated in Chicago, where she graduated from Lake View High School. She felt the urge to appear on the silver screen at that time and immediately set out for Hollywood, where she impressed Lambert Hillyer, William S. Hart's director, by her unusual beauty and charm. Despite the fact that she had no stage or screen experience, he cast her for a role in Hart's The Cradle of Courage (1920). She starred in the 1927 silent film "Mockery" with Lon Chaney. Her career declining after the switch to sound, she signed with MGM in 1936 to play bit and extra parts. Her last known film appe…

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    30 November 1925 is born in Néris-les-Bains, Allier, France Mid-1940s begins as a fashion model then turns to films 1963 marries Roberto Seabra, a wealthy Brazilian 1965 divorces Seabra 1974 becomes the girlfriend of Raymond Marcellin, Interior minister of France September 2004 Marcellin dies at age 90 2008 resides in Paris untitled.bmp untitled.bmp

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    Marion "Peanuts" Byron (born Miriam Bilenkin in Dayton, Ohio, March 16, 1911 – died in Santa Monica, California, July 5, 1985) was a petite (5 feet), plucky American movie comedienne. After following her sister into a short stage career as a singer/dancer, she was given her first movie role as Buster Keaton's leading lady in the film Steamboat Bill, Jnr. in 1928. From there she was hired by Hal Roach to co-star in short subjects with Max Davidson, Edgar Kennedy, and Charley Chase, but most significantly with Anita Garvin, where tiny (5') Marion was teamed with 6' Anita for a brief (3 film) series as a "female Laurel & Hardy" in 1928–1929. She left Roach before they …

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    Priscilla Bonner (February 17, 1899 – February 21, 1996) was an American silent film actress. Career Born in Washington, D.C., Bonner made her film debut opposite Charles Ray in the 1920 film Homer Comes Home, after being signed to MGM that same year. She went on to co-star with Jack Pickford in The Man Who Had Everything (1920), Lon Chaney, Sr. in Shadows (1922), and comedian Harry Langdon in The Strong Man. In 1925 she successfully sued Warner Brothers and won a substantial cash settlement when she was originally chosen and then dropped as leading lady from John Barrymore's The Sea Beast in favor of Barrymore's new real life love interest Dolores Costello.In 1927, Bon…

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    Sylvia Breamer (9 June 1897 - 7 June 1943) was an Australian actress who performed in American silent motion pictures beginning in 1917. Her father was Sir James De Courcey Breamer, a commander in the Royal Navy. After his death her mother married Judge A.G. Plunkett, formerly of Sydney, Australia. Silent Screen Actress Sylvia's initial film efforts were with Colonel J. Stuart Blackton films. She also performed in releases produced by Mayflower Pictures. Breamer came to Hollywood with her sister, Doris, in 1920. Her mother relocated also, rssiding at 837 South Catalina Street, Los Angeles, California. Her first Hollywood movie was Athalie, a story of spiritualism, dire…

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    Belle Bennett (April 22, 1891 – November 4, 1932) was a stage and screen actress who started her professional career in vaudeville. She was born in Milaca, Minnesota. Stage actress Bennett appeared in circus performances during her childhood. Her father was Billie Bennett, owner of a circus. He trained her to be a trapeze performer after she spent some years in the Sacred Heart Convent in Minneapolis, Minnesota. By age thirteen she was appearing in public. Performances with stock companies led Bennett to Broadway. There she appeared in theatrical productions staged by David Belasco. Motion pictures Bennett was cast in numerous minor Hollywood motion pictures like the …

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    Mae Busch (18 June 1891 – 20 April 1946) was an Australian film actress who worked in both silent and sound films in early Hollywood. In the latter part of her career, she appeared in many Laurel and Hardy comedies, where she frequently played Hardy's shrewish wife. Early life and career Born in Melbourne, Australia, Busch was a member of a musical family. Her father was a conductor of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and her mother was a singer. In 1900 her family moved to America, where she was placed in a convent. Upon her graduation Busch decided to pursue a career in theatre, and appeared on stage and then in vaudeville. She first appeared in films in The Agitator …

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    Mabel Ballin (1 January 1887 – 24 July 1958) was an American motion-picture actress of the silent film era best known for her role in Riders of the Purple Sage (1925). Her other notable roles included Jane Eyre (1921) and Vanity Fair (1923) in which she played Becky Sharp. Born Mabel Croft in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, she originally studied painting. Her landscapes were noticed at an exhibition and led to an offer to appear in films. Ballin appeared in 28 films between 1917 and 1925. She achieved popularity during World War I. She married artist-turned-director Hugo Ballin in 1917, and they remained married until his death in 1956. She died two years after in Santa Mon…

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    (June Francis Hoffman) 19 June 1916 is born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Francis T. and Ebba V. Hoffman under the name of June Francis, she is a Hollywood photographers model April 1941 is signed by Paramount. They change her name to Katharine Booth. She will go into the acting school at the studio. 26 January 1945 as Kay Booth, she is on the cover of Yank, the Army Weekly April 1948 announces plans to marry Allan P. Carlisle. Carlisle is one of three sons of socially prominent New Yorker Jay F. Carlisle, head of Wall Street brokers Carlisle, Mellick & Company, and his wife Mary P., and a grandson of the founder of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. In March 1932 …

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