Actresses

Patricia Blair (born January 15, 1931) is an American television and film actress, primarily on 1950s and 1960s television. She is probably best known as Lou Mallory on the classic Western series The Rifleman where she co starred in 22 episodes with Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford and veteran actor Paul Fix; and as Rebecca Boone in all six seasons of NBC's Daniel Boone, with co-stars Fess Parker, Darby Hinton, Veronica Cartwright, and Ed Ames. Biography Like Fess Parker, Patricia Blair was born in Fort Worth, Texas. She grew up in Dallas and became a teenage model through the Conover Agency. While acting in summer stock, Warner Bros. discovered her and she began acting i…

(Isabel Beth Castro) 8 August 1929 is born in Spain 1948 changes her name to Lita Baron 29 August 1948 marries actor Rory Calhoun in Santa Barbara, California. He's 26; she's 19. August 1952 loses her expected baby 22 February 1957 her first daughter, Cindy Francis, is born in Los Angeles 25 December 1958 her second daughter, Tami Diane Elizabeth, is born in Santa Monica 23 January 1961 her third daughter, Lorri Marie, is born at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica March 1964 in a paternity suit filed in Los Angeles, her husband is named father of a girl, Nathena, born on January 26, 1959, to starlet and TV actress Vitina Marcus. 26-year-old Marcus retains the r…

Diane Brewster (11 March 1931 in Kansas City, Missouri – 12 November 1991 in Studio City, California) was an American television actress most noted for playing three distinctively different roles in US TV series of the 1950s and 60s: confidence trickster "Samantha Crawford" in Maverick; pretty young second-grade teacher "Miss Canfield" in Leave It to Beaver; and doomed wife "Helen Kimble" in The Fugitive. On Maverick, a sophisticated ABC western series featuring James Garner and Jack Kelly, Brewster's character was a gorgeous gambling con artist who often faked a southern accent. Though she was usually on the wrong side of the law, she was also ultimately likable; perhap…

Bella Darvi (October 23, 1928 – September 11, 1971) was a Polish-born French actress. Biography Darvi was born Bayla Wegier to Chaym Wegier, a baker, and his wife, Chaya. She had three brothers, Robert, Jacques Wegier, Jean-Isidore, and a sister, Sura. Robert died in a concentration camp. Jailed by the Nazis during World War II, she was released in 1943. She married a businessman, Alban Cavalcade, on October 7, 1950 and traveled with him to Monaco. She was discovered in Paris by the wife of mogul Darryl Zanuck. In 1952, she divorced Cavalcade, and moved into the Zanuck home. In August 1953, she signed a contract with Zanuck, who changed her name to Bella Darvi, Darvi a…

Barbara Britton (September 26, 1919 – January 17, 1980) was an American film and television actress. She was the first actress to play Laura Petrie on television on the pilot program, Head of the Family, which was retooled and became The Dick Van Dyke Show with the role taken over by Mary Tyler Moore. The California native signed a film contract with Paramount Pictures in 1941. Her first two films were that same year, first in the William Boyd western Secret of the Wasteland, followed by Louisiana Purchase starring Bob Hope. Her first big film appearance was a small role in the 1942 John Wayne film Reap the Wild Wind. During the 1940s she starred in three films that, to…

Mari Blanchard (April 13, 1927 – May 10, 1970) was an American actress, known for her roles as a B movie femme fatale in American films of the 1950s and early 1960s. Career In the late 1940s, Blanchard was a successful print model and film extra. Blanchard began appearing in films after she was seen by a producer in an advertisement for bubble bath in 1950. Blanchard soon found success as an actress. From 1951 to 1952, she took small roles in a number of films at MGM, RKO, and Paramount, until she was signed by Universal-International in 1952. Her first film at the studio was Back at the Front (1952). One of her most memorable roles was the Venusian queen, Allura, in t…

Navi Rawat. She is of East Indian and German descent. Is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts Filmography: 1.Feast (2006) (post-production) .... Heroine 2.Tom 51 (2005) (post-production) .... Chandi Azu 3.The Adventures of Big Handsome Guy and His Little Friend (2005) .... Exotic 4.Ethnic Woman 5.House of Sand and Fog (2003) .... Soraya 6.Thoughtcrimes (2003) .... Freya McAllister 7.The Street Lawyer (2003) (TV) .... Sofia 8.Dancing at the Harvest Moon (2002) (TV) .... Jennifer 9.The Princess and the Marine (2001) (TV) .... Sabika 10.Jack the Dog (2001) .... Ruby *And of course 'Theresa', from the O.C. Info's: www.imbd.com P…

Lynn Bari (December 18, 1913 – November 20, 1989), born Margaret Schuyler Fisher, was a movie actress (usually in B-movies) who specialized in playing sultry, statuesque man-killers in over one hundred 20th Century Fox films from the early 1930s through the 1940s. Career Born in Roanoke, Virginia, most of her early films, before getting supporting parts, were uncredited roles usually playing receptionists or chorus girls. Bari's rare leading roles include China Girl (1942), Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943), and The Spiritualist (1948). However, in the B movies she was in, Lynn was usually cast as a villainess. Some examples include the films Shock and Nocturne (both 1946).…

Date of Birth 1943, Germany Mini Biography Thordis Brandt was born in West Germany of Norwegian and German parents. She moved to Canada as a young girl and was raised there. After school, where she completed a University degree in nursing, she moved to Santa Monica, California. As she pursued acting and dancing as careers, she continued to practice her nursing in private duty. One of her jobs in private duty was serving actress Patricia Neal. Ms. Neal recommended Thordis to other actors and actresses and Thordis became known as the "actor's nurse". After retiring from acting, she continued nursing in Beverly Hills. Trivia Son Christopher Brandt born 1982. Although …

Barbara Bates (August 6, 1925 – March 18, 1969) was an American actress best known for her role as Phoebe in the 1950 drama, All About Eve. Early life The eldest of three daughters, Bates was born in Denver, Colorado. While growing up in Denver, she studied ballet and worked as a teen fashion model. The shy teen was persuaded to enter a local beauty contest and won, receiving two round-trip train tickets to Hollywood, California. Two days before returning to Denver, Bates met Cecil Coan, a United Artists publicist, who would ultimately change the course of her life. Career In September 1944, Bates signed a contract with Universal Pictures after Cecil Coan introduced h…

Date of Birth 3 February 1934, Jamestown, New York, USA Date of Death 5 August 1955, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (cancer) Birth Name Susan Ball Nickname Suzie Height 5' 7" (1.70 m) Mini Biography Suzan Ball, a second cousin of Lucille Ball, was born on March 3, 1934, in Jamestown, New York. She came to Hollywood with her family in 1941. She sang with the Mel Baker Orchestra from 1948-1953. Her first part in Hollywood was as a harem girl in Aladdin and His Lamp (1952) at Monogram. She got an interview with the talent department of Universal-International and signed a contract. In 1952 she was proclaimed "The New Cinderella Girl of 1952". She…

Barrie Chase (born October 20, 1933) is an American actress and dancer originally from Long Island, New York.. When Barrie was six her father moved the family to California so he could start his screen-writing career. She grew up in Encino, and studied ballet. She abandoned her dream of being a ballerina in New York to stay in Los Angeles and help support her mother after her parents' bitter divorce. She worked in the chorus of many Hollywood musicals including, Hans Christian Andersen, Brigadoon, Deep in My Heart, Kismet, Les Girls, Pal Joey, and two Fred Astaire films, Daddy Long Legs and Silk Stockings. She danced on such live TV programs as "The Colgate Comedy Hour" a…

Barbara Payton (November 16, 1927 – May 8, 1967) was an American film actress. Early life and careerBorn Barbara Lee Redfield, in Cloquet, Minnesota, she was the daughter of restaurateurs, and raised in Odessa, Texas. In 1945, at age seventeen, she headed for Hollywood in search of a career in movies and was eventually placed under contract by Universal Studios where she began appearing in bit parts. After being discovered by James Cagney and his producer brother William, Payton starred in Cagney’s Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye in 1950. She signed a contract with Cagney’s production company. Personal life In 1951, while engaged to movie actor Franchot Tone, Payton proposed mar…

Barbara Hale (born April 18, 1922) is an American actress best known for her role as Della Street on the long running Perry Mason show. Acting career Hale was born in DeKalb, Illinois, to Luther Ezra Hale, a landscape gardener, and his wife Wilma Colvin. She is of mainly Scottish and Irish ancestry. Hale graduated from high school in Rockford, Illinois, and then attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, planning to become an artist. Her performing career began in Chicago when she started modeling to pay for her education. She moved to Hollywood in 1943, and made her first screen appearances playing small parts (often uncredited). Hale was under contract to RKO Radio P…

Beverly Garland (October 17, 1926 – December 5, 2008) was an American film and television actress, businesswoman, and hotel owner. Garland gained prominence for her role as Fred MacMurray's second wife, "Barbara Harper Douglas", in the 1960s sitcom My Three Sons (a role she played from 1969 until the series ended in 1972). In the 1980s, she co-starred as Kate Jackson's widowed mother, "Dotty West", in the television series Scarecrow and Mrs. King, on CBS. She also had a recurring role as Ginger Jackson on The WB Television Network series 7th Heaven. Biography Early life & career Garland was born Beverly Lucy Fessenden in Santa Cruz, California, the daughter of Amel…

Barbara Lang (March 2, 1928 – July 22, 1982) was an American actress and singer. Early life She worked a number of jobs prior to breaking into the entertainment industry. She sold jewelry in a Los Angeles department store and was a part-time fashion Model (person) at the age of seventeen. She was also a pianist and singer for a time in a cocktail lounge. Illness Lang suffered an attack of poliomyelitis in late 1953. She spent three weeks in the polio ward of Los Angeles General Hospital. Another eight months were required to convalesce. Lang was told that she might never walk again. She turned to the Bible during this time and reportedly credited faith for performing …

Betty Hutton (February 26, 1921 – March 12, 2007)[1] was an American stage, film, and television actress, comedienne and singer. Early life Hutton was born as Elizabeth June Thornburg, a daughter of railroad foreman Percy E. Thornburg (1896–1939) and his wife, the former Mabel Lum (1901–1967). Her father abandoned the family for another woman and they did not hear from or see him again until they received a telegram, in 1939, informing them of his death from suicide. Along with her older sister Marion, Betty was raised by her mother, who took the surname Hutton and was later billed as the actress Sissy Jones. The three started singing in the family's speakeasy when Be…

Betta St. John (born November 26, 1929, Hawthorne, California) is an American actress, singer and dancer. Born as Betty Jean Striegler, St. John made her film debut at the age of ten in Destry Rides Again (1939) and as an orphan in Jane Eyre (1944). She was discovered by Rodgers and Hammerstein and played a small role in the Broadway musical, Carousel in 1945. By 1953, she created the role of Liat in the musical South Pacific and followed the production to London. On film, she appeared in The Robe (1953), Dream Wife (1953), All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953), and The Student Prince (1954). St. John appeared in two Tarzan films and ended her career as the heroine of Hor…

Mary Beth Hughes (November 13, 1919 – August 27, 1995) was an American film, television, and stage actress best known for her roles in B movies. Early life and career Born Mary Elizabeth Hughes in Alton, Illinois, Hughes' parents divorced in 1923. After the divorce, Hughes' mother, Mary Frances Hughes, moved with her only child to Washington, D.C. As a child, Hughes began acting in stage productions. While acting in a school play in the early 1930s, her performance caught the attention of Clifford Brown, a repertory theater company owner, who offered her a part in a touring production of Alice in Wonderland. While touring with another production in Brown's company, she …

Barbara Rush (born January 4, 1927) is an American stage, film, and television actress. Career A student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Barbara Rush performed on stage at the Pasadena Playhouse before signing with Paramount Pictures. She made her screen debut in the 1951 movie The Goldbergs and went on to star opposite the likes of James Mason, Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Richard Burton, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Kirk Douglas. In 1954 she won the Golden Globe Award for "Most Promising Newcomer - Female" for her performance in It Came from Outer Space. Rush began her career on stage and it has always been a part of her professional life. In 1970, …

Date of Birth 13 July 1922, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA Birth Name Virginia Leslie Gettman Spouse Russ Vincent (1950 - present) 3 children Donald Anthony Shay (6 January 1945 - 11 November 1948) (divorced) 1 child Trivia Started in unbilled bit parts but moved eventually into second leads and almost always cast as provocative dames with evil intentions. Retired from films after a second marriage. At some point after her daughters were born, she went to live in Hawaii with her family. Children with Russ Vincent: Daughter Dorena Marla born August 18, 1954; Daughter Gina L. born April 6, 1956; Daughter Darla R. born April 30, 1960 (all born in Los Angeles). Her da…

Elisabeth Bergner (August 22, 1897 – May 12, 1986) was an actress. She was born Elisabeth Ettel in Drohobycz, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Drogobych, Ukraine). She went on stage when fourteen years old and began acting in Innsbruck at the age of 15. In Vienna. Age sixteen she toured Austrian and German provinces with a Shakespearean company, later becoming accepted as the greatest Shakespearean actor on the Continent. She worked as an artist's model, posing for sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck, who fell in love with her. She eventually moved to Munich and then Berlin. In 1923 she made her film debut in Der Evangelimann. With the rise of Naziism, Bergner moved to London with …

Date of Birth 26 April 1916, Portland, Oregon, USA Date of Death 7 April 1937, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (lobar pneumonia) Mini Biography Young and full of promise, Paramount contract player Helen Burgess possessed a lovely, sweet-faced quality, but made only four films during her lifetime. Born April 26, 1916, the rather demure Portland, Oregon beauty was given an auspicious debut in Cecil B. DeMille's epic bio-western The Plainsman (1936). Discovered by DeMille himself with only brief stage experience behind her, the film starred Gary Cooper as Wild Bill Hickok and Jean Arthur as Calamity Jane. Helen was fifth billed as Louisa Frederici Cody, th…

Francelia Billington (1 February 1895 – 24 November 1934) was an early American silent-screen actress, and an accomplished camera operator. Early life Billington was in born in Dallas, Texas, the daughter of James Billington and his wife, musician Adelaide Bueter. She was born and raised on a ranch, allowing her to become an expert at horsemanship, which later served her in a movie career that was to consist of a number of Westerns. She attended school at a convent where, at a very early age, she began playing parts in plays. When she was 10 years old, she moved to New Orleans and continued her interest in outdoor activities, becoming quite accomplished at swimming, di…

Jean Byron (December 10, 1925 – February 3, 2006) was an American film, television, and stage actress. She is best known for the role of Natalie Lane, Patty Lane's mother in The Patty Duke Show. Early life and career Born Imogene Burkhart in Kentucky, she moved to California during World War II and was signed to Columbia Pictures where she chose the name of Jean Byron as a stage moniker. In the 1950s, Byron appeared in several b-movies including The Magnetic Monster and Serpent of the Nile, in addition to guest roles on The Millionaire, The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse, and Science Fiction Theatre. Byron also served as spokeswoman for Revlon and Lux products on The Rosemary Clo…