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Dolores Donlon (born September 19, 1926 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), who is an American model and actress. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the August 1957 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Peter Gowland. She had a number of film and television roles in the 1950s and early 1960s. She was the third Hollywood wife of talent agent Victor Orsatti, whom she married in 1949 (all three of Orsatti's marriages ended in divorce).
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Eugenia Lincoln Falkenburg (January 21, 1919 - August 27, 2003) was a Spanish-born model and actress who was nicknamed Jinx by her mother. Born in Barcelona, she was raised in Chile. Her family moved to the United States where she became a top model. Her brother Bob Falkenburg was the 1948 Wimbledon singles champion. As a teenager, she became a top fashion model who appeared on numerous magazine covers, and was the first Miss Rheingold (model for Rheingold Beer), but was chosen by the brewery rather than being voted by the public, as in later years. Falkenburg appeared in over 25 movies and numerous television programs. During World War II Falkenburg entertained America…
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Date of Birth 6 September 1933, Sweden Birth Name Birgitta Wetterhall Height 5' 8" (1.73 m) Spouse Mitchell May III (28 March 1968 - 18 March 2000) (his death) 2 children Barry Sullivan (25 July 1958 - 10 April 1961) (divorced) 1 child Trivia Former stepmother of Jenny Sullivan. Appeared with her ex-husband, Barry Sullivan, in the movie Wolf Larsen (1958). Crowned "Miss Stockholm" in 1952. A model and jet-setting personality in the 50s, she was discovered for Hollywood films by columnist Walter Winchell. Had one daughter, Patricia, by Barry Sullivan, and two daughters, Tracie and Samantha, by Mitchell May III. Personal Quotes "LA is great if you're an…
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(Helen Amelia Gilbert) 4 July 1915 is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania / Warren, Ohio, to Mr. and Mrs. Vaughn Gilbert, nee Scheff. Her sister will become actress Mari Finley. inspired by Pablo Casals, she starts studying the cello and wins a scholarship to the Curtis Institute becomes a concert artist and plays at the Hollywood Bowl, where she's discovered by Herbert Stothart and given a place in his MGM orchestra 28 November 1936 marries the assistant musical director at Columbia, Mischa Constantine Bakaleinikoff, in Tijuana, Mexico. He's 46; she's 21. Early 1939 is discovered by test-director Fred Wilcox when a cellist in the recording orchestra at MGM / by W. S…
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Coleen Gray (born October 23, 1922) is an American movie and television actress born in Staplehurst, Nebraska. She is known for her roles in the films Nightmare Alley (1947), the frontispiece of Red River (1948), in which she played John Wayne's character's fiancée, and Stanley Kubrick's The Killing (1956). Early career Born Doris Jensen, Gray was a farmer's daughter from Nebraska. After graduating from high school, she studied dramatics at Hamline University, graduating with a bachelor of arts degree. She then decided to see America and traveled to California, stopping at La Jolla, where she worked as a waitress. After several weeks there, she moved to Los Angeles and …
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Virginia Field (November 4, 1917 – January 2, 1992) was a British-born film actress. Born Margaret Cynthia Field in London, her father was the judge of England's Leicester County Court Circuit. Her mother was a cousin of Robert E. Lee. She appeared in over 40 films including Ladies in Love (1936), Waterloo Bridge (1940), Repeat Performance (1947), A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1949) and Dial 1119 (1950). She started her film career in England then was brought to the U.S. to appear in David O. Selznick's Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936). In the late 1930s she appeared in various parts in 20th Century Fox's Mr. Moto movie series. Fields married three times, …
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Dianne Foster is a Canadian actress of Ukrainian descent who began her career at the age of 13 in a stage adaptation of James Barrie's What Every Woman Knows. At fourteen, she began a radio career and subsequently moved to Toronto and became one of Canada's top radio stars. For a holiday in 1951, she traveled to London, England, where she met and later married Andrew Allen, drama supervisor for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. In London that same year, she appeared onstage in Agatha Christie's The Hollow and Orson Welles's Othello. In March 1952, her husband returned to Canada while she stayed in London to honour her five-year contract with a British film company. …
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Valerie French (March 11, 1928 - November 3, 1990) was a British film actress and later stage actress beginning in the 1950s. Career Born Valerie Harrison in London, England, French entered into film acting in her early 20s, with her first film appearance being in the 1954 film Maddalena. Her best remembered roles during this period were in western films such as Jubal in 1956 opposite Glenn Ford, and Decision at Sundown opposite Randolph Scott in 1957. Also in the science fiction film The 27th Day (1957). untitled.bmp untitled.bmp
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Felicia Farr (born October 4, 1932) is a former American actress and model. Biography Felicia Farr appeared in several modeling photo shoots and advertisements throughout the 1950s and 1960s. Her cinema career was also active in this period and included the Westerns 3:10 to Yuma and Jubal, both starring Glenn Ford. Her later films include the bawdy Billy Wilder farce Kiss Me, Stupid with Dean Martin and the Don Siegel bank-heist caper Charley Varrick with Walter Matthau plus more than thirty television series appearances on The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Bonanza, Ben Casey, Burke's Law and many others. She played Matthau's daughter-in-law in Kotch (1971). Personal life …
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Marla English (born January 4, 1934 in San Diego, California) is a motion picture actress from San Diego, California who made movies in the 1950s. English was originally signed to a contract by Paramount Pictures after winning a San Diego beauty pageant. She was paid $100 per picture to appear in such films as Red Garters (1954) and Rear Window (1954). She received a major break when she was cast opposite Spencer Tracy in The Mountain, a film which was to be made in France. Marla was given a smallpox vaccine before leaving to go on location. She quickly developed a raging fever and decided to pull out of making the movie. Paramount suspended English and signed actress, …
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Danielle Gaubert (also Danièle Gaubert or Daniele Gaubert, * August 9 1943 in January, Département Nièvre; † November 4 1987) was a French actress. She was 16 years of Claude Autant-Lara film discovered and published soon afterwards in German productions. In 1963 she married in the city Authouillet in Normandy Radhamés Trujillo Martínez, a son of the 1961 shot Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo. After the divorce, she returned again in 1967 before the camera back. She played mostly in films with sex and violence, as the title character in The Wolf, where they constituted a criminal attractive. In May 1969, published pictures of her in the magazine Playboy. During her la…
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Nancy Gates (February 26, 1926) is a retired American film and television actress. Career Film Gates, born in Dallas, Texas, entered acting at a young age, receiving a contract with RKO at the age of 15. Her first screen appearance, uncredited, was in the 1942 film The Magnificent Ambersons. That same year she had her first credited role, in The Great Gildersleeve. In 1943 she went on contract with RKO, her first film with them being Hitler's Children that same year. She began receiving roles in mostly B-movies, many of which were westerns or sci-fi, eventually receiving lead roles as the heroine. In 1948 she starred opposite Eddie Dean in Check Your Guns, and in 1949…
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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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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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