Actresses

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…

It was a little hard to find info about her but here's what I could gather. Carolina Betancourt was born April, 25 and is 27 years old. She's from Cali, Colombia and is known as a model and actress for Telemundo. She's most known for her role as Vanessa in the super successful telenovela Sin Senos no hay Paraiso. She also designs jewelry, mainly rosaries, for her own small company...you can find them at WWW.ROSARIOS4U.COM.

Hillary Brooke (September 8, 1914 – May 25, 1999), was an American film actress best known for her work in Abbott and Costello and Sherlock Holmes films. She also played Lou Costello's love interest in the first season of the Abbott and Costello Show. Career A former model, the tall (5'6") blonde was born Beatrice Peterson in Astoria, New York but in films spoke with a cultured accent. Brooke developed this early in her career to separate herself from other sexy blonde actresses. She appeared in Africa Screams (1949) and Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952) with the comedy team, and was a regular on The Abbott and Costello Show. She also co-starred in three She…

Lois Andrews (March 24, 1924 – April 5, 1968) was an American actress. Born in Huntington Park, California, as Lorraine Gourley, she played in films during the 1940s and early 1950s. She is perhaps best known for her first role in 1943 as the comic strip character Dixie Dugan in the Twentieth Century Fox film of the same name. While still in her teens, she was married to George Jessel from 1940 to 1943. He produced a number of films in which she had minor roles, including The Desert Hawk (1950), and Meet Me After the Show (1951). She was married to the actor Steve Brodie from 1946 until her death in 1968. They had a son, child actor and film director Kevin Brodie. She d…

Gaby Andre' was a French actress born on March 5, 1920 in Chalons-Sur-Marne, Marne, Champage-Ardenne, France. She is the mother of French actress Carole Andre'. Ms. Andre' lost her battle with cancer on August, 27, 1972 in Rome.

Ramsay Ames (born Phillips Ames, March 30, 1919 – March 30, 1998) was a leading 1940s American B movie actress, model, dancer, comediene, pin-up girl and host of a television show. She was married to and later divorced Dale Wasserman, award-winning musical writer. She died of lung cancer.

Heather Grace Angel (February 9, 1909 – December 13, 1986) was an English actress. Life and career Born in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, she was brought up on a farm near Banbury. She began her stage career at the Old Vic in 1926 and later appeared with touring companies. She appeared in many British films before going to Hollywood. She made her first screen appearance in City of Song. She later had a leading role in Night in Montmartre (1931), and followed this success with The Hound of the Baskervilles (1932). Over the next few years, she played strong roles in such films as The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935), The Three Musketeers (1935), The Informer (1935), and The …

Dorothy Arnold (November 21, 1917 – November 13, 1984) was an American film actress and the first wife of baseball star Joe DiMaggio. Her 20-year movie career began with 1937’s Freshies and ended with 1957’s Lizzie. Early life She was born as Dorothy Arnoldine Olson in Duluth, Minnesota, of Norwegian heritage. By the age of 12 was performing on amateur nights at Duluth's Lyric Theater and with the local Salvation Army Band. She graduated from Denfeld High School in 1935. Her first theatrical job was with the Band Box Revue, traveling out of Chicago. She studied at Paramount School in New York and played bits in pictures as a dancer. Career Arnold tested twice with Pa…

Angela Aames (February 27, 1956 – November 27, 1988) was an American actress known for her buxom blonde bombshell image. Early years Aames was born in Pierre, South Dakota. She acted in high school and attended the University of South Dakota before coming to Hollywood in 1978. She trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and Harvey Lembeck's Comedy Workshop. Career Angela Aames's first film role was as Little Bo Peep in the adult film Fairy Tales (1979). The same year, she played Linda "Boom-Boom" Bangs in the movie H.O.T.S. (1979). Aames made her mark in Hollywood during the late 1970s and 1980s while appearing in comedies and exploitation films. Most of thes…

Grace Ellen Rosalie Allen (July 26, 1895 – August 27, 1964), better known as Gracie Allen, was an American comedienne who became internationally famous as the zany partner and comic foil of husband George Burns. For contributions to the television industry, Gracie Allen was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6672 Hollywood Boulevard. Early life Gracie Allen was born in San Francisco, California, to George Allen and Molly Darragh. She made her first appearance on stage at age three and was given her first chance On Air by Eddie Cantor. She was educated at the Star of the Sea Convent School and during that time became a talented dancer. She soon began pe…

Acquanetta (July 17, 1921 – August 16, 2004), nicknamed "The Venezuelan Volcano," was a B-movie actress known for her exotic beauty. She was born Burnu Acquanetta in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and raised in Norristown, Pennsylvania as Mildred Davenport after she was given up by her biological parents. Burnu means "burning fire, deep water". Acquanetta started her career as a model in New York City with Harry Conover. She signed with Universal Studios in 1942 and acted mostly in B-movies, including Tarzan and the Leopard Woman, Arabian Nights, The Sword of Monte Cristo, and Captive Wild Woman, in which Universal attempted to create a female monster movie franchise with Acquanett…

Melanie Winiger, (born January 22, 1979 in Zurich) is a former Miss Switzerland winner and current film actress and model. Melanie Winiger was brought up in Tessin, an Italian region of Switzerland. In the late 1990s she began working as a model and TV-host.

Tia Texada (December 14, 1971) is an American actress and singer. She is probably best known for portraying the role of Sgt. Maritza Cruz from the American television show Third Watch. Texada was born in Louisiana to a reflexologist mother and an insurance agent father.[1] She has been acting since she was young. Texada's most recent appearance was as a guest star in an episode of CSI Miami. Before that, she was a guest star in two episodes of The Unit. She played Sgt. Maritza Cruz in the NBC Drama Third Watch. She also has appeared in movies such as Paulie (1998) , Nurse Betty (2000), Glitter (2001), Phone Booth (2003) and Spartan (2004). She also has a singing career,…

Barbara Pepper (May 31, 1915 – July 18, 1969) was an American actress. Born as Marion Pepper in New York City, she started in show business at the age of 16 as one of the Goldwyn Girls where she met lifelong friend Lucille Ball. Pepper began making movies and did radio parts. Marriage In 1943 she married an actor, Craig W. Reynolds; they had two sons. They separated in 1949, and after Reynolds died the same year in a motorcycle accident, leaving Pepper to raise their children alone, she reportedly developed a drinking problem. Two years later, when Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were starting their landmark CBS television series, I Love Lucy, they wanted to cast radio act…

Gabourey "Gabby" Sidibe (born May 6, 1983) is an American actress who made her acting debut in the 2009 film Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire, a role that has garnered her a nomination for a Best Actress Academy Award. Sidibe, born in Brooklyn, New York, was raised by her mother in Bedford Stuyvesant. Her mother, Alice Tan Ridley, is an R&B and gospel singer, and her Senegal-born father, Ibnou Sidibe, is a cab driver. She has attended several New York City area colleges: Borough of Manhattan Community College, City College of New York, and Mercy College. In Precious, Sidibe plays the title character, a physically and sexually abused sixteen-year old, …

Margaret Livingston (November 25, 1900 – December 13, 1985) was an American film actress, most notable for her work during the silent film era. She was sometimes credited as Marguerite Livingston or Margaret Livingstone. On screen she resembled actress Mae Busch. Career Livingston was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her older sister Ivy also became a film actress. The younger Livingston made her debut in silent film in 1916. She made over 50 films during the "silent era", and a further 20 films after she successfully made the transition to sound film in 1929. One of her most notable performances was in F.W. Murnau's Sunrise (1927). She occasionally dubbed voices for some…

Gwen Lee (November 12, 1904 – August 20, 1961) was an American film actress from Hastings, Nebraska. Her given name was Gwendolyn Lepinski. Acting career Lee began as a model and was discovered by a casting director. She signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in August 1925. Almost immediately she was cast in two MGM films, I'll Tell The World and A Little Bit of Broadway, produced by Robert Z. Leonard. At the end of the month, she acted with Mae Murray in The Masked Bride, directed by Christy Cabanne. By September 1925, Lee was selected by MGM officials to represent the Culver City, California studio as a beauty contestant for the Eastern Star Fashion and Home Exp…

Vera Lúcia Fischer (born on November 27, 1951) is a Brazilian actress of long-standing reputation and works in cinema and for the small screen, particularly for telenovelas. Vera Fischer was born in Blumenau, Santa Catarina, in Southern Brazil. Her father was a Nazi. Fischer never had a good relationship with him: "My father was German, Nazi, and used to force me to read Hitler and beat me a lot", she wrote in a recent autobiography. Fischer was crowned Miss Brazil in 1969 which is what propelled her career to great fame. She also competed at Miss Universe 1969, becoming a semifinalist. The film that brought her onscreen reputation was A Superfêmea, a pornochanchada of …

Helen Holmes (June 19, 1893 – July 8, 1950) was an American silent film actress. Early life While there is no known official birthplace record, Helen Holmes stated in an interview that she was born in South Bend, Indiana, but grew up in Chicago, Illinois. She began working as a photographer's model but turned to acting, performing in live theatre and making her Broadway debut in 1909. She became friends with film star Mabel Normand. Helen moved out to the California (by the Colorado River) at the age of seventeen to care for her ailing brother who had fallen ill with tuberculosis. Meanwhile Mabel Normand moved to Hollywood in 1912 to work at Mack Sennett's Keystone Stud…

Sharon Lynn (also known as Sharon Lynne) was an American actress. She was born in 1901 at Weatherford, Texas and died in 1963 of multiple sclerosis. She is best remembered for her major supporting role as Lola Marcelin the 1937 Laurel and Hardy film 'Way Out West

Beryl Wallace (c. 1909 – June 17, 1948) was an American singer, dancer and actress. Born Beryl Heischuber in the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, New York, she was the eldest of nine children of working class Jewish immigrants from Austria. Pursuing a dancing career, she was in her teens when she saw a casting call advertisement in the newspaper and landed a role in the 1928 Earl Carroll Broadway theatre production of Vanities that was billed as having the "most beautiful girls in the world". Beryl Heischuber adopted the last name "Wallace" as part of her stage name and went on to appear in another six similar such risqué productions that featured scanty costumes for …

Louise Huff (November 14, 1895 – August 22, 1973) was an American actress of the silent film era. She was a relative of former President James Knox Polk. Huff began her acting career at the age of 15. She toured in stage productions of Ben-Hur and Graustark, and made her motion picture debut in 1913 with In the Bishop's Carriage and Caprice. In 1916 she secured the ingenue role opposite Jack Pickford in the Booth Tarkington comedy Seventeen. Her later silent films included roles in Great Expectations (1917), The Seventh Day (1922), Disraeli (1921), and Oh, You Women! (1919). She was featured on Broadway in Mary the Third and The New Englander. Huff was featured in moti…

Date of Birth 5 July 1927, Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA Date of Death 23 November 2005, Reno, Nevada, USA (pulmonary embolism) Birth Name Beverly Jean Saul Mini Biography This relatively obscure, sweet-faced "B" level ingénue of the post-war 40s and 50s was born Beverly Jean Saul of modest beginnings in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on July 5, 1927. Her mother was a secretary who secured piano and music lessons for her young daughter. Her father was employed with a typewriter company. As a teenager Beverly made her singing debut on radio. Moving to Hollywood with her mother, she was groomed by MGM at the ripe old age of 14 and made her first picture with a bit part in …