Actresses

Lola Jean Albright (born July 20, 1924, Akron, Ohio) is an American singer and actress. Albright worked as a model before moving to Hollywood. She began her motion picture with a bit part in the 1948 film The Pirate, and followed it with important role in the acclaimed 1949 hit Champion. For the next ten years, she appeared in secondary roles in over twenty films, including several 'B' Westerns. Albright also acted in guest roles on several television series. In 1958, she gained the part of Edie Hart in the trend-setting Peter Gunn, a television detective series produced by Blake Edwards and directed by Robert Altman, with the theme music that made Henry Mancini famous.…

Anna Maria Alberghetti (born 15 May 1936) is an Italian-born operatic singer and actress. Born in Pesaro (Marche) she starred on Broadway and won a Tony Award in 1962 as Best Actress (Musical) for Carnival![1] (she tied with Diahann Carroll for the musical No Strings). Alberghetti was a child prodigy. Her father was an opera singer and concert master of the Rome Opera Company. Her mother was a pianist. At age 6, Anna Maria sang in a concert on the Isle of Rhodes with a 100-piece orchestra. She performed at Carnegie Hall in New York at the age of 13. She also entered into film as a teenager. Her cinema appearances include The Medium (1951), Here Comes the Groom (1951), …

Dawn Addams (21 September 1930 – 7 May 1985) was a British actress in motion pictures of the 1950s. She was born Victoria Dawn Addams in Felixstowe, Suffolk, England, the daughter of Ethel Mary and Captain James Ramage Addams. Her mother died when she was young, and she spent her early life in Calcutta, India. Her heart shaped face and beautiful physique soon attracted the attention of talent agents. She resembled another British actress Elizabeth Taylor but only slightly. Addams unlike Taylor retained her British accent. Her film career began in 1951, and a year later she co-starred with Peter Lawford in The Hour of 13. In 1953 she appeared in a small role in the groun…

Julie Adams (born Betty May Adams; October 17, 1926) is an American film and television actress, sometimes credited as Julia Adams or Betty Adams. Life and career A part-time secretary and actress raised in Arkansas, she began her film career in B-movie westerns. She used her real name, Betty Adams, until 1949 when she began working for Universal Pictures. She then became Julia and eventually Julie Adams. Her first movie role was a minor part in Red, Hot and Blue (1949), followed by a leading role in the Lippert western The Dalton Gang (1949). Adams was featured as the bathing beauty Kay Lawrence in 1954's Creature from the Black Lagoon. Later in her career, she playe…

Aileen Pringle (July 23, 1895 – December 16, 1989) was an American stage and film actress during the silent film era. Biography Early life Born Aileen Bisbee into a prominent and wealthy San Francisco, California family and educated in Europe, Pringle began her acting career shortly after her 1916 marriage to Charles McKenzie Pringle, the son of a wealthy titled British Jamaican landowner and a member of the Privy and Legislative Councils of Jamaica. Career rise One of Pringle's first high-profile roles was in the Rudolph Valentino film Stolen Moments (1920). Many of Pringle's early roles were only modestly successful, and she continued to build her career until the…

Audrey Dalton (born 21 January 1934 in Dublin, Irish Free State) is an Irish television and film actress. Dublin-born Audrey Dalton knew right from childhood that she wanted to be an actress: She appeared in school plays and (after the family's move to London) attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. While Dalton was at RADA, a London-based Paramount executive saw her in a play and asked her to audition for the upcoming film The Girls of Pleasure Island (1953). Winning the part (and a Paramount contract), Dalton arrived in the U.S. in 1952 and co-starred in Pleasure Island; the studio loaned her out to 20th Century Fox for My Cousin Rachel (1952) and Titanic (1953).…

Amanda Setton (born December 16, 1985) is an American television and film actress. She is best known for her role as Penelope Shafai in "Gossip Girl" and for her role as Kimberly Andrews on "One Life to Live". Setton grew up in Great Neck, New York where she was president of her high school’s theater club. She is close to her family and is very funny. Setton was born in New York and graduated from Ithaca College. In her junior year she studied abroad in Barcelona Spain in an IES program. Amanda completed a comprehensive 2 year Meisner Technique program at The Actors Workshop of Ithaca under the instruction of Eliza VanCort. Setton played Penelope Shafai in the teen drama …

Anne Gwynne (December 10, 1918 – March 31, 2003) was an American film actress of the 1940s. Known as one of the first scream queens because of her numerous appearances in horror films, the actress-model was also one of the most popular pin-ups of World War II. Career In 1939 she became a model for Catalina swimwear. Gwynne was a television pioneer, appearing in TV's first filmed series, Public Prosecutor (1947-48), 26 mysteries each 17½ minutes in running time. When aired, the DuMont Television Network stopped the film before the climax and a live three-member panel would try to guess the identity of the culprit. Other TV stations could buy rights to air this series but…

Aliza Gur (born as Alizia Gross, 1 April 1944, Ramat Gan) was Miss Israel of 1960 and a semi-finalist in the Miss Universe pageant that same year. Her parents had fled Germany during Hitler's reign and settled in the British Mandate of Palestine, where she and her brother were born. Personal life Gur eventually went to the United States and settled in California where she began her film and television career. Her parents emigrated to the United States as well and settled in Cleveland, Ohio for a time. They died in the 1970s. Aliza Gur has been married twice, to Sy Shulman and to Sheldon Shrager, but has no children. Gur currently resides in Hollywood. Career Her telev…

Born Angela Catherine Williams on the 24th of February 1922 in Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of Margaret and Joseph Williams, the only girl among six brothers In 1928 she moved to the States at age 6 after being adopted by her uncle, Eddie Greene, Margaret's brother, a Flushing fireman, and his wife Catherine In 1941 she is on the Saturday Evening Post cover by Norman Rockwell A bikini-clad painting of her adorns the nose of Skipper 2, a U.S. bomber with 25 missions and four camels destroyed under her belt She dated naval lieutenant John F. Kennedy. On their first date he takes her to Gary Cooper's house. Nevertheless, she will vote Republican. On December 7, 1946 s…

Anne Lloyd Francis (born September 16, 1930) is an American actress, famous for her role in the science fiction film classic Forbidden Planet (1956), and as the female private detective in the television series Honey West (1965-1966). She won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Emmy award for her role in Honey West. Francis holds the distinction of starring in the first TV series with a woman detective character's name in the title. Early life and career Anne Lloyd Francis was born in Ossining, New York in 1930, the only child of Phillip and Edith Francis. Francis entered show business at a young age, working as a model at age five to help her family during the Grea…

Adele Jergens (November 26, 1917 - November 22, 2002) was an American actress. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Jergen's birth date is sometimes listed as 1922. Jergens first rose to prominence in the late 1930s, when she was named "Miss World's Fairest" at the 1939 New York World's Fair. In the early 1940s, she worked as a Rockette, and was named the Number One Showgirl in New York City. After a few years of working as a model and chorus girl, including being an understudy to Gypsy Rose Lee, Jergens landed a movie contract with Columbia Pictures in 1944, with brunette Jergens becoming a blonde. Her chorus girl past came in handy when she played an exotic dancer in Armored C…

Anne Heywood (born 11 December 1932) is a British film actress. Born as Violet Pretty in Handsworth, Birmingham, England, she won the Miss Great Britain title under her real name in 1950, At one time she was the personal assistant of Radio's Talent Spotter Carroll Levis, a show which toured the countries main Theatres throughout Great Britain. later she also attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She began acting in films in the early 1950s, first in supporting roles but gradually evolving into a leading lady. One of her more prominent film roles was in a film adaptation of a D. H. Lawrence novel, The Fox, co-starring Sandy Dennis, made in 1967, which ca…

Anne Helm (born September 12, 1938) is a retired actress, born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Living in New York City, she began pursuing a career as an actress which eventually led to Hollywood. Beginning in the 1950s, she made guest appearances on different television series and made her motion picture debut in 1960. In 1961, she guest-starred in the premiere episode of ABC's Bus Stop series with Marilyn Maxwell, a drama set in a bus station and diner in fictitious Sunrise, Colorado. That same year, she appeared in the syndicated crime drama The Brothers Brannagan in the episode "Equinox". She subsequently drew national recognition as the love interest of Elvis Presley …

Allison Hayes (March 6, 1930 – February 27, 1977) was an American film and television actress and model. Early life Born Mary Jane Hayes in Charleston, West Virginia, Hayes won the title of Miss District of Columbia and represented Washington, DC in the 1949 Miss America pageant. Although unsuccessful, it provided her with the opportunity to work in local television before moving to Hollywood to work for Universal Pictures in 1954. Career Hayes' made her film debut in the 1954 comedy Francis Joins the WACS. Her second film, Sign of the Pagan, provided her with an important role in a relatively minor film. Opposite Jack Palance, she played the part of a siren who ultim…

Abbe Lane Born Abigail Francine Lassman to a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, Lane began her career as a child actress on radio, and from there she progressed to singing and dancing on Broadway. Married to Xavier Cugat from 1952 until their divorce in 1964, Lane achieved her greatest success as a nightclub singer, and was described in a 1963 magazine article as "the swingingest sexpot in show business".[citation needed] Cugat's influence was seen in her music which favoured Latin and rumba styles. In 1958 she starred opposite Tony Randall in the Broadway musical Oh, Captain! but her recording contract prevented her from appearing on the original cast album of the…

Ann Michelle born Chigwell, Essex (11 August 1952) is a British actress and writer. Her most notable acting role was as Jane Pettibone in the cult, British horror film Psychomania. She is the sister of 'Allo 'Allo! actress Vicki Michelle untitled.bmp untitled.bmp

Adele Mara (April 28, 1923 – May 7, 2010), born as Adelaide Delgado, was an American actress, who appeared in films during the 1940s and 1950s. One of her early roles was as a receptionist in the Three Stooges film I Can Hardly Wait. Other films include The Vampire's Ghost, Wake of the Red Witch, Angel in Exile, Sands of Iwo Jima, California Passage, and Don Siegel's Count the Hours. Born in Highland Park, Michigan, of Spanish descent, she was married to television writer/producer Roy Huggins and appeared as a dancer in two episodes of his 1957 television series Maverick. Mara died of natural causes on May 7, 2010.

Name: Alaina Huffman Date of Birth: 04-17-1980 Home town: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Howe you no her: After winning the lead role for a pilot on Fox Family (which she ultimately turned down at age 13), Alaina actually began her career as a fashion model in Europe and Japan. It wasn't until she moved to the U.S. in which she became interested in acting, taking on roles in independent films during college. Moving to L.A. to pursue film, she built up a list of credits that includes Smallville and the Sci-Fi Channel (pre-SyFy) series Painkiller Jane. These days, this B.C. babe is starring as Tamara Johansen on SyFy's Stargate Universe.

Ann Harding (August 7, 1902 – September 1, 1981) was an American theatre, motion picture, radio, and television actress. Early years Born Dorothy Walton Gatley at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas, to George G. Gatley and Elizabeth "Bessie" Crabb. The daughter of a career army officer, she traveled often during her early life. Her father was born in Maine and served in the American Expeditionary Force in World War I. He died in San Francisco, California in 1931. The family finally settled in New York; Harding attended Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr, PA, on the Pennsylvania Main Line outside Philadelphia. Career Following school, she found employment as a script r…

17 July 1933 is born in Zanzibar, East Africa, to an English communication expert in the British diplomatic service and his American wife. 1936 moves with her parents to the Seychelles 1939 the family moves to Buenos Aires, Argentina, at age 6 1945 joins Col. De Basil’s “Original Ballet Russe” at age 12, soon becoming a soloist, and tours South America 1949 joins Sadler’s Wells Ballet in London, soon becoming a soloist December 1957 columnist Earl Wilson tells that “Brigitte Bardot of France and April Olrich of Uruguay were This Year’s Pretty Bodies...” 7 March 1966 debuts on Broadway in Wait a Minim! 8 June 1966 is awarded the Whitbread Anglo-American Theatre Aw…

Mary Ann Mobley (born February 17, 1939) is a former Miss America, actress, and television personality. She married actor Gary Collins in 1967. Their daughter, Mary Clancy Collins, is a Senior Vice President with MGM Television. Career After serving her reign as Miss America 1959, Mobley embarked on what has been a long career in both film and television. She has been active in many charitable causes and was awarded the Outstanding Young Woman of the Year Award in 1966 by Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson. Mobley appeared in several movies, including two with Elvis Presley in 1965, Girl Happy and Harum Scarum; and on such television shows as Fantasy Island, Custer, Mission: Impo…

Ann Smyrner (born 3 November 1934) is a Danish actress who was active in the 1960s in Italy, the USA, Austria and West Germany. She played in adventure, comedy, science fiction, crime, and horror movies, among which are the Sidney Pink science fiction movies Reptilicus and Journey to the Seventh Planet (both 1962). Ann Smyrner spent most of her screen career in Germany. After she retired from acting in 1971, she moved to Spain because, as she stated in a 2001 interview, "Both the country and its people are too cold and boring." Smyrner is the daughter of the late Danish stage actor Poul Smyrner. untitled.bmp untitled.bmp

Ann Robinson (born May 25, 1935) is an American actress. Robinson was born in Hollywood, California to a bank employee father.She began her professional life as a stunt woman. Paramount signed her as an actress in the 1950s, and her first leading role was as "Sylvia Van Buren" in that studio's 1953 film, The War of the Worlds, a role she reprised 35 years later in three episodes of the War of the Worlds television series. She also had a small role in the 2005 Steven Spielberg film, War of the Worlds. Her career as a leading woman was effectively ended when she eloped to Mexico to marry a matador, Jaime Bravo, with whom she had two sons, Jaime Jr. and Estefan. Since then…

16 September 1916 is born in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her father owns a small electrical shop. She is a hairdresser when discovered by Hollywood painter Azadia Newman. Azadia paints her because of her piquant face and rich auburn hair. She was once rumored for the Scarlett O'Hara role in the upcoming Gone with the Wind February 1938 20th Century-Fox slaps a 3-year non-marriage clause into her contract She dated Tyrone Power after his broken almost-engagement to fellow actress Janet Gaynor 2 September 1940 she marries Alexander D'Arcy in a Las Vegas, Nevada, hotel suite. The couple motors in from Hollywood and starts their return trip soon after the ceremony. He's 31; …