Actresses

Dolores del Río (August 3, 1905 – April 11, 1983) was a Mexican film actress. She was a star of Hollywood films during the silent era and in the Golden Age of Hollywood. Later in life, she became an important actress in Mexican films. She was generally thought to be one of the most beautiful actresses of her era, and was the first Latin American movie star to have international appeal. In the Silent film era, Del Rio was considered a counterpart to Rudolph Valentino. With the arrival of the talkies, she became one of the principal Art Deco symbols of beauty. Del Río was one of the principal stars of Mexican films during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1…

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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Biography from askmen.com: Born in her father's Datsun on the Santa Monica freeway, Dominique Adrian Swain was born on August 12, 1980. She grew up in Malibu with her parents and four siblings, living a modest lifestyle and enduring the usual teenage humiliations of crooked teeth and catty classmates at Malibu High School. Swain excelled at learning, earning straight A's and becoming Valedictorian like her sister before her. Then, in her sophomore year, Swain's life took a famous turn. from stunt double to double take Dominique Swain had already officially launched her Hollywood career as a stunt double; she appeared under the ice as Macaulay Culkin's younger sister in…

Dona Drake (November 15, 1914 – June 20, 1989) was an American singer, dancer and film actress in the 1930s and 1940s. She was born Eunice Westmoreland in Miami, Florida, in 1914. Entering show business in the 1930s, she used the names Una Velon, Rita Rio and Rita Shaw. She settled on the stage name Dona Drake in the early 1940s. Studio publicity during her heyday incorrectly stated that Drake was of Mexican origin and was born Rita Novella. (Novella was actually her mother's first name.) Because of her dark hair and Latin-looking features, Drake generally played Latin or other "ethnic" types. She is probably best known for playing the American Indian maid of Bette Davis…

Biography http://freeuniqueimages.com/celebrity-photo.php?img=donna-d%60errico/donna-d%60errico-1.jpg' rel="external nofollow"> Donna D'Errico was born on the 30th of March 1968, in Dothan, Alabama. Before making it to the bathing suit clad Baywatch beaches, Donna considered pursuing a career as an accountant, having excelled in math throughout high school. This blonde beauty made a switch in career paths and moved to Hollywood, hoping to become an actress. She got more than she bargained for, with magazine covers and several television roles. Before succeeding in Hollywood, Donna was a Las Vegas limo driver, a stripper (for a short period of time) and hit the big…

Why Donna does not grace the threads of Bellazon is beyond my comprehension. I guess I'll just proceed along on the assumption that she was lost in the 'Great Crash' that the Bellazon vets refer to with such sad trepediation. Here are a few of my favorites, for starters.

Doona Bae (born October 11, 1979) is a South Korean actress and photographer. She is best known outside Korea for her roles as the protagonist's political activist girlfriend Cha Young-mi in Park Chan-wook's Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) and as archer Park Nam-ju in Bong Joon-ho's The Host (2006). She also had a starring role as Sonmi~451 in Hollywood film Cloud Atlas (2012), directed by The Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer. Life and career Bae Doo-na was born in Seoul, South Korea. Growing up, Bae would follow her mother, Kim Hwa-young, a famous stage actress in Korea, around the theater and rehearsal halls, learning the lines of dialogue as she went along. This did not i…

Doris Day (born Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff; April 3, 1922)[1] is an American actress, singer, and animal rights activist. Day's entertainment career began in her late teens as a big band singer. In 1945 she had her first hit recording , "Sentimental Journey", and, in 1948, appeared in her first film, Romance on the High Seas. During her entertainment career, she has appeared in thirty-nine films, recorded more than six-hundred-fifty songs, received an Academy Award nomination, won a Golden Globe and a Grammy Award, and, in 1989, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement in motion pictures. As of 2009, Day was the top-ranking female box office star of a…

Doris Kenyon (September 5, 1897 – September 1, 1979) was a popular actress of motion pictures and television. Youth She grew up in Syracuse, New York, where her family had a home at 1805 Harrison Street. Her father, Dr. James B. Kenyon, was a Methodist Episcopal Church minister at University Church. Kenyon studied at Packer College Institute and later at Columbia University. She sang in the choirs of Grace Presbyterian and Bushwick Methodist Churches in Brooklyn, New York. Her voice attracted the attention of Broadway theatrical scouts who enticed her to become a performer on the stage. She first appeared in the Victor Herbert operetta The Princess Pat. Film career …

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…

Dorothy Dalton (September 22, 1893 – April 13, 1972) was an American silent film actress and stage personality who worked her way from a stock company to a movie career. Beginning in 1910, Dalton was a player in stock companies in Chicago and Holyoke, Massachusetts. She joined the Keith-Albee-Orpheum Corporation vaudeville circuits. By 1914 she was in Hollywood. Career Born in Chicago, Illinois, Dalton made her movie debut in 1914 in Pierre of the Plains, co-starring Edgar Selwyn, followed by the lead role in Across the Pacific that same year. In 1915, she appeared with William S. Hart in The Disciple. This production came before she left Triangle Film Corporation and w…

Dorothy Jean Dandridge (November 9, 1922 – September 8, 1965) was an American actress and popular singer, and was the first African American to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress. She performed as a vocalist in venues such as the Cotton Club and the Apollo Theater. In 1954, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for Carmen Jones, and, in 1959, was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for Porgy and Bess. In 1999, she was the subject of the HBO biopic Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. She has been recognized on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. …

Dorothy Dell (January 30, 1915 – June 8, 1934) was an American film actress. Early life and career Born Dorothy Dell Goff in Hattiesburg, Mississippi to entertainers, she moved with the family to New Orleans, Louisiana, at age 13. She was born into a socially prominent family, and her mother was a descendant of Jefferson Davis. Initially desiring to become a singer, she was discovered by composer Wesley Lord, and soon signed a radio contract. She began entering and winning beauty pageants and at the age of 15 won the title of "Miss New Orleans" in 1930. That same year she attended the International Pageant of Pulchritude in Galveston, Texas, and won the Miss Universe t…

Dorothy Devore (June 22, 1899 {though some sources say 1901} - September 10, 1976) was a leading and popular American silent-film actor and comedian in her time. Early life Born Alma Inez Williams in Fort Worth, Texas, Dorothy Devore's family soon moved to Los Angeles when she was still a young girl. It was in Los Angeles where Dorothy completed her education and then joined a musical comedy company, with which she appeared for one year. She then went to Lyons and Moran comedies at Universal Pictures. It was at Universal where she was "discovered" by director/producer Al Christie, one of the most famous comedic moviemakers of the era. Dorothy began playing in small par…

Dorothy Dwan (April 26, 1906 – March 17, 1981) was an American film actress. She appeared in 40 films between 1922 and 1930. Born Dorothy Ilgenfritz in Sedalia, Missouri, she married three times. She had one child, a son, Paul, by her marriage to Paul Northcutt Boggs Jr. Dorothy Dwan died in Ventura, California from lung cancer, aged 74. Selected filmography Her Boy Friend (1924) Kid Speed (1924) Wizard of Oz (1925) The Perfect Clown (1925) Stop, Look and Listen (1926) The Great K & A Train Robbery (1926)

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.

Dorothy Elizabeth Gish (March 11, 1898 – June 4, 1968) was an American actress, and the younger sister of actress Lillian Gish. Early life The Gish sisters' mother, Mary Robinson McConnell "Gish", supported the family after her husband, James Leigh Gish, abandoned the family. When they were old enough, Dorothy and Lillian were brought into their mother's act, and they also modeled. In 1912, their childhood friend, actress Mary Pickford, introduced them to director D.W. Griffith, and the sisters began acting at the Biograph Studios. Dorothy and Lillian Gish both debuted in Griffith's An Unseen Enemy. Dorothy would go on to star in over 100 short films and features, many …

Dorothy Kathleen Gulliver (September 6, 1908-May 23, 1997) was an early silent film star, and one of the few to make a successful transition with the advent of "talkies", when films began using sound. She was born in Utah. Named as a 1928 "WAMPAS Baby Star", Gulliver was part of The Collegians silent series of the late 1920s, and also did some silent serials with William Desmond, Jack Hoxie and Hoot Gibson. With the beginning of "talkies", she became a popular heroine in 1930s "cliffhangers", including The Galloping Ghost, Phantom of the West, The Shadow of the Eagle, The Last Frontier, and the 1936 Custers Last Stand. Her costars were often Rex Lease, Tim McCoy, Jack Ho…

Dorothy Hart (April 4, 1922 - July 11, 2004) was an American screen actress, known mostly for her supporting roles. Background Born in Cleveland, Ohio, she became a model in her late-teens, and was signed by Columbia in 1946. Her contract stipulated "A-movies only". Although considered one of the top supporting actresses of her day, she was frequently cast in B movies. Dorothy was attractive, standing 5 ft 6 in, with green eyes and auburn hair. She graduated from Case Western Reserve University with a B.A. degree. After gaining some experience at the Cleveland Playhouse she resolved on a singing career. Miss Hart had saved enough money to go to New York when she learne…

Dorothy Lamour (December 10, 1914 – September 22, 1996) was an American film actress. She is probably best-remembered for appearing in the Road to.... movies, a series of successful comedies co-starring Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. Early lifeLamour was born Mary Leta Dorothy Slaton in New Orleans, Louisiana, the daughter of Carmen Louise (née LaPorte) and John Watson Slaton, both of whom were waiters.[1] Lamour had French Louisianan, Spanish and Irish descent.[2] Her parents' marriage lasted only a few years, with her mother re-marrying to Clarence Lambour, and Dorothy took his last name. The marriage also ended in divorce when Dorothy was a teenager. The family finances wer…

Dorothy Mackaill (March 4, 1903 - August 12, 1990) was a British-born American actress, most notably of the silent film era and into the early 1930s. Born in Hull, England, Dorothy Mackaill lived with her father after her parents separated when she was eleven. As a teenager, Mackaill ran away to London to pursue a stage career as an actress. After temporarily relocating to Paris, France she met a Broadway stage choreographer who persuaded her to move to New York City where she became involved in the Ziegfeld Follies and befriended future motion picture actresses Marion Davies and Nita Naldi. By 1920, Mackaill had begun making the transition from "Follies girl" to motion…

Dorothy Michelle Provine (January 20, 1935 – April 25, 2010) was an American singer, dancer, actress, and comedienne. Career Provine was born in Deadwood, South Dakota, to Virgil and Kathleen Provine. She attended the University of Washington, where she majored in drama. In Washington she handed out prizes for a local television station's quiz show, until she was hired by Warner Bros. at $500 per week. In Hollywood, she starred in The Bonnie Parker Story (1958) and The 30 Foot Bride of Candy Rock (1959), which was Lou Costello's last screen appearance. She guest-starred on the television series Man Without a Gun, starring Rex Reason, and starred in two series: The Alas…

Dorothy Sebastian (April 26, 1903 – April 8, 1957) was an American film and stage actress. Early life and career Sebastian was born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. In her youth she hoped to be a dancer and later a film actress. Her family frowned on both ambitions, however, so she fled to New York at the age of 15. Upon her arrival in New York City, Sebastian's southern drawl was thick enough to "cut with a knife". She followed around theatrical agents before returning at night to a $12-a-month room, after being consistently rejected. Her first contact in Hollywood was Robert Kane, who gave her a film test at United Studios. She performed in George White's Scandals…