Actresses

Maritza Bustamante Abidar, Venezuelan actress and model (Caracas, 28/9/1980).

In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Lombard 23rd on its list of the 50 greatest American female screen legends Nicknames: The Profane Angel, The Hoosier Tornado, The Screwball Girl, and Ma (by Clark Gable). Husbands: William Powell (June 26,1931- August 18,1933) divorced; Clark Gable (March 29, 1939- January 16, 1942) her death (Clark called her the Love of his life) First Film: A Perfect Crime (1921) Last Film: To Be or Not To Be (1942) Awards: Academy Award Nomination for Best Actress for her performance in My Man Godfrey; #23 of 50 Greatest American Female Screen Legends (American Film Institute, 1999); she has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located…

Virna Lisi (born 8 November 1936 in Jesi, Province of Ancona) is a Cannes and César award-winning Italian film actress. She was born in Jesi, Marche, as Virna Lisa Pieralisi. Early career Virna Lisi began her film career in her teens. She was discovered by two Neapolitan producers (Antonio Ferrigno and Ettore Pesce) in Paris. Her debut was in La corda d'acciaio (The line of steel, 1953). Initially, she did musical films, like in E Napoli canta (Napoli sings, 1953) and the successful Questa è la vita (1954, with the popular Totò). Nonetheless, soon Virna Lisi became a figure whose beauty was more valued than her talent, like in Le diciottenni and Lo scapolo films of 195…

Leslie Claire Margaret Caron (French pronunciation: [lɛzli kaʁɔ̃]) (born 1 July 1931) is a French film actress and dancer. She was one of the most famous Hollywood musical stars in the 1950s. Caron is best known for the musical films Gigi, Lili, An American in Paris, and Daddy Long Legs, and for the non-musical films The L-Shaped Room, Father Goose, and Fanny. She received two Academy Award nominations for Best Actress. She speaks French and English. Caron was born in Boulogne-sur-Seine, Seine (now Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine), France, to Claude Caron, a French chemist, and Margaret Petit, an American dancer.[1] Caron was prepared for a performing career from ch…

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…

Hildegard Knef Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef (December 28, 1925 - February 1, 2002) was a German actress, singer and writer. She was billed in some English language films as Hildegard Neff or Hildegarde Neff. Early years She began studying acting in 1940, aged 14. She appeared in several films even before the fall of the Third Reich, but most were not released until after World War II. She was forced to dress as a young man to avoid being raped by the Soviet soldiers and was sent to a POW camp. Her best-known film roles were as: Susanne Wallner in Wolfgang Staudte's film Die Mörder sind unter uns (The Murderers Are Among Us) (the first film released afte…

Kim Novak was born in Chicago, Illinois on February 13, 1933 with the birth name of Marilyn Pauline Novak. She was the daughter of Joseph Novak, a former teacher turned transit clerk and his wife, Blanche Kral Novak, also a former teacher. Throughout elementary and high school, Kim did not get along well with teachers. She even admitted that she didn't like being told what to do and when to do it. Her first job, while in high school, was modeling teen fashions for a local department store. Kim, an avid painter, won a scholarship to the Art Institute of Chicago, but ended up going to Wright Junior College instead. While on a break from school, Kim and two of her classmates…

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Kate Winslet - "as down-to-earth and unpretentious as actors get". She is the youngest actress to have received three Academy Award nominations, and has been described by many film critics as "the most gifted actress of her generation". "Kate Winslet is the most talented young actress working in the business today. Her ability to convey emotion is unmatched by any other actress of her generation. There is something almost inexplicable about her presence that makes her so supremely wonderful in any film that no film graced with her performance could ever be bad." Nathaniel R. Atchison, film critic "God bless Kate Winslet. So many of her fellow actresses of British linea…

MARISA TOMEI Date of birth (location) 4 December 1964 Brooklyn, New York, USA Height 5' 6" (1.68 m) Mini biography Marisa Tomei was born on December 4, 1964, in Brooklyn, New York to mother Patricia "Addie" Tomei, an English teacher and father Gary Tomei, a lawyer. Marisa also has a brother, actor Adam Tomei. As a child, Marisa's mother frequently corrected her speech as to eliminate her heavy Brooklyn accent. As a teen, Marisa attended Edward R. Murrow High School and graduated in the class of 1982. She was one year into her college education at Boston University when she dropped out for a co-starring role on the CBS daytime drama "As the World Turns" (1956). He…

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Argentine actress (Buenos Aires, 21/6/1970).

date of birth: 24 March 1960 place of birth: New York, New York, USA height: 173cm measurements: 87-61-87 [in 1982] shoe & dress size: 8 Kelly LeBrock was born in New York and reared in London. She is the daughter of a French-Canadian father and an Irish mother. Kelly LeBrock began her career as a model beginning at the age of sixteen. She has appeared on hundreds of covers and magazines including a Christian Dior ad. She became one of Eileen Ford's most sought-after models. Her motion picture debut was in the movie The Woman in Red (1984). [source: http://www.imdb.com]

Another great from the silver screen for you to enjoy. The Scottish television, stage and film actress Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer CBE popular by the name Deborah Kerr was born on the 30th September 1921 in Glasgow, Scotland. Kerr was the only daughter and eldest child of Kathleen Rose & Capt. Arthur Charles Kerr-Trimmer who was a veteran pilot of the First World War and later worked as a civil engineer and naval architect. Deborah Kerr had a younger journalist brother Edward who died in a 2004 road accident. In 1938, Kerr as a ballet dancer first appeared at Sadler's Wells and soon jumped to the next step on the performance ladder, acting. In 1940, Kerr appeared in …

She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to John Brendan Kelly Sr. (October 4, 1889

Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American actress and singer. Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist, and on the concert stage. Respected for her versatility, she received a Juvenile Academy Award, won a Golden Globe Award, received the Cecil B. DeMille Award for her work in films, as well as Grammy Awards and a Tony Award. She had a contralto singing range.[1] After appearing in vaudeville with her sisters, Garland was signed to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as a teenager. There she made more than two dozen films, includi…

Janet Leigh (July 6, 1927 …quot; October 3, 2004) was an American actress. Discovered by the actress Norma Shearer, Leigh secured a contract with MGM and began her film career in the late 1940s. She appeared in several popular films over the following decade, including Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). From the end of the 1950s, she played more dramatic roles in such films as Touch of Evil (1958) and The Manchurian Candidate (1962), but she achieved her most lasting recognition for her performance as the doomed Marion Crane in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960). For this role she was awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress and was nominated for the Acad…

Jeanette Anna MacDonald (June 18, 1903 – January 14, 1965) was an American singer and actress best remembered for her musical films of the 1930s with Maurice Chevalier (The Love Parade, Love Me Tonight, The Merry Widow and One Hour With You) and Nelson Eddy (Naughty Marietta, Rose-Marie, and Maytime). During the 1930s and 1940s she starred in 29 feature films, four nominated for Best Picture Oscars (The Love Parade, One Hour with You, Naughty Marietta and San Francisco), and recorded extensively, earning three gold records. She later appeared in opera, concerts, radio, and television. MacDonald was one of the most influential sopranos of the 20th century, introducing oper…

I just thought she should have her thread, she was a goddess Bio - extracts taken from wikipedia.org Greta Garbo (September 18, 1905 – April 15, 1990) was a Swedish actress who was, by reputation, one of the greatest and most inscrutable movie stars ever to be produced by MGM and the Hollywood studio system. She is the recipient of the 1955 Honorary Oscar "for her unforgettable screen performances" and was ranked as the fifth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute. In addition, she was named "the most beautiful woman who ever lived" by the The Guinness Book of World Records. Greta Garbo was born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson (some sources cite her…

Gina Lollobrigida (born July 4, 1927 in Subiaco, Italy), is a Golden Globe Award-winning Italian actress and photojournalist. She was one of Italy's most prominent actresses of the 1950s and early 1960s. Born Luigina Lollobrigida, she was one of four daughters of a furniture manufacturer (her sisters are Giuliana, Maria and Fernanda). She spent her youth in a picturesque mountain village. In her youth, Gina did some modelling, and from there she went to participate successfully in several beauty contests. At around this time, she began appearing in Italian language films. In 1947, Gina entered the Miss Italia pageant and came in 3rd place. The contest was won by Lucia Bos…

"Undeniably the most beautiful woman in movie history" - Darryl F. Zanuck, founder of 20th Century Fox. Gene Tierney (November 19, 1920 – November 6, 1991) was an American Film and Stage actress. Acclaimed as one of the most beautiful women of the 20th century, she is probably best-remembered for her performance in the title role of Laura (1944) and her Academy Award-nominated performance for Best Actress in Leave Her to Heaven (1945). Wikipedia Imdb

Madelaine Petsch is an American film actress. She was born on 18 August 1994 in Los Angeles, California, United Stats. She made her debut as a supporting role in science fiction film ''The Hive'' (2015). Petsch became popular for playing a role as Eliza in the movie ''The Curse of Sleeping Beauty'', released in 2016. She also appeared in many Television Drama series like ''Riverdale'' and many others. ''Riverdale" set, Vancouver, Jan 13 '17