Actresses
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Mary Pickford was born Gladys Louise Smith in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to Elsie Charlotte (Hennessy) and John Charles Smith. She was of English and Irish descent. Pickford began in the theater at age seven. Then known as "Baby Gladys Smith", she toured with her family in a number of theater companies. In 1907, she adopted a family name Pickford and joined the David Belasco troupe, appearing in the long-running The Warrens of Virginia". She began in films in 1909 with the 'American Mutoscope & Biograph [us]', working with director D.W. Griffith. For a short time in 1911, to earn more money, she joined the IMP Film Co. under Carl Laemmle. She returned to Biograph in 19…
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Marion Cecelia Douras was born in the borough of Brooklyn, New York on January 3, 1897. She had been bitten by the show biz bug early as she watched her sisters perform in local stage productions. She wanted to do the same. As Marion got older, she tried out for various school plays and did fairly well. Once her formal education had ended, Marion began her career as a chorus girl in New York City and eventually found herself in the famed Ziegfeld Follies. But she wanted more than to dance. Acting, to Marion, was the epitome of show business and aimed her sights in that direction. Her first film was Runaway Romany (1917) when she was 20. Written by Marion and directed by h…
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Jayne Mansfield (April 19, 1933 — June 29, 1967) was an American actress working both on Broadway and in Hollywood. One of the leading blonde sex symbols of the 1950s,[1] Mansfield, like Marilyn Monroe, was a Playboy Playmate of the Month, and appeared in the magazine several more times over the years. She won the Theatre World Award, Golden Globe and Golden Laurel. Mansfield starred in several popular Hollywood films that emphasized her platinum-blonde hair, hourglass figure and cleavage-revealing costumes. Though Mansfield's career was short-lived, she had several box office successes. As the demand for blonde bombshells declined in the 1960s, Mansfield was relegated t…
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I know, I'm a bit nostalgic today, but I like Lupe a lot, she was so beautiful - and she was the first mexican actress in Hollywood so she should have her thread here as well Bio - taken from wikipedia.org Lupe Vélez (July 18, 1908 – December 13, 1944) was a Mexican actress. Vélez was born María Guadalupe Villalobos Vélez in the city of San Luis Potosí. Her father refused to let her use his last name in theater, so she used her mother's maiden name. Lupe was educated at a convent school in Texas before finding work as a sales assistant. She took dancing lessons and in 1924 made her performing debut at the Teatro Principal. She moved to California that year and was fi…
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Myrna Loy (August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993) was an American actress. Trained as a dancer, she devoted herself fully to an acting career following a few minor roles in silent films. Originally typecast in exotic roles, often as a vamp or a woman of Asian descent, her career prospects improved following her portrayal of Nora Charles in The Thin Man (1934). Her successful pairing with William Powell resulted in fourteen films together, including several subsequent Thin Man films. Early life Loy was born Myrna Adele Williams to Adelle Mae and rancher David Franklin Williams in Radersburg, Montana, a small town near Helena.She was of Welsh and Scottish ancestry.Loy's firs…
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Loretta Young (born Gretchen Young; January 6, 1913 – August 12, 2000) was an American actress. Starting as a child actress, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1953. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film The Farmer's Daughter (1947), and received her second Academy Award nomination for her role in Come to the Stable (1949). Young moved to the relatively new medium of television, where she had a dramatic anthology series, The Loretta Young Show, from 1953 to 1961. The series earned three Emmy Awards, and was re-run successfully on daytime TV and later in syndication. In the 1980s, Young returned to the small screen and won a…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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She s the new lead in Electrick Children by Rebecca Thomas. American, 17, AMAZING
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(Re-start of lost topic.) Born: December 14, 1988, Salinas, Cal. Vanessa Anne Hudgens is an American actress and singer. Hudgens rose to prominence playing Gabriella Montez in the High School Musical series. Hudgens has also appeared in various films and television series for the Disney Channel. FOX TCA Winter 2016 All-Star Party, Pasadena, Jan 15 '16
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Peta Wilson was born on November 18, 1970. She is the daughter of a retired warrant officer, Darcy Wilson, and a caterer, Karlene White. She also has a brother Rob, who is an Australian army truck driver. She was born in Sydney, but moved a dozen times before she was 13. She was raised in Papau, New Guinea. As she moved around, sports were Wilson's calling card. In high school she became the youngest member and "best player" of the Australian national netball (similar to basketball) team, she says. She became a model in Europe and later moved to Los Angeles in 1991 to concentrate on becoming an actress. There she met film director Damian Harris. They later on move…
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I discovered her on Red Pages "Hot 100 to watch in 2013" "19-year-old British model and actress who has been signed to Storm Model Management since she was 15. Mia makes her film debut in 2013, starring as P opposite Shia LaBeouf in Lars von Trier’s new feature film Nymphomaniac. She has also been touted as one to watch by i-D online" I like her; I hope she sticks with modeling. But who knows, maybe she'll be an amazing actress. Stats on Storm Models: Height: 5' 9.5" / 176.53cm Bust: 31" Waist: 24" / 60.96 cm Hips: 35" / 88.9 cm Shoes: UK / EUR Dress Size(uk): UK / EUR Hair: Brown Light Length: Eyes: Brown
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Birth Name Zoey Francis Thompson Deutch Nickname Zobo Height 5' 4" (1.63 m) Trivia She attended Oakwood School, as well as The Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, where she majored in Theatre. Has been a dancer for her whole life, having studied ballet, jazz, tap, modern, hip-hop and more. Younger sister of Madelyn Deutch. Daughter of actress Lea Thompson and director Howard Deutch. Grew up in Los Angeles, CA. Cousin of Elizabeth Goodrich. Niece of Phillip Goodrich and Coleen Goodrich. Grew up with many pets around the house, including 6 dogs, a cat, an African Grey parrot, several horses, and a pond full of koi fish. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm361…
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IMDbMiriam Arrieta | ActressKnown for: Entre tus piernas, Sexo y traición de familia, Las amantes del narco II Miriam Arrieta - Las amantes del narco (2018)1080p Duration: 00:05:09 Resolution: 1920x1080 Format: mp4 Size: 164.3 MB https://filejoker.net/vzs6u3zw9tse
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Olivia Cooke is an English actress. She currently co-stars as Emma Decody on the American television series Bates Motel airing on A&E. Wikipedia Born: December 27, 1993 (age 20), Oldham, United Kingdom Upcoming movie: The Quiet Ones
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Alexandra Kamp-Groeneveld is a German model and actress. She was born on 29 December 1966 in Baden-Baden to Peter Kamp aka Peter Griffin and his wife. She visited drama schools in New York, Los Angeles and Paris befor she started her career as an actress in 1994. In the meanwhile she worked as a waitress and model to finance her studies. She had a lot of star roles and underparts in German movies and TV series and some in Hollywood B-movies. In 1998, she played together with Claudia Cardinale in "Riches, Belles et Cruelles", in 2001 with Leslie Nielsen in "A Space Travestie" and in 2003 she played the star role in "Sumuru" together with Michael Shanks in an English-South…
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IMDbRobb Guinto | Actress, ProducerKnown for: X-Deal 2, Sugar Baby, ClimaxRob Guinto - High School On Sex S01E01(2022)1080p Duration: 00:01:20 Resolution: 1920x1080 Format: mp4 Size: 44.1 MB https://filejoker.net/t3wuox3s44tg
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She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to John Brendan Kelly Sr. (October 4, 1889
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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…
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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…
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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…
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