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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…
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Ann Dvorak (August 2, 1911 – December 10, 1979) was an American film actress. Asked how to pronounce her adopted surname, she told The Literary Digest: "My name is properly pronounced vor'shack. The D remains silent. I have had quite a time with the name, having been called practically everything from Balzac to Bickelsrock." Life and career Born Anna McKim in New York City of Irish-Australian descent, the only child of two vaudevillians, she was raised in the business that would later make her a star. Her father, Edwin McKim worked as a director for the Lubin Studios, and her mother, Anna Lehr, found success as the star of many silent features. The couple split when An…
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Anica Dobra (Serbian Cyrillic: Аница Добра) was born on June 3, 1963 in Belgrade, SFR Yugoslavia. She is a Serbian actress of Serbian and German film. Selected filmography Reflections (Već viđeno) (1987) My Uncle's Legacy (Život sa stricem) (1988) The Meeting Point (Sabirni centar) (1989) Kako je propao Rock 'n' Roll (1989) Tito and Me (Tito i ja) (1992) The Black Bomber (Crni bombarder) (1992) Beck Polismördaren Sjöwall and Wahlöö (1993) Das merkwürdige Verhalten geschlechtsreifer Großstädter zur Paarungszeit (1998) Točkovi (1999) Nataša (2002) Ivkova slava (2005) The Trap (2007) Ljubav i drugi zločini (2008) Zena sa slomljenim nosem / The woman with a bro…
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Perrey Reeves is the actress that plays Ari Gold's wife in "Entourage"...
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Angela Douglas (born 29 October 1940), born Angela McDonagh, is an English actress. Early life She was born in Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire. She was named after her father's boss Angelino. Career Douglas started acting as a teenager, joining the Worthing, West Sussex repertory company, before making her West End theatre debut in 1958. She made her film debut in 1959 with Donald Pleasence in The Shakedown, and then appeared with Tommy Steele in It's All Happening. She is best remembered for her roles in several Carry On Films in the 1960s, including Carry On Cowboy (1965) as an all-singing and trigger-happy version of Annie Oakley. She then appeared in Carry On Sc…
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Joyce Anne DeWitt (born April 23, 1949) is an American actress most famous for playing Janet Wood on the ABC sitcom Three's Company. Early life Joyce Dewitt, who is of no relation to actress Fay DeWitt, was born April 23, 1949 in Wheeling, West Virginia, and grew up in Speedway, Indiana, a suburb of Indianapolis, where she competed in speech and debate through the Indiana High School Forensic Association. After she received a bachelor's degree in theater from Ball State University, she moved to California to earn her master's degree from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Career While attending university, she worked as a secretary until her debut on …
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Gloria Mildred DeHaven (born July 23, 1925) is an American actress and a former contract star for MGM . Early life and career DeHaven was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of actor-director Carter DeHaven and actress Flora Parker DeHaven, both former vaudeville performers. She began her career as a child actor with a bit part in Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times (1936). She was signed to a contract with MGM Studios, but despite featured roles in such films as The Thin Man Goes Home (1944) and Summer Stock (1950), she did not achieve film stardom. She portrayed her mother in the Fred Astaire film Three Little Words (1950). DeHaven also appeared as a regular in…
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Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux (French pronunciation: [da.niɛl i.vɔn ma.ʁi ɑ̃.twa.nɛt daʁ.jø]) (born 1 May 1917) is a French actress and singer, who has appeared in more than 110 films since 1931. She is one of France's great movie stars and her eight-decade career is among the longest in film history. Biography She was born in Bordeaux, France during World War I to a physician who was serving in the French Army. Her father died when she was seven years old. Raised in Paris, she studied the cello at the Conservatoire de Musique. At 13, she won a part in the musical film Le Bal (1931). Her beauty combined with her singing and dancing ability led to numerous ot…
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Sybil Danning (born May 24, 1952) is an Austrian actress known for her many roles in B movies, science fiction films, and action films. Early life Danning was born in Ried im Innkreis, Austria as Sybille Johanna Danninger. Her father was an American of Dutch and German descent; her Austrian mother later married a United States Army major who moved the family to the United States when his tour of duty in Austria with the occupation forces was over. Danning became an actress after leaving home about 1968 at the age of sixteen. Career Danning made her film debut in 1968's Komm nur, mein liebstes Vögelein, portraying the legendary German mermaid "Lorelei" covered by only…
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Sara Rue - Entertainment TV's 2005 Summer Splash Event - August 1, 2005
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= http://www.filesonic.com/file/1279505004 [048,40 Mo ; 1 min 09 sec ; 1280x720 ; avi] >>> Smallville = Season 10
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Susan Dey (born December 10, 1952) is an American actress, known primarily for her roles in film and television. Her more prominent parts came as elder daughter, Laurie Partridge, on the 1970s sitcom The Partridge Family, and as Grace Van Owen, a California assistant district attorney and judge on the dramatic series, L.A. Law, a role she played from 1986 to 1992. Life and career Dey was born Susan Hallock Smith in Pekin, Illinois, the daughter of Gail, a nurse who died of pneumonia when Dey was eight years old, and Robert Smith, a newspaper editor. She adopted her mother's maiden name as her professional name. She graduated from Fox Lane High School in Bedford, New Yor…
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilia_Clarke Emilia Clarke is an English actress. She is best known for the role of Daenerys Targaryen in the HBO cable television medieval-fantasy series Game of Thrones.
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Lil Dagover (September 30, 1887 – January 24, 1980) was a German stage, film and television actress whose career spanned nearly six decades. Early life Lil Dagover was born Marie Antonia Siegelinde Martha Seubert in Madiun, Java, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) to Dutch parents. Her father was a forest ranger in the service of the Dutch colonial authorities. In 1897, at the age of ten, Seubert's parents sent her back to Europe to continue her education in boarding schools in Baden-Baden, Weimar and Geneva, Switzerland. Orphaned at the age of 13, she spent the rest of her adolescence with friends and relatives. After completing her education she began pursuing an exte…
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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)
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Skyler Samuels is an American actress. She is known for her recurring role as Gigi in Wizards of Waverly Place and for appearing in the feature films The Stepfather and Furry Vengeance. She also starred in the ABC series The Gates. Her latest project is the ABC Family series "The Nine Lives of Chloe King" Info credit goes to her wiki.
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"The Art of Getting By" Screening -> 13th June 2011 Source: tlfan.to
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Lotte Verbeek Date of Birth: 24 June 1982 Place of Birth: Venlo,Netherlands http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotte_Verbeek The Borgias (Promo)
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Marion Davies (January 3, 1897 – September 22, 1961) was an American film actress. Davies is best remembered for her relationship with newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, as her high-profile social life often obscured her professional career. Early life Davies was born Marion Cecilia Douras on January 3, 1897 in Brooklyn, New York, the youngest of five children born to Bernard J. Douras (1857–1935), a lawyer and judge in New York City; and Rose Reilly (1867–?). Her father performed the civil marriage of Gloria Gould Bishop. Her elder siblings included Rose, Reine, and Ethel. A brother, Charles, drowned at the age of 15 in 1906. His name was subsequently given to M…
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Marie Doro (May 25, 1882 – October 9, 1956) was an American stage and film actress of the early silent film era. Personal life Marie Doro was born as Marie Katherine Steward in Duncannon, Pennsylvania and began her career as a theater actress under the management of Charles Frohman before progressing to motion pictures in 1915, under contract with film producer Adolph Zukor. She was briefly married to the vaudeville and silent screen actor Elliott Dexter; the marriage soon ended in divorce. The marriage produced no children and Doro never remarried. Her name was linked over the years to much older William Gillette of Sherlock Holmes fame, who was consistently linked b…
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Priscilla Dean (November 25, 1896 – December 27, 1987) was an American actress popular in movies as well as in theatre. Life and career Born in New York to an active theatrical family (her mother was popular stage actress Mary Preston Dean), Priscilla Dean made her stage debut at the age of four, appearing in plays starring her parents. From then on, she pursued her stage career at the same time as being educated at a convent school until the age of fourteen. Following her leave from school, Priscilla went to work on stage, then tried to get into the movies. Dean made her film debut at the age of fourteen in one-reelers for Biograph and several other studios. She was f…
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Elaine Devry (born January 10, 1930) is an American actress. She appeared in a number of films including A Guide for the Married Man and was formerly married to actor Mickey Rooney. Filmography The Atomic Kid (1954) China Doll (1958) Man-Trap (1961) Diary of a Madman (1963) I Dream of Jeannie (1967) 1 episode "My Master the Pirate" A Guide for the Married Man (1967) With Six You Get Eggroll (1969) Once You Kiss a Stranger (1969) The Cheyenne Social Club (1970) Bless the Beasts and Children (1971) The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (1973) Herbie Rides Again (1974) Heart to Heart.com (1999)
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Faith Domergue (June 16, 1924 – April 4, 1999) was an American television and film actress. Early life and career Born in New Orleans, Domergue was adopted by Adabelle Wemet when she was six weeks old (she found out later in life that she was adopted and that she was actually of Irish and English ancestry). Adabelle married Leo Domergue in 1926, when Faith was 18 months old. The family moved to California in 1928 where Domergue attended Beverly Hills Catholic School and St. Monica's Convent School. While still in high school, she was signed to Warner Bros. where she made her first onscreen appearance in Blues in the Night (1941). After graduating in 1942, Domergue cont…
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Joan Dixon (June 6, 1930, Norfolk, Virginia - February 20, 1992, Los Angeles) was an American film and television actress in the 1950s. She is known for her role in the film noir, Roadblock (1951). Biography Dixon's career, while under contract at RKO Pictures, was in the hands of Howard Hughes. He attempted but failed to make her into the star he made of Jane Russell (whom Dixon resembled). Hughes had personal contracts with Dixon, Russell, and Janis Carter. In September 1952, it was revealed that Hughes had an agreement with the Ralph E. Stolkin syndicate to lend RKO Pictures the sum of $8,000,000. The loan commitment was made as part of a sales accord following loss…
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Gloria Dickson (August 13, 1917 – April 10, 1945) was an American stage and screen actress of the 1930s and 1940s. Life and career Born in Pocatello, Idaho, Dickson began acting during high school in amateur theater productions. Encouraged by her acting coaches, she moonlighted doing dramatic readings at social clubs and on KFOX radio station in Long Beach, California. In April 1936, she was spotted by Warner Brothers talent scout Max Arnow who signed her to a Warner contract. Her auspicious film debut in 1937's They Won't Forget landed her on the top of Hollywood's short list of important up and comers, a distinction which allotted her enormous publicity. In the fall …
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