Actresses

Anita Briem (born 29 May 1982) is an Icelandic actress. She is known for her role as Jane Seymour on The Tudors and her role as Hannah on Journey to the Center of the Earth. Anita Briem attends the ABC Winter Press Tour All Star Party at The Wind Tunnel on January 21, 2006 in Pasadena, California

Corinne Calvet (April 30, 1925 – June 23, 2001) was a French actress who appeared mostly in American films. Born Corinne Dibos in Paris, Calvet studied criminal law at the Sorbonne and made her debut in French radio, stage plays and cinema in the 1940s before being brought to Hollywood in the 1940s by producer Hal Wallis. He cast her in Rope of Sand (1949) opposite Burt Lancaster and Paul Henreid. In the 1950s, Calvet appeared in a string of films, usually playing French characters, opposite such leading men as Danny Kaye (On the Riviera), Joseph Cotten (Peking Express), James Cagney (What Price Glory?), James Stewart (The Far Country), Alan Ladd (Thunder in the East), …

(Corinne Elaine Kegley) 13 May 1937 is born in Brentwood, California, to Carl S. Kegley, California deputy attorney, and his wife, Alice Polk, a descendant of President James Knox Polk and a former Ziegfeld Girl resembling Carroll Baker, she’s first runner-up in the “Miss USA” pageant May 1958 as Lari Laine, she is Playboy’s “Playmate of the Month” May 1959 her mother dies Ozzie Nelson suggests she change her name from Laine to Cole early October 1967 marries entertainment entrepreneur and president of the Sands Hotel Jack Entratter at the Las Vegas synagogue. He’s 54; she’s 30. Five friends are present. Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow congratulate. The widowed Entratt…

Talulah Riley (born 26 September 1985) is an English actress and occasional singer whose films include Pride and Prejudice, St Trinian's, The Boat That Rocked (North America: Pirate Radio) and St. Trinian's 2: The Legend of Fritton's Gold. St Trinian's, which starred Riley as the female lead, is the second highest grossing independent British movie of all time after Four Weddings and a Funeral. She also played the role of Lila, a young, lovestruck writer, in the short-lived television series, Nearly Famous. In that series, she showed her musical chops. In 2010, Riley appeared as a blonde projection in Inception, with Leonardo DiCaprio, written and directed by Christopher…

Canale was born in Reggio Calabria. In 1947, at the Miss Italia beauty contest, won by Lucia Bosè, she placed second. Canale received publicity in many Italian magazines after this. Her looks were compared to those of Ava Gardner. Riccardo Freda offered her a role in a movie, and, after they fell in love, they got married in Brazil, where they shot two films. Canale however was not used to living in South America and they came back to Italy, where, always directed by her husband, she starred in many sword and sandal films, as well as Italian horror and adventure films. I vampiri was her last film with Freda. She retired from the movie industry in 1964 and died in Florence…

Mara Corday (born Marilyn Joan Watts on January 3, 1930 in Santa Monica, California) is a showgirl, model, actress, Playboy Playmate[1] and a 1950s cult figure. Wanting a career in films, Mara Corday came to Hollywood while still in her teens and found work as a showgirl at the Earl Carroll Theatre on Sunset Boulevard. Her physical beauty brought jobs as a photographer's model that led to a bit part as a showgirl in the 1951 film Two Tickets to Broadway. She signed on as a Universal International Pictures (UI) contract player where she met actor Clint Eastwood with whom she would remain lifelong friends. With UI, Corday was given small roles in various B-movies and telev…

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…

Constance Mary Towers (born May 20, 1933) is an American actress and singer. Early life Towers was born in Whitefish, Montana, the daughter of Ardath L. and Harry J. Towers. According to her official Web site, a contract from Paramount Pictures was offered to her at age 11 but was declined. Towers later attended the Juilliard School of Music and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Career Towers has had an extensive career on both the stage and screen. She portrayed the title role in the short-lived 1965 stage production of the musical Anya. She also played Anna opposite Yul Brynner in The King and I on Broadway in the 1970s. She appeared in a 1966 production of Sho…

(Tamara Victoria Dubin) 1925 / 1926 is born in Detroit, Michigan, the last of three children of John and Elizabeth Dubin started modeling in New York then attends Julliard School of Music in New York July 1945 is signed to long-term contract by Jack L. Warner 4 May 1949 elopes with renowned Russian-born psychiatrist Dr. Isaac “Ira” Maxim Altshuler to Bowling Green a few days after his divorce from 38-year old Irene K. Altshuler becomes final. He’s 56; Paula’s 23. Altshuler is widely known for his successful treatment of mental patients with music. Altshuler had been her family’s physician, and she's known him since childhood. she and Altshuler work from their Detr…

Shriya Saran (Hindi: श्रिया / श्रेया सरन; born September 11, 1982)[1] is an Indian film actress. She began her career acting in music videos, while attending an acting studio. After her feature film debut in 2001 with Ishtam, she gained Telugu cinema's attention in 2002 by playing the role of Bhanu in Santhosham,[2] her first commercial success. Subsequently, she appeared in several Telugu films with prominent actors, whilst, also making in-roads in the Hindi film industry as well as the Tamil film industry. In 2007, Saran gained nationwide fame after her performance alongside Rajinikanth in Sivaji: The Boss,[3][4] after which she signed a Hollywood film and several Hindi…

Samantha Eggar (born 5 March 1939) is an English actress. Early life She was born Victoria Louise Samantha Marie Elizabeth Therese Eggar in Hampstead, London to an Anglo-Irish father (Ralph, a major in the British Army) and a mother (Muriel) of Dutch and Portuguese descent. She was educated at St Mary's Providence Convent, Woking, Surrey. Career She began her acting career in several Shakespearean companies, and debuted on film in 1962 in The Wild and the Willing. Also in 1962 she played Ethel Le Neve in the film Dr. Crippen, alongside Donald Pleasence. Eggar starred in the comedy Walk Don't Run (1966) with Cary Grant, his last picture. She received a nomination for t…

Joanne Dru (January 31, 1922 – September 10, 1996) was an American film and television actress, best-known for such films as Red River and All the King's Men. Career Born as Joan Letitia LaCock in Logan, West Virginia, Dru came to New York City in 1940 at the age of eighteen. After finding employment as a model, she was chosen by Al Jolson to appear in the cast of his Broadway show Hold Onto Your Hats. When she moved to Hollywood, she found work in the theater. Dru was spotted by a talent scout and made her first film appearance in Abie's Irish Rose (1946). Over the next decade, Dru appeared frequently in films and on television. She was cast often in western films su…

Julie Ege (Norwegian pronunciation: [jʉːliə ˈeːɡə]; 12 November 1943 – 29 April 2008) was a Norwegian actress and model. Ege was born in Høyland, Sandnes; she was a Miss Norway and Miss Universe contestant and a Penthouse Pet. In 1967, she moved to England as an au pair to improve her English and also studied at a language school. She made her film debut in a low budget Norwegian film Stompa til sjøs (Jennings at Sea). Ege appeared in 1969's On Her Majesty's Secret Service as Helen, the "Scandinavian girl." She later starred in Hammer Film Productions' Creatures the World Forgot and The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires. Other appearances include the Gluttony segment of T…

Constance Smith (22 January 1928 – 30 June 2003) was an Irish film actress, known as a contract player of 20th Century Fox in the 1950s. Biography Smith was born into a poor family as the first of eleven children. Her father was a foot soldier, working for the Irish Army, and he died when Constance was eleven years old. Her mother was not able to support all her children and Constance was sent to a convent. When Smith won a Dublin beauty contest at age 16, her mother sent the photo to a film studio. As a result, Smith won a screen test, and although reluctant to seize the opportunity, she was pushed into the film industry by her mother, according to the actress. Smith…

Ellen Drew (November 23, 1915 – December 3, 2003) was an American film actress. Born Esther Loretta Ray in Kansas City, Missouri, Drew worked various jobs and won a number of beauty contests before becoming an actress. Moving to Hollywood in an attempt to become a star, she was discovered while working at an ice cream parlor where one of the customers William Demarest took notice of her and eventually helped her get into films. She became a fixture at Paramount Pictures from 1938 to 1943, where she appeared in as many as six films per year, including Sing You Sinners (1938) with Bing Crosby and The Lady's from Kentucky (1939) with George Raft. She moved to RKO in 1944. …

Celeste Yarnall (born Long Beach, California, U.S., 26 July 1944) is an American actress who started her career on television before moving to the big screen. On July 2, 2010, she was married to Nazim Artist in an small ceremony in Ventura, California. Selected filmography Star Trek: Of Gods and Men (2006) Born Yesterday (1993) Funny About Love (1990) Fatal Beauty (1987) Scorpio (1973) The Mechanic (1972) The Velvet Vampire (1971) Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) Live a Little, Love a Little (1968) Around the World Under the Sea (1966)

Christiane Schmidtmer (December 24, 1939 – March 13, 2003) was a German actress, mannequin and nude model of the 1960s and 1970s. Biography Early life Christiane Schmidtmer was born in Mannheim, Germany to Jakob Schmidtmer and his wife Gertrud on Christmas Eve 1939. Her father worked for the Western governments and disappeared in Russia during the war. The family later relocated from Mannheim to nearby Heidelberg after her mother remarried. At the age of seventeen her mother sent her to London where Christiane attended St.Giles school to learn English. During her stay in England she met a powerful man of British royalty who offered to send her to the Royal Academy of…

Shirley Eaton (born 12 January 1937) is an English actress. Eaton appeared regularly in British films throughout the 1950s and 1960s, and achieved notability for her performance as Bond Girl Jill Masterson in the 1964 James Bond film Goldfinger. Preferring to devote herself to raising a family, Eaton retired from acting in 1969. Life and career Early life Eaton was born on 12 January 1937 in Edgware, then in Middlesex although subsequently in London and brought up in the suburb of Harrow Weald. She attended Roe Green Junior School, on Prince's Avenue. Although close to Kingsbury Secondary Modern School, Eaton won a place at the Aida Foster School, a specialist drama …

Cathy Downs (March 3, 1924 – December 8, 1976) was an American film actress. Born in Port Jefferson, New York, Downs began her film career with a small role in The Dolly Sisters (1945) and the following year played the title role in My Darling Clementine. Following the success of the latter, Downs was cast in a prison drama For You I Die (1947), an Abbott & Costello comedy The Noose Hangs High, and several western films. By the beginning of the 1950s she was appearing in lower budget films, including some science fiction films, with one of these films Missile to the Moon marking her last screen appearance, in 1958. She worked sporadically in television during the 1…

November 3, 1928 – February 1, 1981 Born Dixie Wanda Hendrix in Jacksonville, Florida, Hendrix was performing in her local amateur theater when she was seen by a talent agent who signed her to a Hollywood contract. She made her first film, Confidential Agent, in 1945 and for the first few years of her career was consistently cast in "B" pictures. By the late 1940s, she was being included in more prestigious films, such as Ride the Pink Horse (1947) and Miss Tatlock's Millions (1948). She starred with Tyrone Power in Prince of Foxes. In 1949, Audie Murphy saw Hendrix on the cover of a magazine and asked to meet her. They were married on February 8, 1949, but the m…

Lisa Gaye (born 6 March 1935) is a former American actress, singer and dancer. She was born Lezlie Gae Griffin in Denver, Colorado. The family moved from Denver to Los Angeles in the 1930s to be close to the developing film industry. Her mother, actress Margaret Griffin, was determined that Gaye and her siblings would also make their careers in show business. This ambition was realized: Gaye's sisters Judith ("Teala Loring") and Debrale ("Debra Paget"), and her brother Frank ("Ruell Shayne") all entered the business as either cast or crew. She made her first professional appearance aged 7. She began acting career in 1954 and was a popular leading lady during the 1950s an…

Pamela Green (March 28, 1929, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England – May 7, 2010) was an English glamour model and actress, best known at the end of the 1950s and early 1960s. She modeled for Zoltán Glass, Horace Roye, and John Everard. Career Born as Phyllis Pamela Green, she started figure modelling to pay for her art school studies and moved on to photographic modelling because it paid more. Early in her career Pamela Green was photographed by Bill Brandt (while still at art college), Zoltán Glass and Angus McBean. In 1954 Pamela started to supply the bookshops and newsagents of London's Soho with her own postcard sets of glamour photographs, to supplement her work…

Date of Birth 24 July 1932, Hooker, Oklahoma, USA Birth Name Lelia Bernice Giles Nickname Sandy Spouse Paul Robertson (? - ?) (his death) 1 daughter, Sandra Trivia Mother-in-law of Michael Piller. Grandmother of Shawn Piller. Ex-grandmother-in-law of Lindsay Price. Mother of Sandra Pillar. Where Are They Now (1997) Owns restaraunt / dance club called Pasion at 12215 Ventura Blvd. Studio City, CA 91604 (314)276-2630

Jean Hale (born December 27, 1938 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is an American actress. In films, Hale played Cheryl Barker in The Oscar (1966), Myrtle in The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967) and Lisa in In Like Flint (1967). She also appeared in several television shows in the 1960s, including: The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Batman, Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, Bonanza, The Fugitive, Hawaii Five-O, McHale's Navy, Perry Mason, My Favorite Martian ("The Atom Misers", air date 12/15/63), The Virginian, Hogan's Heroes, and The Wild Wild West. Personal life Jean Hale married Dabney Coleman in 1961. They have three children: Quincy (born 1972), Randy, and Kelly Johns. …

Constance Dowling (July 24, 1920 – October 28, 1969) was an American model turned actress of the 1940s and 1950s. Early life and career Born in New York City, Dowling was a model and chorus girl before moving to California in 1943. She was the elder sister of actress Doris Dowling. Prior to her move to Hollywood, Dowling appeared in several Broadway productions, including Panama Hattie (with sister Doris), Hold On To Your Hats, and The Strings, My Lord, Are False.[ Dowling began her screen career appearing in Up in Arms (1944) for Samuel Goldwyn. She appeared in a few films after that, including the film noir Black Angel (1946) but her film career did not advance. Dowl…