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    Lilyan Chauvin (August 6, 1925 – June 26, 2008), born Lilyan Zemoz, was a French-American actress, television host, director, writer, former Vice President of Women in Film, author, teacher and private coach. Her motion picture credits included Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) and Catch Me If You Can (2002). In the 1990s and 2000s, she guest-starred in show such as The X-Files, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Friends, Alias, Malcolm in the Middle and Ugly Betty. Early life Chauvin began her career working in broadcasting in France. Her mother was French and her father was Italian. While under contract to a French radio station she had her heart set on becoming a lawyer; …

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    Elsa Cárdenas (born 3 August 1935) is a Mexican actress. She has appeared in over 100 films and television shows since 1954. She starred in the film Happiness, which was entered into the 7th Berlin International Film Festival. Selected filmography Happiness (1956) Giant (1956) The Brave One (1956) Fun in Acapulco (1963) untitled.bmp untitled.bmp

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    Phyllis Coates (born Gypsie Ann Evarts Stell on January 15, 1927) is an American film and television actress. She is perhaps best known for her portrayal of reporter Lois Lane in the film Superman and the Mole Men and during the first season of the Adventures of Superman television series. Early life and career After graduating from high school in Wichita Falls, Texas, Coates went to Los Angeles, intending to study at UCLA. However, a chance meeting with entertainer Ken Murray resulted in her working in his vaudeville show as a chorus girl. She later performed as one of Earl Carroll's showgirls at his Earl Carroll Theatre. She signed a movie contract with Warner Broth…

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    6 July 1926 is born in Providence, Kentucky February 1946 signs with RKO and models her summer bathing suit for the first pin-up pose of her motion picture career leaves Hollywood and marries Fred L. Levy, young dynamic head of Blum’s Candy Company, the ex of dancer Renee De Marco 1952 her son, Freddie, is born 1953 returns to Hollywood and becomes involved with television March 1954 her marriage to Levy is over. Levy will die at age 53 in 1966 in San Francisco.

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    Susan Cabot (July 9, 1927 – December 10, 1986) was an American actress. Early life Born Harriet Shapiro to a Russian Jewish family in Boston, Massachusetts, Cabot's early life was one of turmoil, and she was raised in eight different foster homes. She completed her education in New York, New York, and found employment as an illustrator. She supplemented her income by working as a singer, and also worked in theater. Career She made her film debut in 1947, by chance when Kiss of Death was filmed in New York, and she played a bit part. She expanded her acting work into television and was seen by a Hollywood talent scout who took her to Hollywood to work for Columbia Pic…

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    Marguerite Chapman (March 9, 1918 - August 31, 1999) was an American actress. Born in Chatham, New York, she was working as a telephone switchboard operator in White Plains, New York when her good looks brought about the opportunity to pursue a career in modeling. Signed by the prestigious John Robert Powers Agency in New York City, the publicity she earned modeling brought an offer from 20th Century Fox film studios in Hollywood. She made her film debut in 1940, working for the next two years in small roles. In 1942, her big break came with Republic Pictures when she was cast in the leading female role in the twelve-part adventure film serial Spy Smasher, a production …

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    Janis Carter (October 10, 1913 — July 30, 1994) was a film and television actress working in the 1940s and 1950s. After attending Mather College in Cleveland, Ohio, Carter headed to New York in an attempt to start an opera career. Although unsuccessful in opera, she was working on Broadway where she was spotted on stage by Darryl F. Zanuck who signed her to a movie deal. Carter, after moving to Hollywood, appeared in over 30 films beginning in 1941 for 20th Century Fox, MGM, Columbia, and RKO. She appeared in the films Night Editor (1946) and Framed (1947) with Glenn Ford and the Flying Leathernecks (1951) with John Wayne. After leaving Los Angeles, Carter returned to …

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    Mary Ann Castle (January 22, 1931 – April 29, 1998) was an American actress of early film and television whose personal problems destroyed her once burgeoning career. Her best known role was as female detective Frankie Adams in the syndicated western series, Stories of the Century, which aired from 1954 to 1955. Early years Castle was born as Mary Ann Noblett to Erby G. Noblett, Sr. and Myrtle A. Noblett in Pampa. Her mother was one-sixteenth Quapaw Indian. The Nobletts moved to Fort Worth, Texas, then Phillips, subsequently a ghost town in Hutchinson County, Texas, prior to relocating to Long Beach, California. At the age of nine, Castle contracted pneumonia. Her bro…

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    Leanne Wilson Leanne Wilson (born 1980,27 dec.) is a well know British television actress. http://www.leanne-wilson.co.uk/

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    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

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    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), …

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    (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…

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    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…

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    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…

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    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…

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    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…

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    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…

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    (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…

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    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…

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    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…

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    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…

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    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…

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    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…

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