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    Stefanie Powers Date of Birth 2 November 1942, Hollywood, California, USA Birth Name Stefania Zofya Federkiewicz Height 5' 7" (1.70 m) Mini Biography Stefanie Powers, a graduate of Hollywood High, is a veteran of over 200 television appearances as well as the star of ABC's '80s hit "Hart to Hart" (1979). At the early age of 15, Stefanie was signed to a movie deal with Columbia Pictures and labeled as one of the brightest up-and-coming stars in America. After a relatively short stint in films, Stefanie took a break from Hollywood for almost five years. When she returned, she focused her acting talents on television with over 100 guest appearances in a few years. In addi…

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    June Blair (born Margaret June Blair on October 20, 1933, in San Francisco, California) is an American model and actress. She is best known for being Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its January 1957 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Hal Adams. Blair made her first television appearance in 1954. Through the rest of the decade, she took supporting roles in feature films and guest-starred in series television, including two episodes, "Performance Under Fire" and "The Dead Ringer" of the 1960-1961 syndicated western series Two Faces West. She was engaged to the singer Nino Tempo in 1957. Blair was the inspiration for his song "Looney over Juney". The n…

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    May Britt (born 22 March 1933) is a Swedish actress who had a brief career in the 1950s in Italy and later in the United States. She retired from the screen after she married Sammy Davis, Jr. in 1960. Career Maybritt Wilkens, as she was known originally, was discovered by Italian film-makers Carlo Ponti and Mario Soldati in 1951. She was an assistant to a Stockholm photographer. The two Italians were in Sweden to cast a young blonde woman for the title role in Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair. They came to the studio where she worked to view photographs of models. After meeting her, they offered her the part. May Britt, as she was renamed professionally, immed…

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    Blanche Mehaffey (July 28, 1908 – March 31, 1968) was an American showgirl and film actress from Cincinnati, Ohio. Her hair was an auburn color. She was the daughter of Edward Mehaffey and his wife soprano Blanche Berndt. She had a brother Edward Mehaffey Jr. Mehaffey started as a dancer with the Ziegfeld Follies before coming to Hollywood to play comedy roles in motion pictures. Show producer Florenz Ziegfeld said she possessed the most beautiful eyes in the entire world. She was among the Baby Stars of 1924 chosen by the Wampas. Others in the group were Clara Bow, Dorothy Mackaill, and Hazel Keener. Her debut in movies was in the silent film Fully Insured (1923) at H…

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    Olga Schoberová or Olinka Bérová born March 15, 1943 in Prague, Czech Republic (then Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia), Czech-American actress, was often compared with Brigitte Bardot and Ursula Andress. She acted in 22 Czech, German, Italian and American movies. Olga was married to Brad Harris on 16 November 1967 and divorced in 1969 with one daughter, Babrinka, called "Sabrina". She married John Calley on December 30, 1972 , and divorced almost exactly 20 years later, in December 1992. In 1968 she appeared in The Vengeance of She under the name "Olinka Berova", and used that name for several more films. Bérová has been living in the United States since some time.

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    Joan Blackman (born May 18, 1938 in San Francisco, California) is an American actress. Biography Blackman made her television acting debut as a guest performer in a 1957 series, Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans, and then appeared in her first motion picture, Good Day for a Hanging, in 1959. She had a significant role in two Elvis Presley films. She played Maile Duval in the 1961 film Blue Hawaii and the following year played Rose Grogan in Kid Galahad. She also appeared with Dean Martin in Career (1959), and played Ellen Spelding vis-à-vis Kreton, the character of Jerry Lewis in 1960's Visit to a Small Planet. She later returned to motion pictures in Max Baer, Jr.'s…

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    JoBeth Williams Date of Birth 6 December 1948, Houston, Texas, USA Birth Name Margaret Jobeth Williams Height 5' 7¼" (1.71 m) Mini Biography The product of a musical family, Houston-born Jobeth Williams was the daughter of an opera-singing father who encouraged her early interest in theater during high school. She made her professional debut at age 18 in a Houston-based musical production, then studied at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, with the intentions of becoming a child psychologist. The acting bug hit her again, however, and she decided to pursue theater after receiving her B.A. in English in 1970. Working intensely to lose her Texas twang,…

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    Kelly MacDonald (born 23 February 1976(1976-02-23)) is a Scottish actress, known for playing in the independent film Trainspotting and mainstream releases such as Nanny McPhee, Gosford Park, Intermission, No Country for Old Men and the up-coming The Decoy Bride. Early lifeMacdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland. Her mother was a garment industry sales executive.[1] Her parents divorced when she was young. She and her younger brother were brought up by her mother on a council estate in the town of Newton Mearns. Macdonald attended Eastwood High School. Her family moved around frequently when she was a child. Career Macdonald's career began while working as a barmaid.[2]…

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    Melissa Ellen Gilbert (born May 8, 1964) is an American actress, writer, and producer, primarily in movies and television. Gilbert is best known as a child actress who co-starred as Charles Ingalls's (played by Michael Landon) second daughter, Laura Ingalls Wilder, on the dramatic television series Little House on the Prairie (1974–1984). As an adult, she has a very long list of acting, voicework, writing, producing, and directing credits. Melissa also served two terms as President of the Screen Actors Guild. On June 9, 2009, her autobiography Prairie Tale: A Memoir was released. More info

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    Alberta Watson Date of Birth 6 March 1955, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Birth Name Faith Susan Alberta Watson Height 5' 8" (1.73 m) Mini Biography Alberta Watson, well known to television audiences for her Gemini award-nominated role as Madeline on "La Femme Nikita" (1997), enjoys a long and diverse career in television and film. A native of Toronto, Watson began performing with a local theater group as a teenager. She received a Genie nomination for Best Supporting Actress for one of her first movie roles, Mitzi in George Kaczender's In Praise of Older Women (1978). Just a year later, she took home the Best Actress award at the Yorkton Film Festival for the short…

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    Gloria LeRoy Date of Birth 7 November 1931, Bucyrus, Ohio, USA Mini Biography Gloria's outstanding career began on stage in Vaudeville. She spent the bulk of her career in theater and live burlesque. The sister of actor Ken LeRoy, she made her film debut in William Friedkin's "The Night They Raided Minskys" She has made numerous guest appearances in television's Movies of the Week, and was a series regular on "Family Matters," "Days Of Our Lives," "Hill Street Blues", and played Mildred "Boom Boom" Turner in the TV classic "All In The Family." Gloria Leroy Nice Vintage Cleavage - All in the Family S3E4 169 MB | 13:12 | 640 x 480 | .avi http://www.filesonic.com/f…

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    Patricia Blair (born January 15, 1931) is an American television and film actress, primarily on 1950s and 1960s television. She is probably best known as Lou Mallory on the classic Western series The Rifleman where she co starred in 22 episodes with Chuck Connors, Johnny Crawford and veteran actor Paul Fix; and as Rebecca Boone in all six seasons of NBC's Daniel Boone, with co-stars Fess Parker, Darby Hinton, Veronica Cartwright, and Ed Ames. Biography Like Fess Parker, Patricia Blair was born in Fort Worth, Texas. She grew up in Dallas and became a teenage model through the Conover Agency. While acting in summer stock, Warner Bros. discovered her and she began acting i…

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    (Isabel Beth Castro) 8 August 1929 is born in Spain 1948 changes her name to Lita Baron 29 August 1948 marries actor Rory Calhoun in Santa Barbara, California. He's 26; she's 19. August 1952 loses her expected baby 22 February 1957 her first daughter, Cindy Francis, is born in Los Angeles 25 December 1958 her second daughter, Tami Diane Elizabeth, is born in Santa Monica 23 January 1961 her third daughter, Lorri Marie, is born at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica March 1964 in a paternity suit filed in Los Angeles, her husband is named father of a girl, Nathena, born on January 26, 1959, to starlet and TV actress Vitina Marcus. 26-year-old Marcus retains the r…

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    Date of Birth 6 February 1946, Santa Monica, California, USA Birth Name Tiffany Royce Kral Height 5' 5" (1.65 m) Mini Biography Strikingly beautiful and fiery blonde actress Tiffany Bolling may not have achieved the long-lasting stardom she deserved, but she nonetheless has remained a much-beloved cult favorite of 70s B-movie buffs for her lively and impressive performances in a handful of enjoyably trashy drive-in flicks. Born on February 6th, 1947 in Santa Monica, California as Tiffany Royce Kral, Bolling basically had show business in her blood: her father was singer/pianist Roy Kral and her mother was singer/comedienne Bettie Miller. Tiffany attended Webster…

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    Diane Brewster (11 March 1931 in Kansas City, Missouri – 12 November 1991 in Studio City, California) was an American television actress most noted for playing three distinctively different roles in US TV series of the 1950s and 60s: confidence trickster "Samantha Crawford" in Maverick; pretty young second-grade teacher "Miss Canfield" in Leave It to Beaver; and doomed wife "Helen Kimble" in The Fugitive. On Maverick, a sophisticated ABC western series featuring James Garner and Jack Kelly, Brewster's character was a gorgeous gambling con artist who often faked a southern accent. Though she was usually on the wrong side of the law, she was also ultimately likable; perhap…

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    Bella Darvi (October 23, 1928 – September 11, 1971) was a Polish-born French actress. Biography Darvi was born Bayla Wegier to Chaym Wegier, a baker, and his wife, Chaya. She had three brothers, Robert, Jacques Wegier, Jean-Isidore, and a sister, Sura. Robert died in a concentration camp. Jailed by the Nazis during World War II, she was released in 1943. She married a businessman, Alban Cavalcade, on October 7, 1950 and traveled with him to Monaco. She was discovered in Paris by the wife of mogul Darryl Zanuck. In 1952, she divorced Cavalcade, and moved into the Zanuck home. In August 1953, she signed a contract with Zanuck, who changed her name to Bella Darvi, Darvi a…

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    Barbara Britton (September 26, 1919 – January 17, 1980) was an American film and television actress. She was the first actress to play Laura Petrie on television on the pilot program, Head of the Family, which was retooled and became The Dick Van Dyke Show with the role taken over by Mary Tyler Moore. The California native signed a film contract with Paramount Pictures in 1941. Her first two films were that same year, first in the William Boyd western Secret of the Wasteland, followed by Louisiana Purchase starring Bob Hope. Her first big film appearance was a small role in the 1942 John Wayne film Reap the Wild Wind. During the 1940s she starred in three films that, to…

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    Mari Blanchard (April 13, 1927 – May 10, 1970) was an American actress, known for her roles as a B movie femme fatale in American films of the 1950s and early 1960s. Career In the late 1940s, Blanchard was a successful print model and film extra. Blanchard began appearing in films after she was seen by a producer in an advertisement for bubble bath in 1950. Blanchard soon found success as an actress. From 1951 to 1952, she took small roles in a number of films at MGM, RKO, and Paramount, until she was signed by Universal-International in 1952. Her first film at the studio was Back at the Front (1952). One of her most memorable roles was the Venusian queen, Allura, in t…

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    Martine Beswick (born 26 September 1941) is a British actress and model, best known for her roles in two James Bond movies. Biography Beswick was born on 26 September 1941 in Port Antonio, Jamaica to British parents. Beswick is best known for her two appearances in the James Bond film series. Although she auditioned for the first Bond film Dr. No, she was cast in the second film From Russia with Love as the fiery gypsy girl, Zora. She engaged in the famous "catfight" scene with her rival Vida (played by former Miss Israel Aliza Gur). She was incorrectly billed as "Martin Beswick" in the title sequence. Beswick then appeared as the ill-fated Paula Caplan in Thunderball…

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    Whitney Blake (February 20, 1926 — September 28, 2002) was an American film and television actress, director and producer. Blake was born as Nancy Ann Whitney in 1926 in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, California, the first child of Martha Mae Wilkensen and Harry Whitney. She appeared on a number of television programs, including the syndicated Johnny Midnight, Sheriff of Cochise, and twice on Rod Cameron's State Trooper. Blake is best remembered for having portrayed Dorothy Baxter, an interior designer and the wife of George Baxter (Don DeFore), a lawyer, on the NBC sitcom Hazel (1961), starring Shirley Booth in the title role. Before Hazel, she guest-starred on Mike Connors…

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    Lynn Bari (December 18, 1913 – November 20, 1989), born Margaret Schuyler Fisher, was a movie actress (usually in B-movies) who specialized in playing sultry, statuesque man-killers in over one hundred 20th Century Fox films from the early 1930s through the 1940s. Career Born in Roanoke, Virginia, most of her early films, before getting supporting parts, were uncredited roles usually playing receptionists or chorus girls. Bari's rare leading roles include China Girl (1942), Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943), and The Spiritualist (1948). However, in the B movies she was in, Lynn was usually cast as a villainess. Some examples include the films Shock and Nocturne (both 1946).…

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    Date of Birth 1943, Germany Mini Biography Thordis Brandt was born in West Germany of Norwegian and German parents. She moved to Canada as a young girl and was raised there. After school, where she completed a University degree in nursing, she moved to Santa Monica, California. As she pursued acting and dancing as careers, she continued to practice her nursing in private duty. One of her jobs in private duty was serving actress Patricia Neal. Ms. Neal recommended Thordis to other actors and actresses and Thordis became known as the "actor's nurse". After retiring from acting, she continued nursing in Beverly Hills. Trivia Son Christopher Brandt born 1982. Although …

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    Barbara Bates (August 6, 1925 – March 18, 1969) was an American actress best known for her role as Phoebe in the 1950 drama, All About Eve. Early life The eldest of three daughters, Bates was born in Denver, Colorado. While growing up in Denver, she studied ballet and worked as a teen fashion model. The shy teen was persuaded to enter a local beauty contest and won, receiving two round-trip train tickets to Hollywood, California. Two days before returning to Denver, Bates met Cecil Coan, a United Artists publicist, who would ultimately change the course of her life. Career In September 1944, Bates signed a contract with Universal Pictures after Cecil Coan introduced h…

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    Date of Birth 19 August 1965, New York City, New York, USA Birth Name Kyra Minturn Sedgwick Nickname Kiko Height 5' 5" (1.65 m) Mini Biography Kyra was born in New York and attended private schools. She made her professional acting debut at 16 on the soap opera "Another World" (1964). A graduate of USC, Kyra has pursued a career that includes stage, screen and television. Kyra's reason for becoming an actor is that it gives her the ability to be compassionate and to walk around in the shoes of others. Her first brush with stardom came in Born on the Fourth of July (1989) as "Donna", the high school sweetheart of Tom Cruise. Two of her roles led to Golden Glob…

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