Actresses

Barrie Chase (born October 20, 1933) is an American actress and dancer originally from Long Island, New York.. When Barrie was six her father moved the family to California so he could start his screen-writing career. She grew up in Encino, and studied ballet. She abandoned her dream of being a ballerina in New York to stay in Los Angeles and help support her mother after her parents' bitter divorce. She worked in the chorus of many Hollywood musicals including, Hans Christian Andersen, Brigadoon, Deep in My Heart, Kismet, Les Girls, Pal Joey, and two Fred Astaire films, Daddy Long Legs and Silk Stockings. She danced on such live TV programs as "The Colgate Comedy Hour" a…

Elena Maureen Bertolini, known as Marina Berti, (29 September 1924 – 29 October 2002) was an Italian film actress. Her first screen appearance was in the Anna Magnani film, La Fuggitiva in 1941. She appeared mainly in small roles and in the occasional leading role in nearly 100 films both Italian and American. Her appearances include Quo Vadis (1951), Abdulla the Great (1955), Ben Hur (1959), Madame Sans-Gêne (1962), Cleopatra (1963), If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969), Moses the Lawgiver (1975), Jesus of Nazareth (1977) (mini-series). Her last film appearance was in the Costa-Gavras film Amen. in 2002. She was married to the Italian actor Claudio Gora from 19…

Date of Birth 3 February 1934, Jamestown, New York, USA Date of Death 5 August 1955, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (cancer) Birth Name Susan Ball Nickname Suzie Height 5' 7" (1.70 m) Mini Biography Suzan Ball, a second cousin of Lucille Ball, was born on March 3, 1934, in Jamestown, New York. She came to Hollywood with her family in 1941. She sang with the Mel Baker Orchestra from 1948-1953. Her first part in Hollywood was as a harem girl in Aladdin and His Lamp (1952) at Monogram. She got an interview with the talent department of Universal-International and signed a contract. In 1952 she was proclaimed "The New Cinderella Girl of 1952". She…

According to imdb - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001771/ A native of Hot Coffee, Mississippi, Stella was married at 15, a mother at 16 and divorced at 17. While attending Memphis State College, Stella became interested in acting and modeling. Her film debut was a bit part in Say One for Me, but her appearance in Li'l Abner as Appassionata Von Climax is the one that got her noticed... Born: Estelle Caro Eggleston October 1, 1936 in Yazoo City, Mississippi, USA ACTING CAREER Stevens was first under contract to 20th Century Fox, then dropped after six months. After winning the role of "Appassionata Von Climax" for the musical Li'l Abner (1959), she signed a contract with…

Gail O'Grady Date of Birth: 23 Jan 1963 Place of Birth: Detroit,Michigan,USA Height: 1.60 cm First Movie: 1982 All Movie: 77 -CSI: Crime Scene Investigation -NYPD Blue -In the Heat of the Night -Two and a HalfMen -Monk -Las Vegas -Desperate Housewives -Ghost Whisperer

Barbara Hale (born April 18, 1922) is an American actress best known for her role as Della Street on the long running Perry Mason show. Acting career Hale was born in DeKalb, Illinois, to Luther Ezra Hale, a landscape gardener, and his wife Wilma Colvin. She is of mainly Scottish and Irish ancestry. Hale graduated from high school in Rockford, Illinois, and then attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts, planning to become an artist. Her performing career began in Chicago when she started modeling to pay for her education. She moved to Hollywood in 1943, and made her first screen appearances playing small parts (often uncredited). Hale was under contract to RKO Radio P…

Beverly Garland (October 17, 1926 – December 5, 2008) was an American film and television actress, businesswoman, and hotel owner. Garland gained prominence for her role as Fred MacMurray's second wife, "Barbara Harper Douglas", in the 1960s sitcom My Three Sons (a role she played from 1969 until the series ended in 1972). In the 1980s, she co-starred as Kate Jackson's widowed mother, "Dotty West", in the television series Scarecrow and Mrs. King, on CBS. She also had a recurring role as Ginger Jackson on The WB Television Network series 7th Heaven. Biography Early life & career Garland was born Beverly Lucy Fessenden in Santa Cruz, California, the daughter of Amel…

Betsy Palmer (born November 1, 1926) is an American actress, best known as a regular panelist on the game show I've Got a Secret, and later for playing Pamela Voorhees in the notorious slasher film Friday the 13th. Life and career Palmer was born Patricia Betsy Hrunek in East Chicago, Indiana, the daughter of Marie, who headed the Chicago Business College, and Vincent R. Hrunek, an industrial chemist who was an immigrant from Czechoslovakia. She graduated from DePaul University. Palmer married Dr. Vincent J. Merendino on May 8, 1954; the couple had one daughter, Missy (b. 1962). They divorced in 1971. Palmer got her first acting job in 1951 when she joined the cast of …

Barbara Lang (March 2, 1928 – July 22, 1982) was an American actress and singer. Early life She worked a number of jobs prior to breaking into the entertainment industry. She sold jewelry in a Los Angeles department store and was a part-time fashion Model (person) at the age of seventeen. She was also a pianist and singer for a time in a cocktail lounge. Illness Lang suffered an attack of poliomyelitis in late 1953. She spent three weeks in the polio ward of Los Angeles General Hospital. Another eight months were required to convalesce. Lang was told that she might never walk again. She turned to the Bible during this time and reportedly credited faith for performing …

Barbara Nichols (December 30, 1928 – October 5, 1976) was an American actress who often played brassy comic roles in a number of films in the 1950s and 1960s. Early life Nichols was born as Barbara Marie Nickerauer in Queens, New York. She began modeling for pinup magazines in the early-1950s. In the mid-1950s, she moved to Hollywood and began regularly appearing in second leads in a number of films including Miracle in the Rain (1956), The King and Four Queens (1956), The Naked and the Dead (1957), The Pajama Game (1957), Pal Joey (1957), Sweet Smell of Success (1957), That Kind of Woman (1958), Where the Boys Are (1960). On Broadway, she appeared in the 1952 revival …

Betty Hutton (February 26, 1921 – March 12, 2007)[1] was an American stage, film, and television actress, comedienne and singer. Early life Hutton was born as Elizabeth June Thornburg, a daughter of railroad foreman Percy E. Thornburg (1896–1939) and his wife, the former Mabel Lum (1901–1967). Her father abandoned the family for another woman and they did not hear from or see him again until they received a telegram, in 1939, informing them of his death from suicide. Along with her older sister Marion, Betty was raised by her mother, who took the surname Hutton and was later billed as the actress Sissy Jones. The three started singing in the family's speakeasy when Be…

Elizabeth Mary Furness (3 January 1916 – 2 April 1994) was an American actress, consumer advocate and current affairs commentator. Early years Born in New York, New York, Furness began her professional career as a model before being signed to a film contract by RKO Studios. Her first film role was as the "Thirteenth Woman" in the 1932 film Thirteen Women but her scenes were deleted before the film's release.[citation needed] Over the next few years she appeared in several RKO films, and became a popular actress. Among her film successes were Magnificent Obsession (1935) and the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers film Swing Time (1936). By the end of the decade she had appea…

Born on December 27, 1928 or 1929 in Bronx, New York, to Denzil and Catherine Michaels, one of six children 1937 begins a career as a fashion model at age 9 1939 wins a newspaper photographic contest at age 11 1943 becomes a showgirl at 16 and starts working at the famous Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe. Afterwards, she works in other well-known nightclubs. 1946 makes her stage debut in a play in Boston, Massachussets, with Jane Withers. The play later goes to Broadway, but closes soon after its first night. May 1946 she and fellow showgirl Kay Crespi feud with the rest of the girls at the Diamond Horseshoe 1949 meets Russian-born MGM producer Voldemar Vetluguin whil…

Zoe Swicord Kazan (born September 9, 1983) is an American actress and playwright. Kazan was born in Los Angeles, the daughter of screenwriter Nicholas Kazan and actress/producer/writer/director Robin Swicord, and the granddaughter of film and theatre director Elia Kazan. Kazan has stated that she did not know her grandfather was famous until she was thirteen. She was educated at the private Windward School in Mar Vista and Yale University, from which she graduated in 2005. Her first professional stage credit was the 2006 off-Broadway revival of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie starring Cynthia Nixon. She followed this with the Playwrights Horizons production of 100 Saints …

Betta St. John (born November 26, 1929, Hawthorne, California) is an American actress, singer and dancer. Born as Betty Jean Striegler, St. John made her film debut at the age of ten in Destry Rides Again (1939) and as an orphan in Jane Eyre (1944). She was discovered by Rodgers and Hammerstein and played a small role in the Broadway musical, Carousel in 1945. By 1953, she created the role of Liat in the musical South Pacific and followed the production to London. On film, she appeared in The Robe (1953), Dream Wife (1953), All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953), and The Student Prince (1954). St. John appeared in two Tarzan films and ended her career as the heroine of Hor…

Mary Beth Hughes (November 13, 1919 – August 27, 1995) was an American film, television, and stage actress best known for her roles in B movies. Early life and career Born Mary Elizabeth Hughes in Alton, Illinois, Hughes' parents divorced in 1923. After the divorce, Hughes' mother, Mary Frances Hughes, moved with her only child to Washington, D.C. As a child, Hughes began acting in stage productions. While acting in a school play in the early 1930s, her performance caught the attention of Clifford Brown, a repertory theater company owner, who offered her a part in a touring production of Alice in Wonderland. While touring with another production in Brown's company, she …

Belinda Lee (15 June 1935 – 12 March 1961) was an English actress. Born in Budleigh Salterton, England, Lee was signed to a film contract in 1954 by the Rank Studios after being seen performing as a student of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. Often cast in demure roles in her early career, she was able to demonstrate her dramatic abilities, however she found more constant employment when she began to play "sexpot" roles. Typecast as one of several "sexy blondes" she was often compared, unfavourably, to the popular Diana Dors. Typical of these roles was a supporting part in the Benny Hill film Who Done It? (1956). Married to the photographer Cornel Lucas (Renowned BAFT…

Barbara Rush (born January 4, 1927) is an American stage, film, and television actress. Career A student at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Barbara Rush performed on stage at the Pasadena Playhouse before signing with Paramount Pictures. She made her screen debut in the 1951 movie The Goldbergs and went on to star opposite the likes of James Mason, Marlon Brando, Paul Newman, Richard Burton, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra and Kirk Douglas. In 1954 she won the Golden Globe Award for "Most Promising Newcomer - Female" for her performance in It Came from Outer Space. Rush began her career on stage and it has always been a part of her professional life. In 1970, …

Date of Birth 13 July 1922, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA Birth Name Virginia Leslie Gettman Spouse Russ Vincent (1950 - present) 3 children Donald Anthony Shay (6 January 1945 - 11 November 1948) (divorced) 1 child Trivia Started in unbilled bit parts but moved eventually into second leads and almost always cast as provocative dames with evil intentions. Retired from films after a second marriage. At some point after her daughters were born, she went to live in Hawaii with her family. Children with Russ Vincent: Daughter Dorena Marla born August 18, 1954; Daughter Gina L. born April 6, 1956; Daughter Darla R. born April 30, 1960 (all born in Los Angeles). Her da…

Elisabeth Bergner (August 22, 1897 – May 12, 1986) was an actress. She was born Elisabeth Ettel in Drohobycz, Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Drogobych, Ukraine). She went on stage when fourteen years old and began acting in Innsbruck at the age of 15. In Vienna. Age sixteen she toured Austrian and German provinces with a Shakespearean company, later becoming accepted as the greatest Shakespearean actor on the Continent. She worked as an artist's model, posing for sculptor Wilhelm Lehmbruck, who fell in love with her. She eventually moved to Munich and then Berlin. In 1923 she made her film debut in Der Evangelimann. With the rise of Naziism, Bergner moved to London with …

Date of Birth 26 April 1916, Portland, Oregon, USA Date of Death 7 April 1937, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA (lobar pneumonia) Mini Biography Young and full of promise, Paramount contract player Helen Burgess possessed a lovely, sweet-faced quality, but made only four films during her lifetime. Born April 26, 1916, the rather demure Portland, Oregon beauty was given an auspicious debut in Cecil B. DeMille's epic bio-western The Plainsman (1936). Discovered by DeMille himself with only brief stage experience behind her, the film starred Gary Cooper as Wild Bill Hickok and Jean Arthur as Calamity Jane. Helen was fifth billed as Louisa Frederici Cody, th…

Hazel Brooks (September 8, 1924, Cape Town, South Africa – September 18, 2002, Bel Air, California) was an American actress. Born in Cape Town, South Africa, she grew up in the U.S. and by 1943, at age 18, had been signed by M.G.M. Billed under her real name, Hazel Brooks, she made a series of pictures at the studio during the 1940s, culminating with a lead role in 1947 Body and Soul with John Garfield. She had captured almost as much attention three years earlier in 1944 when, at age 19, she married the long-time head of her studio's fabled art department, Cedric Gibbons, then 51. Although the age difference inspired a certain amount of winking in the gossip columns at…

Francelia Billington (1 February 1895 – 24 November 1934) was an early American silent-screen actress, and an accomplished camera operator. Early life Billington was in born in Dallas, Texas, the daughter of James Billington and his wife, musician Adelaide Bueter. She was born and raised on a ranch, allowing her to become an expert at horsemanship, which later served her in a movie career that was to consist of a number of Westerns. She attended school at a convent where, at a very early age, she began playing parts in plays. When she was 10 years old, she moved to New Orleans and continued her interest in outdoor activities, becoming quite accomplished at swimming, di…

Jean Byron (December 10, 1925 – February 3, 2006) was an American film, television, and stage actress. She is best known for the role of Natalie Lane, Patty Lane's mother in The Patty Duke Show. Early life and career Born Imogene Burkhart in Kentucky, she moved to California during World War II and was signed to Columbia Pictures where she chose the name of Jean Byron as a stage moniker. In the 1950s, Byron appeared in several b-movies including The Magnetic Monster and Serpent of the Nile, in addition to guest roles on The Millionaire, The Pepsi-Cola Playhouse, and Science Fiction Theatre. Byron also served as spokeswoman for Revlon and Lux products on The Rosemary Clo…

Tina Louise More at IMDbPro » Date of Birth 11 February 1934, New York City, New York, USA Birth Name Tatiana Josivovna Chernova Blacker Height 5' 8½" (1.74 m) Mini Biography A former model and nightclub singer, red-haired beauty Tina Louise trained at the Actors Studio and the Neighborhood Playhouse. After her success in the Broadway musical "Li'l Abner", she went to Hollywood and played in a variety of films, but is best known for her comic turn as the sexy, Marilyn Monroe-ish stranded movie star Ginger in the long-running TV series "Gilligan's Island" (1964). Tina Louise Hot Seethrough Dress Nipple Visible - The Wrecking Crew (1969) 221.00 Mb | 07:15 |…