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    Dawn Addams (21 September 1930 – 7 May 1985) was a British actress in motion pictures of the 1950s. She was born Victoria Dawn Addams in Felixstowe, Suffolk, England, the daughter of Ethel Mary and Captain James Ramage Addams. Her mother died when she was young, and she spent her early life in Calcutta, India. Her heart shaped face and beautiful physique soon attracted the attention of talent agents. She resembled another British actress Elizabeth Taylor but only slightly. Addams unlike Taylor retained her British accent. Her film career began in 1951, and a year later she co-starred with Peter Lawford in The Hour of 13. In 1953 she appeared in a small role in the groun…

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    Julie Adams (born Betty May Adams; October 17, 1926) is an American film and television actress, sometimes credited as Julia Adams or Betty Adams. Life and career A part-time secretary and actress raised in Arkansas, she began her film career in B-movie westerns. She used her real name, Betty Adams, until 1949 when she began working for Universal Pictures. She then became Julia and eventually Julie Adams. Her first movie role was a minor part in Red, Hot and Blue (1949), followed by a leading role in the Lippert western The Dalton Gang (1949). Adams was featured as the bathing beauty Kay Lawrence in 1954's Creature from the Black Lagoon. Later in her career, she playe…

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    She was born in San Antonio, Texas, and received a full scholarship to Juilliard, which she turned down to spend years studying at the Pasadena Playhouse. From there, she got her start on Lux Radio Theatre and then with the Harry Conover Modeling Agency, where she was given her nickname "Poni". (This was supposedly due to her love of horses, but in reality it was to provide her with a more memorable stage name.) She returned to using her real name in 1945. She is best known for her role as Nina in 1945's House of Dracula, but she also has the distinction of acting in early adaptations of both major DC Comics franchises: Batman, where she played Vicki Vale in the second B…

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    Allene Ray (January 2, 1901 - May 5, 1979) was a motion pictures actress from San Antonio, Texas. She came to Hollywood after winning a motion picture contest in 1920. In 1919 a producer visiting San Antonio met Ray and insisted she take a part in a film he was making. After this success her friends prevailed upon her to enter a contest held by one of the eastern magazine companies. Ray was the winner among a field of candidates selected from throughout the entire United States. Among her first screen credits are Honeymoon Ranch (1920), West of the Rio Grande (1921), and Partners of the Sunset (1922). The latter she made for the Lubin Corporation. In making The Fortieth …

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    Aileen Pringle (July 23, 1895 – December 16, 1989) was an American stage and film actress during the silent film era. Biography Early life Born Aileen Bisbee into a prominent and wealthy San Francisco, California family and educated in Europe, Pringle began her acting career shortly after her 1916 marriage to Charles McKenzie Pringle, the son of a wealthy titled British Jamaican landowner and a member of the Privy and Legislative Councils of Jamaica. Career rise One of Pringle's first high-profile roles was in the Rudolph Valentino film Stolen Moments (1920). Many of Pringle's early roles were only modestly successful, and she continued to build her career until the…

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    Audrey Dalton (born 21 January 1934 in Dublin, Irish Free State) is an Irish television and film actress. Dublin-born Audrey Dalton knew right from childhood that she wanted to be an actress: She appeared in school plays and (after the family's move to London) attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. While Dalton was at RADA, a London-based Paramount executive saw her in a play and asked her to audition for the upcoming film The Girls of Pleasure Island (1953). Winning the part (and a Paramount contract), Dalton arrived in the U.S. in 1952 and co-starred in Pleasure Island; the studio loaned her out to 20th Century Fox for My Cousin Rachel (1952) and Titanic (1953).…

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    Marjorie De Sousa was born on April 23, 1980 in Caracas, Venezuela and she is a famous actress. Actress: * 2010s * 2000s 1. "Pecadora" (2010) TV series .... Samanta (2010) 2. "¿Vieja yo?" (2008) TV series .... Estefania Urrutia 3. "Amor comprado" .... Margot (1 episode, 2008) - Episode #1.1 (2008) TV episode .... Margot 4. "Y los declaro marido y mujer" .... Saoia Mujica (1 episode, 2006) - Episode #1.1 (2006) TV episode .... Saoia Mujica 5. Soltera y sin compromiso (2006) (TV) .... Julia Maldonado 6. "Ser bonita no basta" .... Coral Torres Olavarría (1 episode, 2005) - Episode #1.1 (2005) TV episode (as …

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    Arlene Carol Dahl (born August 11, 1928) is an American movie actress and former MGM contract star, who achieved notability during the 1950s. She is the mother of actor Lorenzo Lamas. Early years Dahl was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the daughter of Idelle and Rudolph S. Dahl, a Ford motor dealer and executive.She is of Norwegian descent. After graduating from Washburn High School, she held various jobs, including performing in a local drama group and briefly working as a model for department stores. Dahl's mother was involved in the theatre. As a child she took elocution and dancing lessons and acted in local amateur theatre. She was active in theatrical events at …

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    Anne Gwynne (December 10, 1918 – March 31, 2003) was an American film actress of the 1940s. Known as one of the first scream queens because of her numerous appearances in horror films, the actress-model was also one of the most popular pin-ups of World War II. Career In 1939 she became a model for Catalina swimwear. Gwynne was a television pioneer, appearing in TV's first filmed series, Public Prosecutor (1947-48), 26 mysteries each 17½ minutes in running time. When aired, the DuMont Television Network stopped the film before the climax and a live three-member panel would try to guess the identity of the culprit. Other TV stations could buy rights to air this series but…

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    Aliza Gur (born as Alizia Gross, 1 April 1944, Ramat Gan) was Miss Israel of 1960 and a semi-finalist in the Miss Universe pageant that same year. Her parents had fled Germany during Hitler's reign and settled in the British Mandate of Palestine, where she and her brother were born. Personal life Gur eventually went to the United States and settled in California where she began her film and television career. Her parents emigrated to the United States as well and settled in Cleveland, Ohio for a time. They died in the 1970s. Aliza Gur has been married twice, to Sy Shulman and to Sheldon Shrager, but has no children. Gur currently resides in Hollywood. Career Her telev…

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    Born Angela Catherine Williams on the 24th of February 1922 in Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of Margaret and Joseph Williams, the only girl among six brothers In 1928 she moved to the States at age 6 after being adopted by her uncle, Eddie Greene, Margaret's brother, a Flushing fireman, and his wife Catherine In 1941 she is on the Saturday Evening Post cover by Norman Rockwell A bikini-clad painting of her adorns the nose of Skipper 2, a U.S. bomber with 25 missions and four camels destroyed under her belt She dated naval lieutenant John F. Kennedy. On their first date he takes her to Gary Cooper's house. Nevertheless, she will vote Republican. On December 7, 1946 s…

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    Anne Lloyd Francis (born September 16, 1930) is an American actress, famous for her role in the science fiction film classic Forbidden Planet (1956), and as the female private detective in the television series Honey West (1965-1966). She won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Emmy award for her role in Honey West. Francis holds the distinction of starring in the first TV series with a woman detective character's name in the title. Early life and career Anne Lloyd Francis was born in Ossining, New York in 1930, the only child of Phillip and Edith Francis. Francis entered show business at a young age, working as a model at age five to help her family during the Grea…

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    Adele Jergens (November 26, 1917 - November 22, 2002) was an American actress. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Jergen's birth date is sometimes listed as 1922. Jergens first rose to prominence in the late 1930s, when she was named "Miss World's Fairest" at the 1939 New York World's Fair. In the early 1940s, she worked as a Rockette, and was named the Number One Showgirl in New York City. After a few years of working as a model and chorus girl, including being an understudy to Gypsy Rose Lee, Jergens landed a movie contract with Columbia Pictures in 1944, with brunette Jergens becoming a blonde. Her chorus girl past came in handy when she played an exotic dancer in Armored C…

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    Anne Heywood (born 11 December 1932) is a British film actress. Born as Violet Pretty in Handsworth, Birmingham, England, she won the Miss Great Britain title under her real name in 1950, At one time she was the personal assistant of Radio's Talent Spotter Carroll Levis, a show which toured the countries main Theatres throughout Great Britain. later she also attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. She began acting in films in the early 1950s, first in supporting roles but gradually evolving into a leading lady. One of her more prominent film roles was in a film adaptation of a D. H. Lawrence novel, The Fox, co-starring Sandy Dennis, made in 1967, which ca…

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    Anne Helm (born September 12, 1938) is a retired actress, born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Living in New York City, she began pursuing a career as an actress which eventually led to Hollywood. Beginning in the 1950s, she made guest appearances on different television series and made her motion picture debut in 1960. In 1961, she guest-starred in the premiere episode of ABC's Bus Stop series with Marilyn Maxwell, a drama set in a bus station and diner in fictitious Sunrise, Colorado. That same year, she appeared in the syndicated crime drama The Brothers Brannagan in the episode "Equinox". She subsequently drew national recognition as the love interest of Elvis Presley …

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    Allison Hayes (March 6, 1930 – February 27, 1977) was an American film and television actress and model. Early life Born Mary Jane Hayes in Charleston, West Virginia, Hayes won the title of Miss District of Columbia and represented Washington, DC in the 1949 Miss America pageant. Although unsuccessful, it provided her with the opportunity to work in local television before moving to Hollywood to work for Universal Pictures in 1954. Career Hayes' made her film debut in the 1954 comedy Francis Joins the WACS. Her second film, Sign of the Pagan, provided her with an important role in a relatively minor film. Opposite Jack Palance, she played the part of a siren who ultim…

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    Ann Michelle born Chigwell, Essex (11 August 1952) is a British actress and writer. Her most notable acting role was as Jane Pettibone in the cult, British horror film Psychomania. She is the sister of 'Allo 'Allo! actress Vicki Michelle untitled.bmp untitled.bmp

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    Margareth Madè (born 22 June 1982, Paterno, Italy) is an italian model and actress.

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    Adele Mara (April 28, 1923 – May 7, 2010), born as Adelaide Delgado, was an American actress, who appeared in films during the 1940s and 1950s. One of her early roles was as a receptionist in the Three Stooges film I Can Hardly Wait. Other films include The Vampire's Ghost, Wake of the Red Witch, Angel in Exile, Sands of Iwo Jima, California Passage, and Don Siegel's Count the Hours. Born in Highland Park, Michigan, of Spanish descent, she was married to television writer/producer Roy Huggins and appeared as a dancer in two episodes of his 1957 television series Maverick. Mara died of natural causes on May 7, 2010.

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    Anne Bancroft (September 17, 1931 – June 6, 2005) was an American actress associated with the Method acting school, after studying it under Lee Strasberg. She made her film debut in 1952 in Don't Bother to Knock with Marilyn Monroe and worked as a contract player in several films before returning to her native New York and appearing in several Broadway plays. She later won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Miracle Worker (1962), and received subsequent nominations for her roles in The Pumpkin Eater (1964), The Graduate (1967), The Turning Point (1977), and Agnes of God (1985). Later in her career, she played character roles in many theatrical f…

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    Anne Baxter (May 7, 1923 – December 12, 1985) was an American actress known for her performances in films such as The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), All About Eve (1950), The Razor's Edge (1946) and The Ten Commandments (1956). Early life Baxter was born in Michigan City, Indiana to Kenneth Stuart Baxter and Catherine Wright; her maternal grandfather was the architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Baxter's father was a prominent executive with the Seagrams Distillery Co. and she was raised in New York City in a well-to-do home, and attended the prestigious Brearley School. At age 10, Baxter attended a Broadway play starring Helen Hayes, and was so impressed that she declared to he…

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    Name: Alaina Huffman Date of Birth: 04-17-1980 Home town: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Howe you no her: After winning the lead role for a pilot on Fox Family (which she ultimately turned down at age 13), Alaina actually began her career as a fashion model in Europe and Japan. It wasn't until she moved to the U.S. in which she became interested in acting, taking on roles in independent films during college. Moving to L.A. to pursue film, she built up a list of credits that includes Smallville and the Sci-Fi Channel (pre-SyFy) series Painkiller Jane. These days, this B.C. babe is starring as Tamara Johansen on SyFy's Stargate Universe.

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    Hayley Atwell Atwell debut was in a 2005 Pringles television advertisement and served on the jury for the 2007 British Independent Film Awards. Her first feature film role was in Woody Allen's 2007 film Cassandra's Dream, in which she took the part of a stage actress opposite Ewan McGregor and Colin Farrell. In 2008, she appeared in the film The Duchess as Bess Foster and the film Brideshead Revisited as Lady Julia Flyte, earning praise and nominations from the British Independent Film Awards and the London Critics Circle Film Awards. In January 2009, Atwell made her West End début in Lindsay Posner's revival of A View from the Bridge at the Duke of York's Theatre which …

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    Meaghan Jette Martin (born February 17, 1992[1]) is an American actress, singer and dancer who is best known for her role as Tess Tyler in the Disney Channel original movie Camp Rock and Camp Rock 2. She also starred in the now canceled ABC Family television series 10 Things I Hate About You as Bianca Stratford. Martin made her television debut in 2006, with the television pilot Cooking Rocks! It was followed by roles in programs such as Nickelodeon’s Just Jordan and CBS’s Close to Home, as well as a guest stint in the Disney Channel series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody. She was eventually cast as the lead antagonist in the Disney Channel original movie, Camp Rock, wh…

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