Actresses

Gwili Andre (4 February 1908 – 5 February 1959) was a Danish actress who had a brief career in Hollywood films. Film career Born Gurli Andresen in Copenhagen, Denmark, Andre came to Hollywood in the early 1930s with the intention of establishing herself as a film star. She appeared in the 1932 RKO Studio films Roar of the Dragon and Secrets of the French Police and began to attract attention for her striking good looks. These films provided her with starring roles playing against such established actors as Richard Dix, ZaSu Pitts and Frank Morgan, and RKO began using her glamorous looks to promote her. A widespread publicity campaign ensured that her name and face beca…

Ruth "Dusty" Anderson (December 17, 1918 in Toledo, Ohio) is an American actress and World War II pin-up girl. She began her career as a model and made her motion picture debut in a minor role as one of the cover girls in the 1944 Columbia Pictures production of Cover Girl starring Rita Hayworth. Over the next three years Anderson appeared in another eight films, usually in secondary roles. During World War II she was one of a number of actresses who became a pin-up girl, appearing in the October 27, 1944 issue of the United States Military's YANK magazine. Dusty Anderson married director Jean Negulesco in 1946 and retired from acting. Four years later, her final scree…

Merry Anders (born Mary Helen Anderson; 22 May 1932) is an American supporting actress who has appeared in a number of television programs and films since the 1950s. In 1954, she succeeded Ann Todd as Stuart Erwin's daughter in the final season of his TV series, The Stu Erwin Show. From 1957-1959, Anders co-starred with Barbara Eden and Lori Nelson in How to Marry a Millionaire in a syndicated 20th Century Fox television series based on the 1953 film How to Marry a Millionaire. The three played young women living in New York City trying to land a wealthy husband. Anders left show business in 1972 to work for a division of Litton Industries, where she stayed until her ret…

Adrienne Ames (August 3, 1907 – May 31, 1947) was an American film actress. Life and career Born Adrienne Ruth McClure in Fort Worth, Texas, Ames began her film career in 1927 as a stand-in for Pola Negri. Ames was soon cast in small film roles in silent films. With the advent of talking pictures, Ames' popularity grew and she was usually cast as society women, or in musicals. She made thirty films during the 1930s with her biggest success in George White's Scandals (1934), a film which was also notable as the debut of Alice Faye. Ames also appeared with the three leading men from the 1931 version of Dracula (Bela Lugosi, David Manners, and Edward Van Sloan) in The Dea…

Chelsea Kane Staub (born September 15, 1988[1]) is an American actress and singer. Her first starring role was in the 2007 film Bratz: The Movie. She is best known for playing Stella Malone on the Disney Channel sitcom Jonas and now entitled Jonas L.A.. She also appeared in the Disney Channel Original Movies, Minutemen and Starstruck. She will also co-star in Disney Channel animated series Fish Hooks coming this Fall.

Chelo Alonso (born April 10, 1933) is a former Cuban actress who became a star in Italian cinema, and ultimately a 1960s cult film heroine and sex symbol in the U.S. She was well-known for playing femme fatales with fiery tempers and sensual dance scenes. Biography Alonso was born Isabella Garcia in Central Lugareño, Camagüey, Cuba, to a Cuban father and Mexican mother. She initially achieved recognition in Cuba for her dancing ability, becoming a sensation at Cuba's National Theatre in Havana. Soon after, she emerged as a new exotic dancing talent at the Folies Bergère in Paris. She was billed as the "new Josephine Baker", who had also performed and become famous at …

Marisa Allasio (born Maria Luisa Lucia Allasio in Turin on 14 July 1936), is a retired Italian actress of the 1950s. She appeared in nearly twenty pictures between 1952 and 1959. She left her acting career in 1958, year of her marriage with Count Pier Francesco Calvi di Bergolo (b. 2 dec 1933, Turin), son of Princess Iolanda di Savoia, first-born of Vittorio Emanuele III and Elena del Montenegro. They had two children: - Carlo Giorgio Dmitri Drago Maria Laetitia, dei Conti Calvi di Bergolo (b. 1959, Rome) - Anda Federica Angelica Maria, dei Conti Calvi di Bergolo (b. 1962, Rome)

Lola Jean Albright (born July 20, 1924, Akron, Ohio) is an American singer and actress. Albright worked as a model before moving to Hollywood. She began her motion picture with a bit part in the 1948 film The Pirate, and followed it with important role in the acclaimed 1949 hit Champion. For the next ten years, she appeared in secondary roles in over twenty films, including several 'B' Westerns. Albright also acted in guest roles on several television series. In 1958, she gained the part of Edie Hart in the trend-setting Peter Gunn, a television detective series produced by Blake Edwards and directed by Robert Altman, with the theme music that made Henry Mancini famous.…

Anna Maria Alberghetti (born 15 May 1936) is an Italian-born operatic singer and actress. Born in Pesaro (Marche) she starred on Broadway and won a Tony Award in 1962 as Best Actress (Musical) for Carnival![1] (she tied with Diahann Carroll for the musical No Strings). Alberghetti was a child prodigy. Her father was an opera singer and concert master of the Rome Opera Company. Her mother was a pianist. At age 6, Anna Maria sang in a concert on the Isle of Rhodes with a 100-piece orchestra. She performed at Carnegie Hall in New York at the age of 13. She also entered into film as a teenager. Her cinema appearances include The Medium (1951), Here Comes the Groom (1951), …

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

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).…

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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …