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    Priscilla Dean

    Priscilla Dean (November 25, 1896 – December 27, 1987) was an American actress popular in movies as well as in theatre. Life and career Born in New York to an active theatrical family (her mother was popular stage actress Mary Preston Dean), Priscilla Dean made her stage debut at the age of four, appearing in plays starring her parents. From then on, she pursued her stage career at the same time as being educated at a convent school until the age of fourteen. Following her leave from school, Priscilla went to work on stage, then tried to get into the movies. Dean made her film debut at the age of fourteen in one-reelers for Biograph and several other studios. She was finally signed on to Universal in 1911. She soon gained popularity as the female lead in the comedy series of Eddie Lyons and Lee Moran. She was propelled to stardom after she appeared in The Gray Ghost in 1917. Following this film, she became very successful in her work. However, when the age of sound dawned, Priscilla's career was severely damaged. She continued to do several low-budget films for minor independent studios during the '30s, but never regained the popularity she had earned in silent films. She married Wheeler Oakman, who was also under contract at Universal and appeared in The Virgin of Stamboul and Outside the Law with Priscilla. They divorced in the mid 1920's, and at the end of the decade, she married Leslie Arnold, who was famous as one of the "Around The World Flyers." They remained married until his death in the 1960's. She never had children. Priscilla Dean died in Leonia, New Jersey at the age of 91 on December 27, 1987 from injuries related to a fall she had suffered the previous September.
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    Elaine Devry

    Elaine Devry (born January 10, 1930) is an American actress. She appeared in a number of films including A Guide for the Married Man and was formerly married to actor Mickey Rooney. Filmography The Atomic Kid (1954) China Doll (1958) Man-Trap (1961) Diary of a Madman (1963) I Dream of Jeannie (1967) 1 episode "My Master the Pirate" A Guide for the Married Man (1967) With Six You Get Eggroll (1969) Once You Kiss a Stranger (1969) The Cheyenne Social Club (1970) Bless the Beasts and Children (1971) The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (1973) Herbie Rides Again (1974) Heart to Heart.com (1999)
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    Faith Domergue

    Faith Domergue (June 16, 1924 – April 4, 1999) was an American television and film actress. Early life and career Born in New Orleans, Domergue was adopted by Adabelle Wemet when she was six weeks old (she found out later in life that she was adopted and that she was actually of Irish and English ancestry). Adabelle married Leo Domergue in 1926, when Faith was 18 months old. The family moved to California in 1928 where Domergue attended Beverly Hills Catholic School and St. Monica's Convent School. While still in high school, she was signed to Warner Bros. where she made her first onscreen appearance in Blues in the Night (1941). After graduating in 1942, Domergue continued to pursue a career in acting but after sustaining injuries in a near-fatal car accident, her plans were put on hold. While recuperating from the accident, she attended a party aboard Howard Hughes's yacht. Hughes was taken by her; he bought out her contract with Warner Bros. and signed her to a three-picture contract with RKO. After an unsuccessful, long-delayed premiere in the film Vendetta (1950), Domergue left Hughes. She later freelanced in a number of films, including film noir Where Danger Lives (as a femme fatale opposite Robert Mitchum), westerns (Santa Fe Passage) and in 1955, three sci-fi/monster films (It Came from Beneath the Sea, This Island Earth and Cult of the Cobra). She later made films in England and Italy, and a last sci-fi foray in the Russian film Voyage to a Prehistoric Planet, in 1965. In the late 1950s and 1960s she made many appearances on popular television series, including Have Gun Will Travel, Bonanza, Perry Mason, and The Rifleman. By the late 1960s, Domergue had lost interest in acting as a career, and her last acting appearances were mainly in low-budget 'B' horror movies. She began traveling to Rome, Italy in 1952, and lived there for extended periods of time. She moved there permanently in 1968, and remained an expatriate in Rome, Geneva, Switzerland, and Marbella, Spain until the death of her Roman husband, Paolo in 1991. She then moved to Santa Barbara until her death in 1999. Personal life and death In 1941, Domergue began an on-off relationship with Howard Hughes. After she discovered that Hughes was also seeing Ava Gardner, Rita Hayworth, and Lana Turner, the couple broke up in 1943. She later wrote a book about her relationship with Hughes entitled My Life with Howard Hughes (1972). In 1946, Domergue married bandleader Teddy Stauffer. The marriage lasted six months, ending in 1947. That same year, she married director Hugo Fregonese with whom she had two children, Diana Maria and John Anthony. The couple divorced in 1958. In 1966, she married Paolo Cossa, with whom she remained until his death in 1992. On April 4, 1999, Domergue died from cancer, aged 74. In the 2004 Howard Hughes biopic film The Aviator, Domergue was played by Kelli Garner. Filmography Film credits 1941 Blues in the Night Jitterbug Uncredited 1946 Young Widow Gerry Taylor Alternative title: The Naughty Widow 1949 Hardly a Criminal Uncredited Alternative title: Apenas un delincuente 1950 Where Danger Lives Margo Lannington 1950 Vendetta Colomba della Rabia 1952 The Duel at Silver Creek Opal Lacy Alternative title: Claim Jumpers 1953 The Great Sioux Uprising Joan Britton 1954 This Is My Love Evelyn Myer 1955 Santa Fe Passage Aurelie St. Clair 1955 Cult of the Cobra Lisa Moya 1955 This Island Earth Dr. Ruth Adams 1955 It Came from Beneath the Sea Professor Lesley Joyce Alternative title: Monster from Beneath the Sea 1956 Timeslip Jill Rabowski Alternative title: The Atomic Man 1956 Soho Incident Bella Francesi Alternative title: Spin a Dark Web 1957 The Sky Burns Anna Alternative title: Il Cielo brucia 1957 Man in the Shadow Barbara Peters Alternative title: Violent Stranger 1958 Escort West Martha Drury 1963 California Carlotta Torres 1965 Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet 1967 Track of Thunder Mrs. Goodwin 1969 Besieged Lorenzo's mother Alternative title: L'Amore breve 1969 One on Top of the Other Martha Alternative titles: Una sull'altra, Perversion Story 1970 The Gamblers Signora Del Isolla 1971 Blood Legacy Veronica Dean Alternative title: Legacy of Blood 1971 The Man with Icy Eyes Mrs. Valdes Alternative title: L'Uomo dagli occhi di ghiaccio 1974 So Evil, My Sister Millie Alternative titles: Psycho Sisters The Siblings 1974 The House of Seven Corpses Gayle Dorian Television credits 1953 The Revlon Mirror Theater Laurie Rogers 1 episode 1953–1954 Lux Video Theatre 2 episodes 1954 Fireside Theater Mariana Jenny 2 episodes 1954 Ford Theatre 1 episode 1954–1958 Schlitz Playhouse of Stars Marcella Mrs. Vialez 2 episodes 1955 Celebrity Playhouse 1 episode 1956 The Count of Monte Cristo Renee Morrell 1 episode 1957 Overseas Press Club - Exclusive! Helen Zotos 1 episode 1959 Sugarfoot Isabel Starkey 1 episode 1959 State Trooper Elaine Kendall Janice Kendall 2 episodes 1959 Bourbon Street Beat Susan Wood 1 episode 1959 Cheyenne Maria 1 episode 1959–1961 Hawaiian Eye Onori Rosa Martell 2 episodes 1960 Colt .45 Suzanne Tremaine 1 episode 1960 Bronco Catalina 1 episode 1960 Michael Shayne Kara 1 episode 1961 77 Sunset Strip Gretchen Jervis 1 episode 1961 The Tall Man Kate Elder 1 episode 1961 Lock-Up Marianne 1 episode 1961–1963 Perry Mason Conception O'Higgins Cleo Grammas 2 episodes 1961–1964 Bonanza Lee Bolden Carla Ibara 2 episodes 1962–1963 Have Gun - Will Travel Ria Elena Ybarra 2 episodes 1966 Combat! Madame Fouchet 1 episode 1968 Garrison's Gorillas Carla 1 episode
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    Joan Dixon

    Joan Dixon (June 6, 1930, Norfolk, Virginia - February 20, 1992, Los Angeles) was an American film and television actress in the 1950s. She is known for her role in the film noir, Roadblock (1951). Biography Dixon's career, while under contract at RKO Pictures, was in the hands of Howard Hughes. He attempted but failed to make her into the star he made of Jane Russell (whom Dixon resembled). Hughes had personal contracts with Dixon, Russell, and Janis Carter. In September 1952, it was revealed that Hughes had an agreement with the Ralph E. Stolkin syndicate to lend RKO Pictures the sum of $8,000,000. The loan commitment was made as part of a sales accord following losses sustained by RKO in the previous two years. Earlier Hughes controlled RKO-Radio studio. Joan eloped and married Chicago, Illinois camera manufacturer Theodore (Ted) Briskin in October 1952. Briskin was formerly the husband of Betty Hutton, having married and divorced her twice. Dixon and Briskin were married in a surprise ceremony in the wedding chapel of the Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada. She was 23 and he was 35. Their marriage lasted but three weeks, with Miss Dixon leaving Briskin in early November 1952. She was later married to writer William Dixon, but they divorced in 1959. The actress appeared in ten films (mostly westerns) and appeared on a few television programs. Her television appearances include episodes of The Ford Television Theater (1957) and Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1956). She also performed as a vocalist at Dino's Lodge in Los Angeles, California in December 1960. She died on February 20, 1992, aged 61, in Los Angeles, California.
  6. I don't know. I've been asking that since the first day I was on here. I'm going to Charleston, SC next weekend, you gonna miss me?
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    Gloria Dickson

    Gloria Dickson (August 13, 1917 – April 10, 1945) was an American stage and screen actress of the 1930s and 1940s. Life and career Born in Pocatello, Idaho, Dickson began acting during high school in amateur theater productions. Encouraged by her acting coaches, she moonlighted doing dramatic readings at social clubs and on KFOX radio station in Long Beach, California. In April 1936, she was spotted by Warner Brothers talent scout Max Arnow who signed her to a Warner contract. Her auspicious film debut in 1937's They Won't Forget landed her on the top of Hollywood's short list of important up and comers, a distinction which allotted her enormous publicity. In the fall of 1937 she was in many magazine covers and was the subject of several major movie magazine articles with titles like, The Luckiest Girl in the World and New Star of the Year. Death Dickson died during a fire at her Los Angeles home, which began by an unextinguished cigarette that ignited an overstuffed chair on the main floor, while she slept upstairs. Her body, and that of her pet dog, were found in the bathroom, and it was assumed that she had attempted to escape through the bathroom window. She died from asphyxiation; flames had seared her lungs, and her body had suffered first and second degree burns. She is buried at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Filmography They Won't Forget (1937) Talent Scout (1937) Gold Diggers in Paris (1938) Racket Busters (1938) Heart of the North (1938) Secrets of an Actress (1938) They Made Me a Criminal (1939) Waterfront (1939) Cowboy Quarterback (1939) No Place to Go (1939) On Your Toes (1939) Private Detective (1939) King of the Lumberjacks (1940) Tear Gas Squad (1940) I Want a Divorce (1940) This Thing Called Love (1940) The Big Boss (1941) Mercy Island (1941) The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine (1942) Power of the Press (1943) Lady of Burlesque (1943) Crime Doctor's Strangest Case (1943) Rationing (1944) Stage credits Wise Tomorrow (1937)
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    Yolande Donlan

    Yolande Donlan (born June 2, 1920 in Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American actress who has worked extensively in the United Kingdom. She is the daughter of James Donlan, who was a hard working character actor in Hollywood films of the 1930s. It is thought that she had some uncredited roles in films including Pennies From Heaven and Love Finds Andy Hardy immediately following her father's death in 1938, but these have not been confirmed. Her early credited roles include Frenchy the maid in the horror film The Devil Bat in 1940 and she followed this up with several small roles, generally as similar French-accented maid characters. A notable stage success as Billie Dawn in a Boston production of Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin was the start of bigger things for Donlan. The production transferred to London's West End for a long run. Donlan was initially denied a work permit to star in the lead in Peter Pan due to complaints from Actors Equity who felt that a British star should have the lead. After it ended, Donlan remained in the United Kingdom and began accepting film work. After Traveller's Joy in 1949, Donlan worked for the director Val Guest in several films including Mister Drake's Duck, Penny Princess (in the title role) and The Body Said No. Donlan married Guest in 1954 and afterwards her film work included many of her husband's films such as Expresso Bongo and 80,000 Suspects, as well as a small number of films for other directors. In 1955 she penned the autobiographical travelogue, Sand in my Mink an amusing tale of adventures taken with her husband, across Europe, which makes a light hearted read of how travel used to be. A further stage success came in 1959 in Jack Popplewell's And Suddenly It's Spring opposite Margaret Lockwood. Her most recent film credit is Seven Nights in Japan from 1976. The same year saw publication of her autobiography, Shake the Stars Down, which concentrates on her childhood years growing up in the Hollywood of the 1930s. Guest retired from directing in 1985 and the couple moved back to the United States of America in the late 1980s, where they resided in Palm Springs until his death in 2006. Donlan now lives in Belgravia, London.
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    Peggy Diggins

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    Peggy Diggins

    (Margaret Mary Diggins) 12 October 1921 is born in New York City to Paul Farrell Diggins, a prominent Westchester County lawyer, and his wife, the former Ella M. Connors lives with her parents and her older brother, Paul F., in Mount Vernon, New York Late '30s attends convent school until age 16. She is much too imaginative, so the Diggins conclude their only daughter should go to city high school. She is always the tallest in her class. She graduates from Mount Vernon High School in New York, where she took every available course in public speaking. Her father decided she would follow his footsteps as a trial lawyer. Evenings when her lessons were done, she and her father discussed law. Her father explained all the intricacies in addressing a jury and coached her in the use of her voice. She will later say that legal training helps her plenty in handling dialog. at the Hotel Lincoln during a jitterbug contest, a woman taps her shoulder and asks if she wants to get into pictures. Aware of such high-handed methods, luring poor innocent girls to Hollywood, she replies, “I should say not.” The lady is later identified as the wife of a Paramount executive. Peggy swallows her pride and apologizes. The result is admission to the Paramount dramatic school. one afternoon at the Paramount dramatic school, a girl invites her to meet another gal at the International Casino. It’s her first time in a Broadway nightclub. She sits down and watches the afternoon rehearsal. A man walks over and asks if she would like a job in the show. She coldly replies, “No.” She later finds out he is none other than George Hale, producer and director of the show. She apologizes to him, and he offers her a showgirl job. After 15 minutes of talk, she walks away with a contract calling for a featured top spot and $300 a week. a month later she makes her Broadway debut. The show folds in three months. She registers in the American Academy dramatic school and models between classes for Walter Thornton. agent Leland Hayward sees her in an American Academy dramatic school play and signs her immediately. He wires Howard Hughes and tells him he has a new star for Hughes’ new picture. Hughes sends for her. She later says: “It turned out to be a nice plane ride at Mr. Hughes expense. He felt I was too tall for the part. He gave me a plane ticket with the suggestion that I return to New York and when he made a picture wherein he could use me, he’d let me know. My Irish was up again. I’d quit my job in New York and my school. I had less than $25. I didn’t want to wire dad for help. I got in touch with my agent and told him if I couldn’t stay as a star, I’d better start at the bottom and work up. Just as long as I got started! That week I was signed with Warner Brothers on a seven-year optional contract. I’ve played bits. In Tugboat Annie Sails Again, I screamed and dove under a table, not much for my first part, nor a climax for my dramatic school training. But I’m in pictures and learning. I wouldn’t turn down any part, and like everyone, I’m waiting for a break. I’ll be ready for it, I hope, when it comes, and with my Irish luck, it will.” November 1940 is courted by young John F. "Jack" Kennedy, son of the U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James mid 1940's she marries an officer while overseas June 1945 seeks a divorce 3 July 1945 starts divorce proceedings against the officer she married while overseas She then marries Dr. John Staige Davis, Jr., a New York Park Avenue medico and son of the plastic surgery pioneer September 1951 her daughter is born at Doctors Hospital in New York. The girl has the same birthday as her father. December 1951 she and her husband part amicably. She will file for divorce. He's 51; she's 30. Davis will die at age 77 in 1977. 24 June 1955 calls off her engagement to Albert Plant of the cosmetics fortune 11 August 1956 She married Wall Street broker John Walters February 1957 She splits up with Walters 12 August 1957 as Margaret Mary Walters, she dies in a car crash at age 35 in Gulfstream, Florida 14 August 1957 Hearst writer Bob Considine editorializes her and the courage she showed during his adventures with her during World War II. He describes her as a “rare type of Irish beauty with eyes like a good blue sky and hair like a good black raven.”
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  12. Not the heat Should I go to Scotland or Italy? been to both and I love both but I don't where I want to go
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