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Florida-born Peggy O'Rourke's parents divorced when she was very young. Peggy's mother eventually married a wealthy attorney named Stewart, and Peggy took his name. She grew up in Atlanta (where she developed the athletic skills she would later demonstrate in her many westerns for Republic Pictures). On a family vacation to Los Angeles to visit her grandmother, Peggy, as a lark, attended classes at a dramatic school, but the acting bug hit her hard and when it was time to return to Atlanta, Peggy talked her mother into letting her staying with her grandmother. As luck would have it, a resident of the apartment building they lived in was character actor Henry O'Neill, who took a liking to Peggy and got her cast in her first film, Wells Fargo (1937). She picked up a few more small roles, and acquitted herself so well the parts started getting bigger and she was working more often. She married actor Don 'Red' Barry in 1940, and was eventually signed by Republic Pictures, Barry's studio, to make westerns and serials. In three years, Peggy did almost 30 films at Republic, most of them westerns. She appeared in two of the studio's more successful serials, but when Republic assigned her to another one, she protested. She didn't particularly like working in serials, preferring the feature westerns, which didn't take as long to film. Eventually, the struggle with Republic got to the point where Peggy asked for her release, and she got it. Although she wanted to start doing films other than westerns, she had made so many at Republic that she found herself basically unable to find work in any other genre. She freelanced for Monogram, Allied Artists, PRC and other small studios until she was picked up by Columbia--which immediately put her into serials. She eventually decided to leave the film business, and did so in 1953. She did do some television work (mostly westerns!) while raising her family, and also performed in the Los Angeles theatrical community. She kept her hand in the film business, making occasional appearances in some lower-budget westerns, made-for-TV movies and inexpensive horror pictures.1923.
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132 + credits, 1937 - 2016.
Bowery Rhapsody: The Rise and Redemption of Hollywood's Original 'Brat Pack'. 2016. 93.- Connie Sawyer was born on 27 November 1912 in Pueblo, Colorado, USA. She was an actress, known for Dumb and Dumber (1994), Pineapple Express (2008) and Out of Sight (1998). She was married to Marshall Schacker. She died on 21 January 2018 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.1912 - 2018, 105.
- November 27. Pueblo, Colorado. USA.
24+ acting credits since 2000.
139 acting credits since 1953.
Uber Ray (2014). 2014. 102. - Actress
Juana Mansó was born in 1872 in Madrid, Spain. She was an actress, known for Barrio (1947), That Man from Tangier (1953) and El negro que tenía el alma blanca (1951). She died on 25 February 1957 in Madrid, Spain.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Madame Sul-Te-Wan was born on 7 March 1873 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. She was an actress, known for Maid of Salem (1937), In Old Chicago (1938) and Safari (1940). She was married to Robert Reed Conley. She died on 1 February 1959 in Hollywood, California, USA.1873
March 7, Kentucky - 1959, California. (85). USA.
57 credits, 1915-1958.
1 soundtrack credits.
The Buccaneer (1958). 1958. 84 years, over 40 years working.- Nana de Varennes was born on 21 February 1887 in Saint-Roch-de-l'Achigan, Québec, Canada. She was an actress, known for Les lumières de ma ville (1950), Les brûlés (1959) and Fleur bleue (1971). She was married to Roméo Godin. She died on 1 July 1981 in Buckingham, Québec, Canada.
- Madoline Thomas was born on 2 January 1890 in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK. She was an actress, known for No Trace (1950), How Green Was My Valley (1960) and Pride and Prejudice (1958). She was married to John W. H. Thomas. She died on 30 December 1989 in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, UK.
- Margit Makay was born on 4 August 1891 in Miskolc, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. She was an actress, known for Kártyavár (1968), Egér a palotában (1943) and A Very Moral Night (1977). She was married to Dr. Márton, Miksa. She died on 6 November 1989 in Budapest, Hungary.1891
August 4, 1891 - 1989. (98). Hungary.
34 credits, 1912-1989.
#1 credit : A Very Moral Night (1977). 1977. 86.
A Very Moral Night. - Actress
- Costume Designer
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
Emma Roldán was born on 3 February 1890 in San Luis Potosí, San Luis Potosí, Mexico. She was an actress and costume designer, known for The Passion of Berenice (1976), Monja casada, virgen y mártir (1935) and El ahijado de la muerte (1946). She was married to Alfredo del Diestro. She died on 29 August 1978 in Mexico City, Mexico.1893
February 3, 1893 - 1978. (85). Mexico.
237 credits, 1922-1983.
9 costume designer credits.
Amor libre (1979). Free Love. 1979. 80+ years, 60+ years working.
-19 films since 1970, when 70+.- Actress
- Music Department
Sam-Ku To was born in 1895 in Hong Kong. She was an actress, known for Yi fan feng shun (1951), Shen ying fei tian xia (1960) and Bin cheng yan (1954). She died in 1983 in Hong Kong.1895
1895-1983. (88). Hong Kong.
111 credits, 1936-1978.
Gou yao gou gu (1978). 1978. 83.
Dog Bites Dog Bone.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Amanda Randolph was born on 2 September 1896 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. She was an actress, known for The Amos 'n Andy Show (1951), The Danny Thomas Hour (1967) and The Danny Thomas Show (1953). She was married to Harry Hansberry. She died on 24 August 1967 in Duarte, California, USA.1896
September 2, Kentucky, - 1967, California. (70). USA.
46 credits, 1933-1967.
3 soundtrack credits.
Make More Room for Daddy (1967). 1967. 70 years, over 30 years working.- Josefina Silva was born on 10 January 1898 in Lisbon, Portugal. She was an actress, known for Diaper Trouble (1967), O Herói e o Soldado (1961) and Quanto Importa Ser Leal (1959). She was married to António Silva. She died on 18 February 1993.1898
January 10, 1898 - 1993. (95). Portugal.
26 credits, 1920-1985.
O Vestido Cor de Fogo (1985). 1985. 87. - Saara Ranin was born on 3 March 1898 in Hamina, Finland. She was an actress, known for Inspector Palmu's Error (1960), Hormoonit valloillaan (1948) and Kuningas kulkureitten (1953). She was married to Helge Ranin. She died on 3 March 1992 in Helsinki, Finland.1898
March 3, 1898 - 1992. (94). Finland.
54 credits, 1927-1990.
Elämän rouva, rouva Glad (1990). 1990. 92. - Actress
- Soundtrack
Lillian Randolph was born on 14 December 1898 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. She was an actress, known for It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Gildersleeve's Ghost (1944) and Magic (1978). She was married to Garcia Delano "Gossie" McKee and James Lott . She died on 12 September 1980 in Los Angeles, California, USA.1898
December 14, Kentucky - 1980, California. (81). USA.
109 credits, 1934-1979.
3 soundtrack credits.
The Onion Field (1979). 1979. 80 years, over 40 years working.- Actress
- Additional Crew
Aurora Redondo was born on 1 January 1900 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She was an actress, known for Ninette y un señor de Murcia (1966), Anillos de oro (1983) and El último café (1970). She was married to Valeriano León García. She died on 10 July 1996 in Madrid, Spain.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Madeleine Renaud was born on 21 February 1900 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France. She was an actress, known for Remorques (1941), The Longest Day (1962) and Hélène (1936). She was married to Jean-Louis Barrault and Charles Granval. She died on 23 September 1994 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France.- Myrtle Woods was born on 14 March 1900 in Albury, New South Wales, Australia. She was an actress, known for A Woman's Tale (1991), Homicide (1964) and The Great MacArthy (1975). She was married to Woods. She died on 12 May 2001 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel was born on 5 April 1900 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. She was an actress, known for Cabaret (1972), Der Mörder Dimitri Karamasoff (1931) and The Odessa File (1974). She was married to Berthold Viertel. She died on 24 December 1994 in Vienna, Austria.1900
April 5, - 1994. (94). Austria.
61 credits, 1927-1988.
Wie kommt das Salz ins Meer? (1988). 1988. 88. - Ethel Lang was born on 27 May 1900 in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK. She was married to William Lang. She died on 15 January 2015 in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK.
- Frederica Sagor Maas was born in America, the youngest daughter of Russian immigrants. Feeling no great desire to complete her course in journalism at Columbia University, New York, she found film an exciting new artistic medium, and was hired by Universal Studios as a story editor, and later MGM as a fully fledged screenwriter. Thus began a bumpy life in the film industry. Maas went from rubbing shoulders with stars such as Clara Bow, Norma Shearer, and Joan Crawford and being at the top of her game with hits like The Plastic Age (1925) to watching several ideas and stories being robbed outright by unscrupulous insiders, to watching dear friends lose their careers in the McCarthy era, and eventually leaving the motion picture industry in the 1950s after a series of crushing disappointments. She married fellow writer and producer Ernest Maas in 1927, and honoured his commitments to the industry long after she realised it would take from them far more than they would take from it. She recounted these adventures in her clear-eyed, frank autobiography, published in 1999 - when she was 99! They say that history is written by the winners, but her story proves that the tales of the also rans can be just as fascinating.1900
- July 6. New York City.
- January 5, 2012. (111).
16 writing credits.
2 self credits.
3 Voices (2003). 2003. 103. - Actress
- Soundtrack
London-born Evelyn Laye, daughter of actor parents, was already treading the boards at the age of two. Her father managed the Palace Theatre in Brighton and this was where Evelyn first made a name for herself. A seasoned stage performer by the age of fifteen, she graduated to the London West End three years later in a small part in "The Beauty Spot". During the 1920's, she was one of England's most popular stars of musical revue and operetta, with hits in the aviation musical "Going Up" (1918-19), "Madame Pompadour" (1923), "Betty in Mayfair" (1925-26) and "Merely Molly" (1926-27), the last two at the Adelphi Theatre. She appeared, both in London and on Broadway, in Noël Coward's "Bitter Sweet" in 1929, her song "I'll See you Again" becoming her trademark signature piece. Her performance attracted the attention of producer Samuel Goldwyn, who promptly brought her to Hollywood.
Tagged (by Goldwyn) as "the Champagne Blonde", the lovely Evelyn made her American debut in the operetta, One Heavenly Night (1930), directed by the experienced George Fitzmaurice. The ridiculously contrived story and silly dialogue made this one of the worst flops of 1931, not helped by the wooden performance of Laye's co-star, John Boles. Although New York Times critic Mordaunt Hall, in his January 10 review reserved sole praise for Laye's singing and performance, Goldwyn washed his hands of the whole affair and Evelyn returned to England. She made another attempt at Hollywood, four years later, in The Night Is Young (1935), another continental operetta, co-starring Ramon Novarro, and featuring songs by Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein. Reviewer Andre Sennwald (January 14) caustically described the picture as being technically well-made, but otherwise "without any distinguishing virtue". There were considerably better reviews for Evelyn's two British-Gaumont productions, Waltz Time (1933) and, without doubt her best motion picture, Evensong (1934), the story of the rise and decline of an Irish diva.
There was a three-decade long hiatus until Evelyn's return to the screen (though she had appeared as herself with then-husband, and fellow actor, Frank Lawton, in the TV sitcom My Husband and I (1956)). She was also rather incongruously cast in the horror film, Theatre of Death (1967). Three years later, Evelyn gave a strong performance as the mother of Jean Simmons in Say Hello to Yesterday (1971), a romance set in swinging 60's London. For the most part, she continued to act on the stage, which had always been her favourite medium, performing in plays like "Three Waltzes", "The School for Scandal", "Wedding in Paris", "The Marquise" and "The Amorous Prawn". One of her last plays was Noël Coward's "Semi-Monde" (1987-88), at the Royalty Theatre in London, with fellow cast members Kenneth Branagh and Judi Dench. Retaining her popularity well into her nineties, Evelyn Laye made her farewell tour of Britain in 1992. She died three years later at the age of 95.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Loudi Nijhoff was born on 29 October 1900 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. She was an actress, known for Pride and Prejudice (1961), Majoor Barbara (1964) and Jane Eyre (1958). She died on 1 August 1995 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.- Paddy Pallin was born on 28 November 1900 in Hartlepool, County Durham, England, UK. She was married to May Bell Morris. She died on 3 January 1991 in Wahroonga, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- Director
- Writer
- Animation Department
Hermína Týrlová was born on 11 December 1900 in Brezové Hory, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. She was a director and writer, known for Snehulák (1966), Uzel na kapesníku (1958) and Hvezda Betlémská (1970). She died on 3 May 1993 in Zlín, Czech Republic.1900
December 11, -1993. (92). Czech Republic.
66 credits, 1928-1986. Director, writer, animation department, actress, cinematographer, art direction.
I Count on the Wire (1986). 1986. 86. Director.- Annemarie Marks-Rocke was born on 7 December 1901 in Mannheim, Germany. She was an actress, known for 4 Geschichten über 5 Tote (1998), The Country Doctor (1987) and Hoftheater (1975). She was married to Eduard Marks. She died on 8 August 2004 in Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
- Producer
- Director
- Actress
Leni Riefenstahl's show-biz experience began with an experiment: she wanted to know what it felt like to dance on the stage. Success as a dancer gave way to film acting when she attracted the attention of film director Arnold Fanck, subsequently starring in some of his mountaineering pictures. With Fanck as her mentor, Riefenstahl began directing films.
Her penchant for artistic work earned her acclaim and awards for her films across Europe. It was her work on Triumph of the Will (1935), a documentary commissioned by the Nazi government about Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich, that would come back to haunt her after the atrocities of World War II. Despite her protests to the contrary, Riefenstahl was considered an intricate part of the Third Reich's propaganda machine. Condemned by the international community, she did not make another movie for over 50 years.1902- August 22. Germany.
- September 8, 2003. (101).
IMDb credits :
11 acting credits since 1925.
9 producer, 8 director, 6 writer, 6 editor, 2 cinematography, 2 miscellaneous, 20 self.
8 self credits since 2000.
Impressionen unter Wasser (2002). 2002. 100. Scuba diver.
Leni Riefenstahl: Her Dream of Africa (2003). 2003.- Elisabeth Lennartz was born on 13 November 1902 in Koblenz, Germany. She was an actress, known for Ich bei Tag und du bei Nacht (1932), Ihr erstes Erlebnis (1939) and Hell on Earth (1931). She was married to Gustav Knuth and Gustav Hartung. She died on 14 May 2001 in Küsnacht, Germany.
- Aliza Sommer-Herz was born on 26 November 1903 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. She was married to Leopold Sommer. She died on 23 February 2014 in London, England, UK.1903
- November 26. Austria -Hungary.
- February 23, 2014. (110).
The Lady in Number 6: Music Saved My Life (2013). 2013. 109. - Gladys O'Connor was born on 28 November 1903 in East London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), Billy Madison (1995) and Half Baked (1998). She died on 21 February 2012 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.1903
- November 28. England.
- February 21, 2012. (108).
18 acting credits since 1986. Retired, Gladys O'Connor began her second career acting in her 70s.
Half Baked (1998). 1998. 95. - Carmen Martínez Sierra was born on 3 May 1904 in Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain. She was an actress, known for Historias para no dormir (1966), Las ibéricas F.C. (1971) and Curro Jiménez (1976). She died on 6 November 2012 in Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain.1904
- May 3. Spain.
- November 6. 2012. (108).
116 acting credits since 1958.
Cine de barrio (1995). 2011. 107.
El velatorio (2000). 2000. - Actress
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Tita Merello was born on 11 October 1904 in Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina. She was an actress and writer, known for Guacho (1954), Cinco rostros de mujer (1947) and Arrabalera (1950). She died on 24 December 2002 in Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina.1904
October 11, Argentina.- December 24, 2002. (98).
36 acting credits since 1933.
4 soundtrack credits.
Merello x Carreras (2015). 2015.- Actress
- Producer
French actress Renée Saint-Cyr became synonymous with chic comedy and costumed drama, enjoying major success for nearly seven decades before her death after an attack of bronchitis at age 99. Over the years she equipped herself well opposite the established talents of Raymond Rouleau, Jules Berry, Raimu, Noël-Noël, Harry Baur, Pierre Brasseur and Paul Meurisse.
Born Marie Louise Eugénie Vittore on November 16, 1904, and the daughter of a hotel owner and opera singer, Renée was a one-time model who married Charles Leopold Lautner (1894-1938), a wealthy man, at age 21 before entering the acting leagues. After studies at a drama school in Marseilles, she made her film bow starring as one of The Two Orphans (1933) co-starring Rosine Deréan, based on the Gish sisters' silent classic Orphans of the Storm (1921). She took on Lillian's role and would adopt the moniker of Saint-Cyr, supposedly taken from a beloved canine.
Saint-Cyr's alluring beauty, patrician demeanor, and comedic skills gave her great momentum co-starring in such chic 1930's film comedies as Toto (1933), D'amour et d'eau fraîche (1933), Une fois dans la vie (1934) (Once in a Lifetime), Le dernier milliardaire (1934), Paris (1937), L'école des cocottes (1935), Donogoo (1936), Paris (1937) and The Pearls of the Crown (1937), as well as the dramas 27 rue de la Paix (1936) and Marked Girls (1938).
Renée also graced the stage during this time in a production of "The Threepenny Opera," among others. She nixed an offer to sign with 20th Century-Fox, but did star in England's Strange Boarders (1938) and Italy's Red Roses (1940) (Red Roses) co-starring Vittorio De Sica. Into the 1940s war years, she starred in such popular film vehicles as the Hector Berlioz biopic La symphonie fantastique (1942) (The Fantastic Symphony), the title dramatic roles in Marie-Martine (1943) and Paméla (1945), plus Pierre et Jean (1943), Étrange destin (1946) and L'insaisissable Frédéric (1946).
Saint-Cyr left films after shooting The Knight of the Night (1953), Il cavaliere di Maison Rouge (1954) (The Glorious Avenger) (as Marie Antoinette) and Si Paris nous était conté (1956) (as Empress Eugénie}, but returned into the next decade with Coctail party (1960) and Lafayette (1962). By this time, her only child, Georges Lautner, had become an influential film writer and director and had begun churning out a series of standard genre movies that occasionally featured Renee in the cast. Such films included The Monocle (1964), Fleur d'oseille (1967), Quelques messieurs trop tranquilles (1973), Now We've Seen It All! (1976), Ils sont fous ces sorciers (1978), My Other Husband (1983), Room Service (1992).1904- November 16. France.
- July 11, 2004. (99).
68 acting credits since 1933.
La trilogie des 'Monocle' (2003). 2003. 98.- Gertrud Mischwitzky was born on 9 August 1905. She died on 19 September 2003 in Berlin, Germany.1905
- August 9. Germany.
- August 19, 2003. (98).
Meine Mütter - Spurensuche in Riga (2007). 2007.
Two Mothers. - Miss Mudford was born on 23 August 1905 in Wallington, Surrey, England, UK. She was married to Maurice King. She died on 27 January 2006 in Surrey, England, UK.
- Viola Kates Stimpson was born on 25 October 1906 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986), Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000) and Graduation Day (1981). She died on 14 January 2008 in Tarzana, California, USA.1906
- October 25. New York.
- January 14, 2008. (101).
44 acting credits since 1963.
Good Morning, Miami (2002). 2002. - Actress
- Additional Crew
Lita Recio was born on 30 October 1906 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France. She was an actress, known for Rififi (1955), Panique (1946) and Les aventures de Tintin (1957). She died on 13 January 2006 in Paris, France.1906- October 30. France.
- January 13, 2006. (99).
21 acting credits since 1946.
Une pure coïncidence (2002). 2002.
Purely Coincidental.- Emily Perry was born on 28 June 1907 in Torquay, Devon, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Dame Edna's Neighbourhood Watch (1992), Dame Edna's Hollywood (1991) and A Night on Mount Edna (1990). She died on 20 February 2008 in Twickenham, Middlesex, England, UK.
- Actress
- Writer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Canadian-born Fay Wray was brought up in Los Angeles and entered films at an early age. She was barely in her teens when she started working as an extra. She began her career as a heroine in westerns at Universal during the silent era. In 1926 the Western Association of Motion Picture Advertisers selected 13 young starlets it deemed most likely to succeed in pictures. Fay was chosen as one of these starlets, along with Janet Gaynor and Mary Astor. Fame would indeed come to Fay when she played another heroine in Erich von Stroheim's The Wedding March (1928). She continued playing leads in a number of films, such as the good-bad girl in Thunderbolt (1929). By the early 1930s she was at Paramount working with Gary Cooper and Jack Holt in a number of average films, such as Master of Men (1933). She also appeared in such horror films as Doctor X (1932) and The Vampire Bat (1933). In 1933 Fay was approached by producer Merian C. Cooper, who told her that he had a part for her in a picture in which she would be working with a tall, dark leading man. What he didn't tell her was that her "tall, dark leading man" was a giant gorilla, and the picture turned out to be the classic King Kong (1933). Perhaps no one in the history of pictures could scream more dramatically than Fay, and she really put on a show in "Kong". Her character provided a combination of sex appeal, vulnerability and lung capacity as she was stalked by the giant beast all the way to the top of the Empire State Building. That was as far as Fay would rise, however, as this was, after all, just another horror movie. After "Kong", she began a slow decline that put her into low-budget action films by the mid '30s. In 1939 her 11-year marriage to screenwriter John Monk Saunders ended in divorce, and her career was almost finished. In 1942 she remarried and retired from the screen, forever to be remembered as the "beauty who killed the beast" in "King Kong". However, in 1953 she made a comeback, playing mature character roles, and also appeared on television as Catherine, Natalie Wood's mother, in The Pride of the Family (1953). She continued to appear in films until 1958 and television into the 1960s.1907- September 15. Canada.
- August 8, 2004. (96).
124 acting credits since 1923.
21 self credits.
Saturday Nightmares: The Ultimate Horror Expo of All Time! (2010). 2010.
RKO Production 601: The Making of 'Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World' (2005). 2005- Marga Legal was born on 18 February 1908 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Bold Adventure (1956), The Legend of Paul and Paula (1973) and Eine Berliner Romanze (1956). She was married to Heinz Klevenow. She died on 30 October 2001 in Berlin, Germany.1908
- February 18. Germany.
- October 30, 2001. (93).
125 acting credits since 1952.
10..Die Frau ohne Namen (2002). 2002. - Katharine Page was born on 21 February 1908 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. She was an actress, known for Vanity Fair (1956), BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950) and Only Fools and Horses (1981). She died in 2003 in Bristol, England, UK.
- Lícia Magna was born on 22 February 1909 in Guaxupé, Minas Gerais, Brazil. She was an actress, known for Maria, Maria (1978), Kubanacan (2003) and The Next Victim (1995). She died on 3 July 2007 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.1909
- February 22. Brazil.
- July 3, 2007. (98).
66 acting credits since 1950.
Golden Oldies (2008). 2008. - Actress
- Additional Crew
- Camera and Electrical Department
Carla Laemmle was born on 20 October 1909 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for The Adventures of Frank Merriwell (1936), King of Jazz (1930) and The Gate Crasher (1928). She died on 12 June 2014 in Los Angeles, California, USA.1909
- October 20. Illinois ,- June 12, 2014. (104). USA.
5 acting credits since 2000.
14 self credits since 2000.
Leftovers (2017). 2015.
A Sad State of Affairs (2013). 2013. 103.
The Vampire Hunters Club (2001). 2001. 92.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Luise Rainer, the first thespian to win back-to-back Oscars, was born on January 12, 1910 in Dusseldorf, Germany, into a prosperous Jewish family. Her parents were Emilie (Königsberger) and Heinrich Rainer, a businessman. She took to the stage, and plied her craft on the boards in Germany. As a young actress, she was discovered by the legendary theater director Max Reinhardt and became part of his company in Vienna, Austria. "I was supposed to be very gifted, and he heard about me. He wanted me to be part of his theater," Rainer recounted in a 1997 interview. She joined Reinhardt's theatrical company in Vienna and spent years developing as an actress under his tutelage. As part of Reinhardt's company, Rainer became a popular stage actress in Berlin and Vienna in the early 1930s. Rainer was a natural talent for Reinhardt's type of staging, which required an impressionistic acting style.
Rainer, who made her screen debut as a teenager and appeared in three other German-language films in the early 1930s, terminated her European career when the Austrian Adolf Hitler consolidated his power in Germany. With his vicious anti-Semitism bringing about the Draconian Nuremberg Laws severely curtailing the rights of Germany's Jews, and efforts to expand that regime into the Sudetenland and Austria, Hitler and his Nazi government was proving a looming threat to European Jewry. Rainer had been spotted by a talent scout, who offered her a seven-year contract with the American studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The 25-year-old Rainer took the deal and emigrated to the United States.
She made her American debut in the movie Escapade (1935), replacing Myrna Loy, who was originally slated for the part. It was her luck to have William Powell as her co-star in her first Hollywood film, as he mentored her, teaching her how to act in front of the camera. Powell, whom Rainer remembers as "a dear man" and "a very fine person," lobbied MGM. boss Louis B. Mayer, reportedly telling him, "You've got to star this girl, or I'll look like an idiot."
During the making of "Escapade", Rainer met, and fell in love with, the left-wing playwright Clifford Odets, then at the height of his fame. They were married in 1937. It was not a happy union. MGM cast Rainer in support of Powell in the title role of the The Great Ziegfeld (1936), its spectacular bio-epic featuring musical numbers that recreated his "Follies" shows on Broadway. As Anna Held, Ziegfeld's common-law wife, Rainer excelled in the musical numbers, but it is for her telephone scene that she is most remembered. "The Great Ziegfeld" was a big hit and went on to win the Academy Award as Best Picture of 1936. Rainer received her first of two successive Best Actress Oscars for playing Held. The award was highly controversial at the time as she was a relative unknown and it was only her first nomination, but also because her role was so short and relatively minor that it better qualified for a supporting nomination. (While 1936 was the first year that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences honored supporting players, her studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, listed her as a lead player, then got out its block vote for her.) Compounding the controversy was the fact that Rainer beat out such better known and more respected actresses as Carole Lombard (her sole Oscar nomination) in My Man Godfrey (1936), previous Best Actress winner Norma Shearer (her fifth nomination) in Romeo and Juliet (1936), and Irene Dunne (her second of five unsuccessful nominations) in Theodora Goes Wild (1936). Some of the bitchery was directed toward Louis B. Mayer, whom non-MGM Academy members resented for his ability to manipulate Academy votes. Other critics of her first Oscar win claimed it was the result of voters being unduly impressed with the great budget ($2 million) of "The Great Ziegfeld" rather than great acting. Most observers agree that Rainer won her Oscar as the result of her moving and poignant performance in just one single scene in the picture, the famous telephone scene in which the broken-hearted Held congratulates Ziegfeld over the telephone on his upcoming marriage to Billie Burke while trying to retain her composure and her dignity. During the scene, the camera is entirely focused on Rainer, and she delivers a tour-de-force performance. Seventy years later, it remains one of the most famous scenes in movie history. With another actress playing Held, the scene could have been mawkish, but Rainer brought the pathos of the scene out and onto film. She based her interpretation of the scene on Jean Cocteau's play "La Voix Humaine". "Cocteau's play is just a telephone conversation about a woman who has lost her beloved to another woman", Rainer remembered. "That is the comparison. As it fit into the Ziegfeld story, that's how I wrote it. It's a daily happening, not just in Cocteau." In an interview held 60 years after the film's release, Rainer was dismissive of the performance. "I was never proud of anything", she said. "I just did it like everything else. To do a film - let me explain to you - it's like having a baby. You labor, you labor, you labor, and then you have it. And then it grows up and it grows away from you. But to be proud of giving birth to a baby? Proud? No, every cow can do that."
Rainer would allay any back-biting from Hollywood's bovines over her first Oscar with her performance as O-Lan in MGM producer Irving Thalberg's spectacular adaptation of Pearl S. Buck's "The Good Earth", the former Boy Wonder's final picture before his untimely death. The role won Rainer her second Best Actress Award. The success of The Good Earth (1937) was rooted in its realism, and its realism was enhanced by Rainer's acting opposite the legendary Paul Muni as her husband. When Thalberg cast Muni in the role of Wang Lung, he had to abandon any thought of casting the Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong as O-Lan as the Hays Office would not allow the hint of miscegenation, even between an actual Chinese woman and a Caucuasian actor in yellow-face drag. So, Thalberg gave Rainer the part, and she made O-Lan her own. She refused to wear a heavy makeup, and her elfin look helped her to assay a Chinese woman with results far superior to those of Myrna Loy in her Oriental vamp phase or Katharine Hepburn in Dragon Seed (1944). In the late 1990s, Rainer praised her director, Sidney Franklin, as "wonderful", and explained that she used an acting technique similar to "The Method" being pioneered by her husband's Group Theatre comrades back in New York. "I worked from inside out", she said. "It's not for me, putting on a face, or putting on makeup, or making masquerade. It has to come from inside out. I knew what I wanted to do and he let me do it." The win made Rainer the first two-time Oscar winner in an acting category and the first to win consecutive acting awards (Spencer Tracy, her distaff honoree for Captains Courageous (1937) would follow her as a consecutive acting Oscar winner the next year, and Walter Brennan, Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner for Come and Get It (1936) the year Rainer won her first, would tie them both in 1937 with his win for Kentucky (1938) and trump them with his third win for The Westerner (1940), a record subsequently tied by Ingrid Bergman, Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Daniel Day-Lewis, and surpassed by Katharine Hepburn.)
Rainer's career soon went into free-fall and collapsed, as she became the first notable victim of the "Oscar curse", the phenomenon that has seem many a performer's career take a nose-dive after winning an Academy Award. "For my second and third pictures I won Academy Awards. Nothing worse could have happened to me", Rainer said. A non-conformist, Rainer rejected Hollywood's values of Hollywood. In the late 1990s, she said, "I came from Europe where I was with a wonderful theater group, and I worked. The only thing on my mind was to do good work. I didn't know what an Academy Award was." MGM boss Mayer, the founding force behind the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, had to force her to attend the Awards banquet to receive her Oscar. She rebelled against the studio due to the movies that MGM forced her into after "The Good Earth".
In one case, director Dorothy Arzner had been assigned by MGM producer Joseph M. Mankiewicz (whose wife, Rose Stradner had been Rainer's understudy in the Vienna State Theater) in 1937 to direct Rainer in "The Girl from Trieste", an unproduced Ferenc Molnár play about a prostitute trying to go reform herself who discovers the hypocrisies of the respectable class which she aspires to. After Thalberg's death in 1936, Mayer's lighter aesthetic began to rule the roost at MGM. Mayer genuinely believed in the goodness of women and motherhood and put women on a pedestal; he once told screenwriter Frances Marion that he never wanted to see anything produced by MGM that would embarrass his wife and two daughters.
Without the more sophisticated Thalberg at the studio to run interference, Molnar's play was rewritten so that it was no longer about a prostitute, but a slightly bitter Cinderella story with a happy ending. Retitled by Mankiewicz as The Bride Wore Red (1937), Rainer withdrew and was replaced by Joan Crawford. In a 1976 interview in "The New York Times", Arzner claimed that Rainer "had been suspended for marrying a Communist" (Clifford Odets). This is unlikely as MGM, like all Hollywood studios, had known or suspected communists on its payroll, most of whose affiliations were known by MGM vice president E.J. Mannix. (Mannix, one of whose functions was responsibility for security at the studio, once said it would have been impossible to fire them all, as "the communists" were the studio's best writers.) The studio never took action against alleged communists until an industry-wide agreement to do so was sealed at the Waldorf Conference of 1947, which was held in reaction to the House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) launching a Hollywood witch hunt.
It was more likely that Rainer, fussy over her projects and wanting to use her Academy Award prominence to ensure herself better roles, withdrew on her own due to her lack of enthusiasm for the reformulated product. In the late 1990s, Rainer recalled the satisfaction of being a European stage actress. "One day we were on a big tour", she told an interviewer in the late 1990s. "We did a play by Pirandello, and Reinhardt was in the theater. I shall never forget, it was the greatest compliment I ever got, better than any Academy Award. He came to me, looked at me and said - we were never called by first names - 'Rainer, how did you do this?' It was so wonderful. 'How did you create this?' I was so startled and happy. That was my Academy Award." Rainer still is dismissive of the Academy Awards. "I can't watch the Oscars," she said. "Everybody thanking their mother, their father, their grandparents, their nurse - it's a crazy, horrible." She blames the studio and Mayer for the rapid decline in her career. "What they did with me upset me very much", she said in a 1997 interview. "I was dreaming naturally like anyone to do something very good, but after I got the two Academy Awards the studio thought, it doesn't matter what she gets. They threw all kinds of stuff on me, and I thought, no, I didn't want to be an actress."
Mayer pulled his famous emotional routines when Rainer, whom he wanted to turn into a glamorous star, would demand meatier roles. "He would cry phony tears", she recalled. Mayer had opposed her being cast as O-Lan in "The Good Earth", but Thalberg, who had a connection with MGM capo di tutti capi Nicholas Schenck, the president of MGM corporate parent Loew's, Inc., appealed to Schenck, who overrode Mayer's veto. (Mayer, who was involved in a power struggle with Thalberg before the latter's death, had opposed his filming Pearl Buck's novel. Mayer's reasoning was that American audiences wouldn't patronize movies about American farmers, so what made anyone think they'd flock to see a film about Chinese farmers, especially one with such a big budget, estimated at $2.8 million. (Upon release, the film barely broke even.) Thalberg died during the filming of "The Good Earth" (the only film of his released by MGM whose title credits bore his name, in the form of a posthumous tribute).
Rainer felt lost without her protector. She recalled that Mayer "didn't know what to do with me, and that made me so unhappy. I was on the stage with great artists, and everything was so wonderful. I was in a repertory theater, and every night I played something else." Rainer asked to play Nora in a film of Ibsen's "A Doll's House" or portray Madame Curie, but instead, Mayer - now in complete control of the studio - had her cast in The Toy Wife (1938), a movie she actually wound up liking, as she was charmed by her co-star, the urbane, intellectually and politically enlightened Melvyn Douglas. She recalls Douglas, ultimately a double-Oscar winner like herself, as her favorite leading man. "He was intelligent, and he was interested also in other things than acting."
Her problems with the culture of Hollywood, or the lack thereof, were worsening. The lack of intellectual conversation or concern with ideas by the denizens of the movie colony she was forced to work with was depressing. Hollywood was an unsophisticated place where materialism, such as the stars' preoccupation with clothes, was paramount. As she tells it, "Soon after I was there in Hollywood, for some reason I was at a luncheon with Robert Taylor sitting next to me, and I asked him, 'Now, what are your ideas or what do you want to do', and his answer was that he wanted to have 10 good suits to wear, elegant suits of all kinds, that was his idea. I practically fell under the table."
MGM teamed her with fellow Oscar-winner Tracy in Big City (1937), a movie about conflict between rival taxi drivers. The memory of the movie disgusted her. "Supposedly it wasn't a bad film, but I thought it was a bad film!" She was also cast in The Emperor's Candlesticks (1937), reteaming her with "Ziegfeld" co-star Powell, a movie she didn't like, as she couldn't understand its story. A detective tale, the script thoroughly confused Rainer, who was expected to soldier on like a good employee. Instead, she resisted.
After appearing in The Great Waltz (1938) and Dramatic School (1938), her career was virtually over by 1938. She never made another film for MGM. "I just had to get away", she said about Hollywood. "I couldn't bear this total concentration and interviews on oneself, oneself, oneself. I wanted to learn, and to live, to go all over the world, to learn by seeing things and experiencing things, and Hollywood seemed very narrow." When World War II broke out in Europe, Rainer was joined by her family, as her German-born father was also an American citizen, allowing them all to escape Hitler and the Holocaust. Even before the outbreak of war, Rainer had been very worried about the state of affairs of the world, and she could not abide the escapist trifles that MGM wanted to cast her in. When she protested, Mayer told Rainer that if she defied him, he would blackball her in Hollywood.
Disturbed by Hollywood's apathy over fascism in Europe and Asia and by labor unrest and poverty in the U.S., she decided to walk out on her contract. She and Odets returned to New York. They were divorced in 1940. "Hollywood was a very strange place", she remembered. "To me, it was like a huge hotel with a huge door, one of those rotunda doors. On one side people went in, heads high, and very soon they came out on the other side, heads hanging." Her frustration with Hollywood was so complete, she abandoned movie acting in the early 1940s, after making the World War II drama Hostages (1943) for Paramount.
She made her Broadway debut in the play "A Kiss for Cinderella", which was staged by Lee Strasberg, which opened at the Music Box Theatre on March 10, 1942 and closed April 18th after 48 performances. Rainer then worked for the war effort during World War II, appearing at war bond rallies. She went on a tour of North Africa and Italy for the Army Special Service, socializing with soldiers to build their morale, and supplying them with books. The experience changed her life, allowing her to get over the shyness she'd had all her life. It also broadened her experience, forcing her to deal with the obvious fact that there were more important things than movie acting, which had proven unfulfilling to her.
Fortunately, Rainer found happiness in a long-lived marriage with the publisher Robert Knittel, a wealthy man whom she married in 1945. The couple had a daughter and made their home mostly in Switzerland and England as Rainer essentially left acting behind, although she did do some television in the 1940s, '50s, and '60s. Her retirement from the movies lasted for 53 years, until her brief comeback in The Gambler (1997), a movie based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's eponymous story. In the film, Rainer played the role of the matriarch of an aristocratic Russian family in the 1860s who is in hock due to the family members' obsession with gambling.
Toward the end of her life, Rainer lived in a luxurious flat in Eaton Square in London's Belgravia district, in a building where Vivien Leigh once lived. Blessed with a good memory, she claimed she could not remember the 1937 Academy Awards ceremony, when she won her first Oscar. She says the glamour of the event was out of sync with her life at the time, which was one of great sadness. "I married Clifford Odets. The marriage was for both of us a failure. He wanted me to be his little wife and a great actress at the same time. Somehow I could not live up to all of that."
She had intriguing offers during her long retirement. Federico Fellini had wanted Rainer for a role in La Dolce Vita (1960), but though she admired the director, she didn't like the script and turned it down. Rainer occasionally plied her craft as an actress on the stage. She made one more stab at Broadway, appearing in a 1950 production of Ibsen's "The Lady from the Sea", which was staged by Sam Wanamaker and Terese Hayden and co-starred Steven Hill, one of the founding members of Lee Strasberg's Actor's Studio. The play was a flop, running just 16 performances. "I was living in America and was on the stage there - sporadically. I always lived more than I worked. Which doesn't mean that I do not love my profession, and every moment I was in it gave me great satisfaction and happiness."
Rainer had no regrets over not becoming the star she might have been. She outlived all of the legendary stars of her era, which likely is the best revenge for the loss of her career after bidding adieu to a company town she could not abide.1910
- January 12. Germany,- December 30, 2014, (104).
24 total acting credits since 1932.
Luise Rainer: Live from the TCM Classic Film Festival (2011). 2011. 101.
Hollywood Chinese (2007). 2007.
Hollywood Chinese (2009). 2009.
5...The Gambler (1997). 1997- Aminah Rizq was born on 13 April 1910 in Tanta, Egypt. She was an actress, known for Cleobatra (1943), Al-mouled (1989) and Saut min el madi (1956). She died on 24 August 2003 in Cairo, Egypt.
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Brigitte Mira was born on 20 April 1910 in Hamburg, Germany. She was an actress, known for Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (1975) and Chinese Roulette (1976). She was married to Frank Guerente, Paul Cornelius, Peter Schütte, Horst Fabian and Reinhold Tabatt. She died on 8 March 2005 in Berlin, Germany.1910- April 20. Germany.
- March 8, 2005. (94).
6+ acting credits since 2000.
170 acting credits since 1948.
3 soundtrack credits.
24 self credits.
Für mich gab's nur noch Fassbinder (2000). 2000.
Fassbinder's Women.- Actress
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Inge Meysel was born on 30 May 1910 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Gertrud Stranitzki (1966), Die Unverbesserlichen (1965) and Ida Rogalski (1969). She was married to John Olden and Helmuth Rudolph. She died on 10 July 2004 in Bullenhausen, Lower Saxony, Germany.1910- May 30. Germany.
- July 10, 2004. (94).
6+ acting credits since 2000.
131 acting credits since 1932.
1.. Mein letzter Wille (2004). 2004.- Ingrid Luterkort, born on June 28, 1910, Lund, Sweden, as Carola, Ingrid, Margareta Eklundh, was an actress. She first studied to become a cantor, a profession she could live on in case she wouldn't succeed as an actress. From 1932 to 1934 she was trained at the Royal Dramatic Theatre School in Stockholm, where she made her first stage appearance in "Cyrano de Bergerac" (1933). Among her classmates was Ingrid Bergman and Gunnar Björnstrand. Ingrid Luterkort's acting career lasted 76 years. She had a strong commitment in the development of Swedish theatre. As an actress, teacher, mentor and researcher. Ingrid Luterkort appeared in 39 feature films and television productions. Her last role was in the movie "Psalm 21", in which the recordings were completed in December 2009. She passed away at the age of 101, on August 3, 2011.1910
- June 28. Sweden.
- August 3, 2011. (101).
11 acting credits since 2000.
30 acting credits since 1936.
Psalm 21 (2009). 2009.
2.. Det nya landet (2000). 2000.
The New Country. - Actress
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Gloria Stuart was born on a dining room table on 4th Street in Santa Monica, California on July 4, 1910. Her early roles as a performing artist were in plays she produced in her home as a young girl. She was the star of her senior class play at Santa Monica High School in 1927. Attending the University of California, at Berkeley, she continued to perform on the stage. Stuart married and move to Carmel, where she performed in a production of "The Seagull" which was transferred to the Pasadena Playhouse in 1932. It was there that talent scouts for both Paramount and Universal saw her. In a famous dispute, the heads of the two studios flipped a coin and Universal won. She played lead roles for director James Whale, including (The Old Dark House (1932), The Invisible Man (1933) and The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933)). The hard work at the studio estranged her from her first husband (Stuart helped create the Screen Actors Guild). She played the leading lady in Roman Scandals (1933), on the set of which she met her husband Arthur Sheekman. She was dissatisfied with the roles in which she was cast at Universal and played roles in films for other studios. Ultimately, a few years after having her daughter Sylvia (named after the role she was playing when she met Sheekman), she left the cinema and sought roles on the stage in New York. In the 1940s, she opened an art furniture shop where she created decoupage lamps, tables and trays, many of which sold to stars like Judy Garland and others. Later, Stuart took up oil painting and was very prolific, showing and selling her work in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere. Her landscapes of The Watts Towers are on permanent collection at The Los Angeles County Museum. She also took up and mastered the art of bonsai and some of her trees are on permanent collection in the Huntington Library Japanese Garden. When her husband fell ill in the 1970s (he died in 1978), she returned to acting doing a range of television series. In 1982, she returned to the screen appearing in a brief dance scene with Peter O'Toole in My Favorite Year (1982).
About this time a friend, she knew half a century earlier in Carmel, who was a master printer, re-entered her life and from him, Stuart learned the craft of fine printing. She established a printing press in her home studio called Imprenta Glorias. where she created a body of fine artist's books. Her greatest book, "Flight of Butterfly Kites" is in permanent collection at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Gloria Stuart won a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Oscar-nomination for her performance as the Old Rose in Titanic (1997). In July 2010, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences honored Gloria Stuart with a Centennial Celebration. She was the first such honoree to be living for a centennial. At 100 years of age, she had completed her greatest artist's book with her great-granddaughter working as her apprentice and also her final appearance on film in her grandson's documentary about her, entitled Secret Life of Old Rose: The Art of Gloria Stuart (2012) when she died at home at the age of 100 on September 26, 2010.1910- July 4, California.
- September 26, 2010. (100). USA.
8+ acting credits since 2000.
79 total acting credits since 1932.
Land of Plenty (2004) 2004.
Frankenstein Goes to Hollywood (2010). 2010. 100.- Fern Persons was born on 27 July 1910 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Hoosiers (1986), Risky Business (1983) and Field of Dreams (1989). She was married to Max Persons. She died on 22 July 2012 in Littleton, Colorado, USA.1910
- July 27. Illinois.
- July 22, 2012. (101). USA.
24 acting credits since 1950.
Boricua (2004). 2004. - Actress
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Beautiful Anita Page was one of the most famous and popular leading ladies during the last years of the silent screen and the first years of the talkie era. She was best known for starring in The Broadway Melody (1929), the first sound film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Her leading men included John Gilbert, Clark Gable, Buster Keaton, and Robert Montgomery.
Only in her late teens when stardom beckoned, Anita had a huge following that earned her record amounts of fan mail, but she was seldom given lead roles, most often playing second lead, perhaps due to her youthful inexperience as an actress. She was a charming, much-loved screen personality, but by 1932 MGM seemed to lose interest in her career despite impressive work in such films as Night Court (1932) and Skyscraper Souls (1932), and before the year was out her contract was not renewed. She slipped off into "B" stardom in films at Columbia, Universal, and even more minor studios. She retired from the screen in 1936, making a return 25 years later in The Runaway (1961) with Cesar Romero, and she lived quietly out of the limelight for over half a century. In the 1990s, the now widowed star was rediscovered by the media, which enjoyed her light-humored journeys down memory lane about her career, MGM, the silent and early talkie eras, and the stars she knew, earning the actress a devoted cult of young fans and a few brief appearances in ultra-low-budget films of the 1990s.1910- August 4. New York.
- September 6, 2008. (98).
39 acting credits since 1925.
6 soundtrack credits.
16 self credits.
Frankenstein Rising (2010). 2010.- Actress
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Born in Campgaw, New Jersey, Jane Waddington Wyatt came from a New York family of social distinction (her father was a Wall Street investment banker and her mother was a drama critic). Jane was raised from the age of three months in New York City and attended the fashionable Chapin School and later Barnard College. After two years of college, she left to join the apprentice school of the Berkshire Playhouse at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, where for six months she played an assortment of roles. One of her first jobs on Broadway was as understudy to Rose Hobart in a production of "Trade Winds"--a career move that cost her her slot on the New York Social Register. Wyatt made the transition from stage to screen and was placed under contract at Universal, where she made her film debut in director James Whale's One More River (1934). She went back and forth between Universal and Broadway (and co-starred in Frank Capra's Columbia film Lost Horizon (1937) on loan out from Universal). In the 1950s, she co-starred with Robert Young in Father Knows Best (1954), the classic sitcom chronicling the life and times of the Anderson family in the Midwestern town of Springfield. Jane Wyatt died at age 96 of natural causes at her home in Bel-Air, California, on October 20, 2006.1910- August 12. New Jersey. USA.
- October 20, 2006. (96).
93 acting credits since 1934.
3 soundtrack credits.
31 self credits.
5.. Finding Shangri-La (2007). 2007.- Yvette Lebon was born on 14 August 1910 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Michel Strogoff (1936), Paméla (1945) and Ulysses Against Hercules (1962). She was married to Nat Wachsberger and Roger Duchesne. She died on 28 July 2014 in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France.1910
- August 14. France.
- July 28, 2014. (103).
40 acting credits since 1931.
An Intimate History (2011). 2011.
An Intimate History.
Love and Sex under Nazi Occupation (2011). 2011.
Love and Sex Under Nazi Occupation. - Actress
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Born Rosetta Olive Barton, Rosetta LeNoire was the goddaughter of famed tap dancer "Bojangles" Bill Robinson. She was in the landmark all-black version of "Macbeth," directed by Orson Welles in the 1930s. Former president Bill Clinton presented her with the National Medal of the Arts in 1999. Appeared in the movies Moscow on the Hudson (1984), Brewster's Millions (1985), and the television series Family Matters (1989), in which she played the role of Estelle 'Mother' Winslow.1911-
-August 8. New York City.
- March 17, 2002 . (90).
34 acting credits since 1952.
7 self credits.
Curtain Call (2000). 2000. 88- Actress
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Nelly Omar was born on 10 September 1911 in Guaminí City, Guaminí, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an actress, known for Canto de amor (1940), Melodías de América (1942) and Andartu Terlampau... 21 Hari Mencari Suami! (2010). She died on 20 December 2013 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.1911- September 10. Argentina.
- December 20, 2013. (102).
Andartu Terlampau... 21 Hari Mencari Suami! (2010). 2000.
Café de los maestros (2008). 2008. Argentina's Golden Age of Tango.- Actress
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Sahibzadi Zohra Begum Mumtaz-ullah Khan, better known as Zohra Sehgal, was born into a Sunni Muslim Rohilla Pathan family of Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, on 27th April, 1912 in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, India. However, unlike most other children of traditional households, Zohra Sehgal was a tomboy, who enjoyed climbing trees and playing games. Always rebellious, she saw in her teens Uday Shankar perform in Dehra Dun, during a vacation there, and that acted as the turning point of her life.
She traveled all the way across India, West Asia and Europe by car with an uncle who was close to her. On her return, she was sent, clad in a burqa, to Queen Mary's Girls College, Lahore, a place of higher learning for daughters of aristocratic families. After she finished her college, she joined Uday Shankar's dance troupe, and traveled to Japan, West Asia, Europe and America. During this time, she met Kameshwar Sehgal, a Hindu and eight years younger to herself, and fell in love with him. After initial opposition from her parents, the couple got married, and in spite of Kameshwar's willingness to convert to Islam to marry Zohra, nobody insisted on it. The two had a civil marriage in August 1942. (As Khushwant Singh noted, Jawaharlal Nehru was to attend the wedding reception, but he was arrested a couple of days earlier for supporting Gandhi's Quit India Movement.
The couple first worked in Uday Shankar's dance institute at Almora.When it shut down, they migrated to Lahore and founded their own Dance Institute. However, the growing communal tension prior to the Partition of India made them feel unwelcome, and they went to Bombay, where Zohra joined Prithviraj Kapur's theater as a stage actress and worked there for 14 years.
They had two children, who had the choice of being Hindu or Muslim. For a while they accepted both, then discarded them. By that time, Zohra became an atheist. Her husband was all along a 'non-religious' man.
Zohra had acted on the stage in different parts of India, including plays performed for jails inmates. According to Khushwant Singh, she once stayed back to witness an execution in the Ferozepore jail after staging a play there.
After her husband's suicide, Zohra first moved to Delhi, and then went to London. When she did not get roles as a dancer or an actress, she took on odd jobs like working in the India Tea Centre. Then she got her first break in the films and was signed by Arthur Rank and Merchant Ivory productions.
In India, she became well-known after the appeared in the TV series Mullah Naseeruddin. She has since appeared in many Bollywood as British (mostly British Indian) movies.1912- April 27, India.
- July 10, 2014. (102).
15+ acting credits since 2000.
55 acting credits since 1946.
11... Veer-Zaara (2004). 2004
5...Saawariya (2007). 2007. 95.
Eternal Soulmate.- Yoya Martínez was born on 27 August 1912 in Santiago, Chile. She was an actress, known for La madrastra (1981), El amor que pasa (1947) and Yo vendo unos ojos negros (1947). She died on 31 January 2009 in Santiago, Chile.1912
- August 27, Chile.
4 acting credits since 2000.
25 acting credits since 1947.
3.. Episode #1.1 (1994). 2006. 94. - Lola Lemos was born on 5 May 1913 in Bra de Aragón, Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain. She was an actress, known for Estudio 1 (1965), Historias para no dormir (1966) and Los ladrones van a la oficina (1993). She died on 6 August 2009 in Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain.1913
- May 5. Spain.
- August 6, 2009. (96).
7+ acting credits since 2000.
100 acting credits since 1935.
Hécuba, un sueño de pasión (2006). 2006. - Actress
Elly Weller was born on 19 September 1913 in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. She was an actress, known for Maria (1986), Medisch Centrum West (1988) and The Assault (1986). She died on 21 September 2008 in Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.1913
-September 19, Netherlands.- September 21, 2008. (95).
22 acting credits since 1975.
Familiebanden (2000). 2000. 87.- Margery Mason was born on 27 September 1913 in Hackney, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Princess Bride (1987), Love Actually (2003) and Les Misérables (1998). She was married to Peter Daminoff. She died on 26 January 2014 in Swiss Cottage, Camden, London, England, UK.1913
September 27, England.- January 26, 1914. (100).
7+ acting credits since 2000.
92 acting credits since 1959.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005). 2005. 92 - Mary Ward was born on 6 March 1915 in Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia. She was an actress, known for Blue Heelers (1994), If This Be Sin (1949) and Homicide (1964). She died on 19 July 2021 in Murrumbeena, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- Spotted singing in a New York City nightclub by a Warner Brothers talent scout, Beverly Roberts' first role was in The Singing Kid (1936) with Al Jolson. A young Humphrey Bogart was her co-star in Two Against the World (1936). China Clipper (1936), a loose depiction of the founding of Pan American Airways, teamed her with Pat O'Brien. God's Country and the Woman (1937) was Warner Brothers first Technicolor production, filmed at Mt. St. Helens, Washington, it was her most prestigious film. Subsequently, she returned to singing and acting on the stage. In the late 1940s and early 1950s she appeared on numerous radio and TV shows.
In 1954 she was appointed administrator of the Theater Authority, whose members comprised the five entertainment unions. The organization exercised jurisdiction over the appearance of performers at charity events and telethons. She retired in 1977 to Laguna Niguel, California. In March 2002 Beverly was honored at the Del Mar Theater in Santa Cruz, California, when "China Clipper" was shown at its grand re-opening. She was also honored at the Cinecon Film Festival in Hollywood in August, 2002.1914- May 19. New York.
- July 13, 2009. (95).
Over 20 actresses from early cinema interviewed :
I Used to Be in Pictures (2000). 2000. - Fabienne Mai was born on 31 May 1914 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for I Can't Sleep (1994), Adieu Mauzac (1970) and Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David? (1982). She died on 30 January 2009 in Couilly-Pont-aux-Dames, Seine-et-Marne, France.1914
- May 31. France.
14 acting credits since 2000.
47 acting credits since 1969.
Déni (2007). 2007. 93. - Actress
- Make-Up Department
- Producer
Ashalata Wabgaonkar was born on 2 July 1941 in Goa, India. She was an actress and producer, known for Namak Halaal (1982), Jhoothi Shaan (1991) and Geeta (1940). She died on 22 September 2020 in Satara, Maharashtra, India.1914- July 2. Mysore, India.
6 acting credits since 2000.
115 acting credits since 1923.
6.
Sunrise (2014). 2014. 100- Elisabeth Scherer was born on 30 July 1914 in Cologne, Germany. She was an actress, known for Jetzt oder nie - Zeit ist Geld (2000), Helden und andere Feiglinge (1998) and Tatort (1970). She was married to René Deltgen and Dieter Werner. She died on 18 April 2013 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.1914
- July 30, Germany.
- April 18, 2013. (98).
10 acting credits since 2000.
31 acting credits since 1942.
2 self credits.
Schürfwunden (2005). 2005. 91. - Lydia Lamaison was born on 5 August 1914 in Mendoza, Argentina. She was an actress, known for Nano (1994), La caída (1959) and Jesús, el heredero (2004). She was married to Oscar Soldati. She died on 20 February 2012 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.1914
- August 5. Argentina.- February 20, 2012. (97).
9+ acting credits since 2000.
67 total acting credits since 1939.
Mentiras piadosas (2008). 2008. 94. - Elena Lucena was born on 25 September 1914 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an actress, known for Brother and Sister (2010), Ven mi corazón te llama (1942) and Chimbela (1939). She was married to Julio Bianquet. She died on 7 October 2015 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.1914
- September 25, Argentina.
42 acting credits since 1938.
El Tabarís, lleno de estrellas (2012). 2012. 96. - African American actress Juanita Moore entered films in the early 1950s, a time in which few black people were given an opportunity to act in major studio films. Fortunately Moore's roles began improving as Hollywood developed a social consciousness toward the end of the decade. In 1959 she received an Academy Award nomination for her performance in Imitation of Life (1959), a glossy updating of a once controversial Fannie Hurst novel about racism. Within the next decade Hollywood underwent several sociological upheavals, and Juanita was one of the beneficiaries. She became a fixture in black-oriented films of the 1960s and 1970s, appearing in such films as Uptight (1968), Thomasine & Bushrod (1974) and Abby (1974). She also appeared in Walt Disney Pictures' The Kid (2000), and was in a total of more than 50 films. Moore retired in 2001 and passed away New Year's Day 2014 . She was 99.1914
-October 19. Mississippi.
- January 1, 2014. (99). USA.
83 acting credits since 1939.
8 self credits.
10.. One for the Road (2001). 2001.
Hollywood Legenden (2004). 2008. 94 - Anna Wing first appeared on television in the late 1930s, and became a highly experienced film and stage actress. She appeared in numerous television series throughout her career, including The Wednesday Play (1964), Anna Karenina (1977) and Z Cars (1962). However, she became a household name when she starred in over 230 episodes of EastEnders (1985) as the matriarch Lou Beale.
She had two sons, including the actor Mark Wing-Davey. She died in her sleep in July 2013, aged 98.1914
-October 30, England.
- July 7, 2013, (98).
20+ acting credits since 2000.
123 acting credits since 1938.
14 self credits.
4. Son of Rambow (2007). 2007. 93 - Actress
- Script and Continuity Department
Francia Seguy was born on 8 November 1914 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Dobermann (1997), The Thinker (1920) and La belle Nivernaise (1924). She died on 23 October 2013 in Trouville-sur-Mer, Calvados, France.1914- November 8, France.
26 acting credits since 2000.
52 acting credits since 1917.
Don't Worry, I'm Fine (2006). 2006. 92.
Don't Worry, I'm Fine.- Annemarie Wendl was born on 26 December 1914 in Trostberg, Germany. She was an actress, known for Lindenstraße (1985), Die Fallers - Eine Schwarzwaldfamilie (1994) and Isar 12 (1961). She was married to Siegmar Kleinschmidt. She died on 3 September 2006 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.1914
- December 26. Germany.
- September 3, 2006. (91).
57 acting credits since 1961.
10 self credits.
Abschied und Ankunft (2006). 2006. 91. - Actress
- Soundtrack
Beautiful, smoky-voiced platinum blonde Mady Rahl was the 'Sportsmädel' of the German cinema in the 1930's and 40's. During the war years, she was touted in Nazi propaganda as an ideal of Germanic femininity. Her association with members of the regime, including the ever roving-eyed Joseph Goebbels, damaged her career in the aftermath of World War II. Nonetheless, she would reemerge in the 1950's as a more versatile actress, if not a bigger star.
Mady Rahl was strong-willed and had a commanding, almost aristocratic air about her. Most of all, she possessed that quality called pizzazz. From her early teens, Mady was determined to seek a career in the performing arts. In the process, she financed her expensive acting (at the Ilka Grüning School) and dance classes by doing secretarial work (being an adept typist and stenographer). Rumour has it, that she got her start on the stage (in Leipzig) without having to sit for an audition. Her looks and comportment seemed entirely sufficient. Film work came in due course, after she met a young director named Detlef Sierck (who later found fame and fortune in Hollywood as Douglas Sirk). He starred her in his first film (a short comedy) as, perhaps unsurprisingly, a secretary. Having signed a four-year contract with Ufa, she found herself in yet another clerical role for The Mysterious Mister X (1936). Her first critical acclaim arrived courtesy of a role in the lavish circus drama Truxa (1937), in which she co-starred alongside the dancer La Jana. Then followed a succession of small roles in big Ufa productions like To New Shores (1937) and Hallo Janine (1939) and leads in lightweight romantic comedies (notably Fräulein (1939) and Die lustigen Vagabunden (1940), opposite Johannes Heesters). By the mid-1940's, Mady had become one of the most celebrated stars of German films.
After a post-war hiatus, her screen career was reinvigorated with a handful of dramatic character roles as mysterious or genteel women in prestige pictures like Die Dame in Schwarz (1951), Haie und kleine Fische (1957) and Der Greifer (1958). In the early 1960's, Mady returned to the theatre, going on tour with the Munich-based 'Kleine Komödie'. She also became a popular TV guest star, seemingly omnipresent in prime time cop shows. She was also busily doing voice-overs for diverse American actresses, from Gillian Anderson to Arlene Francis. By the mid-1990's, the thrice-married actress had wound down her performing career to concentrate on her other vocation as a successful painter and exhibitor of water colours. Almost blind and afflicted by dementia, Mady Rahl died in August 2009 at the respectable age of 94.1915- January 3, Germany.
- August 29, 2009. (94).
129 acting credits since 1934.
Police Call 110 (1971). 2004.- Meg Mundy was born on 4 January 1915 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Fatal Attraction (1987), The Doctors (1963) and Ordinary People (1980). She was married to Konstantinos "Dino" Yannopoulos. She died on 12 January 2016 in The Bronx, New York, USA.1915
- January 4. London. -January 12, 2016. (101).
37 acting credits since 1949.
Episode #1.8064 (2001). 2001. 86 - Danuta Szaflarska was born on 6 February 1915 in Kosarzyska, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Kosarzyska, Piwniczna-Zdrój, Malopolskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Time to Die (2007), Diably, diably (1991) and Pozegnanie z Maria (1993). She was married to Janusz Kilanski and Jan Ekier. She died on 19 February 2017 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.1915
- February 6. Poland.
14+ acting credits since 2000.
47 acting credits since 1947.
6.
Mom and Other Loonies in the Family (2015). 2015. 100
Hungary /Germany /Bulgaria. - Actress
- Soundtrack
Woefully misused while in her prime screen years at Paramount during the late '30s and '40s, Patricia Morison, lovely and exotic with Rapunzel-like long, dark hair, nevertheless became a star in her own right -- as a supremely talented diva on the singing stage.
Born on March 19, 1915, in New York City, her father, William Morison, was a playwright and occasional actor who billed himself under the name Norman Rainey. Patricia's mother worked for British Intelligence during WWI. Graduating from Washington Irving High School in New York, Patricia studied at the Art Students League and proceeded to take acting classes at the Neighborhood Playhouse while also studying dance with the renowned Martha Graham. She earned a steady check at the time as a dress shop designer.
At age 19 Patricia made her Broadway debut in the short-lived play "Growing Pains" and proceeded to understudy the legendary Helen Hayes in her classic role of "Victoria Regina". She never went on. In 1938, shortly after opening in the musical "The Two Bouquets" opposite musical star Alfred Drake, Paramount talent scouts, looking for exotic, dark-haired glamour types then to rein in their star commodity, Dorothy Lamour, scoped Patricia out and tested her. The blue-eyed beauty who indeed resembled Lamour was signed and made her film debut the following year, showing bright promise in the "B" film Persons in Hiding (1939).
Patricia's stock did not improve, however, despite such promise, and she was relegated to such second-string westerns as I'm from Missouri (1939), Rangers of Fortune (1940), Romance of the Rio Grande (1940), and The Round Up (1941). When things didn't improve with such stilted fare as Night in New Orleans (1942), Beyond the Blue Horizon (1942), and Are Husbands Necessary? (1942), she left Paramount. She freelanced in 'other woman' roles which included the Tracy/Hepburn vehicle Without Love (1945) and The Fallen Sparrow (1943), and played Empress Eugenie in The Song of Bernadette (1943), but the focus was seldom on her. Overlooked when cast in top leads at 'poverty row' programmers, her best chance at film stardom came as Victor Mature's despairing wife who takes her own life (which was to have been shown on screen) in Kiss of Death (1947), but her juicy role was excised from the film by producers (or, more likely, the Breen Commission) who felt audiences weren't ready for such shocking displays.
During the war years, Patricia had trained her voice and performed in USO tours. Cole Porter heard her sing in Hollywood one evening and decided she had the right tenacity, feistiness and vocal expertise to play the female lead in his new show. In 1948, over the objections of both the producer and director, stardom was clenched in the form of Porter's classic musical-within-a-musical "Kiss Me Kate." As the sweeping, vixenish Lilli Vanessi, a severe-looking stage diva whose own volatile personality coincided with that of her onstage role (Kate from "The Taming of the Shrew"), Patricia found THE role of her career, giving over 1,000 performances in all. Playing again alongside her former Broadway co-star Alfred Drake, Patricia basked in the multitude of glowing reviews, and such songs as "I Hate Men," "Wunderbar" and "So In Love" rightfully became signature songs. Following this triumph, film work never became a top priority again.
Patricia continued on successfully in the London version of "Kate" and went on to conquer other classic leads in the musicals "The King and I," "Kismet," "The Merry Widow," "Song of Norway" and Pal Joey," among others. Her last movie role was a cameo part as writer George Sand in the mildly received biopic Song Without End (1960) starring Dirk Bogarde as composer Franz Liszt.
On TV Patricia recreated her Kate role with Mr. Drake and made a few scattered but lively appearances over the years. One of her later guest shots was on a 1989 episode of "Cheers" and a 1991 episode of "Gabriel's Fire." In later years the never-married actress devoted herself to painting (an early passion) and enjoyed many showings in the Los Angeles area. The lovely lady with the trademark long hair died in L.A. at the age of 103, on May 20, 2018.1915
- March 19. New York City.
54 total acting credits since 1935.
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2021). 2016. 101
10 Things I Hate About You (2014). 2014.
Norwegian Actresses in Hollywood (2003). 2003.- Actress
- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
Nini Theilade was born on 15 June 1915 in Poerwokerto, Banjoemas, Dutch East Indies [now Purwokerto, Central Java, Indonesia]. She was an actress, known for A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935), The Song to Her (1934) and The Big Bluff (1933). She was married to Arne Buchter-Larsen and Peter Loopuyt. She died on 13 February 2018 in Svendborg, Denmark.1915- June 15. Dutch East Indies.
Martin Hall møder Nini Theilade (2011). 2011. 96
Ballets Russes (2005). 2005.
Verdens morsomste mand (2008). 2008.
The World's Funniest Man. Denmark.- Yoshie Minami was born on 5 October 1915 in Hiroshima, Japan. She was an actress, known for Ikiru (1952), The Face of Another (1966) and Late Autumn (1960). She died on 6 August 2010 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.1915
- October 5, Japan.
- August 6, 2010. (94).
48 acting credits since 1950.
Ichiban utsukushî natsu (2001). 2001. - Joyce Redman was an Anglo-Irish actress. She was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, without ever winning the award.
Redman was born in an Anglo-Irish family in Northumberland. The family eventually moved back to County Mayo, Ireland, where Redman was raised. She and her three sisters were educated at home by a private governess. Redman later pursued an acting education, and was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London. She graduated from the Academy in 1936, at the age of 21.
Redman remained primarily a theatrical actress for decades, though she also appeared in television films. She performed at both the Comédie-Française in Paris and The Old Vic in London. One for her theatrical hits was playing the role of Anne Boleyn (c. 1501-1536) in the play "Anne of the Thousand Days" (1948) by Maxwell Anderson (1888-1959). In 1949, she appeared in this role in New York City, to great success. In 1955, Redman in 1955, joined the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, where she primarily appeared in Shakespearean roles.
Redman made her film debut in the spiritualism-themed drama "Spellbound" (1941), where she played an unnamed maid. Her first credited role was that of Jet van Dieren in the war film "One of Our Aircraft Is Missing" (1942). The film was an unusually realist take on the war, and has been considered a classic of British cinema.
Redman's next film appearance was the role of Mrs. Waters (a.k.a. Jenny Jones) in "Tom Jones" (1963).. In the film, Mrs. Waters has a sexual affair with protagonist (played by Albert Finney) without being aware of his background; when the story later reveals that she is the long-lost Jenny Jones, who had claimed to be Tom's biological mother when he was a foundling, the impression is given that they unknowingly committed incest, which is played for comic effect when Mrs. Waters learns after the fact who Tom is (it ultimately turns out that Tom's biological mother was actually not Jenny but another character in the story, so there was no incest after all). For this role, Redman was first nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. The award was instead won by rival actress Margaret Rutherford (1892-1972).
Redman next appeared in "Othello" (1965), an adaptation of the 1603 play by William Shakespeare. Redman played Emilia, Iago's wife and Desdemona's maidservant. In the play and its adaptations, Emilia steals Desdemona's handkerchief and hands it over to Iago. Iago then uses the stolen handkerchief to frame Desdemona for adultery. When Emilia denounces her husband's plan, Iago kills his wife in order to silence her. For this role Redman gained her second and last nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. The award was instead won by rival actress Shelley Winters (1920-2006).
Redman's following film appearance was the comedy film "Prudence and the Pill" (1968), where five couples use contraceptive pills to avoid unwanted pregnancies. Her final film role was the drama film "A Different Kind of Love" (1985), playing the lead role of Mrs. Prior. In the film, Mrs. Prior urges her son to marry, despite the fact that her son is homosexual and has an ongoing relationship with another man.
Redman played an elderly Queen Victoria (1819-1901, reigned 1837-1901) in the mini-television series "Victoria & Albert" (2001). Afterwards she retired from acting. She died in May 2012 due to pneumonia. She was 96-years-old, one of the oldest living actresses.1915
-December 9. England.
- May 9, 2012. (96).
35 acting credits since 1938.
4 self credits.
Victoria & Albert (2001). 2001. 86 - Zypora Spaisman was born on 2 January 1916 in Lublin, Poland, Russian Empire [now Lublin, Lubelskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Enemies, A Love Story (1989) and Yiddish Theater: A Love Story (2005). She was married to Joseph Spaisman. She died on 18 May 2002 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Jirina Steimarová was born on 24 January 1916 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary. She was an actress, known for Pozdní láska (1935), The Masked Lover (1940) and Na Svatém Kopecku (1934). She was married to Jan Kodet and Jaroslav Juhan. She died on 7 October 2007 in Prague, Czech Republic.1916
- January 24. Austria -Hungary.
- October 7, 2007. (91).
48 acting credits since 1933.
Usmevy Jiriny Steimarové (2003). 2003. - Actress
With seventy years in the film businesses, Lalita Pawar's long career began as a child in the silent era and continued into leading lady roles, but she is best remembered for her years as a character actor.
Lalita was born Amba Laxman Rao Sagun, the daughter of a wealthy silk merchant. While visiting a film studio, young Lalita requested being photographed so she could see herself on film. The director was so impressed with her screen presence that he asked for her to take a role in his next movie.
In 1942, while filming a scene which required her character to be slapped, she was struck too hard across the face. The accident compounded with a severe reaction to the medication administered, damaged her eye and left her with a noticeable permanent squint. This event marked the end of her leading lady status.
In her late twenties, she began taking on character roles. She eventually became known and praised for portraying overly-domineering matriarchs. She won the Filmfare Award for her supporting role in Anari (1959), and was nominated a further three times in the best supporting actress category.- American ballerina of Yugoslavian extraction who appeared rarely on film. A dancer since the age of five, she became the prima ballerina with the Zagreb Opera. After appearing in Jean Benoit-Levy's film La mort du cygne (1937) and promoting it in the U.S., she remained there as a teacher and dancer. She formed the Slavenksa Ballette Variante and, later, the Theatre Ballette. In 1954, she became the prima ballerina of the Metropolitan Opera Ballet.1916
- February 20. Croatia.
- October 20. 2002. (86).
Mia, a Dancer's Journey (2014). 2014.
Ballets Russes (2005). 2005. - Actress
- Soundtrack
Virgínia Lane was born on 28 February 1916 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She was an actress, known for Alô, Alô, Brasil (1935), Laranja-da-China (1940) and Banana-da-Terra (1939). She was married to Ganio Ganeff and Sérgio Kroeff. She died on 10 February 2014 in Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.1916- February 28. Brazil.
- February 10, 2014. (97).
26 acting credits since 1935.
Episode #1.219 (2006). 2006.- Monique Mélinand was born on 9 March 1916 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Adorable Sinner (1959), Le sang à la tête (1956) and Rencontres (1962). She was married to Jean Martinelli. She died on 16 May 2012 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France.1916
- March 9. France.
- May 16, 2012. (96).
6 acting credits since 2000.
93 acting credits since 1947.
Avril (2006). 2006. - Henrietta Yurchenko was born on 22 March 1916 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. She was married to Boris Yurchenco. She died on 10 December 2007 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.1916
- March 22.
- December 10, 2007. (91).
This Machine Kills Fascists (2005). 2008.
Ethnomusicologist, worldwide. - Tatyana Zhuravlyova was born on 21 April 1916. She was an actress, known for Downfall (2004), Edinozhdy solgav... (1988) and Streets of Broken Lights (1998). She died on 4 January 2004.
- Carmem Silva was born on 5 April 1916 in Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She was an actress, known for Contos Eróticos (1980), Quase no Céu (1949) and Os Ossos do Barão (1973). She was married to Cancela Filho. She died on 21 April 2008 in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.1916
- April 5. Brazil.
- April 21, 2008. (92).
6+ acting credits since 2000.
45 acting credits since 1946.
7.. Valsa para Bruno Stein (2007). 2007. - Anita Riotte was born on 9 April 1916 in Cologne, Germany. She was an actress, known for Tatort (1970), Through Roses (1997) and Verbotene Liebe (1995). She died on 19 September 2011 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.1916
- April 9. Germany.
- September 19, 2011. (95).
Jazzclub - Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. (2004). 2004. - Actress
- Soundtrack
Nasiba Zeynalova was born in Baku (then part of the Russian Empire, present-day capital of Azerbaijan), the daughter of merchant and stage actor Jahangir Zeynalov. The family fled to Iran just before the Azeri massacre of March 1918 committed by Bolshevik military units in Baku. Her father died during their trip back home in September 1918, via the Caspian Sea.
While in secondary school she attended dance courses. In 1932 she joined Rza Tahmasib's drama club. In 1937 she joined a vagrant theatre troupe and toured several Azerbaijani towns. In 1938 she started working at the Azerbaijan State Theatre of Musical Comedy. She earned a degree at the Baku School of Theatre.
In the following years Nasiba Zeynalova acted in 22 films and around 70 plays, as well as in numerous television sketches. She is most remembered for the roles of Fatmanisa in Ogey Ana (Stepmother, 1958), Sughra in Bizim Jabish muallim (Our Teacher Jabish, 1969), Jannat in Gaynana (Mother-in-law, 1978) and Auntie Asli in Bayin oghurlanmasi (The Kidnapping of the Groom, 1985). In 1967, she was named People's Artist of Azerbaijan.- Francine Weisweiller was born on 9 June 1916 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. She was an actress, known for La villa Santo Sospir (1952). She was married to Alexander Weisweiller. She died on 8 December 2003 in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
- Writer
- Actress
- Additional Crew
Jean Rouverol was born on 8 July 1916 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for It's a Gift (1934), Bar 20 Rides Again (1935) and Guiding Light (1952). She was married to Hugo Butler. She died on 24 March 2017 in Wingdale, New York, USA.1916
- July 8. St. Louis, Missouri. USA.
13 acting credits since 1934.
10 writing credits.
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (2011). 2009. 93- Camera and Electrical Department
Leonore Mau was born on 1 August 1916 in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany. She is known for Táxi Lisboa (1996) and Hubert Fichte - Der schwarze Engel (2005). She was married to ???. She died on 22 September 2013 in Hamburg, Germany.- Music Department
- Actress
- Composer
Gave her first piano concerto at 6 years-old, and her nickname Consuelito stuck during her formal education years in music. Gained the title of music teacher at 17 years old, and became soloist of the National Symphonic Orchestra, Mexico.
Besides "Besame Mucho", she was cherished for several other popular songs: "No Me Pidas Nunca", "Pasional", and "Dejame Quererte".
She was member of Mexican Parliament from 1979 to 1982.1916- August 21. Mexico.
- January 22, 2005. (88).
Credits :
65 soundtrack credits.
7 music credits.
5 actress credits.
1 composer credit.
Tu cara me suena (2011). 2016.- Actress
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Birgitta Valberg was born on 16 December 1916 in Stockholm, Sweden. She was an actress and assistant director, known for The Virgin Spring (1960), Paradistorg (1977) and A Time in the Sun (1966). She died on 29 March 2014 in Sweden.1916
-December 16, Sweden,
- March 29, 2014. (97).
55 acting credits since 1934.
8.. Med sikte på realism (2004). 2004. 88- Actress
- Additional Crew
Pramila was born on 30 December 1916 in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India. She was an actress, known for Bhikharan (1935), Achhut Kanya (1936) and Tofani Taruni (1931). She was married to Manicklal Dangi, M. Kumar and Nari Ghadiali. She died on 6 August 2006 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.1916- December 30. Calcutta, British India.
- August 6, 2006. (89).
Karz: The Burden of Truth (2002). 2002. Assistant.- Aída Luz was born on 10 February 1917 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an actress, known for Un tranvía llamado Deseo (1956), Pobre mi madre querida (1948) and Bianca (1980). She died on 25 May 2006 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.1917
- February 10, Argentina
- May 25, 2006. (89).
75 total acting credits since 1936.
Gallito Ciego (2001). 2001.
Las tragedias de los famosos (2004). 2010. - Actress
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Vera Lynn was born on 20 March 1917 in East Ham, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Hellboy (2004), Lolita (1997) and Pink Floyd: The Wall (1982). She was married to Harry Lewis. She died on 18 June 2020 in Ditchling, East Sussex, England, UK.1917- March 20. East Ham, London, England.
21+ soundtrack credits since 2000.
41 soundtrack credits since 1935.
4 acting credits.
75 self credits.
Fail-Safe (2016). 2016. 99
Traceroute (2016). 2016. Singer.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Isabel Sanford was a Broadway actress for over thirty years before moving to Hollywood. She made numerous guest appearances on TV, including a stint as a supporting cast member on The Carol Burnett Show (1967). Until her passing, Isabel continued to act frequently, most recently in a series of commercials for Old Navy stores with The Jeffersons (1975) co-star, Sherman Hemsley. She made several commercials for Nick-at-Nite as well when the cable channel premiered The Jeffersons (1975).1917
-August 29. New York City.
- July 9, 2004. (86).
55 acting credits since 1967.
3 soundtrack credits.
56 self credits.
Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore (2004). 2004. 86- Actress
- Soundtrack
One is certainly hard-pressed to think of another true "bad girl" representative so closely identifiable with film noir than hard-looking blonde actress Audrey Totter. While she remained a "B"-tier actress for most her career, she was an "A" quality actress and one of filmdom's most intriguing ladies. She always managed to set herself apart even in the most standard of programming.
Born to an Austrian father and Swedish mother on December 20, 1917, in Joliet, Illinois, she treaded lightly on stage ("The Copperhead," "My Sister Eileen") and initially earned notice on the Chicago and New York radio airwaves in the late 1930s before "going Hollywood." MGM developed an interest in her and put her on its payroll in 1944. Still appearing on radio (including the sitcom "Meet Millie"), she made her film bow as, of course, a "bad girl" in Main Street After Dark (1945). That same year the studio usurped her vocal talents to torment poor Phyllis Thaxter in Bewitched (1945). Her voice was prominent again as an unseen phone operator in Ziegfeld Follies (1945). Audrey played one of her rare pure-heart roles in The Cockeyed Miracle (1946). At this point she began to establish herself in the exciting "film noir" market.
Among the certified classics she participated in were The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) in which she had a small role as John Garfield's blonde floozie pick-up. Things brightened up considerably with Lady in the Lake (1946) co-starring Robert Montgomery as detective Philip Marlowe. The film was not well received and is now better remembered for its interesting subjective camera technique. Audrey's first hit as a femme fatale co-star came on loanout to Warner Bros. In The Unsuspected (1947), she cemented her dubious reputation in "B" noir as a trampy, gold-digging niece married to alcoholic Hurd Hatfield. She then went on a truly enviable roll with High Wall (1947), as a psychiatrist to patient Robert Taylor, The Saxon Charm (1948) with Montgomery (again) and Susan Hayward, Alias Nick Beal (1949) as a loosely-moraled "Girl Friday" to Ray Milland, the boxing film The Set-Up (1949) as the beleaguered wife of washed-up boxer Robert Ryan, Any Number Can Play (1949) with Clark Gable and as a two-timing spouse in Tension (1949) with Richard Basehart.
Although the studio groomed Audrey to become a top star, it was not to be. Perhaps because she was too good at being bad. The 1950s film scene softened considerably and MGM began focusing on family-styled comedy and drama. Audrey's tough-talking dames were no longer a commodity and MGM soon dropped her in 1951. She signed for a time with Columbia Pictures and 20th Century Fox as well but her era had come and gone. Film offers began to evaporate. At around this time she married Leo Fred, a doctor, and instead began focusing on marriage and family.
TV gave her career a slight boost in the 1960s and 1970s, including regular roles in Cimarron City (1958) and Our Man Higgins (1962) as a suburban mom opposite Stanley Holloway's British butler. After a period of semi-retirement, she came back to TV to replace Jayne Meadows in the popular television series Medical Center (1969) starring Chad Everett and James Daly. She played Nurse Wilcox, a recurring role, for four seasons (1972-1976). The 70-year-old Totter retired after a 1987 guest role on "Murder, She Wrote." Her husband died in 1996. On December 12, 2013, Audrey Totter died at age 95 in West Hills, California.1917
- December 20. Illinois.- December 12, 2013, (95). USA.
91 total acting credits since 1949.
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz (2004). 2004.- María Mercader was born on 6 March 1918 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She was an actress, known for The House of Smiles (1991), Savannah Bay (1990) and The Mysterious Rider (1948). She was married to Vittorio De Sica. She died on 26 January 2011 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.1918
- March 6. Spain.
- January 26, 2011. (92).
42 acting credits since 1984.
Amedeo Nazzari, un divo italiano (2001). 2011. - Actress
- Writer
Inga-Liisa Laukka was born on 20 February 1918 in Viipuri, Finland. She was an actress and writer, known for Aleksis Kiven elämä (2001), Minä ja mieheni morsian (1955) and Räpsy & Dolly eli Pariisi odottaa (1990). She was married to Aimo Tepponen. She died on 27 December 2008 in Chambourcy.- Marian McPartland was born on 20 March 1918 in Slough, Berkshire, England, UK. She was married to Jimmy McPartland. She died on 20 August 2013 in Port Washington, New York, USA.1918
- March 20. England.
- August 20, 2013. (95).
6 soundtrack credits.
8 self credits.
Dear White People (2014). 2014. Writer.
The Human Stain (2003). 2003. Performer.
The Girls in the Band (2011). 2011.
In Good Time: The Piano Jazz of Marian McPartland (2011). 2011.