0W7991_Female Stars (1910-1919)

1. Marguerite Churchill

Marguerite Churchill was born on December 26, 1910 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for The Big Trail (1930), Riders of the Purple Sage (1931) and The Walking Dead (1936). She was married to George O'Brien. She died on January 9, 2000 in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, USA.

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2. Paulette Goddard

Actress | The Ghost Breakers

Paulette Goddard was a child model who debuted in "The Ziegfeld Follies" at the age of 13. She gained fame with the show as the girl on the crescent moon, and was married to a wealthy man, Edgar James, by the time she was 17. After her divorce she went to Hollywood in 1931, where she appeared in ...

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3. Joan Bennett

Actress | Suspiria

Joan Geraldine Bennett was born on February 27, 1910, in Palisades, New Jersey. Her parents were both successful stage actors, especially her father, Richard Bennett, and often toured the country for weeks at a time. In fact, Joan came from a long line of actors, dating back to the 18th century. ...

1910

4. Jane Wyatt

Actress | Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

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...

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5. Jean Harlow

Actress | China Seas

Harlean Carpenter, who later became Jean Harlow, was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on March 3, 1911. She was the daughter of a successful dentist and his wife. In 1927, at the age of 16, she ran away from home to marry a young businessman named Charles McGrew, who was 23. The couple pulled up ...

1911

6. Merle Oberon

Actress | Wuthering Heights

Estelle Merle Thompson was born in India on February 19, 1911 of Welsh and Ceylonese (now Sri Lankan) descent. She was educated in that country until the age of 17, when she left for London. She began her career in British films with mostly forgettable roles or bit parts. She appeared in an ...

1911

7. Maureen O'Sullivan

Actress | The Thin Man

Of Irish, English, and Scottish descent, Maureen Paula O'Sullivan was born on May 17, 1911 in Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland. Her father was Charles Joseph O'Sullivan, an officer in the Connaught Rangers, and his wife, the former Mary Fraser (or Frazer). She was educated at Catholic schools in ...

1911

8. Ginger Rogers

Actress | Kitty Foyle

Ginger Rogers was born Virginia Katherine McMath in Independence, Missouri on July 16, 1911, the daughter of Lela E. Rogers (née Lela Emogene Owens) and William Eddins McMath. Her mother went to Independence to have Ginger away from her husband. She had a baby earlier in their marriage and he ...

1911

9. Lucille Ball

Actress | I Love Lucy

The woman who will always be remembered as the crazy, accident-prone, lovable Lucy Ricardo was born Lucille Desiree Ball on August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York, the daughter of Desiree Evelyn "DeDe" (Hunt) and Henry Durrell "Had" Ball. Her father died before she was four, and her mother worked ...

1911

10. Marieluise Claudius

Actress | Pan

Marieluise Claudius was born on January 6, 1912 in Meiningen, Saxe-Meiningen [now Thuringia], Germany. She was an actress, known for Pan (1937), Peer Gynt (1934) and King August the Strong (1936). She died on August 2, 1941 in Berlin, Germany.

1912

11. Maria Montez

Actress | Arabian Nights

In a world weary of war and dispirited by the ravages of the Great Depression, Hollywood at the turn of the 1940s concocted a wildly popular, effective lot of escapist fare (though often cheaply made) to regale the sick at heart worldwide. Universal Pictures, more often than not, led in producing ...

1912

12. Adelheid Seeck

Actress | Teufel in Seide

Adelheid Seeck was born on November 3, 1912 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Teufel in Seide (1956), The Rest Is Silence (1959) and Der letzte Zeuge (1960). She died on February 17, 1973 in Stuttgart, Germany.

1912

13. Billie Seward

Actress | Air Hawks

Billie Seward was born on October 23, 1912 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for Air Hawks (1935), Men of the Hour (1935) and One Crowded Night (1940). She was married to William R. Wilkerson and Frank Devlin. She died on March 20, 1982 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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14. Eleanor Powell

Soundtrack | Born to Dance

Eleanor Powell was born in 1912 in Springfield, Massachussetts, and got her professional start in Atlantic City clubs, from where she moved into in revue in New York at the Ritz Grill and Casino de Paris at the age of sixteen. She started her career on Broadway in 1929, where her machine-gun foot ...

1912

15. Lilian Bergo

Actress | Vorstadtvariete

Lilian Bergo was born in 1912. She was an actress, known for Vorstadtvariete (1935), Polská krev (1934) and Knockout - Ein junges Mädchen, ein junger Mann (1935). She died in 1983.

1912

16. Viviane Romance

Actress | Panique

Strikingly beautiful French leading lady (Miss Paris of 1930) who first appeared on stage at the age of 13 at the Theatre Sarah-Bernhardt, then did some modelling work and a year later joined the chorus line of the Moulin Rouge. She also performed the 'can-can' at the legendary Parisian nightclub ...

1912

17. Anna Dammann

Actress | Die Troerinnen des Euripides

Anna Dammann was born on September 19, 1912 in Hamburg, Germany. She was an actress, known for Die Troerinnen des Euripides (1959), Mein Leben für Irland (1941) and St. John's Fire (1939). She was married to Walter Geese. She died on September 30, 1993 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

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18. Linda Perry

Actress | They Won't Forget

Linda Perry was born on August 18, 1912 in Boise, Idaho, USA. She was an actress, known for They Won't Forget (1937), The Romance of Robert Burns (1937) and The Great Garrick (1937). She died on January 12, 2001 in Lancaster, California, USA.

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19. Irene Manning

Actress | Yankee Doodle Dandy

The youngest of five children born to a real estate broker, glamorous actress/singer Irene Manning began this world in Cincinatti, Ohio, as Inez Harvuot in 1912. Classically trained at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, she showed great potential for the grand opera scene but an ...

1912

20. June Havoc

Actress | Gentleman's Agreement

Musical theater devotees will undoubtedly know that the song "Let Me Entertain You" was from the classic musical "Gypsy", the born-in-a-trunk story of resilient kid troopers Gypsy Rose Lee and June Havoc who were mercilessly pushed into vaudeville careers by an unbearably headstrong mother. While ...

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21. Dorothy Janis

Actress | The Green Archer

Dorothy Janis' short film career began when she was visiting a cousin, who was working on a film at Fox in 1927. Her beauty was noticed at once and she was asked to test for a role. She made several films, silents and talkies. She is best known for her performance opposite Ramon Novarro in The ...

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22. Vivien Leigh

Actress | A Streetcar Named Desire

If a film were made of the life of Vivien Leigh, it would open in India just before World War I, where a successful British businessman could live like a prince. In the mountains above Calcutta, a little princess is born. Because of the outbreak of World War I, she is six years old the first time ...

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23. Frances Farmer

Actress | Flowing Gold

Born in Seattle, Frances Farmer studied drama at the University of Washington, Seattle. In 1935, she went to Hollywood where she secured a seven-year contract with Paramount. In 1943, she was wrongfully declared mentally incompetent and committed by her parents to a series of asylums and public ...

1913

24. Claire Carleton

Actress | The Mickey Rooney Show

Claire Carleton was born on September 28, 1913 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Mickey Rooney Show (1954), Death of a Salesman (1951) and Cavalcade of America (1952). She was married to Fred Sherman and Walter Lewis Beadle. She died on December 11, 1979 in Northridge, ...

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25. Sonja Wigert

Actress | Hennes melodi

Sonja Wigert was born on November 11, 1913 in Notodden, Norway. She was an actress, known for Hennes melodi (1940), Eli Sjursdotter (1938) and Fant (1937). She was married to Torsten Flodén. She died on April 12, 1980.

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26. Grace Ford

Actress | The Devil-Doll

Grace Ford was born on May 23, 1913 in El Dorado, Oklahoma, USA. She was an actress, known for The Devil-Doll (1936), Between Two Women (1937) and Big City (1937). She was married to Henry Salvatori. She died on May 5, 1990 in Sacramento, California, USA.

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27. Janis Carter

Actress | I Married an Angel

After graduating with two degrees (arts and music) from Mather College (Western Reserve) in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1935, Janis headed to New York with aspirations of embarking on a musical career in opera. Supporting herself by waitressing, singing in churches, modeling (Conover) and writing radio ...

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28. Marjorie Weaver

Actress | The Man Who Wouldn't Die

This saucy and engaging Tennessee born-and-bred brunette beauty came into the world on March 2, 1913, the daughter of John Thomas Weaver and Ellen Martin, both non-professionals. She attended private and high schools while growing up and attended the University of Kentucky and the University of ...

1913

29. Loretta Young

Actress | The Stranger

Sweet, sweeter, sweetest. No combination of terms better describes the screen persona of lovely Loretta Young. A&E's Biography (1987) has stated that Young "remains a symbol of beauty, serenity, and grace. But behind the glamour and stardom is a woman of substance whose true beauty lies in her ...

1913

30. Linden Travers

Actress | The Lady Vanishes

Linden Travers was born on May 27, 1913 in Houghton-le-Spring, Durham, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Lady Vanishes (1938), Jassy (1947) and Christopher Columbus (1949). She was married to James Frederick Holman and Ewart Guy Leon. She died on October 23, 2001 in Cornwall, England, ...

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31. Anna Lee

Actress | The Sound of Music

The daughter of a clergyman, Anna Lee was born Joan Boniface Winnifrith and encouraged to pursue an acting career by her father. After training at London's Royal Albert Hall, she took to the boards and later began appearing in English films, first as an extra, then working her way up to featured ...

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32. Brook Byron

Actress | Auntie Mame

Brook Byron was born on July 31, 1913 in Weakley County, Tennessee, USA. She was an actress, known for Auntie Mame (1958), Everybody's Old Man (1936) and Laughing at Trouble (1936). She died on May 29, 2006 in Leland, Michigan, USA.

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33. Annalisa Ericson

Actress | Greven från gränden

At the age of 5, she began ballet lessons at the Royal Opera in Stockholm and got small parts in the ballets that were performed. The parts became bigger and she wanted to try acting. She did apply to become a student at the Royal Dramatic Theatre but failed in the final test. Instead, she began at...

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34. Louise Currie

Actress | The Ape Man

Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Louise Currie attended Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, became interested in acting and began taking courses at Max Reinhardt's drama school in Hollywood. Talent scouts spotted the aspiring actress in the acting workshop's stage productions and ...

1913

35. Julie Gibson

Actress | Bowery Buckaroos

Julie Gibson was born on September 6, 1913 in Grant County, Washington, USA. She was an actress, known for Bowery Buckaroos (1947), The Contender (1944) and Chick Carter, Detective (1946). She was married to Charles Barton, Dean Dillman Jr. and Jimmie Grier. She died on October 2, 2019 in Los ...

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36. Hilde Schneider

Actress | Das schöne Fräulein Schragg

Hilde Schneider was born on November 24, 1914 in Baden-Baden, Germany. She was an actress, known for Pretty Miss Schragg (1937), Silence of the Forest (1937) and Gastspiel im Paradies (1938). She died on May 20, 1961 in Berlin, Germany.

1914

37. Rita Conde

Actress | Time After Time

Rita Conde was born on May 18, 1914 in Cuba. She was an actress, known for Time After Time (1979), Ride the Pink Horse (1947) and The Brave Bulls (1951). She died on May 10, 1989 in Burbank, California, USA.

1914

38. Leueen MacGrath

Actress | Pygmalion

Leueen MacGrath was born on July 3, 1914 in London, England, UK. She was an actress and writer, known for Pygmalion (1938), Edward, My Son (1949) and The Philco Television Playhouse (1948). She was married to Stephen Quinto, Dr. Stephen Goodyear, George S. Kaufman, Desmond Davis and Christopher ...

1914

39. Ethelreda Leopold

Actress | Hart to Hart

Ethelreda Leopold was born on July 2, 1914 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Hart to Hart (1979), Race Suicide (1938) and He Stayed for Breakfast (1940). She was married to Joe Pine. She died on January 26, 1998 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

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40. Betty Lou Gerson

Actress | One Hundred and One Dalmatians

Betty Lou Gerson was born on April 20, 1914 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. She was an actress, known for One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), Cinderella (1950) and Cats Don't Dance (1997). She was married to Louis Rocco Lauria and Joe Ainley. She died on January 12, 1999 in Los Angeles, ...

1914

41. Hedy Lamarr

Actress | Samson and Delilah

Hedy Lamarr, the woman many critics and fans alike regard as the most beautiful ever to appear in films, was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria. She was the daughter of Gertrud (Lichtwitz), from Budapest, and Emil Kiesler, a banker from Lemberg (now known as Lviv). Her parents were ...

1914

42. Julie Bishop

Actress | Northern Pursuit

Colorado-born leading lady Julie Bishop, who also acted under her birth name of Jacqueline Wells and the stage name Diane Duval, started off as a silent movie child actress, working with such legends as Clara Bow and Mary Pickford.

The daughter of a wealthy banker and oilman, she was raised in Texas ...

1914

43. Claude Farell

Actress | Titanic

Claude Farell was born on May 7, 1914 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. She was an actress, known for Titanic (1943), The Andromeda Breakthrough (1962) and The Secret of Mayerling (1949). She died on March 17, 2008 in Saint-Jean-Le-Priche, Saône-et-Loire, France.

1914

44. Nini Theilade

Actress | A Midsummer Night's Dream

Nini Theilade was born on June 15, 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. ...

1915

45. Patricia Morison

Actress | The Song of Bernadette

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 ...

1915

46. Jean Gillie

Actress | Decoy

British actress Jean Gillie met husband Jack Bernhard while he was stationed in Britain during the war. When they came to Hollywood, he produced and directed Decoy in May 1946 as a vehicle to showcase her talents to American audiences, while Gillie was simultaneously at work in The Macomber Affair ...

1915

47. Anne Nagel

Actress | Man Made Monster

Anne Nagel's life could be summed up in two words: pretty miserable. Born to devoutly religious Bostonian parents who had long encouraged her to become a nun, she had been enrolled in a preparatory school for just that purpose. As a young teenager she worked part-time as a photographer's model, and...

1915

48. Anita Louise

Actress | The Little Princess

An actress from the age of 6, Anita appeared with Walter Hampden in the Broadway production of Peter Ibbetson. As a juvenile actor, Anita used the name Louise Fremault and made her film debut at 9 in the film The Sixth Commandment (1924). She continued to make films as a child actor, and in 1929, ...

1915

49. Veda Ann Borg

Actress | Mildred Pierce

Born in Boston, Veda Ann Borg was a New York model in 1936 when a screen test brought her a short-lived contract at Paramount, where she made her debut film, Three Cheers for Love (1936). She fit better at Warner Brothers, where she played at least 15 roles (some of them bits) in 1937-38; but in ...

1915

50. Ingrid Bergman

Actress | Casablanca

Ingrid Bergman was one of the greatest actresses from Hollywood's lamented Golden Era. Her natural and unpretentious beauty and her immense acting talent made her one of the most celebrated figures in the history of American cinema. Bergman is also one of the most Oscar-awarded actresses, tied with ...

1915

51. Brenda Marshall

Actress | The Sea Hawk

This alluring hazel-eyed 1940s leading lady was born Ardis Ankerson on the Philippine island of Negros, one of two siblings. Her father was Otto Peter Ankerson who held an important position as overseer of a large sugar plantation. Following the premature death of her mother in 1925, Ardis and her ...

1915

52. Diana Gibson

Actress | Behind the Headlines

American leading lady, born Rosemary LaBie in Chicago, Illinois, and educated at Our Lady of Loretto Academy. Diana came equipped with some stage training (from a stint with Chicago's Goodman Theatre) and had won several beauty contests before moving to Los Angeles as a high fashion model. She also...

1915

53. Priscilla Lane

Actress | Arsenic and Old Lace

Priscilla Lane attended the Eagin School of Dramatic Arts in New York before she began touring with her sisters in the Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians Dance Band. She was a popular singer with her sisters and, after 5 years, she was signed to a Hollywood contract with Warner Brothers in 1937. ...

1915

54. Alice Faye

Soundtrack | Hello Frisco, Hello

As A&E's Biography put it, "She rose from the mean streets of New York's Hell's Kitchen to become the most famous singing actress in the world. When the pressures of fame became too much, she had the courage to leave Hollywood on her own terms". Alice Faye was born Alice Jeanne Leppert in NYC on ...

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55. Frances Mercer

Actress | The Mad Miss Manton

Frances Mercer was born on October 21, 1915 in New Rochelle, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Mad Miss Manton (1938), Vivacious Lady (1938) and Beauty for the Asking (1939). She was married to G. Robert Fleming. She died on November 12, 2000 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1915

56. Toby Wing

Actress | Murder at the Vanities

It's pretty unusual for a mostly unbilled chorus girl to rate a star on Hollywood Boulevard, but Toby Wing was unique. A genuine granddaughter of the Confederacy (on her mother's side at least; her father's family was pure Maine Yankee), she was born Martha Virginia Wing in Amelia Court House, ...

1915

57. Louise Platt

Actress | Stagecoach

Louise Platt was born on August 3, 1915 in Stamford, Connecticut, USA. She was an actress, known for Stagecoach (1939), Captain Caution (1940) and Tell No Tales (1939). She was married to Stanley Gould and Jed Harris. She died on September 6, 2003 in Greenport, New York, USA.

1915

58. Patricia Roc

Actress | The Wicked Lady

One of Britain's biggest female stars of the post-war years, she appeared at various positions (3rd being the highest) in the British and Motion Picture Herald popularity polls, between 1945-50. She was pretty, vivacious and charming, which was all most of her early roles called for. She appeared ...

1915

59. Rosalind Marquis

Actress | Gold Diggers of 1937

Rosalind Marquis was born on September 11, 1915 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936), Talent Scout (1937) and Marked Woman (1937). She was married to William L Waller, Thomas E. Saxe Jr and Edwin Diamond Axton II. She died on June 12, 2006 in Naples, ...

1915

60. Ann Sheridan

Actress | Kings Row

Ann Sheridan won the "Search for Beauty" contest which carried with it a Paramount screen test. Signed to a contract at 18, she was put into a number of small roles under her real name of Clara Lou Sheridan. As she got better, her name was changed to Ann. In 1936, after two dozen films, she went to...

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61. Hilde Sessak

Actress | Luisa Sanfelice

Hilde Sessak was born on July 27, 1915 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Luisa Sanfelice (1942), The Rape of the Sabines (1936) and Pan (1937). She died on April 17, 2003 in Berlin, Germany.

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62. Olivia de Havilland

Actress | Gone with the Wind

Olivia Mary de Havilland was born on July 1, 1916 in Tokyo, Japan to British parents, Lilian Augusta (Ruse), a former actress, and Walter Augustus de Havilland, an English professor and patent attorney. Her sister Joan, later to become famous as Joan Fontaine, was born the following year. Her ...

1916

63. Irene Winston

Actress | Rear Window

Irene Winston was born on July 18, 1916 in New York, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Rear Window (1954), Dear Brat (1951) and Bury Me Dead (1947). She was married to John Shelton. She died on September 1, 1964 in Hollywood, California, USA.

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64. Hertha Feiler

Actress | Frau im Strom

Hertha Feiler was born on August 3, 1916 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. She was an actress, known for Frau im Strom (1939), Charleys Tante (1956) and Rembrandt (1942). She was married to Heinz Rühmann. She died on November 1, 1970 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany.

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65. Rochelle Hudson

Actress | Imitation of Life

Rochelle Hudson was born on March 6, 1916 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. She was an actress, known for Imitation of Life (1934), The Officer and the Lady (1941) and Born Reckless (1937). She was married to Robert Louis Mindell, Charles Kenneth Brust Jr., Richard Francis Hyland and Harold Edward ...

1916

66. Marie Wilson

Actress | Satan Met a Lady

Lovely, innocent-looking, well-endowed comedienne Marie Wilson was a featherbrained delight instantly reminiscent of the zany Gracie Allen. Unlike Allen, however, Marie was a knockout--with high cheekbones, a wide slash of a mouth and a figure that wouldn't quit.

She was born Katherine Elizabeth ...

1916

67. Betty Field

Actress | Of Mice and Men

Thespian Betty Field was born in Boston on February 8, 1916, the daughter of a salesman and his wife. Ancestors on her father's side were Mayflower colonists Priscilla and John Alden. Her parents divorced while she was still young and Betty eventually learned to speak Spanish while traveling with ...

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68. Margaret Lockwood

Actress | The Lady Vanishes

Karachi-born Margaret Lockwood, daughter of a British colonial railway clerk, was educated in London and studied to be an actress at the Italia Conti Drama School. Her first moment on stage came at the age of 12, when she played a fairy in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" in 1928. She had a bit part in ...

1916

69. Jean Rogers

Actress | Flash Gordon

Massachusetts-born Jean Rogers had hoped to study art in New York and Europe upon graduation from high school, but her plans changed when she won a national beauty contest in 1933 and was offered a contract by a Hollywood producer. She was soon signed by Warner Bros., and a year later jumped ship ...

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70. Dorothy McGuire

Actress | Gentleman's Agreement

A genuine model of sincerity, practicality and dignity in most of the roles she inhabited, actress Dorothy McGuire offered Tinseltown more talent than it probably knew what to do with. A quiet, passive beauty, she had a soothing quality to her open-faced looks and voice. She was a natural when he ...

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71. Karin Booth

Actress | Swing Shift Maisie

Karin Booth was born on June 19, 1916 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. She was an actress, known for Swing Shift Maisie (1943), The Unfinished Dance (1947) and Tobor the Great (1954). She was married to Allan Pinkerton Carlisle. She died on July 27, 2003 in Jupiter, Florida, USA.

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72. Judy Campbell

Actress | Emma

Judy Campbell was born on May 31, 1916 in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, UK. She was an actress and writer, known for Emma (1948), The Strangler (1941) and Saloon Bar (1940). She was married to David Birkin. She died on June 6, 2004 in London, England, UK.

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73. Ruth Warrick

Actress | Citizen Kane

Reedy and regal actress Ruth Warrick will be remembered for two names and two names alone. In films, she will indelibly be referred to as the castoff first "Mrs. Citizen Kane," and on TV she will forever be synonymous with her character of Phoebe Tyler Wallingford, the obnoxiously wealthy, ...

1916

74. Senta Foltin

Actress | Falstaff in Wien

Senta Foltin was born on September 29, 1916 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. She was an actress, known for Falstaff in Vienna (1940), Eine kleine Nachtmusik (1939) and Herz - modern möbliert (1940). She was married to Heinz Hartwig. She died on October 16, 2012 in Hilgertshausen, ...

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75. Marsha Hunt

Actress | Pride and Prejudice

Stardom somehow eluded this vastly gifted actress. Had it not perhaps been for her low-level profile compounded by her McCarthy-era blacklisting in the early 1950s, there is no telling what higher tier Marsha Hunt might have attained. Perhaps her work was not flashy enough, or too subdued, or ...

1917

76. Danielle Darrieux

Actress | 8 femmes

Danielle Darrieux was born in 1917 in Bordeaux, France, to Marie-Louise (Witkowski) and Germain Jean Darrieux, a physician. She was raised in Paris. She was only fourteen when she auditioned for a secondary role in Le bal (1931): she got the part, and the producer offered her a five-year contract. ...

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77. Suzy Delair

Actress | L'assassin habite... au 21

Prototype of the sexy cheeky French lady, Suzy Delair was discovered by Henri-Georges Clouzot, who became her companion and gave her two memorable roles : Mila Malou, inspector Wens' unbearable girlfriend in two films, Le dernier des six (1941), which he wrote, and The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (...

1917

78. Susan Hayward

Actress | With a Song in My Heart

Susan Hayward was born Edythe Marrener in Brooklyn, New York, on June 30, 1917. Her father was a transportation worker, and Susan lived a fairly comfortable life as a child, but the precocious little redhead had no idea of the life that awaited her. She attended public school in Brooklyn, where she...

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79. Pamela Brown

Actress | Cleopatra

Pamela Brown trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA). Her first appearance was as "Juliet" in "Romeo and Juliet" at Stratford-on-Avon in 1936. She followed this with a variety of roles for the Old Vic Company in London. She appeared on Broadway in the 1947 production of "The Importance ...

1917

80. Doris Davenport

Actress | Behind the News

Doris Davenport was born in Moline, IL, but grew up in Hollywood. Samuel Goldwyn gave her the part of Eddie Cantor's sweetheart in his musical Kid Millions (1934) after seeing her work as a Goldwyn Girl. As Doris Jordan, she tested for the part of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind (1939) and ...

1917

81. Jan Clayton

Actress | Lassie

Jan Clayton was born on August 26, 1917 in Tularosa, New Mexico, USA. She was an actress, known for Lassie (1954), This Man's Navy (1945) and Flight Angels (1940). She was married to George Greeley, Robert Warren Lerner and Russell Hayden. She died on August 28, 1983 in West Hollywood, California, ...

1917

82. Georgia Ellis

Actress | Dragnet

Georgia Ellis was born on March 12, 1917 in Ventura, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Dragnet (1954), The Light of Western Stars (1940) and Klondike (1960). She was married to Karl K. Puttfarken. She died on March 30, 1988 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.

1917

83. Elfie Mayerhofer

Actress | Das kleine Hofkonzert

The Viennese Nightingale: Though Miss Elfie Mayerhofer was always completely Viennese in spirit and culture, she was born in Marburg, Yugoslavia on March 15, 1917 and educated there as a child. She began her studies of music in Slovenia and then went for further studies in Zürich under Prof. Fred ...

1917

84. Josseline Gaël

Actress | Les misérables

When the film Coup de tête (1944) was released in October 1944, its main actress Josseline Gaël was already in prison. Gaël started her career as a child and subsequently appeared in supporting roles, amongst them Cosette in the best adaptation of the Victor Hugo's classic Les Misé...

1917

85. Hilde Krahl

Actress | Das Glas Wasser

Hilde Krahl was born on January 10, 1917 in Brod, Austria-Hungary [now Slavonski Brod, Croatia]. She was an actress, known for Das Glas Wasser (1960), No Greater Love (1952) and Träumerei (1944). She was married to Wolfgang Liebeneiner. She died on June 28, 1999 in Vienna, Austria.

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86. Lucile Fairbanks

Actress | A Fugitive from Justice

Lucile Fairbanks was born on October 18, 1917 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for A Fugitive from Justice (1940), Calling All Husbands (1940) and The Strawberry Blonde (1941). She was married to Owen Crump. She died on November 14, 1999 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1917

87. Madeleine Robinson

Actress | À double tour

Madeleine Robinson grew up in a struggling working class background but found her métier as an actress after attending the theater school run by Charles Dullin, six years that she considered the happiest of her life. The stage would stay her main love even though she would lend her striking ...

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88. Virginia Grey

Actress | Airport

Born into a show-business family--her father was a director and her mother was a film cutter--Virginia Grey made her film debut at age 10 as Eva in Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927). After a few more films as a child actress, she left the business to finish her schooling. Returning to films as an adult in ...

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89. Ann Richards

Actress | Sorry, Wrong Number

Ann Richards was born on December 13, 1917 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She was an actress, known for Sorry, Wrong Number (1948), Love from a Stranger (1947) and Love Letters (1945). She was married to Paul Kramer and Edmond Angelo. She died on August 24, 2006 in Torrance, California, USA.

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90. June Allyson

Actress | Executive Suite

American leading lady whose sweet smile and sunny disposition made her the prototypical girl-next-door of American movies of the 1940s. Raised in semi-poverty in Bronx neighborhoods by her divorced mother, Allyson (nee Ella Geisman) was injured in a fall at age eight and spent four years confined ...

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91. Jane Wyman

Actress | Falcon Crest

Jane Wyman was born Sarah Jane Mayfield on January 5, 1917, in St. Joseph, Missouri (she was also known later as Sarah Jane Fulks). When she was only eight years old, and after her parents filed for divorce, she lost her father prematurely. After graduating high school she attempted, with the help ...

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92. Brenda Joyce

Actress | The Rains Came

Best remembered as the second talking-era "Jane" (following Maureen O'Sullivan) of the durable Tarzan jungle film series and the only one in the sound era to play the role opposite two different Tarzan's (Johnny Weissmuller and Lex Barker, lovely Brenda was born Betty Leabo in Missouri, raised in ...

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93. Ann Rutherford

Actress | Gone with the Wind

Ann Rutherford was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

The daughter of a former Metropolitan Opera singer, John Rutherford, and her actress mother, Lillian Mansfield, was destined for show business.

Not long after her birth, her family moved to California, where she made her stage debut in ...

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94. Googie Withers

Actress | One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

Googie Withers began her acting career at the age of 12. She was dancing in the chorus in a West End revue when she was spotted by a Warner Brothers casting director. She went to do a screen test for them at the Riverside Studios and was invited to become an extra. On her first day at the filming of...

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95. Audrey Totter

Actress | The Unsuspected

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 ...

1917

96. Joan Fontaine

Actress | Suspicion

Born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland on October 22, 1917, in Tokyo, Japan, in what was known as the International Settlement, to British parents, Lilian Augusta (Ruse), a former actress, and Walter Augustus de Havilland, an English professor and patent attorney. Her paternal grandfather's family was ...

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97. Lorna Gray

Actress | Daughter of Don Q

Born Virginia Pound, Lorna Gray was "discovered" by an agent while modeling in a fashion show. She was given a screen test, and Columbia was impressed enough to sign her to a contract. (It was at this time that she was given the name "Lorna Gray", which she kept until 1945, when she changed it to "...

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98. Zsa Zsa Gabor

Actress | A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors

Undoubtedly the woman who had come to epitomize what we recognize today as "celebrity," Zsa Zsa Gabor, is better known for her many marriages, personal appearances, her "dahlink" catchphrase, her actions, gossip, and quotations on men, rather than her film career.

Zsa Zsa was born as Sári Gabor on ...

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99. Ruth Rogers

Actress | The Light of Western Stars

Ruth Rogers was born on April 19, 1918 in Tracy, California, USA. She was an actress, known for The Light of Western Stars (1940), Silver on the Sage (1939) and A Night at Earl Carroll's (1940). She died on October 9, 1953 in Seattle, Washington, USA.

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100. Nan Wynn

Soundtrack | A Shot in the Dark

Nan Wynn was born on May 8, 1915 in York, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for A Shot in the Dark (1941), Pardon My Sarong (1942) and My Gal Sal (1942). She was married to John Pius Small, Dr. Thomas Wolfe Baylek and Cy Howard. She died on March 23, 1971 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

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