0W3339_Female Stars in Heaven (90-99)

1. Dorothy Malone

The blonde, sultry, dreamy-eyed beauty of Dorothy Malone, who was born Mary Maloney in Chicago on January 29, 1924, took some time before it made an impact with American film-going audiences. But once she did, she played it for all it was worth in her one chance Academy Award-winning "bad girl" ...

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2. Doris Day

Soundtrack | Love Me or Leave Me

One of America's most loved actresses was born Doris Mary Kappelhoff on April 3, 1922, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Alma Sophia (Welz), a housewife, and William Joseph Kappelhoff, a music teacher and choir master. Her grandparents were all German immigrants. She had two brothers, Richard, who died ...

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3. Esther Williams

Actress | Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Esther Jane Williams was born on August 8, 1921 in Inglewood, California. Her youth was spent as a teenage swimming champion and she won three United States National championships. She eventually was spotted by a MGM talent scout while working in a Los Angeles department store. She made her film ...

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4. Katharine Hepburn

Actress | The Lion in Winter

Katharine Houghton Hepburn was born on May 12, 1907 in Hartford, Connecticut to a suffragist, Katharine Martha (Houghton), and a doctor, Thomas Norval Hepburn, who both always encouraged her to speak her mind, develop it fully, and exercise her body to its full potential. An athletic tomboy as a ...

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5. Jean Arthur

Actress | You Can't Take It with You

This marvelous screen comedienne's best asset was only muffled during her seven years' stint in silent films. That asset? It was, of course, her squeaky, frog-like voice, which silent-era cinema audiences had simply no way of perceiving, much less appreciating. Jean Arthur, born Gladys Georgianna ...

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6. Maureen O'Hara

Actress | The Quiet Man

In America, the early performing arts accomplishments of young Maureen FitzSimons (who we know as Maureen O'Hara) would definitely have put her in the child prodigy category. However, for a child of Irish heritage surrounded by gifted parents and family, these were very natural traits. Maureen made...

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7. Rhonda Fleming

Actress | Out of the Past

A native-born Californian, Rhonda Fleming attended Beverly Hills public and private schools. Her father was Harold Cheverton Louis (1896-1951). Her mother, Effie Olivia Graham (1891-1985), was a famous model and actress in New York. She has a son (Kent Lane), two granddaughters (Kimberly and Kelly)...

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8. Lizabeth Scott

Actress | Too Late for Tears

Lizabeth Scott was born Emma Matzo on September 29, 1922 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the oldest of six children of Mary (Pennock) and John Matzo, who were Slovak immigrants. Scott attended Marywood Seminary and the Alvienne School of the Theatre in New York City, where she adopted the stage name of ...

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9. Marlene Dietrich

Soundtrack | Witness for the Prosecution

Her father was a police lieutenant and imbued in her a military attitude to life. Marlene was known in school for her "bedroom eyes" and her first affairs were at this stage in her life - a professor at the school was terminated. She entered the cabaret scene in 1920s Germany, first as a spectator ...

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10. Eleanor Parker

Actress | The Sound of Music

Eleanor Jean Parker was born on June 26, 1922, in Cedarville, Ohio, the last of three children born to a mathematics teacher and his wife. Eleanor caught the acting bug early and began performing in school plays. She was was so serious about becoming an actor, that she attended the Rice Summer ...

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11. Dina Merrill

Actress | BUtterfield 8

It would have been pretty difficult for willowy actress/model Dina Merrill to have pulled off playing a commoner on stage, film or TV in her day. She reeked of elegance and class. The epitome of style, poise and glamour, the New York-born socialite and celebrity was born Nedenia Marjorie Hutton on ...

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12. Candy Samples

Actress | Million Dollar Mona

This amazingly buxom blond bombshell is one of the true legends on the adult circuit. Porn star Candy Samples' name has become synonymous with huge-breasted bodaciousness over the course of her decades-long career. She's been in and out of the sex business since the early 1970s. She became a fan ...

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13. Camilla Spira

Actress | Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse

Camilla Spira was born on March 1, 1906 in Hamburg, Germany. She was an actress, known for The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933), The Merry Wives of Windsor (1950) and Laubenkolonie (1930). She died on August 25, 1997 in Berlin, Germany.

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14. Coleen Gray

Actress | The Killing

Coleen Gray was born in Staplehurst, Nebraska, in 1922. After graduating from high school she studied dramatics at Hamline University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree. She then decided to see America and traveled to California, stopping off at La Jolla where she worked as a waitress. ...

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15. Lita Baron

Actress | High School Hero

Fiery brunette Andalusian-born singer, dancer and actress, in the U.S. from 1928. Using the stage name "Isabelita", she performed with Xavier Cugat and His Orchestra and was spotlighted at the Mocambo and Ciro's night clubs on the Sunset Strip. There, she came to the attention of up-and-coming ...

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16. Ruby Dee

Actress | American Gangster

Ruby Dee was an American actress, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist and civil rights activist. She is best known for originating the role of "Ruth Younger" in the stage and film versions of A Raisin in the Sun (1961).

She also starred in The Jackie Robinson Story (1950), Cat People (1982), ...

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17. Lola Albright

Actress | Peter Gunn

Lola Jean Albright was born on July 20, 1924 in Akron, Ohio, the daughter of John Paul Albright and Marion Harvey, both of whom were gospel singers. She worked as a model before moving to Hollywood in the mid-1940s, studied piano for 20 years and worked as a receptionist at radio station WAKR in ...

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18. Rosa Turich

Actress | Tripoli

Rosa Turich was born on June 9, 1903 in Tucson, Arizona, USA. She was an actress, known for Tripoli (1950), Rangers of Fortune (1940) and Clipped Wings (1937). She was married to Felipe Turich. She died on November 20, 1998 in Santa Ana, California, USA.

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19. 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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20. Fay Wray

Actress | King Kong

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 ...

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21. Drue Leyton

Actress | Charlie Chan in London

Drue Leyton was born on June 12, 1903 in Somers, Wisconsin, USA. She was an actress, known for Charlie Chan in London (1934), Blackmailer (1936) and Alibi for Murder (1936). She was married to Jacques Terrane. She died on February 8, 1997 in Corona Del Mar, California, USA.

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22. Virginia Dabney

Actress | Daughter of Shanghai

Born in Atlanta, Virginia Dabney studied dance at the Potter-Spiker School, and during her sophomore year at Washington Seminary she moved to Beverly Hills. After attending Westlake School for Girls, she began as a ballroom dancer in orchestral shows, before attracting the attention of scouts while...

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23. June MacCloy

Actress | Reaching for the Moon

June Mary MacCloy was born in Sturgis, Michigan on June 2, 1909. When she was a child her family moved to Toledo, Ohio. With her radiant smile, her tall, blonde, good looks and unusual voice, she brightened many a film and stage with her talent. After 1940 she became an obscure part of Hollywood ...

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24. Rose Hobart

Actress | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Born in New York City, Rose Hobart responded to the lure of the theater at a young age, went on stage at 15, then drifted to Hollywood and embarked on a movie career. Hobart film-debuted in the 1930 Fox version of "Liliom" and went on to appear in over 40 additional films, both in the A and B ...

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25. Jayne Regan

Actress | Booloo

Jayne Regan was born on July 28, 1909 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Booloo (1938), Stowaway (1936) and Texas Jack (1935). She died on March 19, 2000 in Redlands, California, USA.

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26. Karin Evans

Actress | Pygmalion

Karin Evans was born on September 25, 1907 in Johannesburg, South Africa. She was an actress, known for Pygmalion (1935), Der Kampf des Donald Westhof (1927) and Street Acquaintances (1948). She was married to Wolf Hoffmann. She died on July 1, 2004 in Berlin, Germany.

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27. Sylvia Miles

Actress | Midnight Cowboy

Sylvia Miles was an American actress, born and raised in Greenwich Village, New York City. She was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, without ever winning the Award.

Miles was born under the name "Sylvia Scheinwald". Her parents were furniture maker Reuben Scheinwald ...

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28. Jacqueline Delubac

Actress | Faisons un rêve...

Jacqueline Delubac was born on May 27, 1907 in Lyon, Rhône, France. She was an actress, known for Let's Make a Dream (1936), The Pearls of the Crown (1937) and The New Testament (1936). She was married to Myran Eknayan and Sacha Guitry. She died on October 14, 1997 in Créteil, Val-de-Marne, France.

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29. Greer Garson

Actress | Pride and Prejudice

Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson was born on September 29, 1904 in London, England, to Nancy Sophia (Greer) and George Garson, a commercial clerk. Of Scottish and Ulster-Scots descent, Garson displayed no early interest in becoming an actress. Educated at the University of London intending to become a ...

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30. Ruth Hellberg

Actress | Im Kreise der Lieben

Ruth Hellberg was born on November 2, 1906 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Im Kreise der Lieben (1991), Michael Kramer (1965) and Alles Schwindel (1940). She was married to Wolfgang Liebeneiner. She died on April 26, 2001 in Feldafing, Bavaria, Germany.

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31. Elsa Buchanan

Actress | Mystery of Edwin Drood

Elsa Buchanan was born on December 22, 1908 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935), Peter Ibbetson (1935) and Here's to Romance (1935). She was married to Noll Charlton. She died on January 17, 2004 in Childswickham, Worcestershire, England, UK.

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32. 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 ...

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33. 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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34. 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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35. 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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36. 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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37. 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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38. 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.

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39. Clara Tambour

Actress | Delphine

Clara Tambour was born on February 19, 1891 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Delphine (1931), Chipée (1938) and The Secret Spring (1923). She died on June 24, 1982 in Dinard, Ille-et-Vilaine, France.

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40. Lois Wilson

Actress | The Covered Wagon

A schoolteacher who became a stage actress (briefly), Lois Wilson entered films in 1916 at Paramount (her sisters, Diana Kane and Connie Lewis, also worked as actresses). Wilson played leading roles well into the sound era, and after she retired from the screen she worked sporadically in television...

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41. Irene Dunne

Actress | The Awful Truth

Irene Marie Dunne was born on December 20, 1898, in Louisville, Kentucky. She was the daughter of Joseph Dunne, who inspected steamships, and Adelaide Henry, a musician who prompted Irene in the arts. Her first production was in Louisville when she appeared in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the age...

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42. Aline MacMahon

Actress | Kind Lady

Aline MacMahon was born of Scottish-Irish and Russian-Jewish ancestry on May 3,1899, the daughter of William Marcus MacMahon and Jennie Simon MacMahon. Her father became editor-in-chief of Munsey's Magazine, while her mother pursued a theatrical acting career from middle-age and lived to age107. ...

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43. 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, ...

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44. 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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45. 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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46. 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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47. 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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48. 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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49. 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 ...

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50. 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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51. 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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52. 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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53. Anneliese Uhlig

Actress | Der Monddiamant

Anneliese Uhlig was born on August 27, 1918 in Essen, Germany. She was an actress, known for Der Monddiamant (1974), Der Vorhang fällt (1939) and La primadonna (1943). She was married to Douglas Byron Tucker and Kurt Waitzmann. She died on June 17, 2017 in Santa Cruz, California, USA.

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54. Ilse Petri

Actress | Der Raub der Sabinerinnen

Ilse Petri was born on March 20, 1918 in Göttingen, Province of Hanover, Prussia [now Lower Saxony], Germany. She was an actress, known for The Rape of the Sabines (1936), Die Lümmel von der ersten Bank - 1. Trimester: Zur Hölle mit den Paukern (1968) and Der eingebildete Kranke (1938). ...

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55. Jennifer Jones

Actress | The Towering Inferno

One of the world's most underrated Academy Award-winning actresses, Jennifer Jones was born Phylis Lee Isley on 2 March 1919 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Flora Mae (Suber) and Phillip Ross Isley, who ran a travelling stage show. As a young aspiring actress, she met and fell for young, handsome, aspiring ...

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56. Lina Romay

Actress | The Big Wheel

Vivacious brunette singer and actress Lina Romay was born in New York in January 1919, the daughter of Mexican L.A. consulate attaché Porfirio A. Romay, of European descent. In her teens, she was adept at swimming and diving. Moreover, she had an excellent voice and could sing equally well in ...

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57. Patricia Medina

Actress | Snow White and the Three Stooges

Patricia Paz Maria Medina was born on July 19, 1919 in Liverpool, England to a Spanish father and an English mother. She began acting as a teenager in the late 1930s and worked her way up to leading roles in the mid-1940s, then left for Hollywood. Medina teamed up with British actor Louis Hayward ...

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58. Joan Leslie

Actress | The Sky's the Limit

She was born of Irish ancestry as Joan Agnes Theresa Brodel, the daughter of an accountant and a pianist. She was educated at Catholic schools in Toronto, Montreal and Detroit. There were three sisters, her older siblings being Mary and Betty. Together, they made up a successful vaudeville act, the...

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59. Helene Stanton

Actress | The Big Combo

Helene Stanton was born on November 4, 1925 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA as Eleanor Stansbury. As a child she took ballet lessons. At the age of 13 she took voice lessons. At 21 she became involved with the Cosmopolitan Production Company in Philadelphia in productions such as "The Merry ...

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60. Honor Blackman

Actress | Goldfinger

One of four children, Blackman was born in London's East End, to Edith Eliza (Stokes), a homemaker, and Frederick Thomas Blackman, a statistician employed with the Civil Service. She received elocution lessons for her 16th birthday (at her own request), and later attended the Guildhall School of ...

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61. Virginia Leith

Actress | The Brain That Wouldn't Die

Sultry, smoky-voiced brunette actress, a former model, who was put under contract by 20th Century-Fox in the early 1950s. She had a showy role and acquitted herself well in the thriller Violent Saturday (1955), but her career quickly lost momentum when Fox didn't renew her contract in 1956. She ...

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62. Katie Boyle

Actress | ITV Play of the Week

Katie was born in Florence, Italy, the daughter of an Italian Marquis and a Yorkshire born mother and came to England when 19 and married Viscount Boyle when 20. She was buying hats when she met Beverly Nicholls, who was writing a story on buying hats. He asked her to model for him and she started ...

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63. Meg Randall

Actress | Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm

Meg Randall was born on August 1, 1926 in Clinton, Oklahoma, USA. She was an actress, known for Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1951), Highway Patrol (1955) and Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town (1950). She died on July 20, 2018 in the USA.

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64. Gloria Jean

Actress | I Surrender Dear

Gloria Jean Schoonover was born on April 14, 1926 in Buffalo, New York and she and her family moved to Scranton, Pennsylvania shortly afterward. Her father owned a music store; her mother, who had been a circus bareback rider, took care of Gloria and her three siblings.

Gloria's singing ability was ...

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65. Julie Adams

Actress | Creature from the Black Lagoon

Betty May Adams was the daughter of a travelling Iowa cotton buyer with a penchant for alcohol. Growing up in Arkansas, Betty expressed an early interest in acting and made her performing debut in a third grade play of "Hansel and Gretel." Beautiful, talented and determined, the freshly minted '...

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66. Nancy Gates

Actress | World Without End

Nancy Gates was born February 1, 1926 in Dallas, Texas. She entered show business, at an early age, when she was signed to a contract with RKO Studios when she was 15. Her first production with that studio was in 1942's Hitler's Children (1943). Nancy was also in two more films that year, those ...

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67. Sonja Ziemann

Actress | Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor

New trends in post-war German cinema saw a shift away from the glamorous divas or idealised motherhood figures of the 1930s and 40s towards uncomplicated, wholesome, vivacious, perhaps tomboyish girl-next-door types. Germanic features were no longer strictly required. Dimple-cheeked, dark-haired ...

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68. Fenella Fielding

Actress | Guest House Paradiso

Fenella Fielding was born on November 17, 1927 in Hackney, London, England, UK. She was an actress and writer, known for Guest House Paradiso (1999), Carry on Screaming! (1966) and The Avengers (1961). She died on September 11, 2018 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK.

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69. Greta Thyssen

Actress | Shadows

The enticing, voluptuous European beauty Greta Thyssen filled out the pages of movie magazines everywhere during the 1950s. Born on March 30, 1927, she was a freshly-scrubbed brunette when she was crowned Miss Denmark in 1952. The subsequent attention had her packing her bags for Hollywood. At that...

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70. Dominique Blanchar

Actress | L'avventura

Dominique Blanchar was born on June 2, 1927 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for L'Avventura (1960), The Secret of Mayerling (1949) and Les enquêtes du commissaire Maigret (1967). She was married to Jean-François Darbon and Jean Servais. She died on November 19, 2018 in Paris, ...

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71. Laya Raki

Actress | Hawaiian Eye

Billed as "the black-haired volcano", sloe-eyed Laya Raki made international headlines in the 1950s, both on and off the screen. She was born Brunhilde Marie Joerns near Brunswick in Germany, the daughter of a German vaudevillian and circus artiste who earned his living with magic acts and ...

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72. Roberta Haynes

Actress | Police Academy 6: City Under Siege

Roberta Haynes was born on August 19, 1927 in Wichita Falls, Texas, USA. She was an actress and producer, known for Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989), Point Blank (1967) and Hell Ship Mutiny (1957). She was married to Jay Cantor and Larry Ward. She died on April 4, 2019 in Delray Beach, ...

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73. Barbara Rütting

Actress | Die Spur führt nach Berlin

Barbara Rütting was born Waltraut Irmgard Goltz in Wietstock (Brandenburg), the daughter of teachers. She grew up and went to school in Berlin and Luckenwalde in Brandenburg. After matriculating, she moved to Denmark where she sought employment and worked variously as a maid, as a librarian and as ...

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74. Midge Ware

Actress | Untamed Women

A pretty brunette leading lady who had her heyday in the early days of television, she was born Muriel Florence Bendelson (nicknamed 'Midge') in New York's Bronx. Midge came to the screen after extensive work as a photographer's model, appearing in fashion ads and on the cover of more than a ...

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75. Monique van Vooren

Actress | Wall Street

Monique van Vooren was born on March 25, 1927 in Brussels, Belgium. She was an actress, known for Wall Street (1987), Flesh for Frankenstein (1973) and Ça va barder (1955). She was married to Curt H Pfenniger. She died on January 25, 2020 in New York City, New York, USA.

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76. Juliette Gréco

Actress | The Sun Also Rises

Juliette Gréco was born on February 7, 1927 in Montpellier, Hérault, France. She was an actress, known for The Sun Also Rises (1957), Crack in the Mirror (1960) and The Big Gamble (1961). She was married to Gérard Jouannest, Michel Piccoli and Philippe Lemaire. She died on September 23, 2020 in ...

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77. Dee Hartford

Actress | The Time Tunnel

A tall, photogenic brunette, Dee was born in Salt Lake City as Donna Lee Higgins to Edgar Higgins and Beatrice Thomas. She started out in the late 1940s as a model for Vogue magazine in New York. Her sister Eden Hartford (Eden Marie Higgins) (Groucho Marx's wife from 1954 to 1969) followed a ...

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78. Dianne Foster

Actress | Night Passage

A curvaceous and comely lead and second lead actress of the 1950s and 1960s, Dianne Foster was born Olga Helen Laruska on October 31, 1928 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Of Ukrainian parentage, she began her stage career performing in high school plays and in local community theater productions. Her...

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79. Eunice Gayson

Actress | Dr. No

Eunice Gayson was an English actress best known for playing Sylvia Trench, James Bond's girlfriend in the first two Bond films (Dr. No and From Russia with Love). Originally, Gayson was to be cast as Miss Moneypenny, but that part went to Lois Maxwell instead.

Gayson was originally to have been a ...

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80. Laurie Mitchell

Actress | Queen of Outer Space

A prime pin up attraction ("Miss Body Beautiful", "Miss Bronx"), auburn-haired Mickey Koren was raised in the East Bronx and began her career as a juvenile model. She moved with her family to California while still in her teens. After attending classes at the Ben Bard Drama academy in Hollywood, ...

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81. Margo Woode

Actress | Somewhere in the Night

Margo Woode was born on April 20, 1928 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. She was an actress, known for Somewhere in the Night (1946), Moss Rose (1947) and It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog (1946). She was married to Ron Beckett and Bill Burton. She died on September 28, 2018 in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA.

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82. Malka Ribowska

Actress | Les trois mousquetaires: Première époque - Les ferrets de la reine

Malka Ribowska was born on May 20, 1928 in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France. She was an actress and writer, known for The Three Musketeers: Part I - The Queen's Diamonds (1961), Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes (1975) and The Red Poster (1976). She was married to René Allio. She died on...

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83. Cloris Leachman

Actress | The Last Picture Show

The legendary actress set a record when at age 82, she appeared on Dancing with the Stars (2005). Cloris Leachman was born on April 30, 1926 in Des Moines, Iowa to Berkeley Claiborne "Buck" Leachman and the former Cloris Wallace. Her father's family owned a lumber company, Leachman Lumber Co. She ...

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84. Arlene Dahl

Actress | Journey to the Center of the Earth

Elegance and femininity are fitting descriptions for Arlene Dahl. She is considered to be one of the most beautiful actresses to have graced the screen during the postwar period. Audiences were captivated by her breathtaking beauty and the way she used to it to her advantage, progressing from ...

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85. Monica Vitti

Actress | L'avventura

Monica Vitti was born on November 3, 1931 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. She was an actress and writer, known for L'Avventura (1960), Red Desert (1964) and L'Eclisse (1962). She was married to Roberto Russo. She died on February 2, 2022 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

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86. Renate Holm

Actress | Der Graf von Luxemburg

Renate Holm is an opera singer and actress. She was born on 10 August 1939 in Berlin, Germany. She had an early interest in singing and during her youth was a member of the local school and church choirs. At an early age she decided that she wanted to become an opera singer. She worked hard to pay ...

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87. Liz Sheridan

Actress | Who's That Girl

Liz Sheridan was born on April 10, 1929 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Who's That Girl (1987), Play the Game (2009) and ALF (1986). She was married to William Dale Wales. She died on April 15, 2022 in New York City, New York, USA.

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88. Angela Lansbury

Actress | The Manchurian Candidate

Angela Lansbury was born in 1925 into a prominent family of the upper middle class living in the Regent's Park neighborhood of London. Her father was socialist politician Edgar Isaac Lansbury (1887-1935), a member of both the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) and the Labour Party. Edgar ...

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89. Gina Lollobrigida

Actress | Notre-Dame de Paris

Gina Lollobrigida was born on July 4, 1927 in Subiaco, Italy. Destined to be called "The Most Beautiful Woman in the World", Gina possibly had St. Brigid as part of her surname. She was the daughter of a furniture manufacturer, and grew up in the pictorial mountain village. The young Gina did some ...

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