Constance Bennett

Constance Bennett

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Rita Rio

Rita Rio and Her Orchestra 1939

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June Collyer

June Collyer and her awesome windmill hat. (June Collyer was an American film actress of the 1920s and 1930s)

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Gloria Swanson

Gloria Swanson (March 27, 1899 – April 4, 1983) was born Gloria May Josephine Svensson in Chicago, Illinois.  She was destined to be perhaps one of the biggest stars of the silent movie era. Swanson was an American actress, singer and producer. She was one of the most prominent stars during the silent film era as both an actress and a fashion icon, especially under the direction of Cecil B. DeMille, made dozens of silents and was nominated for the first Academy Award in the Best Actress category.

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Dorothy Jordan

Dorothy Jordan, (August 9, 1906 – December 7, 1988), wearing a lovely vintage cloche flapper hat was an American movie actress who had a short but successful career beginning in talking pictures in 1929. In 1933, Jordan left films and married filmmaker, screenwriter and later World War II U.S. Army Air Forces Colonel Merian C. Cooper, who co-wrote, produced and directed the 1933 film King Kong. c.1929

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Thelma Todd

Thelma Alice Todd, July 29, 1906 - December 16, 1935, was an American actress. Appearing in about 120 pictures between 1926 and 1935, she is best remembered for her comedic roles in films like Marx Brothers' Monkey Business and Horse Feathers, a number of Charley Chase's short comedies, and co-starring with Buster Keaton and Jimmy Durante in Speak Easily.

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Rosetta LeNoire

Rosetta LeNoire (August 8, 1911 – March 17, 2002) was an American stage, screen, and television actress, as well as a Broadway producer and casting agent. She had been on tv since 1957. Some of her shows include Studio One In Hollywood, Ryan's Hope, Gimme a Break!, and Amen.

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Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress of film, stage, and television. Known for her headstrong independence and spirited personality, Hepburn's career as a Hollywood leading lady spanned more than 60 years. Her work came in a range of genres, from screwball comedy to literary drama, and she received four Academy Awards for Best Actress—a record for any performer.

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Gene Tierney

Gene Eliza Tierney (November 19, 1920 – November 6, 1991) was an American film and stage actress.
 With prominent cheekbones and the most appealing overbite of her day, her striking good looks helped propel her to stardom. Her best known role is the enigmatic murder victim in Laura (1944). She was also Oscar-nominated for Leave Her to Heaven (1945).

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Irene Dunne

Irene Dunne (December 20, 1898 – September 4, 1990) was an American film actress and singer of the 1930s, 1940s and early 1950s. Dunne was nominated five times for the Academy Award for Best Actress, for her performances in Cimarron, Theodora

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Carole Landis

Carole Landis (January 1, 1919 – July 5, 1948)  was born on New Year's Day in 1919 in Fairchild, Wisconsin, as Frances Lillian Mary Ridste. Landis was an American film and stage actress, who worked as a contract-player for Twentieth Century-Fox.  She worked in over 50 movies, many of her early ones uncredited.

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Theresa Harris

Theresa Harris (December 31, 1906 – October 8, 1985) was an American television and film actress.

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Dolores Moran

Dolores Moran (January 27, 1924 – February 5, 1982) was an American film actress and model. Moran's brief career as a film actress began in 1942 with some uncredited roles in such films as Yankee Doodle Dandy. Dolores was a popular pin-up item with soldiers after appearing on magazine covers.

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Lillian Gish

Lillian Diana Gish (October 14, 1893 – February 27, 1993) was an American stage, screen and television actress whose film acting career spanned 75 years, from 1912 to 1987. She was called "The First Lady of American Cinema". She was the archetypal silent film heroine — the delicate damsel in distress, fainting on an ice floe, cowering before a brutal bounder, languishing in a garret.

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Jane Froman

Jane Froman was an American singer and actress. During her thirty-year career, Froman performed on stage, radio and television despite chronic injuries that she sustained from a 1943 plane crash.

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Madame Sul-Te-Wan

Madame Sul-Te-Wan was an American actress. The daughter of freed slaves, she began her career in entertainment touring the east coast with various theatrical companies and moved to California to become a member of the fledgling film community. Her career spanned over five decades, and, in 1986, she was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame.

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Martha Raye

Martha Raye (August 27, 1916 – October 19, 1994) was an American comic actress and standards singer who performed in movies, and later on television. During WWII, Raye and her pals Carole Landis, Al Jolson, Kay Francis and Mitzi Mayfair formed a U.S.O. Troupe, performing tirelessly under incredibly difficult and dangerous conditions before thousands of enthusiastic G.I.s. Not satisfied with supporting the troops during WW2, she continued on in Korea, and for nine years she went to Viet Nam, sometimes staying as long as six months. Not only did she perform on stage but when things got rough she filled in as a nurse, often going hours without a break.

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Barbara Loden

Barbara Loden (July 8, 1932 – September 5, 1980) was an American film and stage actress and film director. Splendor in the Grass. A one-time pin-up beauty and magazine story model, Barbara Loden studied acting in New York in the early 50s and was on the Broadway boards within the decade.

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Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr (November 9, 1913 -  January 19, 2000) was an Austrian-born American actress, celebrated for her great beauty, who was a major contract star of MGM's "Golden Age".

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Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck, 1929.

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