Bette Davis

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television and theater. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film genres, from contemporary crime melodramas to historical and period films and occasional comedies, although her greatest successes were her roles in romantic dramas. photo by thefoxling on Flickr

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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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Nina Mae McKinney

Nina Mae McKinney (June 13, 1912 – May 3, 1967)  was an American actress who worked internationally in theatre, film and television after getting her start on Broadway and in Hollywood. 

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Anna May Wong

Anna May Wong, 1930s

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Ann Harding

Ann Harding (August 7, 1902 – September 1, 1981) was an American theatre, motion picture, radio, and television actress.

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Ann Sothern

Ann Sothern (born Harriet Arlene Lake, January 22, 1909 – March 15, 2001) was an American film and television actress whose career spanned six decades. Her film career started as an extra-bit part in the film Broadway Nights in 1927. Ann got her break with Columbia Pictures when they signed her to a contract in 1934. Her first role for Columbia was in the film The Party's Over (1934).

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Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball

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Frank Silvera

Actor, director, producer, teacher, Frank Silvera aka Man of a Thousand Faces, (July 24, 1914 - June 11, 1970), young emerging actor, in the American Negro Theatre, during the early stages of his career in theatre, film and television. Due to his looks, ability to transcend color, race, his skill with language, the new nearly dead art of make-up, and perhaps the surname of Silvera, Frank moved into the new elite inner circles of the leading American Theatre groups, where he became an active member of the famed Actors' Studio of New York, a "spin-off" of the old Group Theatre, of the Thirties.

Frank Silvera in the film, "Hombre."

Frank Silvera in the film, "Viva Zapata." 

Shelley Winters

1940s cheesecake photo of Shelley Winters

Shelley Winters, (August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American actress who appeared in dozens of films, as well as on stage and television; her career spanned over 50 years until her death in 2006. Two-time Oscar-winning actress Shelley Winters borrowed her stage name from her favorite poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and her mother's maiden name, Winter.

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Burgess Meredith

Burgess Meredith as the Penguin

One of the truly great and gifted performers of the century who often suffered lesser roles, Oliver Burgess Meredith, known professionally as Burgess Meredith, (November 16, 1907 – September 9, 1997), was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1907 and educated in Amherst College in Massachusetts before joining Eva Le Gallienne's stage company in New York City in 1933. Meredith was an American actor in theatre, film, and television, who also worked as a director.

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Helen Martin

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Helen Dorothy Martin, (July 23, 1909 – March 25, 2000) was an American actress of stage and television who perhaps most well known for her role in the sitcom 227 as Marla Gibbs' neighbor Pearl. Martin moved to New York to pursue a career in acting. She was chiefly a Broadway character actress for many decades, debuting in Orson Welles' production of Native Son in 1941. 

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Cesar Romero

Cesar Romero in his role as the Joker in Batman 

Tall, suave and sophisticated Cesar Julio Romero, Jr. (February 15, 1907 – January 1, 1994)

was an American film and television actor who was active in film, radio, and television for almost sixty years.

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Mercedes Brignone

Mercedes Brignone (1885-1967) was an Italian theatre, film and television actress.  Mercedes Brignone was the daughter of Italian stage actor Giuseppe Brignone. Already as a child she started to perform with her father and became a lively comical actress.

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Anna May Wong

Anna May Wong (January 3, 1905 – February 3, 1961) born Wong Liu Tsong, was an American actress, the first Chinese American movie star, and the first Asian American to become an international star. Her long and varied career spanned both silent and sound film, television, stage, and radio.

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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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Dean Stockwell

Dean Stockwell (born March 5, 1936) is an American actor of film and television, with a career spanning over 65 years. Photogenic American child actor of the 1940s, popular due in no small measure to his air of innocence and his beautiful, cherubic face with its dimples and his sparkling eyes, topped with a crown of curls. Still an actor in demand. |  Cropped screenshot of Dean Stockwell from the trailer for the film Stars in My Crown. c. 1950,

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Robert Young

Robert George Young (February 22, 1907 – July 21, 1998) was an American television, film, and radio actor, best known for his leading roles as Jim Anderson, the father character in Father Knows Best, and the physician Marcus Welby in Marcus Welby, M.D.

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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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Delia Magaña

Delia Magaña (February 2, 1903 – March 31, 1996) was a Mexican film and television actress, singer, and dancer. Although she started as a silent film actress, Magaña became best known for her comic supporting roles in her later years. For her 60 years in the film industry, as well as for contributing to the American cinema, Magaña's name and hand print are preserved in the sidewalk outside Mann's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, California.

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