Billie and Patsy Irwin

Billie and Patsy Irwin,  Sixteen year old twin dancers, Posing aboard the Cunard? 'The Blue Kitten' at the Gaiety Theatre, London" (192-?)

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts / Jerome Robbins Dance Division 

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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Ann Harding

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

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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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Sada Koyama

Sadayakko as Ophelia, born in 1871, Sadayakko (貞奴) was her stage name as an actress and dancer, derived from a combination of her real name, Sada Koyama, and her geisha name, Yakko. c. 1905

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Roszika and Janszieka Deutsch

The Dolly Sisters wearing Roaring 20's Fashion. When 18-year-old identical twins the Dolly Sisters danced onto the Broadway stage in 1911, they caused a sensation. Theatres swelled to bursting as people swarmed to see the girls who were a perfect mirror image of each other..  

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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.

Source: Italian Wikipedia, IMDB, Vittorio Martinelli, Il cinema muto italiano | Italian postcard. Varischi Artico & Co. Milano

Pina Menichelli

In the world of the silent screen Italian actress Pina Menichelli was a superstar, a diva, a femme fatale. Giuseppa Iolanda Menichelli (10 January 1890 – 29 August 1984), known as Pina Menichelli, was an Italian actress and silent film star. After a career in theatre and a series of small film roles, Menichelli was launched as a film star when Giovanni Pastrone gave her the lead role in Il Fuoco (1915).

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Davey Lee

Best recalled as the young tyke with the Buster Brown hairstyle who crawled onto Al Jolson's lap while the star sang the best-selling song "Sonny Boy" in the early talking film The Singing Fool. Davey Lee (December 29, 1924 -June 17, 2008) was an American child actor. He was born in Hollywood, California, USA. He appeared in six feature films between 1928 and 1930. Following his older brother Frankie Lee into films and earning close to $30,000 per week by 1930 after a handful of films, Davey's mother insisted he "retire" from films at age 6 so he could have a normal childhood. In later years he performed in local theatre.

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Vintage Photo

Joan Crawford (March 23, 1905 – May 10, 1977), born Lucille Fay LeSueur, was an American actress in film, television and theatre. c. 1920s