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Marie Prevost
Beautiful Marie Prevost (1898-1937) was an American silent screen actress. She started out as one of Mack Sennett's bathing beauties, but after signing a contract with Universal she publicly burned her...
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Jack Palance
Jack Palance (1919-2006) was an American actor and singer, who portrayed some of the most intensely despised villains witnessed in Westerns and melodramas of the 1950s. In the late 1950s, he became an...
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Mari Blanchard
Beautiful blonde American actress Mari Blanchard (1927–1970) was known for playing alluring harem girls and saloon dancers in American adventure films and Westerns of the 1950s and early 1960s....
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Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong (1901-1971) was The King of the Jazz Trumpet. Armstrong, nicknamed Satchmo, is renowned for his charismatic stage presence and voice almost as much as for his trumpet playing. He...
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Cleopatra (1934)
After his historical epic Sign of the Cross (1932), Cecil B. DeMille directed another ancient spectacle, Cleopatra (1934). His new star Claudette Colbert, fresh from her donkey milk bath in Sign of The...
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Judy Garland
American singer, actress, and vaudevillian Judy Garland (1922-1969) was one of the brightest, most tragic film stars of Hollywood's Golden Era. During a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Garland...
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Columbia Pictures or Columbia is one of the 'Big Six' major American film studios, and was one of the 'Little Three' among the eight major film studios of Hollywood's Golden Age. Studio Mogul was the...
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Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Hoffman (1937) is an Oscar–winning American actor with a career in film, television, and theatre since 1960. Short in stature and not typically handsome, Hoffman is known for his versatile...
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Hoot Gibson
Hoot Gibson (1892-1962) was a rodeo champion and pioneering cowboy star of silent Westerns. With his easy combination of light, breezy, boyish charm comedy and riding abilities, Hoot filled a gap...
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Suzy Parker
American model and actress Suzy Parker (1932–2003) was known in the 1950s as the most photographed woman in the world and is now considered as the very first Supermodel. The red-headed beauty defined...
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Lillian Roth
American singer and actress Lillian Roth (1910-1980) was a Broadway star and Hollywood actress. Among her films were Ernst Lubitsch's The Love Parade (1929), Cecil B. DeMille's Madam Satan (1930), and...
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The Ten Commandments (1956)
The Ten Commandments (1956) was director and producer DeMille's last and most successful film, a partial remake of his 1923 silent film of the same title. It was filmed on location in Egypt, Mount...
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Mickey Rooney
American film actor Mickey Rooney (1920-2014) had one of the longest careers in cinematic history. As a child, he first appeared on film in 1926 and he made his last appearance in 2014. As a teenager,...
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Photo by United Artists
The credits of United Artists Corporation (UA) include Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton classics, Stanley Kubrick's Paths of Glory, the James Bond films, the best work of Billy Wilder, hits like High...
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Virginia Mayo
American actress and dancer Virginia Mayo (1920-2005) is best known for her series of splashy Technicolor musicals with Danny Kaye, including the delightful The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947). She...
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Virginia Valli
American stage and film actress Virginia Valli (1895–1968) was an established star at Universal during the mid 1920s. She worked with such directors as John Ford, King Vidor, Howard Hawks and the young...
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Bette Davis
American film star Bette Davis (1908-1989) was one of the greatest actors in world cinema history. She dared to play unsympathetic, sardonic characters and was reputed for her performances in a range...
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Barbara Lang
Beautiful, brassy Barbara Lang (1928–1982) was an American actress and singer. During the 1950s she was one of the many B-level blondes in Hollywood who were promoted as the new Marilyn Monroe....
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Cleopatra (1963)
The American historical drama Cleopatra (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1963) chronicles the struggles of Cleopatra, the young Queen of Egypt, to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome. It achieved notoriety for...
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Vera-Ellen
Blonde, slim Vera-Ellen (1921-1981) was one of the most vivacious and vibrant musical film talents to glide through Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s. Whether performing solo or dueting with the best...
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