Pattie Boyd began her fashion career in 1962



Patricia Anne "Pattie" Boyd (born 17 March 1944) is an English model, photographer and author. She began her fashion career in 1962 and worked in London, New York, and Paris. She has appeared on the cover of Vogue and written for 16 Magazine. Her photographs have been exhibited world wide including shows in San Francisco, Dublin, Sydney, Toronto, Moscow, London, the USA. She is the former wife of George Harrison and Eric Clapton. Boyd was born in Taunton, Somerset, to Colin Ian Langdon Boyd and Diana Frances Drysdale. She was the eldest child and her sister, Helen Mary, whom she nicknamed, Jenny, later married Mick Fleetwood. Her family lived in Nairobi, Kenya, from 1948 to 1953, after her father's service injury and discharge from the Royal Air Force. Her parents divorced in 1952, and her mother returned to England with Boyd and her siblings. Boyd attended Hazeldean School in Putney, the St Agnes and St Michael Convent Boarding School in East Grinstead and St Martha's Convent

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Eunice Gayson she is officially the very first actress to play a Bond girl



Eunice Gayson (born Eunice Sargaison, 17 March 1928, Croydon, South London) is a British 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 going to be cast as Miss Moneypenny, but the part went to Lois Maxwell instead. For a number of years she played the part of Frau Schrader (The Baroness) in the London production of 'The Sound Of Music' at the Palace Theatre, singing two songs which were cut from the film version. Gayson was originally to have been a regular in the Bond film series, but her character was dropped. Like nearly all of the actresses who appeared in the first two Bond films, Gayson's voice in Dr. No and From Russia with Love was overdubbed by voice actress Nikki van der Zyl, though Gayson's real voice can still be heard in original trailers for Dr. No. As the first female to be seen in Dr. No, she is officially the very first actress to play a Bond girl.

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Brigitte Helm best remembered for her dual role as Maria and her double



Brigitte Helm (17 March 1906 – 11 June 1996) was a German actress, best remembered for her dual role as Maria and her double, the Maschinenmensch, in Fritz Lang's 1927 silent film Metropolis. Born Brigitte Eva Gisela Schittenhelm in Berlin, Helm's first role was that of Maria in Metropolis which she began work on while only 18 years old. After Metropolis, Helm made over thirty other films, including talking pictures, before retiring in 1936. Her other appearances include The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927), Alraune (1928), L'Argent (1928), Gloria (1931), The Blue Danube (1932), L'Atlantide (1932), and Gold (1934). Though having a 10-year contract with UFA expiring in 1935, Helm incurred the wrath of Nazi Germany for "race defilement" in marrying her second husband Dr. Hugo von Kuenheim, an industrialist of Jewish background. Helm was also involved in several traffic accidents, and was briefly imprisoned

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Dany Saval photos of the past

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Jane Wyman character actress of film and television



Jane Wyman (born Sarah Jane Mayfield; January 5, 1917 – September 10, 2007) was an American singer, dancer, and character actress of film and television. She began her film career in the 1930s, and was a prolific performer for two decades. She received an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Johnny Belinda (1948), and later achieved success during the 1980s for her leading role in the television series Falcon Crest. Wyman was the first wife of Ronald Reagan. They married in 1940 and divorced in 1949, before Reagan ran for public office. Wyman was born Sarah Jane Mayfield in St. Joseph, Missouri. Although her birthdate has been widely reported for many years as January 4, 1914, research by biographers and genealogists indicates that she was born on January 5, 1917. The most likely reason for the 1914 date is that she added to her age when beginning her career as a minor, so that she could work.

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Yvette Mimieux retired American movie and television actress



Yvette Carmen Mimieux (born January 8, 1942) is a retired American movie and television actress. Yvette Mimieux was born in Los Angeles, California, to a French father and Mexican mother, Carmen Montemayor. Before her film career began, Mimieux was one of four finalists from a beauty contest picked by Elvis Presley (while he was filming "Jailhouse Rock") and invited to come to the set and compete for a bit role in the movie ("girl in bathing suit"). She and the other girls modeled their suits (and figures), but Mimieux wasn't picked. In 1960, she appeared in the teen movie Where the Boys Are as well as George Pal's 1960 film version of H.G. Wells's classic 1895 novel The Time Machine co-starring Rod Taylor, wherein she played the character "Weena." This was followed by The Light in the Piazza (1962) with Olivia de Havilland. In 1963, Mimieux appeared in Diamond Head and Toys in the Attic. Many of the films in which she appeared after 1963 were both critical and commercial failures

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Faye Dunaway is of Irish, Scottish and German descent



Faye Dunaway (born January 14, 1941) is an American actress. Dunaway won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Network (1976) after receiving previous nominations for the critically acclaimed films Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and Chinatown (1974). She has also starred in a variety of other successful films, including The Thomas Crown Affair (1968), The Towering Inferno (1974), Three Days of the Condor (1975), and Mommie Dearest (1981). Dunaway was born Dorothy Faye Dunaway in Bascom, Florida, the daughter of Grace April (née Smith), a housewife, and John MacDowell Dunaway, Jr., a career non-commissioned officer in the United States Army. She is of Irish, Scottish and German descent. She attended the University of Florida, Florida State University, and Boston University, but graduated from the University of Florida in theater. In 1962, Dunaway joined the American National Theater and Academy. Dunaway appeared on Broadway in 1962 as the daughter of Thomas More

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