Gertrude McCoy was an American film actress of the silent era


Gertrude McCoy June 30, 1890 – July 17, 1967 was an American film actress of the silent era. She appeared in 131 films between 1911 and 1926. She was born in Sugar Valley, Georgia and died in Atlanta, Georgia

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Geraldine Farrar was an American soprano opera singer and film actress


Geraldine Farrar was an American soprano opera singer and film actress, noted for her beauty, acting ability, and "the intimate timbre of her voice." She had a large following among young women, who were nicknamed "Gerry-flappers". Farrar had a seven-year love affair with the Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini. Her ultimatum, that he leave his wife and children and marry her, resulted in Toscanini's abrupt resignation as principal conductor of the Metropolitan Opera in 1915. Farrar was close friends with the star tenor Enrico Caruso and there has been speculation that they too had a love affair, but no substantial evidence of this has surfaced. It is said that Caruso coined her motto: Farrar fara ("Farrar will do it"). Her marriage to cinema actor Lou Tellegen on February 8, 1916 was the source of considerable scandal. The marriage ended, as a result of her husband's numerous affairs, in a very public divorce in 1923. The circumstances of the divorce were brought again to public recollection by Tellegen's bizarre 1934 suicide in Hollywood. Farrar reportedly said "Why should that interest me?" when told of Tellegen's death. Farrar retired from opera in 1922 at the age of 40. Her final performance was as Leoncavallo's Zazà. By this stage, her voice was in premature decline due to overwork. According to the American music critic Henry Pleasants, the author of The Great Singers from the Dawn of Opera to Our Own Time (first published 1967), she gave between 25 and 35 performances each season at the Met alone. They included 95 appearances as Madama Butterfly and 58 as Carmen in 16 seasons. The title role in Puccini's Tosca, which she had added to her repertoire in 1909, was another one of her favourite Met parts. The headstone of Geraldine Farrar Farrar continued to give recitals until 1931 and was briefly the intermission commentator for radio broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera during the 1934-35 season. Her autobiography, Such Sweet Compulsion, published in 1938, was written in alternating chapters purporting to be her own words and those of her mother, with Mrs. Farrar rather floridly recounting her daughter's many accomplishments. Farrar died in Ridgefield, Connecticut of a heart attack in 1967, aged 85, and was buried in Kensico Cemetery in Valhalla, New York. She had no children.

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Geraldine Chaplin is a British actress and the daughter of Charlie Chaplin


Geraldine Leigh Chaplin born 31 July 1944 is a British actress and the daughter of Charlie Chaplin and Oona O'Neil. She came to prominence for her Golden Globe–nominated role of Tonya in David Lean's Doctor Zhivago. She received her second Golden Globe nomination for Robert Altman's Nashville. She also appeared in his other pictures, Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson and A Wedding. She received a BAFTA nomination for her role in Welcome to L.A.. She then appeared in Roseland and Remember My Name. She played her grandmother Hannah Chaplin in the biopic, Chaplin for which she received her third Golden Globe nomination. She also appeared in The Age of Innocence, Jane Eyre, Mother Teresa: In the Name of God's Poor and The Wolfman. Chaplin has also appeared in several Spanish and French films. She starred in Claude Lelouch's Les Uns et les Autres, the Alain Resnais comedy, Life Is a Bed of Roses and the Jacques Rivette experimental film, Love on the Ground. She has, arguably, enjoyed her greatest critical success collaborating with Carlos Saura

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Geraldine Brooks was an American actress


Geraldine Brooks October 29, 1925 – June 19, 1977 was an American actress whose three-decade career on stage as well as in films and on television was noted with nominations for an Emmy in 1962 and a Tony in 1970. She was married to author Budd Schulberg, Geraldine Brooks died of a heart attack while battling cancer at Central Suffolk Hospital in Riverhead, New York. She was either 51 years old, or, per her New York Times obituary, 52. Her interment was in Mount Sinai, New York's cemetery, Washington Memorial Park.

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