Charlotte Austin was an american actress

Named for her birthplace (Charlotte, North Carolina), Charlotte Austin born 2 November 1933, was the daughter of Gene Austin, a top crooner of the 1920s and 1930s and the composer of many popular songs. Dramatic training and a screen test led to a contract at 20th Century-Fox for Charlotte in the early 1950s, when she had parts in the studio's How to Marry a Millionaire (1953), Désirée (1954) and Daddy Long Legs (1955), and she co-starred (on loanout to Columbia) in the musical Castle in the Air (1952). Freelancing after the mid-'50s, she moved from musicals to monsters, perhaps most notoriously tackling half of the title role in the Edward D. Wood Jr.-scripted The Bride and the Beast (1958). She is now a dealer in antiques. With the advent of Cinemascope, Twentieth Century-Fox sent a half-dozen preview scenes of How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) to distributors worldwide showcasing the new process. Austin played the nearsighted "Loco" in these previews, with the original cast (Betty Grable, Lauren Bacall, David Wayne) playing their parts. In the completed film, Marilyn Monroe played the role of "Loco", with Charlotte playing the role of "Ding-Dong". Austin played the role of "Loco" again in the pilot for the TV series How to Marry a Millionaire (1957). Barbara Eden played the role in the final series. All cast members were replaced (with the exception of Lori Nelson), as was the director, John Rich (of All in the Family (1971)) fame. Her 1958 film The Bride and the Beast (1958), written by Edward D. Wood Jr., was released on DVD, newly remastered, in the spring of 2002 by Retromedia. VCI's later DVD release of the movie featured an audio commentary with Austin, supporting player Trustin Howard (aka Slick Slavin), gorilla movie expert Bob Burns and interviewer Tom Weaver. Interviewed about her horror/sci-fi movies in "It Came from Horrorwood: Interviews with Moviemakers in the SF and Horror Tradition" by Tom Weaver (McFarland, 1996). Her singing voice for "Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder" was dubbed by Jo Ann Greer, a noted vocalist who also sang for Rita Hayworth, Esther Williams, Kim Novak and Gloria Grahame. Interviewed about her father, Gene Austin, and her Western credits in "Wild Wild Westerners" by Tom Weaver (BearManor, 2012). Owns and runs an antique shop in Pasadena specializing in romantic Victorian furnishings She has a grown daughter, is songwriting and recording again and completed a musical based on "The Trial of the Century".

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Christine McIntyre was an American actress who appeared in movies in the 1930s and 1940s

Christine Cecilia McIntyre (April 16, 1911 – July 8, 1984) was an American actress who appeared in many movies in the 1930s and 1940s but is mainly known as the beautiful blonde actress who appeared in many Three Stooges shorts produced by Columbia Pictures. A native of Nogales, Arizona,[1] Christine McIntyre was one of five children. A classically trained singer, McIntyre received a Bachelor of Music degree at Chicago Musical College in 1933. It was here that she developed her operatic soprano voice, which would be put to good use in several Three Stooges films in the 1940s. McIntyre began singing in feature films at RKO Pictures, and made her film debut in 1937's Swing Fever. She then appeared in a series of B-westerns featuring the likes of Ray Corrigan and Buck Jones. She appeared with dark hair in these early roles, and also appeared occasionally in "mainstream" feature films (like 1939's Blondie Takes a Vacation). She sang songs such as "The Blue Danube" and "Voices of Spring" in a Vienna-themed short Soundies musical film, and her performance was singled out as the best of the inaugural series. Her singing in this soundie may have given the Three Stooges the idea of using "Voices of Spring" in their short film Micro-Phonies.

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Christine Larson An on-screen femme fatale

Christine Larsen aka Christine Larson (March 15, 1918, Durand, Wisconsin - February 13, 1973, Los Angeles, California) was a U.S. actor. An on-screen femme fatale, Diminutive beauty Christine Larsen (also credited as 'Larson' in some of her early films) had a minor Hollywood career, spanning a mere seven years, from 1948 to 1955. On the rare occasions she was not cast as the perfunctory love interest in B-westerns, opposite the likes of Johnny Mack Brown, she co-starred in long-forgotten potboilers (Last Train from Bombay (1952)) and 'Jungle Jim' adventures (Valley of Head Hunters (1953)). The multi-talented redhead initially studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York and gained her entry to Hollywood in the mid 1940's via a spell with the Western Costume Company, as a designer of men's garments for 20th Century Fox musicals and period dramas. She also dabbled in theatrical set design and was a champion equestrian and rodeo queen, whose greatest ambition in life was to own a Lipizzaner stallion.

Ironically, it was to be Christine's private life which made the headlines, rather than her all-too-brief tenure as a second feature lead in Hollywood. A 1992 unauthorised biography of Nancy Reagan by sensationalist author Kitty Kelley alleged an affair between her and future president Ronald Reagan -- though she had spurned his proposal of marriage in 1951 -- which endured at least a year into his marriage to Nancy. In 1952, Christine hit the news again, when she made a claim to police, accusing her 57-year old neighbour of spying on her by means of a spotlight and a periscope after she had refused his advances. The authorities, apparently, did not seriously pursue the matter, insisting that periscopes were not covered by city ordinances.

There were a few more TV appearances before Christine's career had run its course and it became quiet about her for the remaining years of her life. She died at the relatively young age of 54 in Los Angeles in February 1973.

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Cher is an American singer and actress

Cher is an American singer and actress. Recognized for having brought the sense of female autonomy and self-actualization into the entertainment industry, she is known for her distinctive contralto singing voice and for having worked in various areas of entertainment, as well as continuously reinventing both her music and image, which has led to her being nicknamed the Goddess of Pop. Cher became prominent in 1965 as one-half of the folk rock husband–wife duo Sonny & Cher, who popularized a particular smooth sound that successfully competed with the dominant British Invasion and Motown sounds of the era. From 1965, she had established herself as a solo artist with successful singles such as "Bang Bang", "Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves", "Half-Breed", and "Dark Lady", songs that deal with subjects rarely addressed in American popular music. Goldmine magazine's Phill Marder described her as the leader of an effort in the 1960s to "advance feminine rebellion in the rock world [and] the prototype of the female rock star, setting the standard for appearance [and] attitude". After the duo's drug-free lifestyle had lost its popular appeal in the United States owing to the drug culture of the 1960s, she returned to stardom in the 1970s as a television personality with her shows The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour and Cher, both of which attained immense popularity. She became a fashion trendsetter with her daring outfits. After Cher and Sonny divorced in 1975, Cher experimented with various musical styles, including disco and new wave, before becoming a successful live act in Las Vegas

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Cathy Downs was an American film actress

Cathy Downs (March 3, 1924 – December 8, 1976) was an American film actress. Downs was born in Port Jefferson, New York. A former Vogue cover model, she was brought to Hollywood in 1944 by a 20th Century-Fox talent scout. Downs began her film career with a small roles in State Fair (1945 film) (1945) and The Dolly Sisters (1945). In 1946 she played the title role in My Darling Clementine. Following the success of the latter, Downs was cast in a prison drama For You I Die (1947), an Abbott & Costello comedy The Noose Hangs High, and several western films. By the beginning of the 1950s she was appearing in lower budget films, including some science fiction films, with one of these films Missile to the Moon marking her last screen appearance, in 1958. She worked sporadically in television during the 1960s, with her final television appearance in 1965 on Perry Mason as murder victim and title character Millicent Barton in "The Case of the Hasty Honeymooner." She was unemployed the remaining eleven years of her life before she died in Los Angeles, California. Downs has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for her contribution to Television, at 6646 Hollywood Boulevard. She was married first to Joe Kirkwood, Jr. (1952–1955; divorced) who played the character Joe Palooka in films and on TV.They had long been out of touch, when, in 1976 Kirkwood heard that Downs was in dire financial circumstances. Kirkwood was setting up a trust fund for her when he learned she had died of cancer at the age of 52. She is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery, Santa Monica

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Cathleen Crosby is an american actress

Cathy Crosby was born on November 24, 1939 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is an actress, known for Girls Town (1959), College Confidential (1960) and The Chinese Room (1968).

Daughter of Bob Crosby.

Sister of Chris Crosby

Niece of Bing Crosby

Cousin of Lindsay Crosby, Phillip Crosby, Gary Crosby, Dennis Crosby, Nathaniel Crosby, Mary Crosby and Harry Crosby

Second cousin of Denise Crosby and L. Chip Crosby Jr.

1955 Deb Star.
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Carolyn Mitchell was the fifth Mrs. Mickey Rooney

Carolyn Mitchell was born Barabara Ann Thomason on January 25, 1937 in Phoenix, Arizona, to Don and Helen Thomason. While attending Emerson Elementary School in Phoenix, she became known as the prettiest girl in Phoenix. Her family moved to Inglewood, California in 1951, a part of Los Angeles, a mecca for beautiful and ambitious young woman desiring to be spotted. While attending Inglewood's Morningside High School, she began entering beauty pageants, and in October 1953, her dreams came true when she was crowned "Miss Venus." In 1954, she began attending the Hollywood Professional School, where she started using weights to tone her figure to better compete in beauty pageants. In 1954, she was crowned "Queen of the Championships of Southern California." Later that year, she won the "Miss Muscle Beach" and "Miss Surf Festival" titles. In 1955, she had the honor of being named "Miss Huntington Beach," followed by the "Miss Van Ness," "Miss Bay Beach," "Miss Southwest Los Angeles," "Miss Pacific Coast," and "Queen of Southern California" titles. After graduating from school, she became a dance instructor for Arthur Murray. As "Tara Thomas," she became a model, appearing in "Modern Man" in December 1957. Early in 1958, Fate intervened in the guise of car salesman Bill Gardner, who introduced her to Hollywood legend Mickey Rooney at a nightclub. The smitten Rooney, hot again after winning the third of his four Oscar nominations the year before (for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for "The Bold and the Brave") and appearing in a box office hit as the eponymous lead in 'Don Siegel's "Baby Face Nelson" (1957), bought her a $4,500 fur coat. On April 12th, 1958, she reportedly took an overdose of sleeping pills. The day after the incident, she told the press that the Mick tried to resuscitate her by pushing her into his swimming pool. The incident later was revealed to be a publicity stunt. By June, Mickey had separated from his fourth wife, actress Elaine Devry, and bought a new house in Sherman Oaks which she moved into to play house with the diminutive movie star. Before becoming the fifth Mrs. Mickey Rooney, Thomason made two low-budget, indie features, including "Cry Baby Killer" (1958) with future superstar Jack Nicholson. Thomason and Mickey were secretly married in Mexico on December 1, 1958. In March of 1959, the three-months-pregnant Thomason threatened to commit suicide if Rooney didn't get a divorce and marry her, though Mickey tried to convince here that they were already married. On September 13, 1959, Barbara Ann Thomason Rooney gave birth to a daughter, Kelly Ann, at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica. Rooney announced he had wed Thomason in a Mexican ceremony. Later that year, she appeared in the November 1959 issue of "Gala" magazine. Due to the dubious nature of their Mexican marriage, Mickey remarried Thomason in 1960, with the Reverend Douglas Smith presiding at his Los Angeles church, making their marriage legal. Their second daughter, Kerry Yule, was born on December 30, 1960. They would have two more children, a son Michael Joseph, born on April 2, 1962, and a third daughter, Kimmy Sue, born four years to the day after their first, on September 13, 1963 by cesarean section. In August 1963, the heavily pregnant Barbara accompanied Mickey to Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, for the filming of "The Secret Invasion." According to his second autobiography, Mickey had been cheating on her, and on July 4th, 1964, Mickey had met a stripper and movie extra in Atlantic City. In late August, his new girlfriend created a row when Barbara Ann accompanied Mickey to the set for the filming of his television series, "Mickey." After the incident, Barbara had a massive fight with Mickey, and in September '64, they both were in contact with divorce attorneys. However, they didn't divorce but decided to move out of Beverly Hills. They sold their Beverly Hills home and moved into a Brentwood house they bought relatively cheap for only $65,000 as both of the previous two occupants had died at the house in freak accidents. It would prove equally unlucky for Barbara. After becoming friendly with French actor Alain Delon, who was in Los Angeles in the Fall of 1964 to try to make a go at Hollywood. It was Delon who introduced Mickey and Barbara to his stand-in Milos Milosevics, a 24-year-old Yugoslavian actor Delon has brought with him from Paris. Mickey had to go on location to the Philippines to film a picture, and he made the fatal mistake of asking his new friend Milosevics to look after his his wife. Milosevics agreed. With the cat away, the mice did play. Barbara reportedly took Milosevics as a lover to get back at Mickey for his philandering. While Mickey was in the Philippines, Barbara Ann accompanied her new lover Milosevics to northern California, to the location shoot of "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming," in which he has a bit part. They were still having an affair when Mickey returned and moved out of the Brentwood house after finding out. The couple filed for an official separation on December 1965, after which Milosevics moved into the Brentwood house to live with Barbara and her four children by Mickey. After learning she was planning to file a lawsuit for separate maintenance, Mickey filed for divorce on January 19, 1966, citing mental cruelty. In his suit, Mickey asked the court for a restraining order to keep Milosevics out of the Brentwood house. Barabra began to panic when she learned that she might lose her children in a custody battle due to her adultery. On his part, Milosevics became jealous when he realized she was considering returning to Mickey. He was even more incensed when he heard a tape recording of a conversation between Barbara and Mickey, discussing the divorce suit. On the tape, made by a private detective on January 20, 1966 with the help of Barbara and Milosevics, she tells Mickey that she will not see Milosevics again, even as a friend. Afterwards, Mickey checked in to the hospital for treatment of an exotic blood disease he has picked up on location. That night, she went out with Milosevics and her friend Margie Lane for dinner at the Daisy on Rodeo Drive. They returned to Brentwood and bid her friend goodnight at 8:30 p.m. Three of the children were at home; three-year-old Kimmy Sue was visiting her grandparents in Inglewood. The following day, her friend Wilma Catania and the maid forced open the locked door of the master bedroom with a screwdriver. In the bathroom, they found the bodies of Barbara and Milosevics. She was lying on her back, shot through the jaw, Milosevics beside her, face down, a bullet hole in his temple. Milosevic had shot Barbara with Mickey's chrome-plated .38 caliber revolver, then turned the weapon on himself. When Mickey learned about the murder-suicide, he went into shock and is forced to stay another day in the hospital. Barabra Ann Thomason's funeral services and interment were held at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale on February 5, 1966, with Reverend Douglas Smith, the minister who had married her and Mickey in 1960, presiding. Barbara's four children were put into the custody of their grandparents in Inglewood. In his autobiography, Mickey said of the murder-suicide,"I died when she did. I am furious at what happened to her." On the rebound, Mickey married Barbara's close friend Marge Lane. That marriage failed after 100 days.

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Carolyn Craig was an American actress best known as Nora Manning in 1959 shocker House on Haunted Hill

Carolyn Craig was an American actress who was perhaps best known for her performance as Nora Manning in William Castle's 1959 shocker House on Haunted Hill. Her other film credits include a supporting performance in Giant as Lacey Lynnton, and a lead role in the 1957 film noir Portland Expose, as Ruth Madison. Sometimes billed as Caroline Craig, she also made numerous guest appearances on television, including a recurring role on the ABC soap opera, General Hospital. She also made a guest appearance on the 4th episode of the CBS drama series Perry Mason as Helen Waters in "The Case of the Drowning Duck." On April 9, 1962, Craig appeared in the episode "The Fortune Hunter" of NBC's western television series, Laramie, in the role of Kitty McAllen, a young woman being pursued by a suave but nefarious suitor, the gunfighter Vince Jackson, played by Ray Danton. Parley Baer is cast in the segment as Kitty's wealthy father, Fred McAllen, from whom Jackson expects to extort money once he has married Kitty. However, series character Slim Sherman, played by John Smith, also has an interest in Kitty, who using Vince's interest in her as a ruse to make Slim jealous. Ultimately, Kitty leaves Laramie to attend college

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Carole Landis The Actress Who Could Have Been...But Never Was

Carole Landis (January 1, 1919 – July 5, 1948) was an American film and stage actress, who worked as a contract-player for Twentieth Century-Fox in the 1940s. Her breakthrough role was as the female lead in the 1940 film One Million B.C., with United Artists. She died of an intentional drug overdose at the age of 29 in 1948. After her death, newspapers headlined stories about the actress, some with the title "The Actress Who Could Have Been...But Never Was." Landis was born Frances Lillian Mary Ridste in Fairchild, Wisconsin. Her mother, Clara (née Stentek), was a Polish farmer's daughter. A Time magazine article published the month of her death identifies her father as a "drifting railroad mechanic"; according to a 2005 biography, the mother was married to Norwegian Alfred Ridste, who abandoned the family before Landis was born, and it was Charles Fenner, her mother's second husband, who most likely was Landis' biological father. She was the youngest of five children, two of whom died in childhood. Her early years were filled with poverty and sexual abuse. In January 1934, 15-year-old Landis married her 19-year-old neighbor, Irving Wheeler, but the marriage was annulled in February 1934. They later remarried on August 25, 1934. Wheeler named Busby Berkeley in an alienation of affections lawsuit in 1938 involving Landis, and they divorced in 1939. In June 1939, director-choreographer Busby Berkeley proposed to Landis, but later broke it off. In 1940 she married yacht broker Willis Hunt Jr., a man she called "sarcastic" and left after two months. Two years later, she met an Army Air Corps captain named Thomas Wallace in London, and married him in a church ceremony; they divorced a couple of years later. Landis wanted to have children but was unable to conceive due to endometriosis. In 1945, Landis married Broadway producer W. Horace Schmidlapp. By 1948, her career was in decline and her marriage with Schmidlapp was collapsing. She entered into a romance with actor Rex Harrison, who was then married to actress Lilli Palmer. Landis was reportedly crushed when Harrison refused to divorce his wife for her; unable to cope any longer, she committed suicide in her Pacific Palisades home at 1465 Capri Drive by taking an overdose of Seconal. She had spent her final night alive with Harrison. The next afternoon, Harrison and the maid discovered her on the bathroom floor. Harrison waited several hours before he called a doctor and the police. According to some sources, Landis left two suicide notes, one for her mother and the second for Harrison who instructed his lawyers to destroy it. During a coroner's inquest, Harrison denied knowing any motive for her suicide and told the coroner he did not know of the existence of a second suicide note. Landis' official web site, which is owned by her family, has questioned the events of Landis' death and the coroner's ruling of suicide. Carole Landis was interred in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California in plot 814 of the "Everlasting Love" section. Among the celebrities at her funeral were Cesar Romero, Van Johnson, and Pat O'Brien. Harrison attended with his wife. Landis has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, at 1765 Vine Street.

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Carol Ohmart is an American actress who appeared in films of the 1950s

Armelia Carol Ohmart (born July 3, 1927), better known as Carol Ohmart, is an American actress and beauty pageant title holder who appeared in films of the 1950s. Born in Salt Lake City, Utah, into a Mormon family her father was C. Thomas Ohmart, a dentist who was first a professional actor, and Armelia Ohmart. Her grandfather was Robert Sweeten, one of the first Mormon pioneers to reach Utah. Ohmart won the Miss Utah 1946 title at the age of 19. She then won fourth place in the Miss America pageant. In 1947, Ohmart became a model for the character "Copper Calhoun" in Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon comic strip. She was seen on early television doing commercials, appearing on NBC's Bonny Maid Versatile Varieties (1949–51), which aired Friday nights at 9pm. Ohmart was seen pitching floor wax along with Anne Francis and Eva Marie Saint, with the trio also hosting the show. Paramount Pictures signed her in 1955 and promoted her as the next Marilyn Monroe, but she found little success. One of her most noted roles was in William Castle's House on Haunted Hill (1959), playing the murder-plotting wife of Vincent Price. Milton Caniff draws Steve Canyon's "Copper Calhoun", with Ohmart as his model (1947) Ohmart had steady work in television until the early 1970s, with roles in Bat Masterson, The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, Get Smart, Perry Mason and Barnaby Jones. Her last film role was in 1974 with The Spectre of Edgar Allan Poe.

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Carole Mathews Her longest running role was as Wilma Fansler in western television series The Californians

Carole Mathews (born September 13, 1920) is a retired American actress of film and television. Her longest running role was as the 37-year-old widow Wilma Fansler in the second season from 1958 to 1959 on the NBC western television series, The Californians. Born Jean Deifel in Montgomery, near Chicago, Illinois, Mathews went to live with a grandmother after her mother divorced her father. She attended Roman Catholic schools and after graduation from high school entered a nunnery. She was named "Miss Chicago" in 1938 and soon left the nunnery. Instead, she joined the Earl Carroll Follies and hosted a WGN radio program, Breakfast Time with Carole Mathews. Soon she was engaging in modeling. In 1942, she conducted a screen test for Samuel Goldwyn of MGM Studios. That same night, she married radio writer John Arthur Stockton in Tijuana, Mexico, the scion of a wealthy Chicago family. Goldwyn immediately canceled her contract. In late January 1944, she had the marriage annulled, and she never remarried though she was associated with several other men, including a considerably younger Don Durant, two years before he was cast in his own CBS western series, Johnny Ringo, according to a report from Walter Winchell. In November 1958, Dick Meyers, her then fiancé, announced that he hoped within two years to salvage the sunken Italian liner, the Andrea Doria. From 1971 to 1986, Mathews operated a travel agency in Sherman Oaks in the San Fernando Valley of California. In March 1977, Mathews took over the Hidden Valley Ranch in nearby Reseda, California, where she raised pygmy goats, rabbits, chickens, Muscovy ducks, and worms. She also produced audio/visual travelogues and television dramas. In 1982, she was cited for her success in raising miniature horses. In 1958-1959, Mathews was cast in The Californians in a romantic role opposite Richard Coogan as the fictional 1850s Marshal Matthew Wayne of San Francisco during the California Gold Rush. Coogan's character was the only one to appear in both seasons of the series. Her co-star in the second season was Art Fleming, later the first host of the quiz show, Jeopardy!; Fleming played the character Jeremy Pitt. The female role on the first season had been Nan Leslie, who as the character Martha McGivern was cast opposite Sean McClory. Prior to the series, she was known for her roles in the film Swamp Women (1955), one of the first pictures directed by Roger Corman and also starring Beverly Garland and Mike Connors. Mathews was also cast in Betrayed Women (1956). Even during the late 1930s, when she will still in her teens, she was appearing in uncredited roles in various films. One of her first television guest-starring roles were as Miss Jennings in the 1951 episode "The Slocum Family" and Anne Hardy in "Blacksmith Story" (1952) of the syndicated western series, The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, starring Guy Madison and Andy Devine. The Anne Hardy role was used in 1954 in the film The Two Gun Teacher, with Mathews, Madison, and Devine. She also played Alice Miller in the 1952 episode "Big Trap" of the CBS police drama series, Racket Squad, starring Reed Hadley. That same year, she appeared twice in another syndicated western series, The Cisco Kid. Other Mathews roles were on three CBS western series: as Dellie Hartford in "The General's Disgrace" (1957) on The Adventures of Jim Bowie, starring Scott Forbes, as Millie Gwyn in "The Farrand Story" (1958) on Trackdown, starring Robert Culp, and as Libby on "This Man Must Die" (1958) on Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theater. She appeared in two episodes of CBS's anthology drama series, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, as Clara Nash in "The Baby Sitter" (1956) and Faye Slovak in "The Percentage" (1958). Mathews played Lola in the 1958 episode "The Pickpocket" of the NBC western series, Tales of Wells Fargo, starring Dale Robertson. She had also appeared with Robertson five years earlier in the film City of Bad Men. In 1958, she was cast as Jill Crane in the film, Showdown at Boot Hill and as Bess Corbin in "No Tears for the Dead" on Rory Calhoun's CBS western series, The Texan. On January 9, 1959, she played Mrs. Elaine Lamson in the episode "Not an Enemy in the World" on the ABC/Warner Brothers drama series, 77 Sunset Strip, starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., and Roger Smith. About this time she was cast on two episodes of the CBS legal drama, Perry Mason. Other 1959 roles were as Jan Van Pelt in "The Glass Diamond" of the Ray Milland CBS drama series Markham and as Rita Kirk in "No Laughing Matter" in the last season of the NBC crime drama, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, starring David Janssen. She appeared twice in 1959 on NBC's police drama M Squad, starring Lee Marvin. Later roles In 1960, Mathews was cast as Phyllis Brady in "Babs Meets Phyllis Brady", an episode of the ABC sitcom, Guestward Ho!, set on a dude ranch in New Mexico. In the story line, Phyllis Brady, the childhood sweetheart of Bill Hooten (Mark Miller), the husband of Babs Hooten (Joanne Dru), has become an accomplished horsewoman and comes to the ranch to visit the Hootens. Her appearance upsets the jealous Babs. Mathews played the western bandit Belle Starr in "A Bullet for the D.A", a 1961 episode of the syndicated western anthology series, Death Valley Days, then hosted by Stanley Andrews.[6] In 1962, she played Mrs. Hoyt in the film Tender Is the Night, based on an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel of the same name. Her many co-stars included Jennifer Jones, Jason Robards, Jr., and Joan Fontaine Her last television roles were on the CBS sitcom, Pete and Gladys (1962), starring Harry Morgan and Cara Williams, the CBS western Rawhide (1964), starring Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood, and the ABC medical drama, Ben Casey (1966), starring Vince Edwards. Twelve years later in 1978, she was cast as a woman in a restaurant in her final acting role on the television movie, Fame, about a waiter who becomes an overnight success as a playwrigh

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Carol Lynley is an American actress and former child model

Carol Lynley (born February 13, 1942) is an American actress and former child model. Lynley was born Carole Ann Jones in Manhattan, the daughter of Frances (née Felch), a waitress, and Cyril Jones. Her father was Irish and her mother, a native of New England, was of English, Scottish, Welsh, German, and Native American ancestry. She began her career as a child model under the name Carolyn Lee. When she started acting, after appearing on the April 22, 1957, cover of Life magazine at 15,she discovered that another actress already had registered the name, so she modified it to the homophone Carol Lynley. Early on, Lynley distinguished herself in both the Broadway stage and Hollywood screen versions of the controversial drama Blue Denim (1959), in which the teenaged characters played by Lynley and co-star Brandon deWilde had to deal with an unwanted pregnancy. In 1959, Lynley was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for "Most Promising Newcomer – Female". Lynley may be best known for her film roles in Return to Peyton Place, Under the Yum Yum Tree, Bunny Lake is Missing, The Cardinal, Harlow, and the original The Poseidon Adventure, in which she performed the Oscar-winning song "The Morning After" (but her singing voice actually was that of studio singer, Renee Armand). Lynley appeared in the pilot television movies for Kolchak: The Night Stalker and Fantasy Island. Her many other series appearances included The Big Valley, Mannix, It Takes a Thief, Night Gallery, The Invaders, Kojak, Hawaii Five-O and Charlie's Angels. Lynley appeared in the fourth season The Man from U.N.C.L.E. two-part episode, "The Prince of Darkness Affair". She posed nude at age 22 for the March 1965 edition of Playboy magazine. In 2006, she appeared in a 30-minute film, Vic, co-written and directed by Sage Stallone, the late son of Sylvester Stallone.

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Carol Brewster is a former American actress

Carol Brewster, born Miriam Elizabeth Hechler on February 25, 1927 in Los Angeles, California, is a former American actress.

 Carol Brewster appeared in these classic movies and Televison

• Hell's Bloody Devils (1970)
• Rosemary's Baby (1968)
• Perry Mason: The Case of the Vanishing Victim (1966) (TV)
• Branded: A Proud Town (1965)
• The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: Night Fever (1965) (TV)
• Police Nurse (1963)
• Son of Sinbad (1955)
• The Maverick Queen (1955)
• Cat Women of the Moon (1953)
• Untamed Women (1952)
• The Belle of New York (1952)
• Casa Manana (1951)
• Two Tickets to Broadway (1951)
• A Life of Her Own (1950)
• The Girl from Jones Beach (1949)
• Flamingo Road (1949)
• The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
• It's a Great Feeling (1949)

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Carole Lombard is particularly noted for her zany, energetic roles in the screwball comedies of the 1930s

Carole Lombard, born Jane Alice Peters, was an American film actress. She is particularly noted for her zany, energetic roles in the screwball comedies of the 1930s. She was the highest-paid star in Hollywood in the late 1930s. Lombard was born into a wealthy family in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on October 6, 1908. She attended Virgil Junior High School, where she excelled in sports, and while playing baseball caught the attention of the film director Allan Dwan, which led to her screen debut in A Perfect Crime. In October 1924, at the age of 16, she signed a contract with the Fox Film Corporation, and got her first break the following year opposite Edmund Lowe in the successful drama Marriage in Transit. Soon dropped by Fox following a car accident which left a scar on her face, she appeared in 15 short films of Pathé Exchange between September 1927 and March 1929, and then began appearing in feature films such as High Voltage and The Racketeer. After a successful one-off appearance opposite Warner Baxter in Fox's The Arizona Kid, she signed a contract with Paramount Pictures who cast her in the Buddy Rogers comedy Safety in Numbers. Lombard began appearing in comedies with William Powell such as Man of the World and Ladies Man, and married him in June 1931. The marriage to Powell increased Lombard's fame, and the two would continue to occasionally star together throughout the 1930s, despite being divorced in 1933. Lombard starred alongside Clark Gable in No Man of Her Own and George Raft in Bolero, where her dance skills were praised. After roles in successful films such as Twentieth Century, Hands Across the Table, which was the first of four comedies made with Fred MacMurray, The Princess Comes Across, My Man Godfrey, which one her an Academy Award nomination opposite Powell, Swing High, Swing Low, and Nothing Sacred, Lombard had become the highest-paid actress in Hollywood and one of its most popular stars. Eager to win an Oscar, by the end of the decade she began to move away from comedies towards more serious roles, appearing opposite James Stewart in the drama Made for Each Other and alongside Cary Grant in the romance In Name Only. Her role as a nurse in Vigil in the Night was her most notable attempt to win an Oscar but didn't receive a nomination. Lombard returned to comedy in Alfred Hitchcock's Mr. & Mrs. Smith in 1941.

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Carmen Phillips was an actress best known for appearing in Easy Rider 1969

Babe Name: Carmen Phillips Profession: Actress Feature Dancer: No Ethnicity: Caucasian Country of Origin: United States Province / State: IL - Illinois Place of Birth: Chicago Date of Birth: January 10, 1937 Astrological Sign: Capricorn (Dec 22 - Jan 19) Date Deceased: September 22, 2002 (deceased at age 65) Eye Color: Brown Hair Color: Black Height: 163 cm - 5 feet and 4 inches Weight: 55 kg - 121 lbs Measurements: 34-24-36 Fake Boobs: No Career Start And End 1958 - 1969 (11 Years In The Business) Shoe Size: Unknown Tattoos: None, Hollywood, California, USA (lung cancer) Carmen Phillips was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Easy Rider (1969), Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960) and Ask Any Girl (1959). She was married to David Morin. She died on September 22, 2002 in Hollywood, California, USA. She was an activist for actors rights and animal rights. Actress Diane Ladd, a friend, led the memorial service. In 1957, performed as a showgirl in New York's Latin Quarter and in Las Vegas. Trained at MGM acting school in the late 50's.

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Ursula Andress best known for her role as Bond girl Honey Rider

Ursula Andress (born 19 March 1936) is a Swiss-American actress and sex symbol. She is best known for her role as Bond girl Honey Rider in the first James Bond film, Dr. No, for which she won a Golden Globe. She later starred as Vesper Lynd in the Bond-parody Casino Royale. Andress was born in Ostermundigen, Canton of Bern, Switzerland, the daughter of Anna, who was Swiss, and Rolf Andress, a German diplomat who was expelled from Switzerland for political reasons. He disappeared during World War II. Andress became famous as Honey Rider, a shell diver and James Bond's object of desire in Dr. No (1962), the first Bond movie In what became an iconic moment in cinematic and fashion history, she rose out of the Caribbean Sea in a white bikini sporting a large diving knife on her hip. Due to her heavy Swiss-German accent, her character's voice was provided by Nikki van der Zyl, while the calypso was sung by Diana Coupland. Andress in Dr. No (1962) The scene made Andress the "quintessential" Bond girl, Andress later said that she owed her career to that white bikini. "This bikini made me into a success. As a result of starring in Dr. No as the first Bond girl, I was given the freedom to take my pick of future roles and to become financially independent." The bikini she wore in the film sold at auction in 2001 for £41,125 ($59,755). In 2003, in a UK Survey by Channel 4, her entrance in Dr. No was voted #1 in "the 100 Greatest Sexy Moments".[13] Andress won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year in 1964 for her performance in Dr. No. In 1965, she posed nude for Playboy. When asked why she had agreed to do the Playboy shoot she replied coolly, "Because I'm beautiful." Andress co-starred with Elvis Presley in the 1963 musical film, Fun in Acapulco, with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin in 4 for Texas (1963), opposite Marcello Mastroianni in The 10th Victim (1965), alongside John Richardson in She (1965), and as the countess in The Blue Max (1966). She also appeared in the Bond satire Casino Royale (1967) as Vesper Lynd, an occasional spy who persuades Evelyn Tremble, played by Peter Sellers, to carry out a mission. Her heavy accent was dubbed over in Dr. No, but she used her own voice in Casino Royale. In 1981's Clash of the Titans she worked with Laurence Olivier. During the making of the film, Andress linked up with leading man Harry Hamlin, who became the father of her child. In 1995, Andress was chosen by Empire magazine as one of the "100 Sexiest Stars in film history." Ursula Andress in front of a crowd of people; a boom microphone is above her head Andress surrounded by TV crews on board the Royal Yacht Britannia celebrating her 70th birthday in 2006 Shortly before his death in 1955, James Dean became involved with 19-year-old Andress. In 1957, she married actor/director John Derek; they divorced in 1966. One of her longest affairs was with Jean-Paul Belmondo. In 1980, she had a son, Dimitri, with American actor Harry Hamlin, her co-star in the film Clash of the Titans. After her son's birth, Andress scaled back her career, which focused mostly on European TV and films. On 18 May 2006, on the occasion of the inauguration of the Swiss Consulate General in Scotland, Ursula Andress celebrated her 70th birthday on board the Royal Yacht Britannia in Edinburgh in the company of an international crowd of celebrities.

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Bunny Yeager is an American photographer and former pin-up model

Bunny Yeager is an American photographer and former pin-up model. Born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, U.S., Yeager became one of the most photographed models in Miami. After retiring from modeling, she began her career behind the camera. She met Bettie Page in 1954, and took most of the photographs of her that year. Along with photographer Irving Klaw, Yeager played a role in helping to make Page famous, particularly with her photos in Playboy magazine. Yeager is also credited with discovering the model Lisa Winters. Following Page's retirement, Yeager remained a successful photographer. She took the well-known still images of Ursula Andress on the beach in the 1962 James Bond film Dr. No, and discovered many other notable models. In 1968 she played the role of a Swedish masseuse opposite Frank Sinatra in Lady In Cement. Yeager was played by Sarah Paulson in the 2005 film The Notorious Bettie Page. She was also featured on a CNN story about the 60th anniversary of the bikini. In the 1950s Mrs. Yeager appeared on America's Number One Game Show, What's My Line, and she stumped the panel. In 2005, Cult Epics released the DVD 100 Girls by Bunny Yeager, a documentary with behind-the-scenes footage on Yeager's photo sessions with Page and other pin-up models

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Bridget Carr was an American actress in the early 1950s

Name: Bridget Carr, Profession: Actress, Ethnicity: Caucasian Country of Origin: United States, Province / State: OH - Ohio, Place of Birth: Toledo, Date of Birth: July 29, 1928, Astrological Sign: Leo (Jul 23 - Aug 22) Eye Color: Brown, Hair Color: Black, Height: 173 cm - 5 feet and 8 inches, Weight: 58 kg - 128 lbs, Measurements: 34-25-34, Career Start And End 1949 - 1952 (3 Years In The Business) High School Woodward High School, University American Academy in New York, Claim to Fame That Midnight Kiss (1949)

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