Libra ladies

1. Tessa Thompson

Actress | Creed

The actress Tessa Lynn Thompson was born on October 3, 1983 in Los Angeles, California. She is the daughter of singer-songwriter Marc Anthony Thompson and the granddaughter of actor-musician Bobby Ramos. She was raised in Los Angeles before moving to Brooklyn, New York. Her father is of ...

2. Brie Larson

Actress | Room

Brie Larson has built an impressive career as an acclaimed television actress, rising feature film star and emerging recording artist. A native of Sacramento, Brie started studying drama at the early age of 6, as the youngest student ever to attend the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco...

3. Laraine Day

Actress | Foreign Correspondent

Born into a prominent Mormon family in Utah, Laraine Day's acting career began after her parents moved to Long Beach, California, where she joined the Long Beach Players. She appeared in her first film in 1937 in a bit part, then did leads in several George O'Brien westerns. Signing a contract with...

4. Georgia Backus

Actress | Citizen Kane

Georgia Backus was born on October 13, 1900 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for Citizen Kane (1941), Cause for Alarm! (1951) and Suddenly It's Spring (1947). She died on September 7, 1983 in Sun City, California, USA.

5. Josephine Hutchinson

Actress | North by Northwest

As a child she studied at Seattle's Cornish School. Still in her early twenties, after several years of stock work in New York, she joined Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theater where she won critical praise for her title role in "Alice in Wonderland." She came to Hollywood in 1934 under ...

6. Blanche Oelrichs

Writer | Clair de lune

Blanche Oelrichs (pen name: Michael Strange), was born Blanche Marie Louise Oelrichs on October 1, 1890, in New York, N.Y., to a socially prominent family. Blanche was the reigning débutante of Newport society. In 1910, she married Leonard M. Thomas, a rising young diplomat. She soon became a ...

7. Deborah Kerr

Actress | The King and I

Deborah Jane Trimmer was born on 30 September 1921 in Glasgow, Scotland, the daughter of Captain Arthur Kerr Trimmer. She was educated at Northumberland House, Clifton, Bristol. She first performed at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, London. She subsequently performed with the Oxford ...

8. Neve Campbell

Actress | Scream

Neve Campbell was born and raised in Guelph, Ontario, to Marnie (Neve), a Dutch-born psychologist and yoga instructor (from Amsterdam), and Gerry Campbell, a Scottish-born teacher (from Glasgow). Campbell first came to our TV screens in the hit Drama series Party of Five (1994). Described as TV's ...

9. Jo Ann Sayers

Actress | The Man with Nine Lives

Jo Ann Sayers (real name: Miriam Lucille Lilygren) was born in Seattle, Washington. Named after Moses' dancer-sister Miriam, she danced as a child, took violin and piano lessons and acted in school plays. She attended the University of Washington with hopes of becoming a lawyer, but was drawn to ...

10. Katherine Emery

Actress | Strange Bargain

Katherine Emery was born on October 11, 1906 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. She was an actress, known for Strange Bargain (1949), The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947) and The Walls Came Tumbling Down (1946). She was married to Paul Conant Eaton. She died on February 7, 1980 in Portland, Maine, USA.

11. Joan Fontaine

Actress | Suspicion

Born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland on October 22, 1917, in Tokyo, Japan, in what was known as the International Settlement, to British parents, Lilian Augusta (Ruse), a former actress, and Walter Augustus de Havilland, an English professor and patent attorney. Her paternal grandfather's family was ...

12. Martine Beswick

Actress | Thunderball

Brunette bombshell and second-string goddess Jamaican actress Martine Beswick(e) was born on September 26, 1941, to a British father and Portuguese/Jamaican mother in Port Antonio, Jamaica. Some brief modeling and pageant entering came to be before seeking a career in films. She allegedly once won ...

13. Mitsouko

Actress | Rembrandt 7 antwortet nicht...

Mitsouko was born on September 3, 1941 in Tianjin, China. She was an actress, known for Z7 Operation Rembrandt (1966), License to Kill (1964) and Les femmes d'abord (1963). She died on March 28, 1995 in Paris, France.

14. Eve March

Actress | The Curse of the Cat People

Eve March was born on September 27, 1910 in Fresno, California, USA. She was an actress, known for The Curse of the Cat People (1944), Adam's Rib (1949) and Canon City (1948). She was married to Damian O'Flynn. She died on September 19, 1974 in Hollywood, California, USA.

15. Linda Darnell

Actress | Fallen Angel

Linda Darnell, one of five children of a postal clerk, grew up fast. At 11, she was modeling clothes, giving her age as 16. At 13, she was appearing on the stage with little theater groups. Her mother encouraged her to audition when Hollywood talent scouts came to Dallas. She went to California and...

16. Lotte Lenya

Actress | From Russia with Love

Lotte Lenya was a Tony Award-winning and Academy award-nominated actress and singer. While best remembered in the U.S. for her supporting role as Rosa Klebb in the classic Bond film From Russia with Love (1963), she is celebrated in Germany for her ground-breaking performances in the plays of Kurt ...

17. Britt Ekland

Actress | The Man with the Golden Gun

Britt Ekland was born in Sweden and grew up to be the poster girl for beautiful, big-eyed Scandinavian blondes. She attended a drama school and then joined a traveling theater group. With her looks as her passport, Britt entered films and became a star in Italy. When Peter Sellers met her in a ...

18. Kristina Wayborn

Actress | Octopussy

Kristina Wayborn was born Britt-Inger Johansson in Nybro, Sweden. After being elected Miss Sweden in 1970 she was a semi-finalist in the Miss Universe pageant. The same year she was also elected Miss Scandinavia.

Wayborn portrayed screen legend Greta Garbo in The Silent Lovers (1980) which brought ...

19. Tanya Roberts

Actress | A View to a Kill

The second daughter of manufacturing executive Oscar Blum and his wife Dorothy, Tanya Roberts was born 1949 in Manhattan and grew up in the elite Westchester County suburbs Scarsdale and Greenburgh. Tanya reportedly dropped out of high school, got married and hitchhiked around the country until her...

20. Barrie Chase

Actress | Cape Fear

Barrie Chase was born on October 20, 1933 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Cape Fear (1962), It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) and Mardi Gras (1958). She is married to Richard Kaufman. They have one child. She was previously married to Jan Malmsjö and Gene Shacove.

21. June Allyson

Actress | Executive Suite

American leading lady whose sweet smile and sunny disposition made her the prototypical girl-next-door of American movies of the 1940s. Raised in semi-poverty in Bronx neighborhoods by her divorced mother, Allyson (nee Ella Geisman) was injured in a fall at age eight and spent four years confined ...

22. Claire Carleton

Actress | The Mickey Rooney Show

Claire Carleton was born on September 28, 1913 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Mickey Rooney Show (1954), Death of a Salesman (1951) and Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955). She was married to Fred Sherman and Walter Lewis Beadle. She died on December 11, 1979 in ...

23. Kathryn Card

Actress | I Love Lucy

Kathryn Card was born on October 4, 1892 in Butte, Montana, USA. She was an actress, known for I Love Lucy (1951), Born to Kill (1947) and The Hucksters (1947). She was married to Erwin Foster Card. She died on March 1, 1964 in Costa Mesa, California, USA.

24. Lillian Bronson

Actress | Spencer's Mountain

Lillian Bronson was born on October 21, 1902 in Lockport, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Spencer's Mountain (1963), In the Good Old Summertime (1949) and Front Row Center (1955). She was married to Henry Daniels Mygatt. She died on August 2, 1995 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

25. Barbara Brown

Actress | Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm

Barbara Brown was born on October 18, 1901 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm (1951), You Were Never Lovelier (1942) and Janie Gets Married (1946). She was married to William Hinshaw. She died on July 7, 1975 in Los Angeles, California, ...

26. Margaret Dumont

Actress | A Night at the Opera

Margaret Dumont would not consider it a tragedy that she is best-known for her performances as the ultimate straight woman in seven of the Marx Brothers' films (including most of their best). It is a popular myth that she never understood their jokes (offscreen and on); restored footage of ...

27. Loie Bridge

Actress | The Wyoming Whirlwind

Loie Bridge was born on October 16, 1889 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for The Wyoming Whirlwind (1932), Thriller (1960) and Single-Handed Sanders (1932). She died on March 8, 1974 in Glendale, California, USA.

28. Benita Hume

Actress | The Lady of the Lake

Benita Hume was a British actress whose career began on the stage in London. She was born on October 14, 1906 in London, England. After breaking into cinema in a 1925 British silent film in 1925, she transitioned nicely into sound and made two dozen films in England before travelling to the U.S. By...

29. Fay Holden

Actress | Ziegfeld Girl

Fay Holden was born on September 26, 1893 in Birmingham, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Ziegfeld Girl (1941), Andy Hardy's Double Life (1942) and Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946). She was married to David Clyde. She died on June 23, 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

30. Anne Nagel

Actress | Man Made Monster

Anne Nagel's life could be summed up in two words: pretty miserable. Born to devoutly religious Bostonian parents who had long encouraged her to become a nun, she had been enrolled in a preparatory school for just that purpose. As a young teenager she worked part-time as a photographer's model, and...

31. Mary Brodel

Actress | Sunset Murder Case

Mary Brodel was born on September 27, 1916 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She was an actress, known for Sunset Murder Case (1938), Down the Wyoming Trail (1939) and Signing Off (1936). She died on June 3, 2015.

32. Janet Beecher

Actress | The Lady Eve

Janet Beecher, daughter of the German vice-consul in Chicago, studied acting at the Art Students League in New York. For almost three decades she made a name for herself as a leading actress in plays on the Broadway stage, beginning with a bit part in 'The Two Orphans' in 1903. Her hits included '...

33. Marietta Canty

Actress | Rebel Without a Cause

Marietta Canty was born on September 30, 1905 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. She was an actress, known for Rebel Without a Cause (1955), The Heavenly Body (1944) and The Lady Is Willing (1942). She died on July 9, 1986 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA.

34. Muriel Gordon

Actress | The Lone Avenger

Muriel Gordon was born on October 14, 1909 in Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for The Lone Avenger (1933). She was married to Charles Treadwell. She died on July 15, 1983 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

35. Margaret La Marr

Actress | Red Wine

Margaret La Marr was born on October 9, 1913 in Tennessee, USA. She was an actress, known for Red Wine (1928), Happy Days (1929) and The Red Rider (1934). She died on June 19, 1951 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

36. Bee Stephens

Bee Stephens was born on October 10, 1907 in Austin Texas. She was an actress. She died on February 15, 1988 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

37. Peaches Jackson

Actress | Jinx

Although her younger sister Mary Ann is more famous, having been a popular early member of the Our Gang (1922) comedy shorts, that might not have been true in Hawaii. In the mid-1930s, Peaches met and married Hawaiian-born "Tony Guerrero." It is unclear whether Peaches went to Honolulu as a ...

38. Jayne Meadows

Actress | City Slickers

One of four children (two older brothers, one younger sister) born to American missionaries, Jayne Meadows (née Jane Cotter) was born September 27, 1919, in China. The family returned to the US in the early 1930s wherein Jayne was forced to learn the English language, speaking Chinese and other ...

39. Constance Bennett

Actress | Topper

Independent, outspoken Constance Bennett, the first of the Bennett sisters to enter films, appeared in New York-produced silents before a chance meeting with Samuel Goldwyn led to her Hollywood debut in Cytherea (1924). She abandoned a burgeoning career in silents for marriage to Philip Plant in ...

40. Kitty McHugh

Actress | The Grapes of Wrath

Kitty McHugh was born on October 3, 1902 in Harmony, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for The Grapes of Wrath (1940), Blonde Trouble (1937) and Wife Insurance (1937). She was married to Ned Glass. She died on September 3, 1954 in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.

41. Jil Jarmyn

Actress | No Man's Woman

Jil Jarmyn was born on October 8, 1926 in Batavia, Illinois, USA. She is an actress, known for No Man's Woman (1955), Swamp Women (1956) and Tarzan's Fight for Life (1958).

42. Juanita Moore

Actress | Imitation of Life

African American actress Juanita Moore entered films in the early 1950s, a time in which few black people were given an opportunity to act in major studio films. Fortunately Moore's roles began improving as Hollywood developed a social consciousness toward the end of the decade. In 1959 she ...

43. Carole Lombard

Actress | My Man Godfrey

Carole Lombard was born Jane Alice Peters in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on October 6, 1908. Her parents divorced in 1916 and her mother took the family on a trip out West. While there they decided to settle down in the Los Angeles area. After being spotted playing baseball in the street with the ...

44. Annie Golden

Actress | Hair

Annie Golden was born on October 19, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She is an actress and composer, known for Hair (1979), Orange Is the New Black (2013) and I Love You Phillip Morris (2009).

45. Susan Blommaert

Actress | The Blacklist

Susan Blommaert was born in the USA. Susan is an actor, known for The Blacklist (2013), Pet Sematary (1989) and The X-Files (1993).

46. Janis Carter

Actress | I Married an Angel

After graduating with two degrees (arts and music) from Mather College (Western Reserve) in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1935, Janis headed to New York with aspirations of embarking on a musical career in opera. Supporting herself by waitressing, singing in churches, modeling (Conover) and writing radio ...

47. Pert Kelton

Actress | The Music Man

Vaudevillain, Broadway player and, for one decade from 1929, screen actress often in comedic roles. She also appeared in character parts in a handful of 60s films. She is memorable as the original - and the most believable - Alice Kramden, wife of Ralph Kramden (immortalized by Jackie Gleason), in ...

48. Jane Darwell

Actress | The Grapes of Wrath

Missouri-born Jane Darwell was born Patti Woodard, the daughter of William Robert Woodard, president of the Louisville Southern Railroad, and Ellen (Booth) Woodard, in Palmyra, Missouri, where she grew up on a ranch . She nursed ambitions to be an opera singer, but put it off because of her ...

49. Frances Drake

Actress | Mad Love

Frances Drake was born on October 22, 1912 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Mad Love (1935), The Preview Murder Mystery (1936) and The Invisible Ray (1935). She was married to David Brown and Lt. Cecil John Arthur Howard. She died on January 18, 2000 in Irvine, ...

50. Sarah Padden

Actress | A Woman's Face

Sarah Padden was born on October 16, 1881 in Sunderland, England, UK. She was an actress, known for A Woman's Face (1941), The Mad Monster (1942) and Women Won't Tell (1932). She was married to George Clarence Sackett. She died on December 4, 1967 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

51. Julie London

Actress | Emergency!

Julie London recorded 32 albums during her career. Forced to give up band singing when her true age was discovered, she was primarily a torch singer. Her vocal range was described by "sultry" and "low-keyed". Her own favorite singers were Barbra Streisand and Roberta Flack.

She was known in some ...

52. Lil Dagover

Actress | Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari

A prominent German film actress born on 30 September 1887 at Madiven, Java, the daughter of a forest ranger in the service of the Dutch authorities. Sent at the age of ten to Baden-Baden to study, she later entered the cinema thanks to her marriage in 1917 to the actor Fritz Dagover who was 25 ...

53. Evelyn Brent

Actress | The Silver Horde

Petite, sultry leading lady of the 1920's and 30's who was born and schooled in Tampa, Florida, until the age of ten when she lost her mother. She moved to New York with her dad and started modelling while still in her teens. Her original intention was to go into the teaching profession. Instead, ...

54. Gladys Lloyd

Actress | Two Seconds

Gladys Lloyd was born on October 11, 1895 in Yonkers, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Two Seconds (1932) and Smart Money (1931). She was married to Edward G. Robinson and Ralph Lent Westervelt. She died on June 6, 1971 in Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA.

55. Rita La Roy

Actress | Hold That Woman!

Rita La Roy was born on October 2, 1901 in Bonners Ferry, Idaho, USA. She was an actress and director, known for Hold That Woman! (1940), Blonde Venus (1932) and Flight from Glory (1937). She was married to Ben Hershfield. She died on February 17, 1993 in San Diego, California, USA.

56. Inger Stevens

Actress | Hang 'Em High

This enigmatic Stockholm-born beauty had everything going for her, including a rapidly rising film and TV career. Yet on April 30, 1970, at only 35, Inger Stevens would become another tragic Hollywood statistic -- added proof that fame and fortune do not always lead to happiness. Over time, a ...

57. Gillian Jacobs

Actress | Community

Gillian Jacobs was born on October 19, 1982 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US. Her father, William F. Jacobs Jr., was an investment banker and her mother, Martina Magenau Jacobs, was an alumni relations officer at Carnegie Mellon University.

Gillian is an alumnus of Mt. Lebanon High School, ...

58. Rosemary La Planche

Actress | Strangler of the Swamp

Back in the day, winning the title of "Miss America" sometimes provided a springboard to Hollywood and a film career as a leading lady. This was certainly true in the case of California-born Rosemary La Planche.

Born on October 11, 1923, in the Southern California city of Glendale, Rosemary and her ...

59. Marian Marsh

Actress | Beauty and the Boss

One of the early sound era's most attractive young leading ladies, doll-faced Marian Marsh enjoyed a short yet significant film career as the star of several memorable 1930s melodramas opposite some of the cinema's best, most charismatic lead actors. Her youthful, wide-eyed innocence combined with ...

60. Anna Neagle

Actress | The Courtneys of Curzon Street

Dame Anna Neagle, the endearingly popular British star during WWII, was born Florence Marjorie Robertson and began dancing as a professional in chorus lines at age 14. She starred with actor Jack Buchanan in the musical "Stand Up and Sing" in the West End and earned her big break when producer/...

61. Helene Millard

Actress | The Thirteenth Chair

Her parents were Royal C. Millard (April 4, 1877 - March 13, 1927) and Iva E. Sargent (February 26, 1880 - December 18, 1950). After several years in leading roles for various stock companies, principally the Henry Duffy Players, Helene finally was noticed and made her first of thirty-nine movie ...

62. Monica Bellucci

Actress | Malèna

Monica Anna Maria Bellucci was born on September 30, 1964 in the Italian village of Città di Castello, Umbria, the only child of Brunella Briganti and Pasquale Bellucci. She originally pursued a career in the legal profession. While attending the University of Perugia, she modeled on the side to ...

63. Marion Cotillard

Actress | La Môme

Academy Award-winning actress Marion Cotillard was born on September 30, 1975 in Paris. Cotillard is the daughter of Jean-Claude Cotillard, an actor, playwright and director, and Niseema Theillaud, an actress and drama teacher. Her father's family is from Brittany.

Raised in Orléans, France, she ...

64. Marsha Hunt

Actress | Pride and Prejudice

Stardom somehow eluded this vastly gifted actress. Had it not perhaps been for her low-level profile compounded by her McCarthy-era blacklisting in the early 1950s, there is no telling what higher tier Marsha Hunt might have attained. Perhaps her work was not flashy enough, or too subdued, or ...

65. Karyn Parsons

Actress | Major Payne

Karyn Parsons decided to go into acting at the age of 13. She had her first TV role in the NBC drama The Bronx Zoo (1987), but she made her big break as Will Smith's cousin "Hilary Banks" on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990). During the show's six-year run, she starred in movies ...

66. Fay Spain

Actress | The Godfather Part II

Fay Spain was was your typical B-movie drive-in bad girl - sometimes blonde, sometimes brunette, always bodacious. A tease, a taunt, and a temptress throughout most her career, Fay Spain was born in Phoenix, Arizona, in 1932, as Lona May Spain to R.C. Spain and Arminta Frances Cochran. She headed ...

67. Rita Hayworth

Actress | Gilda

Rita Hayworth was born Margarita Carmen Cansino on October 17, 1918, in Brooklyn, New York, into a family of dancers. Her father, Eduardo Cansino Reina, was a dancer as was his father before him. He emigrated from Spain in 1913. Rita's American mother, Volga Margaret (Hayworth), who was of mostly ...

68. Jean Peters

Actress | Pickup on South Street

Green-eyed beauty Jean Elizabeth Peters flashed across the screen as a bright star during her relatively brief tenure in Hollywood. After just seven years under contract to 20th Century-Fox (1947-54), she joined in the reclusive lifestyle of her eccentric billionaire husband, Howard Hughes, and all...

69. Janet Gaynor

Actress | A Star Is Born

Janet Gaynor was born Laura Gainor on October 6, 1906, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As a child, she & her parents moved to San Francisco, California, where she graduated from high school in 1923. She then moved to Los Angeles where she enrolled in a secretarial school. She got a job at a shoe ...

70. Olga Zubarry

Actress | Plaza de almas

Olga Adela Zubarriain was born in Buenos Aires on October 30th 1929. She began her career in the old Lumiton studios in 1943 as a bit player in Safo (Carlos Hugo Christensen-1943). Her real chance when the studio prepared an adaptation of the novel Frau Elsie by Arthur Schnitzler which was called ...

71. Dolores Reed

Actress | Invasion of the Star Creatures

Dolores Reed was born on October 11, 1932 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She was an actress, known for Invasion of the Star Creatures (1962), Hit and Run (1957) and Anybody Can Play (1958). She was married to Boyce Leon Mosco, Larry Eugene Reed and Philip Hoffman. She died on August 4, 1963 in Los ...

72. Kasia Orzazewski

Actress | Call Northside 777

Kasia Orzazewski was born on October 16, 1888 in Poland. She was an actress, known for Call Northside 777 (1948), Thieves' Highway (1949) and The Red Danube (1949). She died on July 17, 1956 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

73. Mylène Demongeot

Actress | Les sorcières de Salem

Mylène Demongeot, one of the blond sex symbols of French cinema during the 1950s and 1960s, managed to overcome typecasting and survived a long hiatus before a stellar comeback in her 70s. She appeared in more than 70 films, including such classics as the Fantomas trilogy.

She was born Marie-Helene ...

74. Randy Stuart

Actress | All About Eve

The daughter of husband-and-wife vaudevillians, Randy Stuart was born in southeastern Iola, Kansas and traveled throughout the South and Midwest with her itinerant parents before making her own stage debut with them at the ripe old age of three. The family eventually settled in California where ...

75. Barbara Britton

Actress | The Fabulous Suzanne

Radiant to a tee, well-coiffed and well-dressed Barbara Britton looked like she stepped out of a magazine when she entered into our homes daily as the 'Revlon Girl' on 50s and 60s TV. She sparkled with the best of them and managed to capture that "perfect wife/perfect mother" image with, well, ...

76. Virginia McDowall

Actress | The Fan

Virginia McDowall was born on September 23, 1927 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Fan (1949), Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951) and Dragnet (1951). She died on December 8, 2006 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

77. Fiona Fullerton

Actress | A View to a Kill

The only child of Pamela and Bernard Fullerton was born in Kaduna, Nigeria on 10 October 1956. As a child she wanted to be a ballet dancer and at 11 she enrolled at the Elmhurst Ballet School in Surrey where she was spotted and signed to appear in the film 'Run Wild, Run Free' in 1969. This was ...

78. Jean Gillie

Actress | Decoy

British actress Jean Gillie met husband Jack Bernhard while he was stationed in Britain during the war. When they came to Hollywood, he produced and directed Decoy in May 1946 as a vehicle to showcase her talents to American audiences, while Gillie was simultaneously at work in The Macomber Affair ...

79. Ruth Terry

Actress | Smoky River Serenade

Ruth Terry was born Ruth McMahon in Benton Harbor, Michigan, in 1920. She got her start in show business as a child when she would sing with the band in a dance hall where her father worked as a bouncer. She began entering amateur talent contests in the local area, and her beautiful singing voice ...

80. Angie Dickinson

Actress | Rio Bravo

Angie Dickinson was born in Kulm, North Dakota, in 1931, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Brown. Mr. Brown was the publisher of The Kulm Messenger. The family left North Dakota in 1942 when Angie was 11 years old, moving to Burbank, California. In December of 1946, when she was a senior at ...

81. Lizabeth Scott

Actress | Too Late for Tears

Lizabeth Scott was born Emma Matzo on September 29, 1922 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the oldest of six children of Mary (Pennock) and John Matzo, who were Slovak immigrants. Scott attended Marywood Seminary and the Alvienne School of the Theatre in New York City, where she adopted the stage name of ...

82. Paula Corday

Actress | The Exile

Paula Corday was born on October 20, 1920 in Tahiti. She was an actress, known for The Exile (1947), The Falcon in San Francisco (1945) and Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946). She was married to Harold Nebenzal. She died on November 23, 1992 in Century City, Los Angeles, California, USA.

83. Nancy Guild

Actress | Somewhere in the Night

Movie and television actress Nancy Guild was a contract player at 20th Century-Fox, which reminded the public that her surname "rhymes with wild" after she was signed to a seven-year contract in 1946. The studio bosses must have changed their mind how they would position her as she typically played...

84. Sarah Edwards

Actress | It's a Wonderful Life

Sarah Edwards was born on October 11, 1881 in Glyn Train, Denbighshire, South Wales, UK. She was an actress, known for It's a Wonderful Life (1946), The Shop Around the Corner (1940) and The Bishop's Wife (1947). She was married to Vernon Malcolm Jacobson. She died on January 7, 1965 in Hollywood, ...

85. Anneka Rice

Actress | Comic Relief: Behind the Nose

Anneka Rice was born on October 4, 1958 in Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales, UK. She is an actress and producer, known for Comic Relief: Behind the Nose (1992), Challenge Anneka (1987) and Bobby Davro's TV Weekly (1987). She was previously married to Nicholas Allott.

86. Barbara Walters

Producer | The Barbara Walters Special

Barbara Walters was born on September 25, 1929 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She was a producer and writer, known for The Barbara Walters Summer Special (1976), The View (1997) and 20/20 (1978). She was married to Merv Adelson, Lee Guber and Robert Henry Katz. She died on December 30, 2022 in ...

87. Virginia Bruce

Actress | The Invisible Woman

American leading lady of the 1930s and 1940s, Virginia Bruce was born in Minnesota but grew up in Fargo, North Dakota, and came to California to attend college. Her blond good looks got her an entry into films, and after a few extra roles and bit parts she began to make serious inroads as a leading...

88. Bella Darvi

Actress | Hell and High Water

Bella Darvi became a 50s symbol for one of the many movie "Cinderellas" whose bright and beautiful Hollywood fairy tale would come crashing down, ending in bitterness and tragedy. A self-destructive brunette beauty, her life was full of misfortune. Of Polish/French descent, she miraculously ...

89. Gladys Brockwell

Actress | Lights of New York

The daughter of actress Billie Brockwell, Brockwell first appeared on the stage at the age of three. She made her screen debut in Philadelphia for the Lubin Company in 1913, later working with D.W. Griffith. Joining Fox Studios, Brockwell was one of the busiest actresses in town and easily made the...

90. Lillian Gish

Actress | The Night of the Hunter

Lillian Diana Gish was born on October 14, 1893, in Springfield, Ohio. Her father, James Lee Gish, was an alcoholic who caroused, was rarely at home, and left the family to, more or less, fend for themselves. To help make ends meet, Lillian, her sister Dorothy Gish, and their mother, Mary Gish, ...

91. Hannah Jones

Actress | Blackmail

Hannah Jones was born on October 15, 1872 in Shoreditch, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Blackmail (1929), Downhill (1927) and Murder! (1930). She died in 1949 in Wood Green, London, England, UK.

92. Emilia Clarke

Actress | Game of Thrones

British actress Emilia Clarke was born in London and grew up in Oxfordshire, England. Her father was a theatre sound engineer and her mother is a businesswoman. Her father was working on a theatre production of "Show Boat" and her mother took her along to the performance. This is when, at the age ...

93. Lena Headey

Actress | 300

Lena Headey is a Bermudian-British actress. Headey is best known for her role as "Cersei Lannister" in Game of Thrones (2011) (2011-2019) and The Brothers Grimm (2005), Possession (2002), and The Remains of the Day (1993). Headey stars as "Queen Gorgo", a heroic Spartan woman in the period film, 300...

94. Lilyan Tashman

Actress | The Matrimonial Bed

Lilyan Tashman was born on October 23, 1896 in Brooklyn, New York to Rose (Cook) from Germany and Morris Tashman from Bialystock, Poland. After toying with stage work, Lilyan made her film debut with Experience (1921), followed the next year by Head Over Heels (1922) (this was at a time when some ...

95. Jane Winton

Actress | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Statuesque, gorgeous Jane Winton was billed as the "Green-Eyed Goddess of Hollywood". The former Ziegfeld Follies dancer appeared in a good number of films from 1925--if not as the nominal star, then at least very high up on the list of credits. Her aloof beauty was tailor-made for playing ...

96. Spring Byington

Actress | You Can't Take It with You

The possessor of one of Hollywood's gentlest faces and warmest voices, and about as sweet as Tupelo honey both on-and-off camera, character actress Spring Byington was seldom called upon to play callous or unsympathetic (she did once play a half-crazed housekeeper in Dragonwyck (1946)). Although ...

97. Marla Shelton

Actress | Personal Property

Passed the Federal examination for professional radio operator at the age of 12, at the time the youngest ever to receive the license. She and her father received praise from the government for sending wireless distress signals during the 1926 Great Miami Hurricane, from Houston, Texas.

She competed...

98. Tamara Desni

Actress | Send for Paul Temple

Tamara Desni was born on October 22, 1910 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for The Green Finger (1946), Hell's Cargo (1935) and Bypass to Happiness (1934). She was married to Albert Lavagna, Raymond Lovell, Roland Gillett, Bruce Seton and Hans Wilhelm. She died on February 7, 2008 in ...

99. Sally O'Neil

Actress | Sally, Irene and Mary

Cute-as-a-button, diminutive (5'2"), green-eyed brunette Sally O'Neil (sometimes billed as Sally O'Neill was a silent and early sound leading lady who maintained her leading status throughout her movie career. Born on October 23, 1908, in Bayonne, New Jersey, her father, Thomas Francis Patrick ...

100. Evelyn Venable

Actress | Death Takes a Holiday

Lovely and ethereal in looks, and quite unassuming in nature, 1930s actress Evelyn Venable was born in 1913 in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she grew up and received her schooling. Both her father, Emerson Venable, and grandfather were writers/teachers. In her high school drama department, Evelyn played ...