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Ingrid Bergman biography Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish actress. Ingrid Bergman was a student at Dramaten in 1933 and made her film debut in 1935 in the film Munkbrogreven. Her role in Gustaf Molander's Intermezzo (1936) caused producer David O. Selznick to persuade her to move to Hollywood in 1939 to remake the film. However, Ingrid Bergman, whose mother was German-born, previously made an intermezzo in Berlin, where she recorded an apolitical melodrama, Die vier Gesellen (1938). Ingrid Bergman became a celebrated star in 1940s Hollywood, where she shone in films such as Casablanca (1943), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), and Gaslight (1944), for which she received an Oscar, as well as in Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945) and Notorious (1946). It caused immense outrage in the United States when, in 1949, she broke with her image as an honorable wife and mother. She left her Swedish husband (the doctor Petter Lindström) and their daughter in favor of the Italian director Robert

Grace Kelly biography Grace Kelly (Grace Patricia Kelly) was born November 12, 1929, Philadelphia, USA. She was an American actress who became the Princess of Monaco. Although her film career lasted only five years and included 11 films, she became one of the biggest stars of the 1950s, and when, at the premiere of her last film, High Society (1956), she married Prince Rainier III of Monaco, melting reality and the fairy tale world of the film together. With her aristocratic appearance, Grace Kelly represented an alternative to the sex symbols of the period. The mixture of outer coolness and inner glow first appeared in Mogambo (1953) and was particularly exploited by Alfred Hitchcock in Rear Window (1954) and To Catch a Thief (1955). Grace Kelly was awarded an Oscar for The Country Girl (1955). She died on September 14, 1982 in a car accident near her home and was buried in the cathedral in Monaco. On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of her death, Monaco issued a 2-euro coin with

Gloria Swanson biography Gloria Swanson, 1893-1983, American film actress. Gloria Swanson was one of the great stars of the silent film. She broke through in Cecil B. DeMille's erotic scenes, e.g., Male and Female (1919), and appeared in comedies and melodramas. The sound film ended her career, but she got an unforgettable lead role as the vampiric silent film queen in Billy Wilder's bitter Sunset Boulevard (1950). last updated October 2022

Elizabeth Taylor biography Elizabeth Taylor, 27.2.1932-23.3.2011, British-American actress. Elizabeth Taylor had her breakthrough and stardom with Lassie Come Home (1943) and National Velvet (1944). Her particular flair for emotional drama was first seen in A Place In The Sun (1951) and in more mature characters in Cat On a Hot Tin Roof (1958) and Suddenly, Last Summer (1959). Elizabeth Taylor has also temperamentally played intriguing sarcastic types in, for example, Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), Zee & Co. (1972), and the TV movie Sweet Bird of Youth (1989). Of her eight marriages, the two to Richard Burton in 1964-74 and 1975-76 have been significant for her career. The couple recorded ten films together, including Cleopatra (1963), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), for which she won an Oscar, and The Taming of the Shrew (1967). She is also remembered for Father of the Bride (1950), Ivanhoe (1952), and Giant (1956), and for her first Oscar role in Butterfield 8 (1

Glenn Close biography Glenn Close was born on March 19, 1947, an American actress. Glenn Close made her debut in George Roy Hill's The World According to Garp (1982) after John Irving's bestseller and has since played a number of roles as a sensual and powerful woman, for example in The Big Chill (1983), Fatal Attraction (1987) and Stephen Frears' Dangerous Liaisons (1988) after Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. Glenn Close then had the role of Ferula in Bille August's House of the Spirits (1993) based on Isabel Allende's novel. She showed comedic talent i.a. as the evil Cruella De Vil in 101 Dalmatians (1996) and in Mars Attacks! (1996) and as a manic suburban wife in The Stepford Wives (2004). On TV, the five-time Oscar-nominated actor has, among other things, starred in the police and courtroom series The Shield 2005 and Damages 2007-10. last updated October 2022

Ginger Rogers biography Ginger Rogers, 1911-1995, American film actress. Ginger Rogers is remembered above all as the sarcastic everyday girl who put on a ball gown and stepped or danced in ideal partnership with Fred Astaire in musicals such as Top Hat (1935), Follow the Fleet (1936), Swing Time (1936) and Shall We Dance? (1937). Ginger Rogers won an Oscar for the romantic portrayal of Kitty Foyle (1940) and is also remembered for the screwball comedy Monkey Business (1952).

Geraldine Page biography Geraldine Page, 1924-1987, American actress. Eight-time Oscar nominee Geraldine Page won the award for her last starring role in The Trip to Bountiful (1985). In the 1950s, she was among the leading representatives of Method Acting and repeated several of her theater successes on film, e.g., Summer and Smoke (1961) and Sweet Bird of Youth (1962). Geraldine Page's other notable achievements are The Beguiled (1971) and Interiors (1978). last updated October 2022

Susan Sarandon biography Susan Sarandon (Susan Tomalin) was born in 1946, an American actress who married Tim Robbins from 1986-2009. After fluttering young girl roles, i.a., in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975), showed nuanced talent in Pretty Baby (1978) and Atlantic City (1980) and rose to stardom with The Witches of Eastwick (1987) and Bull Durham (1988). Since then, she has interpreted very different types of women with humor, passion, and sarcasm, including waitress with young lover in White Palace (1990), feminist rebel in Thelma & Louise (1991), brave mother in Lorenzo's Oil (1992) and lawyer in The Client (1994). Susan Sarandon won an Oscar for the role of the nun who tries to save the soul of a condemned murderer in Dead Man Walking (1995). last updated October 2022

Gena Rowlands biography Gena Rowlands, born in 1934, American actress. Among Gena Rowland's most essential roles are intense, neurotically marked portraits in the films of her husband, John Cassavetes, first in Faces (1968), later in i.a. A Woman Under the Influence (1974) and Love Streams (1984). Gena Rowland's other notable films are Another Woman (1988) and Something to Talk About (1995). last updated October 2022

Jamie Lee Curtis biography Jamie Lee Curtis was born on November 22, 1958 Jamie Lee Curtis is an American actress, the daughter of Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis . She broke through in horror roles, i.a., Halloween (1978) with several sequels. Still, She later got leading roles in a witty comedy, e.g., in Trading Places (1983), A Fish Called Wanda (1988), and romantic heroine, e.g., in Forever Young (1992). Among her other films are Blue Steel (1989), My Girl (1991), James Cameron's action film True Lies (1994), where she played opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger , Virus (1999), Drowning Mona (2000), Freaky Friday (2003) and the romantic comedy You Again (2010). She again stars in the Halloween horror movie in Halloween Ends (2022). last updated October 2022

Joan Crawford biography Joan Crawford, 1904-1977, American actress. Joan Crawford managed to maintain a position as one of Hollywood's great stars in a career that included more than 80 films. She became especially famous for her roles as a strong, dominant, and passionate woman who could not conform to traditional femininity. Crawford broke through in the 1920s and had her most famous roles in the 1940s and early 1950s, including in Michael Curtiz's Mildred Pierce (1945), which won her an Oscar, as well as Possessed (1947) and Sudden Fear (1952). In 1962, she gave one of the most outstanding performances of her career in Robert Aldrich's What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?. In Mommie Dearest (1981), Crawford is portrayed as a self-absorbed career woman and an inadequate mother. last updated October 2022

Frances McDormand biography Frances McDormand (Frances Louise McDormand) was born June 23, 1957; she is an American actress; who married Joel Coen. Frances McDormand has been a supporting force in several of her husband's and Ethan Coen's films, including their debut film, the film noir thriller Blood Simple (1984), the crime comedy Fargo (1996), in which she won an Oscar for her role as a pregnant Swedish-born police chief who quietly solves all the world's problems, and Burn After Reading (2008). Frances McDormand's other films include the Southern drama Mississippi Burning (1988), Wonder Boys (2000), and This Must Be The Place (2011). last updated October 2022

Jessica Lange biography Jessica Lange (Jessica Phyllis Lange) was born as an American actress on April 20, 1949. Jessica Lange debuted in King Kong (1976) and then had her breakthrough in Bob Rafelson's The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981). She became one of the most versatile American character stars of the 1980s and 1990s. Jessica Lange's films include Frances (1982), in which she portrayed movie star Frances Farmer , who fell victim to McCarthyism; Tootsie (1982), Country (1984); sweet Dreams (1985), about country & western star Patsy Cline, Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991) Blue Sky (1994, recorded 1990) and A 1000 Acres (1997). After the turn of the millennium, she has, among other things, starred in Tim Burton's Big Fish (2003), Jim Jarmusch's Broken Flowers (2005), and Wim Wenders' Don't Come Knocking (2005), playing opposite her longtime partner Sam Shepard. last updated October 2022

Frances Farmer biography Frances Farmer was born September 19, 1913, in Seattle, Washington, USA. She was an American actress. Frances was in opposition to the Hollywood system and characterized by mental imbalance and therefore only got a few roles, e.g., in Come and Get It (1936) and Ride a Crooked Mile (1938). She had a revealing autobiography published posthumously, Will There Really Be a Morning? (1972), which was dramatized on television, was made into a film with Jessica Lange in the title role of Frances (1982). This film depicts a scene depicting the performance of the white cut on Frances Farmer. However, it is documented that this never took place in reality. Died august 1, 1970, in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. last updated October 2022

Faye Dunaway biography Faye Dunaway (Dorothy Faye Dunaway) was born on January 14, 1941, and is an American actress. The role of the anarchist gangster girl in Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde (1967) instantly made Faye Dunaway a movie star. She later made a name for herself in roles as neurotic or hard-boiled career types, for example, in Roman Polanski's Chinatown (1974), Network (1976), and Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest (1981). Faye Dunaway's other roles include Mylady in The Three Musketeers (1973, sequel 1974) and Sydney Pollack's Three Days of the Condor (1975). In 1987, Faye Dunaway had an artistic comeback in the Charles Bukowski film Barfly, and she has since had acceptable supporting roles in, for example, Don Juan DeMarco (1994) opposite Marlon Brando and in The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) as well as in various TV series and movies. last updated October 2022

Eva Marie Saint biography Eva Marie Saint was born July 4, 1924, and was an American actor. Eva Marie Saint was born in New Jersey and graduated in acting from Bowling Green State University in Ohio in 1946. She began her career with various roles in television shows and on Broadway. In 1954, she debuted relatively late in Hollywood with an Oscar-winning role as a vulnerable woman opposite Marlon Brando 's tormented main character in Elia Kazan 's drama On the Waterfront. She became, among other things, seen in Fred Zinnemann's A Hatful of Rain (1957). In a later outstanding performance that allowed her to demonstrate double-tied blonde elegance and coolness, Eva Marie Saint was chosen by Alfred Hitchcock to star opposite Cary Grant in the thriller North by Northwest (1959). The following year, Eva Marie Saint starred in the historical drama Exodus, directed by Otto Preminger, based on Leon Uris's novel, and then got several leading roles, including in the relationship

Esther Williams biography Esther Williams was born on August 8, 1921. She was an American swimmer and film actress. As a former swimmer, she became a star in several "aqua musicals," e.g., This Time for Keeps (1947), Neptune's Daughter (1949), and Dangerous When Wet (1953). Died June 6, 2013 last updated October 2022

Nicole Eggert biography Nicole Eggert (Nicole Elizabeth Eggert) was born January 13, 1972, in Glendale, California, USA. She is an American actress. Eggert is best known for her role as Summer Quinn in the TV series Baywatch. Eggert has appeared in more than 30 films. last updated October 2022

Dorothy Lamour biography Dorothy Lamour (Dorothy Kaumeyer), 1914-1996, American actress. The former Miss New Orleans (1931) became a movie star as a dark-skinned South Sea island heroine in films such as The Jungle Princess (1936) but gained particular popularity parodies of the type in a series of Bob Hope  and Bing Crosby comedies with Road to Singapore (1940) as the first. Later, Dorothy Lamour was a frequent singing guest star on Bob Hope's television shows. last updated October 2022

Kirsten Dunst biography Kirsten Dunst (Kirsten Caroline Dunst) was born on April 30, 1982, in Point Pleasant, New Jersey, USA. She is a German-American actress, singer, and model. She made her film debut in Oedipus Wrecks, a short film directed by Woody Allen in the anthology New York Stories. last updated October 2022