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Jean Harlow biography Jean Harlow (Harlean Carpenter) was born as an American actress on March 3, 1911. Jean Harlow was the first sex symbol of early tone films and, moreover, a witty comedy star who could live up to her image as a "dumb blonde" and at the same time be ironic about it. She got her breakthrough with the pilot film Hell's Angels (1930), and her first significant role was in Platinum Blonde (1931). Her other famous roles include The Public Enemy (1931, Public Enemy No. 1), Dinner at Eight (1933), and Libeled Lady (1936, Her Reputation is in Danger).  Died on June 7, 1937 - died of kidney failure at age 26. last updated October 2022

Jean Arthur biography Jean Arthur was born on October 17, 1905, and was an American actor. Jean Arthur debuted in 1923 but got his big break in John Ford's gangster comedy The Whole Town's Talking (1935). In the 1930s and 1940s, she appeared in a large number of films, often in the role of a dashing, independent, and down-to-earth woman with a romantic beating heart; the best-known films are Frank Capra's comedies Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939). Jean Arthur played her last role in George Stevens' western Shane (1953). Died on June 19, 1991. last updated October 2022

Jayne Mansfield Biography Jayne Mansfield, 1933-1967, American actress. Jayne Mansfield, who has been called "the poor man's Marilyn Monroe ," caricatured the era's glamorous, platinum blonde sex symbol in the comedies The Girl Can't Help It (1956) and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957). Jayne Mansfield got more severe roles in The Wayward Bus (1957) and The Challenge (1960).  Died on June 29, 1967, in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. She was killed in a car accident. last updated October 2022

Jason Robards biography Jason Robards was born July 26, 1922, and is an American actor; he was 1961-69 and married to Lauren Bacall. After breaking through on Broadway in 1956 in Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh and other great theater performances, Jason Robards came to the film. He has often made a strong mark in portrait roles, e.g., as the editor-in-chief in Alan J. Pakula's All the President's Men (1976) and Dashiell Hammett in Julia (1977), both of which earned him an Oscar, as well as the Richard M. Nixon impersonator Richard Munckton in the television series Washington Behind Closed Doors (1977). Among Jason Robard's other roles can be mentioned the two western films, Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) and Sam Peckinpah's The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), as well as Melvin & Howard (1980), Philadelphia (1993) and A Thousand Acres (1997). Jason Robards played his last film role in Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia (1999). Died

Janet Leigh biography Janet Leigh (Jeanette Helen Morrison) was born on July 6, 1927, in  Merced, California, USA. She was an American actress, married to Tony Curtis from 1951-1962, and the mother of Jamie Lee Curtis . Janet Leigh began her career as a blonde supporting actress in adventure films such as Scaramouche (1952) and The Black Shield of Falworth (1956). Still, she is best remembered as the victim in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960) and for supporting roles in Touch of Evil (1958), Harper (1966), and The Fog (1980). Died on October 3, 2004. last updated October 2022

Jane Russell biography Jane Russell was born June 21, 1921, in Bemidji, Minnesota, USA. She was an American actress. She was working as a model and attending drama school when Howard Hughes offered her a role in The Outlaw (1943). The film was a huge success, not least because of Jane Russell's busty appearance and overt sexual performance, and she became a popular pinup figure during the rest of World War II. This was followed by a series of films produced by Howard Hughes, who kept Jane Russell firmly in the role of one of the fantastic sex bombs of the period. Still, in, for example, Howard Hawks' Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), she was finally allowed to demonstrate her not-inconsiderable comedic talent with Marilyn Monroe . In the late 1950s, Jane Russell began to appear in television series instead of films, which she continued with widely varying intervals until her last role in 1986. Died on February 28, 2011, in Santa Maria, California, USA. last updated October 2022

Jane Fonda biography Jane Fonda (Lady Jayne Seymour Fonda) was born on December  21, 1937, in New York City, New York, USA. American actress, daughter of Henry Fonda , and sister of Peter Fonda . Jane Fonda began as an ingénue in the 1960s American comedy, for example, in the western comedy Cat Ballou (1965), and had a detour to French films, e.g., as the butt girl in her then-husband Roger Vadim's Barbarella (1968), before her breakthrough as a character actor in Sydney Pollack's They Shoot Horses Don't They? (1969) based on Horace McCoy's novel. Up through the 1970s, Jane Fonda became one of Hollywood's big stars, who often got involved in political issues, and played important roles in, for example, Alan J. Pakula's Klute (1971), Julia (1977) and Hal Ashby's drama Coming Home (1978) about the human consequences of the Vietnam War. She became an active producer with the successful The China Syndrome (1979) and Nine to Five (1981). In 1981, she published th