Judy Garland. Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American actress, singer, and vaudevillian.
Described by Fred Astaire as "the greatest entertainer who ever lived" and renowned for her unique voice,[1] she attained international stardom throughout a career which spanned more than 40 years, as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage.[2] Respected for her versatility, she received a Juvenile Academy Award and won a Golden Globe Award as well as Grammy Awards and a Special Tony Award. Despite her professional triumphs, Garland struggled immensely in her personal life, starting when she was a child. Her self-image was strongly influenced by film executives, who said she was unattractive and constantly manipulated her onscreen physical appearance. She was plagued by financial instability, often owing hundreds of thousands of dollars in back taxes. Meet Me In St. Louis - Trailer. Judy Garland - Mack the Black - The Pirate (1948)
For Me and My Gal - Gene Kelly, Judy Garland. Judy Garland-The Harvey Girls. Veronica Lake. Veronica Lake (November 14, 1922[1] – July 7, 1973) was an American film, stage and television actress.
Lake won both popular and critical acclaim, most notably for her role in Sullivan's Travels and for her femme fatale roles in film noirs with Alan Ladd, during the 1940s. She was also well known for her peek-a-boo hairstyle. By the late 1940s however, Lake's career had begun to decline in part due to her struggles with mental illness and alcoholism. She made only one film in the 1950s but appeared in several guest-starring roles on television. She returned to the screen in 1966 with a role in the film Footsteps In the Snow, but the role failed to revitalize her career. Early life[edit] Lake was born Constance Frances Marie Ockelman in Brooklyn, New York. Career[edit] RKO subsequently dropped her contract. 1940s icon[edit] For a short time during the early 1940s, Lake was considered one of the most reliable box office draws in Hollywood. Barbara Stanwyck. Barbara Stanwyck (born Ruby Catherine Stevens; July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress.
The Lady Eve. Ilona Massey. Ilona Massey, born Hajmássy, (June 16, 1910 – August 20, 1974[1]) was a Hungarian film, stage and radio performer.
Early life and career[edit] In 1947, she starred with Eddy in Northwest Outpost, a musical film composed by Rudolf Friml.[2] In 1949, she starred in Love Happy with the Marx Brothers. She played Madame Egelichi, a femme fatale spy, and her performance inspired Milton Caniff in the creation of his femme fatale spy, Madame Lynx, in the comic strip "Steve Canyon". Caniff hired Massey to pose for him.[3] Politics[edit] Becoming an American citizen in 1946, she remained strongly anti-communist for what she saw as the destruction of her native country, at one point picketing the United Nations during the 1956 visit of Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev.
Death[edit] Ilona Massey died of cancer in Bethesda, Maryland and is buried in Virginia's Arlington National Cemetery near her last husband, Donald Dawson, who had served in the United States Air Force Reserve as a Major General. Invisible Agent. Jean Arthur. Jean Arthur (October 17, 1900 – June 19, 1991) was an American actress and a major film star of the 1930s and 1940s.
Early life[edit] Presaging many of her later film roles, she worked as a stenographer on Bond Street in lower Manhattan during World War I. Both her father and siblings went to war, where her brother Albert died as a result of injuries sustained in battle. Film career[edit] Silent film career[edit] "It would have been better business if I cried in front of the producers.
—Arthur commenting on her unsuccessful film career in 1928. Discovered by Fox Film Studios while she was doing commercial modeling in New York City in the early 1920s, Arthur landed a one-year contract and debuted in the silent film Cameo Kirby (1923), directed by John Ford. Change came when one day she showed up at the lot of Action Pictures, which produced B westerns, and impressed its owner Lester F. Publicity photo, c. 1930 Publicity photo, c. 1939 Transition to sound film[edit] In The Talk of the Town (1942)