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Evelyn Laye, CBE was an English theatre and musical film actress, who was active on the London light opera stage.....
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Lucille Lortel was an American actress, artistic director and producer. In the course of her career Lortel produced or coproduced nearly 500 plays, 5 of which were nominated for Tony Awards As Is by William M. Hoffman, Angels Fall by Lanford Wilson, Blood Knot by Athol Fugard, Mbongeni Ngemas Sarafina and A Walk in the Woods by Lee Blessing. She also produced Marc Blitzsteins adaptation of Bertolt Brechts, and Kurt Weills Threepenny Opera, a production which ran for seven years and according to....
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Maria Malicka was a Polish stage and film actress. She appeared in ten films between 1927 and 1966.....
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Helen Morgan was an American singer and actress who worked in films and on the stage. A quintessential torch singer, she made a big splash in the Chicago club scene in the 1920s. She starred as Julie LaVerne in the original Broadway production of Hammerstein and Kerns musical Show Boat in 1927 as well as in the 1932 Broadway revival of the musical, and appeared in two film adaptations, a parttalkie made in 1929 and a fullsound version made in 1936, becoming firmly associated with the role. She....
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Irma Patks was a Hungarian film actress. She appeared in 40 films between 1957 and 1994.....
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Estelle Brody was an American actress who became one of the biggest female stars of British silent film in the latter half of the 1920s. Her career was then derailed by a series of illadvised decisions and she disappeared from sight for many years before reemerging between the late 1940s and the 1960s in smaller supporting film and television roles.....
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Edna Best was a British actress. Born in Hove, Sussex, England, she was educated in Brighton and later studied dramatic acting under Miss Kate Rorke who was the first Professor of Drama at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London. Best was known on the London stage before she entered films in 1921, having made her debut at the Grand Theatre, Southampton in Charleys Aunt in 1917. She also won a silver swimming cup as the lady swimming champion of Sussex.....
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Martita Edith Hunt was an Argentineborn English theatre and film actress. She had a dominant stage presence and played a wide range of powerful characters. She is bestremembered for her performance as Miss Havisham in David Leans Great Expectations.....
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Iracema de Alencar was a Brazilian actress. She made her debut as the lead in the 1917 silent film Iracema. After working in theatre for many years she appeared in several other films, much later in her career.....
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Hede Massing, ne Hedwig Tune , was an Austrian actress in Vienna and Berlin, communist, and Soviet intelligence operative in Europe and the United States during the 1930s and 1940s. After World War II, she defected from the Soviet underground. She came to prominence by testifying in the second case of Alger Hiss in 1949 later, she published accounts about the underground.....
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Elisabeth NeumannViertel was an Austrian actress who started her career in Germany during the 1920s. Under the Nazi regime she emigrated to the United States, where she appeared on the Broadway and in a few Hollywood movies. She later returned to Germany where she worked with numerous successful theatres of Berlin, among them Fritz Kortners Berliner Bhnen. NeumannViertel was also a notable character actress in films and television, although she seldomly played a leading role there. She retired ....
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Helena Pickard was a British stage, film and television actress. Pickard was a prominent character actress in West End plays such as When We Are Married and Flare Path and also appeared on Broadway. She made her screen debut in the 1924 silent film The Clicking of Cuthbert. She played the female lead in the 1931 comedy Splinters in the Navy but mostly appeared in supporting roles. While working in the United States she appeared in two Hollywood productions before returning to Britain. During he....
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Helen Tradusa Helenka Adamowska Pantaleoni was a Polish American silent film actress and humanitarian. She was the founding director of the U.S. Committee for UNICEF, a role that she held for 25 years. Her granddaughter is American actress Ta Leoni.....
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Ella, Baroness van Heemstra, MStJ was a Dutch aristocrat and the mother of the actress Audrey Hepburn.....
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Paola Borboni was an Italian film actress whose career spanned nine decades of cinema. She also made a substantial contribution to theatre.....
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