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  1. Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
    15: ...a, Princess of Wales was a [[role model]] — after her death, there were even calls for her to be...
    22: ...ter of the romance novelist [[Barbara Cartland]], after being named as the "other party" in the Earl a...
    34: ...the most senior royal woman in the United Kingdom after the Queen and the Queen Mother.
    38: ...uicide]] attempts. In one [[interview]], released after her death, she claimed that, while pregnant wi...
    40: ...ructor, [[James Hewitt]]. (Theoretically, such an affair constituted [[high treason]] by both parties....
  2. Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
    3: ...he became one of the [[Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood]].
    9: ...[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series of disappointing roles and the public...
    13: ...ful business schedule and Fairbanks' extramarital affair with another woman led to a divorce in [[Janu...
    29: ...nced [[Ernst Lubitsch]] to direct her next film. After considering alternatives, they settle on ''[[R...
    38: ...fe, Pickford suffered from alcoholism, which also afflicted her first husband and both of her parents....
  3. Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
    19: ...ls). There is a story told that she named herself after the [[Remington Rand]] [[typewriter]], but rec...
    22: ..., Rand struggled in [[Cinema of the United States|Hollywood]] and took odd jobs to pay her basic living-expen...
    33: ...n [[World War II]] under the best possible light. After the HUAC hearings, when Ayn Rand was asked abo...
    39: ...the fact that both were married at the time. This affair was cleared with their spouses but led to the...
    43: ..., including dishonesty, but did not mention their affair or her role in the schism. The two never reco...
  4. Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
    6: ...of education, Ms. Cochran had a quick mind and an affinity for business and the investment proved a lu...
    8: ...g her products. Years later, her husband used his Hollywood connections to get [[Marilyn Monroe]] to endorse ...
    12: ...s for Britain" that delivered American built aircraft to Britain and she became the first woman to fly...
    14: ...r, she pursued flying the new [[jet engine]] aircraft going on to set numerous records. She still hold...
    18: ...e first woman to land and take off from an [[aircraft carrier]].
  5. Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
    1: [[Image:Ellafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed ...
    22: ...1996]] she died in [[Beverly Hills, California]], after having made some sad last [[Television|TV]] ap...
    28: ...n releasing albums on the [[Decca Records]] label after years of releasing singles.
    56: *1961 ''[[Ella in Hollywood]]''
  6. Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
    13: ...a daughter, Roberta Star Semple, on September 17, after which she returned to the [[United States]].
    15: ...nts, remained active with the Salvation Army, and after a short recuperation Aimee joined her in this ...
    19: ...m depression]] and several serious health issues. After what she described as a near-death experience ...
    37: McPherson made the most of the [[Hollywood|show-business]] atmosphere of Los Angeles to inco...
    51: ...Beach]] with her secretary, to go swimming. Soon after arrival, McPherson disappeared.
  7. Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
    4: ...her working mother and grandparents. In [[1925]], after a romance with a local bad boy (Johnny), Ball ...
    7: ...ved great success in films. She was known in many Hollywood circles as "the B-Movie queen", sharing the "roya...
    9: ...used problems right from the start. When he was drafted to the [[Army]] in [[1942]], Ball was crushed ...
    22: ..., CBS relinquished the show rights back to Desilu after broadcast, not realizing they were giving away...
    24: ... part of [[Metropolis]], had directed a number of Hollywood films himself, and knew his business. For Lucy, ...
  8. Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
    10: ...ous, too, for her drinking, drug taking, and many affairs with men and women. By the end of the decade...
    12: ...nt Picture]]'s "next [[Marlene Dietrich]]", but [[Hollywood]] success eluded her in her first four films of t...
  9. Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
    3: ...rmous success and "Sweden's illustrious gift to [[Hollywood]]" had arrived.
    5: After completing a few pictures in Sweden and appear...
    7: ...wood and with the public; Bergman was branded as "Hollywood's apostle of degradation." One of Rossellini's a...
    9: ...asia]]'', Bergman made her post-scandal return to Hollywood and won Best Actress for a second time. She would...
    17: ... a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] at 6759 Hollywood Blvd.
  10. Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
    10: ...ocial life was as continuously active. She had an affair with a Belgian nobleman, Charles-Joseph-Eugen...
    16: In [[1915]], ten years after a serious injury, her right leg was [[amputate...
    18: Sarah Bernhardt has a Star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] at 1751 Vine Street.
  11. Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
    17: ..., although she married four times and had several affairs, including ones with [[George Brent]] and [[...
    19: ...Davis, The Lonely Life'', which appeared the year after her death, updating what had happened since he...
    23: ...erious stroke. She is interred in [[Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery]] in Los Angeles. On her [[tomb st...
    25: ...ith many famous quotes about acting often about [[Hollywood]] and rivals like Crawford and Hepburn.
    27: After the song "[[Bette Davis Eyes]]" became a hit s...
  12. Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
    5: ...oungest of three children born to Karl Alfred Gustafsson ([[1871]]-[[1920]]) and Anna Lovisa Johnasson...
    12: ...ned to [[Sweden]] in [[1928]], where he died soon after.
    16: ==Life in Hollywood==
    17: ...[Mercedes de Acosta]]. She also had an on-and-off affair with the primarily homosexual British photogr...
    21: ...whose popularity was waning, did not fare as well after the advent of sound and his [[career]] faltere...
  13. Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
    6: ...eautiful actresses in [[Hollywood]]. She also had affairs with the Spanish bullfighter [[Luis Miguel D...
    12: After a [[stroke]] in 1989, which left her partially...
  14. Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
    5: ...children, at their parents' encouragement, were unafraid of expressing their frank views on various to...
    10: ...ma -->, the same year she debuted on [[Broadway]] after landing a bit part in ''[[Night Hostess]]''.
    12: ...main lifelong friends. They divorced in [[1934]] after Hepburn was established as a film star.
    21: ... of New York City, and began getting noticed by [[Hollywood]].
    26: ... was earning between $80 — $100 per week). After seeing her screen test, RKO agreed to her dema...
  15. Helen Hunt (3298 bytes)
    7: ...so had a successful film career and has been in [[Hollywood]] movies such as ''[[Cast Away]]'' and ''[[As Goo...
  16. Nicole Kidman (11782 bytes)
    15: After ten years, the marriage was dissolved in 2001:...
    17: ===Hollywood career===
    19: After ?Days of Thunder? she starred with Cruise in [...
    32: ...''[[The Hours]]'': for the same film she won a [[BAFTA]] award.
    37: ...n ''[[The Hours]]''. She was nominated for the [[BAFTA]] two other times, in 2002 and 1996.
  17. Vivien Leigh (4286 bytes)
    7: ...znick]] had secrectly selected Leigh for the role after seeing her in the [[MGM]] film ''[[A Yank at O...
    9: ...actress [[Jill Esmond]] who was pregnant when the affair began).
    17: ... a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] at 6773 Hollywood Blvd.
  18. Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
    7: ... Italian films, but she had an early brush with [[Hollywood]] in [[1951]] when she and her mother worked as e...
    9: ...a Scicolone changed her name to Sophia Loren and, after more early film roles that emphasized her volu...
    11: ...cond half of the 1950s, her star began to rise in Hollywood, with films such as [[1957]]'s ''[[Boy on a Dolph...
    17: After becoming a mother of two sons her career slowe...
    67: *''[[Africa Under the Seas]]'' (1953)
  19. Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
    8: ...parents until Ida, rather cruelly, corrected her. After Marilyn's death, Ida claimed that she and Wayn...
    10: ...hat she had bought a house for them. A few months after moving in, she suffered a breakdown. Marilyn r...
    12: ... Grace McKee, later Goddard, became her guardian. After Grace married in [[1935]], Norma Jeane was sen...
    16: ... her fortune and to this very day - over 40 years after her mysterious death - she still generates hug...
    18: ...was here that her name was changed. She was named after an actress called Marilyn Miller and Monroe wa...
  20. Isabella Rossellini (2696 bytes)
    6: Other roles include ''[[Cousins]]'' a Hollywood remake of the French film <i>Cousin, Cousine</i>,...

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