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- Diana, Princess of Wales (29391 bytes)
11: ...]] [[1961]]–[[31 August]] [[1997]]) was the first [[wife]] of [[Charles, Prince of Wales|HRH The...
15: ... [[beauty]], admired and emulated for her high-profile involvement in [[AIDS]] issues and the internat...
22: ...encer|Edward Spencer, Viscount Althorp]], and his first wife, [[Frances Shand Kydd|Frances Spencer, Vi...
24: ...efly attended [[Institut Alpin Videmanette]], a [[finishing school]] in [[Rougemont]], [[Switzerland]]...
30: ...nd Protestant. Diana fulfilled all of these qualifications. - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
3: ...he became one of the [[Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood]].
9: ... for Best Actress]] in [[1929]], but retired from films four years later, after a series of disappoint...
11: ...83-1939)|Douglas Fairbanks]], an action-adventure film star. The phrase "by the clock" became a secret...
13: ...]] the same year. Together they were regarded as "Hollywood Royalty" and were famous for entertaining at thei...
18: * [[1909]]: discovered by [[David Wark Griffith]] at [[American Mutoscope and Biograph Company|... - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
11: ...nd ''[[Atlas Shrugged]]''. Her philosophy and her fiction both emphasize, above all, her concepts of [...
13: ...s a right to exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing self to others nor others to self; and
19: ...irst name is said to have come from the name of a Finnish writer whom she had not read, but whose name...
22: ...[[naturalized citizen]] of the United States. Her first literary success came with the sale of her scr...
24: ...an]] government under [[Benito Mussolini]]. These films were re-edited into a new version which was ap... - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
4: ...to obtain a job at a prestigious salon in [[Saks Fifth Avenue]] department store.
6: ... education, Ms. Cochran had a quick mind and an affinity for business and the investment proved a lucr...
8: ...g her products. Years later, her husband used his Hollywood connections to get [[Marilyn Monroe]] to endorse ...
10: ...ts to men only. Cochran pressed the issue until officials relented and allowed her and fellow aviatrix...
12: ... British Air Transport Auxiliary, recruiting qualified women pilots in the United States and taking th... - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: [[Image:Ellafitzgerald.jpeg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 194...
2: '''Ella Fitzgerald''' ([[April 25]], [[1917]] – [[June...
8: ... band continued touring under the new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra."
18: ...[Pete Kelly's Blues]]''. She also appeared in the films ''[[Ride 'Em Cowboy]]'', ''[[St. Louis Blues]]...
24: Ella Fitzgerald is referred to on the 1980' s hit "Ella ,... - Aimee Semple McPherson (13395 bytes)
13: ...reafter, the two embarked on an evangelical tour, first to [[Europe]] and then to [[China]], where the...
25: ...me frustrated with the situation, and by 1918 had filed for separation. His petition for divorce, cit...
27: ...f 1918 to 1922 as itinerant Pentecostal preacher, finally settling with her mother in [[Los Angeles, C...
33: ...nday]], McPherson was less a [[fire and brimstone|fire-and-brimstone]] preacher than one to endorse ch...
35: ... on [[February 6]], [[1924]], she also became the first woman to be granted a broadcast license by the... - Lucille Ball (12427 bytes)
5: ...ering the spinal cord, due to a .22 caliber rifle firing with Warner in the rifle's path. Her grandfat...
7: ...ved great success in films. She was known in many Hollywood circles as "the B-Movie queen", sharing the "roya...
9: ...Cuban bandleader [[Desi Arnaz]] while filming the film version of the [[Rodgers and Hart]] stage hit '...
20: ...dated her show), and was among the first stars to film before a live audience.
22: ...Lucy and Desi agreed to take a pay cut to finance filming. In return, CBS relinquished the show right... - Tallulah Bankhead (6331 bytes)
6: ... her move to New York. She quickly won bit parts, first appearing in a non-speaking role in The Squab ...
12: ...[Hollywood]] success eluded her in her first four films of the 30s. Critics agree that her acting was ...
14: ...vertheless, [[David O. Selznick]] called her the "first choice among established stars" to play [[Scar...
16: ...onders if the cynical Bankhead could have played "Fiddle-Dee-Dee" Scarlett with anything approaching a...
20: ...performance is widely acknowledged as her best on film, and won her the New York Screen Critics Award.... - Ingrid Bergman (5216 bytes)
3: ...rmous success and "Sweden's illustrious gift to [[Hollywood]]" had arrived.
5: ...emy_Award_for_Best Actress|Best Actress]] for the film, ''[[For Whom the Bell Tolls]]'' ([[1943]]). Th...
7: ...wood and with the public; Bergman was branded as "Hollywood's apostle of degradation." One of Rossellini's a...
9: ...her seventh Academy Award nomination and made her final performance on the big screen. It is consider...
11: ...llow actor [[John Gielgud]]'s remark, "She speaks five languages, and can't act in any of them." - Sarah Bernhardt (3531 bytes)
12: ...ed ''Sarah Bernhardt à ‚elle-Isle'' ([[1912]]), a film about her daily life at home.
16: ...rious injury, her right leg was [[amputate]]d, confining her to a [[wheelchair]] for several months. ...
18: Sarah Bernhardt has a Star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] at 1751 Vine Street.
22: The actress La Berma, a [[fictional character]] in [[Marcel Proust]]'s ''[[In ... - Bette Davis (6722 bytes)
7: ... they let her sign with [[Warner Brothers]]. Her first starring role was in ''[[The Man Who Played Go...
9: ...'[[Dangerous]]'' ([[1936]]) and ''[[Jezebel (1938 film)|Jezebel]]'' ([[1938]]), and was able to name h...
11: ...r another [[Academy Award|Oscar]] nomination. The film, which was the only time that Davis and Crawfor...
13: Sensing renewed [[box-office]] potential in his former contract player, [[Ja...
15: ... became the first woman to receive the [[American Film Institute]]'s Lifetime Achievement Award, and i... - Greta Garbo (9957 bytes)
8: ...part for the movie ''Peter The Tramp'' ([[1920 in film|1920]]).
10: ...n a major role in ''G? Berlings Saga'' ([[1924 in film|1924]]) (English: ''The Story of G? Berling'')....
12: ...ationship came to an end as her fame grew. He was fired by MGM and returned to [[Sweden]] in [[1928]],...
16: ==Life in Hollywood==
17: ...]]) and ''[[Love (1927 movie)|Love]]'' ([[1927 in film|1927]]). The latter two she starred in with the... - Ava Gardner (4142 bytes)
6:
14: ... [[Smithfield, North Carolina]]; the town of Smithfield now has an Ava Gardner [[Museum]].
16: ...ate Beckinsale]] in ''[[The Aviator]]'' (2004), a film by [[Martin Scorsese]] about [[Howard Hughes]].
18: ==Filmography==
43: * [[The Killers (1946 film)|The Killers]] (1946) - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...0-year acting career. In [[1999]], the [[American Film Institute]] ranked Hepburn the greatest actress...
7: ...sh; she fearlessly performed her own pratfalls in films such as ''[[Bringing Up Baby]]'', which is now...
12: ...ed in [[1934]] after Hepburn was established as a film star.
19: ...ly that she was almost incomprehensible. She was fired from the play, but continued to work in small ...
21: ... of New York City, and began getting noticed by [[Hollywood]]. - Helen Hunt (3298 bytes)
7: ...so had a successful film career and has been in [[Hollywood]] movies such as ''[[Cast Away]]'' and ''[[As Goo...
9: In 1998, Hunt became the first actress to win both an [[Emmy]] and an [[Acade...
15: == Filmography == - Nicole Kidman (11782 bytes)
10: ..., and four film roles, including ''[[BMX Bandits (film)|BMX Bandits]]'' and ''[[Bush Christmas]]''. D...
17: ===Hollywood career===
19: ...hut]]'' ([[1999]]), [[Stanley Kubrick]]'s final [[film]], when she co-starred with her husband as a ma...
23: ...s (2001 film)|The Others]]''. While in Australia filming ''Moulin Rouge!'', Kidman injured her knee, ...
24: ...e same year she took a hand at production for the film ''[[In the Cut]]''. - Vivien Leigh (4286 bytes)
7: ...rd]]'', but told no one until late [[1938]], when filming began. [[Paulette Goddard]] was close to be ...
11: ...]'', her illness was getting worse. In [[1952 in film|1952]], however, Leigh won a second [[Academy A...
17: ... a star on the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]] at 6773 Hollywood Blvd.
19: ==Filmography==
24: *''[[Fire Over England]]'' ([[1937]]) - Sophia Loren (9622 bytes)
5: She was born '''Sofia Villani Scicolone''' in [[Rome]], [[Italy]], the...
7: ... prizes and was discovered by her future husband, film producer [[Carlo Ponti]].
9: ...ptuous physique (she even appeared topless in the films ''[[Two Nights with Cleopatra]]'' and ''[[It's...
11: ... Tights]]'' (in which she appeared blonde for the first time in her career).
13: ... performance prizes, the distinction of being the first actor to win a major category [[Academy Award]... - Marilyn Monroe (30186 bytes)
4: ...ld eventually become the most celebrated actor in film history, Marilyn's beginnings were humble to sa...
6: ...'s mother, Gladys Pearl Monroe Baker, worked as a film-cutter. However in later years, more and more h...
12: ...hbor's son, James Dougherty, who would become her first husband. The Goddard family was moving to the ...
15: [[Image:Pb1253.jpg|frame|right|Cover of the first issue of ''[[Playboy]]'']]
18: While her first husband James Dougherty was at war, the young ... - Isabella Rossellini (2696 bytes)
3: '''Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna Rossellini''', born in [[R...
6: ... ''[[Cousins]]'' a Hollywood remake of the French film <i>Cousin, Cousine</i>, and Nimue in the 1998 m...
8: ...risingly never been cast as Ingrid Bergman in any film, although she did perform a parody of Bergman's...
28: ==Selected filmography==
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