Maggie Moore (1851 - 1926)

Actress. Dubbed ‘the darling of the gods’, she was one of the most popular women on the late-nineteenth century Australian stage. In 1903, she joined the Royal Comic Opera Company, which toured the United States, Great Britain and Australia until 1924. She retired to California in 1925, appearing on stage and in silent films until […]

Joanna Cook Moore (1934 - 1997)

Actress. She specialized in playing wily females in such films as “Walk on the Wild Side” (1962), “Son of Flubber” (1963), and Orson Welles’ “A Touch of Evil.” She is best remembered as the benevolent girlfriend of Sheriff Andy Taylor in the early TV episodes of “The Andy Griffith Show.” At the peak of her […]

Ida Moore (1882 - 1964)

Ida Moore (March 1, 1882- September 26, 1964) She made her film debut in “Lightnin” (1925), but did not actively pursue film making full time until the 1940’s. She was routinely cast as a grandma or as a spinster in many comedies to include “Cutie on Duty” (1943), “The Windjammer” (1945), “Money Madness” (1947), “Hold […]

Colleen Moore (1899 - 1988)

Through my series “Finding Them,” I embarked on an adventure to try to shed light on forgotten stars. Colleen Moore is among the stars I tried to put back into the limelight. Colleen Moore was born Kathleen Morrison on Aug. 19, 1899, in Port Huron, Mich. She was born with one brown eye and one […]

Carlotta Monti (1907 - 1993)

Actress, Author. She is most remembered for being the Mistress of comedian W. C. Fields. As an actress, after winning the Miss Hollywood beauty pageant, she began as an extra in the 1925 movie, “Ben-Hur,” later playing several, most often uncredited, bit parts in other movies, including the hit movie, “King Kong” (1933 – she […]

Lola Montez (1821 - 1861)

Entertainer, American Folk Figure. Cause of death: Pneumonia

Conchita Montes (1914 - 1994)

Spanish stage and screen actress. She is best remembered for her films “La Vida en un Hilo” (1945), “Nada” (1947), “El Baile” (1959), and “La Escopeta Nacional” (1978).  (bio by: José L Bernabé Tronchoni)

Conchita Montenegro (1912 - 2007)

Actress. Born Concepción de Andrés Picado in San Sebastián, Pais Vasco, Montenegro was a star of the 1930s cinema. After working as a model and dancer, Montenegro turned to dramatic acting and became a star on Spain, France and Germany. Then, Montenegro came to Hollywood in 1930 with a contract at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and later with […]

Ethel Merman (1908 - 1984)

Entertainer. As an actress and singer, she is best remembered for her powerful, belting mezzo-soprano voice, precise enunciation and pitch in musicals, and has been called “the undisputed First Lady of the musical comedy stage.” Because stage singers performed without microphones when she began singing professionally, she had a great advantage, despite the fact that […]

Cheerio Meredith (1890 - 1964)

Actress. A popular character performer, her career began late in her senior years with roles on television and motion pictures in the 1940s to 1960s. Among her film credits were “A Fig Leaf for Eve” (1944), “The Fat Man” (1951), “The Legend of Tom Dooley” (1959), “The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm” (1962) and […]

Micole Mercurio (1938 - 2016)

Actress. The Chicago native enjoyed a 30-year career in films and television, often cast as mother figures. She experienced her breakthrough role playing ‘Rosemary Szabo’ in the film “Flashdance” (1983) and would go on to a wide range of pictures including playing ‘Mamma Love’ in “The Client” (1994) and “While You Were Sleeping” (1995). Among […]

Marian Mercer (1935 - 2011)

Actress. Born Marian Ethel Mercer, she took singing lessons at the age of eight and had a starring role in a high school production of “Annie Get Your Gun” before attending the University of Michigan. She gained experience in summer stock plays and following her moving to New York in 1957, she modeled (as well […]

Beryl Mercer (1882 - 1939)

Actress.  She is best known for playing gentle,  long-suffering mothers in Hollywood films.  Born to British parents in Seville,  Spain,  she appeared on the London stage from childhood and moved to the United States in 1916.  She settled in Hollywood in 1929,  after a decade of Broadway experience.  The small,  sad-eyed Mercer was immediately pegged […]

Doro Merande (1892 - 1975)

Actress. Born Dora Matthews, she appeared in 25 Broadway plays, most famously in the original 1938 production of “Our Town.” This was the part that brought her to Hollywood in 1940, where Merande appeared in dozens of Hollywood-based TV and movie character roles, including the loud mouthed housekeeper in “The Gazebo” (1959) and the strident […]

Pina Menichelli (1890 - 1984)

Silent Italian silent film star. Pina was considerd one of the most bizzare and perverse of the Italian divas. She is a striking presence in her handful of her films. With her contorted postures and distainful expressions, she would have been typed as a Hollywood Vamp. (bio by: David)

Lola Membrives (1888 - 1969)

Legendary Actress. One of the greatest performers of the Spanish repertory. Born Dolores Membrives Fernández in Buenos Aires, she made her debut in Spain in 1902. When she returned to Buenos Aires in 1905, she began an artistic career that lasted more than sixty years. (bio by: 380W)

Kitty Melrose (1970 - 1912)

Actress. Real name Agnes Butterfield. Vivacious star of the Edwardian stage. Her biggest hit was the musical “The Quaker Girl” (1910), which ran for 536 performances at London’s Adelphi Theatre. After an unhappy love affair,  Melrose swallowed poison. (bio by: Bobb Edwards)

Vera Fuller Mellish (1970 - 1970)

Actress. She appeared in the film “The Beautiful Adventure” (1917). On Broadway, some of the original productions she appeared in were “A Little Journey”(1918), ” Shall We Join the Ladies?”(1925), “Late One Evening”(1933), “The Puritan”(1936), and “The Solid Gold Cadillac”(1953). She was the daughter of actor Fuller Mellish, and sister of actor Fuller Mellish, Jr. […]

Marisa Mell (1939 - 1992)

Actress. With a large number of film and television features to her credit she is probably best remembered for her starring turns in several low budget Italian movies of the late 1960s. Born Marlies Theres Moitzi she was raised in Graz, Austria, and after graduation from high school studied acting in Vienna and was briefly […]

Mariangela Melato (1941 - 2013)

Italian Actress. Regarded by film critics as one of the best actresses and known for her many main character roles in successful films. From 1963 to 1965 she worked with Dario Fo in ” Settimo: ruba un pò meno e la colpa è sempre del diavolo” and in 1966 was committed to the Teatro Stabile […]

Blanche Mehaffey (1908 - 1968)

American actress in several motion pictures of the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. Married to film producer Ralph M. Like. (bio by: A.J. Marik)

Patricia Medina (1919 - 2012)

Actress. Born Patricia Paz Maria Medina, to a Spanish father and an English mother, she entered the British cinema during her late teens and marked her film debut with an uncredited part in “Dinner at the Ritz” (1937). Following her marriage to actor Richard Greene, she embarked upon Hollywood and by the late 1940s, she […]

Nelly Meden (1928 - 2004)

T.V., cinema and stage actress. Born Nélida Mabel Medina, lived in Mexico for 16 years, and is well remembered for her roles in soap operas. She appeared in 23 Argentine films. (bio by: 380W)

Julia Meade (1928 - 2016)

Actress, Television Personality. Born Julia Kunz, her father was a businessman, her mother was an actress, Julia was raised in Ridgewood, New Jersey. After choosing to focus on a career in entertainment, she enrolled at the Yale University Drama School and studied Theatre. She acquired acting experience in summer stock productions and worked as a […]

Margaret McWade (1872 - 1956)

Actress. She started out her entertainment career in Vaudeville, appearing along with actress Margaret Seddon in a comedy act billed as the “Pixilated Sisters”. With the advent and growing popularity of motion pictures, she began in 1914 to appear in features produced by the Edison Film Company. She eventually acted in 104 films, often playing […]

Arlene McQuade (1936 - 2014)

Actress. She will be fondly remembered for playing ‘Rosalie Goldberg’ in the TV series “The Goldbergs” (1949 to 1956). Her father was an attorney, Arlene began her acting career on radio while a child and at the age of twelve, she landed the part of ‘Young Alma’ in the Tennessee Williams’ Broadway play “Summer and […]

Addie Oakley McPhail (1905 - 2003)

Actress. She was the 3rd wife of comedian Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle who she was married to from 1932 until his death on June 29, 1933. She appeared in the films, “Northwest Passage” (1940), “Women Of Glamour” (1937), “Bordertown” (1935), “By Your Leave” (1934), “Merry Wives Of Reno” (1934), “The Super Snooper” (1934), “An Old Gypsy […]

Claudia McNeil (1917 - 1993)

Actress. She first worked as a singer for the Katharine Dunham dance company, then toured as a single all over the world and performed on the New York stage in the early 1950s. She made her screen debut in “The Last Angry Man” (1959), followed by “A Raisin in the Sun” (1961) and “Roll of […]

Maggie McNamara (1928 - 1978)

Actress. Born in New York City, she began her career performing on Broadway in 1951. In 1953, she made her debut in the film “The Moon Is Blue” for which her performance earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress. Her other credits included “Three Coins In The Fountain” (1954), Prince Of Players” (1955) and […]

Barbara Jean McNair (1934 - 2007)

Actress, Singer. Born in Racine, Wisconsin, she had numerous credits in television and films since the 1960s and hosted her own series “The Barbara McNair Show” in 1969. After her film debut with a minor role in the 1963 movie “Spencer’s Mountain”, McNair’s other credits include the films “If He Hollers, Let Him Go!”, (1968), […]