• Mahasti Dadebala

    1946 - 2007

    Mahasti Dadebala (1946 - 2007)

    Singer. Awarded the Persian Female Pop-Classic Vocalist of Excellence by the World Academy of Arts, Literature and Media for her 40-plus year pop music career.  Known as the “Persian Diva” and “Banooye Golhaa va Delha” (Lady of Hearts and Flowers). She was the younger sister of singer Heideh (Hayedeh). (bio by: Lisa Burks)

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  • Augusta Dabney

    1918 - 2008

    Augusta Dabney (1918 - 2008)

    Actress. Born in Berkeley, California, she is best known to television audiences for her roles in numerous soap operas including, “As the World Turns”, “The Guiding Light”, “General Hospital”, “Another World” and “Loving”. She began her career on the Broadway stage and would appear in the productions, “Another Love Story”, “The Playroom” and “Everything in […]

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  • Fifi D’Orsay

    1904 - 1983

    Fifi D’Orsay (1904 - 1983)

    Canadian-born motion picture actress of the 1920s through the 1960s. (bio by: A.J. Marik)

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  • Mae Madison D’Angelo

    1915 - 2004

    Mae Madison D’Angelo (1915 - 2004)

    Actress. Born Mariska Megyzsi to Hungarian parents, Mae Madison began her career as a child dancer with The Megland Kiddies before transitioning to films, debuting in the Fox silent “The Play Girl” (1928), directed by Arthur Rosson. She spent most of her career at Warner Bros., starring alongside John Barrymore in “The Mad Genius” (1931) […]

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  • Adrienne D’Ambricourt

    1878 - 1957

    Adrienne D’Ambricourt (1878 - 1957)

    Actress. French-born character performer in Hollywood films. She played housekeepers, nurses, and landladies of the Gallic variety, with an occasional society matron thrown in. Her credits include “God Gave Me Twenty Cents” (1926),  “The Trial of Mary Dugan” (1929),  “Svengali” (1931),  “What Price Hollywood?” (1932),  “The Great Ziegfeld” (1936),  “San Francisco” (1936),  “The Story of […]

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  • Jeanne d’Alcy

    1865 - 1956

    Jeanne d’Alcy (1865 - 1956)

    Actress. Mistress and second wife of film pioneer Georges Méliès. She was a performer with the Théâtre Robert-Houdin when Méliès purchased it in 1888. She would go on to appear in many of the director’s early film works such as The House Of The Devil (1896), a very early example of the horror film, After […]

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  • Daisy D’ Ora

    1913 - 2010

    Daisy D’ Ora (1913 - 2010)

    Actress, Beauty Queen, Society Figure. A pretty ingenue of the German cinema, she later became a fixture in European diplomatic circles. Born Daisy Frein Baroness von Freyberg zu Eisenberg, she had early theatrical ambitions and took a stage name as show business was considered an improper career for the nobility. Spotted by producer G. W. […]

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  • Elzbieta Czyzewska

    1938 - 2010

    Elzbieta Czyzewska (1938 - 2010)

    Actress. A leading light of the Polish stage and screen, she played numerous character roles in the United States after her forced exile from her native land. Raised in Warsaw, she graduated from acting school in 1960, and after appearing in the movie short “Erotique” quickly became a national sex symbol. Starring in the works […]

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  • Mieczyslawa Trapszo Cwiklinska

    1879 - 1972

    Mieczyslawa Trapszo Cwiklinska (1879 - 1972)

    Polish stage and screen actress and singer (soprano), outstanding comic actress renowned for her roles in both operettas and the classics. Cwiklinska, who came from a Polish theatrical family, made her debut in 1900 at the Teatr Ludowy (The People’s Theatre) in Warsaw in Michal Balucki’s play Grube Ryby. She toured Russia in 1906 and […]

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  • Charlotte Saunders Cushman

    1816 - 1876

    Charlotte Saunders Cushman (1816 - 1876)

    Actress. Born in Boston Massachusetts, she is known as the first American born international star. She first attempted a career in opera but voice troubles forced her to look to acting. In 1836 she received rave reviews for her debut performance as Lady Macbeth. She went on to star as Meg Merrilies in “Guy Mannering” […]

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  • Willa Pearl Curtis

    1896 - 1970

    Willa Pearl Curtis (1896 - 1970)

    Actress. Appeared in motion pictures from 1938 to 1955. She played ‘Buckwheat’s’ mother in the “Our Gang” series. (bio by: Graving Queen of the OC)

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  • Mary Currier

    1904 - 1997

    Mary Currier (1904 - 1997)

    Actress. Born in Racine, Wisconsin. Mary began her acting as a party guest in the movie Stronger than Desire in 1939. In 1940 she played bit parts in four movies, they were, Babies for Sale, Five little peppers in trouble, Blondie on a budget, and Kitty Foyle. In 1942, Mary played two bit parts in […]

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  • Louise Currie

    1913 - 2013

    Louise Currie (1913 - 2013)

    Actress. Born Louise Gunter, her father was a banker, she enjoyed growing up in high social status and attended an all-girls school in Washington, DC. While studying at Sarah Lawrence College, she developed an interesting in acting and later moved to Hollywood in pursuit of a career in entertainment. She studied at Max Reinhardt’s School […]

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  • Mary Curran

    1906 - 1992

    Mary Curran (1906 - 1992)

    Stage and silent screen actress.

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  • Pauline Curley

    1903 - 2000

    Pauline Curley (1903 - 2000)

    American motion picture actress of the silent screen (1910s and 20s). Appeared with Barbara Stanwyck in the 1929 mystery “The Locked Door.” Married for many years to cinematographer Kenneth Peach. Mother of cinematographer Kenneth Peach, Jr. (bio by: A.J. Marik)  Family links:  Spouse:  Kenneth Peach (1903 – 1988)

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  • Cecil Cunningham

    1888 - 1959

    Cecil Cunningham (1888 - 1959)

    Actress. She appeared in 84 films, including “Mata Hari,” “Blonde Venus,” “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town,” “Come and Get It,” “The Awful Truth,” “Lillian Russell,” “New Moon,” “Du Barry Was a Lady,” and “The Horn Blows At Midnight.” She was married to writer Jean C. Havez. (bio by: TLS)  Family links:  Spouse:  Jean C. Havez […]

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  • Pamela Cundell

    1920 - 2015

    Pamela Cundell (1920 - 2015)

    Actress. A prolific character performer especially adept at comedy, she shall be remembered as Mrs. Fox from the 1970s BBC series “Dad’s Army”. The child of a music and theatre family with roots going back to Shakespeare’s own company, she took to the stage at 14, attended London’s Guildhall School of Music and Drama, and […]

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  • Mina Cunard

    1894 - 1978

    Mina Cunard (1894 - 1978)

    American motion picture actress in the silent era (1910s and 20s). She returned to movies for a short time in the 1950s. Married to actor Harry Seymour. (bio by: A.J. Marik)

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  • Grace Cunard

    1893 - 1967

    Grace Cunard (1893 - 1967)

    Actress. Born Harriet Mildred Jeffries, (Her sister was actress Mina Cunard Seymour.) Cunard made her Hollywood debut in 1908. Though hardly known today, Cunard was one of the many women who thrived in the business of the movies, acting in over 120 silent films, directing others, and writing more than 30 scripts. Playing opposite Francis […]

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  • Ruth Sinclair Cummings

    1894 - 1984

    Ruth Sinclair Cummings (1894 - 1984)

    Actress. Born in Washington D.C., she began her career in movies making her debut in the silent film “Zaza” (1915). A veteran of over 30 films as a performer and writer, her credits included “The Heart Line” (1921), “The Tower of Lies” (1925), “California” (1927), “The Adventurer” (1928), “The Bridge of San Luis Rey” (1929), […]

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  • Marion Morehouse Cummings

    1906 - 1969

    Marion Morehouse Cummings (1906 - 1969)

    Actress. A model and photographer, she was the third wife of poet e. e. cummings.  Family links:  Spouse:  E. E. Cummings (1894 – 1962)

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  • Constance Cummings

    1910 - 2005

    Constance Cummings (1910 - 2005)

    Actress. She was born in Seattle (Washington). She made her film debut in Howard Hawks’ classic “The Criminal Code.” She enjoyed successful stage and film careers on both sides of the Atlantic. She married noted British playwright Benn Wolf Levy (Hitchcock’s Blackmail) in 1933 and moved to the UK. There, her career continued to flourish […]

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  • Fedelma Cullen

    1948 - 2003

    Fedelma Cullen (1948 - 2003)

    Actress. She played in the films, “The Abduction” (2002), “Her Own Rules” (1998), and in an episode of the television series, “Ballykissangel” in 2001. She was also a well-known actress at the Abbey Theater in Dublin, Ireland, from 1967 to 2003. She appeared in many stage productions including, James McKenna’s “At Bantry” in 1967, Tarry […]

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  • Anna Maria Crouch

    1763 - 1805

    Anna Maria Crouch (1763 - 1805)

    Actress, Singer. A late 18th Century star of the London stage, she is probably better remembered for her romantic liasons. Born Anna Maria Phillips, she started her theatrical career as a child and made her bow at Drury Lane in 1780 as Mandane from Thomas Arne’s “Artaxerxes”. Soon becoming a company regular, she achieved renown […]

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  • Ivy Crosthwaite

    1897 - 1962

    Ivy Crosthwaite (1897 - 1962)

    Actress. She was one of Mack Sennett’s bathing beauties, a group of young starlets (which also included Gloria Swanson and Mabel Normand) who appeared bare-legged in Sennett’s early comedies. A native of San Diego, California, her other film credits include, “A Game Of Old Knight” (1915), “Fickle Fatty’s Fall” (1915), A Janitor’s Wife Temptation” (1915), […]

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  • Henrietta Crosman

    1861 - 1944

    Henrietta Crosman (1861 - 1944)

    Actress. Born n Wheeling, West Virginia, she began her career as a stage performer at the Windsor Theatre, New York, in 1883. She went on to be one of Broadway’s top leading ladies, when she signed with Universal Studios and her big screen debut in the silent film “The Unwelcome Mrs. Hatch” (1914), followed by […]

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  • Dixie Lee Crosby

    1911 - 1952

    Dixie Lee Crosby (1911 - 1952)

    Actress, Singer. Born Wilma Winifred Wyatt, she was Bing Crosby’s first wife. She played in movies such us: “Dad’s Girl,” “The Big Party” and “Manhattan Love Song.” She suffered from acute alcoholism, which contributed to her early death. (bio by: MC)  Family links:  Parents:  Evan Evans Wyatt (1881 – 1973)  Nora Matilda Scarbrough Wyatt (1882 […]

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  • Anna Cropper

    1938 - 2007

    Anna Cropper (1938 - 2007)

    Actress. Born in Brierfield, Lancashire, England, she appeared mainly in British films and television. After she began her career on the stage, Cropper made her movie debut in the 1969 film “All Neat in Black Stockings”. Her other memorable performances include the film “Cromwell”, (1970), and the television series “The Wednesday Play”, “Softly Softly”, “Nanny” […]

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  • Sophie Alexandrine Croizette

    1970 - 1901

    Sophie Alexandrine Croizette (1970 - 1901)

    Actress.  Born in St. Petersburg,  Russia to French parents,  Croizette was raised in Paris and debuted at the Comedie-Francaise in 1868,  where she was one of the company’s reigning divas for a dozen years.  For a time she was considered a fierce rival of Sarah Bernhardt but the latter denied this in her autobiography,  claiming […]

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  • Mary Jane Croft

    1916 - 1999

    Mary Jane Croft (1916 - 1999)

    Actress. She began her career in radio, appearing on such programs as “The Adventures of Sam Spade”, “The Bill Goodwin Show”, “Four-Star Playhouse”, “Blonde” and “The Mel Blanc Show”. For television she was best known for her roles as Betty Ramsey on “I Love Lucy”, Mary Jane Lewis on “The Lucy Show” and as Clara […]

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