Maxine Cooper (1924 - 2009)

Maxine Cooper was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1924 to Richard and Gladys Cooper. Her father was employed as a General Electric distributor. She first became interested in the theater and acting while she was enrolled as a student at Bennington College in Vermont. Cooper transferred to the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California, where she […]

Sarah Madison (1974 - 2014)

Sarah Danielle Madison (September 6, 1974–September 27, 2014), sometimes credited as Sarah Danielle Goldberg, was an American actress. Sarah Madison was born Sarah Goldberg in Springfield, Illinois. Sarah Madison was a 1992 graduate of Latin School of Chicago. Sarah Madison attended Amherst College and graduated in 1996 with a BS in microbiology, decided to pursue her dreams […]

Louise Glaum (1888 - 1970)

Louise Glaum (September 4, 1888 – November 25, 1970) was an American actress. Known for her role as a femme fatale in silent era motion picture dramas, she was credited with giving one of the best characterizations of a vamp in her early career. Louise Glaum began her acting career on the stage in Los Angeles, […]

Margalo Gillmore (1897 - 1986)

Margalo Gillmore was the daughter of Frank Gillmore, former president of Actors’ Equity, and the actress Laura MacGillivray, and the sister of actress Ruth Gillmore. Her great-aunt was the British actor-manager Sarah Thorne, and her great-uncles were the actors Thomas Thorne and George Thorne. A fourth-generation actor on her father’s side, she trained at the American […]

Virginia Gibson (1925 - 2013)

Virginia Gibson, born Virginia Gorski, (April 9, 1925 – April 25, 2013) was an American dancer, singer and actress of film, television and musical theatre. Virginia Gibson, known as Virginia Gorski until she was signed by Warner Brothers in the 1950s, started her career in musicals in her hometown of St. Louis, MO and on Broadway. […]

Margaret Gibson (1894 - 1964)

By her own account Margaret Gibson’s parents had worked in show business. She began her stage career at the age of 12, apparently when her father left and she remained as the sole means of support for her mother. Gibson appeared on the Pantages Vaudeville Circuit for over two years. In 1909 she became a […]

Dorothy Gibson (1889 - 1946)

Dorothy Gibson was born on May 17, 1889 to John A. Brown and Pauline Caroline Boesen as Dorothy Winifred Brown in Hoboken, New Jersey. Her father died when she was three years old, and her mother married John Leonard Gibson. Between 1906 and 1911, she appeared on stage as a singer and dancer in a […]

Rebekah Gibbs (1973 - 2014)

Rebekah Gibbs (17 March 1973 – 11 November 2014) was an English television and musical theatre actress. Born in Torquay, Devon, Rebekah Gibbs attended, Cockington Primary School, Torquay Academy and the Doreen Bird College of Performing Arts in Sidcup. Rebekah Gibbs appeared in such West End musical productions as Starlight Express, Grease, and Fame before landing […]

Carmelita Geraghty (1901 - 1966)

The daughter of screenwriter Tom Geraghty, she was the sister of writers Maurice and Gerald Geraghty. Although born in Indiana she was educated mostly in New York City. She went on to be a graduate of the Hollywood High School and was in the graduating class of 1919. Though her parents wished her to stay […]

Gladys George (1904 - 1954)

Gladys George (September 13, 1904 – December 8, 1954) was an American actress of stage and screen. She was born as Gladys Clare Evans on September 13, 1904 in Patten, Maine to English parents. Gladys George went on the stage at the age of three and toured the United States, appearing with her parents. She starred on […]

Betty Garrett (1919 - 2011)

Betty Garrett was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri, the daughter of Elizabeth Octavia (née Stone) and Curtis Garrett. Shortly after her birth, her parents relocated to Seattle, Washington, where her mother managed the sheet music department in Sherman Clay, while her father worked as a traveling salesman. His alcoholism and inability to handle finances eventually […]

Pauline Garon (1900 - 1965)

Born in Montreal, Quebec as Marie Pauline Garon, the daughter of Pierre and Victoria Garon, she was of French and Irish descent. Her father first worked for the Canadian postal department, then worked at an insurance agency, where he managed to gain enough money to send his youngest child (out of eleven children) to the […]

Peggy Ann Garner (1932 - 1984)

Born in Canton, Ohio, Peggy Ann Garner was pushed by her mother into the limelight and entered in talent quests while still a child. By 1938 she had made her first film appearance, and over the next few years appeared in several more films, including Jane Eyre (1943) and The Keys of the Kingdom (1944). […]

Tess Gardella (1894 - 1950)

Therese “Tess” Gardella (December 19, 1894 – January 3, 1950) was an Italian American performer on the stage and screen whose stage persona was “Aunt Jemima.” She performed on both stage and screen, usually in blackface. A native of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Gardella came to New York City in 1918, singing in dances and nightclubs and […]

Betty Furness (1916 - 1994)

Elizabeth Mary “Betty” Furness was born in New York City, the daughter of wealthy business executive George Choate Furness and his wife Florence. Betty Furness made her stage debut in the school holidays in the title role of Alice in Wonderland. She also posed for commercial advertising. She began her professional career as a model […]

Mary Fuller (1888 - 1973)

Mary Fuller was born in Washington, D.C., to Nora Swing and attorney Miles Fuller, she spent her childhood on a farm. As a child, she was interested in music, writing and art. Her father died in 1902, and by 1906, she was working in the theater under the name Claire Fuller. She worked briefly with […]

Dolores Fuller (1923 - 2011)

Her first screen appearance was at the age of 10, when she appeared briefly in Frank Capra’s It Happened One Night. According to Fuller[citation needed], the female lead in Bride of the Monster was written for her but Wood gave it to Loretta King instead. In August 1954, Fuller was cast in Wood’s The Vampire’s Tomb, […]

Mona Freeman (1926 - 2014)

Mona Freeman was a model while in high school, and after becoming the first “Miss Subways” of the New York City transit system, eventually signed a movie contract with Howard Hughes. Her contract was later sold to Paramount Pictures. Her first film appearance was in the 1944 film Till We Meet Again. She became a […]

Kathleen Freeman (1919 - 2001)

Kathleen Freeman was born in Chicago, Illinois. She began her career as a child, dancing in her parents’ vaudeville act. After a stint studying music at University of California, Los Angeles, she went into acting full-time, working on the stage, and finally entering films in 1948. She was a founding member, in 1946, of the […]

Moyra Fraser (1923 - 2009)

Moyra Fraser was born in Sydney, Australia, on 3 December 1923 and with her family emigrated to the United Kingdom in June 1924. Her father was a director of Mappin & Webb. She left school at 14 to take up a scholarship with Sadler’s Wells Ballet, where she was befriended by Robert Helpmann. Moyra Fraser joined […]

Mary Frann (1943 - 1998)

Born Mary Frances Luecke in St. Louis, Missouri, Mary Frann was a child model and appeared in commercials for a local television station while she attended Nerinx Hall High School. At the age of 18, she was voted Missouri’s “Junior Miss.” She went on to win the 1961 national title of America’s Junior Miss and […]

Arlene Francis (1907 - 2001)

Arlene Francis was born on October 20, 1907, in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Leah (née Davis) and Aram Kazanjian. Her Armenian father was studying art in Paris at the age of 16 when he learned that both his parents had died in one of the Hamidian massacres perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire in Anatolia […]

Susanna Foster (1924 - 2009)

Susanna Foster was born in Chicago, Illinois, and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She was taken to Hollywood at the age of twelve by MGM, who sent her to school and groomed her for an acting and singing career. Two of her classmates at this school were Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. She claimed the high […]

Wenche Foss (1917 - 2011)

Wenche Foss was born to engineer Christian August Steenfeldt-Foss (1878–1960) and Alfhild Røren. Foss grew up with an Atheist mother and a devout Christian father; she inherited both views but has stated: “I could not fall asleep without the prayer”. Her first marriage was to engineer and film producer Alf Scott-Hansen (1903–1961), a son of port […]

Victoria Forde (1896 - 1964)

Victoria Forde (April 21, 1896 – July 24, 1964) was an American silent film actress. Born in New York City, Victoria Forde was the daughter of Broadway actress Eugenie Forde who got her into films with Biograph at age 14. In 1912, at age 16, Victoria Forde signed with Nestor Studios to make comedy films under […]

Constance Ford (1923 - 1993)

Constance Ford (July 1, 1923 – February 26, 1993) was an American actress and model. She is best known for her long-running role as Ada Hobson on the daytime soap opera Another World. Born in The Bronx, Ford initially worked as a model, and her face became famous in the Elizabeth Arden 1941 advertising campaign for […]

Edna Flugrath (1892 - 1966)

Edna Flugrath was the first born of Emil and Mary (née Dubois) Flugrath. Her father, a printer by trade, was the son of Polish-German immigrants and had at one time been considered a talented amateur athlete. Mary Dubois was born in New York. Some years later when their daughters were working on films, the Flugraths […]

Bess Flowers (1898 - 1984)

Bess Flowers (November 23, 1898 – July 28, 1984) was an American actress. By some counts considered the most prolific actress in the history of Hollywood, she was known as “The Queen of the Hollywood Extras,” appearing in over 700 movies in her 41 year career. Born in Sherman, Texas, Flowers’s film debut came in 1923, […]

Lola Flores (1923 - 1995)

Lola Flores, a native of Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz (Andalucía, Spain) was an icon of traditional Andalusian folklore, recognized throughout Spain as well as internationally. She became a famous dancer and singer of Andalusian folklore at a very young age, performing flamenco, copla, and chotis and appearing in films from 1939 to 1987. She […]

Suzanne Flon (1918 - 2005)

Suzanne Flon (28 January 1918 – 15 June 2005) was a French film actress. Her father was a railway worker and her mother crafted jewelry. Prior to becoming an actress, Suzanne Flon worked as an English translator at the Paris department store Au Printemps and then as personal secretary to Édith Piaf. Suzanne Flon’s stage credits included plays […]