1900: 55 Women Born in the Year 1900, living to 1990s.
-55 Women born in 1900, living until 1990s.
-IMDb lists 303 women born in 1900. A few are listed here.
-Not one died in 2000.
-A few women included that were born in 1900 and did not live until 1990.
-a few women listed born in January 1900, #2 - #18.
-IMDb lists 303 women born in 1900. A few are listed here.
-Not one died in 2000.
-A few women included that were born in 1900 and did not live until 1990.
-a few women listed born in January 1900, #2 - #18.
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London-born Evelyn Laye, daughter of actor parents, was already treading the boards at the age of two. Her father managed the Palace Theatre in Brighton and this was where Evelyn first made a name for herself. A seasoned stage performer by the age of fifteen, she graduated to the London West End three years later in a small part in "The Beauty Spot". During the 1920's, she was one of England's most popular stars of musical revue and operetta, with hits in the aviation musical "Going Up" (1918-19), "Madame Pompadour" (1923), "Betty in Mayfair" (1925-26) and "Merely Molly" (1926-27), the last two at the Adelphi Theatre. She appeared, both in London and on Broadway, in Noël Coward's "Bitter Sweet" in 1929, her song "I'll See you Again" becoming her trademark signature piece. Her performance attracted the attention of producer Samuel Goldwyn, who promptly brought her to Hollywood.
Tagged (by Goldwyn) as "the Champagne Blonde", the lovely Evelyn made her American debut in the operetta, One Heavenly Night (1930), directed by the experienced George Fitzmaurice. The ridiculously contrived story and silly dialogue made this one of the worst flops of 1931, not helped by the wooden performance of Laye's co-star, John Boles. Although New York Times critic Mordaunt Hall, in his January 10 review reserved sole praise for Laye's singing and performance, Goldwyn washed his hands of the whole affair and Evelyn returned to England. She made another attempt at Hollywood, four years later, in The Night Is Young (1935), another continental operetta, co-starring Ramon Novarro, and featuring songs by Sigmund Romberg and Oscar Hammerstein. Reviewer Andre Sennwald (January 14) caustically described the picture as being technically well-made, but otherwise "without any distinguishing virtue". There were considerably better reviews for Evelyn's two British-Gaumont productions, Waltz Time (1933) and, without doubt her best motion picture, Evensong (1934), the story of the rise and decline of an Irish diva.
There was a three-decade long hiatus until Evelyn's return to the screen (though she had appeared as herself with then-husband, and fellow actor, Frank Lawton, in the TV sitcom My Husband and I (1956)). She was also rather incongruously cast in the horror film, Theatre of Death (1967). Three years later, Evelyn gave a strong performance as the mother of Jean Simmons in Say Hello to Yesterday (1971), a romance set in swinging 60's London. For the most part, she continued to act on the stage, which had always been her favourite medium, performing in plays like "Three Waltzes", "The School for Scandal", "Wedding in Paris", "The Marquise" and "The Amorous Prawn". One of her last plays was Noël Coward's "Semi-Monde" (1987-88), at the Royalty Theatre in London, with fellow cast members Kenneth Branagh and Judi Dench. Retaining her popularity well into her nineties, Evelyn Laye made her farewell tour of Britain in 1992. She died three years later at the age of 95.UK.
1900 - 1996. (95).
40 credits, 1927-1990.- English silent screen siren Lillian Rich was 19 when she arrived in New York, courtesy of her Canadian husband Lionel Edward Nicholson. The couple had met while "Leo" was on active duty as a fighter pilot with the Royal Naval Air Service during World War I. He came from a well-to-do middle-class family and was both able and keen to bankroll Lillian's entry into Hollywood with a stake of $1000. Prior to entering films, the dimple-chinned, auburn-haired Londoner had briefly made a name in musical comedy on the stage. In 1919, she started out on the screen playing sultry leads in westerns opposite stalwart sagebrush heroes like Jack Hoxie and Harry Carey. By the end of 1922, Lillian had already amassed 19 feature film credits on her resume. Following a divorce from Leo, she took a year's sabbatical from the screen before resuming her career with renewed vigor in 1924. The next year she was cast by the ever-extravagant Cecil B. DeMille in her defining role, as an aristocratic social-climbing, impecunious vamp in Paramount's The Golden Bed (1925). Attired in sables and bedecked with diamond bracelets, Lillian added to the general opulence (and excess) of the proceedings. She then gave what is considered her other notable performance, opposite H.B. Warner in the western railroad drama Whispering Smith (1926). There was also a minor Christie comedy, Seven Days (1925), a crime thriller with Boris Karloff and a host of low-budget B-pictures for independent producers and Poverty Row outfits like Chesterfield and Tiffany.
Between 1928 and 1930, Lillian unsuccessfully attempted a comeback in sound pictures, filming in England at Beaconsfield and at Nettlefold Studios (Walton-on-Thames, Surrey). Alas, these low-budget "quota quickies" were made for the mass market and did nothing to reboot her career. Back in the States she found herself relegated to the bottom of the bill in "Our Gang" shorts. She saw out the rest of the 1930's in uncredited, no-name bits as "nurse", "nun", "telephone operator", and so on, before fading into relative obscurity.Born January 1, 1900.
UK. USA.
January 1, 1900 - January 5, 1954. (54).
69 credits, 1919-1940. - Actress
- Additional Crew
Aurora Redondo was born on 1 January 1900 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She was an actress, known for Ninette y un señor de Murcia (1966), Anillos de oro (1983) and El último café (1970). She was married to Valeriano León García. She died on 10 July 1996 in Madrid, Spain.Born January 1, 1900.
Spain.
January 1,1900 - August 10, 1996. (96).
77 credits, 1923-1997.- Paola Borboni was born on 1 January 1900 in Golese di Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She was an actress, known for Roman Holiday (1953), The Bullocks (1953) and I Have Lost My Husband (1937). She was married to Bruno Vilar. She died on 9 April 1995 in Bodio Lomnago, Lombardy, Italy.Born January 1, 1900.
Italy
January 4,1900 - April 9, 1995. (95).
89 credits, 1918-1990. - Karen Winther was born on 1 January 1900. She was an actress, known for Københavns Sherlock Holmes (1925), Kärlekens ögon (1922) and Brændt a' (1919). She was married to Benjamin Christensen. She died on 7 January 1989.Born January 1, 1900.
Denmark.
January 1, 1900 - January 7, 1989. (89).
32 credits, 1919-1927. - Odette Roger was born on 1 January 1900 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. She was an actress, known for Ce soir les jupons volent... (1956), Harvest (1937) and The Strange Monsieur Victor (1938). She died on 24 August 1985 in La Penne-sur-Huveaune, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.Born January 1, 1900.
France.
January 1, 1900 - August 24, 1985. (85).
17 credits, 1931-1969. - Ada Svedin was born on 2 January 1900 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Das Mädel von Pontecuculi (1924), Das Kussverbot (1920) and Miss Venus (1921). She died on 10 July 1975 in Berlin, Germany.Germany.
January 2, 1900 - 1975. (75).
Credits, 1918-1924. - Sybil Seely was born on 2 January 1900 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for One Week (1920), Love, Honor and Behave! (1920) and Down on the Farm (1920). She was married to Jules Furthman. She died on 26 June 1984 in Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA.USA
January 2, 1900 - 1984. (84).
Credits, 1917-1922. - Ida Peitsalo was born on 3 January 1900 in St. Petersburg, Russia. She is known for Hilma (1967). She was previously married to Ilmari Peitsalo.Russia
January 3, 1900 - . - Nellie Burt was born on 4 January 1900 in Aberdeen, Washington, USA. She was an actress, known for Ben Casey (1961), Bound and Gagged (1919) and The Outer Limits (1963). She was married to William Henry McMullen and Paul Edward Martin . She died on 3 November 1986 in East Rockaway, New York, USA.USA
January 4, 1900 - 1986. (86).
40 credits, 1919-1973. - Yvonne Rozille was born on 5 January 1900 in Commentry, Allier, France. She was an actress, known for L'école des vierges (1935), Clair de lune (1932) and Mensonges (1946). She died on 1 December 1985 in Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes, France.France.
January 5, 1900 - 1985. (85).
Credits, 1931-1964. - Art Department
- Art Director
- Producer
Phyllis McDonagh was the youngest of the illustrious McDonagh sisters, one Australia's foremost silent film production companies. The trio comprised of actress Marie Lorraine (real name Isabel McDonagh), writer-director Paulette McDonagh, and Phyllis, who took on numerous behind-the-scenes roles such as production manager and art director. The latter job was well assisted by using the sisters' elegant home, Drummoyne House, for several settings. Other notable Sydney scenes (such as an incomplete Harbour Bridge) are visible in their films. After the dissolution of McDonagh Productions in 1933, Phyllis moved to New Zealand to become a journalist.Australia
January 7, 1900 - 1978. (78).
Credits, 1926-1933.- Antonia Dietrich was born on 8 January 1900 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. She was an actress, known for Der galante König - August der Starke (1920), Das goldene Vließ (1920) and So sind die Männer (1923). She was married to Eugen Linz. She died on 21 August 1975 in Dresden, German Democratic Republic.Austria-Hungary. German Democratic Republic.
January 8, 1900 - 1975. (75).
credits, 1920-1923. - Dorothy Adams was born on 8 January 1900 in Hannah, North Dakota, USA. She was an actress, known for The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), The Killing (1956) and The Ten Commandments (1956). She was married to Byron Foulger. She died on 16 March 1988 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.USA
January 8, 1900 - 1988. (88).
163 credits, 1931-1976, - Actress
- Soundtrack
Lotte Lang was born on 11 January 1900 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. She was an actress, known for Tauwetter (1977), A Night in Venice (1953) and Abenteuer im Schloss (1952). She died on 13 February 1985 in Vienna, Austria.Born January 11, 1900.
Austria-Hungary. Austria.
January 11, 1900 - 1985. (85).
87 credits, 1932-1984.- Charlotte Küter was born on 17 January 1900 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Columbus 64 (1966), The Axe of Wandsbek (1950) and Anna Susanna (1953). She was married to Paul Lewitt. She died on 2 June 1983 in Weimar, German Democratic Republic.Born January 17, 1900.
Germany
1900 -1983. (83).
39 credits, 1948-1970. - Dorothy Darke was born on 30 January 1900 in Exeter, Devon, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Sara Crewe (1951), A Place of Execution (1953) and Loyal Heart (1946). She died on 5 October 1990 in Fulham, London, England, UK.UK.
January 30, 1900 - 1990. (90).
22 credits, 1933-1967. - Ethel Lang was born on 27 May 1900 in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK. She was married to William Lang. She died on 15 January 2015 in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK.UK
1900 - 2015. (114). - Frederica Sagor Maas was born in America, the youngest daughter of Russian immigrants. Feeling no great desire to complete her course in journalism at Columbia University, New York, she found film an exciting new artistic medium, and was hired by Universal Studios as a story editor, and later MGM as a fully fledged screenwriter. Thus began a bumpy life in the film industry. Maas went from rubbing shoulders with stars such as Clara Bow, Norma Shearer, and Joan Crawford and being at the top of her game with hits like The Plastic Age (1925) to watching several ideas and stories being robbed outright by unscrupulous insiders, to watching dear friends lose their careers in the McCarthy era, and eventually leaving the motion picture industry in the 1950s after a series of crushing disappointments. She married fellow writer and producer Ernest Maas in 1927, and honoured his commitments to the industry long after she realised it would take from them far more than they would take from it. She recounted these adventures in her clear-eyed, frank autobiography, published in 1999 - when she was 99! They say that history is written by the winners, but her story proves that the tales of the also rans can be just as fascinating.USA.
1900 - 2012. (111).
18 credits, 1925-2003. - Amelia Parker was born on 1 December 1900 in Dallas, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for Brewster McCloud (1970), Liar's Moon (1981) and The Little Match Girl (1987). She died on 6 May 2003 in San Marcos, Texas, USA.USA
1900 - 2003. (102).
Credits, 1970-1982. - Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother was born on 4 August 1900 in St. Paul's Waldenbury, Hertfordshire, England, UK. She was married to King George VI. She died on 30 March 2002 in Windsor, Berkshire, England, UK.1900 - 2002. (101).
- Soundtrack
Gina Cigna was born on 6 March 1900 in Paris, France. She was married to Maurice Sens. She died on 26 June 2001 in Milan, Italy.France. Italy.
1900 - 2001. (101).- Myrtle Woods was born on 14 March 1900 in Albury, New South Wales, Australia. She was an actress, known for A Woman's Tale (1991), Homicide (1964) and The Great MacArthy (1975). She was married to Woods. She died on 12 May 2001 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.Australia
1900 - 2001. (101).
credits, 1957-1996. - Sirpa Tolonen was born on 27 November 1900 in Mikkeli, Finland. She was an actress, known for Vaimoke (1936) and Minä ja ministeri (1934). She died on 26 February 2001 in Helsinki, Finland.Finland
1900 - 2001. (100).
Credits, 1934-1936. - Nathalie Sarraute was born on 18 July 1900 in Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Vladimir Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ivanovo, Ivanovo Oblast, Russia]. She was a writer, known for Pour un oui ou pour un non (1990), C'est beau (1980) and Per un sí o per un no (1988). She was married to Raymond Sarraute. She died on 20 October 1999 in Paris, France.Russia. France.
1900 - 1999. (99).
Writing credits, 1980-2005. - Actress
Stella Francis was born on 9 March 1900 in London, England, UK. She was an actress. She was married to George Zucco. She died on 11 May 1999 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.UK. USA.
1900 - 1999. (99).- Dorothy Blackburn was born on 25 November 1900 in Buffalo, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Doctors (1963), Lux Video Theatre (1950) and The Boston Strangler (1968). She was married to Edward May Jr.. She died on 29 September 1999 in New York, New York, USA.USA
1900 - 1999. (98).
15 credits, 1951-1983. - Lucille Lortel was born on 16 December 1900 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Grounds for Murder (1930), Everything Happens to Me (1930) and Sessue Hayakawa in 'the Man Who Laughed Last' (1929). She was married to Louis Schweitzer. She died on 4 April 1999 in New York City, New York, USA.USA
1900 - 1999. (98).
credits, 1929-1933. - Actress
- Soundtrack
American actress, originally of leading roles, whose career lasted from silent days into the television era. A native of Rhode Island, she attended St. Mary's Seminary in Narragansett, Rhode Island, then, following her mother's death in 1911, came to Los Angeles as a teenager to live with her actress aunt. She got work as an extra and began her career at 15 at Universal, in fairly substantial roles. By her mid-twenties, she was playing leads and second leads, including the role of Abraham Lincoln's lost love, Ann Rutledge, in The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln (1924). But sound pictures found her roles diminishing, and throughout the next three decades she played smaller and smaller parts. She was a favorite of John Ford(they played bridge together), who used her in thirteen films, but rarely in substantial roles. She was also, for a time, the voice of Walt Disney's "Minnie Mouse." She lived long enough to find herself in demand for documentary interviews on the subject of early Hollywood. Married for a time to Beverly Hills real-estate developer James Cornelius, she survived that marriage by more than sixty years. She died in 1998, two and one-half months before her 99th birthday.USA
1900 - 1998. (98).
171 credits, 1916-2000.- Violet Carlson was born on 13 September 1900 in Oak Park, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1966), That Girl (1966) and Batman (1966). She died on 3 December 1997 in Los Angeles, California, USA.USA
1900 - 1997. (97).
7 credits, 1966-1997. - Irma Patkós was born on 8 March 1900 in Cegléd, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. She was an actress, known for Dear Emma, Sweet Böbe (1992), Gyerekbetegségek (1965) and Holt vidék (1972). She was married to Jenotilde Sziklai. She died on 24 October 1996.Hungary
1900 - 1996. (96).
48 credits, 1957-1994. - Additional Crew
Meridel Le Sueur was born on 21 February 1900 in Murray, Iowa, USA. She was married to Harry Rice. She died on 14 November 1996 in Hudson, Wisconsin, USA.USA
1900 - 1996. (96).- Stefania Kornacka was born on 22 December 1900 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Man of Marble (1977). She died on 16 September 1996 in Konstancin-Jeziorna, Mazowieckie, Poland.Poland
1900 - 1996. (95). - Juliette Pétrie was born on 18 February 1900. She was an actress, known for Le soleil se lève en retard (1977), Provinces (1968) and Moi et l'autre (1966). She died on 13 March 1995 in Montréal, Québec, Canada.Canada
1900 - 1995. (95).
Credits, 1960-1980. - Iris Rowe was born on 10 October 1900 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Roses in the Dust (1921), Dusky Melodies (1930) and On the Reserve (1920). She died on 6 January 1996 in Macclesfield, Cheshire, England, UK.UK
1900 - 1996. (95).
Credits, 1920-1930. - Elisabeth Pinajeff was born on 17 April 1900 in Germany. She was an actress, known for Die Sünderin (1928), Schatten der Unterwelt (1931) and Der Mitternachtswalzer (1929). She died on 31 December 1995 in Villemoisson-sur-Orge, Essonne, France.Germay. France.
1900 - 1995. (95).
35 credits, 1922-1938. - Zofia Zajaczkowska was born on 27 March 1900 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Pan Tadeusz (1928) and Tredowata (1926). She died on 18 August 1995 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.Poland
1900 - 1995. (95). - Actress
- Additional Crew
Cecil Roy was born on 2 October 1900 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. She was an actress, known for Tales of Tomorrow (1951), Bored of Education (1946) and Matty's Funnies with Beany and Cecil (1959). She died on 26 January 1995 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.USA.
1900 - 1995. (94).
66 credits, 1941-1962.- Mildred McAfee was born on 12 May 1900 in Parkville, Missouri, USA. She was married to Douglas Horton. She died on 2 September 1994 in Berlin, New Hampshire, USA.
- Yekaterina Mazurova was born on 18 November 1900 in Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Vladimir Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ivanovo, Ivanovo Oblast, Russia]. She was an actress, known for Uncle Vanya (1970), Gentlemen of Fortune (1971) and When the Trees Were Tall (1962). She died on 8 October 1995.Russia
1900 - 1995. (94).
22 credits, 1957-1977. - Gertrud Luckner was born on 26 September 1900 in Liverpool, England, UK. She died on 31 August 1995 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Loudi Nijhoff was born on 29 October 1900 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. She was an actress, known for Pride and Prejudice (1961), Majoor Barbara (1964) and Jane Eyre (1958). She died on 1 August 1995 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.Netherlands.
1900 - 1995. (94).
21 credits, 1935-1989.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Estelle Brody was born on 15 August 1900 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Fanny Hawthorne (1927), Anne of Green Gables (1952) and Kitty (1929). She died on 3 June 1995 in La Vallette, Malta.USA. Malta.
1900 - 1995. (94).
31 credits, 1927-1980.- Hélène Darly was born on 4 May 1900 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for La maison du mystère (1923), Le chiffonnier de Paris (1924) and Le berceau de dieu (1926). She died on 17 May 1994 in Conches-sur-Gondoire, Seine-et-Marne, France.France.
1900 - 1994. (94).
Credits, 1920-1933. - Elisabeth Neumann-Viertel was born on 5 April 1900 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. She was an actress, known for Cabaret (1972), Der Mörder Dimitri Karamasoff (1931) and The Odessa File (1974). She was married to Berthold Viertel. She died on 24 December 1994 in Vienna, Austria.Austria.
1900 - 1994. (94).
61 credits, 1927-1988. - Actress
- Soundtrack
Madeleine Renaud was born on 21 February 1900 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France. She was an actress, known for Remorques (1941), The Longest Day (1962) and Hélène (1936). She was married to Jean-Louis Barrault and Charles Granval. She died on 23 September 1994 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France.France.
1900 - 1994. (94).
48 credits, 1923-1990.
18 self credits, 1922-1989.- Polina Nyatko was born on 21 October 1900 in village Karabachin, Radomyshl uyezd, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Brusyliv District, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine]. She was an actress, known for V odin prekrasnyy den (1956), Deprived of the Day (1927) and The Wrestler and the Clown (1957). She died on 12 October 1994 in Kyiv, Ukraine.Ukraine.
1900 - 1994. (93).
Credits, 1927-1957. - Actress
- Soundtrack
Lys Gauty was born on 14 February 1900 in Levallois-Perret, Hauts-de-Seine, France. She was an actress, known for La goualeuse (1938), Jour de noces (1930) and Thérèse (2012). She was married to Gaston Groener. She died on 2 January 1994 in Monte-Carlo, Monaco.France. Monaco.
1900 - 1994. (93).
5 credits, 1930-2012.- Yelena Gogoleva was a legendary Russian actress of the troupe at Maly Academic Theatre in Moscow.
She was born Elena Nikolaevna Gogoleva on April 20, 1900, in the Russian Empire. Her father, Nikolai Gogolev, was an officer for the Russian Tsar Nicholas II, and was decorated veteran of the Russian-Japanese War of 1904. Her mother was an actress in Russia. Young Gogoleva was performing on stage with her mother from the age of 6. From 1908-1916 she studied at the Imperial Aleksandro-Mariinsky Institute for Noble Ladies. From 1916-1918 she studied acting with the famous actor and director Aleksandr Yuzhin.
From 1918-1993 Gogoleva was a permanent member of the legendary troupe at Maly Academic Theatre in Moscow. There she played over 150 roles on stage. In 1918 she made her theatre debut as a stage partner of then leading actress Maria Ermolova. In 1920 Gogoleva gave birth to her son Igor, who later became a fighter pilot in WWII. That same year she received a precious medallion from actress Ermolova that she would wear through her entire life. Gogoleva was married to actor Vsevolod Aksyonov. They were both known in Moscow for riding horses across the city instead of driving cars.
During the 1930s Gogoleva became the leading actress of Maly Theatre. She worked on stage with such actors as Olga Sadovskaya, Nikolai Annenkov, A. Yablochkina, Varvara Massalitinova, Varvara Ryzhova, Yevdokiya Turchaninova, Vera Pashennaya, Varvara Obukhova, Yelena Shatrova, Elina Bystritskaya, Rufina Nifontova, Tatyana Eremeeva, Aleksandr Yuzhin, Aleksandr Ostuzhev, Vladimir Davydov, Sergei Aidarov, Stepan Kuznetsov, Prov Sadovsky, Boris Ravenskikh, Boris Babochkin, Mikhail Zharov, Mikhail Tsaryov, Igor Ilyinsky, Pavel Olenev, Mikhail Sadovsky, Konstantin Zubov, Viktor Khokhryakov, Vsevolod Aksyonov, Nikolai Ryzhov, Evgeniy Vesnik, Viktor Korshunov, Evgeniy Samoylov, Yuriy Solomin, and many other notable Russian actors. Gogoleva's stage performances were admired by such contemporaries as Vsevolod Meyerhold, Konstantin Stanislavsky, and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, among many others.
Gogoleva exhausted herself on stage by the end of the 1930s. At that time Soviet actors were often compensated with food instead of money. The atmosphere of political repressions under the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin imposed a heavy toll on many actor's careers. In 1939, Gogoleva was diagnosed with tuberculosis of a throat. She was losing her voice and her acting career was at risk. She was treated by the best doctors in Moscow but the illness was progressing. Her last hope was to try silence. In 1940 she left Moscow and spent over six months in silence. In 1941 she made a comeback and successfully played the leading role in 'Varvary', a play by Maxim Gorky.
Her son, named Igor, was a fighter pilot during the Second World War. In 1942, Gogoleva received an official letter of his death from the Soviet authorities. In reality her son was taken to a Nazi concentration camp after his plane was downed and seized by the Nazis. He could not contact her for several years. In 1945, Gogoleva received a letter from her son. He wrote that he was back in the Soviet Union, but he was imprisoned and treated badly, and suffered under restrictions from the Soviet authorities. He was finally released and worked as a music record producer until his death in 1969. Gogoleva was hurt by her son's destiny, but her own life was not any sweeter. In 1985 she broke her hip and her acting career was at risk. She managed to recover completely after a surgery. From 1986-1993 she continued acting on stage of Maly Theatre.
In 1990 Gogoleva celebrated her 90th birthday on stage of Maly Theatre in Moscow. Her birthday party was attended by many celebrities, political and cultural figures of Russia. She was three times awarded the State Prize of the USSR, and was designated People's Artist of the USSR and Russia.
Elena Gogoleva passed away on November 15, 1993, and was laid to rest next to her son's tomb in Vagankovskoe Cemetery in Moscow, Russia.Russia.
1900 - 1993. (93).
7 credits, 1937-1982. - Actress
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Joan Cross was born on 7 September 1900 in London, England, UK. She was an actress and writer, known for The Beggar's Opera (1953), The Case of 'The Smiling Widow' (1957) and Falstaff (1972). She died on 12 December 1993 in Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England, UK.UK
1900 - 1993. (93).
4 credits, 1953-1973.- Mercia Swinburne was born on 2 February 1900 in Marrickville, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She was an actress, known for The Compulsory Wife (1937), Alibi (1931) and Saraband (1948). She was married to George Relph. She died on 6 December 1993 in Chelsea, London, England, UK.UK.
1900 - 1993. (93).
Credits, 1931-1948. - Actress
- Writer
Eugenie Leontovich was born on 21 March 1900 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. She was an actress and writer, known for The Rains of Ranchipur (1955), The World in His Arms (1952) and Anything Can Happen (1952). She was married to Gregory Ratoff and Paul A. Sokolov. She died on 2 April 1993 in New York City, New York, USA.Russia. USA.
1900 - 1993. (93).
11 acting credits, 1940-1962.
1 writing credit.
3 self credits, 1952-1961.- Simone Jarnac was born on 24 June 1900 in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France. She was an actress, known for Casque d'Or (1952), Rendezvous in July (1949) and Le bébé de l'escadron (1935). She died on 6 October 1993 in Châteauneuf-Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes, France.France.
1900 - 1993. (93).
6 credits, 1935-1958. - Director
- Writer
- Animation Department
Hermína Týrlová was born on 11 December 1900 in Brezové Hory, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. She was a director and writer, known for Snehulák (1966), Uzel na kapesníku (1958) and Hvezda Betlémská (1970). She died on 3 May 1993 in Zlín, Czech Republic.Czech Republic.
1900 - 1993. (92).
36 director credits, 1928-1986.
20 writer credits, 1928-1985.
4 animation department credits.
1 acting credit.
1 cinematographer credit.
1 art director credit.- Violet was born Wilma Pearl Palmer in Flint, Michigan on October 16, 1892, the third child of John Merrill Palmer and Esther Lavina Madill, both natives of Canada. In 1898, her family moved to Spokane, Washington, where her father ran a piano store. Her mother was a music teacher and occasional composer. Both Violet and her older sister Lucille were active as singers, actresses, and pianists at an early age, at home, school, and eventually on stage.
By 1911 Violet was performing in vaudeville as Pearl Palmer, and by 1917, when she appeared in the film, the Blue Streak, she had changed her name to Violet Palmer. Besides the Blue Streak (1917), some of other her better-known films include: Rough & Ready (1918); Ginger (1919); Tangled Trails (1921).
Later, as her film career waned, she frequently gave piano performances on stage and over the radio. Her death certificate lists her occupation as a concert pianist for 35 years. Newspaper clippings note that Violet was gifted concert pianist, and is said to have won a music scholarship to a Spokane college after high school.
She was married four times: actor Harrington Reynolds (born Edward Harrington Reynolds) (1916 - ?; divorced); actor Richard Campbell Travers (born Richard Campbell Tibb) (1921 - ?; divorced); popular pulp fiction author and screenwriter Fred Mac Isaac (born Frederick John Mac Isaac (ca. 1929 - his death in 1940); film cutter/technician Richard Capron (? - her death in 1963). No children.
Violet died August 22, 1963 at Santa Monica Hospital, Santa Monica, California, from hypertensive cardiovascular disease. Her ashes are interred in Mausoleum B section, Space 32 at Woodlawn Cemetery, Santa Monica.USA.
1900 - 1993. (92).
26 credits, 1915-1928. - Actress
- Soundtrack
Helga Görlin was born on 26 September 1900 in Ed, Värmlands län, Sweden. She was an actress, known for The Great John Ericsson (1937), Karl Fredrik Reigns (1934) and The Varmlanders (1932). She died on 31 January 1993 in Farsta, Stockholms län, Sweden.Sweden.
1900 - 1993. (92).
credits, 1932-1937.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Known as "The First lady of the American Theater", Helen Hayes had a legendary career on stage and in films and television that spanned over eighty years. Hayes was born in Washington, D.C., to Catherine Estelle "Essie" Hayes, an actress who worked in touring companies, and Francis van Arnum Brown, a clerk and salesman. Her maternal grandparents were Irish. A child actress in the first decade of the 20th century, by the time she turned twenty in 1920 she was well on her way to a landmark career on the American stage, becoming perhaps the greatest female star of the theatre during the 1930s and 1940s. She made a handful of scattered films during the silent era and in 1931 was signed to MGM with great fanfare to begin a career starring in films. Her first three films, Arrowsmith (1931), The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931), and A Farewell to Arms (1932), were great hits and she would win the 1932 Oscar for Best Actress for her work in Madelon Claudet. Alas, her lack of screen glamour worked against her becoming a box office star during the golden era of Hollywood, and her subsequent films were often not well received by critics. Within four years she had abandoned the screen and returned to the stage for the greatest success of her career, "Victoria Regina", which ran for three years starting in 1935. Helen Hayes returned to motion pictures with a few featured roles in 1950s films and frequently appeared on television. In 1970, she made a screen comeback in Airport (1970), a role originally offered to Claudette Colbert, who declined it, earning Hayes her second Oscar, this time for Best Supporting Actress. Helen Hayes retired from the stage in 1971 but enjoyed enormous fame and popularity over the next fifteen years with many roles in motion pictures and television productions, retiring in 1985 after starring in the TV film Murder with Mirrors (1985).USA.
1900 - 1993. (92).
59 credits, 1917-1985.
1 soundtrack credit.
58 self credits, 1938-1992.- Actress
- Script and Continuity Department
Anna-Stina Wåglund was born on 21 November 1900 in Stockholm, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Raggen - det är jag det (1936), Kvinnor i fångenskap (1943) and Onda ögon (1947). She died on 16 January 1993 in Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.Sweden.
1900 - 1993. (92).
32 credits, 1936-1956.
1 miscellaneous credit.- Maria Malicka was born on 9 May 1900 in Krakau, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Niebezpieczny raj (1931), Szlakiem hanby (1929) and Wiatr od morza (1930). She was married to Zbigniew Sawan. She died on 30 September 1992 in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland.Poland.
1900 - 1992. (92).
10 credits, 1927-1966. - Actress
- Soundtrack
Gitta Alpar was born on 5 February 1900 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. She was an actress, known for The Loves of Madame Dubarry (1935), Gitta entdeckt ihr Herz (1932) and She, or Nobody (1932). She was married to Niels Wessel Bagge and Gustav Fröhlich. She died on 17 February 1991 in Los Angeles, California, USA.Hungary. USA.
1900 - 1991. (91).
9 credits, 1932-1941.
2 soundtrack credits
1 self credit, 1974.- Janina Sokolowska was born on 7 June 1900 in Warsaw, Poland, Russian Empire [now Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Maly marynarz (1936), Zolnierz królowej Madagaskaru (1940) and Ksiazatko (1937). She died on 5 May 1992 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.Poland.
1900 - 1992. (91).
11 credits, 1936-1969. - Magda Jankovich was born on 10 October 1900 in Budapest, Hungary. She was an actress, known for Tavaszi vihar (1918) and Az egér (1921). She was married to László Békeffi. She died on 23 September 1992 in Switzerland.Hungary. Switzerland.
1900 - 1992. (91).
Credit, 1921. - Mamie Ruth Moberly was born on 2 August 1900 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She was married to Wilbur Moberly. She died on 1 July 1992 in Hagerstown, Maryland, USA.
- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was born on 18 August 1900 in Allahabad, North-Western Provinces, British India. She died on 1 December 1990 in Dehradun, Uttar Pradesh, India.India.
1900 - 1990. (90).
3 credits, 1953-1968. - Actress
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Natalie Schafer got her start doing Broadway plays then making the move to the big screen. Even before Gilligan's Island (1964), she was typecast in roles as society women, or elegant, fashionable ladies. It was her role as "Eunice 'Lovey' Wentworth Howell" wife of multi-millionaire Thurston Howell III, that she was best known for. After the show ended its run in 1967, Schafer did a few guest appearances on shows, most notably The Brady Bunch (1969).USA.
1900 - 1991. (90).
96 acting credits, 1930-1992.
1 writing credit
1 soundtrack credit
6 self credits.- Paddy Pallin was born on 28 November 1900 in Hartlepool, County Durham, England, UK. She was married to May Bell Morris. She died on 3 January 1991 in Wahroonga, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
- Additional Crew
- Actress
Gisa Geert was born on 7 June 1900 in Vienna, Austria. She was an actress, known for A sud niente di nuovo (1957), Menage all'italiana (1965) and Cintura di castità (1950). She died on 2 April 1991 in Madrid, Spain.Austria. Spain.
1900 - 1991. (90).
4 miscellaneous credits, 1950-1958.
3 acting credits, 1957-1970.- Additional Crew
Leonore Gershwin was born on 3 October 1900 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is known for Great Performances (1971). She was married to Ira Gershwin. She died on 20 August 1991 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.USA.
1900 - 1991. (90).- Actress
- Soundtrack
This marvelous screen comedienne's best asset was only muffled during her seven years' stint in silent films. That asset? It was, of course, her squeaky, frog-like voice, which silent-era cinema audiences had simply no way of perceiving, much less appreciating. Jean Arthur, born Gladys Georgianna Greene in upstate New York, 20 miles south of the Canadian border, has had her year of birth cited variously as 1900, 1905 and 1908. Her place of birth has often been cited as New York City! (Herein we shall rely for those particulars on Miss Arthur's obituary as given in the authoritative and reliable New York Times. The date and place indicated above shall be deemed correct.) Following her screen debut in a bit part in John Ford's Cameo Kirby (1923), she spent several years playing unremarkable roles as ingénue or leading lady in comedy shorts and cheapie westerns. With the arrival of sound she was able to appear in films whose quality was but slightly improved over that of her past silents. She had to contend, for example, with the consummately evil likes of Dr. Fu Manchu (played by future "Charlie Chan" Warner Oland). Her career bloomed with her appearance in Ford's The Whole Town's Talking (1935), in which she played opposite Edward G. Robinson, the latter in a dual role as a notorious gangster and his lookalike, a befuddled, well-meaning clerk. Here is where her wholesomeness and flair for farcical comedy began making themselves plain. The turning point in her career came when she was chosen by Frank Capra to star with Gary Cooper in the classic social comedy Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936). Here she rescues the hero - thus herself becoming heroine! - from rapacious human vultures who are scheming to separate him from his wealth. In Capra's masterpiece Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), she again rescues a besieged hero (James Stewart), protecting him from a band of manipulative and cynical politicians and their cronies and again she ends up as a heroine of sorts. For her performance in George Stevens' The More the Merrier (1943), in which she starred with Joel McCrea and Charles Coburn, she received a Best Actress Academy Award nomination, but the award went to Jennifer Jones in The Song of Bernadette (1943) (Coburn, incidentally, won for Best Supporting Actor). Her career began waning toward the end of the 1940s. She starred with Marlene Dietrich and John Lund in Billy Wilder's fluff about post-World War II Berlin, A Foreign Affair (1948). Thereafter, the actress would return to the screen but once, again for George Stevens but not in comedy. She starred with Alan Ladd and Van Heflin in Stevens' western Shane (1953), playing the wife of a besieged settler (Heflin) who accepts help from a nomadic gunman (Ladd) in the settler's effort to protect his farm. It was her silver-screen swansong. She would provide one more opportunity for a mass audience to appreciate her craft. In 1966 she starred as a witty and sophisticated lawyer, Patricia Marshall, a widow, in the TV series The Jean Arthur Show (1966). Her time was apparently past, however; the show ran for only 11 weeks.USA.
1900 - 1991. (90).
97 acting credits, 1923-1966.
7 soundtrack credits.
6 self credits, 1930-1973.- Ruby Dandridge was born on 3 March 1900 in Wichita, Kansas, USA. She was an actress, known for Beulah (1950), Cabin in the Sky (1943) and Gallant Lady (1942). She was married to Cyril Dandridge. She died on 17 October 1987 in Los Angeles, California, USA.USA
1900 - 1987. (87).
47 credits, 1933-1962. - Mecha Ortiz is a legendary Argentinean actress whose real name was María Mercedes Varela Nimo Domínguez Castro de Ortiz. She was considered the Greta Garbo of the Argentine films and theatre world; born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on September 24, 1900. Her parents were Vicente Varela Nimo and Josefa Domínguez Castro. She married Julián Ortiz, a small farmer with whom she had a son, Julián, diplomatic, translator and playwright who was married to Violeta Bertina. She had a brother called José, who was a theatre director and a sister, Amanda who also was an actress. She had two more sisters called Josefa and Aurora. She was Argentine President Roberto M. Ortiz' relative. She attended courses at the National Drama School. Her debut was in 1929 and she made audiences familiar with plays written by several famous authors, among them: Terence Rattigan, Frank Voksper, Agatha Christie, James Barrie, W. Somerset Maugham, and Noël Coward. Amongst her films were: Women Who Work (1938), Safo: A Passion Story (1943), Camino del infierno (1946), Madame Bovary (1947), Bendita seas (1956) and Piedra libre (1976).Argentina
1900 - 1987. (87).
60 credits, 1937-2003. - The multi-faceted Polish-born performer Lili Valenty appeared in a dozen or so Broadway plays in the 30s, 40s and 50s, then went on to enliven a number of routine on-camera projects in her twilight years. Born at the turn of the century, she received her start on the German stage where she became a star. In the early 1930s she emigrated to America and tried to parlay her European success into stardom here. Although she fell quite short, she did launch a moderately successful career on both radio and the Broadway stage. Some of her NY theater productions included "Bitter Stream" (her debut) 1936, "Cue for Passion" (1940), "The Land Is Bright" (1941), "Sky Drift" (1945), and "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep" (1950). In 1955 she was a replacement in the role of Baroness Livenbaum in the successful Broadway production of "Anastasia" starring Viveca Lindfors and Eugenie Leontovich, which later went on tour. Lili later transitioned into the film and TV mediums, predominantly in decorative fluff unworthy of her talents. Although she made her film debut in support of Anna Magnani in the melodrama Wild Is the Wind (1957), she continued rather inauspiciously from there with a minor dowager role in Can-Can (1960), and typical ethnic parts in The Story of Ruth (1960), the Troy Donahue / Suzanne Pleshette romantic excursion Rome Adventure (1962), one of Elvis Presley's weaker vehicles Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962), and the Jayne Mansfield "comedy" It Happened in Athens (1962). Sometimes billed as "Lili Valenti", she appeared sparingly after this as various mamas, madames, gypsies, nuns, ballet teachers, and the like on episodic TV. She died in Los Angeles in 1987 at age 86 and left no survivors.Poland. USA.
1900 - 1987. (86).
54 credits, 1949-1985. - Queen of Soviet theater. Although Veriko (she was always called by her first name) acted in dozens of films, she did not get the same success as Nato Vachnadze. But she was first on the stage, from her twenties till her death. Her part from Monanieba (1987) by Abuladze became a cult favorite. 'Is this way to the temple?' her character asks a victim of the Soviet regime. These words were later taken as a motto of Perestrojka.Republic of Georgia.
1900 - 1987. (86).
36 credits, 1925-1987. - Elena Tyapkina was born on 10 May 1900 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. She was an actress, known for War and Peace (1965), Anna Karenina (1967) and War and Peace, Part I: Andrei Bolkonsky (1965). She died on 9 November 1984 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].Russia
1900 - 1984. (84).
25 credits, 1925-1970. - Inés Murray was born on 12 March 1900 in Italy. She was an actress, known for La virgencita de Pompeya (1935), Galleguita (1940) and Mercado de abasto (1955). She died on 24 October 1984 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.Italy. Argentina.
1900 - 1984. (84).
32 credits, 1930-1984. - Actress
- Additional Crew
Margaret Livingston was born on 25 November 1895 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. She was an actress, known for Sunrise (1927), God's Gift to Women (1931) and The Last Warning (1928). She was married to Paul Whiteman. She died on 13 December 1984 in Warrington, Pennsylvania, USA.1900 - 1984. (84).
84 credits, 1916-1934.- Eva Fiebig was born on 21 May 1900 in Berlin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Hänsel und Gretel (1971), A Love Story (1954) and The Captain from Köpenick (1956). She died on 21 October 1984 in Hamburg, West Germany.Germany. West Germany.
1900 - 1984. (84).
31 credits, 1952-1981. - Hortense Luz was born on 8 February 1900 in Lisbon, Portugal. She was an actress, known for Lisboa em Camisa (1960), Os Vizinhos do Rés-do-Chão (1947) and Cruzeiro de Férias (1965). She died in 1984.Portugal.
1900 - 1984. (83).
11 credits, 1936-1965. - Director
- Writer
- Animation Department
Zinaida Brumberg was born on 2 August 1900 in Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]. She was a director and writer, known for Noch pered Rozhdestvom (1951), Ivashko and Baba-Yaga (1938) and Little Red Riding Hood (1937). She died on 9 February 1983 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Russia].Russia.
1900 - 1983. (82).
33 credits, 1928-1998. Director, writer.- Elli Ylimaa was born on 11 June 1900 in Turku, Finland. She was an actress, known for The Song of the Scarlet Flower (1938), Maailman kaunein tyttö (1953) and Vaarallista vapautta (1962). She was married to Toivo Oskar Ylimaa. She died on 11 May 1982 in Helsinki, Finland.Finland
1900 - 1982. (81).
40 credits, 1936-1962. - Catherine Hessling was born on 22 June 1900 in Moronvilliers, Marne, France. She was an actress, known for Nana (1926), Little Red Riding Hood (1930) and Whirlpool of Fate (1925). She was married to Jean Renoir. She died on 28 September 1979 in La-Celle-Saint-Cloud, Yvelines, France.France
1900 - 1979. (79). - Iracema de Alencar was born on 19 April 1900 in Triunfo, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. She was an actress, known for O Pica-pau Amarelo (1973), Garota Enxuta (1959) and Iracema (1917). She died on 7 March 1978 in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Brazil
1900 -1978. (77).
17 credits, 1917-1973. - Genteel, ladylike British actress who was a much respected theatrical star in the 1920s and '30s, both in her own country and in the United States. Born in March 1900 in Hove, Sussex, she took to the stage at the age of seventeen as Ela Delahay in 'Charley's Aunt'. She played Peter Pan three years later and married the first of her actor husbands, Seymour Beard. By the mid '20s, Edna had become the toast of London for her performances in 'Fallen Angel' (with Tallulah Bankhead), and (in a role she made her own) as Teresa (Tessa) Sanger in 'The Constant Nymph' (opposite Noël Coward, and, subsequently, John Gielgud). With the part of Tessa she also enjoyed a successful run on Broadway in 1926, which was followed by another Margaret Kennedy play, 'Come With Me'. She married her co-star, Herbert Marshall, after divorcing Beard in 1928.
Edna started in films as early as 1921 but made little headway until Michael and Mary (1931), for which she recreated her role from the London stage. She then co-starred again with husband Herbert Marshall in Faithful Hearts (1932), but neither of these films received much international exposure. Her only Hollywood film at this time was The Key (1934), which -- though directed by Michael Curtiz -- was decidedly too 'low-key' as far as critical plaudits or the box office was concerned. She had smallish parts in other British films, notably South Riding (1938) and the original version of Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934) as the mother of kidnap victim Nova Pilbeam. Not until 1939 did a worthy motion picture role come her way in the shape of the forlorn wife whom violinist Leslie Howard deserts for Ingrid Bergman in Intermezzo (1939). Other worthy screen roles included her Catherine Apley in The Late George Apley (1947) and the housekeeper Martha in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), which the New York Times review of June 27 considered 'by far the best performance' in the picture. All in all, Edna's film appearances were few and far between, and only a handful adequately showcased her talents as an actress otherwise so abundantly evident from the body of her work in the theatre.
From 1939 a U.S. resident and a nationalised citizen by the early 1950s, Edna continued her frequent triumphant returns to the stage. Her most celebrated performances on Broadway were in Terence Rattigan's 'The Browning Version' as downtrodden housewife Millie Crocker-Harris and in 'Harlequinade' (1949) (both co-starred 'Maurice Evans (I)' (q)) and as the titular character 'Jane' (1952) in a play adapted by S.N. Behrman from a W. Somerset Maugham short story. Brooks Atkinson described her performance as the timorous spinster as both 'comic' and 'forceful'. In her last significant role on stage she co-starred with Brian Aherne and Lynn Fontanne in the romantic comedy 'Quadrille' (1954-55), directed by Alfred Lunt and outfitted by Cecil Beaton, who also designed the costumes. Edna retired from acting in the early 1960s and died in a clinic in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1974.UK. Switzerland.
1900 - 1974. (74), - Actress
- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
Agnes was born of Anglo-Irish ancestry near Boston, the daughter of a Presbyterian minister (her mother was a mezzo-soprano) who encouraged her to perform in church pageants. Aged three, she sang 'The Lord is my Shepherd' on a public stage and seven years later joined the St. Louis Municipal Opera as a dancer and singer for four years. In keeping with her father's dictum of finishing her education first (then being permitted to do whatever she wished with her career), Agnes attended Muskingum College (Ohio), and, subsequently, the University of Wisconsin. She graduated with an M.A. in English and public speaking and later added a doctorate in literature from Bradley University to her resume. When her family moved to Reedsburg, Wisconsin, where her father had a pastorate, Agnes taught public school English and drama for five years. In between, she went to Paris to study pantomime with Marcel Marceau.
In 1928, she began training at the American Academy for Dramatic Arts and graduated with honors the following year. In order to supplement her income , Agnes had turned to radio early on. She had her first job in 1923 as a singer for a St. Louis radio station. Her love for that medium remained with her all her life. From the 1930s to the 50s, she appeared on numerous serials, dramas and children's programs. She was Min Gump in "The Gumps" (1934), the 'dragon lady' in "Terry and the Pirates" (1937), Margot Lane of classic comic strip fame in "The Shadow", Mrs.Danvers in "Rebecca" and the bed-ridden woman about to meet her end in "Sorry, Wrong Number". Acting on the airwaves was so important to her that she would insist on its continuation as a precondition of a later contract with MGM. Significantly, through her radio work on "The Shadow"and "March of Time" in 1937, she met and befriended fellow actor Orson Welles. Welles soon invited her to join him and Joseph Cotten as charter members of his Mercury Theatre on the Air. Agnes was involved in the famous "War of the Worlds" broadcast of 1938 which attracted nationwide attention and resulted in a lucrative $100,000 per picture deal with RKO in Hollywood. The Mercury players (the other principals were Ray Collins, Everett Sloane, Paul Stewart and George Coulouris) packed up and went west.
An ebullient and versatile character actress, Agnes was impossible to typecast: she could play years older than her age, appear as heroine or villainess, tragedienne or comedienne. In her first film, the iconic Citizen Kane (1941), she played the titular character's mother. She received her greatest critical acclaim for her emotive second screen performance as Aunt Fanny Minafer in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). In addition to being voted the year's best female performer by the New York Film Critics she was also nominated for an Academy Award. Through the years, Agnes would be nominated three more times: for her touching portrayal of the jaded but sympathetic Baroness Conti in Mrs. Parkington (1944); for her role as the title character's Aunt Aggie in Johnny Belinda (1948) and for playing Velma, the hard-boiled, suspicious housekeeper of Bette Davis in Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964), co-starring her old friend Joseph Cotten. Other notable film appearances included Jane Eyre (1943), with Orson Welles, The Woman in White (1948) as Countess Fusco), The Lost Moment (1947) (as a 105-year old woman) and Dark Passage (1947), a classic film noir in which she had third billing behind Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall as the treacherous , malevolent Madge Rapf. She had a rare starring role in the campy horror flick The Bat (1959), giving (according to the New York Times of December 17) 'a good, snappy performance'.
On Broadway, she appeared in such acclaimed plays as "All the King's Men" and "Candlelight". She enjoyed success with "Don Juan in Hell", touring nationally: the first time (1951-2) with Charles Laughton and Cedric Hardwicke, the second time (though receiving fewer critical plaudits) with Ricardo Montalban and Paul Henreid in 1973. She also starred with Joseph Cotten in "Prescription Murder" (1962). While not a great critical success, this was much liked by audiences and it introduced a famous detective named Lieutenant Columbo. From 1954, she also toured the U.S. and Europe with her own a one-woman show entitled "The Fabulous Redhead". Agnes performed numerous times on television before landing the role of Endora on Bewitched (1964). One particularly interesting part came her way through the director Douglas Heyes who remembered her from "Sorry, Wrong Number". He cast her in the starring - and indeed, only role in The Invaders (1961). As the lonely old woman confronted by tiny alien invaders in her remote farmhouse, Agnes never utters a single word and cleverly acts her scenes as a pantomime of unspoken terror.
Of course, the genial Agnes Moorehead has been immortalized as Elizabeth Montgomery's flamboyant witch-mother, Endora, although that was not a role the actress wished to be remembered for (in spite of several Emmy Award nominations). Indeed, she had thought this whole witchcraft theme to be rather far-fetched and was somewhat taken aback by the show's huge popularity. Agnes had a special clause inserted in her contract which limited her appearances to eight out of twelve episodes which gave her the opportunity to also work on other projects. Commenting on the acting profession in one of her many interviews (New York Times, May 1, 1974), she found the key to success in being " sincere in your work " and to "just go right on whether audiences or critics are taking your scalp off or not".USA
1900 - 1974. (73).
160 credits, 1941-1974.- Jean Inness was born on 18 December 1900 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. She was an actress, known for The Twilight Zone (1959), The Green-Eyed Blonde (1957) and Not a Ladies' Man (1942). She was married to Victor Jory. She died on 27 December 1978 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
- Katina Paxinou was born in 1900, in Piraeus, Greece. She first appeared on stage in 1928, in an Athens production of Henry Bataille's "La femme nue". In the early 1930's she was one of the founding members of the National Theatre of Greece (previously named Royal Theatre) and performed several major roles in Sophocles' "Electra", Henrik Ibsen's "Ghosts" etc, often co-starring with her husband, Alexis Minotis. The outbreak of the Second World War found her in UK; she later managed to arrive at the US, where she was offered her first film role in 1943 in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943). For her superb portrayal of the Spanish revolutionary Pilar in this classic film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel, she won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award and a Golden Globe in 1944. She made a few more Hollywood movies, before returning to Greece in the early 1950's. During 1950 - 1971, some of her great performances were as Jocasta in Sophocles's "Oedipus Rex" (1951, 1952, 1955 and 1958, also staged at that time on Broadway with enormous success), as Countess Rosmarin Ostenburg in Christopher Fry's "The Dark Is Light Enough" (1957), as Clara Zachanassian in Friedrich Dürrenmatt's "The Visit" (1961), as Mary Tyrone in Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night" (1965) and in the title roles of Euripides' "Hecuba" (1955) and Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage" (1971). She also starred in some other movies; she was particularly touching as the Italian matriarch in the Luchino Visconti masterpiece Rocco and His Brothers (1960). She died of cancer in 1973 and is justly considered as the greatest Greek actress of the 20th century.Greece.
1900 - 1973. (72). - Yuriko Hanabusa was born on 7 March 1900 in Kure City, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. She was an actress, known for Wakaki hi no yorokobi (1943), Wakai hito (1937) and Haru yo izuko (1940). She died on 7 February 1970.Japan
1900 - 1970. (69).
155 credits, 1920-1970. - Writer
- Additional Crew
Margaret Mitchell was an American historical novelist and a journalist. She published only one completed novel in her lifetime, "Gone with the Wind" (1936), which covered a woman's struggle for survival through the American Civil War and the Reconstruction Era. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937, and it was the top American fiction bestseller in 1936 and 1937. Mitchell had completed the romance novella "Lost Laysen" in her adolescence, but it was only published posthumously in 1996. A collection of Mitchell's newspaper articles was published under the title ""Margaret Mitchell: Reporter" (2000). Several of her writings from her early life have been published under the title "Before Scarlett: Girlhood Writings of Margaret Mitchell." (2000).
In 1900, Mitchell was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Her father was Eugene Mitchell (1866-1944), a prominent lawyer, politician, and historian. He served a term as the President of the Atlanta Board of Education (1911-1912), and co-founded the Atlanta Historical Society. Mitchell's mother was Maybelle Stephens Mitchell (1872-1919), a prominent suffragist leader, and a co-founder of both the League of Women Voters in Georgia and the Catholic Layman's Association of Georgia. Mitchell's paternal ancestors were Scottish-Americans, and her maternal ancestors were Irish-Americans.
During her early childhood, Mitchell lived with her family at a Jackson Street mansion, east of downtown Atlanta. The mansion was owned by Miitchell's maternal grandmother, Annie Stephens (d. 1934) , who lived with them. Stephens was reportedly a tyrant to her family, and had a somewhat adversarial relationship with her granddaughter. But Mitchell went on to interview her for "eye-witness information" about the effects of the Civil War and Reconstruction in Atlanta. Stephen's memories were one of the primary sources for "Gone with the Wind" .
Mitchell's mother had the habit of dressing her daughter in boys' pants, because she thought that they were safer than dresses. Mitchell continued dressing as a boy until she was 14, and her family nicknamed her "Jimmy" (after the comic strip character "Little Jimmy"). Mitchell was a tomboy in her childhood, and her favorite pastime was to ride her Texas plains pony. Aging Confederate soldiers tried to entertain the young girl by narrating to her gritty details of specific battles from the Civil War.
In 1912, the Mitchell family moved to a new residence at the east side of Peachtree Street. The house was located at a short distance from the Chattahoochee River. The family reportedly had concerns about the safety of their Jackson Hill home, due to its proximity to areas affected by the Atlanta Race Riot (1906). The Jackson Hill home was eventually destroyed in the Great Atlanta Fire of 1917.
By the early 1910s , Mitchell was an avid reader. Among her favorite writers were Edith Nesbit and Thomas Dixon. Mitchell started writing fairy tales and adventure stories as a hobby. Among her early works was "The Arrow Brave and the Deer Maiden" (1913), about a mixed-race "Indian" who has to endure pain to win over his love interest. Mitchell's mother kept her daughter's stories in white enamel bread boxes.
In 1914, Mitchell started attending Atlanta's Washington Seminary, a then-fashionable private girls' school. The school had over 300 students. Mitchell joined the school's drama club. She was still a tomboy, and she habitually played the male characters in performances of William Shakespeare's plays. She also joined the school's literary club, and had her stories published in the school's yearbook. Among her first published stories was the revenge-themed "Little Sister", where a little girl shoots her sister's rapist.
In 1918, Mitchell graduated and started preparing for a college education, at the insistence of her mother. Her mother chose which school Mitchell would attend, Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. At the time, it was reputedly "the best women's college in the United States". Before her college classes started, Mitchell was engaged to her first serious love interest, the army lieutenant Clifford West Henry. He was send to fight in France in July 1918, and was mortally wounded in October of the same year. Mitchell would continue mourning him for years.
In 1919, Mitchell' mother died from the flu. She was one of the many victims of a flu pandemic that had started in 1918. Mitchell arrived home from college, a day after her mother had died. She found that her mother left a short letter of advise for her, telling her to take care of herself before taking care of other causes.
Later in 1919, Mitchell dropped out of college. She did not excel in any area of academics, and her father expected her to take over the family's household. Mitchell had health problems of her own, and had an appendectomy in the autumn of 1919. Mitchell was feeling increasingly disappointed with her life's direction, as she wrote to a friend. In 1920, Mitchell made her Atlanta society debut. Shortly after, she started dressing as a flapper. In 1921, she shocked the Atlanta high society by performing an Apache dance in a charity ball, and kissing her male partner during the performance. She was consequently blacklisted from the Junior League.
In 1922, Mitchell started dating the bootlegger Berrien ("Red") Kinnard Upshaw (1901-1949). In September 1922. the couple were married against her family's wishes. They both moved in with Mitchell's father. Red was an alcoholic with a violent temper, and Mitchell suffered physical abuse at his hands. They agreed to a period of separation in December 1922, and their divorce was finalized in October 1924. In 1925, Mitchell married her second husband John Robert Marsh (1895-1952). He was Red's former roommate, and another love interest for Mitchell since 1922. Marsh had reportedly secured Mitchell's uncontested divorce, by giving Red a loan. Mitchell and her new husband set their residence at the Crescent Apartments in Atlanta, nicknaming their new home "The Dump". It would later become known as Margaret Mitchell House and Museum.
Between her two marriages, Mitchell had decided that she needed her own source of income. In 1922, she started working as a journalist for "The Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine". Among her early successes was securing a 1923 interview with the then-popular actor Rudolph Valentino. She continued her journalistic career until May 1926. At the time of her resignation, Mitchell had suffered an ankle injury that would not heal properly. Her mobility problems prevented her from working on assignments.In her four years as a journalist, Mitchell wrote 129 feature articles, 85 news stories, and several book reviews.
Following her resignation from "The Atlanta Journal", Mitchell worked for a few months as a gossip columnist for the "Sunday Magazine". In 1926, Marsh asked his increasingly bored wife why she did not write a book of her own instead of reading thousands of them. By 1928, Mitchell started work on a historical novel of her own. In 1935, her novel was still unfinished. But the book editor Harold Latham of Macmillan read her manuscript and was convinced that it was a potential best-seller. Having secured a publisher, Mitchell spend 6 months in making revisions and checking the novel's historical references. "Gone with the Wind" was published in June 1936.
Her novel turned Mitchell into a literary celebrity, but she had no intention of writing further works. In September 1941, Mitchell christened the light cruiser USS Atlanta (CL-51). During World War II, Mitchell served as a volunteer for the American Red Cross. She raised money for the war effort by selling war bonds. In 1944, she christened the light cruiser USS Atlanta (CL-104).
On August 11, 1949, Mitchell crossed Peachtree Street with her husband. They were on their way to a movie theatre, when Mitchell was struck by a drunk driver. She was hospitalized at Grady Hospital. She died on August 16, without ever regaining consciousness. She was buried at Oakland Cemetery, Georgia. Her husband was buried by her side in 1952. Though Mitchell is long gone, her novel never went out of print. It remains popular into the 21st century. Mitchell was posthumously inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame in 2000.1900 - 1949. (48).- Actress
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Before the tragic legacies of songbird icons Édith Piaf, Billie Holiday and Judy Garland took hold, there was the one...the original...lady who sang the blues and started the whole "bawl" rolling. Like her successors, Helen Morgan lived the sad songs she sang...and more.
She started her life fittingly enough on August 2, 1900 in very humble surroundings. Her father was an Illinois dirt farmer and school master. She moved to Chicago while young and worked a number of menial blue-collar jobs -- manicurist, cracker-packager, counter clerk. But her passion was music and, at the age of 18, decided to leave and pursue her dream as a cabaret singer. Within a few years, she was working under the Broadway lights with the George White Scandals. In between. she studied music at the Metropolitan Opera and performed in vaudeville shows.
Helen was the antithesis of the freewheeling "Jazz Age" baby as her deep, dusky voice seemed born to weave tales of sadness and lament rather than focusing on fun and frolic. The Chicago mobsters and underground bootleggers bawled like burly babies and really took to Helen's "torch song" renditions while glamorously propped on a piano with trademark scarf in hand (originally used to disguise nerves). Prohibition-era gangsters even bankrolled her clubs which became very popular...and frequently raided.
Helen conquered Broadway in the late 1920s with her quintessential role as the tragic mulatto, "Julie", in the landmark smash musical, "Show Boat", in 1927. Introducing the standards "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" and "Bill", Helen earned more success with the musical "Sweet Adeline" in 1929 in which she introduced another favorite "Why Was I Born?". Her fragile mind and heart, however, couldn't handle the problems that started surfacing in the 1930s.
A broken marriage, emotional instability and a deep passion for the demon drink quickly did her in. She couldn't hold jobs and her health worsened by the year. After spiraling badly for a half-decade, she tried sobering up and made a huge splash in 1936 with the screen version of Show Boat (1936) starring Irene Dunne, Allan Jones and Paul Robeson. She also began to redeem herself in clubs again but it was ultimately too late. Years of abuse did its damage and she died of liver cirrhosis in 1941 at age 41. In 1957, a glossy, somewhat fictitious movie was made chronicling her life and troubled times. The Helen Morgan Story (1957), starred a game Ann Blyth as the sultry, ill-fated songstress, with Gogi Grant a spectacular choice for dubbing in the vocals to all of Helen's best known standards.
Yes, before there was a Garland, there was Morgan, and although Garland seems to have her beat these days as THE musical icon of despair, Helen was the original tear-stained blueprint.USA
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29 credits, 1923-1936.- Born in Nagoya in 1900. While studying the Toma style of Japanese dancing and nagauta music, she became a geisha who worked under the name of Kodama. In 1923, she joined the Nikkatsu Mukojima Studios, where she was selected to star as the heroine in Niku no Eiko, the film version of a popular novel of the period. After a dazzling debut performance, she began to attract attention to Chigusa as an actress suited to alluring female and evil women roles. After Tokyo was struck by the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, Chigusa moved to Kyoto where, beginning with the first film to be made following Nikkatsu Mukojima's move there, Omitsu to Seizaburo, she appeared in a number of films, including Kanojo no Unmei (Her Destiny), Gendai no Joo (The Modern Queen) and Konjiki Yasha (The Golden She-Devil). Signing with Teikoku Cinema in 1924, she performed wonderfully in Eiga Joyu (The Film Actress), Yamato Sakura and Kiro ni Tachite (Standing at the Crossroads). Among all the commotion the following year, in which Teikoku Cinema was split into three, she joined the Kosaka team, after which her activities focused on period dramas. The main films she starred in at this time include the Kanto Kyokyakuden series, Kujaku no Hikari (a film which four studios competed to produce their own versions), Kurotegumi Sukeroku and Futeki no Meika. She showed her degree of acting skills across a broad spectrum, being renowned as a role-player of evil women, but also quite at home with heroine performances. In 1926, Asia Films, which had split from the Kosaka team, engaged in a merger. At this time, Chigusa teamed up with Akashi Rokuro in such films as Shinsara Yashiki and Date Sodo, as well as performing in the modern dramas Koi no Shigarami and Sannin no Haha. Between 1924 and 1930, Chigusa was popular enough to record over 100 film performances. In 1930, Chigusa left Teikoku Cinema after appearing in her final film there, Goso Michimoto. She then spent time moving around Ichikawa Productions, Asia Films and Akasawa Cinema until her retirement from the screen.Japan
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29 credits, 1923-1929.