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Betty Grable - American actress, dancer and singer

Betty Grable
Betty Grable was an famous American actress, dancer and singer. Her iconic bathing suit photo finished her the number-one pin-up girl of the World War II era. It was afterward included in the LIFE magazine project "100 Photos that Changed the World". Grable was mainly noted for having the most beautiful legs in Hollywood and studio publicity extensively dispersed photos featuring them. Hosiery specialist of the era often celebrated the ideal proportions of her legs. Grable's legs were notably insured by her studio for $1,000,000 with Lloyds of London.

Despite being renowned for her looks, she was a woman of talent. She appear in many smash-hit musical films in the 1940s like, Down Argentine Way (1940), Moon Over Miami. However, she is greatest noted for her 1947 film Mother Wore Tights. By the 1950s, she was still creation films like, Wabash Avenue, How to Marry a Millionaire, and How to Be Very, Very Popular (1955), her last film. She retired from the film industry in 1955, and never returned. She had many nicknames during her career like: "the girl with the million dollar legs," "the quick-silver blonde," "the queen of the Hollywood musical," and "the darling of the forties." She died in 1973 at age 56 of lung cancer.
Betty Grable


Birth Name
Elizabeth Ruth Grable

Date Of Birth
December 18, 1916

Place Of Birth
St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.

Other names
Frances Dean

Occupation
Actress, dancer, singer

Spouse
Jackie Coogan,
Harry James

Date Of Died
July 2, 1973

Place Of Died
Santa Monica, California, U.S.


Jayne Mansfield - Actress, singer, model

Jayne Mansfield
Jayne Mansfield was an famous American actress working both in Hollywood and on the Broadway theatre. One of the foremost blonde sex symbols of the late-1950s, she starred in many popular Hollywood films that emphasized her platinum-blonde hair, hourglass figure and cleavage-revealing costumes, and her capability to play the violin. While Mansfield's film career was short-lived,she had many box office successes and win the Theatre World Award, a Golden Globe and a Golden Laurel. She is well remembering for her starring roles in the 20th Century Fox comedy films The Girl Can't Help It (1956) and Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957).

She also tackled a rare straight role in The Wayward Bus (1957), a film renowned for being her best on-screen dramatic performance. As the require for blonde bombshells declined in the 1960s, She remained a famous celebrity, continuing to attract huge crowds outside the U.S. and in lucrative and successful nightclub tours. Her film career continued in lesser budget melodramas and comedies, many filmed in the United Kingdom and Europe, including the independent film, Promises! Promises! (1963), in which she become the first American actress to appear nude, in a starring role, in a Hollywood motion-picture. She had been a Playboy Playmate of the Month and appeared in the magazine many additional times. She dies in an automobile accident at age 34.
Jayne Mansfield

Birth Name
Vera Jayne Palmer

Date Of Birth
April 19, 1933

Place Of Birth
Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States

Occupation
Actress, singer, model

Spouse
Paul Mansfield,
Miklos Hargitay,
Matt Cimber

Date Of Died
June 29, 1967

Place Of Died
Slidell, Louisiana, United States



Gene Tierney - film and stage actress

Gene Tierney

Gene Tierney was famous American film and stage actress. Acclaimed as one of the huge beauties of her day, she is best remembered for her presentation in the title role of Laura (1944) and her Academy Award-nominated presentation for Best Actress in Leave Her to Heaven (1945). Other notable character include Martha Strable Van Cleve in Heaven Can Wait, Isabel Bradley Maturin in The Razor's Edge, Lucy Muir in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Ann Sutton in Whirlpool and Anne Scott in The Left Hand of God. Certain fragments of her film-related material and individual papers are contained in the Wesleyan University Cinema Archives, to which scholars and media professional from around the world may have full access.

Tierney came back to act in the television movie Daughter of the Mind with Don Murray and Ray Milland. Her last presentation was in the TV miniseries Scruples. In 1960, Tierney sent Kennedy a message of congratulations on his election victory; she later admits that she had voted for Richard Nixon, saying, "I thought that he would create a better president." In 1958, Tierney met Texas oil baron W. Howard Lee, who was wedded to Hedy Lamarr from 1953 to 1960. Tierney and Lee married in Aspen, Colorado on July 11, 1960, and lived in Houston, Texas. In 1962, 20th Century Fox announce Tierney would play the lead role in Return to Peyton Place, but she became pregnant and dropped out of the project. Tierney later miscarried.

Gene Tierney

Born Name
Gene Eliza Tierney

Date Of Birth
November 19, 1920

Place Of Birth
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.

Occupation
Actress

Spouse
Oleg Cassini,
W. Howard Lee (1960–81)

Date Of Died
November 6, 1991

Place Of Died
Houston, Texas, U.S.


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Madonna - singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur

Madonna

Madonna is an famous American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. To pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music group Breakfast Club and Emmy, she out her debut album in 1983. She followed it with a sequence of albums that attained immense popularity by pushing the boundaries of lyrical content in mainstream popular music and imagery in her music videos, which became a fixture on MTV. Her career was further improved by film appearances that began in 1985, despite mixed commentary. She won important acclaim and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for her role in Evita (1996).

In 1992, she establishes entertainment company Maverick as a joint venture with Time Warner. In 2007, she signed an unprecedented US $120 million agreement with Live Nation. She has sold more than 300 million records worldwide and is known as the world's top-selling female recording artist of all time by the Guinness World Records. According to the Recording Industry Association of America, she is the top selling female rock artist of the 20th century and the second top-selling female performer in the United States, behind Barbra Streisand, with 64 million certified albums. In 2008, Billboard journal ranked Madonna at number two, behind only The Beatles, on the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists, creation her the most successful solo artist in the history of the Billboard chart. She is recognized for continuously reinventing both her music and image, and for retaining a standard of autonomy within the recording industry.

Madonna

Birth Name
Madonna Louise Ciccone

Date Of Birth
August 16, 1958

Place Of Birth
Bay City, Michigan, U.S.

Origin
New York, New York, U.S.

Genres
Pop, rock, dance

Instruments
Vocals, guitar, percussion, drums

Occupations
Singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, actress, film producer, film director, fashion designer, author, entrepreneur, philanthropist


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Abigail Breslin - American Actress, Musician

Abigail Breslin
Abigail Breslin is an famous American teen actress. She is one of the youngest actresses ever to be voted for an Academy Award. She appeared in her first business when she was only three years old, and in her first movie, Signs, at the age of five. Her consequent films include Little Miss Sunshine, Nim's Island, Definitely, Maybe, My Sister's Keeper, Zombieland, and Rango. In 2009, she appear in the horror comedy Zombieland as Little Rock. Director Ruben Fleischer said that "the dream was always to obtain Abigail Breslin" for the role. The film received optimistic reviews and was successful at the box office, grossing $102 million worldwide.

Breslin's presentation was praised by critics; Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter writes that she "well portrays Helen's feral rebelliousness in the play's early sections and is extremely touching as her character's bond with her teacher grows". Ticket sales for the play, however, were measured disappointing, and the show closed in April 2010. Breslin recently started a rock band called "CABB" with her friend Cassidy Reiff. In September 2009, Breslin film in Des Moines, Iowa, playing the title personality in the film Janie Jones: a 13-year old girl who is abandoned by her former-groupie mother, and informs Ethan Brand, a fading rock star, that she is his daughter. The film premiered at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival. She appear in the 2011 romance-comedy 'New Years Eve.'
Abigail Breslin

Birth Name
Abigail Kathleen Breslin

Date Of Birth
April 14, 1996

Place Of Birth
New York City

Occupation
Actress, Musician

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Joan Crawford - Actress

Joan Crawford
Joan Crawford was a famous American actress in film, television and theatre. Starting as a dancer in traveling theatrical company before debuting on Broadway, she was signed to a motion picture agreement by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1925. Primarily frustrated by the size and quality of her parts, she began a campaign of self-publicity and became nationally known as a flapper by the end of the 1920s. In the 1930, Crawford's fame rival MGM colleagues Norma Shearer and Greta Garbo. Crawford often played careful young women who find romance and financial success. These "rags-to-riches" stories were well-received by Depression-era audiences and were famous with women. 


Crawford became one of Hollywood's most famous movie stars and one of the highest paid women in the United States, but her movies began losing money and by the end of the 1930s she was labeled "box office poison". After an absence of almost two years from the screen, Crawford staged a return by starring in Mildred Pierce (1945), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1955, she became concerned with the Pepsi-Cola Company through her marriage to company Chairman Alfred Steele

Joan Crawford
 
After his death, She was elected to fill his vacancy on the board of directors but was forcibly retired in 1973. She nonstop acting in film and television regularly through the 1960s, when her performance became less; after the release of the British horror film Trog in 1970, she retired from the screen. Following a public appearance in 1974, after which unflattering photographs were released, Crawford withdrew from public life and became more and more secluded until her death in 1977. She was voted the tenth best female star in the history of American cinema by the American Film Institute.


Birth Name
Lucille Fay LeSueur

Date Of Birth
March 23, 1905

Place Of Birth
San Antonio, Texas, U.S.

Occupation
Actress

Spouse
Douglas Fairbanks,
Franchot Tone,
Phillip Terry,
Alfred Steele

Date Of Died
May 10, 1977

Place Of Died
New York City, New York, U.S.

Selena Gomez - actress, singer and businesswoman

Selena Gomez

Selena Gomez is an American actress and singer best identified for portraying Alex Russo in the Emmy Award-winning Disney Channel TV series Wizards of Waverly Place. She subsequently venture into feature films and has starred in the television movies one more Cinderella Story, Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie, and Princess Protection Program. She prepared her starring theatrical film debut in Ramona and Beezus.

Her career has extended into the music industry; Gomez is the lead singer and originator of the pop band Selena Gomez & the Scene, which has released two RIAA Gold certified studio album, Kiss & Tell and A Year without Rain and spawned two RIAA Platinum certified singles, "Naturally" and "Who Says". As of April 2011, the band has sell 1,354,000 albums in the United States. Gomez has also give to the soundtracks of Tinker Bell, Another Cinderella Story, Wizards of Waverly Place, and Shake It Up after signing a record contract with Hollywood Records. In 2008, Gomez was chosen a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.

Selena Gomez

Birth name
Selena Marie Gomez
Date Of Birth
July 22, 1992
Grand
Prairie, Texas, United States
Genres
Electropop, Pop rock, dance-pop
Occupations
singer, businesswoman, Actress
Instruments
piano, guitar, drums, Vocals
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