Classic Stars - Female
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Julie
Andrews OOO
Birth: October 1, 1935
Movie: Mary Poppins (1964), The Sound of Music (1965)
Remark: One-time Academy Award Best Actress Winner
Jean
Arthur O
Birth: October 17, 1900
Death: June 19, 1991
Movie: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), You Can't Take It With You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
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Lauren
Bacall O
Nickname: The Look, Betty, Baby
Birth: September 16, 1924
Movie: To Have and Have Not (1945), Dark Passage (1947)
Remark: Actor Humphrey Bogart's wife
Lucille
Ball OO
Death: 1989
Movie: Ziegfeld Follies (1946)
Tallulah
Bankhead OO
Movie: Devil and the Deep (1932), Lifeboat (1944)
Anne
Baxter
Movie: All About Eve (1950), The Ten Commandments (1956)
Ingrid
Bergman OOO
Birth: August 29, 1915
Birthplace: Stockholm, Sweden
Death: August 29, 1982
Movie: Casablanca (1942), Gaslight (1944), Notorious (1946). Anastasia (1956), Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Remark: Mother of Actress/Model Isabella Rossellini; two-times Academy Award Best Actress winner (1944, 1956).
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Leslie
Caron O
Movie: An American in Paris (1951), Daddy Long Legs, Gigi (1958)
Cyd
Charisse O
Movie: Singin' in the Rain (1952), Brigadoon (1954)
Rosemary
Clooney
Movie: White Christmas (1954)
Remark: Aunt of actor George Clooney
Claudette
Colbert O
Birth: September 13, 1903
Death: July 30, 1996
Movie: It Happened One Night (1934)
Joan
Crawford
Birth: March 23, 1905
Death: May 10, 1977
Movie: Grand Hotel (1932), Mildred Pierce (1945)
Remark: One-time Academy Best Actress Winner
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Bette
Davis OOO
Birth: April 5, 1908
Death: October 6, 1989
Movie: Dangerous (1935), Jezebel (1938), Dark Victory (1939), The Little Foxes (1941), All About Eve (1950)
Remark: Two-times Academy Award Best Actress Winner
Doris
Day
Movie: The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Pillow Talk (1959)
Olivia
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Havilland O
Birth: July 1, 1916
Movie: Gone with the Wind (1939), The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
Remark: Older Sister of Actress, Joan Fontaine; they were born in Tokyo, Japan; two-times Academy Award Best Actress Winner
Marlene
Dietrich O
Birth: December 27, 1901
Death: May 6, 1992
Movie: Morocco (1930), Angel (1937)
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Joan
Fontaine O
Birth: October 22, 1917
Movie: Rebecca (1940), Suspicion (1941)
Remark: Younger sister of Olivia de Havilland; they were born in Tokyo, Japan; one-time Academy Award Best Actress Winner
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Greta
Garbo O
Birth: September 18, 1905
Death: April 15, 1990
Movie: Grand Hotel (1932), Ninotchka (1939)
Received: Received Honorary Oscar in 1955
Ava
Gardner
Death: January 25, 1990
Movie: Showboat (1951), Mogambo (1953)
Remark: She was married and divorced three times -- to Mickey Rooney, Frank Sinatra, and Artie Shaw.
Betty
Garrett O
Movie: Take Me to the Ball Game, On the Town
Greer Garson
Birth: September 29, 1908
Death: April 6, 1996
Movie: Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), Pride and Prejudice (1940), Mrs. Miniver (1942), Mrs. Parkington (1944)
Remark: One-time Academy Award Best Actress Award Winner
Judy
Garland OOO
Birth: June 10, 1922
Death: June 22, 1969
Movie: Wizard of Oz (1939), Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Easter Parade (1948), A Star is Born (1954), I Could Go On Singing (1963)
Remark: Ex-wife of director, Vincente Minnelli; mother of actress, Liza Minnelli
Kathryn
Grayson
Movie: Anchors Aweigh (1945), Showboat (1951), Kiss Me Kate (1953)
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Jean
Hagen
Movie: Singin' in the Rain (1952), The Shaggy Dog (1959)
Jean
Harlow
Nickname: Baby
Birth: March 3, 1911
Death: June 7, 1937
Movie: Hell's Angels
Rita
Hayworth
Nickname: The Love Goddess
Birth: October 17, 1918
Death: May 14, 1987
Movie: Only Angels Have Wings (1939), Cover Girl (1944), The Lady from Shanghai (1947), Pal Joey (1957), Circus World (1964)
Audrey
Hepburn OOO
Birth: May 4, 1929
Birthplace: Brussels, Belgium
Death: January 20, 1993
Movie: Roman Holiday (1953), Sabrina (1954), War and Peace (1956), Funny Face (1956), Love in the Afternoon (1957), The Nun's Story (1959), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Charade (1963). My Fair Lady (1964), How to Steal a Million (1966)
Remark: One-time Academy Award Best Actress Winner; received Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Katharine
Hepburn OO
Nickname: First Lady of Cinema
Birth: May 12, 1907
Death: June 29, 2003
Movie: Little Women (1933), Bringing Up Baby (1938), The Philadelphia Story (1940), Woman of the Year (1942), The African Queen (1951), The Rainmaker (1956), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? (1967), On Golden Pond (1981)
Remark: Four-time Academy Award Best Actress Winner
Celeste
Holm OOO
Birth: April 29, 1919
Movie: Gentlemen's Agreement (1947), All About Eve (1950), The Tender Trap (1955), High Society (1956)
Lena
Horne
Movie: Ziegfeld Follies (1946), Till the Clouds Roll By (1957), Words and Music (1948)
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Grace
Kelly OOO
Birth: November 12, 1929
Death: September 14, 1982
Movie: High Noon (1952), The Country Girl (1954), High Society (1956) , Rear Window (1954), To Catch a Thief (1955)
Remark: Princess of Monaco; wife of Prince Rainer; one-time Academy Award Best Actress Winner
Deborah
Kerr
Movie: Black Narcissus (1946), From Here to Eternity (1953), The King and I (1956), An Affair to Remember (1957)
Remark: Received Honourary Oscar for Career Achievement in 1993
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Veronica
Lake
Death: 1973
Movie: Sullivan's Travels (1942)
Hedy
Lamar
Movie: Comrade X (1940), Zeigfeld Girls (1941)
Angela
Lansbury O
Birth: 1925
Movie: The Harvey Girls (1946), Something for Everyone (1970), Beauty and the Beast (1991, voice)
Janet
Leigh OO
Movie: Little Women (1949), Psycho (1960), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Bye Bye Bride (1963)
Remark: Actress, Jamie Lee Curtis' mother
Vivien
Leigh OOO
Birth: November 5, 1913
Death: July 7, 1967
Movie: Gone with the Wind (1939), Caesar and Cleopatra (1946), A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
Remark: Two-times Academy Award Best Actress Winner; she was born in India; ex-wife of actor, Laurence Olivier.
Sophia Loren
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Jeanette MacDonald
Movie: The Love Parade (1929), The Merry Widow (1934)
Vera
Miles
Movie: The Searchers (1955), The Wrong Man (1959), Psycho (1960)
Ann
Miller OO
Birth: 1925
Movie: Easter Parade (1948), On the Town (1949), Kiss Me Kate (1953)
Marilyn
Monroe
Birth: June 1, 1926
Death: August 5, 1962
Movie: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), The Seven Year Itch (1955), Some Like It Hot (1959)
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Kim
Novak OO
Real Name: Marilyn Pauline Novak
Movie: The Picnic (1955), Pal Joey (1957), Vertigo (1958)
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Margaret
O'Brien OO
Birth: January 15, 1937
Movie: Babes on Broadway (1941), Jane Eyre (1944), Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), Little Women (1949), The Secret Garden (1949)
Maureen
O'Hara OOO
Birth: August 17, 1920
Birthplace: Ranelagh, Ireland
Movie: How Green was My Valley (1941), Miracle on 34th Street (1947), The Quiet Man (1952), The Parent Trap (1961), Only the Lonely (1991)
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Mary Pickford
Birth: 1892
Death: 1979
Jane
Powell
Birth: 1929
Movie: Two Weeks With Love (1950), Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), Hit the Deck (1955)
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Donna
Reed
Death: 1995
Movie: It's a Wonderful Life (1946), From Here to Eternity (1953)
Debbie
Reynolds OO
Birth: April 1, 1932
Movie: Two Weeks With Love (1950), Singin' in the Rain (1952), The Tender Trap (1955), How the West was Won (1962), The Unskinable Molly Brown (1964)
Thelma
Ritter
Movie: Miracle on 34th Street (1947), All About Eve (1950), Rear Window (1954)
Ginger
Rogers O
Birth: July 16, 1911
Death: April 25, 1995
Movie: The Gay Divorcee (1934), The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
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Norma
Shearer
Movie: The Divorcee (1930), The Women (1939)
Remark: One-time Academy Award Winner (1930)
Ann
Sheridan
Movie: Angel with Dirty Faces (1938), Kings Row (1942)
Jean
Simmons
Birth: January 31, 1929
Movie: Great Expectations (1946), Hamlet (1948)
Barbara
Stanwyck
Birth: July 16, 1907
Death: January 20, 1990
Movie: Lady Eve (1941), Ball of Fire (1942)
Gloria
Swanson O
Birth: March 27, 1899
Death: April 4, 1983
Movie: Sunset Boulevard (1950)
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Elizabeth Taylor
Birth: February 27, 1932
Birthplace: London, England
Movie: Lassie Come Home (1943), Little Women (1949), The Place in the Sun (1951), Giant (1956), Cleopatra (1963), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)
Remark: Two-times Academy Award Best Actress Winner
Shirley
Temple O
Birth: 1928
Movie: Heidi (1937), The Little Princess (1939)
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Vera-Ellen
Movie: On the Town (1949), White Christmas (1954)
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Esther
Williams
Movie: Bathing Beauty (1944), Million Dollar Maid (1952), Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949)
Remark: Former Olympic swimmer.
Natalie Wood
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Born: 1938
Death: 1981
Movie: Rebel Without a Cause (1955), West Side Story (1961), Splendor in the Glass (1961), Gypsy (1962), Inside Daisy Cover (1965)
Teresa
Wright OOO
Birth: October 27, 1918
Movie: The Little Foxes (1941), The Pride of the Yankees (1942), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), Somewhere in Time (1980), The Rainmaker (1997)
Remark: One-time Academy Award Best Actress Winner
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Loretta
Young
Birth: 1913
Death: 2000
Movie: The Farmer's Daughter
Remark: One-time Academy Award Best Actress Winner
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