- Bing Crosby
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 3, 1903 - October 14, 1977) was an American singer and actor whose career lasted from 1926 until his death in 1977. One of the first multi-media stars, from 1934 to 1954 Bing Crosby held a nearly unrivaled command of record sales, radio ratings and motion picture grosses. - Mario Lanza
Mario Lanza (31 January 1921 - 7 October 1959) was an American tenor and Hollywood movie star who enjoyed success in the late 1940s and 1950s. His voice was considered by many to rival that of Enrico Caruso, whom Lanza portrayed in the 1951 film "The Great Caruso". Lanza was able to sing all types of music. While his highly emotional style was not always universally praised by critics, he was immensely popular and his many recordings are still prized today. - Loretta Young
Loretta Young (January 6 1913 - August 12 2000) was an Academy Award-winning American actress. - John Candy
John Franklin Candy (October 31, 1950 - March 4, 1994) was a Canadian comedian and actor. Candy rose to fame as a member of the Toronto, Canada branch of "The Second City", often playing lovable losers and characters with bad luck but big hearts. His film roles were mostly comedic, such as his memorable characters in "Spaceballs", "Stripes", "The Blues Brothers", "Brewster's Millions", "Uncle Buck", "Cool Runnings", … - Charles Boyer
Charles Boyer (August 28, 1899 - August 26, 1978) was a French-American actor who starred in several classic Hollywood films, TV director and TV producer. After moving to the U.S., he became an American citizen. - Rita Hayworth
Rita Hayworth (October 17, 1918 - May 14, 1987), was an American actress of Spanish and Anglo-Irish descent who reached fame during the 1940s as the era's leading sex symbol. Although there was prejudice against Hispanic actors at the time, Hayworth is now widely regarded to be one of the first Hispanic-American "sex goddess" of "Golden Age" Hollywood with leading roles in film. - Sharon Tate
Sharon Marie Tate was a Golden Globe-nominated American actress. During the 1960s she played small roles in television, before starting her film career. She appeared in several films that highlighted her beauty, and after receiving positive reviews for her comedic performances, was hailed as one of Hollywood's promising newcomers. Tate's celebrity status increased following her marriage to the film director, Roman Polański, … - Chris Penn
Christopher Shannon Penn (October 10 1965 - January 24 2006) was an American film actor. He was the son of noted director Leo Penn and actress Eileen Ryan (born "Eileen Annucci"), and the brother of actor Sean Penn and musician Michael Penn. Born in Los Angeles, California, he was the youngest of the three sons. He dated and lived with Steffiana De La Cruz from 1993 to 1999. - Jackie Coogan
John Leslie (Jackie) Coogan was an American actor who began his movie career as a child actor in silent film - Polly Ann Young
Polly Ann Young (October 25, 1908 - January 21, 1997) was an American film actress. Actresses Loretta Young and Sally Blane were her sisters, and of the three Polly Ann was the least successful. Among other movie roles, she played John Wayne's leading lady in "The Man From Utah" (1934). Young married Carter Hermann in 1935, and they had four children. Her husband died in the 1970s and she died of cancer in Los Angeles, California, aged 88. - Mary Astor
Mary Astor (May 3, 1906 - September 25, 1987) was an Academy Award-winning American actress. Most famous for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in "The Maltese Falcon" (1941) opposite Humphrey Bogart, Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s. She eventually made a successful transition to talkies, but almost saw her career destroyed due to public scandal in the mid-1930s. - Béla Lugosi
Bela Lugosi (October 20, 1882 - August 16, 1956), was a Hungarian/American actor best known for his portrayal of Count Dracula in the American Broadway stage production (1927), and subsequent film (1931), of Bram Stoker's classic vampire story. - Wallace Ford
Wallace Ford (February 12, 1898 - June 11, 1966) was a movie and television actor who, with his friendly appearance and stocky build, appeared in a number of movie westerns and B-movies. Ford, born Samuel Jones in England, began as a vaudeville actor before performing on Broadway. He appeared in over 200 films including 13 directed by John Ford, who is no relation to him. - Juanita Hansen
Juanita Hansen was an American motion picture actress. She was born in Des Moines, Iowa. Her family moved to California when she was a girl and Juanita graduated from Los Angeles High School. There she secured her first acting job with L. Frank Baum's "Oz Film Manufacturing Company". She appeared in the "The Patchwork Girl of Oz", a film based on Baum's book. Given a minor role as the bell ringer, … - Gia Scala
Gia Scala (March 3, 1934 - April 30, 1972) was an actress. She was born Giovanna Scoglio in Liverpool, England, to an aristocratic Sicilian father, Pietro Scoglio, and an Irish mother, Eileen Sullivan. She lived in Rome, Italy and moved to the United States at age fourteen where she studied and worked in New York City. Gia graduated from Bayside High School (New York City) in Queens, New York. For a time she was undecided on what to do next. - Jean Acker
Jean Acker (October 23, 1893 - August 16, 1978) was an American film actress with a career dating from the silent film era through the 1950s, though she was perhaps best known as the estranged wife of silent film star Rudolph Valentino. - Ella Margaret Gibson
Margaret Gibson alias Patricia Palmer aka Pat Lewis (September 14, 1894 near Colorado Springs, Colorado - October 21, 1964, Los Angeles, California) was an American stage and film actress who had leading roles in Vitagraph westerns, often opposite William Clifford. She also appeared with Charles Ray in "The Coward" (1915) and later worked in two Westerns with William S. Hart: "The Money Corral," and "Sand".
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