- Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 - August 5, 1962), was a Golden Globe Award-winning American actress, singer, model and pop icon. She was known for her comedic skills and screen presence, going on to become one of the most popular movie stars of the 1950s and early 1960s. At the later stages of her career, she worked towards serious roles with a measure of success. - Carol Channing
Carol Elaine Channing (born on January 31, 1921 in Seattle, Washington) is an American singer and actress. The winner of three Tony Awards (including a lifetime achievement award), a Golden Globe and an Academy Award nominee, Channing is best remembered for two roles: Lorelei Lee in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" and Dolly Gallagher Levi in "Hello, Dolly!". She is easily recognized by her distinctive voice and wide eyes, … - Charles Coburn
Charles Douville Coburn (June 19, 1877 - August 30, 1961) was an Oscar-winning American film and theater actor. - Tommy Noonan
Tommy Noonan (born Thomas Noon) (29 April 1922 - 24 April 1968) was a comedy genre film performer, screenwriter and producer. He acted in a number of 'A' and 'B' pictures from the 1940s through the 1960s, and he is fondly remembered as "Danny McGuire" in "A Star Is Born", and as "Gus Esmond", "Lorelei"'s boyfriend, in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes". - Marcel Dalio
Marcel Dalio, born Israel Moshe Blauschild (17 July 1900 in Paris, France - 20 November 1983 in Paris), was a French Jewish character actor. He had major roles in two of Jean Renoir's most famous films, "Grand Illusion" and "The Rules of the Game". After divorcing his first wife, he married 17-year old Madeleine LaBeau (Yvonne from "Casablanca") in 1938. - Norma Varden
Norma Varden, (20 January 1898-19 January 1989) was an English actress with a long film career in Hollywood. Born in London, the daughter of a retired sea-captain, Varden was a child prodigy. She trained as a concert pianist in Paris and performed in England before deciding to take up acting. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and made her first appearance as Mrs Darling in "Peter Pan". - George Chakiris
George Chakiris (born September 16, 1934) is an American dancer and Academy Award winning film actor. Chakiris was born in Norwood, Ohio to immigrants from Greece. He made his film debut in 1947. For several years he appeared in small roles, usually as a dancer or a member of the chorus in various musical films. - Joseph Fields
Joseph Fields (February 21 1895 - March 3 1966) was a Tony Award-winning American playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, and film producer. Born Joseph Albert Fields in New York City, the son of vaudevillean Lew Fields, he graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School and attended New York University before enrolling in the American Expeditionary Force during World War I, after which he remained in Paris until 1922. - Sol C. Siegel
Sol C. Siegel (1903 - 1982) was an American reporter and producer. In 1934 he began his Hollywood career by assisting with the merger of four production studios into Republic Pictures. He stayed on at Republic as an executive producer, working with Gene Autry and John Wayne. He later worked with Paramount and 20th Century Fox, where two of the films he produced, … - Gabriella
Ok well, I am not really good at describing myself. I think I am a pretty complicated dimensional person. that being said, I think I will let u figure out for urself who I really am. That thing in the bottom is a pretty good description of me. - Kay Singleton
Female college student,on a break. I love shopping, fashion, the NBA and a good time. - Michele
Spooky gal who digs her goth, but has a fondness for the swingin' days of yesteryear. - Rebecca
I am first of all, a spiritualist. If anyone laughs, may ye be smitten. I am a world traveler. In retrospect, I went to Africa, at the age of 10 on a two week safari into Kenya and Tanzania. Travel has also occured from the Sea of the Carribean, South America (Venezula), Yucatan Penisula, to the Hawaiian Islands. London, England is the only European locale I have been to. I am a dreamer and do not know if I will ever be in love. - Claudia
I am 20 years old and I presently live in Brookline, MA & I attend Boston University; yet, I have no clue what I want to do as far as a career; I am trying to figure out how I can make a sufficient amount of money for myself in life by doing as little work as possible. - Julissa
A TruE BoRN and RaiSeD ManHaTTan HoTTiE StiLL TrYiN 2 FiGuRe ouT moRe BouT thiS ThiNg We caLL LiFE!! : p Your results:. - Ingrid
lilac bandit.... - Marty
This phrase was uttered by everyone in my family so many times that I adopted it as my indian name. - Lisl Wright
I'd rather remain a mystery. - Catherine Davis
I'm a 22 year old accounts receivable administrator. I work for a property restoration company and basically have no life. My life is work, my husband and my friends! - Alex Davie
Hi everybody! My name is. - Johnny M
You want the story? I'll spin it for you quick. I'm sarcastic, and I'm honest, and I don't believe in playing games unless you're interested in a spirited round of "Monopoly" or "Super Mario Bros." I type fast, I have a brain overflowing with pop culture trivia, I eagerly devour music and movies, I'm relatively well-read, and I find it's easiest to deal with the flotsam of the world with sarcastic humor. - William Travilla
William Travilla (22 March 1920-2 November 1990), who invariably went by the professional name of Travilla, was an American costume designer in films. He is perhaps best-known for dressing Marilyn Monroe in eight of her films. Travilla first came to Hollywood in 1941. After work on several B movies, he earned an Oscar in 1949 for the Errol Flynn swashbuckler "Adventures of Don Juan". This led to better assignments. - Jack Cole
Jack Cole (1911 - 1974) was an American dancer, choreographer, and theatre director known as the father of theatrical jazz dance. Born John Ewing Richter in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Cole virtually invented the idiom of American Show Dancing known as "Theater Dance." He developed an entirely personal mode of jazz-ethnic-ballet that prevails as the dominant look of and technique for dancing in today's musicals, films, nightclub revues, … - Marni Nixon
Marni Nixon (born February 22 1930) is an American singer whose renown for dubbing the singing voices of featured actresses in well known movies earned her the sobriquet "The Ghostess with the Mostess", and also "The Voice of Hollywood". She was born Margaret McEathron in Altadena, California and began singing at an early age in choruses. - Harry J. Wild
Harry J. Wild (1900 - 1961) was a film and television cinematographer. Wild worked at RKO studios from 1931 through the 1950s. In 1936, Wild shot his first feature, and in 1936 he shared an Oscar nomination for the Republic film "Army Girl" (1938). During the 1930s he was the lensman for a number of film westerns. In 1942, Wild was tasked with the shooting of additional scenes for Orson Welles' "The Magnificent Ambersons". He was uncredited for his work. - Hugh Martin
Hugh Martin, born on August 11, 1914, in Birmingham, Alabama, is an American theatre and film composer, arranger, performer, vocal coach, and playwright. He is best known for his score for the classic 1944 MGM musical "Meet Me In St. Louis", in which Judy Garland sang three Martin songs, "The Boy Next Door," The Trolley Song, and Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. - Matt Mattox
Matt Mattox is a jazz and ballet dancer. Mattox was a protegé of the legendary jazz dance pioneer Jack Cole, with whom he worked on Broadway in "Magdalena" (1948). His other Broadway credits include Harry Beaton in the 1957 revival of "Brigadoon". Mattox also performed concert engagements with his own dance company. His brief career as a Broadway choreographer included "Jennie" and "Say, Darling". - Alice Ripley
Alice Ripley is an American actress and singer. Born one of eleven children in San Leandro, California, Ripley received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Kent State University. She made her Broadway debut in "The Who's Tommy" in 1993. Additional Broadway credits include "Sunset Boulevard", "King David", "James Joyce's The Dead", "The Rocky Horror Show", "Les Misérables", and a benefit concert performance of "Dreamgirls". - Herman J. Mankiewicz
Herman Jacob Mankiewicz was a legendary Hollywood screenwriter and noted raconteur. In 1926 Mankiewicz left a job as drama editor at "The New Yorker" magazine to write for Hollywood. Shortly after his arrival on the West Coast, he sent a telegram to journalist-friend Ben Hecht in New York: "Millions are to be grabbed out here and your only competition is idiots. - Ben Nye
Benjamin Emmet Nye, Sr. (born January 12, 1907 in Fremont, Nebraska, died February 9, 1986 in Santa Monica, California) was a renowned makeup artist for the Hollywood film industry for over four decades, from the 1930s to the early 1980s. He worked for such films as "Gone with the Wind" (1939), "Miracle on 34th Street" (1947), "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1953), "The King and I" (1956), "The Fly" (1958), … - Charles Repole
"Charles Repole" is an American actor, theatre director, and college professor. Repole made his Broadway debut in "Very Good Eddie" in 1975, earning a Tony Award nomination and a Theatre World Award for his performance. Additional Broadway credits include the 1979 revival of "Whoopee!", which garnered him a Drama Desk Award nomination, "Doubles" (1985), and "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1995), which he directed. - Arte Johnson
Arte Johnson (born January 20, 1929), full name Arthur Stanton Eric Johnson, is a comic actor. He was born in Benton Harbor, Michigan and attended the University of Illinois, graduating in 1949 after working on the campus radio station and the U of I Theater Guild with his brother, Cos. He initially sought employment in Chicago working for advertising agencies, but left for New York to work for Viking Press. - Emmaline Henry
Emmaline Henry was an American actress best known for playing Amanda Bellows on the hit 60s sitcom "I Dream of Jeannie". Creator Sidney Sheldon mentioned in an interview that she was a very good actress and very easy to work with. A casting director brought her in to audition and to meet him. Sheldon tested her and based on the screen test she got the part of Mrs. Bellows. (She had played a different character in one of the black-and-white episodes of that show, … - Ron Field
Ron Field (1934 - 1989) was an American choreographer, director, and dancer. He was born Ronald Field in 1934 in New York City. He made his Broadway debut as a child in "Lady in the Dark" (1941) with Gertrude Lawrence, and danced in the ensembles of "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1949), "Kismet" (1954), and "The Boy Friend" (1955) before deciding to concentrate on choreography. - Dania Krupska
Dania Krupska is a Tony Award-nominated dancer and choreographer. Krupska originally trained for the ballet and began her professional career in the 1930s in such companies as the Philadelphia Ballet [1]. She made her Broadway debut in the original cast of Agnes de Mille's "Oklahoma!" (1943), later taking over the role of Dream Laurey (which she also performed on tour). She quickly became one of de Mille's regular assistant choreographers, … - Charles Coles
Charles "Honi" Coles (April 2, 1911 - November 12, 1992) was a self-taught African-American tap dancer. Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Coles developed his high-speed rhythm tapping on the streets of his hometown. He first went to New York City as one of the Three Millers, who were known for their intricate and difficult dance steps executed on tiny platforms. He later returned to headline at the Apollo Theater. In 1940, while dancing with Cab Calloway's band, … - Arthur Lithgow
Arthur Washington Lithgow (b. circa 1915, Dominican Republic - d. March 24 2004, Amherst, Massachusetts) was an American actor and director. Lithgow, the father of actor John Lithgow, helped pioneer the regional theater movement and founded two Shakespearian festivals. In 1952 he founded and served as the artistic director of the Antioch Shakespeare Festival in Antioch, Ohio. All of the Bard's works were produced in a six-year period. - Aladdin Pallante
Aladdin Abdullah Achmed Anthony Pallante (born September 12, 1912 - died June 9, 1970) was an actor and musician better known to fans as Aladdin that appeared on "The Lawrence Welk Show" from 1955 to 1967. Born and raised in New York, Aladdin first began his professional career as a dancer at age three, but a serious fall, which left him temporarily paralyzed, forced him to turn his talents in an instrumental and vocal direction, … - David Joyce
David Joyce was an American "lumber baron" and industrialist. His fortune was eventually inherited by Beatrice Joyce Kean who used it to establish the Joyce Foundation in 1948. - Bernice Adams
Bernice Adams (born in London, England) is an English stage and television actress. Adams studied at a dancing school for three years from age thirteen going to work on stage in pantomime, variety shows and cabaret. Late in the 1950s she went on to appear in West End musicals including "Most Happy Fella", "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes", "Promises, Promises", "Gypsy", "Sweet Charity", "Bordello", …
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