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Profiles

  • Mary Lois Wiggins (1909 - 1945)
    Hollywood film actress and stunt double for actress Ann Sothern. Wiggins was Sothern's double in the film, "Hell-Ship Morgan." She also worked on the films, "Movie Town" (1931), "The Campus Vamp" (1928...
  • Hortense Berger (1902 - 1978)
    Hortense Farrell Alden (Berger) Hortense Alden was born on February 12, 1902 as Hortense Berger. She was an actress, known for Dow Hour of Great Mysteries (1960) and The Doctors and the Nurses (19...
  • Eileen Joan Von Dehn (1927 - 1987)
    Eileen Joan 'Walda' Winchell Walda was the daughter of famed journalist Walter Winchell and an actress known for The 27th Day (1957) and No Time to Be Young (1957).
  • Karen Lamm (1952 - 2001)
    Wikipedia B. Karen Lamm[1] (née Perk; June 21, 1952 – June 29, 2001 or July 2, 2001) was an American character actress known for her roles in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), The Unseen (1980) and T...
  • Mitzi McCall (1932 - 2024)
    Mitzi McCall was an American comedian and actor. She was known for her work with her husband, Charlie Brill, and their performance on The Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 1964, the same episode that fea...

A tribute to the character actresses, pin-ups, "legends" from the Golden Age, who the modern public never really speak or think about; and those who succumbed to tragic deaths.

"Life can be wildly tragic at times, but whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh." - Katharine Hepburn.




List (alphabetical by first name)

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  • Faith Domergue
  • Fay Holden, in Bulldog Drummond series
  • Fern Emmett
  • Frances Dee

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  • Heather Angel, in Bulldog Drummond series
  • Heather Young, birth name: Patricia Kay Paterson - Land of the Giants
  • Hedy Lamarr in Cecil B. DeMille's Biblical epic, Samson and Delilah (1949)
  • Helen Gallagher, born JUly 19, 1926.

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  • Neva Peoples (1914–1995) - Ella in The Duke is Tops (1938); Bronze Venus (1938)
  • Nina May McKinney (1912–1967) - The Devil's Daughter (1939)
  • Noreen Nash

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  • Tamar Cooper
  • Tamara Dobson
  • Tandra Quinn
  • Teresa Graves
  • Teresa Wright
  • Terry Moore
  • Tina Louise

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  • Yvonne Craig. Most famous as Batgirl on the campy ‘60’s series Batman (She felt so connected with the role, she lead a campaign in the late ‘80’s to protest the character’s paralysis caused by the Joker in Batman: the Killing Joke because she felt it was demeaning).
  • Yvonne De Carlo

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Classic Movies

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  • Frankenstein (1931)
  • Scarface (1932)
  • Robin Hood (1938)
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
  • Wuthering Heights (1939)
  • Gone With the Wind (1939)
  • The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
  • The Letter (1940)
  • Citizen Kane (1941)
  • The Wolf Man (1941)
  • Casablanca (1942)
  • Flying Tigers (1942)
  • It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
  • Hamlet (1948)
  • Adams Rib (1949)
  • A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
  • Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
  • Around The World in 80 Days (1956)
  • The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

To be continued




SciFi Classics

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PinUp Cartoons

Links and References

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