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Pickford was a founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, of which her husband would be the first president. She was one of only three female founding members. The first Academy Awards were held in 1929, without any nominations for Pickford. She was nominated for Best Actress in 1930 for the 2nd Academy Awards. Many ...
Juanita Quigley was billed as "Baby Jane" in several early roles. [2] Her screen debut was as Claudette Colbert's three-year-old daughter in Imitation of Life (1934). [3] She went on to play featured parts in several films, including The Man Who Reclaimed His Head (1934) and was Jean Harlow's niece in Riffraff (1936).
By the end of the 1930s, she was labeled "box office poison". After an absence of nearly two years from the screen, Crawford staged a comeback by starring in Mildred Pierce (1945), for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1955, she became involved with the Pepsi-Cola Company, through her marriage to company president Alfred ...
AP Norma Shearer poses with her Best Actress Oscar for 'The Divorcee' during the 3rd annual Academy Awards at a banquet held in the Fiesta Room of the Ambassador Hotel in L.A. on Nov. 5, 1930.
In the 1930s Harding, was one of the first actresses to gain fame in the new medium of "talking pictures," and she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in 1931 for her work in Holiday. Harding was born Dorothy Walton Gatley and was the daughter of a prominent United States Army officer.
Janet Gaynor (born Laura Augusta Gainor; October 6, 1906 – September 14, 1984) was an American actress.She began her career as an extra in shorts and silent films.After signing with Fox Film Corporation (later 20th Century-Fox) in 1926, she rose to fame and became one of the biggest box office draws of the era.
April 1 – Grace Lee Whitney, American actress (died 2015) April 5 Mary Costa, American singer and actress; Marietta Marich, American actress, singer, writer, stage director and television host (died 2017) April 7 – Andrew Sachs, German-born British actor and writer (died 2016) April 13 – Roger Browne, American actor (died 2024)
Separately in 2017, Ball's character Lucy Ricardo was portrayed by Gillian Anderson in the American Gods episode "The Secret of Spoons" (2017). [ 136 ] Ball was portrayed by Sarah Drew in the play I Love Lucy: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Sitcom , a comedy about how Ball and her husband battled to get their sitcom on the air.