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In August 1941, Hayworth was featured in an iconic Life photo in which she posed in a negligee with a black lace bodice. [29] [30] Bob Landry's photo made Hayworth one of the top two pin-up girls of the World War II years; the other was Betty Grable, in a 1943 photograph. For two years, Hayworth's photograph was the most requested pin-up ...
A native of Los Angeles, Julie Anne Payne was the daughter of John Payne, film and television leading man of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, and Anne Shirley, who started as a child actress in the late silent-early talkie period and became an ingenue and, later, leading lady of the late 1930s and early 1940s. They were married from 1937 to 1943 ...
The following American film actresses are listed alphabetically. It contains both actresses born American and those who acquired American nationality later. Some actors who are well known for both film and TV work are also included in the list of American television actresses. Meryl Streep Michelle Pfeiffer Jodie Foster Julia Roberts
In 1940, she won the Academy Award for Best Actress in her performance of “Kitty Foyle.” Her mother worked as a theater critic for the Fort Worth Record when Ginger was a young girl.
Julie Frances Christie (born 14 April 1940) [1] is a British actress. Christie's accolades include an Academy Award , a BAFTA Award , a Golden Globe , and a Screen Actors Guild Award . She has appeared in six films ranked in the British Film Institute 's BFI Top 100 British films of the 20th century, and in 1997, she received the BAFTA ...
Jo Raquel Welch (née Tejada; September 5, 1940 – February 15, 2023) was an American actress.Welch first gained attention for her role in Fantastic Voyage (1966), after which she signed a long-term contract with 20th Century Fox.
Zubaida Ahmed Tharwat (Arabic: زبيدة أحمد ثروت) (15 June 1940 – 13 December 2016), was an Egyptian film, stage and television actress who was known as "the most beautiful eyes in classic Egyptian cinema". Tharwat started her acting career in 1956, and quickly she rose to stardom in Egypt. After six years hiatus in the 1960s, she ...
Helena Carter (born Helen Jean Ruckert; August 24, 1923 [1] – January 11, 2000) was an American film actress in the 1940s and 1950s who is best known for her work in the film Invaders from Mars as Dr. Patricia Blake. From 1947 to 1953 she would appear in 13 films, during which time she also worked as a model. [2]