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Greatest Old Hollywood Actresses
Persona
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Persona wrote:
22. 

Name: Rita Hayworth

Birth: October 17, 1918 (Brooklyn, New York)

Death: May 14, 1987 (Alzheimer's disease)

Top 5 films:

1. The Lady From Shanghai



2. Gilda



3. Only Angels Have Wings



4. Cover Girl



5. The Strawberry Blonde



Fun fact: The famous red hair was not her natural color (which was black).
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Date: 22-01-2018 16:19
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Persona wrote:
23. 

Name: Lauren Bacall

Birth: September 16, 1924 (The Bronx, New York)

Death: August 12, 2014 (stroke)

Top 5 films:

1. The Big Sleep



2. To Have and Have Not



3. Key Largo



4. Written on the Wind



5. Dark Passage



Fun fact: Bacall lived in the same New York apartment building (The Dakota) as Beatle John Lennonwhen he was shot and later died on December 8, 1980. When interviewed on the subject in a recent British television program hosted by former model Twiggy, Bacall said she had heard the gunshot but assumed that it was a car tire bursting or a vehicle backfiring.
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Date: 23-01-2018 18:37
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Persona wrote:
24. 

Name: Sophia Loren

Birth: September 20, 1934 (Rome, Italy)

Death: -

Top 5 films:

1. A Special Day



2. Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow



3. Two Women



4. Marriage Italian Style



5. A Countess From Hong Kong



Fun fact: Her mother won an all-Italy Greta Garbo lookalike contest run by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1932; but, being only 17 years old, her mother would not allow her to pursue her Hollywood dream. Soon after, she became pregnant with Sofia.
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Date: 25-01-2018 21:47
Persona
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Persona wrote:
25. 

Name: Anna May Wong

Birth: January 3, 1905 (Los Angeles, California)

Death: February 2, 1961 (heart attack)

Top 5 films:

1. The Thief of Bagdad 



2. Piccadilly 



3. Impact



4. The Toll of the Sea



5. Daughter of Shanghai



Fun fact: Spoke fluent French and German along with her native English and Chinese.
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Date: 25-01-2018 22:08
Persona
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Persona wrote:
26. 

Name: Jean Harlow

Birth: March 3, 1911 (Kansas City, Missouri)

Death: June 7, 1937 (uremic poisoning) 

Top 5 films:

1. The Public Enemy



2. Libeled Lady



3. Dinner at Eight



4. Hell's Angels



5. Red Dust



Fun fact: Dated notorious New Jersey mobster Abner Zwillman (aka 'Longy";), who secured a two-picture deal for her with Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures by loaning Cohn $500,000 in cash. He also purchased her a jeweled charm bracelet and a red Cadillac.
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Date: 28-01-2018 05:02
Persona
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Persona wrote:
27. 

Name: Jeanne Moreau

Birth: January 23, 1928 (Paris, France)

Death: July 31, 2017 (natural causes)

Top 5 films:

1. Jules et Jim



2. La Notte



3. Elevator to the Gallows



4. The Bride Wore Black



5. Bay of Angels



Fun fact: Is the only French actress who has been the object of a big retrospective (including 30 films) at the Museum of Modern Art of New York (February - March 1994).
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Date: 28-01-2018 05:17
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winterbunny wrote:
Audrey was so beautiful 
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Date: 28-01-2018 12:45
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Skyvee wrote:
Bette and Joan 
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Date: 28-01-2018 13:08
Persona
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Persona wrote:
28. 

Name: Carole Lombard

Birth: October 6, 1908 (Fort Wayne, Indiana)

Death: January 16, 1942 (airplane crash)

Top 5 films:

1. To Be or Not to Be



2. My Man Godfrey



3. Twentieth Century



4. Mr and Mrs Smith



5. Nothing Sacred



Fun fact: Lucille Ball said she finally decided to go ahead with I Love Lucy (1951) when Carole, who had been a close friend, came to her in a dream and recommended she take a chance on the risky idea of entering television.
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Date: 31-01-2018 01:08
Persona
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Persona wrote:
29. 

Name: Mary Pickford

Birth: April 8, 1892 (Toronto, Ontario)

Death: May 29, 1979 (cerebral haemorrhage)

Top 5 films:

1. The Little American



2. The Poor Little Rich Girl

 

3. The Black Pirate



4. Sunnybrook Farm



5. Tess of the Storm County



Fun fact: One of the 36 founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).
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Date: 02-02-2018 05:37
Persona
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Persona wrote:
30. 

Name: Ava Gardner

Birth: December 24, 1922 (Grabtown, North Carolina)

Death: January 25, 1990 (pneumonia)

Top 5 films:

1. The Killers



2. Seven Days In May



3. The Barefoot Contessa



4. Pandora and the Flying Dutchman



5. Show Boat



Fun fact: An Australian reporter found that Gardner was quite adept at foul language, and her swearing was "like a sailor and a truck driver were having a competition." She threw a glass of champagne at the reporter, who said that at the moment she did so "the only thing I could think was how bloody gorgeous the woman was.".
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Date: 06-02-2018 03:17
Persona
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Persona wrote:
31. 

Name: Myrna Loy

Birth: August 2, 1905 (Radersburg, Montana)

Death: December 14, 1993 (complications during surgery)

Top 5 films:

1. The Best Years of Our Lives



2. The Thin Man



3. Love Me Tonight



4. The Great Ziegfeld 



5. I Love You Again



Fun fact: Men-Must-Marry-Myrna Clubs were formed due to her portrayal as The Perfect Wife (The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)).
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Date: 09-02-2018 07:09
Persona
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Persona wrote:
32. 

Name: Setsuko Hara

Birth: June 17, 1920 (Yokohama, Japan)

Death: September 5, 2015 (pneumonia)

Top 5 films:

1. Tokyo Story



2. Late Spring



3. A Woman in the Typhoon Area



4. Early Summer



5. The Idiot



Fun fact: Her final film, which was a sudden and surprising departure for the star, was Chushingura(1962), which was also the final movie appearance for Japan's first film actor, Unpei Yokoyama.
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Date: 09-02-2018 07:25
Persona
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Persona wrote:
33. 

Name: Merle Oberon

Birth: February 19, 1911 (Bombay, British India)

Death: November 23, 1979 (stroke)

Top 5 films:

1. Wuthering Heights



2. The Divorce of Lady X



3. The Lodger



4. The Private Life of Henry VIII



5. The Cowboy and the Lady



Fun fact: Because of facial scars the actress sustained in a London car crash in 1937, her future husband, cinematographer Lucien Ballard, designed a compact spotlight that he coined the "Obie" (Oberon's nickname). Mounted on the side of the camera, the device lights the subject head on, thus reducing the incidence of unflattering facial lines and shadows.
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Date: 20-02-2018 00:10
Persona
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Persona wrote:
34. 

Name: Claudia Cardinale

Birth: April 15, 1938 (Tunis, Tunisia)

Death: -

Top 5 films:

1. 8 1/2



2. The Leopard



3. Girl with a Suitcase



4. La Ragazza di Bube



5. L'udienza



Fun fact: She signed a contract forbidding her to cut her hair, marry or gain weight. Because of this, she told everyone that her newborn son (out of wedlock) was her baby brother. She did not reveal to the child that he was her son until he was 19 years old.
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