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Actors:  Stars  &  Unknowns
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on page one: Links  •  Books  •  Actors A thru F

on page three: Actors S thru Z  •  Hollywood Collection videos

Actors & Movie Stars of Today Page

browse Actors & Actresses (A to Z) on DVD


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won Best Actor Oscar for "'It Happened One Night" [1934]    

Clark Gable  [1901-60] Page

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won Honorary Oscar Award in 1955    Greta Garbo  [1905-90] Page

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[blacklistee]  John Garfield  [1913-52]
browse John Garfield on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

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Special Juvenile Academy Award in 1940    Judy Garland  [1922-69]
browse Judy Garland on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia
Judy Garland WebRing
Judy Garland Database fansite

I Could Go On Singing 1963 movie starring Judy Garland   "I Could Go On Singing" feature film [United Artists March 1963]
A successful singer appearing in London agrees to care for her son while her ex is on business in Rome; when the father returns, the boy is torn between loyalty to his father and affection for his mother. Directed by Ronald Neame; starring Judy Garland {last film}, Dirk Bogarde, Jack Klugman, Aline MacMahon & Gregory Phillips
M.G.M. Video letterboxed color DVD [5/2004] out of prodn/used
M.G.M. Video color VHS [4/92] out of prodn/used
full credits at IMDbmovie entry at Wikipedia
novelization [1963] by John D. MacDonald
for-hire novelization of the 1963 Judy Garland movie, later disavowed by MacDonald
Fawcett Gold Medal mass pb [1963] out of print/used

daughter  Liza Minnelli
browse Liza Minnelli on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

official Liza Minnelli website

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Chief Dan George  [1899-1981]
browse Chief Dan George on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

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cowboy star  Hoot Gibson  [1892-1962] Page
at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore

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Dorothy Gish  [1898-1968]
browse Dorothy Gish on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

     Lillian Gish  [1893-1993]
browse Lillian Gish on DVDAFI Award videoIMDb listingWikipedia

official Lillian Gish™ website
JWP's Lillian Gish fansite

Lillian Gish autobiography  
"The Movies, Mr. Griffith and Me" [1969]
by Lillian Gish, with Ann Pinchot

Mercury House pb [6/88] out of print/used
Prentice-Hall pb [9/69] out of print/used
Pearson hardcover [6/88] out of print/many used
Prentice-Hall hardcover [9/69] out of print/used
Lillian Gish biography by Stuart Oderman  "Lillian Gish: A Life On Stage and Screen" [1999]
by Stuart Oderman

McFarland & Co. pb [5/2009] for $39.95  
McFarland & Co. 10¼x7 hardcover [11/99] out of print/used
Lillian Gish biography by Charles Affron  "Lillian Gish: Her Legend, Her Life" [2001]
by Charles Affron

Univ CA Press 9x6 pb [3/2002] for $21.95
Scribner hardcover [3/2001] out of print/many used
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Jackie Gleason  [1916-87]
browse Jackie Gleason on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

DMK's 'Jackie Gleason, The Great One' fansite

"The Hustler" [1961] with Paul Newman

Jackie Gleason's Gigot movie poster, directed by Gene Kelly  
"Gigot" [Seven Arts Sept 1962]
Gleason steps out of his 'Great One' persona to portray a mute janitor in Paris, France where the movie was filmed. Pathos, heroism, and slapstick, very Chaplin-esque. Directed by Gene Kelly; script by John Patrick & Jackie Gleason; with Katherine Kath; Oscar nom for the music
video/DVD and soundtrack CD not available; full credits at IMDb
Soldier in the Rain movie poster  "Soldier  In  The  Rain"  [Allied Artists Nov 1963]
A sentimental comedy of the peacetime U.S. Army; a goofy supply sergeant idolizes a corrupt Master Sergeant and hopes that they will go into business together when they retire.
Produced & co-written by Blake Edwards; directed by Ralph Nelson; co-written by & Maurice Richlin, based on the William Goldman novel; music by Henry Mancini; starring Jackie Gleason, Steve McQueen, Tuesday Weld, Tony Bill, Tom Poston, Ed Nelson, Lew Gallo, Rockne Tarkington, Paul Hartman, John Hubbard & Adam West
not available on DVD; b&w VHS [undated] out of prodn/used
full credits from IMDb
11"x17" poster from Amazon for $9.99
27"x40" poster from Amazon for $29.00
based on the 1960 novel by William Goldman
Dell movie tie-in mass pb [1/63] out of print/used
Atheneum hardcover [1/60] out of print/used

"Gleason" biopic [2002]

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character actor James Gleason  [1882-1959]
browse James Gleason on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

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Ruth Gordon  [1896-1985]
browse Ruth Gordon on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

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star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame  won Honorary Oscar in 1970    Cary Grant  [1904-86]
browse Cary Grant on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

DD's 'Ultimate Cary Grant Pages' fansite

Cary Grant  
"Hollywood Collections: Cary Grant, The Leading Man" [1988]
VHS [5/94] out of prodn/used
Cary Grant Signature Collection DVD box set   "The Cary Grant Signature Collection" DVD Box Set [2004]
Warner Home Video b&w DVD set [6/2004] 5 disks for $28.99
contains "My Favorite Wife" [1940] co-starring Irene Dunne & Randolph Scott; "Destination Tokyo"
[1943] with John Garfield; "Night and Day" [1946] directed by Michael Curtiz, with Alexis Smith; "The Bachelor and The Bobby-Soxer" [1947] co-starring Myrna Loy & Shirley Temple; and "Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House" [1948] co-starring Myrna Loy & Melvyn Douglas; extras include trailer galleries, cartoons, shorts & radio shows
Cary Grant Screen Legend Collection DVD box set   "Cary Grant Screen Legend Collection" [2006]
Paramount b&w/color DVD [11/2006] 3 disks for $24.99
contains "Kiss and Make Up" [1934] with Helen Mack & Edward Everett Horton; "Thirty Day Princess" [1934] co-written by Preston Sturges, with Sylvia Sidney & Edward Arnold; "Wings In The Dark" [1935] with Myrna Loy, Hobart Cavanaugh & Roscoe Karns; "Big Brown Eyes" [1936] directed by Raoul Walsh, with Joan Bennett, Walter Pidgeon & Lloyd Nolan; and "Wedding Present" [1936] with Joan Bennett & William Demarest
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Lorne Greene  [1915-87] from Canada
browse Lorne Greene on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

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Gene Hackman
browse Gene Hackman on DVDIMDb listing [1961-2009]Wikipedia

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Lloyd Hamilton [1891-1935]
DVDs of Lloyd Hamilton at AmazonIMDb listing [1913-34]Wikipedia
http://www.amazon.com/Lloyd-Hamilton-Comedian-Silent-Cinema/dp/0786441593/

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Jean Harlow  [1911-37]
browse Jean Harlow on DVDbio booksIMDb listingWikipedia

official Jean Harlow™ website
DMK's 'Jean Harlow, Original Blonde Bombshell' fansite

Deadly Illusions  
"Deadly Illusions: Jean Harlow & The Murder of Paul Bern" [1990]
by Samuel Marx & Joyce Vanderveen

"a dark picture of the corrupt power exerted by studio bosses during Hollywood's
so-called Golden Era"

Dell mass pb [9/91] out of print/used
Random House hardcover [9/90] out of print/many used
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silent movie cowboy star  William S. Hart  [1864-1946] Page
at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore

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Rita Hayworth  [1918-87]
browse Rita Hayworth on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

Cindy's 'Rita Hayworth, The Love Goddess' fansite

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[blacklistee]  Paul Henreid  [1908-92]
browse Paul Henreid on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

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     Audrey Hepburn  [1929-93]
browse Audrey Hepburn on DVDHwd Collxn videoIMDb listingWikipedia
received 5 Oscar nominations [1954-1968]; won in 1954

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          Kate Hepburn  [1907-2003]
browse Kate Hepburn on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia
received 12 Oscar nominations [1934-1982]; won in 1934, 1968, 1969 & 1982

Making of The African Queen book by Katharine Hepburn   "The Making of The African Queen: Or How I Went To Africa With Bogart, Bacall & Huston and Almost Lost My Mind" [1987]
by Katharine Hepburn

Plume 7x5 pb [10/88] out of print/many used
Knopf 9x7 hardcover [8/87] out of print/many, many used
see also Magic Lantern's Humphrey Bogart Page and Magic Lantern's John Huston Page
Kate Remembered biographical memoir  "Kate Remembered" [2003]
by {Pulitzer Prize-winning} A. Scott Berg

billed as a 'posthumous biographical memoir', based on 20 years of interviews
Berkley 8¼x5½ pb [9/2004] for $12.00
Pocket 7½x5 pb [6/2004] out of print/many used
Putnam hardcover [7/2003] out of print/hundreds of used
Katharine Hepburn 100th Anniversary Collection DVD box set   "Katharine Hepburn 100th Anniversary Collection" DVD set [2007]
Warner Home Video b&w DVD [5/2007] 6 disks for $31.49
contains: "Morning Glory" [1933] won Oscar for Best Actress, co-starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. & Adolphe Menjou; "Sylvia Scarlett" [1935] directed by George Cukor, co-starring Cary Grant, Brian Aherne & Edmund Gwenn; "Dragon Seed" [1944] based on the Pearl Buck novel, co-starring Walter Huston; "Without Love" [1945] co-starring Spencer Tracy, Lucille Ball, Keenan Wynn & Patricia Morison; "Undercurrent" [1946] directed by Vincente Minnelli, co-starring Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Edmund Gwenn, Marjorie Main & Jayne Meadows; and "The Corn Is Green" [1979 TV] directed by George Cukor; extras include theatrical trailers, short features and cartoons

"Morning Glory" [1933]
won Oscar for Best Actress, co-starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. & Adolphe Menjou
"Sylvia Scarlett" [1935]
directed by George Cukor, co-starring Cary Grant, Brian Aherne & Edmund Gwenn
"Dragon Seed" [1944]
based on the Pearl Buck novel, co-starring Walter Huston
"Without Love" [1945]
co-starring Spencer Tracy, Lucille Ball, Keenan Wynn & Patricia Morison
"Undercurrent" [1946]
directed by Vincente Minnelli, co-starring Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Edmund Gwenn, Marjorie Main & Jayne Meadows

Magic Lantern's "The African Queen" 1951 Movie Page
Directed by John Huston [1906-87], starring Katharine Hepburn & Humphrey Bogart [1899-1957]

"The Corn Is Green" [1979 TV]
directed by George Cukor

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Pat Hingle [1924-2008]
IMDb listingWikipedia

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     William Holden  [1918-81]
browse William Holden on DVDHwd Collxn videoIMDb listingWikipedia

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Sterling Holloway  [1905-92]
no browse/Amazon entry • IMDb listingWikipedia

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Oscar Homolka  [1898-1978]
no browse/Amazon entry • IMDb listingWikipedia

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Dennis Hopper  [1936-2010]
browse Dennis Hopper on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia
had residences in Venice Beach, California and Taos, New Mexico

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singer & actress  Lena Horne [1917-2010]
browse Lena Horne on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

M's Lena Horne fansite

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[blacklistee]  Sam Jaffe  [1891-1984]
browse Sam Jaffe on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

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child actress Gloria Jean {Schoonover} [b. 1926]
no browse/Amazon entry • official websiteIMDb listing [1939-62]Wikipedia

Gloria Jean fansite

"Gloria Jean: A Little Bit of Heaven" [2005]
authorized biography by Scott & Jan MacGillivray 9780595674541

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actor-singer  Herb Jeffries [b. 1913]
no browse/Amazon entry • official websiteIMDb listingWikipedia

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Ben Johnson  [1918-96]
browse Ben Johnson on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

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Van Johnson  [1916-2008]
browse Van Johnson on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

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Boris Karloff  [1887-1969]
browse Boris Karloff on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

Boris Karloff Filmography [1916-71] at Wikipedia

Boris Karloff Collection 20 Movie Pack DVD box set  "Boris Karloff: Master of Horror 20 Movie Pack Collection" DVD Box Set [2008]
Mill Creek Ent. DVD set [8/2008] 4 disks for $13.49
contains "His Majesty, The American" as extra [1919 silent]; "The Last of The Mohicans" as extra [1920 silent]; "Dynamite Dan" [1924 silent]; "The Bells" [1925 silent]; "King of The Wild" [1930 serial]; "Juggernaut" [1936] directed by Michael Curtiz; "Mr. Wong, Detective" [1938]; "The Mystery of Mr. Wong" [1938]; "Mr. Wong In Chinatown" [1939]; "The Fatal Hour" [1939]; "Doomed To Die" [1940]; "The Ape" [1940]; "Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome" [1947]; "The Island Monster" [1953]; "Sabaka" [1954]; 3 episodes of "The Veil" TV series [1958]; "The Terror" [1963] directed by Roger Corman; and "(Isle of The) Snake People" [posthumous; 1971]

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star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6125 Hollywood Blvd.  star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Motion Pictures at 6563 Hollywood Blvd.  star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Radio at 6101 Hollywood Blvd.  won an Honorary Oscar in 1955  received the Academy's Jean Herscholt Award in 1982    Danny Kaye  [1913-87] Page

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won Honorary Oscar in 1960    Buster Keaton  [1895-1966] Pages
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star on the Hollywood Walk of  Fame  won Honorary Oscar in 1952    dancer-actor  Gene Kelly  [1912-96]
browse Gene Kelly on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

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star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame  won Oscar for Best Actress for "The Country Girl" [1954]    Grace Kelly  [1929-82]
browse Grace Kelly on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

Grace Kelly made only 11 films before marrying Prince Ranier of Monaco
"True Grace" biography [2007] by Wendy Leigh
new "High Society" biography by Spoto /0307395618/
"Wedding in Monaco" ½-hour CinemaScope documentary []

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child actor Tommy Kelly  [b. 1925]
no browse/Amazon entry • IMDb listing [1938-50]Wikipedia {empty}

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star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame  won Honorary Oscar in 1964    Deborah Kerr  [1921-2007]
browse Deborah Kerr on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia
received 6 Oscar nominations [1950-1961]; won Honorary Oscar in 1994

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star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame  Alan Ladd  [1913-64]
browse Alan Ladd on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

served in the U.S.A.A.F. First Motion Picture Unit during World War II
official Alan Ladd™ website

classic Western movie Shane directed by George Stevens, starring Alan Ladd  
Shane book  
"Shane" [Paramount April 1953]
Directed by George Stevens, screenplay by A.B. Guthrie Jr. from the Jack Schaefer story; starring Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon DeWilde, Jack Palance & Ben Johnson; Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Script, Best Supporting Actor (JP & BDW), won for Best Cinematography; listed at National Film Registry 1993
Paramount color DVD [8/2000] for $22.49
Hungry Minds color VHS [4/98] for $9.95
full credits from IMDb
"Shane" posters at AllPosters [dot] com
Novel by Jack Schaefer [1954]
Bantam Starfire pb [10/83] for $5.99
DH Audio UNABR [1/92] out of stock/used
hardcover edition illustrated by J. McCormick
Houghton Mifflin YA [1/92] out of print/many used
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star on the Hollywood Walk of  Fame  won Oscar for Best Actor for "Elmer Gantry" [1960]    Burt Lancaster  [1913-94]
browse Burt Lancaster on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia
received 4 Oscar nominations [1954-1982]; won in 1961
listed as Amazon bestselling action star in 2008

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animal star  Lassie
search Lassie videos/DVDs at AmazonIMDb listingWikipedia

Weatherwax official website
official 'World of Lassie' website
official Lassie rights management webpage
Colliewoode's Lassie Network [est. 1995] fansite
LMY's Lassie fansite

"Lassie" 200+ episode TV series [1954-74]
renamed "Timmy & Lassie" & "Jeff's Collie" for syndication
starring Tommy Rettig [1954-57], Jon Provost [1957-64] & Robert Bray [1964-68]
series credits from IMDb

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Lassie 50th Anniversary TV Collection DVD  
"Lassie: 50 Years of Love" 50th Anniversary TV Collection [2004]
24 episodes, booklet & other extras
Classic Media b&w DVD [9/2004] 3 disks for $26.49
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Magic Lantern's Laurel & Hardy Page

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silent-era star  Florence Lawrence  [1886-1938]
no browse/Amazon entry • IMDb listingWikipedia

Florence Lawrence America's First Movie Star book by Kelly R. Brown   "Florence Lawrence, The Biograph Girl: America's First Movie Star"
[1991] by Kelly R. Brown

McFarland & Co. 9x6 pb [3/2007] for $35.00
McFarland & Co. library hardcover [4/99] out of print/used

Magic Lantern's Studios Pages / American Biograph

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Christopher Lee  [b. 1922]
browse Christopher Lee on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

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star on the Hollywood Walk of  Fame        

Jack Lemmon  [1925-2001]
browse Jack Lemmon on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

received 8 Oscar nominations [1956-1983]; won in 1956 & 1974

starred in "Some Like It Hot" [1959] directed by Billy Wilder
starred in "The Apartment" [1960] directed by Billy Wilder
starred in "Irma la Douce" [1963] directed by Billy Wilder
starred in "The Fortune Cookie" [1966] directed by Billy Wilder
starred in "Avanti!" [1972] directed by Billy Wilder
starred in "The Front Page" [1974] directed by Billy Wilder
starred in "Buddy, Buddy" [1981] directed by Billy Wilder

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star on the Hollywood Walk of  Fame  comedian  Jerry Lewis  [b. 1926]
browse Jerry Lewis {as actor} on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

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silent-era comedian
Max Linder  [1883-1925]  of  France Page

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star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame  star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame  awarded an Honorary Oscar® in 1953 as "master comedian and good citizen"    comedian  Harold Lloyd  [1893-1971] Page

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star on the Hollywood Walk of  Fame  Carole Lombard  [1908-42]
browse Carole Lombard on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

DMK's 'Carole Lombard, Lovable Madcap' fansite

Carole Lombard Hoosier Tornado biography by Wes D. Gehring  
"Carole Lombard: The Hoosier Tornado" [2003]
by Wes D. Gehring

Indiana Historical Society 7½x5¾ hardcover [10/2003] for $15.56
Screwball biography of Carole Lombard by Larry Swindell   "Screwball: The Life of Carole Lombard" [1975]
by Larry Swindell

Wm. Morrow hardcover [1975] out of print/used
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star on the Hollywood Walk of  Fame  Peter Lorre  [1904-64]
browse Peter Lorre on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

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star on the Hollywood Walk of  Fame      

Myrna Loy  [1905-93]
browse Myrna Loy on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

"The Thin Man" movie series with William Powell
The Myrna Loy Center For The Performing Arts [est. 1991] in Helena, MT
DM's Myrna Loy fansite

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star on the Hollywood Walk of  Fame  Béla Lugosi  [1882-1956]
browse Béla Lugosi on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

official Bela Lugosi fansite

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star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame  tied for Best Actor Oscar for "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" [1931]    won Oscar for Best Actor for "The Best Years of Our Lives" [1946]  

Fredric March   [1897-1975]
browse Fredric March on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

received 5 Oscar nominations [1931-1952]; won in 1932 & 1947

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star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame  Mae Marsh  [1894-1968]
was born in Madrid, New Mexico
browse Mae Marsh on VHS & DVDIMDb listing [1910-64] Wikipedia

"Ramona" [1910] lead role at age 15
D.W. Griffith's "The Birth of A Nation" [1915]
D.W. Griffith's "Intolerance" [1916]
"Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" [1932]
"Alice In Wonderland" [1933]
John Ford's "The Grapes of Wrath" [1940]
John Ford's "How Green Was My Valley" [1941]
John Ford's "My Darling Clementine" [1946]
John Ford's "3 Godfathers" [1948]

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Strother Martin  [1919-80]
browse Strother Martin on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

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won Oscar for Best Actor for "Cat Ballou" [1966]    Lee Marvin   [1924-87]
browse Lee Marvin on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

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Virginia Mayo  [1920-2005]
browse Virginia Mayo on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia
http://www.virginiamayo.com/
http://www.mayonet.com/virginia.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/2440/mayo.html

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Mike Mazurki  [1907-90]
browse Mike Mazurki on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

Mike Mazurki fansite

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star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame  Joel McCrea  [1905-90]
browse Joel McCrea on DVDWesterns/DVDWesterns/VHSIMDb listingWikipedia

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star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame  Steve McQueen  [1930-80]
browse Steve McQueen on DVDHwd Collxn videoIMDb listingWikipedia
listed as Amazon bestselling action star in 2008

RH's U.K. Steve McQueen poster fansite
http://www.amazon.com/McQueens-Machines-Cars-Bikes-Hollywood/dp/0760328668/

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star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame  Robert Mitchum  [1917-97]
browse Robert Mitchum on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

Robert Mitchum Signature Collection box set   "Robert Mitchum Signature Collection" [2007]
Warner widescreen DVD [1/2007] 6 disks for $40.99
includes "Angel Face" [1952] directed by Otto Preminger; "Macao" [1952] directed by Josef von Sternberg; "Home From The Hill" [1960] directed by Vincente Minnelli; "The Sundowners"
[1960] with Deborah Kerr; "The Good Guys and The Bad Guys" [1969 Western]; and "The Yakuza" [1974] co-starring Ken Takakura
Robert Mitchum  
"Robert Mitchum: The Reluctant Star" [1991]
M.P.I. Hollywood Collection VHS [5/94] for $14.98
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silent movie cowboy star  Tom Mix  [1880-1940] Page
at 'Readers of The Purple Sage' Western Bookstore

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star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame  Marilyn Monroe   [1926-62]
browse Marilyn Monroe on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

official Marilyn Monroe™ website
Arthur Miller Page at Spirit of America
Marilyn Monroe info page
http://www.amazon.com/Norma-Jean-Secret-Marilyn-Monroe/dp/0688091180/

starred in "The Seven Year Itch" [1955] directed by Billy Wilder
starred in "Some Like It Hot" [1959] directed by Billy Wilder

Marilyn Monroe  
"Marilyn Monroe: Beyond The Legend [1985]
Janson Media color DVD [2/2008] for $24.95
M.P.I. Home Video color VHS [10/94] out of prodn/used
Norma Jean & Marilyn TV biopic   "Norma Jean & Marilyn" [H.B.O. May 1996]
A psychological biopic, with Judd portraying the dark-haired Norma Jeane Baker and Sorvino portraying the conflicting glamorous 'blonde bombshell' Marilyn Monroe persona. Directed by Tim Fywell; telescript by Jill Isaacs, based on a book by Anthony Summers; starring Ashley Judd {as Norma Jean}, Mira Sorvino {as Marilyn Monroe}, Josh Charles, Ron Rifkin, David Dukes {as Arthur Miller}, Peter Dobson {as Joe DiMaggio}, John Rubinstein {as Darryl Zanuck}, Allan Corduner {as Billy Wilder}, Dana Goldstone {as Lee Strasberg}, Nancy Linehan Charles {as Bette Davis}, Jeffrey Combs {as Montgomery Clift}, Howard Platt {as Howard Hawks}, Steven Culp {as Robert Kennedy} & Perry Stephens {as John F. Kenne-dy}; nominated for 5 Emmy Awards, including both lead actresses
H.B.O. Home Video color DVD [9/2004] for $8.99
H.B.O. Home Video color VHS [1/98] out of prodn/used
full credits at IMDbmovie entry at Wikipediaofficial movie site
http://www.amazon.com/Goddess-Secret-Lives-Marilyn-Monroe/dp/0575403012/

Marilyn Monroe, From Beginning To End book of photographs by Earl Leaf  "Marilyn Monroe, From Beginning To End - Newly Discovered Photographs By Earl Leaf From The Michael Ochs Archives" [1997]
Edited by Michael Ventura

Sterling Publng 11x8½ pb [8/98] out of print/scarce
Blandford Press 12x9 hardcover [9/97] out of print/used
Blonde novel / Joyce Carol Oates    "Blonde: A Novel" [2000]
by Joyce Carol Oates

Harper Perennial 9x6 pb [4/2001] for $11.53
Ecco 9½x6½ hardcover [3/2000] out of print/many, many used
Blonde / Joyce Carol Oates movie   "Blonde" TV movie [C.B.S.-TV May 2001]
Unstable beauty Norma Jean becomes the movie star Marilyn Monroe in this censored version of the docufiction novel by Joyce Carol Oates. Exec-produced by Robert Greenwald; directed by Joyce Chopra; teleplay by Joyce Eliason, based on the book; starring Poppy Montgomery {as Norma Jean/Marilyn}, Patricia Richardson, Patrick Dempsey, Ann-Margaret, Eric Bogosian, Griffin Dunne & Titus Welliver
Allumination color DVD [1/2006] for $21.99
full credits from IMDb

"My Week With Marilyn" [Weinstein Co. 2011?]
ANNOUNCED 5/2010: about the filming of “The Prince and The Showgirl” opposite Laurence Olivier;
set to star Michelle Williams; DVD/Blu-ray not available • no entry at IMDb

"Blonde" feature film [2011?]
ANNOUNCED 5/2010: adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’ imaginary memoir; to be directed by
Andrew Dominik & starring Naomi Watts; DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • no entry at IMDb

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star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame  Robert Montgomery  [1904-81]
browse Robert Montgomery on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

REL's Robert Montgomery fansite

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[blacklistee]  Zero Mostel  [1915-77]
browse Zero Mostel on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

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star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame  won Oscar for Best Actor for "The Story of Louis Pasteur" [1935]    Paul Muni  [1895-1967]
browse Paul Muni on DVDIMDb listingBroadway creditsWikipedia
received 6 Oscar nominations [1930-1960]; won in 1937

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star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame  J. Carrol Naish  [1897-1973]
browse J. Carrol Naish on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

portrayed Charlie Chan in the 1957 television series

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star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame  Pola Negri  [1894-1987]
browse Pola Negri on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

Pola Negri fansite

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star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame  won Honorary Oscar in 1986  won Oscar for Best Actor for "The Color of Money" [1986]     Paul Newman  [1925-2008]
browse Paul Newman on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia
received 10 Oscar nominations [1959-2003]; won Oscars in in 1986 & 1987, Hersholt Award in 1994

Paul Newman Collection DVD box set   "The Paul Newman Collection" DVD box set [2006]
Warner Home Video b&w/color DVD [1/2006] 7 disks for $43.99
contains "Somebody Up There Likes Me" [1956]; "The Left-Handed Gun" [1958] directed by Arthur Penn, based on the play by Gore Vidal; "The Young Philadelphians" [1959]; "Harper" [1966] based on a novel by Ross Macdonald; "Pocket Money" [1972] co-starring Lee Marvin; "The Mackintosh Man" [1973] directed by John Huston; and "The Drowning Pool" [1975] based on the novel by Ross Macdonald
Paul Newman biography by Shawn Levy  "Paul Newman: A Life" biography [2009]
by Shawn Levy

Three Rivers Press pb [DUE May 2010] for $16.00  
Harmony 9¼x6½ hardcover [9/2009] for $19.79
Paul Newman Tribute Collection DVD box set  "Paul Newman Tribute Collection" DVD Box Set [2009]  
Fox b&w/color DVD [9/2009] 17 disks for $65.49
contains 13 feature films on 17 disks: "The Long, Hot Summer" [1958] based on stories by William Faulkner, with Joanne Woodward, Orson Welles & Angela Lansbury; "Rally 'Round The Flag, Boys!" [1958] based on the Max Shulman novel, with Joanne Woodward & Joan Collins; "From The Terrace" [1960] based on John O'Hara's 1958 novel; "Exodus" [1960] directed by Otto Preminger; "The Hustler" [1961] with Jackie Gleason; "Adventures of A Young Man" [1962] based on stories by Ernest Hemingway; "What A Way To Go!" [1964] with Shirley MacLaine; "Hombre" [1967 Western]; "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid" [1969] directed by George Roy Hill, with Robert Redford; "Towering Inferno" [1974]; "Buffalo Bill and The Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson" [1976] directed by Robert Altman; "Quintet" [1979] directed by Robert Altman; "The Verdict" [1982] directed by Sidney Lumet; extras include trailers, featurettes, commentaries, photo gslleries

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star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame  won Oscar for Best Actor for "Separate Tables" [1958]    David Niven  [1910-83]
browse David Niven on DVDIMDb listing [1932-83]Wikipedia

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star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame  Lloyd Nolan  [1902-85]
browse Lloyd Nolan on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

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star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame  silent-era star  Mabel Normand  [1892-1930]
browse Mabel Normand on DVDIMDb listing [1910-27]Wikipedia

MTS's Mabel Normand fansite
http://looking-for-mabel.webs.com/

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star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame  silent-era star  Ramón Novarro  [1899-1968]
no browse/Amazon entry • IMDb listing [1917-68]Wikipedia

ALH's Ramón Novarro fansite

Ramon Novarro The First Latino Hollywood Superstar biography by Frank Javier Garcia Berumen  
"Ramon Novarro: The Life & Films of The First Latino
Hollywood Superstar" [2001]
by Frank Javier Garcia Berumen

Vantage Press pb [5/2001] for $10.63
Beyond Paradise biography of Ramon Novarro by Andre Soares   "Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro" [2002]
by Andre Soares

St. Martin's Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [12/2002] out of print/used
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star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame  Pat O'Brien  [1899-1983]
browse Pat O'Brien on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

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Warren Oates  [1928-82]
browse Warren Oates on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia

http://www.amazon.com/Warren-Oates-Wild-Screen-Classics/dp/0813125367/

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Warner Oland  [1879-1938]
browse Warner Oland on DVDIMDb listing [1912-37]Wikipedia

portrayed Charlie Chan in feature films, 1931-37

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star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame  Anita Page  [1910-2008]
no browse/Amazon entry • IMDb listing [1925-2009]official websiteWikipedia

Robbie's Anita Page fansite

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actor-director  James Parrott  [1898-1939]
known as "The Doodletwit of Screen Comedy”; brother of comedian Charley Chase [1893-1940];
also billed as Paul Parrott & Jimmie Parrott; no browse/Amazon entry • IMDb listing [1917-38]Wikipedia

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star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame  won Oscar for Best Actor for "To Kill a Mockingbird" [1962]    

Gregory Peck  [1916-2003]
browse Gregory Peck on DVDWesterns on DVDWesterns on VHS
Hwd Collxn videoIMDb listing 1944-2004]Wikipedia

received 5 Oscar nominations [1946-1963]; won Oscar in 1963 & Hersholt Award in 1968

Films of Gregory Peck book by John Griggs  
"The Films of Gregory Peck" [1984]
by John Griggs

Citadel Press 11¼x8½ pb [4/87] out of print/used
Citadel Press hardcover [1/84] out of print/used

grandson/actor Ethan Peck ®   ®

Nehemiah Persoff  [b. 1919]
no browse/Amazon entry • IMDb listing [1948-99]Wikipedia

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star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame  won Oscar for Best Actress for "Coquette" [1929]  won Honorary Oscar in 1976    

Mary Pickford  [1892-1979]
browse Mary Pickford on DVDbio booksIMDb listing [1909-62]Wikipedia

Mary Pickford Foundation
Mary Pickford Institute for Film Education [est. 2003] in West Los Angeles, CA
'My Best Girl' fansite

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Donald Pleasence  [1919-95]
browse Donald Pleasence on DVDIMDb listing [1948-99]Wikipedia

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star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame  William Powell  [1892-1984]
browse William Powell on DVDIMDb listingWikipedia
received 3 Oscar nominations [1935-1948]; no wins

"The Thin Man" movie series with Myrna Loy
JS's William Powell fansite

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Marie Prevost  [1898-1937]
browse Marie Prevost on DVDIMDb listing [1915-39]Wikipedia

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silent-era star  Edna Purviance  [1895-1958]
browse Edna Purviance on DVDIMDb listing [1915-52]Wikipedia

LW's Edna Purviance fansite

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star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame  Denver Pyle  [1920-97]
browse Denver Pyle on DVDIMDb listing [1947-97]Wikipedia

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star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame  won Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for "Viva Zapata!" [1952]  won Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for "Lust For Life" [1956]    

Anthony Quinn  [1915-2001]
browse Anthony Quinn on DVDIMDb listing [1936-2002]Wikipedia

received 4 Oscar nominations [1953-1965]; won in 1953 & 1957

official Anthony Quinn Trust website

Hwd Collxn video

Viva Zapata! movie   "Viva Zapata!" [Fox 1952]
Directed by Elia Kazan; starring Marlon Brando, Jean Peters, Anthony Quinn & Joseph Wiseman; won Best Supporting Actor Oscar (AQ), nominated for Best Script (John Steinbeck), Best Actor (Brando), Best Music, Best Art Direction
b&w DVD [undated] out of prodn/used
Fox b&w VHS [6/2001] out of prodn/used
Verese soundtrack CD [3/98] out of prodn/used
full credits from IMDb
John Steinbeck's script in book form, edited by Robert E. Morsberger
Penguin 7¾x5 pb [5/93] for $12.80

"Zorba the Greek" [Fox 1964]
full credits from IMDb | theme music [3min : 44sec]

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star on the Hollywood Walk of  Fame  George Raft  [1895-1980]
browse George Raft on DVDIMDb listing [1929-80]credits on BroadwayWikipedia

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star on the Hollywood Walk of  Fame  Ronald Reagan  [1911-2004]
browse Ronald Reagan on DVDIMDb listing [1937-65]Wikipedia

served in the USAAF First Motion Picture Unit during World War II
U.S.A.F. Museum page on his military career
served as Governor of California, 1967-75
served as President of The United States #40, 1981-89

"Kings Row" [1942] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034946/

Ronald Reagan Signature Collection DVD box set  "Ronald Reagan Signature Collection" DVD Box Set [2006]
Warner Home Video DVD [8/2006] 5 disks for $44.99
contains "Knute Rockne, All American" [1940] starring Pat O'Brien; "Kings Row" [1942] co-starring Ann Sheridan & Robert Cummings; "The Hasty Heart" [1949] starring Richard Todd & Patricia Neal; "Storm Warning" [1951] co-starring Ginger Rogers, Doris Day & Steve Cochran; and "The Winning Team" [1952] co-starring Doris Day & Frank Lovejoy; extras include commentary, trailers, cartoons, shorts, radio show
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star on the Hollywood Walk of  Fame  animal star  Rin Tin Tin
search Rin-Tin-Tin videos/DVDs at AmazonIMDb listingWikipedia

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Thelma Ritter  [1902-69]
browse Thelma Ritter on DVDIMDb listing [1947-68]Wikipedia
received 6 Oscar nominations [1951-1963]; no wins

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Jason Robards (Sr.)  [1892-1963]
no browse/Amazon entry • IMDb listing [1921-63]Wikipedia

won Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for "All the President's Men" [1976]  won Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for "Julia" [1977]     Jason Robards, Jr.  [1922-2000]
browse Jason Robards, Jr. on DVDIMDb listing [1946-2001]Wikipedia

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star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame  won Honorary Oscar in 1973    Edward G. Robinson  [1893-1973]
browse Edward G. Robinson on DVDIMDb listing [1916-73]Wikipedia

MM's Edward G. Robinson fansite
Edward G. Robinson fansite by his granddaughter

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star on the Hollywood Walk of  Fame  won Oscar for Best Actress for "Kitty Foyle" [1940]    Ginger Rogers  [1911-95]
browse Ginger Rogers on DVDIMDb listing [1929-94]Wikipedia

official Ginger Rogers™ site

"Astaire & Rogers Collection"
Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers made ten movies together at R.K.O. from 1933 to 1949
Astaire & Rogers Collection, Volume 1 DVD box set  
Astaire & Rogers Collection, Volume 2 DVD box set  
Volume 1 [2005]: Turner Home Ent. DVD [8/2005] 5 disks for $29.49
includes "Top Hat" [1935] co-starring Edward Everett Horton & Eric Blore; "Swing Time" [1936]; "Follow The Fleet" [1936] co-starring Randolph Scott & Harriet Hilliard {Nelson}; "Shall We Dance" [1937] co-starring Edward Everett Horton & Eric Blore; and "The Barkleys of Broadway" [1949] co-starring Oscar Levant & Billie Burke
Volume 2 [2006]: Warner Home Video DVD box set [10/2006] 5 disks for $29.99
includes "Flying Down To Rio" [1933] starring Gene Raymond & Dolores Del Rio; "The Gay Divorcee" [1934] co-starring Alice Brady & Edward Everett Horton; "Roberta" [1935] co-starring Irene Dunne & Randolph Scott; "Carefree" [1938] co-starring Ralph Bellamy; and "The Story of Vernon & Irene Castle" [1939] co-starring Edna May Oliver & Walter Brennan
"Astaire & Rogers Ultimate Collector's Edition" [2006]
includes the ten movies on DVD above, plus bonus disk with the "Astaire and Rogers: Partners In Rhythm" documentary [2006] and other extras
Warner Home Video DVD box set [10/2006] 11 disks for $50.49
Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers At RKO soundtrack album   "Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers At R.K.O." [1998]
Rhino/W.E.A. audio CDs [2/98] 2 disks for $24.99
includes 35 tracks from the films "Carefree" [1938], "Flying Down To Rio" [1933], "Follow The Fleet" [1936], "The Gay Divorcee" [1934], "Roberta" [1935], "The Sky's The Limit" [1943], "Swing Time" [1936], "Top Hat" [1935] and other sources

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Zelda Rubinstein  [1933-2010]

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Robert Ryan  [1909-73]
browse Robert Ryan on DVDIMDb listing 1940-73]Wikipedia

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