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Gale Page

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gale Page (born Sally Perkins Rutter July 29, 1910 – January 8, 1983) was an American singer and actress. Page was the daughter of R.L. and Isabel (Gale) Rutter of Spokane. Her aunt and uncle were Elizabeth Gale Page (1866-1929) and Miles Poindexter, a U.S. senator from Washington and later U.S. Ambassador to Peru. She was also the great-granddaughter of Joseph Gale, the first governor of Oregon. Page was a radio actress and singer before being signed to a Hollywood film contract by Warner Brothers in 1938. She sang on a Spokane station before getting a job on KYW radio in Chicago, Illinois, subsequently moving to NBC, where her network activities included singing on Fibber McGee and Molly. Page was cast as blues singer Gertrude Lamont in the 1935 soap opera Masquerade. Beginning on May 27, 1936, she played Gloria Marsh on the soap opera Today's Children. In the summer of 1939, she co-starred with Jim Ameche on Hollywood Playhouse. She made her film debut in Crime School (1938) with Humphrey Bogart and also appeared in The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938) before winning the role of the fourth daughter in Four Daughters (1938). She co-starred in this with the Lane Sisters and was the only film "daughter" not played by one of the Lanes. She appeared in three other films with the Lane sisters: Daughters Courageous (1939) and the two "Four Daughters" sequels: Four Wives (1939) and Four Mothers (1941). Page appeared in only 16 films during her career, including Heart of the North (1938), You Can't Get Away with Murder (1939), Naughty but Nice (1939), They Drive by Night (1940), Knute Rockne, All American (1940), The Time of Your Life (1948), and Anna Lucasta (1949). Page was a semi-regular performer on the television series Robert Montgomery Presents from 1954 until 1957. Page died in Santa Monica, California, aged 72, from lung cancer.
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Sean Connery

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Sir Thomas Sean Connery (August 25, 1930 – October 31, 2020) was a Scottish actor and producer who won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award), and three Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award. Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring in seven Bond films (every film from Dr. No to You Only Live Twice, plus Diamonds Are Forever and Never Say Never Again), between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Untouchables. His films also include Marnie (1964), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), The Man Who Would Be King (1975), A Bridge Too Far (1977), Highlander (1986), Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989), The Hunt for Red October (1990), Dragonheart (1996), The Rock (1996), and Finding Forrester (2000). Connery was polled in a 2004 The Sunday Herald as "The Greatest Living Scot" and in a 2011 EuroMillions survey as "Scotland's Greatest Living National Treasure". He was voted by People magazine as both the “Sexiest Man Alive" in 1989 and the "Sexiest Man of the Century” in 1999. He received a lifetime achievement award in the United States with a Kennedy Center Honor in 1999. Connery was knighted in the 2000 New Year Honours for services to film drama. On 31 October 2020, it was announced that Connery had died at the age of 90. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sean Connery, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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Rositza Danailova

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Rositza Danailova is a Bulgarian theater and cinema actress. She was born on November 26, 1933 in Sofia, Bugaria. She initially graduated in "acting" in Nationa Academy for Theatre and Filn Art, Sofia, Bulgaria, and then she has made a doctorate at the Academy of Theatre Arts in St. Petersburg, Russia. Rositza Danailova has over 150 roles in various theaters: in Dimitrovgrad, Dobrich, Burgas, Sliven, Bulgarian Army's Theater, Satire Theater and the National Theater. She married twice - first time for Ivan Kondov and the second time for the director Konstantin Obreshkov. She has two children, Lambi Kondov, who is also an actor and Rositza Obreshkova, who is a theater director. Rositza Danailova is a sister of the famous Bulgarian actor Stefan Danailov.
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Maureen O'Sullivan

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Maureen Paula O'Sullivan was born in County Roscommon, Ireland, on May 17, 1911. The future mother of Mia Farrow was a schooldays classmate of Vivien Leigh at the Convent of the Sacred Heart at Roehampton in London. Even as a schoolgirl, Maureen desired an acting career; she studied hard and read widely. When the opportunity to be an actress came along, it almost dropped in her lap. The director Frank Borzage was in Dublin filming “Song o’ My Heart” (1930) when Maureen, then 18, met him. Borzage suggested a screen test, which she took. The results were more than favorable, as she won the part of Eileen O’Brien. The part was a substantial one, so much so that Maureen went on to Hollywood to complete the filming. Once in sunny California, Maureen wasted no time landing roles in other films such as “Just Imagine” (1930), “Princess and the Plumber” (1930), and “So This Is London” (1930). Maureen was on a roll that her contemporaries could only have wished for when they were coming up through the ranks. In 1932, Maureen was teamed up with Olympic medal winner Johnny Weissmuller for the first time in “Tarzan the Ape Man” (1932). Five other Tarzan films followed, the last being “Tarzan’s New York Adventure” (1942). The Tarzan epics rank as one of the most memorable series ever made. Most people agree that those movies would not have been successful had it not been for the fine acting talents, not to mention beauty, of Maureen O’Sullivan. But she was more than Jane Parker in the Tarzan films; she had great roles and played beautifully in films such as “The Flame Within” (1935), “David Copperfield” (1935), and “Anna Karenina” (1935). She turned in yet another fine performance in “Pride and Prejudice” (1940). After the 1940s, Maureen made far fewer films, not because she lost popularity but by choice. It isn’t always easy to walk away from a lucrative career, but she did because she wanted to devote more time to her husband, John Farrow, an Australian writer, and their seven children. The couple were married from 1936 until his death in 1963. She did not, however, retire completely; Maureen still found time to make an occasional appearance in films or TV or on the stage. Later movie-goers remember her as Elizabeth Alvorg in the hit film “Peggy Sue Got Married” (1986). Her final silver screen appearance was in “The River Pirates” (1988). Some TV movies followed, but only until 1996. She maintained homes in New Hampshire and Arizona, and it was in Scottsdale that Maureen died on June 23, 1998, of a heart attack. She was 87 years old.
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Kanna Hashimoto

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Kanna Hashimoto (born 3 February 1999) is a Japanese idol singer and an actress managed by Yoshimoto R&C. She began her career as a member of the all-female pop group Rev. from DVL. When Hashimoto was in third grade, she signed with the agency Active Hakata in her hometown, Fukuoka. She became a member of the all-female pop group Rev. from DVL. In 2011, Hashimoto appeared in the movie I Wish. In 2013, Hashimoto gained national attention when a photo of her taken at one of Rev. from DVL's live performances went viral on 2channel and Twitter. Praised for her natural beauty, she was given titles such as "beyond cute local idol", "beyond angelic idol", and "a talent appearing once in a millennium."
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Hsu Shu-Yuan

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A celebrated model renowned for her tall frame and cool outlook. Hsu turned up the heat when she posed provocatively on the cover of 'Playboy' magazine's Taiwanese edition, following the footsteps of local celebrities as Guo Jing-chun, Yeung Sze-man, Carol Cheng, Luo Wan-yi, Yu Ke-xin and Xu Le-mei. Hsu moved to Hong Kong in 1985 and starred in various films such as 'Twisted Love', 'Hong Kong Godfather', 'The Missed Date' and 'The Seventh Curse'. She had also appeared in drama serials for Taiwan Television Enterprise (TTV). She married in 1998, withdrew from the limelight and lives in the United States.
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Sachiko Hidari

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​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Sachiko Hidari (左 幸子, Hidari Sachiko, 29 June 1930 – 7 November 2001) was a Japanese film actress. She appeared in 42 films between 1952 and 1995. At the 14th Berlin International Film Festival she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for her roles in Kanojo to kare and The Insect Woman. In 1977, she directed and starred in the film The Far Road, which was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sachiko Hidari,  licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Maria Cláudia

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Maria Cláudia (Rio de Janeiro, 9 de outubro de 1949) é uma atriz brasileira. Foi eleita uma das mulheres mais lindas do Brasil no ano de 1978, e uma das mulheres mais fotografadas durante a década de 1970 e começo da década de 1980. Na TV fez participações importantes em várias novelas como Selva de Pedra, O Bem Amado, O Rebu e Feijão Maravilha. Mas seus personagens mais marcantes foram a Shana da telenovela Te Contei? e Amanda de Plumas e Paetês. Sem filhos, é casada com o filósofo, escritor, jornalista e roteirista Luiz Carlos Maciel desde 1976. Teve sua carreira de atriz interrompida por um problema nas cordas vocais, do qual depois se recuperou.
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Daniel Barenboim

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Daniel Barenboim is an Argentine-Israeli pianist and conductor who is a citizen of Argentina, Israel, Palestine, and Spain. He is the general music director of the Berlin State Opera, and the Staatskapelle Berlin; he previously served as Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris and La Scala in Milan. Barenboim is known for his work with the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra, a Seville-based orchestra of young Arab and Israeli musicians, and as a resolute critic of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. He has won seven Grammy awards for his work and discography. Barenboim is a polyglot, fluent in Spanish, Hebrew, English, French, Italian, and German. The music conductor is a citizenship of Argentina, Israel, Palestine, and Spain. Barenboim currently lives in Berlin.
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Danae Reynaud

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Franco-Mexican actress born in 1995. She started acting when she was 5 years old in live performances of Enriqueta Ochoa's poems and radio novels. At the age of 10 he debuted in the theater in the adaptation of the play The Doll House by José Antonio Cordero entitled Videodrome in the Julio Castillo Theater. At age 11 she began her work in student and professional short films. In 2012 she debuted in the feature film Club Sandwich by Fernando Eimbcke. Since then he has participated in 13 feature films, including the North Pacific by Valentina Sachetti, Allá en el Rancho de Rafael Montero and Julián de Izrael Moreno. She is currently studying film at the Cinematographic Training Center (CCC) where in the specialty of Direction.
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