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  • ...star}}September 16, 1922, Tacoma, Washington) is an American film, musical theatre and television actress. She began singing in public from the age of five in Real stardom came in 1954 with the feisty role of "Babe" in the hit Broadway musical, ''The Pajama Game'', co-starring John Raitt. However, [[Doris Day]], a big
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  • ...English comedian, actor, [[dancer]], {{lc2|singer}}, writer, director, and theatre manager. ...es. From the 1890s, he appeared as the comic lead in several hit Edwardian musical comedies, including {{Wl|Florodora}}.
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  • | occupation = Ballerina, musical theatre, actress, choreographer ...{star}}January 2, 1917 – {{dag}}April 9, 2003), was a Norwegian ballerina, theatre and film actress, and choreographer. Today, she is chiefly remembered for h
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  • '''Gertrude Niesen''' ({{star}}July 8, 1911 – {{dag}}March 27, 1975) was an American torch singer, actress, comedian, and songwriter who achieved popular succes ...the summer of 1935 to sing leads in the St. Louis Municipal Opera Theatre musical productions.
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  • ...was an American actress and [[singer]]. She became one of the most famous actresses and [[singer]]s of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, known for her be ...e vocal difficulties and switched to dramatic roles. She later returned to musical roles in vaudeville, however, finally retiring from performing around 1919.
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  • | nationality = Irish, English, and American (since 1951) ...ish-British and American actress and [[singer]] who has played many films, theatre, and television roles. With one of the longest careers in the entertainment
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  • '''Martha Hyer''' ({{star}}August 10, 1924 – {{dag}}May 31, 2014) was an American actress who played Gwen French in ''Some Came Running'' (1958), for which s ...ntributed funds towards the construction of The Hal and Martha Hyer Wallis Theatre, a black box theater, at Northwestern University. She did not have any chil
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  • ...eet''' ({{star}}December 27, 1879 – {{dag}}January 18, 1954) was a British-American actor. While he did not begin his career in films until the age of 61, he h ...d Lunt and Lynn Fontanne at the Theatre Guild. His stage roles ranged from musical comedy to Shakespeare, and years of such versatile acting on two continents
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  • Sue Ane Langdon (born: {{star}}March 8, 1936) is an American actress. She has appeared in dozens of television series and had featured r ...cting in stage productions. In the mid-1960s, she appeared in the Broadway musical ''The Apple Tree'', which starred Alan Alda.
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  • | director = [[Mervyn LeRoy]]<br>[[Busby Berkeley]]<br>''(musical sequences)'' '''Gold Diggers of 1933''' is an American [[pre-Code]] musical film directed by Mervyn LeRoy with songs by Harry Warren (music) and Al Dub
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  • ...eslie Claire Margaret Caron'''; (born {{star}}1 July 1931) is a French and American [[actress]] and [[dancer]]. She is the recipient of a [[Golden Globe Award] ...gan her career as a ballerina. She made her film debut in the musical ''An American in Paris'' (1951), followed by roles in ''The Man with a Cloak'' (1951), ''
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  • ...Catherine Conn; {{star}}September 3, 1910 – {{dag}}April 17, 2007) was an American actress, {{lc2|singer}}, and spokeswoman for the arts. She is best remember ...Medal of Arts from President George H. W. Bush. She was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1999.
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  • ...Bradley''' ({{star}}September 21, 1913 – {{dag}}September 21, 2010) was an American film actress who was active in Hollywood during the 1930s. ...er 22, 1930, she made her Broadway theatre debut at New York's Hammerstein Theatre in ''Ballyhoo of 1930''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ballyhoo of 1930 - Cast|url=h
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  • ...''', {{star}}8 September 1924&nbsp;– {{dag}}23 December 2011) was a French-American [[vaudevillian]], [[actress]] and [[singer]], who from 1948 and 1963, appea ...otted by Hollywood. Denise came to the United States in 1947 and became an American citizen in 1952.
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  • | children = 3; including Cody Carpenter <ref group="Note">an American {{lc2|musician}} and composer. He is the son of film director John Carpente ...arbeau came to prominence in the 1970s as Broadway's original Rizzo in the musical ''Grease'', and as Carol Traynor, the divorced daughter of Maude Findlay (p
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  • | nationality = American This launched her career and that of several actresses, including Lisa Weber and Rose Coghlan. It also drew fierce criticism from
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  • ...man'''; {{star}}December 22, 1922 &ndash; {{dag}}September 9, 1999) was an American actress of film, stage, and television. ...year, she was also one of many Warners stars in ''Starlift'', the studio's musical tribute to United States military personnel fighting in the Korean War.
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  • ...th Hedrick'''; {{star}}February 9, 1922 – {{dag}}February 17, 2010) was an American actress and coloratura soprano. When film musical production declined, she worked in theatre, appearing in ''Camelot'' (1962–1964). Later in the decade she performed
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  • ...ith Marie Rambert and perform as a {{lc2|chorus girl}} in West End musical theatre productions. She spoke several languages, including English, French, Dutch, ...ttps://historicalfiles.com/572/yahoo/954298/20005/rare-photos-of-beautiful-actresses/4/</ref>}}]]
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  • ...rraine Burce'''; {{star}}April 1, 1929 – {{dag}}September 16, 2021) was an American actress, singer, and dancer who first appeared in [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] m ...ate-1950s, Powell's film career slowed, though she starred in two rare non-musical roles in the film noir ''The Female Animal'', and the adventure film ''Ench
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