As a protege of Lord Mortimer, Nell Bowen has fallen into being concerned with the human relations and treatment at St. Mary's of Be...

Started studying tap dancing at 6-years-old then auditioned or a role in "The Optomist" at the Casino de Paris Theater in...

Learned her best lighting and camera angles on her first film, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" (1935) Joined the national ...

Was arrested along with the cast of "Sex" (1926) when the theater was raided after complaints from religious groups and was s...

Was the youngest student at Hollywood High School in 1904/5 and the first homegrown child actress at the school Replaced Gene Gaunti...

When the Lyceum Stock Company broke up while on a short stopover in New York City, a stranded Mary went to Vitagraph Studios looking ...

Worked with the Red Cross and War Relief during WW2 Helped create the Committee for the First Amendment Was co-chairman of the Advis...

Answered an ad for a Millers Brothers 101 Ranch ad for girl horse riders at 18 years old Doubled for Helen Holmes in "The Haza...

Being typed as a lady is the greatest misfortune possible to a motion picture actress. It limits your characterizations, confines you to...

Published over a dozen short stories and essays in addition to a novel The Career of Katharine Bush Had helped direct "Three ...

Teresa Wright had been playing Mary Skinner in "Life With Father" on stage for a year when Lillian Hellman wired Samuel Go...

Discovered Rudolph Valentino  Included German soldiers in drag in "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" (1921) Became chi...

Since their meeting at Melvyn LeRoy's party, Howard Hughes had become obsessed with Janet. He persisted in unwanted attentions, f...

Helen Holmes was supposedly reacquainted with Mabel Normand while on a trip to Los Angeles in 1911 after having known each other in N...

"You see I'm a mighty proud gal, and I can't for the life of me find any valid reason why anyone should lie about their ...

Mabel "Mimi" Condon was only 18 when she began writing for Chicago's film trade magazine "Motography." In tha...

Teresa Wright was a year into her two-year contract playing Mary Skinner in the stageplay  "Life With Father" when Samuel Gold...

Lenore Coffee got a job right out of graduating Dominican College in working as "the only girl assistant director in the business...

Ardel Wray was born on October 28th, 1907 in Spokane, Washington to two stock theater actors who separated when she was young. She spen...

Lucy Muir is a widowed single mother on the mission to get out of her mother-in-law's house. Lucy finds herself in the seaside town...