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SANDRA DEE OBITUARY IN “THE GUARDIAN” IN 2005. In the nostalgic musical Grease (1978), about growing up in a fantasised America of the 1950s, there is an appropriately evocativ
Pauline Stroud
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Jan Michael Vincent
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Elizabeth Allen
Elizabeth Allen was born in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1929.She had a career on stage, screen and television. On the stage in 1965, Stephen Sondheim’s “Di I Hear A Waltz”
Sergio Franchi
Sergio Franchi was an Italian-American tenor and actor who enjoyed success in the United States and internationally after gaining notice in Britain in the early 1960s. In 1962,
Joan Hackett
Article on Joan Hackett in “Tina Aumont’s Eyes” website: A perfectionist capable of playing anything from snooty socialites to nervy housewives, Joan Hackett had
Mona Freeman
Pert and pretty Mona Freeman was born in 1926 in Baltimore. Her first major film role was in “Junior Miss” in 1945. Other roles include “Dear Ruth”, “Mother Wore
Janis Carter
Janis Carter was born in 1913 in Cleaveland, Ohio. She began her film career in 1941. Her films include “Night Editor” in 1946 and “Framed” the following. In 19
Mary Astor
The wide range of Mary Astor took her, with total conviction, from bitchy vixens to sensible mothers, sweethearts to dangerous femme fatales. Although one often thinks of he
Felicia Farr
Born Olive Dines, Felicia Farr appeared in several modeling photo shoots and advertisements during the 1950s and 1960s. Her earlist screen appearances date from the mid-fifties and