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CALENDARS

Wild Words of Wild Women Calendars
Wild Words from
Wild Women
Calendars


Women's Wit and Wisdom Calendars
Women's Wit
and Wisdom Calendars




BOOKS ABOUT
ACTING & ACTRESSES

Acting: The First Six Lessons
Acting:
The First Six Lessons


Charlotte : Being a True Account of an Actress's Flamboyant Adventures in Eighteenth-Century London's Wild and Wicked Theatrical World
Charlotte:
Being a True Account
of an Actress's Flamboyant Adventures in Eighteenth-Century London's Wild and Wicked Theatrical World


Three Tragic Actresses : Siddons, Rachel, Ristori
Three Tragic Actresses : Siddons, Rachel, Ristori




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Actresses of Stage & Screen Prints, & Photographs, “G...-”
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Notable actresses ~

Greta Garbo
Ava Gardner
Judy Garland
Janet Gaynor

Lillian & Dorothy Gish
Maud Gonne
Kathryn Grayson

Charlotte Greenwood
Yvette Guilbert
Nell Gwynne



Greta Garbo (Real Name Greta Lovisa Gustafsson) Swedish Actress, Photographic Print
Greta Garbo,
Photographic Print

Greta Garbo (née Greta Lovisa Gustafsson)
b. 9-18-1905; Stockholm, Sweden
d. 4-15-1990; NYC

Greta Garbo first major film role was in the 1924 Swedish silent film Gösta Berlings saga (The Story of Gösta Berling), a dramatization of the famous novel by Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf.


Ava Gardner, photo
Ava Gardner,
Photo

Ava Gardner
b. 12-24-1922; Grabtown, North Carolina
d. 1-25-1990; England

Ava Gardner is ranked 25th as the greatest film actress of all time. She was married three times - Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw and Frank Sinatra.


Judy Garland, photo
Judy Garland,
Photo


Judy Garland
b. 6-10-1922; Grand Rapids, Minnesota
d. 6-22-1969; London

Judy Garland, née Frances Ethel Gumm, was an American film actress noted for her singing in musical roles such as Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz (1939), Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), and A Star is Born (1954).

Garland suffered from alcoholism and drug addiction.

Actress and singer Liza Minnelli is Judy Garland's daughter.


Janet Gaynor, Photograph
Janet Gaynor

Janet Gaynor
b. 10-6-1906; Pennsylvania
d. 9-14-1984; California

Janet Gaynor, née Laura Augusta Gainor, was the first winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress (Sunrise and Seventh Heaven [1927] and Street Angel [1928]). Other notable Gaynor films include State Fair (1933) and A Star is Born (1937).


Actress Lillian Gish Photograph, Giclee Print
Lillian Gish,
Giclee Print

Lillian Gish
b. 10-14-1893; Springfield, OH
d. 2-27-1993; NYC

Liilian Gish had a 75 year career (1912-1987) on stage, screen and television. Notable films include Birth of a Nation (1915), Night of the Hunter (1955), and The Whales of August (1987).

Actress Lillian Gish with Her Sister Dorothy, Looking on in Her New York Apartment, Photographic Print
Dorothy Gish,
Photographic Print







Dorothy was the younger sister of Lillian.


Maud Gonne, Irish Actress, Feminist, and Patriot, Giclee Print
Maud Gonne,
Giclee Print



Maud Gonne
b. 12-21-1866; England
d. 4-27-1953

Maude Gonne was an Irish actress, feminist, and patriot. Poet William Butler Yeats was infatuated with her, she was also the mother of Sean MacBride, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1974.

• Maude Gonne: Ireland's Joan of Arc


Kathryn Grayson, Poster
Kathryn Grayson,
Poster

Kathryn Grayson
b. 2-9-1922; Winston-Salem, NC (raised in St. Louis, MO)
d. 2-17-2010

Actress and operatic soprano Kathryn Grayson is best remembered from her performances in film musicals (Thousands Cheer, Anchors Aweigh, Show Boat and Kiss Me Kate) and later work on the stage (Camelot, La boheme, Madama Butterfly, Orpheus in the Underworld and La traviata).


Dancer/Comedienne Charlotte Greenwood Performing Her Signature High Kick, Photographic Print
Charlotte Greenwood
Photographic Print

Charlotte Greenwood
b. 6-25-1890; Philadelphia, PA
d. 12-28-1977; Los Angeles

Dancer and actress Charlotte Greenwood was tall, around 6 feet, and known for her very high kicks with her long legs. She played Aunt Eller in the 1955 movie Oklahoma.

Charlotte Greenwood: The Life and Career of the Comic Star of Vaudeville, Radio and Film


Yvette Guilbert by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Giclee Print
Yvette Guilbert,
Giclee Print

Yvette Guilbert
b. 1-20-1865; Paris
d. 2-2-1944; Aix-en-Provence

Guilbert, born into a poor family, worked as a department store model, took singng and acting lessons, sang at the Moulin Rouge, and eventually toured England, Germany, and the United States.

Henri Toulouse-Lautrec made many portraits and caricatures of Guilbert capturing her usual pose of standing almost perfectly still in a bright yellow dress and long black gloves.


Eleanor Gwyn, Actress Mistress of Charles II with Her Sons Charles and James, Giclee Print
Eleanor Gwyn
with Her Sons
Charles and James,
Giclee Print

Nell Gwynne
b. 2-2-1650; England
d. 11-14-1687

Nell Gwynne, (Eleanor Gwyn) was an actress & mistress of Charles II.


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