Actresses of Stage & Screen Prints, & Photographs, pg “G”
for threatre, drama, social studies classrooms, home schoolers, and inspirational art for the studio.

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

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
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
b. 6-10-1922; Minnesota
d. 6-22-1969; New York

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).

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).

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).

Photograph of Lillian Gish and her sister Dorothy is from the archives of LIFE magazine, which first appeared on August 20, 1951.

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

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
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.

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

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