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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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Notable actresses ~

Adelaide Hall
Jean Harlow
Julie Harris
Helen Hayes

Anna Held
Audrey Hepburn
Katharine Hepburn
Eileen Herlie

Judy Holliday
Miriam Hopkins
Lena Horne
Sally Ann Howes



Adelaide Hall American Born British Adopted, Giclee Print
Adelaide Hall,
Giclee Print

Adelaide Hall
b. 10-20-1901; Brooklyn
d. 11-7-1993; London

Adelaide Hall, who was taught to sing by her father, worked in black musical shows from the chorus of the Broadway musical Shuffle Along (1921) to Blackbirds of 1928, with the song “I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby”.

Hall lived in Europe where opportunities for black performers were more available, after the Blackbirds tour of Europe, settling in England. She had a radio show and appeared on stage and in films and nightclubs. She made her last recording at age 90 in 1991.

Underneath a Harlem Moon: The Harlem to Paris Years of Adelaide Hall


Jean Harlow Photo
Jean Harlow
Photo

Jean Harlow
b. 3-3-1911; Kansas City, MO
d. 6-7-1937; California

Film actress Jean Harlow was a sex symbol of the 1930s. She is remembered as the “Platinum Blonde” and the “Blonde Bombshell” due to her platinum blonde hair, and for her early death at age 26.

Harlow was ranked as one of the greatest movie stars of all time by the American Film Institute.

Jean Harlow Movies


Julie Harris Photographic Print
Julie Harris
Photographic Print
Gordon Parks

Julie Harris
b. 12-2-1925; Grosse Pointe, MI
d. 8-24-2013; Chatham, MA

Julie Harris has been nominated for an Academy Award (A Member of the Wedding, 1952), won three Emmys and five Tonys. Other notable movies are East of Eden and Requiem for a Heavyweight.


Helen Hayes Photographic Print
Helen Hayes,
Photographic Print

Helen Hayes, née Helen Hayes Brown
b. 10-10-1900; Washington, DC
d. 3-17-1993; New York

Helen Hayes, known as the “First Lady of American Theater”, is one of nine people to have won an Emmy (Best Actress - Not A Chance, 1953), a Grammy (Best Spoken Word Recording - Great American Documents, (1976), two Tony (Best Dramatic Acterss - Happy Birthday (1947) & Time Remembered (1958) and two Oscars - Best Actress in The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931-32), and Best Supporting Actress in Airport (1970).


Anna Held Print
Anna Held,
Print

Anna Held
b. 3-8-1873; Warsaw, Poland
d. 8-12-1918; New York City (multiple melanoma)

Anna Held, a vivacious and animated stage actress, is most often associated with her common-law husband Florenz Ziegfeld.


Audrey Hepburn Poster
Audrey Hepburn
Poster

Audrey Hepburn
b. 5-4-1929; Brussels, Belgium
d. 1-20-1993; Switzerland

Audrey Hepburn, ranked as the third greatest female star of all time in 1999. Her debut was in the 1951 Broadway play Colette's play Gigi, Hepburn won an Academy award in 1953 for her lead role in Roman Holiday and was nominated for Academy awards for Sabrina, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and Wait Until Dark. Hepburn also played Eliza Doolittle in the movie musical My Fair Lady and starred with the 1957 film Funny Face with Fred Astaire.


Actress Katharine Hepburn Wearing a Hat on the Set of Her Broadway Play "The Philadelphia Story", Photographic Print, Eisenstaedt
Katharine Hepburn
Photographic Print

Alfred Eisenstaedt

Katharine Hepburn
b. 5-12-1907; Hartford, CT
d. 6-29-2003; Old Saybrook

Katherine Hepburn was ranked as the Greatest Female Star of all time in 1999 by the American Film Institute.

Katharine Hepburn quote
• “Our Constitution was not intended to be used by ... any group to foist its personal religious beliefs on the rest of us.” - Banned Books posters


Eileen Herlie as the Queen in "Hamlet", Photographic Print
Eileen Herlie as Queen Gertrude
in "Hamlet", Photographic Print

Eileen Herlie
b. 3-8-1920; Glasgow, Scotland
d. 10-8-2008; NYC

Eileen Herlie, who trained as the theater actress, is remembered by most for her long role as Myrtle Fargate on the soap opera All My Children.

Herlie appeared on the West End London and New York's Broadway stage with notable actors such as Laurence Olivier and Richard Burton (as Queen Gertrude to their Hamlet), and Ray Bolger.


Judy Holliday, Photo
Judy Holliday,
Photo

Judy Holliday
b. 6-21-1921; NYC, NY
d. 6-7-1965; NYC (breast cancer)

Judy Holliday was an award winning actress on both stage and screen, appearing in Born Yesterday and Adam's Rib.

Judy Holiday Movies


Miriam Hopkins Photographic Print
Miriam Hopkins
Photographic Print

Miriam Hopkins
b. 10-18-1902; Savannah, Georgia
d. 10-9-1972; New York

Miriam Hopkins was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in Barbary Coast (1935).

Miriam Hopkins Movies


Lena Horne, Photo
Lena Horne,
Photo

Lena Horne
b. 6-30-1917; Brooklyn
d. 5-9-2010; NYC

Lena Horne, a singer and actress, has recorded and performed alone and with notables such as Duke Ellington and Bill “Bogangles” Robinson. Horne's career spanned from 1933 as a member of the Cotton Club chorus line, through film, TV, nightclubs, concerts and recording to 2000. Lena Horne was also a civil rights activist working with Eleanor Roosevelt and Medgar Evers.


Sally Ann Howes, Photo
Sally Ann Howes, Photo

Sally Ann Howes
b. 7-30-1930; London, England

Actress and singer Sally Ann Howes is best remembered as ‘Truly Scrumptious’ in the 1968 musical film, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.


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