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Her old Warner Bros. rival Doris Day, however, was a bigger name and went on to play the role on film (The Pajama Game (1957)) with Raitt. After a six-year hiatus, Janis returned to films in tongue-and-cheek support, all but stealing Silk Stockings (1957) from co-stars Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse.
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photo source: Wikimedia Commons Barbara Rush began her career in 1950 after signing with Paramount Pictures and appearing in The Goldbergs. After appearing in a few more films, Rush caught her big break when she starred in the cult-classic It Came from Outer Space. Rush won the Golden Globe Award for “Most Promising Newcomer – Female” for her role....
Barbara Rush is the aunt of actress Carolyn Hennesy, who is known for her roles on Dawson’s Creek and General Hospital.
photo source: Wikimedia Commons While Mel Brooks has acted a bit throughout his 75-year career, he is better known for directing some major comedic cult classics, including Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs and Robin Hood: Men in Tights. Brooks was always interested in pursuing a career in entertainment and he began working when he was 14 and had his fir...
photo source: Wikimedia Commons Dick Van Dykeis a beloved stage and film actor whose career has spanned over 75 years. Prior to starting his entertainment career in the late 1940s, Van Dyke served in the U.S. Army Air Forces as a radio announcer and entertainer. He had originally tried to enlist as a regular soldier, but was denied enlistment sever...
photo source: Wikimedia Commons Lee Grant, who will be turning 97 in a few weeks, has worked as an actress, director, and documentarian for nearly 90 years! Grant’s career began when she was just a child when she made her stage debut in L’Oracoloat the Metropolitan Opera in 1931. Throughout her adolescent and teenage years, Grant studied ballet and...
photo source: Wikimedia Commons In 2013, Lockhart recorded voice lines for a video game called Tesla Effect. Lockhart made her film debut opposite her parents in a film version of A Christmas Carol in 1938. She is best known for her work as Ruth Martin, the mother of Timmy, on 1950s CBS series Lassie. Lockhart also famously portrayed Dr. Maureen Ro...
photo source: Wikimedia Commons Actress Eva Marie Saint has had a long career and is most famous for playing the lead female role in On the Waterfront(1954), opposite Marlon Brando. Saint’s work in the movie earned her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her next big role came when she was chosen by Alfred Hitchcock to star in North by N...
photo source: IMDB Leslie Phillips is the oldest living non-American actor on this list and is best known for his role in the British comedy series Carry On as well as the film Doctor in the House. More recently, Phillips voiced the Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter film series. Phillips’ other famous work was on the long-running BBC radio comedy ser...
photo source: IMDB Carole Cookhas been acting since 1956 in TV, movies, and musical theatre. In recent years, Cook has taken a bit of a break from acting. Her last acting credit is from 2018 in the movie Still Waiting in the Wings. Reportedly, Cook was a protégé of actress and comedian Lucille Ball and made several appearances on many of Ball’s sho...
photo source: NPR Mike Nussbaum’s career might not be quite as long as some of the other actors on this list, but he is still very active today. Nussbaum’s most recent acting credit is from 2020 for a film called Tom of Your Life, which hasn’t been released yet. In addition to a long list of film and TV credits, Nussbaum is a stage actor. Nussbaum ...
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- Sissy Spacek. - Birthdate: Dec. 25, 1949. Born in Quitman, Texas, Sissy Spacek came into the world on Christmas as Mary Elizabeth Spacek. She got her start in television with "Love, American Style" and "The Waltons," though Spacek's breakthrough role came when she played a teenager with telekinetic powers in the Brian De Palma film "Carrie."
- Loretta Devine. - Birthdate: Aug. 21, 1949. With roles in everything from a hit Broadway musical to a 1990s slasher film, Loretta Devine is a force. Her standout roles include the 1995 film "Waiting to Exhale" and the 1996 film "The Preacher's Wife."
- Meryl Streep. - Birthdate: June 22, 1949. Arguably one of the greatest actors to ever grace the silver screen, a young Meryl Streep was called "ugly," in Italian, by legendary producer Dino De Laurentiis when she auditioned for a role in the remake of monster-classic "King Kong."
- Pam Grier. - Birthdate: May 26, 1949. Pam Grier got her start in director Roger Corman's 1971 film "The Big Doll House." Director Quentin Tarantino cast her in the 1997 film "Jackie Brown," which was a homage to Grier's earlier work from the 1970s.
Jan 19, 2024 · Eva Marie Saint, age 99. Keystone Features/Getty Images. At the age of 99 years old, Eva Marie Saint is currently the oldest living Academy Award winner. Saint was able to claim this title quite recently after Oscar winner Oliva de Havilland passed away on July 26, 2020, at the age of 104.
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25 names. 1. Gene Hackman. Actor | The French Connection. Eugene Allen Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, the son of Anna Lyda Elizabeth (Gray) and Eugene Ezra Hackman, who operated a newspaper printing press. He is of Pennsylvania Dutch (German), English, and Scottish ancestry, partly by way of Canada, where his mother was born.
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A ten-year movie career followed, where she played the daughter of such stars as Claudette Colbert, Katharine Hepburn, Allan Jones and Norma Shearer. She appeared in some of the screen's great classics, including Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), David Copperfield (1935) and Les Misérables (1935), in which she played the child Cosette.
