Mario Paul Perillo (1926 - 2003)

Businessman. He was the owner of Perillo Tours, on of the largest tour companies in the United States. He specilaixed in tours of Italy and became know as Mr Italy. He was also known for his humorous television commercials (bio by: Erik Lander)

Marion Agnes Land Rookes Booth (1843 - 1910)

Actress. Performing as Agnes Booth through most of her career during the late 19th century, she was one of the most renowned stage actresses of her time. She emigrated to the United States in 1858 and first performed in San Francisco at age 12 as a child dancer. At age 16, she married Harry Perry […]

Marion Aye (1903 - 1951)

Actress. A noted beauty of the early 1920s, she had a brief career in silent films. Raised in Chicago, she was signed by producer Mack Sennett who had an eye for girls that looked good in swimsuits and made her silver screen bow in the 1919 short “Hearts and Flowers”. Marion went on to roles […]

Marion Barry (1936 - 2014)

Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr. (March 6, 1936 – November 23, 2014) was an American politician who served as the second Mayor of the District of Columbia from 1979 to 1991, and again as the fourth Mayor from 1995 to 1999. A Democrat, Barry had served three tenures on the Council of the District of Columbia, […]

Marion Booth (1843 - 1910)

Actress. Performing as Agnes Booth through most of her career during the late 19th century, she was one of the most renowned stage actresses of her time. She emigrated to the United States in 1858 and first performed in San Francisco at age 12 as a child dancer. At age 16, she married Harry Perry […]

Marion Byron (1911 - 1985)

Actress. Born, Miriam Bilenkin in Dayton, Ohio, she made her stage debut at the age of 13 in a Los Angeles production of “Patsy”. In films, she debuted opposite Buster Keaton in “Steamboat Bill, Jr.” (1928). She also appeared in many Hal Roach screen shorts such as “Girls Demand Excitement” and “Broadway Babies”. Her final […]

Marion Cunningham (1922 - 2012)

She was born February 11, 1922 in Los Angeles. Her parents were Joseph Enwright and Maryann (née Spelta) Enright. Her mother was frail. Her father later became an invalid and an alcoholic. She graduated from high school in Los Angeles. She met her future husband in kindergarten. After her 1942 marriage to medical malpractice lawyer […]

Marion Davies (1897 - 1961)

Davies was born Marion Cecilia Douras on January 3, 1897, in Brooklyn, the youngest of five children born to Bernard J. Douras (1857–1935), a lawyer and judge in New York City; and Rose Reilly (1867–1928). Her father performed the civil marriage of Gloria Gould Bishop. Her elder siblings included Rose, Reine, and Ethel. A brother, […]

Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley (1930 - 1999)

Fantasy and Science Fiction author and editor and receiver of numerous awards. She created the Darkover series and among many others wrote the highly successful novel “The Mists of Avalon”. She also edited the fantasy short story collections “Sword & Sorceress” and “The Marion Zimmer Bradley Fantasy Magazine”. Her ashes were to be scattered in […]

Marion Fairbanks (1900 - 1973)

Actress. She was one of “The Thanhouser Twins.” The twins began their career on the stage in such productions as “Alias Jimmy Valentine,” “Mother,” “Salomy Jane,” “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch” and coutless others before they entered films. In 1927 Marion married former Yale football star McCormick Steele, but within a few years the […]

Marion Fairbanks (1900 - 1973)

Actress. She was one of “The Thanhouser Twins.” The twins began their career on the stage in such productions as “Alias Jimmy Valentine,” “Mother,” “Salomy Jane,” “Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch” and coutless others before they entered films. In 1927 Marion married former Yale football star McCormick Steele, but within a few years the […]

Marion Lorne (1883 - 1968)

Marion Lorne was born Marion Lorne MacDougall in West Pittston, Pennsylvania, a small mining town halfway between Wilkes-Barre and Scranton. She was the daughter of Dr. William Lorne MacDougall, MD, and his wife, Jane Louise (née Oliver), known as “Jennie”. She was born in 1883 (although by the 1920s she had shaved five years off […]

Marion Mack (1902 - 1989)

Marion Mack was born Joey Marion McCreery in Mammoth, Utah. After graduating from high school, she sent a letter and a photograph to director Mack Sennett expressing her desire to be an actress. Sennett’s manager wrote back informing Mack that they would give her an interview if she ever came to Hollywood. Mack, her father […]

Marion Martin (1909 - 1985)

Actress. Dubbed “Hollywood’s blonde menace,” Marion was born Marion Suplee, to a wealthy Bethlehem Steel executive. She attended exclusive schools until the family fortune was wiped out in the stock market crash of 1929. Forced to work, she found employment as a chorine in one of Earl Carroll’s New York stage revues. Florenz Ziegfeld got […]

Marion Morehouse Cummings (1906 - 1969)

Actress. A model and photographer, she was the third wife of poet e. e. cummings.  Family links:  Spouse:  E. E. Cummings (1894 – 1962)

Marisa Del Frate (1931 - 2015)

Actress, Singer. A pretty brunette who was a sought after model in her youth, she went on to a successful career in Italian cinema and television. Raised in the Italian Capital, she was attractive from an early age and got her start in show business by modelling, competing in beauty pageants, and appearing on the […]

Marisa Del Frate (1931 - 2015)

Actress, Singer. A pretty brunette who was a sought after model in her youth, she went on to a successful career in Italian cinema and television. Raised in the Italian Capital, she was attractive from an early age and got her start in show business by modelling, competing in beauty pageants, and appearing on the […]

Marisa Mell (1939 - 1992)

Actress. With a large number of film and television features to her credit she is probably best remembered for her starring turns in several low budget Italian movies of the late 1960s. Born Marlies Theres Moitzi she was raised in Graz, Austria, and after graduation from high school studied acting in Vienna and was briefly […]

Marisa Merlini (1923 - 2008)

Marisa Merlini (6 August 1923 – 27 July 2008) was an Italian character actress active in Italy’s post-World War II cinema. Merlini appeared in over fifty films during her career, which spanned from World War II to 2005. She was, perhaps, best known for her role in the 1953 film Pane, Amore e Fantasia, directed […]

Marisa Raja Gabaglia (1970 - 2003)

Brazilian Actress, Author, TV Reporter. She appeared in the television series, “Pigmaliao” (1970), in the role of Marisa.

Marit Allen (1941 - 2007)

Marit Allen was born in Cheshire, England on 17 September 1941 to a Norwegian mother and an English father. She was a pupil at Adcote School, an independent girls’ boarding school in Shropshire from 1951 and 1959. She then graduated from the University of Grenoble, in France.  Allen’s career in fashion began in 1961 when […]

Mariuccia Mandelli (1925 - 2015)

Mariuccia Mandelli (January 31, 1925 – December 6, 2015) was an Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur. Mandelli established her ready-to-wear fashion house, Krizia, in 1954 by bringing suitcases of samples to shops in Milan out of her Fiat 500. The Guardian has called her the “godmother of Italian fashion.”[1] According to the New York Times, […]

Marius Goring (1912 - 1998)

Actor. He was born in Newport (Isle of Wight, England) and died in East Sussex. He began his career on stage in 1925, playing in Old Vic, the Shakesperian repertory. He moved to cinema in 1936, where developed a prolific career as character actor. He is best remembered as ‘Alberto Bravano’ in Mankiewicz film “The […]

Marjorie Bennett (1896 - 1982)

Actress. Born in York, Australia. Died of cancer. Sister of actress Enid Bennett and Catherine Bennett. Appeared in “Kiss Me Deadly” (1955) and “Coogan’s Bluff” (1968).

Marjorie Bennett (1896 - 1982)

Actress. Born in York, Australia. Died of cancer. Sister of actress Enid Bennett and Catherine Bennett. Appeared in “Kiss Me Deadly” (1955) and “Coogan’s Bluff” (1968).

Marjorie C. Craig Crowley (1912 - 2003)

Author. Some of her self-help books include “Miss Craig’s Twenty-One Day Shape Up Program for Men and Women” and “Miss Craig’s Face Saving Exercises.” She also wrote “Miss Craig’s Ten Minute a Day Spot Reducing Program” and “Miss Craig’s Growing Up Exeercises.” She was Director of Exercise at Elizabeth Arden Salon, Fifth Ave, New York […]

Marjorie Dale (1905 - 1994)

American stage and screen actress of the 1930s and 40s. Appeared in the 1939 crime thriller “Dead Men Tell No Tales.” (bio by: A.J. Marik)

Marjorie Daw (1902 - 1979)

Actress. Sister of actor Chandler House. By the time she was 16, Daw was leading lady to Douglas Fairbanks Sr. in such films as “The Knickerbocker Buckaroo” (1918) and “His Majesty the American.” (1919) Daw retired from films when sound came in, (bio by: MC)  Family links:  Spouses:  A. Edward Sutherland (1895 – 1973)*  Myron […]

Marjorie Holliday (1920 - 1969)

Actress. Born in Guin, Alabama, she was a singer and dancer, when she signed a contract with Fox Studio in 1947. A veteran of fifteen films, her credits included “House of Strangers” (1949), “Deadline-U.S.A.” (1952), “Pride of the Yankees” (1952), “The I Don’t Care Girl” (1953) and “Son of Sinbad” (1955). She retired from performing […]

Marjorie Lord (1918 - 2015)

In 1935, at the age of 16, Marjorie Lord made her Broadway debut in The Old Maid with Judith Anderson. Her other Broadway appearances came in Signature (1945), Little Brown Jug (1946), and The Girl in the Freudian Slip (1967). Although most of Lord’s success came in television, she said in 1963: “I am primarily a […]