Eun-ju Lee (1980 - 2005)

Actress. Best remembered for her role as “Young-shin” in the Korean war drama “Taeguki” or National Flag in english. The film, released in 2004 was one of the highest-grossing films in the Korea’s history and made the rounds in the international circuit. Lee began her career as a model and scored her first major role […]

Auriol Lee (1880 - 1941)

Actress. She emigrated to America in the early 1900s and was a prolific stage performer and a playwright on Broadway. From 1903 to 1941, she appeared in numerous productions and also served as a stage director. Before her death she appeared in the films, “A Royal Divorce” (1938) and “Suspicion” (1941). (bio by: John “J-Cat” […]

Gretchen Lederer (1891 - 1955)

Actress. Born in Cologne, Germany, she was a leading lady of the silent film era appearing in over 80 films between 1912 and 1918. Her credits included “Hearts of Conflict” (1912), “The Violin Maker” (1915), “Lord John in New York” (1915), “The Grasp of Greed” (1916), “The Rescue” (1917) and “Wife or Country” (1918). Actor […]

Ginette Leclerc (1912 - 1992)

Actress. She began her film career in 1937. Most remembered in such films as “Le Corbeau,” “The Man From Nowhere,” “Cab Number 13,” “Baker’s Wife” and “Tropic of Cancer.” (bio by: MC)

Yvette Lebon (1910 - 2014)

Actress. A noted beauty of her day, she is remembered for her numerous French cinematic appearances during the 1930s and beyond as well as for her rather colorful private life. Born Simone Lebon, she studied art and trained as a dancer prior to her 1931 silver screen bow in “Left Bank”. Through the next few […]

Madeleine Lebeau (1923 - 2016)

Actress. Best remembered for playing ‘Yvonne’, ‘Rick’s’ (Humphrey Bogart) jilted lover in the classic picture “Casablanca” (1942). Born Marie Madeleine Berthe Lebeau, she began her film career in her native France during her teenage years and relocated to Hollywood, where she debut in the picture “Hold Back the Dawn” (1941). During the following two decades, […]

Zarah Leander (1907 - 1981)

Actress. Born Zarah Stina Hedberg in Karlstad, Sweden. Her career began in revues and operettas in her home country. Her first movies were also made in Sweden, but it was only after the German production “Premiere” (1937) that she managed her breakthrough. She became one of the greatest stars of German film arousing enthusiasm with […]

Milagros Leal (1902 - 1975)

Actress. Born in Madrid, she began her acting career as a child in the play “El Refajo Amarillo” and became one of the leading ladies of Spanish Theatre in such hits as “Champán”, “La Muralla”, “Divinas Palabras”, “Los Árboles Mueren de Pie”, and “La Celestina”.  She was married to actor Salvador Soler Marí, and they […]

Doris Leader Charge (1930 - 2001)

Lakota Sioux Linguist, Actress.  Doris Leader Charge was born on the Rosebud Reservation.  She translated the script for “Dances With Wolves” into Lakota and also appeared in the film as Pretty Shield, wife of Ten Bears.  A special guest at the Academy Awards, she translated screenwriter Michael Blake’s acceptance speech into the Lakota language.  She […]

Evelyn Lawton (1900 - 1996)

Celebrated British actress of stage and screen. Wife of actor Frank Lawton. (bio by: Kieran Smith)  Family links:  Spouse:  Frank Lawton (1904 – 1969)

Lillian Lawrence (1868 - 1926)

Actress. Mother of actress Ethel Grey Terry, Lawrence was a leading lady at the Castle Square Theatre in Boston. Lawrence appeared in 20 films. (bio by: TLS)  Family links:  Children:  Ethel Grey Terry (1882 – 1931)* *Calculated relationship

Jeanne Lawrence (1900 - 1945)

Actress. Born Jeanne Hirdler in Bricksville, Kansas, she began her career working in stage theatre before relocating to Hollywood in the 1930s. As a character actress, she appeared in the films “Men of the Night” (1934), “Air Hawks” (1935) and “Fifteen Maiden Lane” (1936). (bio by: John “J-Cat” Griffith)

Gertrude Lawrence (1898 - 1952)

Actress. Born Gertrud Alexandra Dagmar Lawrence Klasen in London, daughter of a struggling Danish singer and character actor who had taken the pseudonym of Arthur Lawrence and Alice, a middle-class English girl with frustrated theatrical aspirations. Gertrude made her stage début as a singing dancer in the pantomime ‘Babes in the Wood’ in Brixton in […]

Florence Lawrence (1890 - 1938)

Actress. Known as “The Biograph Girl,” and the first movie “star” known to the public by name. She made her stage debut at the age of three with a stock company run by her mother, Lotta Lawrence, and continued to appear billed as “Baby Florence, the Child Wonder.” After unsuccessfully trying for Broadway parts, she […]

Barbara Jo Lawrence (1930 - 2013)

Actress, Author. Lawrence, who appeared in 30 movies and 70 television shows from the late 1940s through the early 60s, moved with her mother to California at age 10, and was crowned “Little Miss Hollywood of 1942”. In her teens, she became a model and then an actress under contract to 20th Century Fox Studios, […]

Jacqueline Law (1966 - 2012)

Actress. A veteran of roughly 30 films, she shall be remembered for her 20 year career on the Hong Kong screen. Raised in her native city, she was working as a model when she was spotted and entered in the Miss Hong Kong Pageant; Jacqueline soon got her start in show business with the 1987 […]

Jean Laverty (1904 - 1973)

Actress. Best known for her role as Mary Malone in the 1928 film, “So This Is Love?”, directed by Frank Capra. A native of Blue Lake, California, she was born Gladys Louise Laverty, but used the alias of Jean Barry or Jean Bary, when appearing in motion pictures. Among Laverty’s other films are, “Bachelor’s Paradise” […]

Lucille LaVerne (1869 - 1945)

Actress. Born Lucille Mitchum in Nashville, Tennessee in 1869 (or possibly 1872), she began acting on stage as a child. She made her New York stage debut in 1888 while still a teen and seven years later had her own theatrical company which toured the United States and Europe performing before the crowned heads of […]

Mary Dean Lauria (1922 - 1995)

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Odette Laure (1917 - 2004)

French Actress and Singer. She had successful careers as a cabaret singer and actress on stage and screen. She was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Cesar in 1991 for her performance in Bernard Tavernier’s “Daddy Nostalgie.” She also appeared in “La Marie du Port” (1950), “La Fête à Henriette” (1952), “Le Grand Jeu” (1953), […]

Louise Latimer (1913 - 1973)

Actress, Fashion Designer. A Hollywood starlet of the 1930s, she appeared in a dozen films during a brief motion picture career. She made her film debut in the 1934 motion picture “My Mummy’s Arms.” Over the next three years her screen accomplishments would include “There’s Always Tomorrow” (1934), “Two in Revolt” (1936), “Murder on a […]

Vera Laroche (1912 - 2008)

Actress. During the early 1930s she modeled hats and stockings while appearing on magazine covers like Midinette and La Belle France before performing for two years on stage at the Caveau des Moulins in Paris. She went on to appear in twelve films, most notably in Jean Renoir’s ‘La Marseillaise’ in 1938. After World War […]

Gracie Lantz (1903 - 1992)

Actress. She was the voice of cartoon character “Woody Woodpecker,” which was created by her husband, Walter Lantz.  Family links:  Spouse:  Walter Lantz (1899 – 1994)* *Calculated relationship

Mary Lansing (1911 - 1988)

Actress. She appeared on numerous television shows, in particular The Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry R.F.D., and Gomer Pyle. She met actor Frank Nelson who was performing on radio and the two married on January 7, 1933. They had two children but were later divorced. She appeared frequently with Frank on the Jack Benny Show during […]

Lillie Langtry (1853 - 1929)

Stage Actress. She was the daughter of the dean of Jersey. In 1874 she married Edward Langtry, who died in 1897, and in 1899 she married Hugo de Bathe, who became a baronet in 1907. In 1881 she caused a sensation by being the first society woman to go on the stage, making her first […]

Gilda Langer (1896 - 1920)

Actress. Dark, mysterious leading lady of silent films. Born Hermengild Langer in Oderfurt, Moravia (now in the Czech Republic), she made her acting debut at Berlin’s Residenz-Theatre in 1917 and was soon playing leads for the Star and Decla movie studios.  Her brief affair with author Carl Mayer inspired him to write the original scenario […]

Rosemary Lane (1913 - 1974)

Actress. Popular American motion picture figure of the 1930s and 1940s. One of the Lane sisters (Priscilla and Lola). Married to Hollywood make-up artist Bud Westmore. (bio by: A.J. Marik)  Family links:  Parents:  Lorenzo Alverado Mullican (1872 – 1938)  Cora Bell Hicks Lane (1881 – 1952)  Spouse:  Bud Westmore (1918 – 1973)  Siblings:  Leota Belle […]

Nora Lane (1905 - 1948)

Actress. Born in Chester, Illinois, she apparently stumbled into acting during a visit to California when she reportedly took a screen test as a lark. Offered a role, she debuted in the silent ‘Flying U Ranch’ in 1927. She appeared in more than a dozen more films before the end of the silent era, and […]

Lola Lane (1909 - 1981)

Actress. Born Dorothy Mullican in Macy, Indiana, she began her career in a musical act with her sisters actresses Priscilla and Rosemary Lane in 1920s. Together they started performing on Broadway when they were signed to Warner Bros. Studios in 1937 and as sisters they appeared “Four Wives” (1939). On her own, she appeared in […]

Jessie Royce Landis (1896 - 1972)

Actress. Made her stage debut at the age of 20 in Chicago before moving to Broadway, and developing a career on the stage and the cinema. She is best known for playing Cary Grant’s mother in Alfred Hitchcock’s “North by Northwest” (1959) although she was about ten months younger than Grant. Also she played the […]