Diane Brewster (1931 - 1991)

Actress. She began her career at a Kansas City TV station doing weather shows before moving to Los Angeles to except a part in a “Maverick” television episode. She is best noted for the role as schoolteacher ‘Miss Canfield’ on “Leave It To Beaver” series and also played Richard Kimball’s murdered wife in “The Fugitive” […]

Béatrice Anne-Marie Bolchesi Bretty (1893 - 1982)

Actress. Born Béatrix Anne-Marie Bolchesi, he gained fame while appearing in motion pictures such as “Le Petit roi” (1933; “The Little King”), “Les Vignes du Seigneur” (1958), “La sentence” (1959; “The Verdict”), and “Arrêtez les tambours” (1960; “Stop the Drums”). (bio by: amy7252)

Renate Brausewetter (1905 - 2006)

Actress. Born in Málaga, Spain of German parents, she made her 1925 screen debut in the silent “Die Freudlose Gasse,” along with Greta Garbo. She also played in “Menschen Untereinander” (1926), “Die Lorelei” (1927) and “Die Hölle der Jungfrauen” (1928). Brausewetter retired with the arrival of talkies, though she returned in 1950 to appear in […]

Olive Brasno (1917 - 1998)

Olive Brasno Wayne A midget actress who worked with a number of top entertainment luminaries during the 1930s, died Jan. 25 of heart failure at a hospital in Lakeland, Fla. She was 80. Born in Old Bridge, N.J., she performed with her brothers Richard and George (also midgets) in vaudeville and motion pictures beginning in […]

Phoebe Brand (1907 - 2004)

Actress. Born in Ilion, New York, she was a founding member of the legendary Group Theatre of New York City in 1931, appearing in several of its productions, including Clifford Odets’ “Awake and Sing!” and “Golden Boy.” Spent most of her professional life in New York, although she and her husband, actor Morris Carnovsky, moved […]

Hilda Braid (1929 - 2007)

Actress. A popular British character performer. Born in Kent, Hilda began her career on stage with the prestigious Royal Shakespeare Company,  and first won widespread fame in the mid-1960s for her roles in television. Braid was best known for her role in the BBC comedy “Citizen Smith” and particularly as Nana Moon in “EastEnders,” which […]

Alice Brady (1892 - 1939)

Actress. Born Mary Rose Brady in New York City, New York, she began her career in the theatre in 1911, at age 18. In 1914, she made her motion picture debut in the silent picture “As Ye Sow”. She appeared in 53 films in the next 10 years, all while continuing to perform on stage, […]

Olympe Bradna (1920 - 2012)

Actress. A pretty brunette, she is remembered for starring in several late 1930s Hollywood films. Born Antoinette Olympe Bradna to a circus family that pushed her into show business, she was named for Paris’ Olympia Theatre, was seen in her parents’ act from the time she was a toddler, made her formal debut at eight […]

Lovyss Bradley (1906 - 1969)

Actress. Born in Iowa, she took up an offer to go to Hollywood for scene tests in the 1940s. In 1950, she made her film debut as a police woman in the crime drama “Outrage”. Her other movie credits included “Meet Me After the Show” (1951), “Man of Conflict” (1953), “The Unholy Wife” (1957), “This […]

Elizabeth Bradley (1922 - 2000)

Actress. The youngest of two daughters born to senior civil servant Sir John Abraham and his wife, She attended Wentworth School, which she left at the age of 17 , and after studying nursing,  joined the Voluntary Aid Detachment with the British Red Cross where she worked at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in London. […]

Anne Bracegirdle (1970 - 1748)

Actress. Born in the years between 1663 and 1671, records indicate that she was baptized in Northampton on November 15, 1671. She was reportedly raised under the care of the actor Thomas Betterton, who ran a company of players at the Cockpit in Drury Lane. Tradition has it that she made her stage debut in […]

Reizl Bozyk (1914 - 1993)

Actress. A noted actress in Yiddish Theatre, she is best known for her role as ‘Bubbie Kantor’ in the 1988 motion picture “Crossing Delancey”. She appeared on television in “Law & Order” and “Reading Rainbow”, a children’s program.  Family links:  Spouse:  Max Bozyk (1899 – 1970)

Sofía Bozán (1904 - 1958)

Actress, Singer. One of the most emblematic theater actresses that Buenos Aires ever had. Acted with famous tango singer Carlos Gardel in the movie “Luces de Buenos Aires”. (bio by: Guada)

Olinda Bozán (1894 - 1977)

Famed actress. She was one of the milestones of the Argentine theater. She began his career at age 5 in a circus. During her long career, she participated in 51 films. (bio by: 380W)

Grace Bradley Boyd (1913 - 2010)

Actress. Though she starred in several dozen Hollywood features of the 1930s and 1940s, she will perhaps be better remembered as the wife of actor William Boyd, the screen’s Hopalong Cassidy. Raised in New York, she trained as a classical pianist at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, New York, but after winning a […]

Belle Boyd (1844 - 1900)

Civil War Confederate Spy. One of the most famous clandestine agents of the Southern Confederacy, she served the rebel forces in the Shenandoah Valley. Born in Martinsburg, Virginia (now part of West Virginia), she operated her spying operations from her fathers hotel in Front Royal, providing valuable information to Generals Turner Ashby and Thomas “Stonewall” […]

Dorris Bowdon (1914 - 2005)

Actress. She was the widow of Oscar-nominated screenwriter Nunnally Johnson. She was also the grandmother of actor Jack Johnson who played Will Robinson in the feature film version of “Lost in Space.” She is best remembered for her performance as Rose-of-Sharon in John Ford’s classic film “The Grapes of Wrath.” Also she worked with director […]

Clara Bow (1905 - 1965)

Actress. Known as the ‘It Girl,’ Clara Bow is considered America’s first “Sex Symbol”. Born to poverty in Brooklyn, New York, she won a photo beauty contest that launched her film career in 1922. She was “discovered” while working at a Coney Island Hot Dog stand run by Nathan Handwerker, who would later find fame in his […]

Whitney Bourne (1914 - 1988)

Actress. Born to George Galt and Helen Whitney Bourne in New York. Known as Whitney Bourne and born into the lifestyle of a socialite, her parents divorced while she was still young. Whitney would make her Broadway debut in Firebird in 1932. Having a five year career, Whitney had a contract with MacArhur and Hecht, […]

Nina Borget (1909 - 1997)

Actress. Her films include “Marie Galante” (1934), “Till We Meet Again” (1944), “The Blue Dahlia” (1946), “That Forsythe Woman” (1949), “Funny Face” (1957).  Nina’s headstone reads: Countess Nina de Ravenne. Sister of actors Raymond and Charles De Ravenne and Arthur Dulac. (bio by: TLS)

Guy Clark (1941 - 2016)

Guy Clark was an accomplished luthier and often played his own guitars. He achieved success as a songwriter with Jerry Jeff Walker’s recordings of “L.A. Freeway” and “Desperados Waiting for a Train”. Artists such as Johnny Cash, David Allan Coe, Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs, Steve Wariner, Hayes Carll, Brad Paisley, John Denver, Alan Jackson, Rodney […]

Chili Bouchier (1909 - 1999)

Actress. Born Dorothy Irene Boucher into a close knit family in London, Chili Bouchier went to work at Harrods as a model at the age of 15. After being fired for being seduced by one of the store’s floorwalkers, she responded to a newspaper advertisement offering help getting into movies. Bouchier, started working in the […]

Denise Borino Borino-Quinn (1964 - 2010)

Actress. She portrayed overweight mob wife Ginny Sacramone in the hit HBO series “The Sopranos” from 2001 until its conclusion in 2007. A graduate of West Essex High School, she was a legal assistant in New Brunswick, New Jersey, who accompanied a childhood friend to an open casting call for the successful Mafia-themed show; to […]

Nina Borget (1909 - 1997)

Actress. Her films include “Marie Galante” (1934), “Till We Meet Again” (1944), “The Blue Dahlia” (1946), “That Forsythe Woman” (1949), “Funny Face” (1957).  Nina’s headstone reads: Countess Nina de Ravenne. Sister of actors Raymond and Charles De Ravenne and Arthur Dulac. (bio by: TLS)

Lyda Borelli (1884 - 1959)

Lyda Borelli (22 March 1884 – 2 June 1959) was an Italian actress of cinema and theatre. She was born in Genoa, and died in Rome. Her career in theatre started when she was a child, acting on stage with Paola Pezzaglia in the French drama I due derelitti.

Irene Bordoni (1895 - 1953)

Irene Bordoni made her Broadway debut in a Shubert brothers production of Broadway to Paris at the Winter Garden Theatre and was a successor to Anna Held as Broadway’s idea of French piquancy and Continental flavor. She was in Miss Information (1915) and successive productions of Hitchy-Koo (1917 and 1918). 1919 audiences saw Bordoni in […]

Roz Borden (1932 - 2003)

Marilyn and Rosalyn Borden were born in Hartford, Connecticut on May 29, 1932 to Harry (1906–1973) and Elizabeth Borden (1909–1995) and would be followed by a younger sister, Barbara, in 1945. Shortly after the birth of Barbara, Harry left the family. The Borden Twins got into acting with the encouragement of their parents and as children […]

Shirley Booth (1898 - 1992)

Actress. A prolific stage performer of the 20th Century, Shirley Booth is beloved by film audiences as the emotionally tortured but devoted wife, Lola Delaney in “Come Back Little Sheba” (1952),  and by television viewers as Hazel Burke, the headstrong yet lovable housekeeper in the 1960s sitcom “Hazel”. Born Marjory Ford in New York City, […]

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 […]

Karin Booth (1916 - 2003)

Actress and Dancer. Born in Minneapolis, Minnesota as June Hoffman to Francis T. and Ebba V. Hoffman. She signed with Paramount in 1941, where she was billed as Katherine Booth. She moved to MGM in 1942, and changed her screen name to Karin Booth. She began in The Unfinished Dance in 1947 and The Big […]