Anne Gwynne (1918 - 2003)

Anne Gwynne was born in Waco, Texas, the daughter of Pearl (née Guinn) and Jefferson Benjamin Trice, an apparel manufacturer. After her family moved to St. Louis, Missouri, she attended Stephens College, where she studied drama. While accompanying her father to a convention in Los Angeles, Gwynne obtained a job modeling for Catalina Swimwear. She soon […]

Dorothy Gulliver (1908 - 1997)

Dorothy Kathleen Gulliver (September 6, 1908 – May 23, 1997) was an early silent film star, and one of the few to make a successful transition with the advent of “talkies”, when films began using sound. Dorothy Gulliver was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. Named as a 1928 “WAMPAS Baby Star”, Gulliver was part of […]

Texas Guinan (1884 - 1933)

Texas Guinan was one of seven siblings born in Waco, Texas, to Irish-Canadian immigrants Michael and Bessie (née Duffy) Guinan. She attended parochial school at the Loretta Convent in Waco. When she was 16 years old, her family moved to Denver, Colorado, where she was in amateur stage productions and played the organ in church. […]

Ilka Grüning (1876 - 1964)

Ilka Grüning’s first film, at age 43, was a German silent movie called Todesurteil in 1919. Next, she starred with Conrad Veidt in Peer Gynt. Later that year, she and Veidt appeared in Die sich verkaufen. She continued making silent movies in Germany into the 1920s. In 1920, she appeared in the film Die Bestie im […]

Linda Griffiths (1953 - 2014)

Linda Griffiths was born in Montreal, Quebec. Following her studies at St. Thomas High School, she attended Dawson College, the National Theatre School for one year, and McGill University. She is best known for her 1980 one-woman play Maggie and Pierre, cowritten with Paul Thompson, in which she played both Pierre Trudeau and Margaret Trudeau […]

Lita Grey (1908 - 1995)

Lita Grey was born in Hollywood, California and christened Lillita Louise MacMurray. Her father was of Scottish descent and her mother’s family was descended from an illustrious 9th-generation Californian Spanish family, whose luminaries included Antonio Maria Lugo. The Lugos were from Andalucia, Spain and were one of the first to bring horses to the country. […]

Ena Gregory (1906 - 1993)

In Australia Ena Gregory was known as the child wonder of the vaudeville stage. Her first screen experience came at the age of four when she was shown in her mother’s arms in a crowd which was welcoming British dignitaries. She was first signed in Hollywood for ingenue roles by Universal Pictures in 1921. She also […]

Virginia Gregg (1916 - 1986)

Born in Harrisburg, Illinois, Virginia Gregg was the daughter of musician Dewey Alphaleta (née Todd) and businessman Edward William Gregg. She had a stepsister, Mary. When Virginia Gregg was 5, she and her family moved to Pasadena, California. She attended Jefferson High School, Pasadena Junior College and Pacific Academy of Dramatic Art. Before going into radio, Gregg […]

Pamela Green (1929 - 2010)

Pamela Green born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, England on 28 March 1929, Green attended Saint Martin’s School of Art; she started figure modelling to pay for her art school studies and moved on to photographic modelling because it paid more. She also worked as a dancer and appeared in the Latin Quarter at The […]

Mitzi Green (1920 - 1969)

Mitzi Green was cast in such conventional juvenile parts as Becky Thatcher in Tom Sawyer (1930) and Huckleberry Finn (1931) opposite Jackie Coogan and Jackie Searl. She also starred in the title role of Little Orphan Annie. At the age of 14, she played a soubrette role in Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round (1934). This film closed out […]

Sally Gray (1916 - 2006)

Sally Gray’s mother was a ballet dancer and her grandmother was a “principal boy” in the 1870s. Born Constance Vera Stevens in Holloway, London, Gray made her stage debut at the age of twelve in All God’s Chillun at the Globe Theatre in London, playing a black boy. She then went back to school for two […]

Gilda Gray (1901 - 1970)

Gilda Gray was born as Marianna Michalska in Kraków (then part of Galicia-Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary, now part of Poland) on 24 October 1901, to Max and Wanda Michalski, who emigrated to the United States in 1909 and settled in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She had one sibling, Josephine. When Marianna was 14 or 15 years old[citation needed] she married […]

Dulcie Gray (1915 - 2011)

Dulcie Gray was born in Kuala Lumpur, British Malaya (now Malaysia) in 1915, although she would later shave four years off her age, and attended school in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, later returning to Malaya to teach. After her father’s death, she came back to England. Following a brief period at art school, she enrolled at the […]

Bonita Granville (1923 - 1988)

Bonita was born on February 2, 1923 in New York City, the daughter of Rosina (née Timponi 1892-1984) and Bernard “Bunny” Granville. Both of her parents were stage performers. She made her film debut at the age of nine in Westward Passage (1933). Over the next couple of years, she played uncredited supporting roles in such […]

Nicolette Goulet (1956 - 2008)

Nicolette Goulet (June 9, 1956 – April 17, 2008) was a Canadian-American film, television and musical theatre actress. Goulet got her start in acting on the television series Ryan’s Hope with the role of Mary Ryan Fenelli in 1979. She was the fourth actress to portray the character. She also appeared on three other soaps: Search […]

Milton Rudin (1920 - 1999)

Milton Rudin Milton A. “Mickey” Rudin, a colorful and powerful entertainment lawyer whose name popped into Variety and mainstream news media regularly, along with such stellar clients as Frank Sinatra and Marilyn Monroe, has died at the age of 79. Milton Rudin, who practiced law and made Hollywood waves for more than 50 years, died […]

Sandra Gould (1916 - 1999)

Sandra Gould was born in Brooklyn, New York. She began acting in films with an uncredited role in T-Men (1947), and was the Phone Operator in Romance on the High Seas (1948), Doris Day’s debut film. She appeared in several uncredited roles for the remainder of the decade, and received her first screen credit with […]

Jetta Goudal (1891 - 1985)

Jetta Goudal was born as Julie Henriette Goudeket in 1891, the daughter of Geertruida (née Warradijn; 1866–1920) and Wolf Mozes Goudeket (1860–1942), a wealthy diamond cutter, in Amsterdam. Her parents were both Jewish, and her father was Orthodox. Tall and regal in appearance, she began her acting career on stage, traveling across Europe with various […]

Noele Gordon (1919 - 1985)

Noele Gordon’s father was an engineer in the Merchant Navy and she was born in East Ham, London. She was given the middle name of Noele because she was born on Christmas Day. After attending convent school at Forest Gate, she was taught to dance by Maude Wells and later spent several years living in […]

Dody Goodman (1914 - 2008)

Dody Goodman was born Dolores Goodman in Columbus, Ohio, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dexter Y. Goodman. She had one sister, Rose, and one brother, Dexter Jr. She attended Columbus North High School and is a member of the Hall of Fame at Columbus North High School. She attended Northwestern University, where […]

Maxine Cooper (1924 - 2009)

Maxine Cooper was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1924 to Richard and Gladys Cooper. Her father was employed as a General Electric distributor. She first became interested in the theater and acting while she was enrolled as a student at Bennington College in Vermont. Cooper transferred to the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California, where she […]

Sarah Madison (1974 - 2014)

Sarah Danielle Madison (September 6, 1974–September 27, 2014), sometimes credited as Sarah Danielle Goldberg, was an American actress. Sarah Madison was born Sarah Goldberg in Springfield, Illinois. Sarah Madison was a 1992 graduate of Latin School of Chicago. Sarah Madison attended Amherst College and graduated in 1996 with a BS in microbiology, decided to pursue her dreams […]

Louise Glaum (1888 - 1970)

Louise Glaum (September 4, 1888 – November 25, 1970) was an American actress. Known for her role as a femme fatale in silent era motion picture dramas, she was credited with giving one of the best characterizations of a vamp in her early career. Louise Glaum began her acting career on the stage in Los Angeles, […]

Margalo Gillmore (1897 - 1986)

Margalo Gillmore was the daughter of Frank Gillmore, former president of Actors’ Equity, and the actress Laura MacGillivray, and the sister of actress Ruth Gillmore. Her great-aunt was the British actor-manager Sarah Thorne, and her great-uncles were the actors Thomas Thorne and George Thorne. A fourth-generation actor on her father’s side, she trained at the American […]

Virginia Gibson (1925 - 2013)

Virginia Gibson, born Virginia Gorski, (April 9, 1925 – April 25, 2013) was an American dancer, singer and actress of film, television and musical theatre. Virginia Gibson, known as Virginia Gorski until she was signed by Warner Brothers in the 1950s, started her career in musicals in her hometown of St. Louis, MO and on Broadway. […]

Margaret Gibson (1894 - 1964)

By her own account Margaret Gibson’s parents had worked in show business. She began her stage career at the age of 12, apparently when her father left and she remained as the sole means of support for her mother. Gibson appeared on the Pantages Vaudeville Circuit for over two years. In 1909 she became a […]

Dorothy Gibson (1889 - 1946)

Dorothy Gibson was born on May 17, 1889 to John A. Brown and Pauline Caroline Boesen as Dorothy Winifred Brown in Hoboken, New Jersey. Her father died when she was three years old, and her mother married John Leonard Gibson. Between 1906 and 1911, she appeared on stage as a singer and dancer in a […]

Rebekah Gibbs (1973 - 2014)

Rebekah Gibbs (17 March 1973 – 11 November 2014) was an English television and musical theatre actress. Born in Torquay, Devon, Rebekah Gibbs attended, Cockington Primary School, Torquay Academy and the Doreen Bird College of Performing Arts in Sidcup. Rebekah Gibbs appeared in such West End musical productions as Starlight Express, Grease, and Fame before landing […]

Carmelita Geraghty (1901 - 1966)

The daughter of screenwriter Tom Geraghty, she was the sister of writers Maurice and Gerald Geraghty. Although born in Indiana she was educated mostly in New York City. She went on to be a graduate of the Hollywood High School and was in the graduating class of 1919. Though her parents wished her to stay […]

Gladys George (1904 - 1954)

Gladys George (September 13, 1904 – December 8, 1954) was an American actress of stage and screen. She was born as Gladys Clare Evans on September 13, 1904 in Patten, Maine to English parents. Gladys George went on the stage at the age of three and toured the United States, appearing with her parents. She starred on […]