All Entries Tagged With: "David O. Selznick"
Alida Valli
Date of Birth: 31 May 1921 Birth Name: Alida Maria Laura von Altenburger Height: 5′ 5″ (1.65 m) Mini Biography: This enigmatic, dark-haired foreign import was dubbed “The Next Garbo” but didn’t live up to post-war expectations despite her cool, patrician beauty, remote allure and significant talent. Born in Pola, Italy (now Croatia), on May [...]
Dorothy McGuire
Date of Birth: 14 June 1916 Birth Name: Dorothy Hackett McGuire Nickname: Dottie Mini Biography: A genuine model of sincerity, practicality and dignity in most of the roles she inhabited, actress Dorothy McGuire offered Tinseltown more talent than it probably knew what to do with. A quiet, passive beauty, she had a soothing quality to [...]
Virginia Mayo
Date of Birth: 30 November 1920 Birth Name: Virginia Clara Jones Nickname: Ginny Height: 5′ 5″ (1.65 m) Mini Biography: Virginia Clara Jones was born on November 30, 1920 in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of a newspaper reporter and his wife. The family had a rich heritage in the St. Louis area: her great-great-great-grandfather [...]
Val Lewton
Date of Birth: 7 May 1904 Birth Name: Vladimir Leventon Height: 6′ (1.83 m) Mini Biography: Born in Russia in 1904, Lewton moved with his mother and sister to Berlin in 1906, then to USA in 1909. He wrote for newspapers, magazines, novels, pornography, etc.- often using pseudonyms to disguise their origin (the name Val [...]
Vivien Leigh
Date of Birth: 5 November 1913 Birth Name: Vivian Mary Hartley Nickname: Vivling Height: 5′ 3½” (1.61 m) Mini Biography: If a film were made of the life of Vivien Leigh, it would open in India just before World War I, where a successful British businessman could live like a prince. In the mountains above [...]
Ring Lardner Jr.
Date of Birth: 19 August 1915 Birth Name: Ringgold Wilmer Lardner Jr. Height: 6′ (1.83 m) Mini Biography: The Oscar-winning screenwriter Ring Lardner, Jr. will always be known for one of two things: that he was the son of one of the greatest humorists American literature has produced, and he was one of the Hollywood [...]
Nathalie Krassovska
Date of Birth: 1 June 1918 Mini Biography: Russian-born Nathalie Krassovska trained as a ballerina in Paris, and at age 19 joined the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. She appeared in numerous productions in Europe, and made a few appearances in U.S. films, but when she was offered a contract by producer David O. Selznick, [...]
Hildegard Knef
Date of Birth: 28 December 1925 Birth Name: Hildegard Frieda Albertine Knef Height: 5′ 6¼” (1.68 m) Mini Biography: Hildegard Knef was born in 1925 in the South German city of Ulm. In 1940, she began studying acting. Even before the fall of the Third Reich she appeared in several films, but most of them [...]