MARLON BRANDO
Marlon Brando Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor and film director with a career spanning 60 years, during which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor twice. He is regarded as arguably the greatest and most influential actor in 20th-century film.Brando was also an activist for many causes, notably the civil rights movement and various Native American movements. Having studied with Stella Adler in the 1940s, he is credited with being one of the first actors to bring the Stanislavski system of acting and method acting, derived from the Stanislavski system, to mainstream audiences.
CLINT EASTWOOD
Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, film director, composer, and producer. After achieving success in the Western TV series Rawhide, he rose to international fame with his role as the "Man with No Name" in Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's "Dollars Trilogy" of Spaghetti Westerns during the mid-1960s, and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in the five Dirty Harry films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, among others, have made Eastwood an enduring cultural icon of masculinity.[23][24] His accolades include four Academy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, three César Awards, and an AFI Life Achievement Award.
JACK LEMMON
Lemmon was born on February 8, 1925, in an elevator at Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts.He was the only child of Mildred Burgess (née LaRue; 1896–1967) and John Uhler Lemmon II (1893–1962), president of the Doughnut Corporation of America.John Uhler Lemmon II was of Irish heritage, and Jack Lemmon was raised Catholic.[His parents had a difficult marriage, and separated permanently when Lemmon was 18, but never divorced. He attended John Ward Elementary School in Newton and the Rivers School in Weston, Massachusetts. Often unwell as a child, Lemmon had three significant operations on his ears before he turned 10.[7] He had spent two years in hospital by the time he turned 12.
MARILYN MONROE
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Monroe spent most of her childhood in foster homes and an orphanage and married at age 16. She was working in a factory during World War II when she met a photographer from the First Motion Picture Unit and began a successful pin-up modeling career, which led to short-lived film contracts with 20th Century Fox and Columbia Pictures. After a series of minor film roles, she signed a new contract with Fox in late 1950. Over the next two years, she became a popular actress with roles in several comedies, including As Young as You Feel and Monkey Business, and in the dramas Clash by Night and Don't Bother to Knock. She faced a scandal when it was revealed that she had posed for nude photos before she became a star, but the story did not damage her career and instead resulted in increased interest in her films.
JOAN SHAWLEE
Shawlee had a recurring role on TV in The Dick Van Dyke Show as Fiona "Pickles" Sorrell,wife of writer Maurice "Buddy" Sorrell (Morey Amsterdam). She played the lead in The Adventures of Aggie (1956–57), which only ran for one season.20 She played Lorna Peterson on Betty Hutton's short-lived series:94 Goldie; Margo on the 1976–77 crime drama The Feather and Father Gang;338 and Tessie on Joe's World.[7]:537-538 She was also a regular on The Abbott and Costello Show.[7] She played a dead criminal's wife in Stories of the Century with Jim Davis and a 1957 episode of Maverick titled "Stampede", starring James Garner and Efrem Zimbalist Jr., in which she portrayed the exuberant Madame Pompey. Her final acting appearance was in an episode of Crazy Like a Fox in 1985.
BARBARA DREW
Barbara Drew was an actress of radio, stage, television and film. Her most memorable film role was as Tony Curtis' girlfriend, Nellie, in the 1960 classic "Some Like It Hot".
Born in the Panama Canal Zone and raised in South America, she came to Miami as a young woman where she met and married Worthington Hipple (brother of late actor Hugh Marlowe). They moved to Chicago where she started her career in radio on WGN in "The Wishing Well". After her divorce in 1948 she moved to New York to study acting, which eventually led to roles on the Broadway stage in "Voice of the Turtle" and "La Fortza del Destino". In 1958 she moved to Hollywood and played various roles in many popular television series such as "I Love Lucy". She was in the Pasadena Playhose production of "Bus Stop" and "Holiday for Lovers".
GRACE LEE WHITNEY
Whitney was born on April 1, 1930, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and was adopted by the Whitney family, who changed her name to Grace Elaine. She started her entertainment career as a "girl singer" on Detroit's WJR radio at the age of 14. After she left home, she began to call herself Lee Whitney, eventually becoming known as Grace Lee Whitney. In her late teens, she moved to Chicago, where she opened in nightclubs for Billie Holiday and Buddy Rich, and toured with the Spike Jones and Fred Waring bands.
BEVERLY WILLS
She was born in 1933 as Beverly Josephine Williams in Los Angeles to actress and comedian Joan Davis and actor and writer Si Wills. Wills made her film debut in George White's Scandals (1945) when she was 11 years old. Mickey (1948) followed three years later.
In 1952, at the age of 18, Wills appeared with her mother and Jim Backus in the TV comedy I Married Joan (1952–55). She played the younger sister of her real-life mother.[2] After the series ended its run, Wills appeared in four more films, including Some Like It Hot (1959) and Son of Flubber (1963).