Actresses Flashcards
Audrey Hepburn (Audrey Kathleen Ruston)
1929-1993 British actress, model, ballet dancer, y humanitarian - Born in Belgium y lived in Netherlands during WWII - Roman Holiday (1953-Best Actress); Sabrina (1954); Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961); Charade (1963); My Fair Lady (1964) - Worked for UNICEF later in life
Best Actress 1928-1939
- 1928 - Janet Gaynor - 7th Heaven / Street Angel / Sunrise
- 1929 - Mary Pickford - Coquette
- 1930 - Norma Shearer - The Divorcee
- 1931 - Marie Dressler - Min and Bill
- 1932 - Helen Hayes - The Sin of Madelon Claudet
- 1933 - Katharine Hepburn - Morning Glory
- 1934 - Claudette Colbert - It Happened One Night
- 1935 - Bette Davis - Dangerous
- 1936 - Luise Rainer - The Great Ziegfeld
- 1937 - Luise Rainer - The Good Earth
- 1938 - Bette Davis - Jezebel
- 1939 - Vivien Leigh - Gone with the Wind
Best Actress winners - 2000-09
2000 - Julia Roberts - Erin Brockovich
2001 - Halle Berry - Monster’s Ball (only Afr-American winner)
2002 - Nicole Kidman - The Hours
2003 - Charlize Theron - Monster
2004 - Hilary Swank - Million Dollar Baby
2005 - Reese Witherspoon - Walk the Line
2006 - Helen Mirren - The Queen
2007 - Marion Cotillard - La Vie en Rose
2008 - Kate Winslet - The Reader
2009 - Sandra Bullock - The Blind Side
Best Actress winners - 2010-2019
2010 - Natalie Portman - Black Swan
2011 - Meryl Streep - The Iron Lady
2012 - Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook
2013 - Cate Blanchett - Blue Jasmine
2014 - Julianne Moore - Still Alice
2015 - Brie Larson - Room
2016 - Emma Stone - La La Land
2017 - Frances McDormand - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
2018 - Olivia Colman - The Favourite
2019 - Renée Zellweger - Judy
Best Actress - 2020-29
- 2020 - Frances McDormand (3rd) - Nomadland
Bette Davis (Ruth Elizabeth Davis)
1908-1989 American actress from Lowell, MA - Dangerous (1935 Best Actress); Jezebel (1938-Best Actress); Now Voyager (1942); All About Eve (1950) - Nominated for 10 Academy awards, won 2 - 1st woman to receive Lifetime Achievement Award from AFI (1977)
Betty Grable (Elizabeth Ruth Grable)
1916-73 American actress y model from St. Louis - I Wake Up Screaming (1941); The Dolly Sisters (1945); How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) - Acheived fame as a pin-up model, showing off her “Million Dollar Legs” - Highest-salaried American woman during the late 1940s, earning over $3 mil in her career
Clara Bow
1905-65 American actress from NYC - First acheived fame with the silent movie It (1927), which earned her the nickname “The It Girl” - Mantrap (1926); Wings (1927); The Wild Party (1929) - Retired in 1933 at age 28, y became a rancher in NV
Dorothy Dandridge
1922-1965 American actress y singer from Cleveland - Carmen Jones (1954); Porgy and Bess (1959); Bright Road (1953) - First African-American to be nominated for Best Actress (Carmen Jones) - Preformed as a nightclub singer with the Dandridge Sisters - Died under mysterious circumstances at age 42
Ethel Merman
1908-84 American actress y singer from NYC - Known primarily for her distinctive, powerful voice y leading roles in musical theatre - Theatre performances: Call Me Madam (1950); Happy Hunting (1956); Gypsy (1959); Hello, Dolly! (1970) - Introduced the songs “I Got Rhythm” (1930-from Girl Crazy); “Rose’s Turn” (1959-from Gypsy); “Anything Goes” (1934); “There’s No Business Like Show Business” (1946-from Annie Get Your Gun)
(Dorothy) Faye Dunaway
1941- American actress from FL - Bonnie and Clyde (1967); The Thomas Crown Affair (1968); The Towering Inferno (1974); Chinatown (1975); Network (1976-Best Actress); Mommie Dearest (1981-playing Joan Crawford) - Makes very few public appearances
Grace Kelly
1929-82 American actress y princess from PA - Mogambo (1953); The Country Girl (1954-Best Actress); High Noon (1952); Rear Window (1954); Dial M for Murder (1954) - Retired from acting at age 26 to marry Prince Rainier III of Monaco in 1956
Greta Garbo (Greta Lovisa Gustafsson)
1905-1990 Swedish actress from Stockholm - Anna Christie (1930-tagline: “Garbo talks!”); Romance (1930); Grand Hotel (1932); Camille (1936); Ninotchka (1939) - “Liked to be alone”, y lived reclusive life after retiring in 1941 at age 35
Hedy Lamarr (Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler)
1914-2000 Austrian-born American film actress y inventor - Ecstasy (1933-one of 1st films with nudity y sex scene); Algiers (1938); Comrade X (1940) - Self-trained as an engineer, y worked with Howard Hughes on airplane aerodynamics - Developed y patented radio-controlled torpedoes during WWII, later used by the US Navy
Helen Hayes
1900-1993 American actress from DC - Nicknamed the “First Lady of the American Theatre” - Won an EGOT (1 of 12 people) - Awarded Pres Med of Freedom in 1986 - Plays: Happy Birthday (1947-Tony for Best Leading Actress); Time Remembered (1958-Best Leading Actress); Harvey (1970) - Films: The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931-Best Actress); Airport (1970-Best Supporting Actress at age 70)
Jean Harlow (Harlean Harlow Carpenter)
1911-37 American actress from Kansas City - Hell’s Angels (1930); Dinner at Eight (1933); China Seas (1935); Bombshell (1933) - Sex symbol of the 1930’s, nicknamed the Blonde Bombshell, y the Platinum Blonde - Chronically ill throughout her life, y died at age 26 of kidney failure while shooting the film Saratoga
Joan Crawford
1906-1977 American acctress from San Antonio - Grand Hotel (1932); Mildred Pierce (1945-Best Actress); Sudden Fear (1952); Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) - Subject of the memoir Mommie Dearest (1978), written by her daughter Christina - Long-time rival of Bette Davis - Married president of Pepsi, Alfred Steele, in 1955
Judy Garland (Frances Ethel Gumm)
1922-69 American actress y singer from MN - Wizard of Oz (1939); The Harvey Girls (1946); Judgement at Nuremberg (1961); A Star is Born (1954) - Started career in vaudeville - Mother of actress Liza Minelli (1946-) - Struggled with personal life, y died of barbiturate overdose at age 47
Katherine (Houghton) Hepburn
1907-2003 American actress from CT - Morning Glory (1934-Best Actress); Alice Adams (1936); The Philadelphia Story (1941); The African Queen (1952); Suddenly, Last Summer (1960); Long Day’s Journey into Night (1963); Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1968-Best Actress); The Lion in Winter (1969-Best Actress); On Golden Pond (1982-Best Actress) - Most Oscar wins (4) of any performer - Considered the greatest female star of Classic Hollywood Cinema - Had a secret 26-year affair with her frequent co-star Spencer Tracy
Luise Rainer
1910-2014 German-American actress from Hamburg - The Great Ziegfeld (1936-Best Actress); The Good Earth (1937-Best Actress) - 1st actor to win 2 Oscars - Few film roles after 2nd win
Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jeane Mortenson)
1926-62 American actress y model from Los Angeles - Some Like it Hot (1959); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953); The Seven Year Itch (1955); How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) - Famous for playing comic “blonde bombshell” characters - Married 3 times, to James Dougherty (1942-46); Joe DiMaggio (1954-55); Arthur Miller (1956-61) - Committed suicide at age 36 by barbiturate overdose
Sarah Bernhardt (Henriette Rosine Bernard)
1844-1923 French stage y early film actress - Aka “The Divine Sarah” - Called “the most famous actress the world has ever known”, y is regarded as one of the finest actors of all time - Made her fame on the stages of France in the 1870s, at the beginning of the Belle Epoque period - One of the first actresses to star in moving pictures
Tippi Hedren (Nathalie Kay Hedren)
1930- American actress from MN - Worked as a model, before being discovered by Alfred Hitchcock - The Birds (1963); Marnie (1964); Mulligans! (1997); I Heart Huckabees (2004) - Has worked as an animal rights activist since 1969 - Mother of Melanie Griffith (Working Girl, Something Wild), y grandmother of Dakota Johnson (Fifty Shades of Grey)
