Millie Perkins: “When I became a movie star for a few minutes, it took me all over the world”

The whole world is familiar with and has been for the past six decades deeply impressed by the moving diary of Anne Frank, and consequently, most people also know the film version of “The Dia…

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Brigitte Bardot: “I can’t even go to the dentist without being followed or being photographed”

One of the most famous stars ever to grace the screen, former French actress and superstar Brigitte Bardot (b. 1934) has not been involved in motion pictures ever since her retirement from the scre…

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Lesley Ann Warren: “If you’ve made it this far, you’ve got something unique and special”

Stage, screen, and television actress Lesley Ann Warren (b. 1946), here in a still from Mark Rydell’s “Harry and Walter Go to New York” (1976; picture: Dave Friedman), started her…

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Louise Fletcher: “Rejection is just something you eat every day, like it’s your breakfast”

Actress Louise Fletcher (b. 1934) wrote film history when she portrayed the character of an atrocious and strong-willed head nurse in a mental institution in the screen classic “One Flew Over the C…

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Joan Leslie: “At one point, I was beginning to look more like a secure, mature, American woman”

Former screen actress Joan Leslie, one of the last surviving stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age and highly popular during the wartime years, passed away in Los Angeles at age 90 on October 12, 2015. I…

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Veerle Baetens: “The audience must identify with a character, they have to recognize themselves”

Who is Veerle Baetens, you might think. And you’re right. So far, this 37-year old captivating and very gifted actress is world-famous in her native Flanders, but right now, she’s expanding h…

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“From Switzerland, with love”: in the footsteps of Academy Award-winning actress Audrey Hepburn

I always thought it was pretty intriguing that some of Hollywood’s most enduring screen personalities decided at one point to move to the European continent while at the peak of their careers…

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Marsha Hunt: “MGM let me play absolutely everything, the studio gave me such joy”

As a 17-year-old teenager, Marsha Hunt played her first leading role in her debut film, “The Virginia Judge” (1935), at Paramount, with Walter C. Kelly in the title role. By the time she was 20, sh…

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When you wish upon a star: Audrey Hepburn’s early years in her native Elsene, near Brussels

Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4, 1929, as Audrey Kathleen Ruston, in Elsene near Brussels. Her father, Joseph Victor Anthony Ruston (1889–1980), was of Austrian and British descent, while her moth…

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Brenda Vaccaro: “Actors can bring so much that you never even thought about”

Screen, stage, and television actress Brenda Vaccaro (b. 1939), a Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winner, as well as a Tony Award and Academy Award nominee, was an instrumental and leading figure who s…

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