Hollywood Classics

  ================================================ Wednesday, September 30, 2020. 12:29. PM. Estelle Taylor - Actress, singer, model, animal rights activist ----------------------------------------------------------- 1. Profile : *Taylor in 1929 Born Ida Estelle Taylor, May 20, 1894, Wilmington, Delaware, U.S. Died April 15, 1958 (aged 63, Los Angeles, California Resting place Hollywood Forever Cemetery Occupation Actress, singer, model, animal rights activist Years active 1919–1945 Spouse(s) 1. Kenneth Malcolm Peacock - (m. 1911; div. 1925)? 2. Jack Dempsey - (m. 1925; div. 1931) 3. Paul Small - (m. 1943; div. 1945) ------------------------------------ 2. Introduction : Ida Estelle Taylor (May 20, 1894 – April 15, 1958) was an American actress, singer, model, and animal rights activist.With "dark-brown, almost black hair and brown eyes," she was regarded as one of the most beautiful silent film stars of the 1920s. After her stage debut in 1919, Taylor began appea...

  *With daughter =============================== Wednesday, September 23, 2020. 6:50.PM. Ann Harding - Actress. ---------------------------------------------------------- 1. Profile : *Ann Harding in 1930 Born Dorothy Walton Gatley, August 7, 1902, San Antonio, Texas, U.S. Died September 1, 1981 (aged 79), Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California, U.S. Resting place Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) Occupation Actress Years active 1921–1965 Spouse(s) 1.Harry Bannister - ?(m. 1926; div. 1932)? 2.Werner Janssen - ?(m. 1937; div. 1962)? Children 2 ----------------------------------------------------- 2. Introduction : Ann Harding (born Dorothy Walton Gatley, August 7, 1902 – September 1, 1981) was an American theatre, motion picture, radio, and television actress. A regular player on Broadway and in regional theater in the 1920s, in the 1930s Harding was one of the first actresses to gain fame in the new medium of "talking pictures", and she was nominated fo...

  ============================ Sunday, September 20, 2020. 8:11. AM. Grace Moore : Actress --------------------------------------------------- 1. Introduction : #*Grace Moore photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1933 Grace Moore (December 5, 1898 – January 26, 1947) was an American operatic soprano and actress in musical theatre and film. She was nicknamed the "Tennessee Nightingale." Her films helped to popularize opera by bringing it to a larger audience. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in One Night of Love. In 1947, Moore died in a plane crash at the age of 48. She published an autobiography in 1944 titled You're Only Human Once. In 1953, a film about her life was released titled So This Is Love starring Kathryn Grayson. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. Early life : Moore was born Mary Willie Grace Moore, the daughter of Tessa Jane (née Stokely) and Ri...

=============================================== Thursday, September 03, 2020. 08:20. PM. Betty Bronson - Actress --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Profile : Born Elizabeth Ada Bronson, November 17, 1906, Trenton, New Jersey, U.S. Died October 19, 1971 (aged 64), Pasadena, California, U.S. Occupation Actress Years active 1922–1971 Spouse(s) Ludwig Lauerhass ----------------------------------------------------- 2. Introduction : Elizabeth Ada "Betty" Bronson (November 17, 1906 – October 19, 1971) was an American film and television actress who began her career during the silent film era. -------------------------------------------------------- 3. Early years : Bronson was born in Trenton, New Jersey, to Frank and Nellie Smith Bronson. She moved to East Orange, New Jersey and attended East Orange High School until she "convinced her parents to let her move to California to aid her care...