Evelyn Nesbit (category American silent film actresses)
25, 1884 or 1885 – January 25, 1967) was an American artists' model, chorus girl, and actress. She is best known for her career in New York City, as well...
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1984 American period biographical drama film directed by Miloš Forman, and adapted by Peter Shaffer from his 1979 stage play of the same name, in turn...
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The Whispering Chorus is a 1918 American silent psychological drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. It is the first and earliest film considered a psychological...
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What's His Name is a 1914 American comedy-drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. A 35mm print of this film exists in the George Eastman House film archive...
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Minta Durfee (category American film actresses)
Masquerader (1914, Short) as leading lady His New Profession (1914, Short) The Rounders (1914, Short) as Fatty's wife Lover's Luck (1914, Short) as The Girl Fatty's...
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Dona Drake (category 1914 births)
Dona Drake (/ˈdoʊnə/ DOH-nə; November 15, 1914 – June 20, 1989) was an American singer, dancer, and film actress in the 1930s and 1940s. She was typically...
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Cabiria (category 1914 films)
Cabiria is a 1914 Italian epic silent film, directed by Giovanni Pastrone and shot in Turin. The film is set in ancient Sicily, Carthage, and Cirta during...
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film) Married Life (1921 film) Marry the Girl (1935 film) Marty (film) (1955) Martyr (film) (1927) Marvin's Room (film) (1996) Mary Magdalene (1914 film)...
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Ziegfeld Follies (redirect from Ziegfield Girl)
Ziegfeld Follies were known for displaying beautiful chorus girls, commonly called Ziegfeld Girls, who "paraded up and down flights of stairs as anything...
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Florence Lawrence (redirect from Imp Girl)
that the first named film star was French actor Max Linder. At the height of her fame in the 1910s, she was known as the "Biograph Girl" for work as one of...
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Priscilla Lawson (category 1914 births)
Miami Beach in 1935, after which she was employed as an Earl Carroll chorus girl at the Miami Casino. This gained her a contract with Universal Studios...
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Olive Carey (category American film actresses)
Orphan Tess of the Storm Country (1914) – Teola Graves When the Gods Played a Badger Game (1915) – Marie – a Chorus Girl Such Is Life (1915) – Olive Trent...
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Marilyn Miller (category American film actresses)
Comedy Star Bride of Dancer Who Was in Chorus" The New York Times Staff (April 20, 1937) "Charge of Support By Wife Irked O'Brien: Marilyn Miller's Sister...
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Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. (section Films)
Gershwin and Jerome Kern. The Follies featured the famous Ziegfeld girls, female chorus dancers who wore elaborate costumes and performed in synchronization...
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error he committed in compiling his own music in the 1930s. This led to his soundtracks for The Youth of Maxim and Girl Friends sharing the same opus number...
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Roman Scandals (category Template film date with 1 release date)
this film. In addition to the starring actors in the picture, the elaborate dance numbers are performed by the "Goldwyn Girls" (who in this film include...
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Oh! What a Lovely War (category Template film date with 1 release date)
Chorus Girl Carole Gray as Chorus Girl Bernard Jarvis as the whistling blowing soldier in the trench Jane Seymour as Chorus Girl (uncredited and film...
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Ruth Donnelly (category American film actresses)
made her first film appearance in 1914, her Hollywood career began in 1931 and lasted until 1957. In her films, she often played the wife of Guy Kibbee...
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of a chorus girl, and finally as a burlesque dancer. He was immediately successful, and featured in the 1914 Ziegfeld Follies. He and his wife settled...
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Marion Davies (category Ziegfeld girls)
the school to pursue a career as a chorus girl. As a teenager, she appeared in several Broadway musicals and one film, Runaway Romany (1917). She soon became...
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Audrey Munson (redirect from Panama–Pacific Girl)
and film actress, considered to be "America's first supermodel." In her time, she was variously known as "Miss Manhattan", the "Panama–Pacific Girl", the...
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Billie Brockwell (category American film actresses)
performing as a chorus girl in vaudeville, Brockwell entered the film industry in 1913, aged 38, and was continually cast as either a wife or mother. She...
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Lon Chaney (category American male film actors)
In 1915, Chaney married one of his former colleagues in the Kolb and Dill company, a recently divorced chorus girl named Hazel Hastings. The new couple...
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Gladys Feldman (category Ziegfeld girls)
Feldman appeared in the 1910 Broadway show The Girl and the Kaiser, which led to her working as a chorus girl in La Belle Paree (1911) and Tortajada (1911)...
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leading man with Tallulah Bankhead. He met his first wife while playing in The Girl on the Film. On 24 February 1914, Viscount Dangan married Mae Josephine...
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James Kirkwood Sr. (category American male film actors)
Pulitzer Prize for A Chorus Line. Previously he had been married to Gertrude Robinson, with whom he also had a child. During his marriage to Robinson...
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Dorothy Gibson (category American silent film actresses)
prints were destroyed in a 1914 fire at the Eclair Studios in New Jersey. The loss of the motion picture is considered by film historians to be one of the...
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The Pirates of Penzance (category Operas adapted into films)
(Mabel and Chorus of Girls) 16. "Then, Frederic, let your escort lion-hearted" (Frederic and Major-General) 17. "When the foeman bares his steel" (Mabel...
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Wallace Ford (category English male film actors)
He met his future wife, Martha Haworth, in 1922 while they were performing together on Broadway in Abie's Irish Rose, she being a chorus girl at the time...
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Marie Dressler (category Canadian film actresses)
had to be a quick study". Dressler made her professional debut as a chorus girl named Cigarette in the play Under Two Flags, a dramatization of life...
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