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Norma Shearer

Norma Shearer(Edith Norma Shearer)actressBorn: 8/10/1900Birthplace: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Academy Award-winning actress considered the First Lady of the Screen during the early days of Hollywood,…

Norma Shearer Biography

Norma Shearer(Edith Norma Shearer)actressBorn: 8/10/1900Birthplace: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Academy Award-winning actress considered the First Lady of the Screen during the early days of Hollywood,…

Helen Hull Jacobs Biography

Helen Hull Jacobs Age: 88 winner of nine major tennis championships, including the U.S. national title four straight times from 1932–35; Wimbledon singles champ in 1936; was a regular on the U.…

Isaac Gimbel Biography

Isaac GimbelretailerBorn: 1857Birthplace: Vincennes, Ind. Began working in his father's retailing enterprise at age 13. With his seven brothers, formed the Gimbel Brothers chain of stores in…

Albert ESTOPINAL, Congress, LA (1845-1919)

ESTOPINAL Albert , a Representative from Louisiana; born in St. Bernard Parish, La., January 30, 1845; attended the public and private schools; left school in January 1862 to enlist in the…

Helen Shaver Biography

Helen ShaveractressBorn: 2/24/1951Birthplace: St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada This seductive blonde actress graced a number of films of the 1980s, playing opposite Paul Newman in The Color of…

Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne

Broadway couple who reigned for 55 years by David Johnson Called the greatest husband and wife team in theater history, Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne appeared in their first play together, A…

Those Quotable Irish

John Millington Synge, W.B. Yeats, and others Compiled by David Johnson, Ann Marie Imbornoni, and Borgna Brunner   The Irish have always been recognized as having the gift of gab, so…

1980 Gramophone Awards

ChamberBrahms, Piano Quintet, Quartetto Italiano; solo: Pollini (Deutsche Grammophon)ChoralHandel, L'Allegro, il Penseroso, John Eliot Gardiner conducting Monteverdi Choir (Erato)…