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YVONNE DE CARLO ,CANADIAN-AMERICAN ACTRESS BORN 1922 SEPTEMBER 1 - 2007 JANUARY 8

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  YVONNE DE CARLO ,CANADIAN-AMERICAN ACTRESS  BORN 1922 SEPTEMBER 1 - 2007 JANUARY 8 Yvonne De Carlo (born Margaret Yvonne Middleton; September 1, 1922 – January 8, 2007) was a Canadian-American actress, dancer, and singer. She became an internationally famous Hollywood film star in the 1940s and 50s, made several recordings, and later acted on television and stage. Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, De Carlo's mother enrolled her in a local dance school when she was three. By the early 1940s, she and her mother had moved to Los Angeles, where De Carlo participated in beauty contests and worked as a dancer in nightclubs. She began working in motion pictures in 1941, in short subjects. She sang "The Lamp of Memory" in a three-minute Soundies musical and in 1942 signed a three-year contract with Paramount Pictures, where she was given uncredited bit parts in important films. Her first lead was for independent producer E.B. Derr in the James Fenimore Cooper adventure Deers...

MUNAWAR SULTANA HINDI ACTRESS 1924 NOVEMBER 8- 2007 SEPTEMBER 15

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MUNAWAR SULTANA HINDI ACTRESS 1924 NOVEMBER 8- 2007 SEPTEMBER 15 Munawar Sultana (NOV 8,1924–SEP,15,2007) (her name in all her films opening credits), also written as Munnawar Sultana,[1] or Munawar Sultana[2] was an Indian cinema actress, who acted in Hindi/Hindustani films. She is cited as one of the "popular" actresses of the late 1940s to early 1950s period, along with Noor Jehan, Swarnalata and Ragini.[3] Her specialty was playing the role of a selfless woman, enduring the rough treatment meted by her husband and family, but who eventually "brought her erring husband back home".[4] She came into prominence with Mazhar Khan's Pehli Nazar (1945), her first film in a leading role. A discovery of actor-producer-director Mazhar Khan, she became inundated with film offers, becoming one of the busiest actresses by 1949, along with other leading ladies such as Suraiya and Nargis.[5] Some of her successful films were Pehli Nazar, Dard (1947), Elaan (1947) ...