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FRANCES DRAKE ,AMERICAN ACTRESS  BORN OCTOBER 22,1912 Frances Drake (October 22, 1912 – January 18, 2000)[1] was an American actress, best known for playing Eponine in Les Misérables (1935).[ Early years[edit source] Drake was born in New York City as Frances Morgan Dean to a wealthy family. She was educated at Havergal College in Canada and at age 14 "she was sent to school in England, under her grandmother's wing."[3] She was there when the stock market crashed in 1929. Career[edit source] Needing to make money for the first time in her life, Drake became a dancer and stage actress and found that film paid even better.[4] In 1933, she explained: "I met an actor in London -- Gordon Wallace, who was in Eva Le Gallienne's repertory company for a while -- and he asked me to form a dance team with him. We danced, and a stage producer asked us to take parts in a play. Then I was invited to make films in England."[5] She returned to the Uni...

HOLLYWOOD ACTRESS BETSY DRAKE  BORN 1923 SEPTEMBER 11 Betsy Drake (September 11, 1923 – October 27, 2015) was a French-born American actress and writer. She was also known for being the third wife of actor Cary Grant. Early life and education[edit] Drake, the eldest child of two American expatriates, was born in Paris, France. Although her grandfather, Tracy Drake and his brother, had opened the Drake Hotel in Chicago on New Years Eve in 1920.[1] The Drakes lost their money in the 1929 stock-market crash. As a result, she returned to the U.S. on the SS Île de France with her parents, brothers, and a nanny. She grew up in Chicago, Westport, Connecticut, Washington, D.C., Virginia, North Carolina, and New York City. She went to twelve different schools, both private and public, before concentrating on theatre and acting at a junior college in Rock Creek Park. Career[edit] She began looking for work as an actress in New York City, supporting herself by working as...