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URSULA JEAN MCMINN INDO -BRITISH ACTRESS BORN 1906 MAY 5 - 1973 APRIL 21

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  URSULA JEAN MCMINN   INDO -BRITISH ACTRESS  BORN 1906 MAY 5 - 1973 APRIL 21 Ursula Jean McMinn  (5 May 1906 – 21 April 1973), better known as  Ursula Jeans , was an English film, stage, and television actress. [1] [ Biography [ edit ] Jeans was born in  Simla ,  British India , to English parents, and brought up and educated in  London . [3]  She was the youngest of three siblings. Her brother  Desmond Jeans  was a boxer and actor, and her elder sister,  Isabel , was also an actress. [4]  In 1931 she appeared in  Edward Knoblock 's  Grand Hotel  at the  Adelphi Theatre . Jeans made her stage debut in London in 1922, [5]  before joining the cast of the London production of  The Play's the Thing , an adaptation of  Ferenc Molnár 's play,  The Play at the Castle  by  P. G. Wodehouse . [6]  The cast included  Gerald du Maurier , Ralph Nairn,  Henry Daniell...

JEAN HARLOW ,AMERICAN ACTRESS BORN 1911 MARCH 3-1937 JUNE 7

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  JEAN HARLOW ,AMERICAN ACTRESS  BORN 1911 MARCH 3-1937 JUNE 7 Jean Harlow (born Harlean Harlow Carpenter; March 3, 1911 – June 7, 1937) was an American actress. Known for her portrayal of "bad girl" characters, she was the leading  sex symbol  of the early 1930s and one of the defining figures of the  pre-Code era  of American cinema. [1]  Often nicknamed the "Blonde Bombshell" and the "Platinum Blonde", Harlow was popular for her "Laughing  Vamp " screen persona. Harlow was in the film industry for only nine years, but she became one of Hollywood's biggest  movie stars , whose image in the public eye has endured. In 1999, the  American Film Institute  ranked Harlow  No.  22 on their  greatest female screen legends of classical Hollywood cinema  list. [2] Harlow was first signed by  business magnate   Howard Hughes , who directed her first major role in  Hell's Angels  (1930). ...