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GRETA GARBO , INTERNATIONAL SUPER STAR OF SILENT FILMS SERVED AS SPY IN WWII- FREED DANISH JEWS BORN 1905 SEPTEMBER 18

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   GRETA GARBO , INTERNATIONAL SUPER STAR OF SILENT FILMS    SERVED AS SPY IN WWII- FREED DANISH JEWS  BORN 1905 SEPTEMBER 18 Greta Garbo (born Greta Lovisa Gustafsson; Swedish: [ˈɡreːˈta lʊˈviːˈsa ˈɡɵstafˈsɔn]; 18 September 1905 – 15 April 1990), was a Swedish-born American film actress and an international star and icon during the 1920s and 1930s. Garbo was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress and received an honorary one in 1954 for her "luminous and unforgettable screen performances." In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Garbo fifth on their list of the greatest female stars of Classic Hollywood Cinema, after Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, and Ingrid Bergman. Garbo launched her career with a secondary role in the 1924 Swedish film The Saga of Gosta Berling. Her performance caught the attention of Louis B. Mayer, chief executive of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), who brought her to Hollywood in ...

MARGARET BOURKE WHITE , FIRST FEMALE PHOTOGRAPHER COVERED INDIAN INDEPENDENCE ,WAR PHOTOS ETC

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MARGARET BOURKE WHITE , FIRST FEMALE PHOTOGRAPHER COVERED  INDIAN INDEPENDENCE ,WAR PHOTOS ETC BORN JUNE 14,1904 Margaret Bourke-White WW II, INDIAN INDEPENDECE  Margaret Bourke-White (/ˌbɜːrkˈhwaɪt/; June 14, 1904 – August 27, 1971) was an American photographer and documentary photographer. She is best known as the first foreign photographer permitted to take pictures of Soviet industry, the firsthand American female war photojournalist, and the first female photographer for Henry Luce's Life magazine, where her photograph appeared on the first cover.[1] She died of Parkinson's disease about eighteen years after she developed her first symptoms. Early life[edit] Margaret Bourke-White[2] (born Margaret White),[3] in the Bronx, New York[4] to Joseph Whites, a non-practicing Jew from Poland, and Minnie Bourke, who was of Irish Catholic descent.[5]  She grew up in Bound Brook, New Jersey (in a neighborhood now part of Middlesex), and grad...