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  MURIEL OESTRICH  American  silent film  actress.    1896 MAY 24 - 1989 MAY 3 Muriel Ostriche (born Muriel Henrietta Oestrich, May 24, 1896 – May 3, 1989) was an American  silent film  actress. Following tryouts with the  Biograph  and  Pathe  studios, Ostriche signed with  Eclair  for $5 per day. After a year and a half with Eclair, she joined Reliance for a higher salary. Following that experienced, she was signed by the  Thanhouser Company [1]  based in  New Rochelle ,  New York , and starred in 134 films in her career. Ostriche told author Michael G. Ankerich that  A Daughter of the Sea  (1915) was her best performance and her favorite film. [2] In 1920, Ostriche was featured in advertising for Bonnie-B veils. [3] She was living in Florida in the mid-1980s when author  Q. David Bowers  began researching a biography on Ostriche, which became  Muriel Ostriche: ...

  MARY ASTOR  AMERICAN ACTRESS BORN  MAY 3,1906 -1987 SEPTEMBER 25 Mary Astor,  born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke in 1906 was a successful American actress, best remembered for her role as Brigid O’Shaughnessy in  The Maltese Falcon  (1941). Starting out as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s Astor made a smooth transition to talkies. However her career was nearly derailed in the mid-1930s in what could be described as a case of life imitating art. But few of Astor’s films could match the turbulence of her private life.  In 1930, her first husband, Kenneth Hawks, was killed in a plane crash while directing a movie. Suffering delayed shock she had a nervous breakdown. During her recuperation she was attended to by a Dr. Franklyn Thorpe, whom she married in June 1931. At the same time her parents were consuming most of her salary, living a lavish lifestyle in stark contrast to the poverty from which they rose before Astor’s film care...

  FLORENCE LA BADIE AMERICAN-CANADIAN  ACTRESS BIOGRAPHY Florence La Badie   / ˈ l ɑː b ɑː ˌ d iː / [1]  (born  Florence Russ ; April 27, 1888 – October 13, 1917) was an American-Canadian actress in the early days of the  silent film  era. She was a major star between 1911 and 1917. Her career was at its height when she died at age 29 from injuries sustained in an automobile accident. Early life [ edit ] Florence La Badie was born Florence Russ on April 27, 1888, the second child of Horace Blancard and Marie Lynch (Chester) Russ in New York City. After the death of her father in 1890 and the subsequent inability of her mother to provide care, Florence, at age three, was adopted by Joseph E. and Amanda J. La Badie of Montreal, Canada. [2] Florence's adoptive father, Joseph E. La Badie, was a prominent attorney in Montreal, and his wife, the former Amanda Victor, is said to have been born in Europe, possibly Paris. Her adoptive uncle, Oddiehon LaBadie, m...

  LESLIE PARRISH AMERICAN  ACTRESS BORN 1935 MARCH 13 Leslie Parrish (born Marjorie Hellen; March 13, 1935)[2] is an American actress, activist, environmentalist, writer, and producer. She worked under her birth name for six years, changing it in 1959. Early life As a child, Parrish lived in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey. At the age of 10, she finally settled in Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania. At the age of 14, Parrish was a talented and promising piano and composition student at the Philadelphia Conservatory of Music.[3] At the age of 16, Parrish earned money for her tuition by working as a maid and a waitress, and by teaching piano. At the age of 18, to earn enough money to be able to continue her education at the Conservatory, her mother persuaded her to become a model for one year.[4][3] Modeling and acting In April 1954, as a 19-year-old model with the Conover Agency in New York City, Parrish was under contract to NBC-TV as "Miss Color TV" (she wa...