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  Claire Anderson was a Mack Sennett bathing beauty and a silent screen actress who quit show business. She was born Clara Mathes on May 8, 1895 in Detroit, Michigan. Her parents, Richard and Frieda Matthes, were born in Germany. At the age of nineteen Claire married Harry Anderson, an auto dealer. The day after their wedding the couple moved to Hollywood, California. She made her film debut in the 1914 short At Dawn with Wallace Reed. Over the next year she appeared in more than a dozen shorts including God Is Love and The Craven (she was sometimes billed as Cora Anderson). Mack Sennett hired her to be one of his first bathing beauties in 1915. She was five feet, five inches tall and 132 pounds. While filming The Lion And A Girl in 1916 she bravely got into a cage with an actual lion. The movie was a hit and she was offered a contract at Keystone for $675 a week. She was given starring roles in the dramas The Grey Parasol, The Price Of Applause, and Crown Jewels. After leaving Key...

  CHRISTINE GRANVILLE BEAUTY  QUEEN TURNED TO SPY Christine Granville was a beauty queen-turned-spy. Prior to her involvement in World War II, she was a model. At the start of the war, Granville became a messenger in Nazi-occupied countries in Europe. Her job was to carry messages through Poland, delivering them to various Allied forces without detection.This proved to be a dangerous responsibility. Granville became famous for rescuing soldiers from execution, escaping gunfire, parachuting, sewing knives into the hems of her skirts, fabricating elaborate stories to get out of tight spots, and charming guards and guard dogs alike. One story tells of how she escaped Nazi police forces by biting her tongue and pretending she was dying of tuberculosis.Granville also used her beauty as an asset, charming various lovers throughout her lengthy career in espionage. She quickly found the eyes of Winston Churchill, who would later make her a member of his personal espionage unit under t...

  Christine Granville was a Polish beauty queen who became  one of Britain’s most valuable spies. Emma Garman on her tragic death. Christine Granville was a beauty queen-turned-spy. Prior to her involvement in World War II, she was a model. At the start of the war, Granville became a messenger in Nazi-occupied countries in Europe. Her job was to carry messages through Poland, delivering them to various Allied forces without detection.This proved to be a dangerous responsibility. Granville became famous for rescuing soldiers from execution, escaping gunfire, parachuting, sewing knives into the hems of her skirts, fabricating elaborate stories to get out of tight spots, and charming guards and guard dogs alike. One story tells of how she escaped Nazi police forces by biting her tongue and pretending she was dying of tuberculosis.Granville also used her beauty as an asset, charming various lovers throughout her lengthy career in espionage. She quickly found the eyes of Winston Ch...

R.PADMA ,LUX BEAUTY TAMIL ACTRESS 1940`S  BUT NEVER COME TOP According to Randor Guy, R. Padma was a "Lux Soap" model who "was active in Tamil cinema during the 1940's, but never made it to the top" and "is barely remembered today." The "Blast from the Past" and related articles at The Hindu list Padma as an actress in: Vaayaadi (1940), Sabapathy (1941), Prabhavathi (1942), Aayiram Thalaivaangi Apoorva Chintamani (1947), Geeta Gandhi (1949), Devamanohari (1951), and as an actress and singer in En Manaivi (1942). Sabapathy (1941) - "Na an Angae" - R. Padma played "the hero's educated wife who teaches her husband English" in this film. In the song "Naan Angae" below, she performs a dance! Sabapathy was among the very first films Muthuswami Pillai choreographed for. I was surprised to find that the film title cards credited dance direction to not only V.S. Muthuswami Pillai but also Meenakshis...

PARVEEN BABI ,BEAUTY HINDI ACTRESS  BORN 1949 APRIL 4-2005 JANUARY 20 பர்வீன் பாபி (Parveen Babi) (4 ஏப்ரல் 1949 – 20 ஜனவரி 2005) ஒரு இந்தியத் திரைப்பட நடிகை, வடிவழகி மற்றும் உட்புற வடிவமைப்பாளர் ஆவார். இவரின் திரைபடங்கள் வணிகரீதியில் வெற்றி பெற்றுள்ளனர். 1970 களின் ஆரம்பத்திலும் 1980 ஆம் ஆண்டுகளின் தொடக்கத்திலும், "தீவார்", "அமர் அக்பர் அந்தோணி" , "நாமக் ஹலால்" , "சுஹாக்" மற்றும் "ஷான்" போன்ற பிரபலமான படங்களில் அவரது நடித்த்தன் மூலம் பரவலாக அரியப்படுகிறார். இந்தி சினிமா வரலாற்றில் மிகவும் கவர்ச்சியான நடிகைகளில் ஒன்றாக கருதப்பட்டவர், பர்வீன் பாபி அவரின் காலத்தில் அதிக சம்பளம் பெறுபவராக இருந்தார்.[சான்று தேவை] 1973-1990 க்கு இடையில் அவர் தீவிரமாக திரையில் தோன்றினார். இரண்டு தசாப்தங்களாக வாழ்ந்த ஒரு வாழ்க்கையில், பாபி பல்வேறு வகையான 50 க்கும் மேற்பட்ட இந்தி படங்களில் தோன்றினார். பர்வீன் பாபி 1973 ஆம் ஆண்டில் "சரித்திரா" படத்தில் அறிமுகமாகி , விரைவில் ஒரு வெற்றிகரமான நடிகையாக , அவரது சமகாலத்திய நடிகையான சீனத் அமான் ப...