Forgotten Cinema Beauties - Retro Actresses born on January 19 (12 photos)

12 actresses who shone on the big screens in their time.

Solvi Stubing

(January 19, 1941 – July 3, 2017) was a German actress and television presenter who worked mainly in Italy. Born in Berlin. She gained wide popularity in Italy after starring in a Peroni beer commercial. She also starred in many films of different genres, usually with modest budgets and low artistic value.





Tippi Hedren

(01/19/1930) - actress and animal rights activist. Her daughter is Melanie Griffith. She was born in New Alm, Minnesota, to Dorothy Henrietta and Bernard Carl Hedren. Her paternal grandparents immigrated to the United States from Sweden, and her mother's ancestors were from Germany and Norway. The family moved to California when Hedren was in high school, and at age 18 she moved to New York City, where she began her modeling career.



Marjorie Dow

(January 19, 1902 – March 18, 1979) was an American silent film actress. Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She began performing on stage as a teenager to support her younger brother and herself after the death of their parents. Dow made her film debut in 1914 and worked steadily throughout the 1920s. She stopped acting after the advent of sound films.



Catherine Sola

born January 19, 1941 in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, France. She was an actress, known for Last Tango in Paris (1972), George Who? (1973) and "Goodbye, Friend" (1968). She was married to Alain d'Hainaut. She died on September 12, 2014 in Périgueux, Dordogne, France.



Albertina Rush

(January 19, 1891 – October 2, 1967) was born in Vienna. She started performing at the age of 14. In 1910 she left for the USA. In 1923, she opened her first dance studio in Manhattan (where Bill Robinson taught tap dancing). A second studio will open later, in Los Angeles.

She took part in a number of productions by the Broadway impresario Ziegfeld, appeared in the Moulin Rouge and performed with Josephine Baker, and later developed her own dance technique for Broadway theater and films.



Rita Renoir

(January 19, 1934 – May 4, 2016) was a French stripper and actress. Born in Paris. In the early 1960s, she was one of the stars of the famous Parisian cabaret Crazy Horse. The fame of her performances spread throughout Europe; it is not surprising that in the end there were directors who wanted to make Renoir into films. She first starred in 1953 in the film “Night Companions.” In 1964, Michelangelo Antonioni was invited to play the role of Emilia in the film “Red Desert,” which brought the actress worldwide fame.



Lillian Harvey

nee Lilian Helen Muriel Pape (01/19/1906 - 07/27/1968) was born in London. Her mother was English, her father a German businessman. After World War I, the family lived in Berlin. After graduating from school in 1923, Harvey continued her dance and vocal studies at the school at the Berlin State Opera. In 1924, she made her debut as a young Jewish girl in Robert Land's silent film The Damnation, after which she began actively acting in films. Harvey's grandmother's maiden name became her nickname. She gained fame thanks to her starring role in Eric Charell's film The Congress Is Dancing (1931).



Edith Barrett

(01/19/1907 - 02/22/1977) was born into a family of theatergoers and was the granddaughter of the famous 19th century actor Lawrence Barrett. In 1925, young Edith made her debut in the Broadway production of Trelawny from Wells, based on the play by Arthur Wing Pinero. The young actress was taken under the wing of Walter Hampden and involved in many of his productions. This was mainly classical repertoire and costume dramas. Before turning 20, she managed to play in Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, Henry IV and The Immortal Thief. In the late 1930s she joined Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre. An affair began with Vincent Price, one of the actors in the troupe, which led to marriage in 1938. In this marriage they had a son, Vincent Barrett Price, who became a publicist.



Shelley Fabare

(January 19, 1944) is an American actress and singer who achieved her greatest fame as a teenager in the early sixties for her roles in the sitcom The Donna Reed Show (1958-1965) and the films Happy with a Girl, Weekend in California and Picnic by the sea." Later in her career, she starred in the sitcom Coach (1989–1997), which earned her two Emmy Award nominations. As a singer, she is best known for her 1962 single “Johnny Angel,” which topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart.



Natasha Rambova

Born Winifred Kimball Shaughnessy (January 19, 1897 – June 5, 1966) was an American costume designer, set decorator, silent film actress, and Egyptologist. She was born in Salt Lake City into a Mormon family. She spent her childhood in San Francisco and received her education in the UK. After returning to the United States, she began her career as a dancer in New York under the direction of choreographer Fyodor Kozlov. At the age of 19 she moved to Los Angeles, where she worked as a costume designer for Hollywood films.

Soon she met Rudolph Valentino, whom she married in 1923. It soon became clear that by that time the dissolution of Valentino's previous marriage had not been officially completed, which is why he was put on trial as a bigamist.



Lisa Lu

(January 19, 1927) is an American and Hong Kong actress of Chinese descent. Three times winner of the prestigious Chinese film award "Golden Horse". Lu Yan was born in Beijing. In early childhood, she began to learn the art of Chinese opera, Kunqiu. On the eve of the communist victory, Lu's family emigrated to the United States, where she began her career as an actress, initially in TV series. Her first film appearance was a cameo role as an easily accessible seductress in the film China Doll (1958) by Frank Borzage.



Dolly Parton

(01/19/1946) is an American country singer and film actress who has written more than 600 songs and reached the top position of the Billboard country charts 25 times. In her homeland she is recognized as one of the most successful singers in the genre, having received the title “Queen of Country”. In the 1980s, the singer began to be invited to act in films. She made her debut in the comedy “Nine to Five” (1980), in which she and Jane Fonda rebel against their tyrant boss.