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Along with a brief biography, you'll find many photos of B movie actresses from the 1930s through the 1980s on these pages. Navigate using the alphabetical listing below:
Acquanetta
Although Acquanetta was dubbed "The Venezualan Volcano" by Universal Studios, she was actually a Native American who grew up in Pennsylvania. After a modeling stint in New York, Acquanetta went to Hollywood, where she appeared in only a handful of films from the early 1940s to the early 1950s. One of her best-known films is Tarzan and the Leopard Girl (1946; with Johnny Weissmuller and Johnny Sheffield). After Acquanetta's third marriage in the early 1950s, she walked away from acting to raise a family. She passed away in August 2004 from complications arising from Alzheimer's disease.
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Edie Adams
Edie Adams is primarily known for her prolific work on television, but she also made a number of films in the 1950s and 1960s. Adams is a gifted comedienne who demonstrated her skills in The Apartment (1960; with Jack Lemmon), Lover Come Back (1961; with Rock Hudson and Doris Day), and It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963). But TV viewers will always associate Adams with her husband Ernie Kovacs; the couple married in 1954 and worked together on The Ernie Kovacs Show. Kovacs died in an auto accident in early 1962. Adams remarried in 1964 and cooled her acting career somewhat in the late 1960s. Adams passed away on October 15, 2008, at the age of 81.
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Lucille Ball
Lucille Ball was a blonde glamour girl before turning into the redheaded comedienne loved by generations. Ball was under contract to RKO in the 1930s, working her way up from bit parts to supporting roles. While filming the RKO comedy Too Many Girls in 1940, Ball met and fell in love with Desi Arnaz, who had a small role in the picture. The couple married later that year. In 1942, Ball left RKO for greener pastures at MGM, where she was the queen of the "B" lot in the 1940s. In 1948, Ball starred in the radio series My Favorite Husband, which became the basis of her TV series I Love Lucy. Two brilliant comedic performances in 1950, in the films The Fuller Brush Girl and Fancy Pants, also helped sell CBS on the idea of a TV series. After I Love Lucy began airing in 1951, Ball made relatively few films afterward, concentrating instead on her growing Desilu empire, headed by husband Desi Arnaz. Ball passed away in 1989 at the age of 77.
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Jill Banner
Pretty Jill Banner made her big-screen debut in Jack Hill's horror film Spider Baby (1964; with Lon Chaney Jr. and Carol Ohmart). She also appeared in C'mon, Let's Live a Little (1967; with Bobby Vee and Jackie DeShannon) and The President's Analyst (1967; with James Coburn). Banner acted in several other films and was in numerous episodes of Dragnet and Adam 12. She also made a 1972 appearance in a two-part episode of Cade's County, and she had a role on The Bold Ones as well. Yet in 1972, Banner gave up her acting career and made her way to New Mexico, where she sold real estate for several years, until her return to California around 1980. She was working on scripts for Marlon Brando when she was killed in a car accident in Malibu on August 7, 1982, at the age of 35.
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Brigitte Bardot
French sex kitten Brigitte Bardot starred in more than 50 films between 1952 and 1974, including And God Created Woman (1956) and Viva Marķa! (1965). By 1970, however, her career began to wane, and she made just a few more films before her swansong film, The Devil Is a Woman (1974). Since then, Bardot has shied away from the screen, focusing on her role as an animal rights activist instead. Bardot's first husband was famed director Roger Vadim.
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Senta Berger
Austrian beauty Senta Berger has acted in more than 100 films during her 40+ year career. Today, Berger frequently appears on German television shows. She has been married to actor/director Michael Verhoeven since 1966.
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Honor Blackman
Most people remember Honor Blackman as "Pussy Galore" in the James Bond vehicle Goldfinger, or as "Mrs. Cathy Gale" in The Avengers. Since then, she's continued acting in a number of films.
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Hazel Brooks
Born in South Africa in 1924, exotic beauty Hazel Brooks was often uncredited in her film appearances. Her biggest role came in the 1947 John Garfield film Body and Soul. Brooks made just a few more films afterward and retired from the screen. In the mid 1940s, Brooks married famed art director Cedric Gibbons. (Gibbons was previously married to actress Dolores Del Rio.)
Corinne Calvet
Paris-born beauty Corinne Calvet made a big splash in Hollywood in the early 1950s with her sultry looks and acting ability. She met actor John Bromfield on the set of her first American film Rope of Sand, and the couple married soon after. Their acting careers outlasted the marriage, however. In 1955, she married actor Jeffrey Stone and cooled her acting career. Following their divorce, Calvet made sporadic film and TV appearances from the 1960s through the 1980s. Calvet passed away in June 2001 at the age of 76.
Claudia Cardinale
Gorgeous Claudia Cardinale was spotted for films in a beauty contest in the late 1950s. She then was signed to a strict contract and took small roles in films in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Her appearances in Fellini's 8 1/2 (1963; with Barbara Steele) and The Pink Panther (1963) catapulted her to stardom. Her career in American films didn't last long, but Cardinale has kept working in Europe and is still quite active in films and television.
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Veronica Carlson
Sexy Veronica Carlson has provided a bright spot in a number of horror films produced by Hammer Film Productions since the 1960s. Some of her best films are Dracula has Risen from the Grave (1968) and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (1969). Carlson retired from acting in the mid 1970s.
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Regina Carrol
Busty blonde Regina Carrol appeared almost exclusively in husband Al Adamson's cut-rate films, including Satan's Sadists (1969; with Russ Tamblyn and Scott Brady), Dracula Vs. Frankenstein (1971; with Anthony Eisley and Lon Chaney Jr.), Brain of Blood (1972; with Grant Williams and Kent Taylor), and Blood of Ghastly Horror (1972; with Tommy Kirk and John Carradine). Prior to starring in her husband's films, Carrol had been a nightclub singer and dancer. If you look fast, you can see her in bit parts in Viva Las Vegas (1964; with Elvis Presley and Ann-Margret) and The Glass Bottom Boat (1966; with Doris Day and Rod Taylor). Carrol retired from acting in the 1970s and, sadly, passed away in 1992 from cancer. The above photo is from Satan's Sadists.
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Marguerite Churchill
Leading lady Marguerite Churchill made a number of films for Fox in the late 1920s and early 1930s. She met actor George O'Brien when they starred in the 1931 film Riders of the Purple Sage, and the couple married in 1933. Churchill continued acting after the marriage, appearing in such films as Speed Devils (1935) and Dracula's Daughter (1936; with Gloria Holden). In 1936, Churchill retired from the screen to raise her children. She and O'Brien divorced in 1948, and Churchill briefly returned to acting in the early 1950s. She passed away in 2000 at the age of 90.
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Phyllis Coates
Phyllis Coates started out in a series of comedy shorts in the So You Want to... series produced by Warner Brothers and starring George O'Hanlon (best known as the voice of cartoon character George Jetson). Coates went on to make many films in the 1950s, but nonetheless continued to appear in the Warner Bros. comedy shorts. She also did a turn as Lois Lane in the first season of Superman but soon bowed out of the role. Coates continued to make many films and starred in several television series in the 1950s, but marriage and motherhood intervined, and she let her acting career take a backseat. Since the 1960s, she has sporadically appeared in films and on television. The above photo is from Coates' 1955 film Panther Girl of the Kongo.
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Sybil Danning
Austrian beauty Sybil Danning acted in many low budget films from the 1960s through the 1980s, including The Seven Magnificent Gladiators (1983) and Howling II (1985) Danning has done little acting since the late 1980s. Today, she is the president of Adventuress Productions.
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Peggy Dow
Peggy Dow appeared in films for only two years while under contract with Universal-International. Her films include The Sleeping City (1950) and Reunion in Reno (1951). When Dow married in 1951, she left show business to raise a family.
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