Actresses of Stage & Screen Prints, & Photographs, pg 2/5
for threatre, drama, social studies classrooms, home schoolers, and inspirational art for the studio.

Alice Calhoun
b. 11-21-1900; Cleveland, OH
d. 6-3-1966; Los Angeles

Alice Calhoun was a silent film actress.

Mrs. Patrick Campbell
née Beatrice Stella Tanner
b. 2-9-1865; London
d. 4-9-1940

Ada Cavendish
b. 1839
d. 1895

Pauline Chase, née Ellen Pauline Matthew Blissin
b. 1885, Washington?
d. 1962

Pauline Chase was notable for playing the part of Barrie's Peter Pan.

• Peter Pan print

Constance Collier
b. 1-22-1878; England
d. 5-21-1955; US

Constance Collier was a stage and film actress as well as highly respected acting coach.

• Stage Door movie poster

Louise Françoise Contat
b. 1760
d. 1813

Louise Françoise Contat in the role of Suzanne in Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais' “The Marriage of Figaro”.

Joan Crawford
b. 3-23-1905; San Antonio,Texas
d. 5-10-1977; New York

• Mildred Pierce movie poster

Dorothy Dandridge
b. 11-9-1922; Ohio
d. 9-8-1965; California

Dorothy Dandridge was the first black woman to be nominated for an Academy Award (Best Actress, 1954, Carmen). Dandridge's movie debut was in the Marx Brother's A Day at the Races; she was also in the film musical Porgy and Bess.

• African American Women

Zena Dare, née Florence Hariette Zena Dones
b. 2-4-1887; London
d. 3-11-1965

Zena Dare played 'Mrs. Higgins' in "My Fair Lady" at Drury Lane's Theatre Royal for five and a half years beginning in 1958.

Marion Davies
b. 1-3-1897; Brooklyn, NY
d. 9-23-1961; Hollywood

Bette Davis
b. 4-5-1908; Lowell, MA
d. 10-6-1989

• more Alfred Eisenstaedt prints

Marlene Dietrich
b. 12-28-1901; Berlin
d. 5-6-1992; Paris

Marie Dorval
b. 1-6-1798; France
d. 5-20-1849

French actress Marie Dorval and novelist George Sand were close friends; they collaborated on a play, and when Dorval died Sand supported her grandchildren. The poster is of Marie Dorval in Victor Hugo's Marion Delorme.

• Marie Dorval: France's Theatrical Wonder

Juliette Drouet
b. 4-10-1806; France
d. 1883

Juliette Gauvain, orphaned at a very young age and educated in a religious boarding school; she took the last name Drouet from the uncle who raised her when she started acting. In 1833 she met Victor Hugo and became his lifelong companion.

• My Beloved Toto: Letters from Juliette Drouet to Victor Hugo 1833-1882

Eleanora Duse
b. 10-3-1858, Italy
d. 4-21-1924; touring in PA

Eleanora Duse was the frst woman on cover of TIME Magazine.

Jeanne Duval
b. c. 1820, Haiti
d. c. 1862, France

Jeanne Duval was the Creole mistress of French poet and artist Charles Baudelaire.

Edith Mary Evans
b. 2-8-1888; London
d. 10-14-1976

Dame Edith Evans career spanned sixty-six years, performing without a break until just months before her death.

• Edith Evans - The Way of the World, The Beaux' Strategem, The Rivals, The School for Scandal - Eigteenth-Century Comedy Album

Mia Farrow
b. 2-9-1945, Los Angeles

• more Alfred Eisenstaedt prints

Maria Foote
b. June 1798; England
d. 12-27-1867

• Maria Foote married Maj.-Gen. Charles Stanhope, 4th Earl of Harrington, and retired from the stage.