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The list 20th-century memoirists includes Ava Gardner, Lana Turner, Linda Lovelace, Myrna Loy and Louise Brooks. The list consists of 888 members and 14 sublists.

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  • 1.

    Ava Gardner
    American actress (1922–1990)
    Ava Gardner
    Overview: Ava Lavinia Gardner (December 24, 1922 – January 25, 1990) was an American actress. She first signed a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1941 and appeared mainly in small roles until she drew critics' ...
    Date of birth: 24 December 1922
    Date of death: 25 January 1990
    Age: 67 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
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    American pin-up models 106T
    American expatriate actresses in England 67T
    Women who experienced pregnancy loss 278T
  • 2.

    Lana Turner
    American actress (1921–1995)
    Lana Turner
    Overview: Lana Turner (born Julia Jean Turner; February 8, 1921 – June 29, 1995) was an American actress who worked in film, television, theater and radio. Over the course of her nearly 50-year career, she ...
    Date of birth: 8 February 1921
    Date of death: 29 June 1995
    Age: 74 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 3" (160 cm)
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    United Service Organizations entertainers 148T
    20th-century American memoirists 513T
    Deaths from oropharyngeal cancer 4T
  • 3.

    Geri Horner
    English singer (born 1972)
    Geri Horner
    Overview: Geraldine Estelle Horner (née Halliwell; born 6 August 1972), is an English singer, songwriter, author, actress, and philanthropist. She rose to prominence in the 1990s as Ginger Spice, a member of the ...
    Date of birth: 6 August 1972
    Age: 52
    Nationality: British
    Occupation: Singer
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 1" (155 cm)
    Partner: Christian Horner (Married)
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    Innocent Records artists 11T
    Actors from Watford 4T
    Musicians from Watford 6T
  • 4.

    Robert Mitchum
    American actor (1917–1997)
    Robert Mitchum
    Overview: Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American actor, director, author, poet, composer, and singer. He rose to prominence for starring roles in several classic films noir ...
    Date of birth: 6 August 1917
    Date of death: 1 July 1997
    Age: 79 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)
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    20th-century American singer-songwriters 1,272T
    Deaths from lung cancer in California 366T
    20th-century American male singers 2,007T
  • 5.

    Myrna Loy
    American actress (1905–1993)
    Myrna Loy
    Overview: Myrna Loy (born Myrna Adele Williams; August 2, 1905 – December 14, 1993) was an American film, television and stage actress. Trained as a dancer, Loy devoted herself fully to an acting career following ...
    Date of birth: 2 August 1905
    Date of death: 14 December 1993
    Age: 88 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
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    Methodists from California 21T
    Methodists from Montana 7T
    20th-century American memoirists 507T
  • 6.

    Louise Brooks
    American actress (1906–1985)
    Louise Brooks
    Overview: Mary Louise Brooks (November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985), known professionally as Louise Brooks, was an American film actress and dancer during the 1920s and 1930s. She is regarded today as a Jazz Age icon ...
    Date of birth: 14 November 1906
    Date of death: 8 August 1985
    Age: 78 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 2" (157 cm)
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    20th-century American LGBT people 1,654T
    20th-century LGBT people 3,342T
    20th-century American memoirists 507T
  • 7.

    Bette Davis
    American actress (1908–1989)
    Bette Davis
    Overview: Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress. With a career spanning 60 years and 100 acting credits, she is regarded as one of the greatest actresses in film ...
    Date of birth: 5 April 1908
    Date of death: 6 October 1989
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)
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    United Service Organizations entertainers 148T
    20th-century American memoirists 507T
    César Honorary Award recipients 88T
  • 8.

    Veronica Lake
    American actress (1922–1973)
    Veronica Lake
    Overview: Veronica Lake (born Constance Frances Marie Ockelman; November 14, 1922 – July 7, 1973) was an American film, stage, and television actor. Lake was best known for her femme fatale roles in film noirs ...
    Date of birth: 14 November 1922
    Date of death: 7 July 1973
    Age: 50 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' (152 cm)
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    Actresses from Brooklyn 152T
    20th-century American memoirists 507T
    Miami Senior High School alumni 48T
  • 9.

    Gene Tierney
    American actress
    Gene Tierney
    Overview: Gene Eliza Tierney (November 19, 1920 – November 6, 1991) was an American film and stage actress. Acclaimed for her great beauty, she became established as a leading lady. She was best known for her p ...
    Date of birth: 19 November 1920
    Date of death: 6 November 1991
    Age: 70 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)
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    American pin-up models 106T
    Tobacco-related deaths 49T
    Actresses from Brooklyn 364T
  • 10.

    Katharine Hepburn
    American actress (1907–2003)
    Katharine Hepburn
    Overview: Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress of film, stage, and television. Known for her headstrong independence and spirited personality, Hepburn's career as a ...
    Date of birth: 12 May 1907
    Date of death: 29 June 2003
    Age: 96 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)
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    People from Turtle Bay, Manhattan 11T
    20th-century American memoirists 507T
    Childfree 46T
  • 11.

    Joan Crawford
    American actress (190?–1977)
    Joan Crawford
    Overview: Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, c. 1904–1908 – May 10, 1977) was an American actress. Starting as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway, Crawford was ...
    Date of birth: 23 March 1905
    Date of death: 10 May 1977
    Age: 72 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)
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    20th-century American memoirists 507T
    20th-century American businesswomen 600T
    Actresses of Irish descent 598T
  • 12.

    Clark Gable
    American actor (1901–1960)
    Clark Gable
    Overview: William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960) was an American film actor, often referred to as "The King of Hollywood". He had roles in more than 60 motion pictures in multiple genres ...
    Date of birth: 1 February 1901
    Date of death: 16 November 1960
    Age: 59 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actor
    Gender: Male
    Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)
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    United Service Organizations entertainers 148T
    Pipe smokers 77T
    20th-century American memoirists 507T
  • 13.

    Helen Keller
    American author and activist
    Helen Keller
    Overview: Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and hearing after ...
    Date of birth: 27 June 1880
    Date of death: 1 June 1968
    Age: 87 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Author
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)
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    American women memoirists 620T
    Connecticut socialists 3T
    Female Christian socialists 54T
  • 14.

    Judith Campbell Exner
    alleged mistress
    Judith Campbell Exner
    Overview: Judith Exner (January 11, 1934 – September 24, 1999) was an American woman who claimed to be the mistress of U.S. president John F. Kennedy and Mafia leaders Sam Giancana and John Roselli. She was also ...
    Date of birth: 11 January 1934
    Date of death: 24 September 1999
    Age: 65 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Personality
    Gender: Female
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    20th-century American memoirists 455T
    Mistresses of John F. Kennedy 7T
    American women memoirists 693T
  • 15.

    Susan Strasberg
    American actress and author (1938–1999)
    Susan Strasberg
    Overview: Susan Elizabeth Strasberg (May 22, 1938 – January 21, 1999) was an American stage, film, and television actress. She was nominated for a Tony Award at the age of 18 for playing the title role in The Diary ...
    Date of birth: 22 May 1938
    Date of death: 21 January 1999
    Age: 60 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' (152 cm)
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    American women memoirists 620T
    American women non-fiction writers 2,184T
    20th-century American non-fiction writers 3,627T
  • 16.

    Laraine Day
    Actress
    Laraine Day
    Overview: Laraine Day (born La Raine Johnson, October 13, 1920 – November 10, 2007) was an American actress, radio and television commentator and a former Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract star. As a leading lady, she ...
    Date of birth: 13 October 1917
    Date of death: 10 November 2007
    Age: 90 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)
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    People from Roosevelt, Utah 7T
    American women memoirists 620T
    Latter Day Saints from New York (state) 153T
  • 17.

    Mary Astor
    American actress (1906–1987)
    Mary Astor
    Overview: Mary Astor (born Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke; May 3, 1906 – September 25, 1987) was an American actress. She may be best remembered for her performance as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon ...
    Date of birth: 3 May 1906
    Date of death: 25 September 1987
    Age: 81 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 6" (168 cm)
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    Respiratory disease deaths in California 44T
    20th-century American memoirists 469T
    American women memoirists 721T
  • 18.

    Marion Davies
    American, Actress
    Marion Davies
    Overview: Marion Davies (born Marion Cecilia Douras; January 3, 1897 – September 22, 1961) was an American actress, producer, screenwriter, and philanthropist. Educated in a religious convent, Davies fled the school ...
    Date of birth: 3 January 1897
    Date of death: 22 September 1961
    Age: 64 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)
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    American vaudeville performers 119T
    Polio survivors 208T
    Actresses from Brooklyn 363T
  • 19.

    June Allyson
    American actress (1917–2006)
    June Allyson
    Overview: June Allyson (born Eleanor Geisman; October 7, 1917 – July 8, 2006) was an American stage, film, and television actress, dancer, and singer.
    Date of birth: 7 October 1917
    Date of death: 8 July 2006
    Age: 88 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 5' 1" (155 cm)
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    American women memoirists 620T
    Actresses from the Golden Age of Hollywood 10T
    20th-century American women singers 2,001T
  • 20.

    Gloria Swanson
    American actress (1899–1983)
    Gloria Swanson
    Overview: Gloria May Josephine Swanson (March 27, 1899 – April 4, 1983) was an American actress and producer.
    Date of birth: 27 March 1899
    Date of death: 4 April 1983
    Age: 84 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Actress
    Gender: Female
    Height: 4' 11" (150 cm)
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    20th-century American memoirists 443T
    American women memoirists 675T
    Film producers from Illinois 147T
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