Movies: Actress

Documentary about Brazilian actress Fernanda Montenegro. The first South American and the first Latin American actress to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress....

The story revolves around an actress who is going to shoot her latest film in Rome in the 1980s....

Actress Mignon is the toast of Paris until she marries young American engineer John Stanley. He is commissioned to go to work in the Sahara desert, and Mignon accompanies him with their baby. But it isn't long before she is lonely and horribly bored....

With her streetwise, leather-clad persona, Quatro burst onto the rock scene in the mid-'70's, achieving international music stardom with a string of hit singles. Through her remarkable career, she has sold more than 45-million records and has been to...

A presentation of the late classic actress Nina Foch's courses for filmmakers and actors which she held at USC School of Cinematic Arts since the 1960s....

Young actress Bonnie May finds work in a private play given at Mrs. Baron’s mansion, where she endears herself to all, especially Victor Baron, the invalid son who has written the play. He begs her to stay on to help him write another play, despite t...

In the film-performance, actress Nasiba Zeynalova once again encounters the characters she has created over many years....

Leontine Maddern is a self-centered, unscrupulous actress, while her twin sister Leona is a serious and compassionate artist. Because of a scandal in which Leontine was involved, Leona uses her mother's maiden name of Rosalie Byrnes. Rosalie meets an...

A fun tour of 1950s West End with international film star Yoko Tani....

A biopic of Anna May Wong, the Golden Age icon whose career brought her international recognition even as she continued to face opportunity limitations in the industry and other forms of prejudice and discrimination....

Called "the first lady of the silent screen," Lillian Gish was the archetypal silent film heroine — the delicate damsel in distress, stranded on a swift-moving ice floe, cowering before a sadistic brute. The film showcases generous footage of her mos...