- Eva Hartwig is a German, she started her career as a ballerina, and while performing in the famous Monte Carlo Russian Ballet company, she transformed her name and surname into Vera Zorina.
After some time, she received an offer from one of the producers to star in Hollywood. The offer was accepted, and successful film auditions became the basis for the conclusion of a seven-year contract.
‘Pointe’, ‘Crazy Goldwyn’, ‘Run for the Boys’ – the most famous pictures with the participation of Vera Zorina, who left the usual for the viewer pseudonym and in Hollywood.
11 Donna Reed was born into a large family, in 1921, the first child, and after graduating from high school, moved from the farm, where parents lived in the metropolis of Los Angeles, where, at first settled at her aunt.
His acting career Donna moved slowly, playing in episodes and masses, but then, when she gained experience, starred in ‘A Wonderful Life’ and became a real celebrity thanks to the role of Mary.
And a couple of years later, she became the owner of the ‘Oscar’, and, quite unexpectedly, for a minor role in the film ‘Forever and ever’.
Perhaps everyone remembers the pictures where Donna distinguished herself – ‘Portrait of Gray’, ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ and others.
- Heda Lamar was born after the First World War, in 1914, and became popular after the first film with the attractive name ‘Ecstasy’.
After filming one of the millionaires made Heda an offer, and she moved to live in the Austrian castle spouse. But soon the monotony of life in the castle she was bored, and she literally ran away, ‘reincarnated’ in the maid, and getting to the capital of France, changed her last name.
13 Sophia Loren is an Italian, known to the whole world, born in 1934. She began her career very early, going on the podium beauty contest, when she was just fifteen years old.
Of course, the beauty of Sophie could not go unnoticed, and soon one of the famous producers of the time signed a contract with Lauren.
In the world of cinema Sophia Loren took all possible awards and honours, many of which, such as the Oscar and Golden Globe – repeatedly.
She considers her most important award to be the Oscar, as if to sum up her long career in the film industry – ‘for all the roles that give brilliance to films’.
14 Gina Lolobrigida is also Italian, born seven years earlier than Sophia Loren. As a child, Gina loved to draw, creating real masterpieces of painting, and learnt to sing. Her dream was the scene of the opera, and her mother cost a lot of labour to persuade her daughter to accept the director’s offer to star in ‘Fanfan Tulip’. This tape opened the way to Gina in Hollywood.
- Brigitte Bardot – the same age as Sophia Loren, she was brought up according to strict Catholic canons, but despite this, she saw herself as a cabaret dancer.
in her younger years she worked as a photomodel, and after random film auditions plunged headlong into the world of cinema.
About fifty films in which she played Brigitte, forever remembered by the audience, and the most famous was ‘God Created Woman’.
Now the actress is an active defender of animals.