Frances Farmer
Seattle-born actress Frances Farmer, a rising star in the 1930s, is remembered today more for her unfortunate life story than for her once promising career.
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Carmen Báez
Mexican novelist and poet
Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda is an award-winning actor, a political activist, and a former fitness guru.
Holly Hunter
Oscar-winning American actor
Adela Fernández
Mexican educator and writer whose work included 14 books of literature, poetry, anthropology and Mexican history, two short experimental films and many plays.
Eleanor Perry
Eleanor Perry went from writing whodunits with her first husband in Cleveland to writing screenplays for her second husband in New York and Hollywood.
Margaret Hamilton
American actress best remembered as the “Wicked Witch of the West” in the film classic The Wizard of Oz
Amelia Rudolph
Aerial dancer and choreographer and filmmaker
Rosa de Castaño
Mexican playwright and novelist
Florence Berlin
Two sisters, Viola Berlin and Florence Berlin, ran Boston’s Exeter Street Theater for many years, turning it into a popular place to see foreign films. The theater closed in 1984.