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Sophia Loren

Name at birth: Sofia ScicoloneSophia Loren was one of Italian film's great 20th-century sex symbols. She hit it big in the movies in 1950s, thanks especially to film producer Carlo Ponti (whom she…

Frank Capra

Frank Capra was Hollywood's leading director in the mid-1930s and 1940s, when he won three best director Oscars in just five years for his films It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (…

Carole Lombard

Name at birth: Jane Alice PetersCarole Lombard was a top Hollywood star of 1930s screwball comedies -- and the wife of box office idol Clark Gable -- when she was killed in a plane crash in Nevada in…

Arthur Miller

Playwright Arthur Miller wrote Death of a Salesman (1949) and The Crucible (1953). Miller grew up in New York City and began writing plays in the 1930s, while still a student at the University of…

Lew Wasserman 2002 Deaths

Lew WassermanAge: 89 legendary Hollywood mogul who served as chairman and CEO of MCA for four decades after World War II and permanently changed the landscape of the entertainment industry.…

Claudette Colbert

Name at birth: Claudette Lily ChauchoinClaudette Colbert was a top Hollywood star in the 1930s and '40s, best known as Clark Gable's Oscar-winning co-star from the classic 1934 comedy It Happened One…

John Dillinger

Name at birth: John Herbert Dillinger, Jr.When John Dillinger was gunned down by federal agents in 1934 he was "public enemy number one," so named by the U.S. Justice Department for his string of…

Montgomery Clift

Montgomery Clift was a handsome and troubled leading man of stage and screen, most widely known for his Oscar-nominated performance as Pvt. Prewitt in the 1953 film From Here to Eternity.…

John Huston

John Huston directed some of the most famous movies of the 20th century, including the Humphrey Bogart classics The Maltese Falcon (1941), Key Largo (1948), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)…