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Watch more Howcast videos on AOL VideoFabulous Fashion For Women Over 50 : Hairstyles & Makeup For Older WomenLearn how to do hairstyle and make in this up for older women in these free fashion videos.Ladies Fashion for the Over 50Ladies Fashion for the Over 50 by Groshan FabiolaWomen over the age of 50 often find a hard time finding fashion that fits them properly, that is stylish and trendy,

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By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1954)Doris Day was born in Evanston, a neighborhood within the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA to Alma Sophia Welz and William/Wilhelm Kappelhoff; three of her grandparents were German immigrants, at least one of them was Dutch. The youngest of three, she had two brothers, Richard, who died before she was born and Paul, a few years older. She was named after silent

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Coco Chanel was the biggest influence in fashion.Coco Chanel also popularized the little black dress, whose blank-slate versatility allowed it to be worn for both day and evening, depending on how it was accessorized. Although unassuming 'little black dresses' existed before Chanel, the ones she designed were considered the haute couture standard. The little black dress has lived long and can be

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Hollywood GlamourSalvatore Ferragamo was born in 1898 in Bonito, near Naples, Italy, the eleventh of 14 children. After making his first pair of shoes at age nine, for his sisters to wear on their confirmation, young Salvatore decided that he had found his calling. He always had a passion for shoes. After studying shoemaking in Naples for a year, Ferragamo opened a small store based in his

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Hollywood Icons of the 30s, 40s , 50s

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During the early 1930s, Crawford modified her image to better fit the hard-scrabble conditions of Depression-era America. In this new role, she played a glamorized version of the working girl who relied on her intelligence, looks and sheer determination to get ahead in life. This persona was fully realized in Possessed (1931), where Crawford was teamed with Clark Gable. During production, the two

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Brenda Lee first attracted attention performing in country music venues, and her first single, 1957's "One Step at a Time", was a country hit. However, her label and management felt it best to market her exclusively as a pop artist, the result being that none of her best-known recordings from the 1960s were released to country radio, and despite her obvious country sound, she would not have

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beach negligeeWhen spring temperatures began climbing in sunny Los Angeles, pretty model Gwendolyn Chapmanturned up at Paradise Cove to show off her newest creation - a beach negligee.Although it affords no protection against breezy Martch winds, it helps accent Gwendolyn'Ssnapely figure.

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Mahalia's career in the late 1950s and early 1960s continued to rise. She began a radio series on CBS and signed to Columbia Records in 1954. However, with her mainstream success came an inevitable backlash from gospel purists who felt she had watered down her sound for popular accessibility. Jackson had many notable accomplishments during this period, including her performance of many gospel

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“The Barry Sisters” (Bagelman Sisters)The Barry Sisters were the first to bring popular adaptations of Yiddish folk songs to a mass audience. It took just one record or so for them to be established as the United States' leading exponents of Yiddish Swing. From that point on, their tremendous abilities --as international pop singers, a hugely successful sister act, and two fun, charming beauties-

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The break came in 1945 playing the lead role in Salome, Where She Danced. Though not a critical success, was a favorite of the box office, and De Carlo was hailed as a up-and-coming star. In the role, which is less secure its entry saying, "I have come through these beaded curtains, wearing a Japanese kimono and Japanese head, and then made a Siamese dance. Nobody seemed to know why. "In 1947 he

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Delores was the first Mexican movie star.He was selected as one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars in 1926 (along with fellow newcomers Joan Crawford, Fay Wray, Janet Gaynor and Mary Astor), but initially overcame prejudice to the same year as the year one of the greatest hits screen, What Price Glory. He came to be admired as one of the most beautiful women on the screen, and his career flourished until

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The Harvey Girls is a novel 1942 by Samuel Hopkins Adams on the famous Fred Harvey Harvey Houses, which was subsequently made into a 1946 MGM musical.The film star Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Angela Lansbury, Virginia O'Brien, Ray Bolger, and Marjorie Main, and was directed by George Sidney. He won an Academy Award for Best Song for "On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe," written by Johnny Mercer

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In 1954, Garland made a tour of the Warner Bros. Pictures film, A Star Is Born, and was nominated for Best Actress. This film is considered by many critics to be his best performance [citation needed]. Directed by George Cukor and produced by her husband, Sid Luft (Luft and Garland through the Transcona Enterprises), this is a great undertaking in which Garland fully immersed. It was also a

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After Roman Holiday, Sabrina filmed the Billy Wilder with Humphrey Bogart and William Holden. Hepburn was sent to fashion designer Hubert de Givenchy to decide on his cabinet. When told that "Miss Hepburn" is coming to see him, Givenchy famous wait to see Katharine. He was not disappointed with Audrey, however, and formed a lifelong friendship and partnership. During the shooting of Sabrina,

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Born in New York to an active theatrical family (his mother was a very popular stage actress Mary Preston Dean), Priscilla Dean made his debut during the four years of age, appearing in plays performance of their parents. Since then, their stage of the race while he was educated at a convent school until the age of fourteen. After his leave from the school, Priscilla went to work on the stage,

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Film "A Woman of Affairs"Greta Garbo teases her brother Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. in "A Woman of Affairs"

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Carmen Miranda was born in the north of the small Portuguese town of Framework Canaveses. She was the second daughter of Jose Maria Cunha Pinto (1887-1938) and Maria Emília Miranda (1886-1971). Shortly after his birth, his father, Jose Maria, emigrated to Brazil and settled in Rio de Janeiro (then capital), where he opened a barber shop. In 1910, following his mother, along with his eldest

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Jerry Lewis (born March 16, 1926, according to most sources), is a comedian, actor, film producer, writer and film director known for his humor and slapstick charitable fundraising for television Muscular Dystrophy Association. Jerry Lewis has won many prestigious Lifetime Achievement Awards from the American Comedy Awards, The Golden Camera, Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the Venice Film

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Diana Vreeland (July 29, 1903 in Paris, France – August 22, 1989) was a noted columnist and editor in the field of fashion.She was born Diana Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell), the eldest daughter of a British father, Frederick Young Dalziel and an American mother, Emily Key Hoffman, a socialite who was a descendant of George Washington's brother as well as a cousin of Francis Scott Key. Vreeland had

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Ronald Reagan - then a liberal Democrat - campaigns on the radio for President Truman in 1948. He also supports Hubert Humphrey for Senator from Minnesota and opposes the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 which had been passed by the Republican congress over Truman's veto.

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Woody Allen Stand Up On English Television From 1965

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Carter was born Linda Jean Córdova Carter in Phoenix, Arizona. Her father, Colby Carter is an Irish American, and her mother, Juana Córdova, is of Mexican and Spanish ancestry. Carter grew up an avid reader of the Wonder Woman comic books. She went to Globe High School in Globe, Arizona and Arcadia High School in Phoenix. She attended Arizona State University, but after being voted the "most

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“Madam” Yevonde (Yevonde Cumbers, January 5, 1893 to December 22, 1975) was a photographer who cut through a path the use of color in the photography of portrait.Informed with the liberal and progressive boarding school of Lingholt in Hindhead and later in the International Guild in Paris, of a young age it showed an independent attitude. Its heroin was the liberationist Mary Wollstonecraft of

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