What 1968 drama film featured an actress who was also a nightclub entertainer, a singer, and one of the early "Playboy" Playmates?
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Single Room Furnished Single Room Furnished is a 1968 drama film featuring Jayne Mansfield in her final "filmed" starring role. The film is based on the stage play of the same title by Gerald Sanford, adapted by Matt Cimber, who also directed (credited on-screen as "Matteo Ottaviano"). The screenplay is by Michael Musto.
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Jayne Mansfield Jayne Mansfield (born Vera Jayne Palmer; April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967) was an American actress in film, theater, and television. She was also a nightclub entertainer, a singer, and one of the early "Playboy" Playmates. She was a major Hollywood sex symbol of the 1950s and early 1960s and one of 20th Century Fox's main sex symbol actresses. She was also known for her well publicized personal life and publicity stunts, such as wardrobe malfunctions.
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The I Don't Care Girl The I Don't Care Girl is a 1953 Technicolor film starring Mitzi Gaynor. It is a biography of an entertainer, Eva Tanguay.
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Diana Barrymore Diana Blanche Barrymore Blythe (March 3, 1921 – January 25, 1960), known professionally as Diana Barrymore, was an American film and stage actress.
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A Place for Lovers A Place for Lovers (Italian: Amanti , French: Le Temps des amants ) is a 1968 French-Italian romantic drama film directed by Vittorio De Sica, written by Brunello Rondi, Julian Zimet, Peter Baldwin, Ennio De Concini, Tonino Guerra, Cesare Zavattini based on the play "Gli Amanti" by Brunello Rondi and Renaldo Cabieri, and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
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Queen of the Night Clubs Queen of the Night Clubs is a 1929 American Pre-Code musical drama film produced and directed by Bryan Foy, distributed by Warner Bros., and starring legendary nightclub hostess Texas Guinan. The picture, which featured appearancess by Eddie Foy, Jr., Lila Lee, and George Raft, is now considered a lost film.
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Sappho Darling Sappho Darling is a 1968 film written by Albert Zugsmith.
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Joey Heatherton Davenie Johanna "Joey" Heatherton (born September 14, 1944) is an American actress, dancer, and singer. A sex symbol of the 1960s and 1970s, she is best known for her many television appearances during that time, particularly as a frequent variety show performer, although she also appeared in acting roles. She performed for over a decade on USO tours presented by Bob Hope, and starred in several feature films including "My Blood Runs Cold" (1965) and "The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington" (1977).
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Leda Had a Little Swan Leda Had a Little Swan is a 1968 play. It never officially opened
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The Bordello The Bordello (German: Das Freudenhaus) is a 1971 West German drama film directed by Alfred Weidenmann and starring Karin Jacobsen, Herbert Fleischmann and Gisela Peltzer.
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Mariangela Melato Mariangela Melato (19 September 1941 – 11 January 2013) was an Italian cinema and theater actress. She began her stage career in the 1960s. Her first film role was in "Thomas e gli indemoniati" (1969), directed by Pupi Avati. She played in many memorable films during the 1970s, a period which was considered her golden age, and she received much praise for her roles in films like "Between Miracles" (1971), "The Seduction of Mimi" (1972), "Love and Anarchy" (1973), "Nada" (1974), "Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August" (1974), "Todo modo" (1976) and "Il gatto" (1978). Melato also starred in several American productions as well. She died from pancreatic cancer at the age of 71
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Claudia Jennings Mary Eileen Chesterton (December 20, 1949, Saint Paul, Minnesota – October 3, 1979, Malibu, California), known professionally as Claudia Jennings, was an American actress. Jennings was "Playboy" magazine's Playmate of the Month for November 1969 and also Playmate of the Year for 1970. During the 1970s she was called "Queen of B movies".
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Pippa Steel Pippa Steel (15 April 1948 – 29 May 1992), was born in Flensburg, Germany. She was a British actress best known for her roles in two Hammer horror films: "The Vampire Lovers" (1970) and "Lust for a Vampire" (1971). Her other films included "Stranger in the House" (1967), "Take a Girl Like You" (1970) and "Young Winston" (1972). She was also active in television, making guest appearances in series such as "Department S", "Z-Cars", "UFO", "Public Eye", "The Adventurer" and "Blake's 7".
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Loretta Young Loretta Young (January 6, 1913 – August 12, 2000) was an American actress and singer. Starting as a child actress, she had a long and varied career in film from 1917 to 1953. She won the 1948 Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the 1947 film "The Farmer's Daughter" and received an Oscar nomination for her role in "Come to the Stable" in 1949. Young moved to the relatively new medium of television, where she had a dramatic anthology series, "The Loretta Young Show", from 1953 to 1961. The series earned three Emmy Awards and was rerun successfully on daytime TV and later in syndication. In the 1980s, Young returned to the small screen and won a Golden Globe for her role in "Christmas Dove" in 1986. Young, a devout Roman Catholic, worked with various Catholic charities after her acting career.
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Lena Horne Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010) was an American jazz and pop music singer, dancer, actress, and civil rights activist. Horne's career spanned over 70 years appearing in film, television, and theater. Horne joined the chorus of the Cotton Club at the age of 16 and became a nightclub performer before moving to Hollywood, where she had small parts in numerous movies, and more substantial parts in the 1943 films "Cabin in the Sky" and "Stormy Weather". Because of the Red Scare and her political activism, Horne found herself blacklisted and unable to get work in Hollywood.
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Sadie Gray Sadie Gray is a fictional character from the American soap opera "One Life to Live", played by Broadway actress and singer Lillian Hayman from 1968 to 1986. Sadie regularly sings at special functions and occasions during her appearance on the serial.
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Susan Reed (singer) Susan Catherine Reed (January 11, 1926 – April 25, 2010) was an American singer, harpist, zitherist and actor. A regular on the New York folk scene, "Life" magazine dubbed her "the pet of Manhattan nightclubbers" in 1945.
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Two a Penny Two a Penny is a 1967 British film, released nationally in 1968, featuring singer Cliff Richard. The film was directed by James F. Collier and produced by Frank R. Jacobson for Billy Graham's film distribution and production company World Wide Pictures. The original story and screenplay was written by Stella Linden.
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Mississippi Mermaid Mississippi Mermaid (French: "La sirène du Mississipi" ) is a 1969 French romantic drama film directed by François Truffaut and starring Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Paul Belmondo. Adapted from the 1947 novel "Waltz into Darkness" by Cornell Woolrich, the film is about a tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean who becomes engaged through correspondence to a woman he does not know. When she arrives it is not the same woman in the photo, but he marries her anyway. Filmed in southern France and Réunion island, "Mississippi Mermaid" was the 17th highest-grossing film of the year in France with a total of 1,221,027 admissions. It was remade in 2001 as "Original Sin", directed by Michael Cristofer and starring Angelina Jolie and Antonio Banderas.
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Liza Minnelli Liza May Minnelli ( ; born March 12, 1946) is an American actress and singer. Primarily known for her Academy Award-winning role as Sally Bowles in the 1972 musical film "Cabaret" directed by Bob Fosse, she is noted for her energetic stage presence and her powerful contralto singing voice.
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Brenda Dean Paul Brenda Irene Isabelle Frances Theresa Dean Paul (8 May 1907 – 26 July 1959), generally known by her stage name Brenda Dean Paul, was a British silent film actress and socialite, and a member of the Bright young things in the 1920s. Her use of illegal drugs landed her in court and in the tabloid press of the day. She served time in Holloway Prison and had many stints in hospitals in efforts to shake her addiction.
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The Killing of Sister George (film) The Killing of Sister George is a 1968 film directed by Robert Aldrich based on the 1964 play by Frank Marcus. In the film, an aging lesbian television actress, June "George" Buckridge (Beryl Reid, reprising her role from the stage play), simultaneously faces the loss of her popular television role and the breakdown of her longterm relationship with a younger woman (Susannah York). Although Marcus' play was a black comedy, the film version was marketed as a "shocking drama"; it added explicit lesbian content that was not in the original play, and was presented as a serious treatment of lesbianism.