Burton Stephen "Burt" Lancaster
(November 2, 1913 – October 20, 1994)

Lancaster came to be regarded as one of the best motion picture actors
of his generation. He was nominated four times for Academy Awards and
won once for his work in Elmer Gantry in 1960. In 1999, the American
Film Institute named Lancaster 19th among the greatest male stars of
all time.

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Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977)
Born in Chester, Pennsylvania

When she was seventeen, Waters attended a costume party at a nightclub
where some of the guests convinced her to sing, helping her to land her
first gig. She often toured with evangelist Billy Graham on his crusades.

Waters was the second African American, after Hattie McDaniel, to be
nominated for an Academy Award. She is also the first African-American
woman to be nominated for an Emmy Award, in 1962.

 
                                                                           Carlotta Bradley

John William "Johnny" Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005)

Carson received six Emmy Awards, the Governor’s Award, and a 1985
Peabody Award. He was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of
Fame in 1987.

Helen Hayes MacArthur (October 10, 1900 – March 17, 1993)

Actress Helen Hayes has been acclaimed as The First Lady of American
Theatre whose career spanned almost 80 years. She became one of the
first people to win an EGOT, which is an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and
a Tony Award. She made her stage debut at Washington’s Belasco Theatre
as a singer at the age of five. Her first sound film was The Sin of Madelon
Claudet (1931).

June Allyson (born Eleanor Geisman in The Bronx, New York) 
(October 7, 1917 – July 8, 2006)

Allyson began her career as a dancer on Broadway in 1938. She
signed with MGM in 1943, and rose to fame the following year in
Two Girls and a Sailor. She won the Golden Globe Award for Best
Actress for her performance in the 1951 film Too Young to Kiss.

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