1555) Jane Anderson

Jane Anderson (1888 – 1972). American-Spanish war reporter journalist who broadcast Nazi propaganda in Germany during World War II. She was indicted on charges of treason in 1943, but charges were dropped after the war for lack of evidence.

Born Foster Anderson, her father, Robert M. "Red" Anderson was a close friend of the showman Buffalo Bill. Her mother, Ellen Luckie Anderson, came from a wealthy and prominent Atlanta family.

In 1910, in New York, she married composer Deems Taylor. The marriage ended in divorce in 1918. While in New York, she became a successful writer of short stories, which were published in national magazines from 1910 to 1913.

She was a lover of the novelist Joseph Conrad, who used her as the model for his heroine, Doña Rita, in The Arrow of Gold in 1919. In October 1934, she married a Spanish nobleman in Seville, Count Eduardo Alvarez de Cienfuegos, and settled with him in Spain.

 

- "As a young woman she was notable for her red-haired beauty and her intelligence." https://www.flickr.com/photos/puzzlemaster/14324279094

 

- "Jane (who spoke French fluently) was then one of the most lusciously beautiful women in the world, tall, slim, with long curly orange hair, blue eyes, high forehead, a lovely mouth and nose, and a lovely soft complexion." https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi...

 

- "Parece ser que era una mujer muy bella, con una llamativa cabellera pelirroja. Algunos la apodaron como “el melocotón de Georgia” (It seems that she was a very beautiful woman, with striking red hair. Some nicknamed it "the Georgia peach.") http://amantesdelahistoria-aliado.blogspot.com/.../jane...

 

 

1554) Vali Myers

Vali Myers (1930 – 2003). Australian artist, dancer, bohemian and muse whose coverage by the media was mostly in 1950s and 1960s in Europe and the United States.

Myers was a flamboyant fantasy artist who worked in pen and ink and watercolour as well as being a nightclub dancer. She divided her life between her adopted home of Melbourne, New York, Positano and Paris.

Her art works developed from early detailed monochromes to a full range of vibrant colours and tones extending to watercolour and gold leaf. She was acquainted with many celebrities including Tennessee Williams, Salvador Dalí, Django Reinhardt, Jean Cocteau, Patti Smith, Jean Genet and Sam Shepard.

 

- "The monochromatic photograph can’t convey a sense of Vali’s mane of natural fiery red hair or her clear blue eyes" . https://mhnsw.au/.../vali-myers-teenage-ikon-street.../

 

 

1553) Gloria Hope

Gloria Hope (born Olive Frances, 1901 – 1976). American silent film actress.

She was signed in 1917 and starred in about 30 films before her retirement in 1926 at age 25 to have children.

She starred with William Garwood in films such as The Guilty Man in 1918, and with Mary Pickford and Lloyd Hughes in Tess of the Storm Country in 1922.

 

- "Gloria Hope was discovered by a representative of the Thomas H. Ince studio while drying her long titian red hair outdoors in 1917..." https://www.silentera.com/people/actresses/Hope-Gloria.html

 

- "Born Olive Beech Frances, as a petite, porcelain-skinned, red-haired, blue-eyed beauty..." https://it.findagrave.com/memorial/22626/gloria-hope

 

 

1552) Sidney Franklin

Sidney Franklin (born Sidney Frumkin; 1903 – 1976). First American to become a successful matador, the most senior level of bullfighter.

He was born to Orthodox Jewish parents. In 1922, he traveled to Mexico City, where he began a career in bullfighting, and fought bulls in Spain, Portugal, Mexico, Colombia, and Panama.

Franklin was praised by Hemingway in Death in the Afternoon.

 

- "This remark, tossed off in a Mexico City café, infuriated a young poster artist with flaming red hair and a temper to match." https://content.time.com/.../article/0,33009,817393,00.html

 

- "Light skinned with reddish hair, Mr. Franklin was a raconteur who relished being the center of attention." http://www.somosprimos.com/sp2019/spaug19/spaug19.htm

 

- "In Bullfighter from Brooklin he recounts a wonderfully implausible tale of meeting an Indian tribe near Guatemala that worships his red hair and pale skin..." https://books.google.it 

 

 

1551) Dave Sime

Dave Sime (David William Sime, 1936 – 2016). American sprinter, multi-sport athlete at Duke University, and a pioneering ophthalmologist. He won a silver medal in the 100-meter dash at the 1960 Olympic Games. He held several sprint records during the late 1950s.

Sime never played sports professionally. He graduated in the top 10% of his class at the Duke University School of Medicine. He then practiced medicine as an ophthalmologist in Florida, where he was a pioneer in intraocular lens transplants.

 

- "... he could just as easily have added that the young man in question would be red-haired, wear size 11 shoes, play the trumpet and have an affinity for pizza pie." https://vault.si.com/vault/1956/06/04/superman-in-spikes

 

- "The tall, redheaded sprinter with the free-floating stride made his bid on the turn of the 200-meter dash." https://content.time.com/.../article/0,33009,824284,00.html

 

- "A tall, rangy redhead at 6 feet 2 ½ inches and 179 pounds..." https://www.nytimes.com/.../dave-sime-once-the-worlds...

 

 

1550) Barbara Ann Scott

Barbara Ann Scott (1928 – 2012). Canadian figure skater. She was the 1948 Olympic champion, a two-time World champion (1947–1948), and a four-time Canadian national champion (1944–46, 48) in ladies' singles. Known as "Canada's Sweetheart,” she is the only Canadian to have won the Olympic ladies' singles gold medal, the first North American to have won three major titles in one year and the only Canadian to have won the European Championship (1947–48). During her forties she was rated among the top equestrians in North America. She received many honours and accolades, including being made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1991 and a member of the Order of Ontario in 2008.

- "... her auburn hair cascading in ringlets framed by a darling white hat..." https://issuu.com/canadashis.../docs/28_32_barbara_ann_scott

 

 

1549) Avery Brundage

Avery Brundage (1887 – 1975). American sports administrator who served as the fifth president of the International Olympic Committee from 1952 to 1972. The only American and only non-European to attain that position, Brundage is remembered as a zealous advocate of amateurism and for his involvement with the 1936 and 1972 Summer Olympics, both held in Germany.

- "His once‐reddish hair was thinned by middle age." https://www.nytimes.com/.../avery-brundage-of-olympics...

 

 

1548) Paula Strasberg

Paula Strasberg (born Pearl Miller; 1909 – 1966). American stage actress. She became actor and teacher Lee Strasberg's second wife and mother of actors John and Susan Strasberg, as well as Marilyn Monroe's acting coach and confidante.

She married Lee Strasberg in 1935, just days after her first marriage ended. She was later blacklisted for her membership in the American Communist Party, although her husband was not a member and suffered no adverse effects on his career. She went on to become Marilyn Monroe's acting coach and confidante until Monroe's death in 1962.

 

- "She would coil her long red hair into a bun and stay in her room for hours." https://www.vanityfair.com/.../marilyn-monroe-and-lee...

 

 

1547) Mario Savio

Mario Savio (1942 – 1996). American activist and key member of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. He is most famous for his passionate speeches, especially the "Bodies Upon the Gears" address given at Sproul Hall, University of California, Berkeley on December 2, 1964.

Savio remains historically relevant as an icon of the earliest phase of the 1960s counterculture movement.

Savio was born in New York City to a Sicilian-born Italian-American father who designed and manufactured restaurant equipment. Savio's mother was also of Italian ancestry (from Veneto), though born in the US. Both his parents were devout Catholics and, as an altar boy, Savio planned to become a priest.

 

- "He had long, sandy red hair..." https://books.google.it/books?id=iuaeEX-1yKgC&pg=PA83...

 

- "He scowled beneath longish, sandy-red hair." https://books.google.it/books?id=WW2jpQ36kSAC&pg=PA22...

 

 

1546) Patti Deutsch

Patricia Deutsch Ross (born Elaine Patricia Deutsch, 1943 – 2017). American actress and comedian who was well known as a recurring panelist on the 1970s game shows Match Game and Tattletales.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Deutsch did regular voice work for Hanna Barbera in both The Smurfs and Capitol Critters cartoon series. She provided the voice for Mrs. Dave, the mother of Dr. Dave, on the popular Nickelodeon cartoon As Told by Ginger. She also had occasional voice roles in other popular cartoon series, such as Darkwing Duck.

Her later work included movie voice-overs for Tarzan, The Emperor's New Groove, Monsters, Inc. and Happily N'Ever After.

 

- "Patti Deutsch, the red-haired comedian who was a staple on the classic sketch comedy show Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In..." https://news.yahoo.com/patti-deutsch-dies-match-game...

 

- "Deutsch was perhaps most recognizable to TV audiences for her red hair, distinctive voice, and ridiculous answers on the 1970s-era “Match Game” game show." https://obituaries.durangoherald.com/.../patti-deutsch...

 

 

1545) Suzanne Crough

Suzanne J. Crough (1963 – 2015). American child actress best known for her role as Tracy Partridge on The Partridge Family.

On The Partridge Family, a musical sitcom TV show which ran from 1970 to 1974, Crough played Tracy Partridge, the youngest Partridge sibling, who played the tambourine. After The Partridge Family, she made several TV movies and made guest appearances on television shows, including Mulligan's Stew. Her last credited on-screen role was as Kate in the 1980 TV movie Children of Divorce.

Crough graduated from Los Angeles Pierce College and until 1993 owned and operated a bookstore. 

 

- "Suzanne’s character Tracy Partridge was best known for her freckles, red hair, and playing the tambourine." https://perezhilton.com/partridge-family-star-dies.../...

 

- "The red-haired pixie playing a tambourine in the background of many a “Partridge Family” musical number has died." https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../suzanne-crough.../

 

 

1544) Binnie Barnes

Gertrude Maud Barnes (1903 – 1998), known professionally as Binnie Barnes. English actress whose career in films spanned from 1923 to 1973.

Before moving to Hollywood to become an actress, Barnes worked a series of jobs, such as chorus girl, nurse, and dance hostess.

She worked opposite such actors like Merle Oberon, Gary Cooper, Douglas Fairbanks, Don Ameche, Tyrone Power. 

 

- "After a stint as a milkmaid at 15, the auburn-haired beauty, who was born in London, flitted through a series of jobs..." https://liambluett.com/2010/binnie-barnes/

 

 

1543) Cleopatra VII

Cleopatra VII Philopator (70/69 BC – 30 BC). Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler. A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great. After the death of Cleopatra, Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire, marking the end of the last Hellenistic state in the Mediterranean and of the age that had lasted since the reign of Alexander (336–323 BC). Although her first language was Koine Greek, she was the only Ptolemaic ruler to learn and use the Egyptian language.

Cleopatra VII was born in early 69 BC to the ruling Ptolemaic pharaoh Ptolemy XII and an uncertain mother, presumably Ptolemy XII's wife Cleopatra VI Tryphaena, the mother of Cleopatra's older sister, Berenice IV Epiphaneia. Cleopatra Tryphaena disappears from official records a few months after the birth of Cleopatra in 69 BC. Cleopatra's childhood tutor was Philostratos, from whom she learned the Greek arts of oration and philosophy. During her youth Cleopatra presumably studied at the Musaeum, including the Library of Alexandria.

By 29 August 51 BC, official documents started listing Cleopatra as the sole ruler, evidence that she had rejected her brother Ptolemy XIII as a co-ruler. She had probably married him, but there is no record of this. The Ptolemaic practice of sibling marriage was introduced by Ptolemy II and his sister Arsinoe II. A long-held royal Egyptian practice, it was loathed by contemporary Greeks. By the reign of Cleopatra, however, it was considered a normal arrangement for Ptolemaic rulers.

 

Below, posthumous painted portrait of Cleopatra VII of Egypt, from Herculaneum (see here for more details).

 

 

Below, Venus and Cupid from the House of Marcus Fabius Rufus at Pompeii, most likely a depiction of Cleopatra VII (see here for more details).

 

 

Below, fresco of a woman in profile, possibly Cleopatra VII of Ptolemaic Egypt, from the House of the Orchard at Pompeii (see here for more details).