1612) Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy

Princess Elisabeth Vilma Lwoff-Parlaghy (1863 - 1923). Hungarian-born painter who worked in the German Empire and the United States. She is known to have painted about 120 portraits of prominent Americans and Europeans between 1884 and 1923.

In 1899, she married the Russian Prince Georgy Lvov in Prague; they were quickly divorced, though she continued to style herself the "Princess Lwoff-Parlaghy" using her artist name with the authorization of Prince Lvov.

(self-portrait)

She was described by a reporter as possessing..

"...red gold hair, curls and coils and braids of it, big black eyes [and] a rosebud mouth."

From the book Daniel Sickles: a Life

1611) Caroline Miskel Hoyt

Caroline Miskel Hoyt (née Scales; 1873–1898). American stage actress.
She moved to New York City at the age of 18 and soon made her professional stage début touring with Augustin Daly's famed repertory company, adopting the professional name Caroline Miskel. The following season she portrayed Ruth Hardman in Charles H. Hoyt's A Temperance Town, a satiric comedy that opened in 1893, at Hoyt's Madison Square Theatre.
Though by then Miskel was known as a promising young actress with a flair for comedy, she chose to retire from the stage not long after she married Charles Hoyt in 1894. She returned to the theatre in 1897 to star in Hoyt's new play A Contented Woman.
In 1898 she became gravely ill following the birth of her son and both died the next day. The loss brought about the decline of her widower, who died two years later. 

- "Canadian writer Hector Willoughby Charlesworth described her “light auburn hair, creamy complexion, bright sapphire eyes, and noble form and features” and noted that she was “as intellectual as she was beautiful.” http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/scales_caroline_12E.html

 

1610) Agnes Ethel

Agnes Ethel (1846 – 1903). American Broadway actress of the late 19th century.
She made her stage debut in Camille (1868), at Jerome's private theatre in New York. She was in the first production of Frou Frou in the United States. The Augustin Daly stock company staged it at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, in 1870. Ethel appeared in Fernande, also at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, again in 1870. A critic wrote that her acting was her best thus far. In September 1872 Ethel appeared in Agnes, presented by the Union Square Theatre. The play was written especially for her by Victorien Sardou. It ran for one hundred nights.
In 1873 Ethel married Francis W. Tracy, a millionaire, and retired from the stage. She took part in charities and assisted struggling actors and actresses. She performed only twice more on stage, appearing on both occasions in support of charity.
When Tracy died in 1886, she was involved in a dispute about his will with Tracy's first wife, but eventually Ethel was awarded the entire fortune.

- "Daly’s biographer described Ethel as “a slender figure, candid eyes, flowing auburn hair, an oval face..." https://cabinetcardgallery.com/2009/02/09/agnes-ethel-broadway-stage-actress/

 

1609) William Lucking

William Lucking (1941 – 2021). American film, television, and stage actor, best known for his role as Piney Winston in Sons of Anarchy (2008–2011), and for his movie roles in The Magnificent Seven Ride! (1972), and The Rundown (2003). He was also known for his portrayal of Col. Lynch in the first season of the 1980s TV show The A-Team.
Lucking graduated from UCLA and the Pasadena Playhouse with degrees in literature and theater. In 1986, with fellow actor and Michigan native Dana Elcar, he co-founded the Santa Paula Theater Center.

- "Stocky, rough-hewn, red-haired actor often seen in biker and hippie films of the late 1960s and early 1970s."  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0524747/trivia/

- "Besides motorcycle club members, the big & burly Lucking, with his rough-hewn face and red hair, played a slew of sheriffs, detectives, patrolmen..." https://cscottrollins.blogspot.com/2021/11/rest-in-peace-william-lucking-big-bill.html

 

1608) Dorothy Gish

Dorothy Elizabeth Gish (1898 – 1968). American actress of the screen and stage, as well as a director and writer. Dorothy and her older sister Lillian Gish were major movie stars of the silent era. Dorothy Gish was noted as a fine comedian, and many of her films were comedies.
In 1912, their childhood friend, actress Mary Pickford, introduced the sisters to director D. W. Griffith, and they began performing as extras at the Biograph Studios in New York. Dorothy and her sister debuted in Griffith's 1912 production An Unseen Enemy. She would ultimately perform in over 100 short films and features, many times with Lillian.
From 1930 (the beginning of talking pictures) until her death, she only performed in five more movies. Her final film role was in 1963 in the Otto Preminger production, The Cardinal, in which she plays the mother of the title character.
Television in the 1950s, however, offered many stage and film actors the opportunity to perform in plays broadcast live. Dorothy ventured into the new medium, appearing on NBC's Lux Video Theatre on the evening of November 24, 1955, in a production of Miss Susie Slagle's.
In 1920, Dorothy Gish married James Malachi Rennie (1890–1965), a Canadian-born actor who co-starred with her in two productions in that same year. Gish and Rennie remained together until their divorce in 1935. Dorothy never married again.

- "Lillian, a fair, sedate little lass, was delighted when Dorothy arrived—fat, rosy, red-haired—full of fun and mischief, almost from the beginning... Ruddy-haired Dorothy was lovelier than any doll." https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/55169/pg55169-images.html

 

1607) Mae Marsh

Mae Marsh (born Mary Warne Marsh; 1894 – 1968). American film actress whose career spanned over 50 years.
Marsh worked as a salesgirl and loitered around the Hollywood sets and locations while her older sister Marguerite worked on a film, observing the progress of her sister’s performance. She first started as an extra in various movies, and played her first substantial role in the film Ramona (1910) at the age of 15.
She then worked with Mack Sennett and D. W. Griffith, sometimes appearing in eight movies per year and often paired with fellow Sennett protégé Robert Harron in romantic roles, such as The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Intolerance (1916).
March signed a lucrative contract with Samuel Goldwyn after Intolerance, but none of the films she made with him were particularly successful. After her marriage to Lee Arms, a publicity agent for Goldwyn, in 1918, her film output decreased to about one per year.
Marsh returned from retirement to appear in sound films and played a role in Henry King’s remake of Over the Hill (1931). She gravitated toward character roles, and worked in this manner for the next several decades. Marsh appeared in numerous popular films, such as Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1932) and Little Man, What Now? (1934). She also became a favorite of director John Ford, appearing in The Grapes of Wrath (1940), How Green Was My Valley (1941), 3 Godfathers (1948), and The Searchers (1956).

- "The petite, auburn-haired, blue-eyed actress appeared in several films before being cast as Flora." https://projects.latimes.com/hollywood/star-walk/mae-marsh/index.html

- "... making a complete contrast to the brilliant shock of Mae Marsh’s red hair and the golflen blonde of Lillian Gish." https://virginiachronicle.com/?a=d&d=NEL19160101.1.5&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN--------

 

1606) Hope Hampton

Hope Hampton (Mae Elizabeth Hampton; 1897 – 1982). American silent motion picture actress and producer, who was noted for her seemingly effortless incarnation of siren and flapper types in silent-picture roles during the 1920s.
She was discovered by U.S. silent cinema pioneer Jules Brulatour while working as an extra for director Maurice Tourneur. She made her screen debut in 1920's A Modern Salome, and went on to feature prominently in several Brulatour-financed films. Her last starring role was in The Road to Reno (1938). In 1923, Hampton wed her manager Brulatour, and they remained married until his death in 1946.

- "She is five feet, three inches tall, weighs 115 pounds, and has auburn hair and dark blue eyes." https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hope_Hampton_Stars_of_the_Photoplay.jpg

- "Miss Hampton hastily up her glorious red hair..." https://www.newspapers.com/article/127801467/new-york-tribune/

- "I don't know much about Hope Hampton, except that she was a Texas girl and boasts auburn hair and very blue eyes, and she's one of the most earnest little actresses I've seen for a long time." https://www.newspapers.com/article/85261455/the-bait/

 

1605) Mary Thurman

Mary Thurman (née Christiansen; 1895 – 1925). American actress of the silent film era.
She was one of seven children raised in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Her parents were both Danish.
She attended the University of Utah and became a teacher before turning to acting.
In 1915, she married Victor E. Thurman, son of Utah Supreme Court justice Samuel R. Thurman, but divorced in 1919.
Thurman's film career began with roles in the comedies of Mack Sennett, as one of the Sennett Bathing Beauties, and featured appearances in Bombs! (1916) and The Fool (1925). Her greatest success came when she started working with director Allan Dwan. They collaborated on several critically acclaimed films including The Sin of Martha Queed (1921) and A Broken Doll (1921). Off screen Thurman and Dwan were engaged for several years. She appeared in nearly sixty Hollywood films from 1915 up until her death in 1925, frequently in those made by Pathé Studios.
In 1920 she adopted the Dutch bob hairstyle, thus becoming the first celebrity with the style that became a craze among young fashionable women known as "flappers" during the 1920s and early 1930s.

- "Red-headed former schoolteacher, who was discovered by a Mack Sennett talent scout, while on vacation in California." https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0862197/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

 

1604) Stuart Holmes

Stuart Holmes (born Joseph Liebchen; 1884 – 1971). American actor and sculptor whose career spanned seven decades. He appeared in almost 450 films between 1909 and 1964, sometimes credited as Stewart Holmes.
For 20 years, Holmes performed in vaudeville and on stage, with the latter often being in Shakespeare's plays. His work in the theater included a stint in Germany.
Holmes's film career began in 1911 and ended with The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962).
As a sculptor, Holmes created work for at least three California United States post offices — in Oceanside (1936), Claremont (1937), and Bell (1937).

- "Stuart Holmes, whose sardonic smile and auburn hair are looked upon as the last word in aids to screen villainy..." https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stuart_Holmes_Stars_of_the_Photoplay.jpg

- "... auburn hair and hazel eyes..."  https://archive.org/stream/motionpicturealm1929exhi/motionpicturealm1929exhi_djvu.txt

 

1603) Betty Brice

Rosetta Dewart Brice, known professionally as Betty Brice  (1888 –  1935). American actress in many silent films.
After some time on the stage with stock companies, Brice began acting in silent films, under contract to the Lubin studio in Philadelphia.
Films featuring Brice, many of them short films and serials that highlighted Brice's athleticism in stunts, riding, and swimming scenes, included Michael Strogoff (1914), The Fortune Hunter (1914), The Road o' Strife (1915), The Sporting Duchess (1915), The Phantom Happiness (1915), The Rights of Man: A Story of War's Red Blotch (1915), The Meddlesome Darling (1915), A Man's Making (1915), The Gods of Fate (1916), Her Bleeding Heart (1916), Love's Toll (1916), Loyalty (1917), Humility (1918), and Beau Brummel (1924).

- "A red-haired and green-eyed beauty, she was a star of the early silent film era." https://it.findagrave.com/memorial/138006190/betty-brice

- "Red-haired, green-eyed leading lady, with Lubin in the 1910s." https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0108503/bio/?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm

- "A striking young woman with Titian-red hair, green eyes, and a petite 5'6", 124 lb. figure, Miss Brice showed considerable dramatic talent in her youth..." https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0108503/

1602) Caryl Lincoln

Caryl Lincoln (1903 – 1983). American film actress whose career spanned from 1927 to 1964.
In 1927, she signed a long-term contract with Fox Film studios. Her first film was Slippery Silks in 1927. She starred in ten films from 1927 to the end of 1928. In 1930 she starred opposite Bob Steele in The Land of Missing Men, which started her on a path to several heroine roles in western films. One of her best known roles during this period was opposite Tom Tyler in War on the Range (1933).
Her career had slowed by 1934, however, and her last credited role was that same year, in Charlie Chan's Courage. She was a friend (and future sister-in-law) of actress Barbara Stanwyck, through whom she met Stanwyck's brother, Byron Stevens. She and Stevens married in 1934, and remained together until his death in 1964. She never remarried. They had one son, Brian.

- "... girl with brown eyes and auburn hair..." https://books.google.it

- "Caryl Lincoln, auburn-haired born in Oakland..." https://www.newspapers.com/article/detroit-free-press/20108558/

 

1601) Marc McDermott

Marcus McDermott (also credited as Marc MacDermott; 1871 – 1929). Australian actor who starred on Broadway and in over 180 American films from 1909 until his death.
He was born in Goulburn, New South Wales to Irish parents.
In 1899 he was discovered by illustrious stage actor George Rignold and in mid-1902 he traveled to New York via Canada, joining Mrs Patrick Campbell’s a company soon after and appearing on Broadway, as Sir George Orreyed in The Second Mrs. Tanqeray. In mid-1903 he traveled to England with Campbell and performed there until 1906 when he returned to the United States, his reputation by now well established.

In 1909 he was hired by Thomas Edison  to appear as a featured player at Edison's Bronx studio. In 1912, he starred with Mary Fuller and Charles Ogle in What Happened to Mary?, the first motion picture serial made in the U.S.
McDermott had starred in over 140 films for Edison by 1916, and had frequently appeared in popular film magazines like Photoplay and Moving Picture World. That year, he married stage actress Miriam Nesbitt, who later co-starred with him in many films such as The Man Who Disappeared. McDermott then left Edison Studios to join Vitagraph Studios.

- "Tall with thick auburn hair and dark brown eyes, Marc cut an impressive figure." https://www.amazon.com/prime-video/actor/Marc-McDermott/amzn1.dv.gti.d5fd0110-bedd-46eb-a3bf-f4b2d75b377d/

 

1600) Irene Fenwick

Irene Fenwick (born Irene Frizell; 1887 – 1936). American stage and silent film actress. She was married to Lionel Barrymore from 1923 until her death in 1936. Years before marrying Lionel, Irene had dated Lionel's brother, John.
In New York she met Broadway producer Charles Frohman who gave her the stage name Fenwick and the ingénue role in The Brass Bottle (1910). She continued on stage in 1912 opposite Douglas Fairbanks in Hawthorne of the U.S.A.
While on Broadway, she started working in silent films with producer George Kleine. Fenwick often played wronged women and vamps in films such as The Sentimental Lady (1915), The Woman Next Door (1915), A Coney Island Princess (1916).
Fenwick felt restricted by these film roles and returned to the stage. In the hit plays The Claw (1921) and Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1923) she co-starred with Lionel Barrymore, whom she married in 1923, after a brief engagement. She retired in 1926 after her husband chose a Hollywood career.
She died from complications of anorexia nervosa (called "overdieting" then). 

- "A vivacious redhead, adept at both drama and comedy, she had a forceful stage presence that belied her tiny stature of 4'11"." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene_Fenwick

- "The petite redhead was nicknamed "The Pocket Venus"."  https://www.classicactresses.org/2021/01/irenefenwick.html

 

1599) Valerie Hobson

Valerie Hobson (born Babette Louisa Valerie Hobson, 1917 –1998). British actress whose film career spanned the 1930s to the early 1950s.
She was born in County Antrim, in Ulster. Before she was 11 years old, Hobson had begun to study acting and dancing at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts.
In 1935, aged 17, she appeared as Baroness Frankenstein in Bride of Frankenstein with Boris Karloff and Colin Clive. She played opposite Henry Hull that same year in Werewolf of London, the first Hollywood werewolf film. The latter half of the 1940s saw Hobson in perhaps her two most memorable roles: as the adult Estella in David Lean's adaptation of Great Expectations (1946), and as the refined and virtuous Edith D'Ascoyne in the black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949).
Hobson's last starring role was in the original London production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical play The King and I, which opened at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, on 8 October 1953. She played Mrs. Anna Leonowens opposite Herbert Lom's King. The show ran for 926 performances.
In 1939, Hobson married film producer Anthony Havelock-Allan. They had two sons, Anthony and Mark. In 1952 they divorced and in 1954 Hobson married   Brigadier John Profumo, a Member of Parliament, giving up acting shortly afterwards. After Profumo's ministerial career ended in disgrace in 1963, following revelations he had lied to the House of Commons about his affair with Christine Keeler, Hobson stood by him, and they worked together for charity for the remainder of her life. Their son, author David Profumo, wrote about the scandal in Bringing the House Down: A Family Memoir (2006).

- "A great beauty who became an impressive actress, elegant redheaded Valerie Hobson landed some very choice roles in the later 1940s..." http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/486555/index.html 

- "She was an attractive lady with auburn hair, worn loose and quite curly for that time, and lovely skin." https://www.theoldie.co.uk/blog/i-once-met-valerie-hobson-by-annette-page

- "Although beautiful, with long auburn hair, she was upper-crust and aloof and seemed too prim and ladylike to appear opposite matinée idols such as Granger and Gérard Philippe." https://liambluett.com/2010/valerie-hobson/

 

1598) Cynthia Harris

Cynthia Lee Harris (1934 – 2021). American film, television, and stage actress. She is best known for her roles in the television series Edward & Mrs. Simpson and the sitcom Mad About You.
She began studying theater at age 12 and studied acting with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio.
Harris appeared in such television series and TV movies, such as Archie Bunker's Place and All My Children. In Edward and Mrs. Simpson, she was cast as the Duchess of Windsor, which earned her a BAFTA Award nomination in 1979.
She made her Broadway debut as an understudy for the drama Natural Affection in 1963. In 1971, she appeared on Broadway in the Stephen Sondheim-George Furth musical, Company. In 1978, she received a BAFTA nomination for her performance as Wallis Simpson in Edward & Mrs. Simpson (1978).

- "Stage-trained supporting actor Cynthia Harris has lent her reddish-brown hair and green eyes to a variety of projects in the theater and for the screen." https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/cynthia_harris

 
- "... the ginger-haired Harris appeared in the Barbra Streisand-starring Up the Sandbox..." https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/cynthia-harris-dead-mad-about-you-1235026447/

- "The red-headed star's first play was Natural Affection in 1963." https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-10066011/Mad-actress-Cynthia-Harris-dies-age-87-actress-played-Paul-Reisers-mom.html

- "Despite the fact that Harris was a freckle-faced redhead with green eyes, her on-screen resemblance to her character proved impressive." https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cynthia-harris-obituary-hnl0vjwf0

 

1597) John III of Sweden

John III (1537 – 1592). King of Sweden from 1569 until his death.
He was the son of King Gustav I of Sweden and his second wife Margaret Leijonhufvud. He was also, quite autonomously, the ruler of Finland, as Duke John from 1556 to 1563. In 1581 he assumed also the title Grand Prince of Finland. He attained the Swedish throne after a rebellion against his half-brother Eric XIV. He is mainly remembered for his attempts to close the gap between the newly established Lutheran Church of Sweden and the Catholic Church, as well as his conflict with and murder of his brother.
His first wife was Catherine Jagellonica of the Polish-Lithuanian ruling family, and their son Sigismund eventually ascended both the Polish-Lithuanian and Swedish thrones. After her death, he married Gunilla Bielke. They had a son, John, Duke of Finland.
With his mistress Karin Hansdotter he had at least four illegitimate children.

Unidentified painter

Portrait after Johan Baptista van Uther

Unidentified painter

 

1596) Anna Vasa of Sweden

Anna Vasa of Sweden (also Anne, 1568 – 1625). Swedish princess heavily involved in the politics of that country and of Poland. 

She was starosta of Brodnica and Golub. The youngest child of King John III of Sweden and Catherine Jagiellon, she was close to her brother Sigismund Vasa, King of Poland (1587–1632) and King of Sweden (1592–99). Raised a Catholic, Anna converted to Lutheranism in 1584.

Portrait by Lavinia Fontana

Portrait by Lavinia Fontana