Meet Donna Michelle, born Donna Michelle Fick on December 8, 1945, in Los Angeles, California, and passed away April 11, 2004, in Ukiah, California.
She was an American model, actress, and photographer who went by the adopted name Donna M. Ronne. Her mom’s maiden name was Baron. She crushed it as Playboy’s December 1963 Playmate of the Month and snagged 1964 Playmate of the Year, with centerfold pics shot by Pompeo Posar and Edmund Leja. She tied the knot with David M. Ronne at 17 on February 2, 1963, in Los Angeles, and they split in April 1967 in the same city, meanin’ she was married when she landed the December ’63 Playmate gig.
Meet Barbara Rudnik, a German actress who crushed it in theater and film. Born July 27, 1958, in Kassel, Germany, she passed away May 23, 2009, in Munich.
Growin’ up in Kassel, she worked as a book club agent after high school. While on the job in Munich, she linked up with students from the Academy of Film and Theater and kicked off her actin’ career.
Meet Lynda Ann Wiesmeier (May 30, 1963 – December 16, 2012), an American model and actress who kicked things off with her first flick, American Pop. She nabbed the cover and Playmate of the Month spot for Playboy’s July 1982 issue, with her centerfold snapped by Richard Fegley.
Lynda popped up in a bunch of Playboy’s newsstand specials and vids, keepin’ busy with the mag for over five years. She started as a nude glamour and pin-up chick, then moved to promo gigs and reporting for the Playboy Channel. Sadly, she passed in December 2012 from a brain tumor.
Meet Mariangela Melato (September 19, 1941 – January 11, 2013), an Italian actress who crushed it in cinema and theater. She started hittin’ the stage in the 1960s, then jumped into films with her debut in Thomas e gli indemoniati (1969), directed by Pupi Avati.
The 1970s were her prime time, starrin’ in bangers like Between Miracles (1971), The Seduction of Mimi (1972), Love and Anarchy (1973), Nada (1974), Todo modo (1976), and Il gatto (1978). She also popped up in some American flicks. Sadly, she passed away from pancreatic cancer at 71.
Meet Jill Dorothy Ireland (April 24, 1936 – May 18, 1990), an English actress and singer, best known for rockin’ tons of flicks with her second hubs, Charles Bronson.
Check out Veronica Echegui’s spicy photos and screenshots with nude and steamy scenes. She passed away in Madrid on August 24, 2025 at age 42. She’d been in the hospital since late July for cancer treatment. R.I.P.
Meet Eleonora Salvatore González, born October 1, 1975, in Rome, known as Bimba Bosé, an Italian-born Spanish model, actress, and singer. She passed away January 23, 2017.
In 2007, she dropped “Como un Lobo” with her uncle Miguel Bosé. Bimba strutted the runway in London, Paris, NYC, and Milan for big names like Miguel Adrover, John Galliano, and Yohji Yamamoto. Her grandma was Lucia Bosè. Sadly, Bimba lost her battle with breast cancer in Madrid at age 41.
Mary Farrah Leni Fawcett (February 2, 1947 – June 25, 2009) was an American actress and artist. A four-time Emmy Award nominee and six-time Golden Globe Award nominee, Fawcett rose to international fame when she posed for her iconic red swimsuit poster – which became the best selling pin-up poster in history – and starred as private investigator Jill Munroe in the first season of the television series Charlie’s Angels (1976–77). In 1996, she was ranked No. 26 on TV Guide’s “50 Greatest TV stars of All-Time”.
Fawcett began her career in 1968 in commercials and guest roles on television. During the 1970s, she appeared in numerous television series, including recurring roles on Harry O (1974–76), and The Six Million Dollar Man (1974–78) with then husband, film and television star Lee Majors. Her breakthrough role came in 1976, when she was cast as Jill Munroe in the ABC series Charlie’s Angels, alongside Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith. The show propelled all three to stardom, but especially Fawcett (then billed as Farrah Fawcett-Majors). After appearing in only the first season, Fawcett decided to leave the show which led to legal disputes. Eventually she signed a contract requiring her to make six guest appearances in the show’s third and fourth seasons (1978–80). For her role in Charlie’s Angels she received her first Golden Globe nomination.
In 1983, Fawcett received positive reviews for her performance in the Off-Broadway play Extremities. She was subsequently cast in the 1986 film version and received a Golden Globe nomination. She received two Emmy Award nominations for her roles in TV movies, as a battered wife in the 1984 film The Burning Bed and as real-life murderer Diane Downs in the 1989 film Small Sacrifices. Her 1980s work in TV movies also earned her four additional Golden Globe nominations.
In 1997, she gained some negative press for a rambling appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, but also garnered strong reviews for her role in the film The Apostle with Robert Duvall. She continued in numerous TV series, including recurring roles in the sitcom Spin City (2001) and the drama The Guardian (2002–03). For the latter, she received her third Emmy nomination. Her film roles include, Love Is a Funny Thing (1969), Myra Breckinridge (1970), Logan’s Run (1976), Sunburn (1979), Saturn 3 (1980), The Cannonball Run (1981), Extremities (1986), The Apostle (1997), and Dr. T & the Women (2000).
Fawcett was diagnosed with anal cancer in 2006; the 2009 NBC documentary Farrah’s Story chronicled her battle with the disease. She posthumously earned her fourth Emmy nomination for her work as a producer on the documentary.
Meet Luigia “Gina” Lollobrigida (July 4, 1927 – January 16, 2023), an Italian actress, model, photojournalist, and sculptor. Back in the ’50s and ’60s, she was a major European star, rockin’ the title of an international sex symbol. Called “the most beautiful woman in the world,” she was one of the last livin’ big names from Hollywood’s Golden Age when she passed.
Meet Heather Margaret Brotherston Menzies Urich (December 3, 1949 – December 24, 2017), a Canadian actress known for rockin’ the role of Louisa von Trapp in the 1965 movie The Sound of Music and Jessica 6 in the TV show Logan’s Run.
Meet Linda Sobek, born July 9, ’68 in Los Angeles County. She passed away November 16, ’95 in LA. Was a cheerleader for the LA Raiders’ Raiderettes back in the day. Was set to pop up on Married with Children. Tragically killed by photographer Charles Rathbun.
Ingrid Bergman (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɪŋːrɪd ˈbærjman]; 29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress who starred in a variety of European and American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, four Golden Globe Awards, a BAFTA Award, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is best remembered for her roles as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca (1942) and as Alicia Huberman in Notorious (1946), an Alfred Hitchcock thriller starring Cary Grant and Claude Rains.
Before becoming a star in American films, Bergman had been a leading actress in Swedish films. Her introduction to American audiences came with her starring role in the English-language remake of Intermezzo (1939). At her insistence, producer David O. Selznick agreed not to sign her to a contract – for four films rather than the then-standard seven-year period, also at her insistence – until after Intermezzo had been released.
Selznick’s financial problems meant that Bergman was often loaned to other studios. Apart from Casablanca, her performances from this period include Victor Fleming’s remake of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941), For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943), Gaslight (1944), and The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945). Her last films for Selznick were Alfred Hitchcock’s Spellbound (1945) and Notorious (1946). Her final film for Hitchcock was Under Capricorn (1949).
After a decade in American films, she starred in Roberto Rossellini’s Stromboli (1950), following the revelation that she was having an extramarital affair with the director. The affair and then marriage with Rossellini created a scandal in the US that forced her to remain in Europe for several years, when she made a successful Hollywood return in Anastasia (1956), for which she won her second Academy Award. Many of her personal and film documents can be seen in the Wesleyan University Cinema Archives.
According to the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, Bergman quickly became “the ideal of American womanhood” and a contender for Hollywood’s greatest leading actress. In the United States, she is considered to have brought a “Nordic freshness and vitality” to the screen, along with exceptional beauty and intelligence; David O. Selznick once called her “the most completely conscientious actress” he had ever worked with. In 2007, the American Film Institute ranked Bergman as the fourth-greatest female screen legend of classic American cinema.
