Femmelectric double-shot simply because, with the exception of Kate’s duets with Iggy Pop and REM, I am absolutely unable to separate them in my head; they are the new wave yin-yang of my music collection, just as Agnetha and Frida are the disco yin-yang of my collection

Plus, they’re just really cool.

Cindy Wilson
28 February 1951
from wikipedia.com

…is a member of The B-52’s. She began her career as a waitress in her home state of Georgia. She has a strong and melodic voice and sings well in harmonies, particularly as demonstrated with Kate Pierson of The B-52’s. Her brother, Ricky Wilson, was also a founding member of The B-52’s. He died in 1985. She took a sabbatical from the band in 1990 to concentrate on her family, during which The B-52’s recorded and released the album Good Stuff (Good Stuff is the only B-52’s album released as a trio of Kate Pierson, Keith Strickland and Fred Schneider)…Wilson rejoined The B-52’s in 1994, then took maternity leave in 1999, recently reforming with the band for their Funplex album, which was released in 2008. She is the only heterosexual member of The B-52s.

Kate Pierson
27 April 1948
from wikipedia.com
…is an American vocalist and one of the lead singers and founding members of The B-52’s. She also played keyboard and guitar for the band. In The B-52’s she performs alongside Cindy Wilson, Fred Schneider, and Keith Strickland. She is openly bisexual and has been in a relationship with Monica Coleman for over 5 years.

Greer Garson
29 September 1904 - 6 April 1996
from imdb.com
…was born in London, England, on September 29, 1904. Her childhood was a normal if not non-descript life. Greer showed no early signs of interest in becoming an actress. She was educated at the University of London with the intentions of becoming a teacher. Instead she opted to work with an advertising agency. During this time she appeared in local theatrical productions gaining a reputation as an extremely talented actress. She was discovered by Louis B. Mayer while he was on a visit to London looking for new talent. Greer was signed to a contract with MGM and appeared in her first American film in 1939. The movie in question was Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) which won rave reviews and garnered her a nomination as best actress, the first of six nominations. Already she was a force to be reckoned with in Hollywood. The following year would see Greer in the highly acclaimed Pride and Prejudice (1940) as Elizabeth Bennet.

(and a belated happy 92nd birthday to you!)

Olivia de Havilland
01 July 1916
from imdb.com
…was born to a British patent attorney and his wife on July 1, 1916, in Tokyo, Japan. Her sister, Joan, later to become famous as Joan Fontaine, was born the following year. Her parents divorced when Olivia was just three years old, and she moved with her mother and sister to Saratoga, California. After graduating from high school, where she fell prey to the acting bug, Olivia enrolled in Mills College in Oakland. It was while she was at Mills that she participated in the school play “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and was spotted by Max Reinhardt. She so impressed Reinhardt that he picked her up for both his stage version and, later, the Warner Bros. film version in 1935. She again was so impressive that Warner executives signed her to a seven-year contract. No sooner had the ink dried on the contract than Olivia appeared in three more films: The Irish in Us (1935), Alibi Ike (1935) and Captain Blood (1935), the latter with the man with whom her career would be most closely identified, heartthrob Errol Flynn. He and Olivia starred together in eight films during their careers. In 1939 Warner Bros. loaned her to David O. Selznick for the classic Gone with the Wind (1939). Playing the sweet Melanie Hamilton, Olivia received her first nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, only to lose out to one of her co-stars in the film, Hattie McDaniel.

Claudine Longet
29 January 1942
from imdb.com
…was born in Paris, France on January 29, 1942. Although known as an actress and singer, her career still is overshadowed by being known as a former wife of Andy Williams as well as shooting boyfriend, ski legend Spider Sabich in 1976. After a number of roles in episodes of high profile TV programs such as “Combat!” (1962), “Hogan’s Heroes” (1965), “Dr. Kildare” (1961), “Mr. Novak” (1963), and “12 O’Clock High” (1964), Claudine landed the role of Michele Monet in the Blake Edwards film The Party (1968). As a recording artist, Claudine was signed by Herb Alpert’s A&M Records. She released a string of albums in the late 60s (”Claudine”, “The Look of Love”, “Love is Blue”, “Colours”, and “Run Wild, Run Free”) covering songs from the Bee Gees and Donovan among others. She had four hits reach the US top 100 singles chart including “Love is Blue”. After switching to the Barnaby label, she released another two albums, “We’ve Only Just Begun” and “Let’s Spend the Night Together”. A third album, “Sugar Me”, recorded in 1974, had to wait almost 20 years before it was finally released. Standout songs included the title track, a cover of the Lynsey De Paul hit, as well as “Guess Who I Saw in Paris” by Buffy Sainte-Marie.

Jean Seberg
13 November 1938 - 8 September 1979
from imdb.com
(1957) after a much-publicized contest involving some 18,000 hopefuls. The failure of that film and the only moderate success of her next, Educated at Iowa University, this blonde actress landed the title role in Otto Preminger’s Saint JoanBonjour tristesse (1958), combined to stall Seberg’s career, until her role in Jean-Luc Godard’s landmark feature, À bout de souffle (1960), brought her renewed international attention. Seberg gave a memorable performance as a schizophrenic in the title role of Robert Rossen’s Lilith (1964) and was directed by husbands François Moreuil, in Récréation, La (1961), and Romain Gary, in Oiseaux vont mourir au Pérou, Les (1968).

Later in her life Seberg became involved in anti-war politics and was the target of an undercover campaign by the FBI to discredit her because of her association with several members of the Black Panther party. She was found dead under mysterious circumstances in a Paris suburb in 1979 (…in the back seat of an automobile in a Paris suburb. Her body wasn’t found until 11 days later.).

Rumors flew that Jean’s suicide was masterminded by the FBI but it was never proven. Buried in the Montparnasse cemetery in Paris, France, her funeral was attended by such notables as Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir

Edwige Fenech
24 December 1948
from wikipedia:
Fenech was born to a Maltese father and Sicilian mother. From the late 1960s to early 1980s, Fenech starred in many types of European movies. She is best known for her erotic comedies, and began to work in that field in the late 1960s with Austrian director Franz Antel. Fenech also achieved fame with giallo films such as Five Dolls for an August Moon, Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key and The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh, many of which were directed by Sergio Martino.

Sheena Easton
27 April 1959
from imdb.com

I have never claimed to be Miss Hip and I never tried to appeal to an avant-garde audience with a green streak in my hair, a bag over my head and songs about living couches. Some entertainers lose their way because they’re always trying to make a statement with their music or trying to be cool enough to be in with The Rolling Stones crowd. Well, that was never me. So sue me; I’m a pop singer. People bounce along in their cars to my songs and that’s good enough for me.

Maila Nurmi
21 December 1921 - 10 January 2008
from imdb.com:
It was director Howard Hawks, of all people, who discovered Maila while she was performing in Michael Todd’s Grand Guignol midnight show “Spook Scandals.” Hawks escorted the lovely blonde beauty to Hollywood with the hopes of grooming her into the next Lauren Bacall. Cast in the film version of the Russian novel “Dreadful Hollow,” the project was put on hold so many times that Maila walked out of her contract in frustration. She became a cheesecake model and an Earl Carroll dancer for several years in his revues, sharing a chorus line at one time with future burlesque stripper Lili St. Cyr…The only known surviving footage of Maila Nurmi as her “Vampira” character is her role in Edward D. Wood Jr. ’s Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959). Unfortunately, she has no dialog in this film.

Norma Shearer
10 August 1902 - 12 June 1983
from imdb.com:
Irving Thalberg had seen (Shearer’s) early efforts and, when he joined Louis B. Mayer in 1923, gave her a five year contract. He thought she should retire after their marriage, but she wanted bigger parts. In 1927 she insisted on firing the director Viktor Tourjansky because he was unsure of her cross-eyed stare. Her first talkie was in The Trial of Mary Dugan (1929); four movies later she won an Oscar in The Divorcee (1930). She intentionally cut down film exposure during the thirties, relying on major roles in Thalberg’s prestige projects: The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934), Romeo and Juliet (1936) (her fifth Oscar nomination). Thalberg died of second heart attack in September 1936, aged thirty-seven. Norma wanted to retire but MGM more-or-less forced her into a six-picture contract. David O. Selznick offered her the part of Scarlett O’Hara, but public objection to her cross-eyed stare killed the deal…

Claudette Colbert
13 September 1903 - 30 July 1996
from imdb.com:
She was so convinced that she would lose the Oscar competition in 1935 (for It Happened One Night) to write-in nominee Bette Davis (for Of Human Bondage), that she decided not to attend the awards ceremony…

[after Ellen stops a car by showing her leg]
Peter Warne: Why didn’t you take off all your clothes? You could have stopped forty cars.
Ellie: Well, ooo, I’ll remember that when we need forty cars.