The actress who played the mother was Anne Bancroft, the lover was Dustin Hoffman and the movie was "The Graduate."

VOA: special.2009.05.04

Pete Yorn says the idea for the album was based on the songs of French entertainer Serge Gainsbourg and actress Brigitte Bardot.

VOA: special.2009.10.09

Farrah Fawcett often received more attention for her troubled private life than for her work as an actress.

VOA: special.2009.12.27

She says that she enjoys the excitement of telling stories to a crowd because she is an actress.

VOA: special.2009.03.27

And see? I'm close enough to say, 'Hello, good looking!'" Actress Betty Furness was commercial spokeswoman for Westinghouse.

VOA: special.2011.07.21

"Is good." "I Remember Mama" earned Irene Dunne an Academy Award nomination for best actress of nineteen forty-eight.

VOA: special.2009.05.04

Meryl Streep is also nominated for best actress, for her role as the famous cooking expert Julia Child in "Julie and Julia."

VOA: special.2010.03.01

She won an Academy Award for Best Actress in nineteen seventy-nine for her work in "Kramer vs.Kramer."

VOA: special.2009.05.29

His marriage to actress Julia Roberts made him an instant celebrity for reasons completely unrelated to music.

VOA: special.2010.02.19

In her role as Eva Lovelace, Hepburn plays a stage actress fighting for a successful career.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

By the time she was seventeen, Marilyn was trying very hard to be a movie actress.

VOA: special.2009.12.06

Here is a recording from the movie. Hepburn's character, Eva,tells about how she has changed her name in preparation for becoming a great actress.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

Hepburn won an Academy Award as Best Actress for her first major American movie, "Roman Holiday,"

VOA: special.2009.10.16

Three years later, Meryl Streep won Best Actress for her work in the movie "Sophie's Choice."

VOA: special.2009.05.29

Oprah Winfrey made herself into a billionaire as a talk-show host,actress,producer, author and magazine publisher.

VOA: special.2010.12.06