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Other Movie Star Cousins

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Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives (June 14, 1909 – April 14, 1995) was an
American singer and actor of stage, screen, radio and television. In
1942, he appeared in Irving Berlin's This Is the Army, and then became a
major star of CBS radio. In the 1960s, he successfully crossed over
into country music, recording hits such as "A Little Bitty Tear" and "Funny
Way of Laughin'". A popular film actor through the late 1940s and '50s,
Ives's best-known film roles included parts in So Dear to My Heart (1949)
Burl Ives and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), as well as The Big Country (1958), for
which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

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Ginger Rogers (born Virginia Katherine McMath; July 16, 1911 – April 25,
1995) was an American actress, dancer, and singer. She won an Academy
Award for her starring role in Kitty Foyle (1940), but is best remembered
for performing during the 1930s in RKO's musical films (partnered
with Fred Astaire). Her career continued on stage, radio, and television
throughout much of the 20th century.

Rogers was a major movie star during the Golden Age of Hollywood, and is

Ginger Rogers often considered an American icon.

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Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American
film and stage actor who had a career that spanned five decades in
Hollywood. Fonda cultivated a strong, appealing screen image in several
films now considered to be classics, earning one Academy Award for Best
Actor on two nominations. In 1999 he was named the sixth-Greatest Male
Screen Legend of the Classic Hollywood Era (stars with a film debut by
1950) by the American Film Institute.
Henry Fonda

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Elizabeth Ruth Grable (December 18, 1916 – July 2, 1973) was an American
actress, pin-up girl, dancer, model, and singer. Her 42 films during the
1930s and 1940s grossed more than $100 million, for 10 consecutive years
(1942–1951) she reigned in the Quigley Poll's Top 10 box office stars (a feat
only matched by Doris Day and Barbra Streisand). Throughout her career,
Grable was a celebrated sex symbol. Her bathing suit poster made her the
number-one pin-up girl of World War II.
Betty Grable

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