Yvonne De Carlo

 Yvonne De Carlo (September 1 1922 - January 8 2007, 2007) was a Canadian-American actress and dancer. In the 1940s and 1950s, she was a Hollywood famous. She made many recordings and was later seen on stage. De Carlo was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her mother had her enrolled in a local dance school at the age of three. At the beginning of the 1940s, she and her mother were moving to Los Angeles, where De Carlo took part in beauty contests and also worked as a dancer in nightclubs. She started working in motion pictures in 1941, in short subject matter. In the Soundies musical in which she sang "The Lamp of Memory". She signed a three-year contract with Paramount Pictures in 1942. She was offered small roles in major films. E. B. Derr was her first role as an independent producer in James Fenimore Cooper's epic adventure Deerslayer. In 1943, she was given her first major performance in Salome"Where She Danced" (1945), a Universal Pictures release that Walter Wanger produced. Wanger described her as "the most beautiful girl" on the planet. She signed a five-year contract with Universal after the film's popularity as well as publicity. She appeared in a variety of Technicolor productions produced by Universal and included in films such as Frontier Gal (1945), Song of Scheherazade (477) and Slave Girl (477) Cameramen have voted her "Queen of Technicolor" three years in a row. In a bid to avoid being typecast as exotic women, she made her first major dramatic performance in two noir films, Brute Force (1947) and Criss Cross (1949).The first American film star to travel to Israel, De Carlo received further recognition as an actress for her performance in the British comedy films Hotel Sahara (1951), The Captain's Paradise (1953) as well as Happy Ever After (1954). Her career reached its peak when legendary producer-director Cecil B. DeMille cast her as Moses' Midianite wife, Sephora in her most recognizable film role, in his epic biblical drama The Ten Commandments (1956),[5] in which she was awarded a Laurel Award for Topliner Supporting Actress. She maintained her success by starring in other notable roles, such as Flame of the Islands (1956) and The Death of a Scoundrel (1996), Band of Angels (1957), and The Sword and the Cross(1958) in which she played Mary Magdalene.