Eleanor Powell (1912 - 1982)

American film actress and dancer of the 1930s and 1940s.

* November 21, 1912 Springfield, Massachusetts
 as Eleanor Torrey Powell
 February 11, 1982 Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California



Vintage magazines

Photoplay, January 1936
Photoplay, February 1936
Photoplay, May 1936

Photoplay, May 1936
Photoplay, May 1936
Photoplay, May 1936


Books on Eleanor Powell

Margie Schultz Eleanor Powell Margie Schultz
Eleanor Powell, A Bio-Bibliography
Westport, Connecticut - London, 1994

Books with substantial mentioning of Eleanor Powell

Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast (eds.)
International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, 3. Actors and Actresses
Detroit/New York/San Francisco/London/Boston/Woodbridge, CT, 2000

James Robert Parish & Michael R. Pitts Hollywood Songsters James Robert Parish & Michael R. Pitts
Hollywood Songsters, A Biographical Dictionary
New York & London, 1991

Robert A. Nowlan and Gwendolyn Wright Nowlan
Movie Characters of Leading Performers of the Sound Era
Chicago and London, 1990

John Kobal
People Will Talk
New York, 1985

James Robert Parish and Ronald L. Bowers The MGM Stock Company James Robert Parish and Ronald L. Bowers
The MGM Stock Company, The Golden Era
New Rochelle, N.Y., 1974

Käthe Brinker
Film-Anekdoten 1938, Wahre Geschichten aus dem Leben unserer Filmkünstler
Berlin, 1938

Books with an entry on Eleanor Powell

David Thomson The New Biographical Dictionary of Film David Thomson
The New Biographical Dictionary of Film
New York, 2003

Danny Peary Cult Movie Stars Danny Peary
Cult Movie Stars
New York, [..], 1991

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1983, A Survey of 1982 Films
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1983
pp. 549-550 info

Stanley Appelbaum and James Camner (editors) Stars of the American Musical Theater in Historic Photographs Stanley Appelbaum and James Camner (editors)
Stars of the American Musical Theater in Historic Photographs, 361 Portraits from the 1860s to 1950
New York, 1981

Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor The American movies reference book Paul Michael, editor in chief. James Robert Parish, associate editor
The American movies reference book, The sound era
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,, 1969

Films

1930
Queen High

1935
Broadway Melody of 1936
George White's 1935 Scandals

1936
Born to Dance

1937
Rosalie
Broadway Melody of 1938

1939
Honolulu

1940
Broadway Melody of 1940

1941
Lady Be Good

1942
Ship Ahoy

1943
I Dood It
Thousands Cheer

1944
Sensations of 1945

1946
The Great Morgan

1950
Duchess of Idaho

1975
Brother Can You Spare a Dime

1994
Thats Entertainment! III

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