Actresses of Stage & Screen Prints, & Photographs, “R...-”
for threatre, drama, social studies classrooms, home schoolers, and inspirational art for the studio.

Rachel
Luise Rainer
Gabrielle Rejane

Phylicia Rashad
Della Reese
Ada Reeve

Rachel
b. 2-21-1821; Switzerland
d. 1-3-1858; France (tuberculosis)

Elisabeth Rachel Félix was such a successful actress that she was known simply as Rachel. Charlotte Bronte based the character Vashti in her novel Villette on Rachel; and the color of light tannish makeup known as ‘Rachel’ is named after her. She was also the mistress of many men saying, “I am as I am; I prefer renters to owners.”

Luise Rainer
b. 1-12-1910; Düsseldorf, Germany

Luise Rainer, currently the oldest living Academy Award winner, for Best Actress as Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld (1936) and then as a Chinese peasant in The Good Earth (1937), a movie based on Pearl Buck's novel of the same name.

FYI - Luise Rainer was the first wife of playwright Clifford Odets.

Phylicia Rashad
née Ayers-Allen
b. 6-19-1948; Houston, TX

Actress and singer Phylicia Rashad is best known for her role as Clair Huxtable on the long-running NBC sitcom The Cosby Show. She is the sister of actress and dancer Debbie Allen.

Gabrielle Rejane
b. 6-5-1856; Paris, Francd
d. 6-14-1920; Paris

French actress Gabrielle Rejane, a contemporary and rival of Sarah Bernhardt, was Marcel Proust's inspiration for the character ‘la Berma’ in his novel In Remembrance of Things Past.

Della Reese, Photographic Print

Della Reese
née Delloreese Patricia Early
b. 7-6-1931; Detroit, Michigan

Della Reese, who began her career as a gospel singer with Mahalia Jackson, and moved into jazz in the 1950s, is well known as an actress in the TV series, “Touched by an Angel”.

• Della Reese at Amazon.com

Ada Reeve
b. 3-3-1874; London, England
d. 10-5-1966

Ada Reeve performed in music hall pantomimes beginning at age four. She gained fame in Edwardian musical comedies such as “Florodora”, a smash at the turn of the last century on both sides of the Atlantic and appeared in films as late as 1957.

FYI - Reeve was also an aunt by marriage to actress Lily Elsie.

Jane Russell
b. 6-11-1921; Bemidji, Minnesota
d. 2-28-2011; California

Jane Russell's first movie was The Outlaw; she is also remembered for her role opposite Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.

Lillian Russell
née Helen Louise Leonard
b. 12-4-1860; Clinton, IA
d. 6-2-1922; Pennsylvania

Lillian Russell, as one of the best known and popular entertainers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, was the first voice to be carried over Alexander Graham Bell's long distance telephone lines - she sang in New York to audiences in Boston and Washington, D.C., May 8, 1890.

Russell was also and advocate of women's suffrage (her mother was the first woman to run for mayor of New York City), and did Marine recruitment and fundraising for the United States World War I effort.

Margaret Rutherford
b. 5-11-1892; London, England
d. 5-22-1972; Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire

English character actress Margaret Rutherford is best remembered in the films of Noel Coward's Blythe Spirit and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. She also played Miss Marple in films based on Agatha Christie's mystery novels.