| farah ashraf |
American actress, born on January 16, 1908 in Astoria, New York. She won a Golden Globe Award in 1954 for the movie Call Me Madam (1953), and she received a star on the Walk of Fame in 1960. She got married to William Smith (1940-1941), then she got married to Robert Levitt (1941-1952), with whom she had two children, then she got married to Robert Six (1953-1960), and she married actor and producer Ernest Borgnine in 1964, and their marriage lasted for 32 days. Early in her life, she trained as a secretary and learned shorthand, and worked several clerical jobs. Although she was not trained to sing, she became one of the most prominent stars of musical comedy on Broadway, and these theatrical performances were turned into the cinema screen, and she worked in them. Among her most prominent works: Call Me Madam (1953), There's No Business Like Show Business (1954), and It's Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad world (1963). She died on February 15, 1984, after surgery to remove a cancerous brain tumor in New York City.
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