What was the birth date of an actress and dancer who starred in a 1943 American musical-comedy film?
Eleanor Powell Eleanor Torrey Powell (November 21, 1912 – February 11, 1982) was an American dancer and actress. Best remembered for her solo tap numbers in musical films in the 1930s and 1940s, Powell began studying ballet aged six and began dancing at nightclubs in Atlantic City before she was a teenager. From the age of sixteen, she began studying tap and started appearing in musical revues on Broadway, before making her Hollywood debut as a featured dancer in the movie George White's Scandals (1935).
Paulette Goddard Paulette Goddard (born Marion Levy; June 3, 1910 – April 23, 1990) was an American actress. A child fashion model and a performer in several Broadway productions as a Ziegfeld Girl, she became a major star of Paramount Pictures in the 1940s. Her most notable films were her first major role, as Charles Chaplin's leading lady in "Modern Times", and Chaplin's subsequent film "The Great Dictator". She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "So Proudly We Hail!" (1943). Her husbands included Chaplin, Burgess Meredith, and Erich Maria Remarque.