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Home , Betty DeGeneres, Gloria Swanson, Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck

August 19, 1883–January 10, 1971

Designed costumes for Jean Cocteau’s Lived with ETIENNE Balsan in Her life story was the basis for the ANTIGONE, Orpheus & Oedipus Deauville, France Broadway MUSICAL Coco (1969) Rex Made a FASHION comeback in 1954 Raised in an ORPHANAGE ARTHUR Capel helped finance her GABRIELLE Bonheur Chanel Closed her business at the first shop (full name) OUTBREAK of World War II Ernest BEAUX helped her create her Romantically involved with Hans Launched “Chanel No. 5” PERFUME perfume GÜNTHER von Dincklage, a in Opened additional stores in Deauville German officer Pablo PICASSO (friend) & BIARRITZ, France First designer to use JERSEY for Had a decades long ROMANCE with The “little BLACK dress” women’s clothing the Duke of Westminster Had a brief CAREER as a singer Introduced costume JEWELRY to high Designed costumes for Ballets RUSSES Revolutionized women’s CLOTHING fashion Born in SAUMUR, France Jean COCTEAU (friend) Her clothing borrowed elements from Worked as a SHOPGIRL First major fashion DESIGNER to MENSWEAR Introduced the Chanel SUIT (1925) introduce a perfume Opened a MILLINERY shop in Created clothes for Gloria Swanson in Greta Garbo & Marlene DIETRICH (1910) the film TONIGHT or Never were clients

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August 15, 1912–August 12, 2004

Worked in ADVERTISING Began to study cooking in Beverly Married PAUL Child, a fellow Office of department of a New York home HILLS, California Strategic Services (OSS) employee furnishing company Built a country HOUSE, La Pitchoune, (1946) Received first Emmy AWARD in 1966 in Provence, France RELAXED & unflappable on screen Studied with master chef Max First woman inducted into Culinary Volunteered as RESEARCH assistant BUGNARD INSTITUTE Hall of Fame (1993) in OSS during World War II Julia CAROLYN McWilliams JULIA & John (parents) Attended Cordon Bleu cooking (birth name) Her KITCHEN was exhibited at SCHOOL in France , TV series, Smithsonian’s National Museum of & premiered in 1962 American History (2002) (coauthors of The Art of Mastering Julia Child and COMPANY Received LEGION d’Honneur, France’s French Cooking) (TV series) highest honor (2000) Graduated from in ELDEST of three children MASTERING the Art of French Northampton, Massachusetts Over six FEET tall Cooking (1961) Appeared on cover of TIME magazine First FOOD celebrity in the United portrayed her in the (1966) States movie Julie & Julia Promoted TRADITIONAL French My Life in FRANCE Born in PASADENA, California cooking (autobiography, 2006) Helped make cooking a national One of the founders of American Received GEORGE Foster Peabody PASTIME Institute of WINE and Food Award (1965) D K P F I L E P E J Y Y G M F J R O A O N A G K M N M N A E A O A O S S S E R A I Q Y S E D W H N A T L T P O G T L T T C C A D G D I M I N E Y O E R S H E R E U O M I T R G R R E Z N E S D C B S E E U Q A I L A F T F V D I I M E W T C N A T R A D I T I O N A L D E G X L U A P R K I T C H E N H E E B I I E S I M O N E A O I N D Z K V H C R A E S E R I L I K O D E C N A R F U A Q G L W Q A R D X G E S U O H S E S U L S M I T H O M P W J F L H A J 17 Agatha Christie

September 15, 1890–January 12, 1976

Her father was AMERICAN; her Miss Jane MARPLE (English detective) The Mysterious Affair at STYLES mother was British MATHEW (grandson) (first novel, 1920) Married Colonel ARCHIBALD And Then There Were NONE (1939) TAUGHT herself to read at five years Christie in 1914 Several of her crime NOVELS have old She traveled to BAGHDAD, Iraq, on been made into movies Born in TORQUAY, Devon, England the Orient Express in 1928 Received the ORDER of Dame Worked in the pharmacy of the Tuppence & Tommy BERESFORD Commander of the British Empire UNIVERSITY College Hospital, (detective team) in 1971 London, during World War II CARLO (close friend & secretary) Murder on the ORIENT Express (1934) The Murder at the VICARAGE (1930) COME, Tell Me How You Live Belgian detective Hercule POIROT Wrote romance novels under the name (memoir, 1946) (sleuth) Mary WESTMACOTT DEATH on the Nile (1937) PRESIDENT of Detection Club in The WITNESS for the Prosecution Spent several months in Cairo, 1957 (short story, 1933) EGYPT, in 1910 Traveled on several archaeology YOUNGEST of three children Worked in Red Cross HOSPITAL expeditions with second husband, during World War I PROFESSOR Max Mallowan The Mousetrap holds record for longest The Murder of ROGER Akroyd (1926) unbroken run in a LONDON ROSALIND (daughter, born in 1919) theater

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January 26, 1958– 0000

Hosted in 2007 & Received Presidential Medal of (wife) 2014 FREEDOM (2016) Has her own RECORD label, ANIMAL rights activist Hosted GRAMMY Awards in 1996 & “eleveneleven” Hosted Prime-Time 1997 Hosted in 2001 Appeared on HOLLYWOOD Squares Came out as gay on her TV SITCOM Named BEST female stand-up comic HOME (book, 2015) Ellen (1997) at 1991 America Comedy Awards HOSTS her own talk show, the Ellen DeGeneres: TASTE This BETTY DeGeneres (mother) Ellen DeGeneres Show (live comedy album, 1996) First performed stand-up comedy at a Performed at the IMPROV in Appeared on the TONIGHT Show local COFFEEHOUSE Hollywood (1986) Stand-up COMEDIAN JUDGE on American Idol (2010) Received Kennedy Center’s Mark Ellen’s DESIGN Challenge Seriously . . . I’m KIDDING TWAIN Prize for American (HGTV reality competition show) (book, 2011) Humor (2012) Finding DORY (provided voice, 2016) Born in METAIRIE, Louisiana VANCE (older brother) EMCEE at a New Orleans comedy club Worked as a waitress, hostess, Served as EXECUTIVE producer on bartender, OYSTER shucker & several TV shows house painter FINDING Nemo My POINT . . . and I Do Have One (provided voice for Dory, 2003) (book, 1995)

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January 29, 1954– 0000

Lifetime Achievement Award from Received Jean HERSHOLT “Luck is a matter of preparation National ACADEMY of Television Humanitarian Award from meeting OPPORTUNITY” Arts and Sciences Academy of Motion Pictures Arts Dr. PHIL (regular guest) BELOVED (starred in, 1998) and Sciences (2011) Crowned Nashville, Tennessee’s Miss “When in doubt, be BOLD” HIRED to host A.M. (1984) Fire PREVENTION while in high Oprah’s BOOK Club INTERVIEW with Michael Jackson school The Oprah Winfrey Show started to was the most watched interview in First woman to own & PRODUCE her BROADCAST nationally in 1986 TV history (1993) own talk show. Contributor to Nation Museum of Born in KOSCIUSKO, Mississippi The Color PURPLE (film debut, 1985) African American History and Established Oprah Winfrey Talk show aired for twenty-five CULTURE LEADERSHIP Academy for Girls SEASONS, from 1986 to 2011 Worked to establish DATABASE of near Johannesburg, South Africa STEDMAN Graham convicted child abusers Launched O, The OprahMAGAZINE (longtime companion) Won several Daytime EMMY Awards in 2000 Hosted Baltimore, Maryland’s morning GAYLE King (best friend) Dr. MEHMET Oz (regular guest) talk Are TALKING One of the world’s most GENEROUS Attended East NASHVILLE High Learned to read & write before she was philanthropists School THREE years old HARPO Productions, Inc. Launched Oprah Winfrey NETWORK Won a scholarship to Tennessee State (production company) (OWN) UNIVERSITY

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