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Valda Hansen
Valda Joanne Hansen (November 3, 1932 – July 21, 1993) was an American actress, known for her performances in a number of B-movies in the 1950s and 1970s. Her most famous role was that of the White Ghost in Ed Wood's ''Night of the Ghouls'' (1959). She had previously played a stripper in ''Strips Around the World'' (1955). She returned to the screen in the 1970s and appeared in movies such as ''Cain's Cutthroats'' (1971), ''Slaughter's Big Rip-Off'' (1973) ''Norma'' (1970), ''The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid'' (1972) and ''Wham! Bam! Thank You, Spaceman!'' (1975). She also appeared in a 1992 documentary about the filmmaker Ed Wood entitled ''Flying Saucers over Hollywood: The 'Plan 9' Companion'', in which she said very nice things about the famed 1950s director. Valda, who believed deeply in astrology, said she and Wood shared a psychic link: "We were on this Earth, but not of it." Career Hansen first came across Ed Wood in 1957 at a local theater production called "Acc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world's most populous megacities. Los Angeles is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Southern California. With a population of roughly 3.9 million residents within the city limits , Los Angeles is known for its Mediterranean climate, ethnic and cultural diversity, being the home of the Hollywood film industry, and its sprawling metropolitan area. The city of Los Angeles lies in a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the west and extending through the Santa Monica Mountains and north into the San Fernando Valley, with the city bordering the San Gabriel Valley to it's east. It covers about , and is the county seat of Los Angeles County, which is the most populous county in the United States with an estim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
