Famous People with Name Mildred

Mildred Bailey            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mildred Bailey: was a popular American jazz singer during the 1930s.Born as Mildred Rinker in Tekoa, Washington, Bailey retained the last name of her first husband, Ted Bailey, when she moved to Seattle to bolster her singing career. With the help of her second husband, Benny Stafford, she became an established blues and jazz singer on the West Coast. According to Gary Giddins' book Bing Crosby - A Pocketful of Dreams - The Early Years 1903-1940, in 1925 she secured work for her brother, Al Rinker and his partner Bing Crosby. Giddins further states that Crosby first heard of Louis Armstrong and other Chicago black jazz records from Bailey's own record collection. Crosby helped Bailey in turn by introducing her to Paul Whiteman. She sang with Paul Whiteman's band from 1929 to 1933 (Whiteman had a popular radio program and when Bailey debuted with her version of "Moaning Low" in 1929, public reaction was immediate, although she did not start recording with Whiteman until late 1931).

Mildred Cleghorn            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mildred Cleghorn: was the chairwoman of the Fort Sill Apache tribe until she retired in 1995 after 18 years of serving in the position.

Mildred Ella Babe Didrikson Zaharias            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mildred Ella Babe Didrikson Zaharias: was an American athlete. She was named by the Guinness Book of Records, along with Lottie Dod, as the most versatile female athlete of all time. She achieved outstanding success in golf, basketball and track and field.

Mildred Harris            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mildred Harris: was an American actress of the silent film era.Mildred Harris made her first screen appearances at the age of eleven in the Francis Ford and Thomas H. Ince directed 1912 Western film short The Post Telegrapher then went on to play a variety of juvenile roles, including turns in the Oz film series produced by The Wonderful Wizard of Oz author L. Frank Baum. She was a prominent child actor throughout the 1910s. She eventually graduated to leading lady assignments, working under the direction of such prominent filmmakers as Cecil B. DeMille and D.W. Griffith throughout the 1910s. In 1914, she was hired by The Oz Film Manufacturing Company to portray Fluff in The Magic Cloak of Oz and Button-Bright in His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz. Her contract was not signed until The Patchwork Girl of Oz was already in production and she did not, in spite of what some sources claim, appear in that film. In 1916, at the age of 15, Mildred Harris appeared in Griffith's colossal film epic Intolerance alongside another new teenaged Griffith protégé, Carol Dempster. The two young starlets were cast by Griffith as Babylonian harem girls. Griffith would cast Harris yet again as a harem girl in his 1919 film The Fall of Babylon.

Mildred Mid Davis            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Mildred Mid Davis: was an American actress who appeared in many of Harold Lloyd's classic silent comedies and eventually became his wife.Mildred was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and educated at the "Friends School" there. After several years spent studying, she traveled to Los Angeles in the hopes of securing a role in a film. She was very petite, at just 5'2" (157.5 cm) tall, and weighed 100 pounds (45.5 kg). After appearing in several small roles, her stunning features drew the attention of comedian Harold Lloyd, who cast her in his comedy short From Hand to Mouth in 1919. It would be the first of fifteen films they would star in together.