Philadelphia TV news anchor Beverly Williams

Beverly Williams is a legend in Philadelphia broadcast journalism.

She anchored the news from KYW-TV, then an NBC affiliate, from 1975 to 1981, and again from 1989 to 2003. (KYW-TV became a CBS affiliate in 1995.) She was the first black woman to anchor a newscast in the Philadelphia market.

She also anchored the news at WTNH-TV in New Haven, Connecticut, and hosted the KYW-TV talk show "Eye On Philadelphia" from 2003 to 2006.

Beverly Williams left KYW-TV in September 2006, but she said she hoped to remain active in television news.

Actress Sofia Vergara

Sofia Vergara is a Colombian actress who started out as a model and was mostly known for her looks. As a result of being cast in ABC-TV's "Modern Family," that has definitely changed.

She plays Gloria Delgado-Prichett, the Colombian trophy wife of Jay Prichett (played by Ed O'Neill). Jay has to play dad to her son even as his gay son and straight daughter have started families of their own. The comedy of the show is based on the interconnected stories of these three very different households.

("Modern Family" also stars Julie Bowen, featured here in an earlier entry, as Jay's daughter Claire.)

Actress Marisa Tomei

Marisa Tomei has been a major stat in the movies for the past several years.

The Brooklyn-born actress made a big splash in the 1992 comedy My Cousin Vinny, about novice Brooklyn lawyer Vincent "Vinny" Gambini (played by Joe Pesci) defending his cousin on murder charges in the South. Tomei played Vinny's girlfriend.

Other films Marisa Tomei has appeared in include Slums of Beverly Hills and Anger Management. More recenly she played an exotic dancer in Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler.

German actress Elke Sommer

Every European country seemed to have a young, glamorous international actress in the 1960s. France had Catherine Deneuve, Italy had Sophia Loren, and Great Britain gave us Julie Christie. And then there was Elke Sommer, representin' Deutschland! :-)

Born Elke Schletz in Berlin, Germany, Elke Sommer grew up in the Bavarian town of Erlangen and moved to England as a teenager, where she was discovered by move director Vittorio De Sica. She won recognition for her work in 1964's The Prize, with Paul Newman and Edward G. Robinson. Other movies in which she appeared include The Venetian Affair and The Swiss Conspiracy, as well as the second Pink Panther movie, A Shot in the Dark. She even performed successfully as a singer on the side!

More recently, Elke Sommer has concentrated more on painting than on acting, finding yet another artistic muse with which to express herself. She lives in Los Angeles now, and she turns seventy in November 2010.

Model Maria Rowe

Maria Rowe is a fashion model from the late 1980s.

But you probably figured that out from the hair style. :-D

She was represented by the Los Angeles office of the Elite modeling agency.

Indian actress Freida Pinto

Freida Pinto played Latika, the lifelong love interest of an impoverished game show contestant in the astonishing movie Slumdog Millionaire, set in her native India. Her sweet and endearing performance made her one of the breakout movie stars of 2008.

As of this writing, Freida Pinto appears in three movies currently in post-production - Miral, Dawn of War and You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, the latter movie directed by Woody Allen.

Actress Maureen O'Hara

What's St. Patrick's Day without a tribute to Maureen O'Hara? :-D

Maureen O'Hara has been one of the most ubiquitous actresses in movies and television. The Black Swan, Miracle On 34th Street, and The Quiet Man (in which John Wayne plays an Irish-American who returns to his ancestral homeland) are among her many movie credits.

She's long been known for her friendly rapport with men. Asked what he thought of Maureen O'Hara, John Wayne replied, "Helluva guy." :-D

Born in Ireland, she became a naturalized American citizen in 1946.

Though she's retired, Maureen O'Hara is still going strong. She turns ninety years old five months from today.