I just happened on this Story today and have never seen or heard of this girl before. I watched the Video clip and she is great!:) It seems that the old timey characters, that I grew up watching in the old 30's, 40's and 50's Movies are back in style again. I get a kick out of it! It's kind of neat:)

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A Storybook Ascent for One Actress

Michael Appleton for The New York Times

The actress Nina Arianda poses along the East River waterfront on Thursday in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where she lives.

By PATRICIA COHEN

Published: May 27, 2011

Meeting Nina Arianda in person for the first time is very different from meeting her onstage. Instead of the high-pitched "WHA-A-A-A-T?" with which she announces her entrance as Billie Dawn, the classic dumb blonde she plays in the revival of "Born Yesterday" at the Cort Theater, Ms. Arianda offers a low-key, low-throated pleased-to-meet-you. Her honking version of hello — which Charles Isherwood described in The New York Times as a cross between Jean Harlow and Cyndi Lauper — has helped to turn Ms. Arianda, 26, into Broadway's newest darling and won her a Tony nomination for best actress.

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Actress Nina Arianda

Nina Arianda, a Rising Star in 'Born Yesterday' - NYTimes.com

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Excerpt: 'Born Yesterday'

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http://video.nytimes.com/video/2011/04/24/theater/100000000785692/excerpt-born-yesterday.html

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Jim Belushi and Nina Arianda in the revival of Garson Kanin's "Born Yesterday."

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Ms. Arianda at a subway station in Brooklyn.

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Richard Termine for The New York Times

A scene from "Venus in Fur."

But it is also giving her vocal cords a workout. She is finally off steroids (thank goodness), but the overuse of her voice is taking a toll, especially on matinee days, when there are two performances.
"In the morning I steam. Then there's the warming up before the show. And I do stretches at night," she recounted after ordering a cup of hot tea on a recent sunny afternoon near her apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. "It's an Olympic sport."
Her Broadway debut comes just about a year after an even more demanding vocal role Off Broadway as Vanda, an aspiring, domineering actress in "Venus in Fur," which earned this theatrical newcomer nodes on her vocal cords. (Vanda did her yelling in a lower register.) Her astonishing performance in "Venus," written by David Ives, captured the industry's attention.
"It's that moment, you know it when it happens, when the next Meryl Streep walks through the door," said Walter Bobbie, who directed the play. "Nina's performance started a brush fire. The word was you have to see this girl."
He added: "Right out of N.Y.U. she got this job, and five minutes later she booked four films and she's now starring on Broadway. That's not luck."
Woody Allen cast her in his new film, "Midnight in Paris," though she skipped the screening at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this month. With pre-Tony Award publicity to manage and the danger of being infected by a stray germ on a long international flight, Ms. Arianda decided to stay put. As she said: "This month is nutso."
Despite the long blond hair and pouty lips, Ms. Arianda does not have classic glamour-girl looks. She can stretch her rubbery features into contorted expressions of manic excitement and disgust. Her rounded face has the uncanny ability to look simultaneously young and old. And at 5 feet 8 inches, with broad, square shoulders and large hands and feet on a thin frame, Ms. Arianda can instantly dominate a stage.
She received an M.F.A. from New York University two years ago, but Ms. Arianda has been hooked on the theater ever since attending an acting class at the age of 4.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/28/theater/nina-arianda-a-rising-star-in-born-yesterday.html?_r=1&ref=arts

Joan Blondell - Violet Hour

Video Link...
http://youtu.be/sEP_gH_NgAc

Movie Legends - Joan Blondell (Reprise)

Video Link...
http://youtu.be/kAhSqUTp7tQ

Movie Legends - Veronica Lake

Video Link...
http://youtu.be/A6kk39MJ9fI

Video Link (one of my old favorites)...
http://youtu.be/5T0uNrUJgFI

Gene Kelly - Singing In The Rain (1952)

Gene Kelly - Singing In The Rain (1952) from Kasio on Vimeo.
The Song and Dance (link)...
http://vimeo.com/1050291

Movie and TV Characters of the 1930's, 1940's and 1950's (While Searching... I realized, that most of the most remembered Movies today... I have never seen!:O)