Barbra Streisand
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Barbra Streisand really hits the spot for me and being a Jewess, she really knows how to get the emphasis right when singing in Hebrew. Her rendering of Avinu Malkeinue (an ancient Hebrew Prayer) is both provoking and as a prayer, is heart felt. Rather than me having to type out her words in English, I have found a video with English lyrics embedded within it.
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Mary Poppins aka Julie Andrews.
Adam Faith.60’s heart throb starred in a popular TV series.“Budgie”
Going back in time,Bing Crosby and Burl Ives.
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Doris Day
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Beyonce Knowles-Carter (42) seems to me to be good at both.
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The Beatles
Olivia Newton-John
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From the film ‘I’ve got a horse’ - Billy Fury
David Bowie - Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence…
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And of course Justin Timberlake,who we have seen twice in concert,and he is fantastic.
And can act brilliantly too.
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Lulu aka Marie, has done well as a singer and actress 
Who remembers Eurovision '69?
… and her role as Barbara Peg in 
To Sir with Love.
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And the theme tune.
To Sir with love.
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Elvis was my first thought, but back in the day it was common for successful pop stars to make a film.
There was Rick Nelson, Fabian, Bobby Rydell, Cliff Richard, Adam Faith, Billy Fury, Joe Brown, Jess Conrad and possibly many I’ve forgotten. Meat Loaf was in a lot of films in more recent times.
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I never knew that about Meatloaf. I do not watch many movies. Only dvds I get from my local library.
My earliest memories of singers in movies was a film called The Girl Can’t Help it, Fats Domino, Eddie Cochran, Little Richard. Julie London. The Platters. Not forgetting the lovely Jayne Mansfield who died in an horrific car crash.
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Frankie Laine who made lots of movies in the fifties, and continued until he died at 93 of a heart attack following a hip replacement operation. He was probably most famous for singing the theme song to ‘Rawhide’ the TV series. I bought the record (which I still have) and the flip side was a song called ‘Journeys End’ and has always been Mrs Foxes favourite song since the first time she heard it when we were courting (can you still use that word?) back in 1971
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Here’s an interesting list
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Helen Shapiro, Marty Wilde, Joe Brown , Missy Higgins - the list goes on
The pub in Carinda where David Bowie filmed Lets Dance is shut at the moment after the town was badly damaged by a storm
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Two singers in one scene.
Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson.
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I saw that but could find no picture of the damage the pub sustained.
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Thank you for posting this.
Must be heartbreaking to go through devastation such as this.