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- Jeanne Carmen spent her early childhood in Paragould, Arkansas with her family picking cotton. At age 13, she ran away from home, eventually landing in New York City and taking a job as a dancer in an off-Broadway touring company. The early 1950s found her in Las Vegas, Nevada, in the company of the likes of mobster Johnny Roselli. She discovered she had a natural talent for the game of golf and made great hay and much money hustling on the links. In the early 1950s, she turned her back on the game of golf and went to Hollywood, where she was often in the company of some of that town's most notable swingers, men like Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and many others. She also maintained a close relationship with Marilyn Monroe. Jeanne never made it into the "big" movies but appeared in many "B" pictures, and was quite an item at the celebrity parties. After the death of her close friend Monroe, Carmen dropped out of sight and resided in Arizona for over a decade. On December 20, 2007, Jeanne Carmen died at age 77 from lymphoma at her Orange County, California home, where she resided since 1978.
- Edmund Burns was born on 27 September 1892 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Male and Female (1919), The Shamrock and the Rose (1927) and Ransom (1928). He was married to Ruth Curry. He died on 2 April 1980 in Los Angeles, California, USA.Plot: Vista Del Mar, Lot 216-C
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Dark-haired beauty Jeanne Carolyn Cagney was born in New York City, New York on March 25, 1919 - just a few months after the end of World War I. She and her four brothers - including James Cagney and William Cagney - were raised by her widowed mother. Jeanne majored in French and German during her years at Hunter College High School, and starred in plays produced by the Hunter College of City College of New York. Upon graduating from college, she studied acting at the Pasadena Playhouse in California.
She began her movie career in 1939, with a role in the obscure comedy All Women Have Secrets (1939). This succeeded an appearance on Bing Crosby's radio program. However, she did not become known until three years later, when she acted in the highly-acclaimed biographical musical Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) alongside her brother, James (who won an Academy Award for his performance as George M. Cohan). Regrettably, Jeanne only made sporadic appearances in film and television until her retirement from acting in 1965. Notable movies include Quicksand (1950) - in which she played a femme fatale - and the Marilyn Monroe thriller Don't Bother to Knock (1952). Jeanne also made three more films with her brother James (The Time of Your Life (1948), A Lion Is in the Streets (1953), and Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)), and, in 1948, appeared on stage in a production of 'The Iceman Cometh'.
Jeanne was married to actor Ross Latimer from 1944 to 1952. She later wed Jack Sherman Morrison, a faculty member in theater arts at UCLA, in 1953, with whom she had two daughters: Mary and Terry. Jeanne and Morrison ended their marriage in 1973.
Jeanne Cagney was sadly diagnosed with lung cancer later on in her life, and died of the disease on December 7, 1984. She was 65. While not a household name, Ms. Cagney is remembered today among modern-day aficionados of 1940s and 1950s cinema.- Producer
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William (Bill) Cagney (producer brother of star James Cagney) was almost a dead ringer for his, in front of the camera, more famous brother. When first wife Boots' younger sister Viola "Bodie" (Mallory) Avinger gave birth to identical twin boys Cleveland (Cleve) and Steven (Steve) Lewis on February 19, 1941 - Boots Mallory Cagney wanted twins like her middle sister and so she and Bill Cagney adopted fraternal twins Jill and William shortly after that.- Actor
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William Austin was born on 12 June 1884 in Georgetown, British Guiana [now Guyana]. He was an actor, known for It (1927), Redheads on Parade (1935) and In Love with Love (1924). He died on 15 June 1975 in Newport Beach, California, USA.Plot: Alcove of Faith, Niche 251- Actress
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Dorothy Dare was an actress and singer.
She appeared in quite a few 20-minute Vitaphone shorts and full feature films with bigger stars such as Dick Powell and Irene Dunne. Most of her films are shown periodically on Turner Classic Movies. Some have said Dorothy didn't get a chance in Hollywood. Also, many even claimed the shorts Dorothy appeared in were better than her parts in Hollywood films.
In any event, the real Ms. Dare was part of the great era of entertainment and will forever be remembered in celluloid. Hopefully, more details of Dorothy's personal story and why she left show business in the mid-forties will emerge someday.Plot: Oceanview, Lot 104; Gr. E- Actor
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Kevin DuBrow was born on 29 October 1955 in Hollywood, California, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for Babylon A.D. (2008), Crank (2006) and Footloose (1984). He died on 25 November 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.Plot: Garden of David, Lot 60, grave B, next to his stepfather- Actor
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The "fastest gun in all the West" and the poster boy for "tall, dark and handsome:, Don Durant was best known for his title role in the CBS western series Johnny Ringo (1959). Born Donald Allison Durae on November 20, 1932, in Long Beach, California, he spent some of his youth in Riverside as well as on a large cattle ranch in Elko, Nevada. His first foray into show business was hosting his own radio program over KPRO in Riverside while still in high school. He served first in the US Naval Reserve and then in the army--for a few weeks he was actually in both branches of the military at the same time.
By 1953 Don was touring in plays and singing at the Sands and the Sahara in Las Vegas. In 1954 he signed on with CBS as a bit player and singer, appearing on shows like The Jack Benny Program (1950), The Red Skelton Hour (1951), Shower of Stars (1954), General Electric Theater (1953), You Are There (1953) and You Bet Your Life (1950). Many of these shows were done live. He began to study with acting coach Estelle Harmon.
Don also toured as lead vocalist with Tommy Dorsey and Frankie Carle. In 1955 he began an important association with Ray Anthony, one of the last of the big-band leaders. He appeared as a regular featured singer in the live 1956-57 ABC series The Ray Anthony Show (1956) and released an album on Capitol Records with Anthony. He also recorded his own compositions on Fabor Records, "Seal Rock" and "Love Me Baby." During this period he headlined at the Hollywood Bowl and the fabled Mocambo nightclub.
The 1957 drive-in flick She Gods of Shark Reef (1958), produced and directed by the fabled Roger Corman, was his first starring role. That year he was among a group of actors shooting an extended commercial in Monterey, California, introducing the new 1958 Fords. One of the actresses was a lovely petite blonde, Trudy Wroe, noted for her role on the television version of Big Town (1950). They shot a sequence on horseback together, and began dating.
After appearances on shows like Wagon Train (1957), Sergeant Preston of the Yukon (1955), Climax! (1954), Studio 57 (1954), Suspicion (1957), Perry Mason (1957), Trackdown (1957), Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1956), Maverick (1957) and Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958), Don filmed a pilot with Jane Russell called "MacCreedy's Woman." Dick Powell saw him in that and cast him as gunslinger-turned-sheriff Johnny Ringo in a pilot aired on Zane Grey Theatre (1956). The series sold and began production in early 1959 with Aaron Spelling at Four Star studios. Mark Goddard, Karen Sharpe (later the wife of producer Stanley Kramer) and Terence de Marney filled out the cast. Don and Trudy wed on February 28 of that year.
"Johnny Ringo" was canceled after one season due to sponsorship problems. Along with other Four Star westerns, it has run more or less continuously in syndication since 1964. It was the only prime-time network western to feature a theme song (released by RCA) solely composed and performed by the star. More toys were licensed for this show than any other adult TV Western. Don later signed with Revue Studios and had guest appearances in The Twilight Zone (1959), The Virginian (1962), Wagon Train (1957), Wide Country (1962), Arrest and Trial (1963) and Laramie (1959), among others.
Disappointed in the roles he was offered, and after a summer stint as host of Youth Panorama, Don left the business late in 1964 to pursue a more stable career in real estate and financial management. He presided over the Beverly Hills office of Fred Sands Realty before forming his own company. He served for many years as president of the Southern California Mobile Home Park Owners' Association, and developed a condominium complex in Palm Desert. He and Trudy continued to live in Encino until 1998, when they relocated to Dana Point.
Don was an avid sportsman, deep-sea fisherman and golfer and deeply involved in Republican politics. He and Trudy traveled extensively in recent years. Now and then he attended autograph shows and conventions, where he would strap on his famous LeMat pistol from the series, much to the delight of fans. Don was a true cowboy, an expert shooter, and one of the best natural horsemen in Hollywood. Perhaps the fact that the actor was genuinely good to the bone came through in his portrayal of Johnny Ringo. It is that authenticity that sets him apart. He was a notably kind, warm and gracious man, unfailingly honest, and will be missed by family, friends and fans alike.
He is survived by wife Trudy; daughter Heidi and her husband Chris Albus of Raton, New Mexico; son Jeffrey and wife Shelly and their children Daniella and Toren of San Diego.- Actor
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John Eldredge was born on 30 August 1904 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for High Sierra (1940), Backlash (1947) and The Master Key (1945). He was married to Frances Virginia Kathleen Hubbell and Eleanor Catherine Walker. He died on 23 September 1961 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.Plot: Lakeside, Lot 7 N. 1/2 B- David Freeman is known for Prey (2006), Pitfall: The Lost Expedition (2004) and War Front: Turning Point (2007).Plot: Garden of Reflections; D1, #4, Niche 941
- John Gallaudet was born on 23 August 1903 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for In Cold Blood (1967), Side Street (1949) and Murder Is News (1937). He was married to Constance Helen MacKenzie and Wynne Gibson. He died on 5 November 1983 in Los Angeles, California, USA.Plot: Lacunita Alcove, North, Niche 75 (Unmarked, with his wife)
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John Gordy was born on 17 June 1935 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. He was an actor, known for Paper Lion (1968), Say Goodbye (1971) and The NFL on CBS (1956). He was married to Betty Gordy. He died on 30 January 2009 in Orange, California, USA.Plot: Garden of Valor, Lot 144, Grave D- Actor
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Bobby Hatfield was born on 10 August 1940 in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor, known for Feeling Minnesota (1996), Cheers (1982) and Twenty-One (1991). He was married to Linda Jean Torrison and Alberta Joy Colsant (Joy Ciro). He died on 5 November 2003 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA.Plot: Lido Terrace section- Producer
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While animation was still in its infancy during the early twenties, Walt Disney managed to recruit the brightest and best talent nationwide and imported it into Hollywood. Two of these pioneers artists were close friends Hugh Harman and Rudy Ising. They had first tasted success by helping to develop Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (a character, rather akin to Felix the Cat with extended ears). Eventually, in 1929, the duo parted company with Disney to create Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid (who was based on minstrel characters and looked like Felix in a derby hat), developed a pilot for the first-ever talkie cartoon and sold the idea to Leon Schlesinger. Schlesinger, in turn, got Warner Brothers to sign a contract to produce cartoons and Sinkin' in the Bathtub (1930) effectively inaugurated the first of the celebrated Looney Tunes. The Bosko animations invariably ended with "That's all, folks", which famously became Porky Pig's stuttered trademark sign-off in later years. At Warners, Harman concentrated on the Looney Tunes output, while Ising, who was more comfortable writing and producing (rather than drawing illustrations), worked on the Merry Melodies cartoons which featured a more prominent musical content. The first in this series was Lady, Play Your Mandolin! (1931). In 1933, Harman & Ising moved to MGM after financial disagreements with Schlesinger. They created the sleepy Barney Bear, a proto-Yogi (reputedly based on Ising himself). They also took the Bosko character with them to become part of MGM's Technicolor Happy Harmonies -- along with a new creation -- the mouse Little Cheeser. Once gain, disputes over money caused the duo to move on. By 1940, Harman and Ising went their separate ways, Ising soon winning an Oscar for The Milky Way (1940), a cartoon featuring three kittens in space. During World War II, Ising produced training films as head of the animation department of the Army Air Forces movie unit. Thereafter, he forsook animation to work in advertising, before calling it quits in the early 70's.- Producer
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Louis Lewyn was born on 18 December 1891 in Houston, Texas, USA. He was a producer and director, known for Mary of the Movies (1923), The Voice of Hollywood No. 3 (1930) and Sky-Eye (1920). He was married to Marion Mack. He died on 24 May 1969 in Huntington Beach, California, USA.Plot: Bayview Terrace, Lot 222-E- Actress
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Many recognise Marion Mack as the beautiful but brainless heroine Annabelle Lee, of Buster Keaton's classic 'The General'. However, few realise that Marion was also a talented screenwriter who, with her husband, formed a successful production team. Born Joey Marion McReery, she began her career as a Mack Sennet Bathing Girl. She soon progressed to become a popular figure in two-reelers and serials. On one of these, 'Mary of the Movies' (1923) she featured - uncredited - as screenwriter as well as star, something she was to do many times. She did not earn her first credit until 1938 - `and only because I insisted'. She married the movie's producer, Lewis Lewyn, in 1924. She heard of the part in `The General' through her hairdresser. The resulting six month shoot was arduous, and Marion decided afterwards that she would rather quit acting than endure such a long separation from her husband again. Her last starring appearance was in `Alice in Movieland' (1927). From then on, her work was mainly done behind the camera. She and her husband produced a number of successful series of shorts, including as `Voice of Hollywood' and `Hollywood on Parade'. Soon after Lewis' death in 1969, interest in `The General' was revived and Marion toured extensively with the movie, giving interviews and lectures about working with the comic legend Buster Keaton.- Ray Malavasi was born on 8 November 1930 in Passaic, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Fantasy Island (1977), NFL Monday Night Football (1970) and The NFL on NBC (1965). He died on 15 December 1987 in Santa Ana, California, USA.Plot: Oceanview 824-A
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American aviator who became the most renowned stunt flyer in movies of the mid-twentieth century. The son of a school principal, he grew up Redwood City, California and developed a fascination with flying as a boy. He joined the Air Corps as a cadet and was a brilliant student pilot, but he was discharged after buzzing a train full of high-level officers. After a brief period of commercial flying, Mantz took up the more lucrative career of stunt flying for the film industry. He quickly proved himself willing and capable of tackling stunts considered by other pilots to be too dangerous. He formed United Air Services, Ltd., providing planes and pilots for aerial stunts and photography for all the studios. He also formed a flying school and racing partnership with Amelia Earhart and was technical adviser on her ill- fated round-the-world flight. During the Second World War, Mantz served as commanding officer of the Army Air Corps' First Motion Picture Unit, delivering hundreds of training films and documentaries on the air war. He developed a number of camera and aeronautical innovations to improve aerial photography, and continued as a stunt flyer, a director of aerial photography, and a supplier of aircraft and pilots for the movies for two decades after the war. In 1965, he came out of retirement to fly a plane for The Flight of the Phoenix (1965) and was killed in a crash.Plot: Mausoleum of the Pacific, Palm Court, Alcove of Devotion, Niche 43- Actor
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Freddy Martin was born on 9 December 1906 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for The Mayor of 44th Street (1942), Forbidden Zone (1980) and The Magical World of Disney (1954). He was married to E. Lillian Reardon. He died on 30 September 1983 in Newport Beach, California, USA.- Mary Dee Marx was born on 2 October 1916 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. Mary Dee was married to Chico Marx. Mary Dee died on 22 December 2002 in Newport Beach, California, USA.Plot: Magnolia Court, 939, space S
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Ms. McLean was a pioneering female film editor for 20th Century Fox. She began her Hollywood career in the 1930s and earned her first film credit for editing The Affairs of Cellini (1934). She joined Fox in 1935 as one of only eight female film editors working in Hollywood in the 1930s. She became Fox' editing division chief in 1949 and retired from the studio in 1969.Plot: Magnolia Court, Crypt 691, L5- Cinematographer
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Gene Polito was born on 13 September 1918 in New York City, New York, USA. She was a cinematographer, known for Westworld (1973), Up in Smoke (1978) and Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970). She was married to Lucille. She died on 28 November 2010 in Irvine, California, USA.- Frieda Pushnik was born armless and legless after her mother had an appendix operation while pregnant. As a child she was "drafted" as a resident guest of sideshows with both "Ripley's Believe it or Not" and the "Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus". She was part of sideshows from 1933 to 1956, when such attractions were outlawed as "exploitive".
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Mary Lee was born on 24 October 1924 in Centralia, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Cowboy and the Senorita (1944), Ridin' on a Rainbow (1941) and Angels with Broken Wings (1941). She was married to Harry J. Banan. She died on 6 June 1996 in Sacramento, California, USA.- Producer
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James Roosevelt, the son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, and his wife Eleanor Roosevelt, was born on December 23, 1907 in New York City. The oldest son, he was the second of the Roosevelts' six children, only five of whom survived to adulthood; their third child, named Franklin, Jr. (as was their fifth child and fourth of five sons), was born on March 18, 1909 but died on November 7th of that year.
Following in the footsteps of his father, he was educated at the Groton School (Class of 1926) and Harvard College ('30). (He worked a stint in a Canadian paper mill in the summer between Groton and Harvard.) After graduating from Harvard, he enrolled in the Boston University School of Law and worked as peddling insurance. He eventually abandoned his law studies as he was making a huge amount of money as an insurance agent, founding his own agency, Roosevelt & Sargent. He also served as a radio announcer in 1933.
James was close to his father and throughout his life, serving as a political adviser and a campaign manager for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts during FDR's first presidential bid in 1932. In April 1936, he left his business interests behind (though retained his half-interest in his agency) to take over some of the duties of his father's secretary, Louis McHenry Howell, who had died. James essentially functioned as his father's press secretary. He was officially appointed administrative assistant to the President in January 1937 and was appointed Secretary to the President in July of that year. (The position of Secretary to the President was akin to the modern position of White House Chief of Staff.)
James Roosevelt resigned his position after the November 1938 elections, after being buffeted by allegations that he had steered business to his insurance agency while working at the White House. At the time, most politicians (including FDR's Vice President John Nance Garner) and Americans considered FDR a "lame duck" due to the informal "two term limit" for presidents, so there didn't seem much future in Washington.
James moved to Los Angeles, California to work for movie producer Samuel Goldwyn, serving as a vice president of Samuel Goldwyn productions. He eventually established his own production company, "Globe Productions", in 1939 while still with Goldwyn. Globe primarily produced shorts, but in 1941, he produced through Globe a feature film based on a radio show, Pot o' Gold (1941), starring James Stewart and Paulette Goddard. (He had quit Goldwyn in late 1940.)
In November 1936, Roosevelt had been commissioned a Marine Corps lieutenant colonel so he could serve as a military aide to his father. As the war clouds lowered upon Europe, he resigned the commission in 1939 to become a captain in the Marines Corps Reserves. World War Two convinced his father to run for a third term. Before the U.S. entered the war, James served as a liaison officer with British forces fighting the Axis powers in the Middle East, then served with Wild Bill Donovan, FDR's Coordinator of Information who was overseeing the integration of the intelligence services.
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor plunged the U.S. into the Second World War, the Marines Corps honored James's request to be placed on combat duty. He became part of the Corps' commando force, the Marine Raiders, eventually serving as second-in-command of the 2nd Raider Battalion. He earned the Navy Cross, the second-highest military medal for gallantry, in the August 1942 raid on Makin atoll in the Gilbert Islands. Subsequently, he commanded the newly created 4th Marine Raiders, but was taken off of combat duty due to medical problems in February 1943, being assigned staff positions. He won the Silver Star while part of the U.S. Army invasion of Makin in November 1943. He had obtained the rank of full colonel when he went off active duty in October 1945, but continued as a member of the Marine Corps Reserves. He retired from the Reserves in 1959 with the rank of Brigadier General.
After the war, Roosevelt moved back to California and briefly returned to radio broadcasting, going on the air as a commentator in 1946. That same year, he reentered politics in the Golden State as chairman of the California Democratic Party. He eventually was ousted as chairman when he wooed General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower to run against President 'Harry S Truman', his father's successor, for the 1948 Democratic Presidential nomination.
After that debacle, another one loomed when he tried his hand in elective politics, just like his younger brother Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., who had successfully won a seat in Congress from New York in a special election in 1949. James Roosevelt won the 1950 California Democratic gubernatorial nomination but was beaten by popular incumbent Earl Warren in a two-to-one landslide. Four years later, he was luckier when he ran for Congress in the safely Democratic 26th District, getting elected to the first of six consecutive terms. In Congress, the liberal Democrat denounced red-baiter Joseph McCarthy at a time when few were willing to do so and was the sole Congressman to vote against funding the House Un-American Activities Committee. His proudest achievement in his career in the House was working for the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, lobbying for the inclusion of fair employment protections.
While still a a member of Congress, he challenged incumbent Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty, a conservative, in the Democratic primary, but lost. He resigned his seat in October 1965, in the first year of his sixth two-year term, after President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed him as a a delegate to UNESCO. He quit UNESCO in December 1966 to take a position as vice president and director Investors Overseas Services Management Co. (IOS), Bernard Cornfeld's very successful Switzerland-based mutual fund company.
While living in Geneva, Switzerland in 1969, his third wife Gladys stabbed him while they were arguing. IOS eventually collapsed in a welter of fraud and he was sued by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (an organization set up by his father). The lawsuit was dismissed in 1973 when he pledged in a court order not to violate securities laws. As part of the settlement with the SEC, he claimed he had committed no wrongdoing while at IOS.
The previous year, he had angered many Democrats when he endorsed the reelection of Richard Nixon, though he later campaigned for Jimmy Carter in '76. Eight years later, the backslid Roosevelt endorsed the reelection of former Democrat 'Ronald Reagan', a man who had revered his father.
He courted controversy again in the late 1980s when he headed the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, an organization that claimed a membership of 1.8 million. Critics claimed that the Committee used scare tactics while soliciting contributions from senior citizens, and Roosevelt went to Washington in 1987 to defend the organization before Congress.
James Roosevelt married four times (one less than his brother FDR, Jr.) and had seven children. Suffering from Parkinson's disease and the effects of a stroke, he died on August 13, 1991 in Newport Beach, California at the age of 83, the last surviving issue of Franklin and Eleanor.- Director
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Roy Rowland studied law at the University of Southern California, then joined MGM as a script clerk. As if getting that job wasn't enough good luck in the middle of the Depression, he also married the niece of MGM chief Louis B. Mayer.
He sharpened his directing chops at MGM with a series of shorts starting in the 1930s, then moved up to features in 1943. He spent quite a bit of time at the studio, from 1943-51 and again from 1954-58. While not one of the studio's top-rank directors, he could be counted on to deliver sold "B" pictures--which, at MGM, were often better than most other studios' "A" pictures--and an occasional "A" production, in a variety of genres, including musicals (Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)) and dramas (Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945)). He was also responsible for the tough, fast-paced Rogue Cop (1954), one of the few MGM films that could be considered "film noir".
The last film he made at MGM was a "B" western with Stewart Granger, Gun Glory (1957), after which he made an action picture for independent release based on a Mickey Spillane "Mike Hammer" novel starring Spillane himself (The Girl Hunters (1963)), and then he traveled to Europe for a string of Italian-made westerns and costume dramas. His final film as director was a somewhat cheesy pirate movie (he was uncredited; his Italian co-director Sergio Bergonzelli got sole credit)) called Il grande colpo di Surcouf (1966). He was associate producer on Nathan Juran's Italian-shot Land Raiders (1969), after which he retired. He was the father of actor Steve Rowland.
Roy Rowland died in 1995, at age 84, in Orange, California..- Actress
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Frank Tallman was born on 17 April 1919 in Orange, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963), Capricorn One (1977) and Lucky Lady (1975). He died on 15 April 1978 in Orange County, California, USA.Plot: Bayview Terrace, Lot 146-A- Kam Tong was born on 18 December 1906 in Oakland, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Flower Drum Song (1961), Women of the Prehistoric Planet (1966) and Have Gun - Will Travel (1957). He was married to Betty Sakata. He died on 8 November 1969 in Costa Mesa, California, USA.Plot: Vista Del Mar, Lot 560-E
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John Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Iowa, to Mary Alberta (Brown) and Clyde Leonard Morrison, a pharmacist. He was of English, Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and Irish ancestry.
Clyde developed a lung condition that required him to move his family from Iowa to the warmer climate of southern California, where they tried ranching in the Mojave Desert. Until the ranch failed, Marion and his younger brother Robert E. Morrison swam in an irrigation ditch and rode a horse to school. When the ranch failed, the family moved to Glendale, California, where Marion delivered medicines for his father, sold newspapers and had an Airedale dog named "Duke" (the source of his own nickname). He did well at school both academically and in football. When he narrowly failed admission to Annapolis he went to USC on a football scholarship 1925-7. Tom Mix got him a summer job as a prop man in exchange for football tickets. On the set he became close friends with director John Ford for whom, among others, he began doing bit parts, some billed as John Wayne. His first featured film was Men Without Women (1930). After more than 70 low-budget westerns and adventures, mostly routine, Wayne's career was stuck in a rut until Ford cast him in Stagecoach (1939), the movie that made him a star. He appeared in nearly 250 movies, many of epic proportions. From 1942-43 he was in a radio series, "The Three Sheets to the Wind", and in 1944 he helped found the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals, a Conservative political organization, later becoming its President. His conservative political stance was also reflected in The Alamo (1960), which he produced, directed and starred in. His patriotic stand was enshrined in The Green Berets (1968) which he co-directed and starred in. Over the years Wayne was beset with health problems. In September 1964 he had a cancerous left lung removed; in 1977 when Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope was being made, John Waynes archive voice was used for the character Garindan ezz Zavor, later in March 1978 there was heart valve replacement surgery; and in January 1979 his stomach was removed. He received the Best Actor nomination for Sands of Iwo Jima (1949) and finally got the Oscar for his role as one-eyed Rooster Cogburn in True Grit (1969). A Congressional Gold Medal was struck in his honor in 1979. He is perhaps best remembered for his parts in Ford's cavalry trilogy - Fort Apache (1948), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) and Rio Grande (1950).Plot: Bayview Terrace, section 575- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Robert Webb comes from a long list of Hollywood notables. His brother, Millard Webb was a silent movie director who was married to dancer Mary Eaton. Robert's sister, Bethel Webb Hoffman was a silent movie actress; while her son and Robert's nephew, Bud Hoffman was a Film Editor at Universal Studios.- Niles Welch was born on July 29, 1888, in Hartford, Connecticut. He attended Yale and Columbia Universities, where he excelled in athletics. Welch spent two years in France studying literature, languages, painting and drama. He started his career on stage in 1909 in a production at Columbia. After graduation, he began his film career at Vitagraph Studios in Brooklyn, under producer Jesse Lasky. Next, he worked for the Kalem Company, and then Metro, where he was leading man for such stars as Mary Miles Minter and Ethyl Barrymore. He also worked for Universal and Goldwyn. While in New York, he met, then married, Elaine Baker, a Broadway actress.
Later in life, Welch began a second career as a radio actor for the Columbia Broadcasting System. His mastery of French and German came in handy when World War II broke out. He was hired by the State Department to work for the Voice of America. In addition to daily short-wave broadcasts to Europe, he also had his own news show. In 1945, he suffered a tragic accident while working at the recording studio. He was carrying a collection of records and other items, and was starting through the heavy studio doors with a companion. An engineer called to him, and he stopped to reply. He then turned to leave, thinking the door was being held for him. But it wasn't, and he smashed his head against it. An examination disclosed that the retinas in both eyes had been detached. Surgery proved unsuccessful, although for a year he had partial sight in one eye. Then he became totally blind. Welch died in California in 1976, at the age of 88.Plot: Magnolia Court, Crypt 651 - Actress
Lila Zali was born on 22 July 1918 in Tiflis, Georgia [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]. She was an actress. She was married to Nicholas Kolia Levienne. She died on 4 January 2003 in Laguna Beach, California, USA.- Flamboyant televangelist Paul Crouch first gained notoriety as the founder of the "Trinity Broadcasting Network" (TBN), an evangelical/charismatic Christian television network, on which he and his wife, Jan Crouch, had their own religious (but very controversial among conservative evangelicals) talk show called Praise (1973). In 1999, Crouch came under much criticism for his network's relentless promotion of the film, The Omega Code (1999), which involved having members of the film's cast and its producers and director making appearances on several of the network's religious talk shows, promoting the film as one that "Christian families" should see as an alternative to the "sexually explicit, violent and Godless" films coming out of Hollywood, and claiming that it was a "huge box office hit" (it wasn't); what Crouch didn't tell his audience was that he was in fact an executive producer of the film, his organization financed it and he stood to make quite a bit of money if the film became a hit (it didn't). After the Crouch organization's connection with the film became public knowledge (and after many letters from outraged viewers), he admitted his role in the film's production on subsequent promotional efforts that were run on his network.
- Jan Crouch was born on 14 May 1938 in New Brockton, Alabama, USA. She was a producer, known for The Glory of the Resurrection (1996), TotaLee Fit: with Lee Haney (1997) and Say Yes (1986). She was married to Paul Crouch. She died on 31 May 2016 in Orlando, Florida, USA.
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Born March 14, 1922, at Mexia, Texas. He learned to play the piano at five years of age and studied at the Detroit Conservatory and at Pepperdine College in Los Angeles, California (his uncle was the college's first president). He began his career as a concert pianist but later joined Mel Tormé's "Meltones" in 1945. Baxter conducted a number of radio shows including "The Bob Hope Show". His recording of "The Poor People of Paris" in March 1956 was a #1 hit and sold more single copies than any other recording during that decade (the song got that title by mistake. Originally titled "The Ballad of Poor John" when it was popularized in France, a Capitol Records representative cabled the title to the US; the cable used the word "gens", meaning "people", instead of "jean"). Another major hit was "April in Portugal", which was based on a song by Raúl Ferrão. It was originally entitled "Coimbra" (after a city in Portugal) and later introduced in the US as the whispering serenade. But Jimmy Kennedy wrote a new set of lyrics in 1952 for it and it became a huge hit for Baxter\, who also wrote the scores for over 120 motion pictures.
He died of heart and kidney problems on January 15, 1996.- Cedrick Hardman was born on 4 October 1948 in Houston, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Stir Crazy (1980), House Party (1990) and The Candidate (1972). He was married to Carolyn Richardson. He died on 8 March 2019 in San Clemente, California, USA.
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Kobe Bean Bryant was an American professional basketball player. A shooting guard, he spent his entire 20-year career with the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Widely regarded as one of the greatest basketball players of all time, Bryant won five NBA championships, was an 18-time All-Star, a 15-time member of the All-NBA Team, a 12-time member of the All-Defensive Team, the 2008 NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP), and a two-time NBA Finals MVP. Bryant also led the NBA in scoring twice, and ranks fourth in league all-time regular season and postseason scoring. He was posthumously voted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2020 and named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team in 2021.
Born in Philadelphia and partly raised in Italy, Bryant was recognized as the top American high-school basketball player while at Lower Merion. The son of former NBA player Joe Bryant, he declared for the 1996 NBA draft and was selected by the Charlotte Hornets with the 13th overall pick; he was then traded to the Lakers. As a rookie, Bryant earned a reputation as a high-flyer by winning the 1997 Slam Dunk Contest, and was named an All-Star by his second season. Despite a feud with teammate Shaquille O'Neal, the pair led the Lakers to three consecutive NBA championships from 2000 to 2002.
In 2003, Bryant was charged with sexual assault;with the alleged victim being a 19 year old hotel employee. Criminal charges were later dropped after the accuser failed to testify, and a lawsuit was settled out of court, with Bryant issuing a public apology and admitting to a sexual encounter while maintaining the interaction was consensual. The accusation briefly tarnished Bryant's reputation, resulting in the loss of several of his endorsement contracts.
After the Lakers lost the 2004 NBA Finals, O'Neal was traded and Bryant became the cornerstone of the Lakers. He led the NBA in scoring in the 2005-06 and 2006-07 seasons. On January 22, 2006, he scored a career-high 81 points; the second most points scored in a single NBA game, behind Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game. Bryant led the team to consecutive championships in 2009 and 2010, both times being named NBA Finals MVP. He continued to be among the top players in the league through the 2012-13 season, when he suffered a torn Achilles tendon at age 34. His next two seasons were cut short by injuries to his knee and shoulder, respectively. Citing physical decline, Bryant retired after the 2015-16 season. In 2017, the Lakers retired both his #8 and #24 jerseys, making him the only player in NBA history to have multiple jerseys retired by the same franchise.
The all-time leading scorer in Lakers history, Bryant was the first guard in NBA history to play 20 seasons. His 18 All-Star designations are the second most all time, and he has the most consecutive appearances as a starter. Bryant's four NBA All-Star Game MVP Awards are tied with Bob Pettit for the most in NBA history. He gave himself the nickname "Black Mamba" in the mid-2000s, and the epithet became widely adopted by the general public. He won gold medals on the 2008 and 2012 U.S. Olympic teams. In 2018, he won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for the film Dear Basketball (2017).
Bryant died, along with his daughter Gianna and seven others, in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, in 2020. A number of tributes and memorials were subsequently issued, including renaming the All-Star MVP Award in his honor.
He was. 5× NBA champion (2000-2002, 2009, 2010); 2× NBA Finals MVP (2009, 2010); NBA Most Valuable Player (2008); 18× NBA All-Star (1998, 2000-2016); 4× NBA All-Star Game MVP (2002, 2007, 2009, 2011); 11× All-NBA First Team (2002-2004, 2006-2013); 2× All-NBA Second Team (2000, 2001); 2× All-NBA Third Team (1999, 2005); 9× NBA All-Defensive First Team (2000, 2003, 2004, 2006-2011); 3× NBA All-Defensive Second Team (2001, 2002, 2012)