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- Urho Harkola was born on 13 September 1911 in Tampere, Finland. He is an actor, known for Huijarien huvittavat huiputtajat (1945), Katariina kaunis leski (1961) and Rakas Wenander (1966).1911
- Katsumi Tezuka was born on 31 August 1912. He is an actor, known for Godzilla (1954), King Kong vs. Godzilla (1963) and Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster (1964).1912
- Maj-Britt Håkansson was born on 29 March 1919 in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden. She is an actress, known for I brist på bevis (1943), Kvinnor i fångenskap (1943) and Snurriga familjen (1940). She was previously married to Luciano Frati.1919
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Caren Marsh was born in Los Angeles. Her sister, actress Dorothy Morris, was born Feb. 23, 1922. Getting into show business in 1937, Caren changed her name to Marsh because "there were too many people named Morris at the time." Caren's parents wanted her to go to college but she wanted to be a dancer. Learning of an audition for dancers at MGM she tried out and was cast in Eleanor Powell's "Rosalie" in '37. This led to more and more pictures as a dancer. "Being tiny (Caren is 5 ft.), I was a 'pony'. The tall girls are called showgirls." While working with great choreographers such as Busby Berkerley, Nick Castle and Hermes Pan, she was spotted at Metro and cast as Judy Garland's stand-in in "The Wizard of Oz" ('39). Her first real acting part was in an Army Signal Corps Hygiene film, "Pickup Girl" in '44. After gaining a foothold in Hollywood, Caren went to New York in '49 to work with ventriloquist Paul Winchell at the Capitol Theatre. Flying home to visit her parents, the plane went too low and crashed into a mountain.The aircraft was in level flight on its initial approach to Burbank, with its landing gear extended, when it descended below the officially prescribed altitude of 5,000 feet while flying in patchy fog. As a result, the plane's right wingtip struck a mountain ridge near Box Canyon in the northwest corner of the San Fernando Valley, near Santa Susana Pass and the Los Angeles County-Ventura County border. The Curtiss C-46E-1-C airliner (N79978) spun 90 degrees, struck the ground, bounced back into the air and then crashed on a rugged hillside of the Simi Hills at an altitude of about 1,890 feet just north of the Chatsworth Reservoir. Both pilots, a flight attendant, and 32 passengers died in the crash, including two young children. The remaining flight attendant and 12 passengers escaped with moderate to serious injuries. Fortunately, Caren was one of those 12. In 1950 Caren married Bill Doll, producer Mike Todd's press agent, and traveled all over the world. Today, Caren lives in Palm Springs, has taught dancing and attends both western film festivals and "Wizard of Oz" reunions when she can.1919- June Spencer was born on 14 June 1919 in Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK. She is an actress, known for Doctors (2000), The Archers (2007) and Thirty-Minute Theatre (1965). She was previously married to Roger Brocksom.1919
- Jack Rader was born on 23 February 1921 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor, known for The Blob (1988), Outbreak (1995) and Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988).1921
- Hers was one of the best known voices on the airwaves. By the age of 18, Barbra Deane Fuller had been featured in 25 radio serials and had by her own count portrayed more than 1000 different characters. Though having earlier aspired to become a math teacher, she went into show biz instead and made her first radio broadcast at 11 years of age. Two years later, she was playing more ingénues in Chicago soap operas than any other teenager. Barbra was a regular performer on The Theater of Famous Radio Players, described by an authority on the subject as "a repertory company of radio's best professional actors." Her most popular roles included Claudia in One Man's Family (a role she went on to play for 14 years) and Barbara Calkins in Scattergood Baines for the Mutual Broadcasting System. In 1942, she moved to New York, where she set up base for two and a half years.
Barbra's father died when she was three. Raised by her mother, she went to school in Chicago and was said to have had a passion for reading non-fiction and travel books. Early in her career as a radio actress she would earn $12.50 per broadcast. As her popularity grew, she changed the spelling of her first name from 'Barbara' to 'Barbra' "as an attention-getter".
She was a looker, to be sure, with blue eyes and brown hair (which, once her film career got started, tended to alternate in colour between platinum and brunette). Ambitious to try her hand at screen acting, Barbra relocated to California, settled in Beverly Hills and signed a short-term contract with Republic Studios in 1949. Unfortunately, her first picture was a strident propaganda piece, The Red Menace (1949), very much at the height of HUAC and McCarthyism. Producers had wanted an unknown for the role and Barbra's unaffected, sincere approach to acting suited their purpose. In retrospect, it was hardly the ideal career launch pad.
Barbra received star billing for her next feature, Flame of Youth (1949) (a drama about juvenile delinquency) and was then second-billed for a series of B-grade crime dramas and films noir: as a gangster's moll in Alias the Champ (1949), a double-crossing femme fatale in Harbor of Missing Men (1950), member of a narcotics gang in Women from Headquarters (1950) and a murder suspect in Trial Without Jury (1950). In 1950 alone, Barbra headlined in nine films, including several horse operas. Her most frequent leading man was the stalwart Republic contract player Robert Rockwell.
As her contract with Republic expired, Barbra turned freelance and worked mainly in television, guest starring in shows like Adventures of Superman (1952), Perry Mason (1957) and Daniel Boone (1964). She was briefly married to B-movie western star Lash La Rue, as number three of his nine (or, possibly, as many as twelve!) wives. She divorced him after 15 months, claiming he 'treated her mean'.1921 - Actress
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Joyous scene-stealer Janis Paige started out playing rather bland film ingénues, but never seemed to be comfortable in those roles--she had too much snap, crackle and pop to be confined in such a formulaic way.
Born Donna Mae Tjaden in 1922 in Tacoma, Washington, she was singing in public from age 5 in local amateur shows. She moved to Los Angeles after graduating from high school and earned a job as a singer at the Hollywood Canteen during the war years. The Canteen, which was a studio-sponsored gathering spot for servicemen, is where she was spotted by a Warner Brothers talent scout, who saw potential in her and signed her up. She began co-starring in secondary musicals that often paired her with either Dennis Morgan or Jack Carson. Later she was relegated to rugged adventures and dramas that just seemed out of her element. Following her role in the forgettable Two Gals and a Guy (1951), she decided to leave the Hollywood scene. She took to the Broadway boards and scored a huge hit with the 1951 comedy-mystery play "Remains to Be Seen", co-starring Jackie Cooper. She also toured successfully as a cabaret singer, performing everywhere from New York to Miami to Las Vegas to Los Angeles. Definitive stardom came in 1954 with the feisty role of Babe in Broadway's "The Pajama Game" opposite John Raitt. Her old Warner Bros. rival Doris Day, however, was a bigger name and went on to play the role on film (The Pajama Game (1957)) with Raitt. After a six-year hiatus, Janis returned to films in tongue-and-cheek support, all but stealing Silk Stockings (1957) from co-stars Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse. She then grabbed her share of laughs in a flashy role with the comedy Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960) opposite Ms. Day. Janis carried on in summer stock, playing such indomitable roles as Annie Oakley in "Annie Get Your Gun", Margo Channing in "Applause", Mama Rose in "Gypsy" and Adelaide in "Guys and Dolls". From the mid-'50s on, Janis also tapped into TV with such series as It's Always Jan (1955), Lanigan's Rabbi (1976) and Trapper John, M.D. (1979). In the 1990s, among other TV appearances, she had recurring roles on the daytime serials General Hospital (1963) and Santa Barbara (1984). Married three times, she was the widow of Disney composer Ray Gilbert, who wrote the classic children's song "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah."1922- Warm, charming leading lady of 1940s films, Jacqueline White was under contract to both MGM (which wasted her in mostly unbilled bits) and then RKO, where she appeared in two classics--Crossfire (1947) and The Narrow Margin (1952). RKO used her as a second lead in A pictures and leading roles in Bs.
She retired in 1950 upon her marriage to Bruce Anderson and they relocated to Wyoming, where her husband started an oil business. When she returned to Los Angeles for the birth of her first child, she was spotted in the RKO commissary visiting friends by director Richard Fleischer and producer Stanley Rubin, who offered her a co-starring role in "The Narrow Margin". The film, widely acknowledged to be one of the classics of "film noir", sat on the RKO shelf for two years while studio boss Howard Hughes considered whether to extensively edit it or re-shoot it as an "A" with Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell. Eventually, selected scenes were reshot and added in December 1951, nearly a year after the film had originally wrapped--she was flown out from her home in Casper, Wyoming, for these added scenes--and the film was, thankfully, spared any more of Hughes' "improvements". It was released mostly intact due to director Fleischer's striking a deal with Hughes to release the picture without further changes in return for Fleischer's reshooting the end of His Kind of Woman (1951).
Long retired from the film industry, Jacqueline has recently begun appearing at film festivals and conventions.1922 - Marina Cacciotti was born in 1923 in Italy. She is an actress, known for Mid-August Lunch (2008) and La currybonara (2010).1923
- Lino Murolo was born on 18 March 1923 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He is an actor, known for Dirty Weekend (1973), Cuore (1984) and Dagli archivi della polizia criminale (1973).1923
- With the outbreak of war Vincent left his job with the Australian General Electric Company and became a pilot with the Australian Air Force in England. He returned to Australia and his old job in 1945 but couldn't settle. He tried amateur dramatics but his dialect was a mixture of Australian, Cockney, due to his stay in London, and Canadian with having mixed with Canadian forces. To correct his accent he had elocution lessons which resulted in him marrying his teacher, Doreen, and them having a daughter, Catherine. With his diction corrected he wrote letters asking for auditions. One of these was to the Rank Organisation who replied asking him to call and see them if he was in the neighbourhood. He got a job as a stoker on a cargo ship but the journey took six months instead of the expected six weeks. Undaunted tough he presented himself at Ranks offices where impressed with his enthusiasm they gave him a job as stand in for Donald Houston in an underwater fight with an octopus in the film The Blue Lagoon. He then won a scholarship to RADA from where he went into rep working his way up to juvenile lead in Rain Before Seven, Barnett's Folly and Nitro. He got a few bit parts in films before moving into slightly larger parts in such as A Town Like Alice, Robbery Under Arms,and Danger Within. He moved back to Australia in the 70's appearing in various TV series and films such as Breaker Morant, Phar Lap and Muriel's Wedding1923
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Tommy Dix was born Thomas Paine Brittain Navard in New York City. He attended the High School of Music & Art that New York mayor Florello H. LaGuardia had established, and became a national sensation when he appeared on Major Bowes' Amateur Hour in 1936. After being chosen to sing "Buckle Down, Winsocki" in the 1941 Broadway musical "Best Foot Forward" he recorded the song with Benny Goodman and His Orchestra, and the 78 rpm record was a major hit.
MGM bought the film rights to "Best Foot Forward" and hired a number of the Broadway cast members to be in the movie. Tommy was one of them, but when they got to Hollywood it was decided to give Tommy the lead role so his character could sing the rousing fight song "Buckle Down, Winsocki" at the end of the movie. The final cost of making "Best Foot Forward" (one of only four Technicolor movies made by MGM that year) was $1,410,850. Gross box office receipts for the movie were $2,704,000.
Tommy entered the military in September 1943, but suffered medical problems when his childhood Celiac disease flared up again. He reluctantly accepted a medical discharge and became a successful nightclub performer for the rest of the 1940s. He married Margaret Ann "Maggie" Grayson in the summer of 1946 with whom he had two children (Grayson and Brittain).
In 1950, Tommy quit Show Business and went to work for his father-in-law who owned a successful construction & lumber business in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1959, after 13 years of marriage, Tommy and his wife divorced and Tommy went into the construction/real estate business in Florida where he was very successful.
Tommy now lives in Virginia.- Gallic Actress Anne Vernon, who was born Edith Antoinette Alexandrine Vignaud in Saint-Denis, France, in January 1924, is not well known outside of Europe. Following graduation from the Paris Ecole des Beaux Arts, she found work as a model and apprenticed with an advertising designer. Developing an interest in acting, she subsequently toured with a French theatre group before embarking on a movie career. Glamorous leading lady roles came her way beginning in 1948, particularly in light post-war romantic souffles and farcical comedies where she sweetly played ingénues both English-speaking (Warning to Wantons (1949)) and non-English speaking (Edward and Caroline (1951)). Capable of tense dramatic roles as well, she made only one Hollywood film during her career, playing second femme lead in the film noir Shakedown (1950) with Howard Duff and Peggy Dow.
Audiences might recognize her from the British films Terror on a Train (1953) [aka Terror on a Train] as a bomb defuser Glenn Ford's wife, and the mild comedy The Love Lottery (1954), as part of a love triangle with David Niven and Peggy Cummins. For the most part, however, Anne stayed on French/Italian soil appearing opposite such dashing leading men as Daniel Gélin, Vittorio Gassman and Jean Marais. In the 1960s she matured into chic, maternal roles, most noticeably as Catherine Deneuve's cautious, concerned mother in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) [The Umbrellas of Cherbourg]. Surprisingly, she also had a role in the notorious soft-core lesbian flick Therese and Isabelle (1968). Following some TV work in the early 1970s, she gently phased out her career. - Woody Woodbury was born on 9 February 1924 in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA. He is an actor, known for Go for It (1983), For Those Who Think Young (1964) and Super Fuzz (1980). He was previously married to Sussanne Spavin, Doreen B Evans and Audrey Myrtle Plette.
- Pia Velsi was born on 31 March 1924 in L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. She is an actress, known for Tutti pazzi per amore (2008), ...and the Wild Wild Women (1959) and Scaramouche (1965).1924
- Though character actress Priscilla Pointer may be better known as the mother of Amy Irving, she has enjoyed a major stage, film and TV career herself for over four decades. The New York-born performer was trained on the stage and appeared in several tours and Broadway shows, including "A Streetcar Named Desire", "The Country Wife" and "The Condemned of Altona". Many of these were under the direction of husband Jules Irving, a former actor, whom she married in 1947. Together, they co-founded the San Francisco Actor's Workshop along with Herbert Blau and Beatrice Manley. Forsaking her career for a time to raise her children, Pointer returned full time and, at the age of 40+, decided to set her sights on film and TV. She seemed to be everywhere in the 1970s and 1980s as somebody's mom, both brittle and resilient. She also proved to be dependable as a stern, no-nonsense teacher, doctor or judge. She played the mother of daughter Amy Irving in the cult shocker Carrie (1976), Diane Keaton in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977), Sean Penn in The Falcon and the Snowman (1985) and Kyle MacLachlan in Blue Velvet (1986). On the nighttime soap hit Dallas (1978), she played mom to Victoria Principal's character. In 1979, her husband Jules passed away and, two years later, she married actor Robert Symonds. They have appeared together quite frequently on stage, including the plays "Voices" and "The Road to Mecca".1924
- Veteran actress Gloria Jane Stroock is the daughter of James Stroock, president of the Brooks Costume and Uniform Company which supplied costumes to Broadway and to the film industry from 1914. It had been founded five years prior by Ely Stroock (1864-1949). Gloria's mother was a costume designer and her younger sister was the actress Geraldine Brooks.
Gloria began acting on Broadway from the mid-40s (her roles including that of Meg in 'Little Women'). After moving to California, she frequently performed at Theatre 40 in Beverly Hills and subsequently served on the board of directors. She first acted on screen in a 1948 anthology drama. Her career was thereafter mostly confined to television, her one high profile role being that of Rock Hudson 's secretary Maggie in several episodes of McMillan & Wife (1971). She also made repeat appearances on the navy sitcom Operation Petticoat (1977). Among Gloria's few film credits were small supporting parts in The Day of the Locust (1975), Fun with Dick and Jane (1977) and Uncommon Valor (1983). She played Rose, the matriarch of the Kennedy family, in the TV movie Young Joe, the Forgotten Kennedy (1977). Her personal favorite acting role was playing the lead character in Driving Miss Daisy on stage at Theatre 40.
Gloria was married to the television producer Leonard Stern from 1956 until his death in 2011. She retired from screen acting in 1996 and in 2018 published her memoirs under the name Gloria Stroock-Stern, entitled 'Cast of Characters'. She has also been noted as a sculptor. - Actress
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Actress and producer Eva Marie Saint was born on July 4, 1924 on Newark, New Jersey. She is known for starring in Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954), for which she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and Alfred Hitchcock's North by Northwest (1959). Her film career also includes roles in Raintree County (1957), Exodus (1960), The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming (1966), Grand Prix (1966), Nothing in Common (1986), Because of Winn-Dixie (2005), Superman Returns (2006) and Winter's Tale (2014).
Saint made her feature film debut in On the Waterfront (1954), starring Marlon Brando and directed by Elia Kazan - a performance for which she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. The film was a major success and launched her movie career. She starred in the pioneering drug-addiction drama A Hatful of Rain (1957) with Don Murray and Anthony Franciosa. She also starred in lavish the Civil War epic Raintree County (1957) with Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift.
Director Alfred Hitchcock surprised many by choosing Saint over dozens of other candidates for the femme fatale role in what was to become a suspense classic North by Northwest (1959) with Cary Grant and James Mason. Written by Ernest Lehman, the film updated and expanded upon the director's early "wrong man" spy adventures of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, including The 39 Steps (1935), Young and Innocent (1937), and Saboteur (1942). North by Northwest (1959) became a box-office success and an influence on spy films for decades.1924- Eunice Christopher was born on 26 July 1924 in the USA. She is an actress, known for The Waltons (1972), The Other Side of Midnight (1977) and Audrey Rose (1977).1924
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Ted Hartley was born on 6 November 1924 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for High Plains Drifter (1973), Race to Witch Mountain (2009) and Mighty Joe Young (1998). He was previously married to Dina Merrill.1924- William Russell was born William Russell Enoch on 19 November 1924, in Sunderland, County Durham, England, to Eva Compston (Pile) and Alfred James Enoch. He became interested in acting at an early age. He was involved in organizing entertainments during his national service in the Royal Air Force and then, after university, went into repertory theatre. He appeared in "Hamlet" in London's West End and won a number of film roles, usually as a dashing hero. Notable TV work followed in The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (1956) for ITV and Nicholas Nickleby (1957) and David Copperfield in Fredric March Presents Tales from Dickens (1959) for the BBC, shortly after which he was cast as Ian Chesterton in Doctor Who (1963). He later continued a successful acting career, particularly in the theatre, and for a time held a senior post in the actor's union, Equity. In recent years he has been a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
His son is actor Alfred Enoch.1924 - Actress
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Maria Riva was born on 13 December 1924 in Berlin, Germany. She is an actress and producer, known for Scrooged (1988), The Scarlet Empress (1934) and Target (1958).1924- Kerima was born on 10 February 1925 in Toulouse, France. She is an actress, known for The Quiet American (1958), The Devil Is a Woman (1953) and The Ship of Damned Women (1953).1925
- Glamorous, shapely Parisienne Brigitte Auber briefly flirted with international fame as Danielle Foussard in Alfred Hitchcock's romantic thriller To Catch a Thief (1955). As a member of a gang of jewel thieves, she vied with heroine Grace Kelly for the affections of debonair cat burglar Cary Grant. The story goes, that, while filming a particularly perilous rooftop scene which had Brigitte fearing an accidental fall and possible death, she spotted a quartet of Catholic priests and was said to have quipped "Mon Dieu! You Americans think of everything!"
Brigitte (born Marie-Claire Cahen de Labzac) was the daughter of a man of letters and expert on the writings of Balzac, Robert Cahen, who had adopted the nom-de-plume Robert Cahen de Labzac ('Labzac', of course, being an anagram of Balzac). Initially wanting to become a dancer, young Brigitte instead turned to dramatics and began acting on screen from the age of 21. After early bit parts, her first leading role was opposite Daniel Gélin and Nicole Courcel in Jacques Becker's charming comedy Rendezvous in July (1949), set in post-war Paris. After that, she had back-to-back starring turns in Vendetta en Camargue (1950) (a rural comedy about a girl inheriting a farm house and facing larceny from some of the locals and resentment from others), Julien Duvivier's episodic melodrama Under the Paris Sky (1951),L'amour toujours l'amour (1952) (which was made for teen consumption) and Femmes de Paris (1953), a musical comedy. Hitch then picked her for the coveted role of Danielle in To Catch a Thief. In appearance, she certainly fitted the director's known predilection for cool blondes. However, Hitch thought Brigitte's French accent as too pronounced to cast her in his next picture, The Trouble with Harry (1955).
By the mid-60s, Brigitte worked intermittently on both the big and the small screen, mostly in comedies or crime dramas. She had one more supporting role in an English-language production, appearing as an attendant to Queen Anne (played by Anne Parillaud) in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998), starring Leonardo DiCaprio in the title role.1925 - Actress
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Born in New York City on June 25, 1925, the daughter of actors Gene Lockhart and Kathleen Lockhart, June Lockhart made her professional debut at age eight in a Metropolitan Opera production of "Peter Ibbetson", playing Mimsey in the dream sequence. In the mid-1930s, the Lockharts relocated to California, where father Gene enjoyed a long career as one of the screen's great character actors. June made her screen debut in MGM's version of A Christmas Carol (1938), playing--appropriately enough the daughter of stars Gene Lockhart and Kathleen Lockhart. June appeared in a dozen or more movies before 1947, when she made her Broadway bow playing the ingénue in the comedy "For Love or Money" with John Loder. She got a standing ovation on opening night; one critic compared her debut to the first big hits of Helen Hayes and Margaret Sullavan. The overnight toast of Broadway, she went on to win a Tony Award, the Donaldson Award, the Theatre World Award and the Associated Press citation for Woman of the Year for Drama for her work in that play. On television, she has co-starred in popular series like Lassie (1954) and Lost in Space (1965).1925- Peggy Webber started her career at age two and a half, performing during intermissions in silent movie theaters. She started working in radio at age 11; by 18, she was writing, producing and directing early television shows; at 21, she won the award that was later known as the Emmy for her drama anthology series Treasures of Literature. Among her many thousands of radio credits, workhorse Webber appeared in over 100 Dragnet programs, playing Ma Friday and many other characters.1925
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Margery MacKay was born on 30 September 1925 in Nashua, New Hampshire, USA. She is an actress, known for The Wild Wild West (1965) and It Is Fine! Everything Is Fine. (2007). She has been married to Arnold Arthur Gordon since 4 December 1994. She was previously married to John Anwyl and Harper MacKay.1925- Actress
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Academy Award-winner Lee Grant was born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal on October 31, 1925 in Manhattan, New York City, to Witia (Haskell), a teacher and model, and Abraham Rosenthal, an educator and realtor. Her father was of Romanian Jewish descent, and her mother was a Russian Jewish immigrant. Lee made her stage debut at age 4 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, playing the abducted princess in "L'Orocolo". After graduating from high school, she won a scholarship to the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre, where she studied acting with Sanford Meisner. When she was a teenager Grant established herself as a formidable Broadway talent when she won The Critics' Circle Award for her portrayal of the shoplifter in "Detective Story". She reprised the role in the film version (Detective Story (1951), a performance that garnered her the Cannes Film Festival Citation for Best Actress as well as her first Academy Award Nomination. Immediately following her screen debut, however, Lee became a victim of the McCarthy-era blacklists in which actors, writers, directors, etc., were persecuted for supposedly "Communist" or "progressive" political beliefs, whether they had them or not. Except for an occasional role, she did not work in film or television for 12 years. In 1965 Lee re-started her acting career in the TV series Peyton Place (1964), for which she won an Emmy Award as Stella Chernak, and she later garnered her first Academy Award for Shampoo (1975), also receiving Academy Award nominations for The Landlord (1970) and Voyage of the Damned (1976). Since 1980 Lee has been concentrating on her directorial career, which began as part of the Women's Project at The Americal Film Institute (AFI); her adaptation of August Strindberg's, "Stronger, The" was consequently selected as one of the 10 best films ever produced for AFI. In 1987 she received an Academy Award for the HBO documentary, Down and Out in America (1985) and directed Nobody's Child (1986) for CBS, for which she received the Directors Guild Award. In 1983 she received the Congressional Arts Caucus Award for Outstanding Achievement in Acting and Independent Filmmaking. Subsequently, Women in Film paid tribute to her in 1989, with its first-ever Lifetime Achievement Award. Both the New York City Council and the County of Los Angeles Board of Supervisors have recognized Ms. Grant for the contribution her films have made to the fight against domestic violence.1925- She was born Sally Bliss in Carthage, New York. Her father had moved the family from Ohio and was a science teacher at Carthage High School. In 1927, the family moved to Amityville, Long Island. She attended drama school in Rhode Island and at age 17, she was invited to Hollywood by Howard Hughes, who she did not meet until about a year later. She signed with his studio and dated Hughes a few times as well. He also had her stage name changed to Carla Balenda and this is how she was credited until 1957, when she decided to change it back to her real name. Just before she was 19, she married a WWII pilot, John Martin, and they stayed together for fifteen years, having two boys from the union before divorcing in 1959. Six years later, she married prominent California attorney and author William Rutter, who wanted her to be home with her children. She left acting and later became involved in volunteer charity work. Her husband passed away in 2012. She has thirteen grandchildren and six great-grandchildren and as of 2021, she was residing in the Los Angeles suburb of Woodland Hills, California.1925
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Dick Van Dyke was born Richard Wayne Van Dyke in West Plains, Missouri, to Hazel Victoria (McCord), a stenographer, and Loren Wayne Van Dyke, a salesman. His younger brother was entertainer Jerry Van Dyke. His ancestry includes English, Dutch, Scottish, German and Swiss-German. Although he had small roles beforehand, Van Dyke was launched to stardom in the musical "Bye-Bye Birdie" (1960), for which he won a Tony Award, and, then, later in the movie based on that play, Bye Bye Birdie (1963). He has starred in a number of films through the years including Mary Poppins (1964), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) and Fitzwilly (1967), as well as a number of successful television series which won him no less than four Emmy Awards and three made-for-CBS movies. After separating from his wife, Margie Willett, in the 1970s, Dick later became involved with Michelle Triola. Margie and Dick had four children born during the first ten years of their marriage: Barry Van Dyke, Carrie Beth Van Dyke, Christian Van Dyke and Stacy Van Dyke, all of whom are now in their sixties and seventies, and married themselves. He has seven grandchildren, including Shane Van Dyke, Carey Van Dyke, Wes Van Dyke and Taryn Van Dyke (Barry's children) and family members often appear with him on Diagnosis Murder (1993).1925- Carol Gustafson was born on 25 December 1925 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Three Days of the Condor (1975), Coronet Blue (1967) and Trilogy (1969).1925
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Noël De Souza grew up in Secunderbad in what is today the southern Indian state of Telangana. As a youth, he aspired to become a writer, first by submitting articles to his local newspaper and later writing reviews of Indian films. He entered the U.S. in 1948 to attend the University of California, Berkeley. While studying for a degree in architecture, he was hired by the Indian publication Cine Blitz to write about Hollywood, an activity he continued subsequently for the Times of India. Finding work hard to come by, he briefly returned the country of his birth to take up a managerial position with a paint company. Finding this job instantly distasteful, De Souza found himself back in the U.S. in 1955, determined to forge a career in Hollywood.
He began in show biz by taking an acting course at the Pasadena Playhouse. After Sabu, he became one of just two actors from India to have 'made it' in the film capital at this time, following his screen debut as a Mexican in an episode of The Loretta Young Show (1953). Often typecast in exotic ethnic roles, he later declared: "So I usually ended up playing Mexicans or Italians.Talk about diversity! I'd have to change my parentage for every role." Nonetheless, De Souza had no trouble making himself known in show biz, due to long-standing friendships with American producer Stanley Rubin and French director Serge Bourguignon who helped him to meet "nearly every actor, actress and director in Hollywood". De Souza played supporting roles of diverse ethnicity in several movies. More often, he appeared as clerks, porters, chauffeurs, officers or doctors in such popular TV shows as The Outer Limits (1963), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964), Mission: Impossible (1966) to Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974) and Star Trek: Voyager (1995) (as a holodeck simulation of Mahatma Gandhi.
In addition to acting, De Souza has continued to work as a freelance journalist and occasional interviewer of people associated with the film industry (including actors like George Clooney and Christian Bale). He was associated for some years with the Golden Globe Awards, maintaining an affiliation with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and The Dick Clark Company, who, in collaboration, produce the prestigious Golden Globe Awards show. In 2016, he was nominated for an International Cinematographers Guild (ICG) Publicist Media Award.1925