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Jamia Suzette Mays was born in Bristol, Tennessee, to Susan (Norris) and James Mays, and was raised in Grundy, Virginia with her older brother and sister. Her father was a high school teacher at Grundy Senior High School for seven years, before spending 25 years working in the coal-mining industry. He is now retired and lives with Jayma's mother in Bristol.
At school, Jayma enjoyed Math and singing. She graduated from high school in 1997. She then went on to get an Associate degree from Southwest Virginia Community College. She then did a year at Virginia Tech, transferring to Radford University. After earning her degree in Theatre in 2000, she moved to California.
She started out with an internship with actor Timothy Busfield, of the television series Thirtysomething (1987). In 2004, she had her screen television debut on Joey (2004). Her first feature film came, a year later, in Red Eye (2005). Her breakthrough role came when she won the role of "Emma Pillsbury" on the hit show Glee (2009).- Julie Duncan was born on 17 January 1919 in Cornish, Sullivan County, New Hampshire, USA. She was an actress, known for Texas Trouble Shooters (1942), Desperate Cargo (1941) and Cowboy in the Clouds (1943). She was married to James Monroe Jefferson Jr and Jerrold Jerome Kessler. She died on 20 June 1986 in Riverside County, California, USA.
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Ted McCord learned his craft "on the job" as a camera assistant at Hobart Bosworth Productions in 1917. His first credited film as full-fledged cinematographer was Sacred and Profane Love (1921), billing himself as "T.D.McCord". During the '20s he worked on a wide variety of subjects, from romantic comedy (Irene (1926)) to westerns (The Code of the Scarlet (1928)) to melodrama (The Crash (1928)). Almost from the outset, his work displayed a mastery of lighting, specifically in his use of deep shadows. He later explained that he had been influenced by the paintings of Rembrandt and by the mentoring of pioneer cinematographers James Van Trees and Gregg Toland.
Between 1924 and 1929, McCord worked at First National which later became a subsidiary of Warner Brothers. In the early '30s, he had brief spells at Universal (shooting several films for cowboy star Ken Maynard), Columbia and RKO-Pathe, before finally settling at Warner Brothers for the bulk of his career (1936-57). During World War II, he served as a captain with the US Army Photographic Unit and was among the first to enter devastated Berlin, filming inside Adolf Hitler's ruined chancellery. After the war, he was given several A-grade projects that enhanced his reputation; among them superior melodramas like Johnny Belinda (1948) and Flamingo Road (1949). He also won critical plaudits for his excellent shooting of John Huston's seminal western epic, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948). This prompted Elia Kazan to request his services for East of Eden (1955), which was shot in Technicolor and CinemaScope.
During the '50s and '60s McCord excelled at other Technicolor assignments: most memorable are the rich saturation and sharp detail used for the gripping outdoor western The Hanging Tree (1959), and his Oscar-nominated romantic, soft-focus visuals for The Sound of Music (1965), shot in 65mm Todd-AO wide-screen format.- William E. Waters was born on 16 May 1918 in Sullivan County, Indiana, USA. William E. is a writer, known for Playhouse 90 (1956).
- A native of Sullivan County, Indiana, James Solomon Barcus was born March 18, 1863. Solomon, his father, was a blacksmith; his mother Martha was a granddaughter of Nathan Hinkle, the erstwhile Revolutionary War veteran. During his youth, the Barcus family struggled to make ends meet. Barcus dropped out of school frequently to work on his parents' farm. He finally earned a teaching certificate and taught at a school near Hymera, Indiana, for three years.
To better himself, he became a traveling book agent, peddling his wares by horse and buggy to farmers, preachers, doctors and lawyers. With scarcely enough money to pay railroad fare, he enrolled at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Meanwhile, in 1884 he married Bettie Belle Tichenor, a native of Pierson Township in Vigo County, Indiana. Bettie's older brother William attended the University of Michigan, graduating from its law school in 1893. Barcus worked his way through college selling books. Sometimes he had to pawn his watch, a cherished heirloom, to advance freight expenses. By the time he graduated from Michigan in 1891, publisher R.S. Peale & Co. hired him. Soon he was a full partner. Two years later he co-founded Clarke, Barcus & Co. in New York and secured exclusive rights to print and distribute "The Century Dictionary and Encyclopedia." He also formed J.S. Barcus Co., a publishing firm, and was president of Globe Publishing Co.
Widely known by 1895, Barcus wrote "The Science of Selling," a practical guide for canvassers. The proceeds allowed him to enroll at Columbia University School of Law. Solomon J. Barcus was a fervent Republican. Raised in a hotbed of conservatism, James "spent his childhood fighting Democrats." During the 1896 presidential campaign, he wrote "The Boomerang", a satirical analysis of one of Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan's speeches. The book was published by J.S. Barcus Co. The volume earned high praise among Republicans. By the time he earned a law degree in 1899, Barcus was 36 years old, affluent, a member of the Republican Party's committee on national affairs and an officer of several New York social clubs.
Though admitted to the New York bar, Barcus made an unconventional decision. In July 1899, James and Bettie Barcus bought a large home in Terre Haute, Indiana, and made it the most luxurious residence-law office in western Indiana. Barcus promptly became immersed in politics. When Republican Congressman George Washington Faris chose not to seek re-election in 1900, Barcus placed his hat in the ring to succeed him, campaigning on his record as a success as a publisher. He lost the nomination by three votes. Though residing in Indiana, Barcus maintained his New York publishing houses and acquired Success Magazine. In 1902, to support his political ambitions, he bought the Terre Haute Tribune, one of the city's daily newspapers, and was elected to the Indiana Senate.
"The Messages and Papers of Congress", a multi-volume set published by J.S. Barcus Co., made "enormous profit", triggering a congressional inquiry. Re-elected to the state senate, Barcus again tried to secure nomination to Congress. To aid that effort, he bought another local newspaper, the Terre Haute Gazette, and merged it with the Tribune, naming it the "Tribune-Gazette". When Holliday received the nomination again, Barcus abruptly resigned from the state legislature in September 1905 and returned to New York. He did retain his Terre Haute newspaper for several years afterwards.
Apparently his publishing empire continued to grow. His success persisted. Names associated with Barcus' triumphs include "The Classic Library of Famous Literature" and "The Consolidated Library". On April 13, 1914, "The Governor's Boss", an original play written by Barcus, opened at Charles Frohman's Gerrick Theater in New York. The next year, The Governor's Boss Photoplay Co. released a screen version of the play.
Before his death in Newark, New Jersey, at age 57 on May 3, 1920, Barcus wrote the novel, "The Repentance of Croesus", and published "The Governor's Boss" in novel form. - Lily Wheelwright was born on 14 April 1982 in Jeffersonville, Sullivan County, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Orphans (2007). She died on 22 March 2007 in New York City, New York, USA.