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American leading man of the 1940s and 1950s, Dana Andrews was born Carver Dana Andrews on New Years Day 1909 on a farmstead outside Collins, Covington County, Mississippi. One of thirteen children, including fellow actor Steve Forrest, he was a son of Annis (Speed) and Charles Forrest Andrews, a Baptist minister.
Andrews studied business administration at Sam Houston State Teachers College in Texas, but took a bookkeeping job with Gulf Oil in 1929, aged 20, prior to graduating. In 1931, he hitchhiked to California, hoping to get work as an actor. He drove a school bus, dug ditches, picked oranges, worked as a stock boy, and pumped gas while trying without luck to break into the movies. His employer at a Van Nuys gas station believed in him and agreed to invest in him, asking to be repaid if and when Andrews made it as an actor. Andrews studied opera and also entered the Pasadena Community Playhouse, the famed theatre company and drama school. He appeared in scores of plays there in the 1930s, becoming a favorite of the company. He played opposite future star Robert Preston in a play about composers Gilbert and Sullivan, and soon thereafter was offered a contract by Samuel Goldwyn.
It was two years before Goldwyn and 20th Century-Fox (to whom Goldwyn had sold half of Andrews' contract) put him in a film, but the roles, though secondary, were mostly in top-quality pictures such as The Westerner (1940) and The Ox-Bow Incident (1942). A starring role in the hit Laura (1944), followed by one in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), made him a star, but no later film quite lived up to the quality of these. During his career, he had worked with with such directors as Otto Preminger, Fritz Lang, William Wyler, William A. Wellman, Jean Renoir, and Elia Kazan.
Andrews slipped into a steady stream of unremarkable films in which he gave sturdy performances, until age and other interests resulted in fewer appearances. In addition, his increasing alcoholism caused him to lose the confidence of some producers. Andrews took steps to curb his addiction and in his later years was an outspoken member of the National Council on Alcoholism, who decried public refusal to face the problem. He was probably the first actor to do a public service announcement about alcoholism (in 1972 for the U.S. Department of Transportation), and did public speaking tours. Andrews was one of the first to speak out against the degradation of the acting profession, particularly actresses doing nude scenes just to get a role.
Andrews was elected president of the Screen Actors Guild in 1963, serving until 1965. He retired from films in the 1960s and made, he said, more money from real estate than he ever did in movies. Yet he and his second wife, actress Mary Todd, lived quietly in a modest home in Studio City, California. Andrews suffered from Alzheimer's disease in his later years and spent his final days in a nursing facility. He died of congestive heart failure and pneumonia in 1992, aged 83.- Barry Goldwater was born on 1 January 1909 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA. He was married to Susan Shaffer Wechsler and Margaret Johnson Goldwater. He died on 29 May 1998 in Paradise Valley, Arizona, USA.
- Producer
William J. Fadiman, longtime Hollywood story editor, literary critic and producer, was educated at the University of Wisconsin and the Sorbonne. While still in college he wrote a literary game called "Poetic Posers" that was published regularly in the New York Herald. From the 1940s to the 1970s he supervised script development and story editors at several major studios, including MGM, RKO and Columbia. In 1970 he was hired as a literary consultant at Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. His producing credits included Bad for Each Other (1953), )Jubal (1956)_, _The Last Frontier (1956)_ and Rampage (1963). Fadiman taught screenwriting at UCLA and the American Film Institute and wrote three books, "Hollywood Now," "Shivering in the Sun" and "The Clay Oscar". He is the brother of noted writer Clifton Fadiman.- Dan Cushman was born on 1 January 1909 in Marion, Michigan, USA. Dan was a writer, known for Stay Away, Joe (1968) and Timberjack (1955). Dan was married to Elizabeth Louise Loudon. Dan died on 29 September 2001 in Great Falls, Montana, USA.
- Dagmar Vondrová was born on 1 January 1909 in Satalice u Prague, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Batalión (1937), Andula vyhrála (1937) and Co se septá (1938). She died in July 1953 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].
- Lillian Greenberg-Golson was born on 1 January 1909 in the USA. Lillian is known for The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg (1998). Lillian died in October 1989 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Frank Kettering was born on 1 January 1909 in Monmouth, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for National Barn Dance (1944), Thumbs Up (1943) and Hoosier Holiday (1943). He was married to Suzanne D. Kosko. He died on 9 June 1973 in Jefferson County, Kentucky, USA.
- Marcel Balsa was born on 1 January 1909 in Saint-Frion, Creuse, France. He died on 11 August 1984 in Maisons-Alfort, Val-de-Marne, France.
- Wladyslaw Lason was born on 1 January 1909 in Sosnowiec, Poland, Russian Empire [now Sosnowiec, Slaskie, Poland]. He was an actor, known for Kim jest ten czlowiek? (1985) and Piekny byl pogrzeb, ludzie plakali (1967). He died on 6 March 2001 in Kalisz, Wielkopolskie, Poland.
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- Additional Crew
Though his primary ambition was to work for Walt Disney, he had obtained no formal qualifications from any art college. He thought himself already as too old (at the age of 26) to apply and when he finally did, his drawings were rejected. Moreover, he had lost the sight in his right eye before even starting his career as an animator. Lloyd Lincoln Vaughan remained, nonetheless, undeterred to break into his chosen field after treading water respectively as a shipping clerk, ticket agent and tobacconist. He was finally hired by Leon Schlesinger for the princely salary of $6 a week. Schlesinger's company soon fell under the Warner Brothers umbrella and Vaughan -- his salary now doubled -- joined the unit of Chuck Jones at Looney Tunes as an "inbetweener" (somebody who provides drawings which complete the gaps left by the main animators, usually to create the illusion of movement). By the mid-40's, he had been promoted to fully-fledged animator.
He had a special fondness for drawing Bugs Bunny, but ended up establishing a pretty good track record with all of the key Looney Tunes inhabitants: his animations are showcased in classic episodes like Rabbit Fire (1951) (the famous "Rabbit season-Duck season" sequence between Bugs and Daffy) and Drip-Along Daffy (1951) (the saloon scene with 'Nasty Canasta'); Rabbit of Seville (1950); Bully for Bugs (1953) and Duck Amuck (1953) (Daffy transformed into a flowery critter). He was credited as chief animator on one of the all-time favorites, Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1953) as well as on the Pepe Le Pew episode The Cats Bah (1954).
Vaughan left Warner Brothers when their animation department closed and later did some work for Hanna-Barbera. He was a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Art & Sciences and the Screen Cartoonists Guild (he also served as editor of their newspaper, "The Animator').- Producer
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Fred Orain was born on 2 January 1909 in Bonnemain, Ille-et-Vilaine, France. He was a producer and production manager, known for Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953), The Charterhouse of Parma (1948) and Children of Paradise (1945). He died on 11 February 1999 in Le Cannet, Alpes-Maritimes, France.- Commercial-jingle writer ("I Go For a Man Who Wears an Adam Hat", "Baby, Bring Me Barricini"), composer, novelty songwriter ("I Would If I Could But I Can't"), singer, pianist and producer, educated at Wharton School and the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the staff of a New York music-publishing firm and later formed, with his wife, the radio singing team of Ginger and Lanny and the production firm Ginger and Lanny Grey Productions to write musical commercials. He also founded the Little Grey Fixit Shop and Grey Industries. Joining ASCAP in 1941, his chief collaborators included Mitchell Parish and Bing Crosby. His popular-song compositions include "He Holds the Lantern While His Mother Chops the Wood", "I Would If I Could But I Can't", "I Never Harmed an Onion So Why Should They Make Me Cry?", "Sayonara-Goodbye", and "My Flame Went Out Last Night With Somebody Else".
- Riccardo Cassin, born in 1909 in San Vito al Tagliamento in Italy and died on August 6, 2009 in Piani dei Resinelli, was an Italian mountaineer. He is one of the leading figures in the conquest of the great north faces of the Alps in the 1930s.
He was born in Savorgnano di San Vito al Tagliamento in Friuli. When he was only 2 years old, his father, who left to work in Canada, died in an accident in the quarry where he worked. Riccardo then went to live with the rest of his family with his maternal grandfather until the age of 16. He then left to live in Lecco where he worked as a blacksmith's helper and then as a mason. where he discovered climbing and mountaineering and joined the Club Nova Italia around 1930.
He quickly became one of the most important figures in mountaineering during the sixth degree (sestogrado) period before the Second World War. In 1931, he succeeded in opening the Cassin-dell'Oro route at the Corna di Medale in the Dolomites with his compatriot Mario Dell'Oro. It has since become one of the most popular routes in the Alps. In 1934 he achieved the first ascent of the south face of the Cima Piccolissima (Tre Cime di Lavaredo). In 1935, after having repeated the great route of Emilio Comici on the north-west face of the Civetta, he climbed the south-east ridge of the Torre Trieste and, together with Vittorio Ratti, he opened a very difficult route on the north face de la Cima Ovest di Lavaredo, which had turned down 22 attempts in previous years, and which was the last big problem of the place.
In 1937, Cassin turned his attention to the granite of the central and western Alps. He begins the ascent of the enormous northeast face of Piz Badile, accompanied by Ratti and Esposito. After three days of effort and despite the very harsh weather, they finally finished the summit and began the descent down the southern slope of the mountain. Despite everything, the descent remains very difficult because of the weather conditions, and Molteni and Valsecchi end up dying of exhaustion on the side of the mountain. In 1938, Cassin arrived too late for the first ascent of the Eiger north face which had just been climbed by Heckmair, Vörg, Kasparek and Harrer. He therefore fell back on the north face of the Grandes Jorasses and between August 4 and 6, 1938, he made the first of the Walker spur with Tizzoni and Esposito. Before the war, he opened another important route in the Mont-Blanc massif in 1939 on the north face of the Aiguille de Leschaux. While he took part in the reconnaissance expedition the previous year, he was excluded in 1954, for medical reasons, from the national expedition to K2 led by Ardito Desio. According to Georges Livanos, the latter did not want Cassin's famous name rather than his own to be associated with the expedition. In 1958, he led the 2nd Karakoram expedition, which took him to the summit of Gasherbrum IV with Walter Bonatti and Carlo Mauri. In 1961, he led an expedition to Mount McKinley (Denali, Alaska) which led to the opening of a route on the south face of the mountain and allowed the arrival at the top of each of the members of the expedition. In 1975, he commissioned the exploration of the south wall of Lhotse which failed due to bad weather.
Riccardo Cassin is until his death a manufacturer of climbing and mountaineering equipment. He died in 2009, shortly after celebrating his centenary. - István Tömpe was born on 2 January 1909 in Budapest, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Szevasz, Vera (1967). He died on 15 December 1988 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Tom Mitford was born on 2 January 1909 in Batsford, Gloucestershire, England, UK. He died on 30 March 1945 in Sagaing, Burma.
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- Actor
- Writer
Józef Wyszomirski was born on 2 January 1909 in Nowa Wilejka, Wilenskie, Poland [now Naujoji Vilnia, Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was a director and actor, known for Rodzina Milcarków (1962), Dwie godziny (1946) and Television Theater (1953). He died on 16 August 1982 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Clifford Stanton was born on 2 January 1909 in Wimborne, Dorset, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for Don't Spare the Horses (1952), Down Among the Z Men (1952) and The Norman Wisdom Show (1952). He died on 24 April 1992 in Surrey, England, UK.
- John Pehle was born on 2 January 1909 in the USA. He died on 24 March 1999 in Bethesda, Maryland, USA.
- Actor
- Writer
- Composer
Pianist, composer, songwriter, entertainer and actor, educated at Borgerdydskolen and the Conservatory of Copenhagen. He studied with Egon Petri and Frederic Lammond. His concert career began in 1922, and he performed in a musical revue in 1934, and in films by 1937. Arriving in the US in 1940, he made his American radio debut on the Bing Crosby show. He was featured in his own one-man show "Comedy in Music", plus concert appearances throughout the USA and Europe. Joining ASCAP in 1961, he composed "Blue Serenade".- Lou Marcelle was born on 3 January 1909 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Cross Country Detours (1940), Stars on Horseback (1943) and Riders of the Pony Express (1949). He was married to Martha Marcelle. He died on 4 October 1994 in Glendale, Arizona, USA.
- Visual Effects
- Special Effects
- Camera and Electrical Department
Joseph Natanson, who has died in Rome aged 94, began life as a Surrealist painter before being recruited in 1947 to do the special effects for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's film The Red Shoes. The picture won an Oscar for its designs, but Natanson vowed never to become involved with such a project again. Yet he went on to provide the illusionistic art work for some of the best-known directors of the second half of the 20th century. This followed Natanson's move in the early 1950s from London to Italy, where he collaborated with many leading Italian filmmakers, including Vittorio De Sica, Sergio Leone, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Franco Zeffirelli, as well as numerous other visitors to Cinecitta, from John Huston to Joseph Mankiewicz. In the end, he was involved in more than 80 films, the last of them Jean-Jacques Annaud's Name of the Rose.
His principal task was painting and filming "matte-shots", miniature scenes and additional elements on glass, that were blown up by the camera to create magnificent backdrops cityscapes, vistas and details that would have been prohibitively expensive to construct, or impossible to engineer and co-ordinate while shooting the main action. Natanson was dispatched to Italy a number of times in the early 1950s, to participate in various international co-productions at Cinecitta in Rome, the new "Hollywood on the Tiber".- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Jirí Lehovec was born on 3 January 1909 in Prague, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was a director and writer, known for Mykoin PH 510 (1963), Priznání (1951) and Rytmus (1941). He died on 11 December 1995 in Prague, Czech Republic.- Actor
- Additional Crew
Gilberto Mazzi was born on 3 January 1909 in Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy. He was an actor, known for D'Artagnan (1969), Ettore Fieramosca (1938) and A... For Assassin (1966). He died on 8 June 1978 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Giulia D'Aprile was born on 3 January 1909 in Naples, Italy. She was an actress, known for Luna nova (1955), Arriva la zia d'America (1956) and Giuramento d'amore (1955). She died on 16 June 1965 in Rome, Italy.
- Music Department
Leonard Isaacs was born on 3 January 1909 in Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK. He died on 6 December 1997 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.- Anne Dyson was born on 4 January 1909 in Manchester, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Princess Bride (1987), Priest of Love (1981) and Masterpiece Theatre: Sons and Lovers (1981). She died on 10 February 1996 in Denville Hall, Northwood, London, England, UK.
- Cees Pijpers was born on 4 January 1909 in Amersfoort, Utrecht, Netherlands. He was an actor, known for Floris (1969), The Count of Monte Cristo (1972) and De kleine zielen (1969). He died in 1985.
- Emiko Sumiyoshi was born on 4 January 1909 in Kobe, Japan. He is an actor, known for Rakka rozeki (1926), Kagerô no uta (1928) and Shinpan botan dôrô (1928).
- Composer
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Claude Valéry was born on 4 January 1909 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France. She was a composer and actress, known for Just Me (1950), Boum sur Paris (1953) and Le printemps, l'automne et l'amour (1955). She was married to Raymond Asso and André Humbourg. She died on 13 October 1992 in Compiègne, Oise, France.- Roger Til was born on 5 January 1909 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for Stargate (1994), Topaz (1969) and Brewster's Millions (1985). He died on 28 June 2002 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actor
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Leo 'Ukie' Sherin was born on 5 January 1909 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952), Du Barry Did All Right (1937) and Paris in New York (1936). He died on 27 June 1981 in Palm Springs, California, USA.- Dorothy Dampier was born on 5 January 1909 in Lambeth, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Sergeant Cork (1963), Arthur's Treasured Volumes (1960) and The Mating Season (1976). She was married to Bertie Hare. She died on 20 June 2002 in Westminster, London, England, UK.
- Editor
- Producer
- Cinematographer
Helen van Dongen was born on 5 January 1909 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. She was an editor and producer, known for Louisiana Story (1948), Russians at War (1943) and The Spanish Earth (1937). She was married to Kenneth Durant and Joris Ivens. She died on 28 September 2006 in Brattleboro, Vermont, USA.- Ronald Ritchie was born on 5 January 1909 in Cookney, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for Self Made Lady (1932), Night Journey (1938) and The Man Without a Face (1935). He died on 3 June 1966 in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, UK.
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Carlyle Moore Jr. was born on 5 January 1909 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for What a Man (1930), High School Girl (1934) and The Case of the Black Cat (1936). He was married to Jane Barnes. He died on 3 March 1977 in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Writer
- Director
- Actor
Pierre Unik was born on 5 January 1909 in Paris, France. He was a writer and director, known for Life Is Ours (1936), Le temps des cerises (1938) and Las Hurdes (1933). He died in February 1945 in Poland.- Mother Alexandra was born on 5 January 1909 in Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania. She was married to Dr. Stefan Nikolas Issarescu and Archduke Anton of Austria. She died on 21 January 1991 in Youngstown, Ohio, USA.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Haruko Sugimura was born on 6 January 1909 in Hiroshima, Japan. She was an actress, known for Tokyo Story (1953), A Last Note (1995) and Repast (1951). She died on 4 April 1997 in Tokyo, Japan.- Producer
- Actor
- Writer
Martin Jente was born on 6 January 1909 in Görlitz, Germany. He was a producer and actor, known for Frankfurter Palette (1958), Heute letzter Tag (Ein Abend im 'Eldorado') (1960) and Kulinade (1972). He was married to Ellen Beguhl-Turcsany-Kranl. He died on 14 February 1996 in Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany.- Actor
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Songwriter, announcer, composer and author, educated at the Business College. For seven years he worked as a stockbroker, then began a thirty-year career as a radio and television announcer. He also wrote a number of commercial jingles over a twelve-year period. Joining ASCAP in 1954, his chief musical collaborators included Al Hoffman, Al Stillman, Walter Kent, and Bob Emmerich. His popular-song compositions include "Believing", "Starlite and Music", "One Misty, Moisty Morning", and "Snerling Through the Flowers".
Beginning in the 1930s at WAAT in New Jersey he was the announcer on Frank Sinatra's first radio show. He moved to New York to work as announcer and disc jockey on WNEW. In 1946 he was hired by KFWB in Hollywood, where he became the highest paid DJ on the Coast. A few years later, he moved to KNX, the Los Angeles CBS affiliate. There he and his wife, Lillian Hayton wrote and produced "Memory Lane", which played songs based on the request letters received from listeners. This show eventually was broadcast weekly to 11 Western states, while at the same time, he had a daily DJ show on KNX from 2:00 to 4:00 PM. He was the announcer/spokesman for many commercials, and did voice-over work on many films.- Writer
- Music Department
- Composer
Hans Fritz Beckmann was born on 6 January 1909 in Berlin, Germany. He was a writer and composer, known for Suite Française (2014), Black Book (2006) and Inglourious Basterds (2009). He died on 15 April 1975 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany.- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Alty Karliyev was born on 6 January 1909 in village Babadayhan, Tejen uyezd, Transcaspian Oblast, Russian Empire [now Babadayhan District, Ahal Province, Turkmenistan]. He was an actor and director, known for Under Sunny Skies (1948), Dursun (1941) and Magtymguly (1969). He died on 11 December 1973 in Ashkhabad, Turkmen SSR, USSR [now Ashgabat, Turkmenistan].- Actress
- Soundtrack
Mána Zenísková was born on 6 January 1909 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Svet bez hranic (1931), Príbeh jednoho dne (1926) and Mámino srdce (1933). She was married to Theodor Pistek. She died on 11 November 1982 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].- Zofia Malanowska was born on 6 January 1909 in Lódz, Piotrków Governorate, Congress Poland, Russian Empire [now Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland]. Zofia died on 5 February 1977 in Wroclaw, Wroclawskie, Polish People's Republic [now Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland].
- Gwendolyn Bolger was born on 7 January 1909 in Montana, USA. She was married to Ray Bolger. She died on 13 May 1997 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
- Actress
Betty Oakland was born on 7 January 1909 in Kikinda, Austria-Hungary. She was an actress. She was married to Ben Oakland. She died on 24 November 1996 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.- Writer
- Director
- Producer
Roberto Rodríguez was born on 7 January 1909 in Mexico, D.F., Mexico. He was a writer and director, known for I Shall Live Again (1940), La tigresa (1973) and Mi canción eres tú (1956). He was married to María Susana Enríquez Prieto. He died on 4 January 1995 in Mexico, D.F., Mexico.- Gani Agzamov was born on 7 January 1909 in Tashkent, Russian Empire. He was an actor, known for Mahallada Duv-duv Gap (1960), Delighted by You (1958) and Vlyublyonnye (1970). He died in 2001.
- Thalassa Cruso was born in London in 1909 as the daughter of Henry and Mildred Cruso. Her parents were passionate hobby gardeners and Cruso developed already in her childhood a keen interest in gardening and working outdoors. After high school, she studied archaeology and later attended London School of Economics, receiving her diploma in 1931 and soon landed a position as Assistant to the Director of the Museum of London, primarily working with the collection of historical garments. Later she led an excavation of an Iron Age dig in Bredon Hill, Worcestershire. There she also met the American archaeologist Hugh O'Neill Hencken . In 1935, the two married and Cruso followed her husband to the United States, where she moved to Boston . The marriage produced three daughters. Cruso then devoted herself to the education of their children.
As part of a visit to her brother in the UK, Cruso came up with the idea to host her own garden show. On brief local insertions between television programs, followed by regular appearances tonight show. From 1966 to 1969 she hosted her own weekly garden show Making Things Grow. In the early 1970s she hosted a household show Making Things Work . In addition to her television career, she wrote a gardening column for 22 years in the Boston Globe and published several books. - Annemarie Korff was born on 7 January 1909 in Stolp, Pomerania, Germany [now Slupsk, Pomorskie, Poland]. She was an actress, known for Nanette (1940), Der Familientag (1965) and Boccaccio (1936). She died on 6 January 1976.