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Carole Landis was born on New Year's Day in 1919 in Fairchild, Wisconsin, as Frances Lillian Mary Ridste. Her father, a railroad mechanic, was of Norwegian descent and her mother was Polish. Her father walked out, leaving Carole, her mother and an older brother and sister to fend for themselves.
After graduating from high school, she married Jack Robbins (Irving Wheeler), but the union lasted a month (the marriage was annulled because Carole was only 15 at the time). The couple remarried in August 1934, and the two headed to California to start a new life. For a while she worked as a dancer and singer, but before long the glitter of show business drew her to Los Angeles.
She won a studio contract with Warner Brothers but was a bit player for the most part in such films as A Star Is Born (1937), A Day at the Races (1937), and The Emperor's Candlesticks (1937). The following year started out much the same way, with more bit roles. By 1939, she was getting a few speaking roles, although mostly one-liners, and that year ended much as had the previous two years, with more bit roles; also, she and Wheeler were divorced.
In 1940 she was cast as Loana in the Hal Roach production of One Million B.C. (1940); she finally got noticed (the skimpy outfit helped), and her career began moving. She began getting parts in B pictures but didn't star in big productions -- although she had talent, the really good roles were given to the established stars of the day.
Her busiest year was 1942, with roles in Manila Calling (1942), The Powers Girl (1943), A Gentleman at Heart (1942), and three other movies. Unfortunately, critics took little notice of her films, and when they did, reviewers tended to focus on her breathtaking beauty. By the middle 1940s, Carole's career was beginning to short-circuit. Her contract with 20th Century-Fox had been canceled, her marriages to Willis Hunt Jr. and Thomas Wallace had failed, and her current marriage to Horace Schmidlapp was on the skids; all of that plus health problems spelled disaster for her professionally and personally.
Her final two films, Brass Monkey (1948) and The Silk Noose (1948) were released in 1948. On July 5, 1948, Carole committed suicide by taking an overdose of Seconal in her Brentwood Heights, California, home. She was only 29 and had made 49 pictures, most of which were, unfortunately, forgettable. If Hollywood moguls had given Carole a chance, she could have been one of the brightest stars in its history.- Rocky Graziano was born on 1 January 1919 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956), Teenage Millionaire (1961) and Tony Rome (1967). He was married to Norma Unger. He died on 22 May 1990 in New York City, New York, USA.
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U.S. writer whose novel "The Catcher in the Rye" (1951) won critical acclaim and devoted admirers, especially among the post-World War II generation of college students. His entire corpus of published works consists of that one novel and 13 short stories, all originally written in the period 1948-59. Salinger was the son of a Jewish father and a mother who adopted Judaism, and, like Holden Caulfield, the hero of "The Catcher in the Rye", he grew up in New York City, attending public schools and a military academy. After brief periods at New York and Columbia universities, he devoted himself entirely to writing, and his stories began to appear in periodicals in 1940. After his return from service in the U.S. Army (1942-46), Salinger's name and writing style became increasingly associated with "The New Yorker" magazine, which published almost all of his later stories. Some of the best of these made use of his wartime experiences: "For Esmé - With Love and Squalor" (1950) describes a U.S. soldier's poignant encounter with two British children; "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" (1948) concerns the suicide of the sensitive, despairing veteran Seymour Glass. Major critical and popular recognition came with the publication of "The Catcher in the Rye", whose central character, a sensitive, rebellious adolescent, relates in authentic teenage idiom his flight from the "phony" adult world, his search for innocence and truth, and his final collapse on a psychiatrist's couch. The humor and colorful language of "The Catcher in the Rye" place it in the tradition of Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" and the stories of Ring Lardner, but its hero, like most of Salinger's child characters, views his life with an added dimension of precocious self-consciousness. "Nine Stories" (1953), a selection of Salinger's best work, added to his reputation. The reclusive habits of Salinger,an obsessively private man especially over the last half-century of his life, made his personal life a matter of speculation among devotees, while his small literary output was a subject of controversy among critics. "Franny and Zooey" (1961) brought together two earlier New Yorker stories; both deal with the Glass family, as do the two stories in "Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters"; and "Seymour: An Introduction" (1963).- Actor
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Igor Vladimirov was born on 1 January 1919 in Yekaterinoslav [now Dnipropetrovsk], Ukraine. He was an actor and director, known for Lishniy bilet (1983), Ori okeanis saidumloeba (1957) and Ukroshcheniye stroptivoy (1973). He died on 21 March 1999 in St. Petersburg, Russia.- Actress
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Born January 1st 1919 in Hull Sheila started her stage career with Sir Donald Wolfit;s company as did her brother, Brian Rix, During the war she was a WAAF adjutant then in 1955 she joined her brother's Whitehall Theatre Company and was with him for 11 years .She joined the new television soap Emmerdale Farm playing Annie Sugden, She was married to theatrical producer Peter Merier and had as son Nigel- Anthony Baird was born on 1 January 1919 in Hillhead, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. He was an actor, known for The Adventures of Robin Hood (1955), Reluctant Heroes (1952) and The Avengers (1961). He was married to Evelyn Millicent Amelia Hardwick. He died on 27 August 1995 in Westminster, London, England, UK.
- Ihsan Abdel Quddous was born on 1 January 1919 in Egypt. He was a writer, known for El wessada el khalia (1957), El-Raqesah wa el-Tabbal (1984) and Abi foq al-Shagara (1969). He died on 11 January 1990 in Cairo, Egypt.
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Marek Edelman was born on 1 January 1919 in Gomel, Byelorussia [now Belarus]. He was a writer, known for Uprising (2001), Marek Edelman... And There Was Love in the Ghetto (2019) and Kronika powstania w getcie warszawskim wg Marka Edelmana (1993). He was married to Alina Margolis-Edelman. He died on 2 October 2009 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Valentina Saltovskaya was born on 1 January 1919. She was an actress, known for A Friend of the Deceased (1997), Takaya pozdnyaya, takaya tyoplaya osen (1982) and Pravo rukovodit (1981). She died in 1999.
- Robert Carvel was born on 1 January 1919 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. He died on 28 June 1990 in London, England, UK.
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Phil Garris was born on 1 January 1919 in the USA. He was an actor, known for Walking My Baby Back Home (1953), Kill the Golden Goose (1979) and Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955). He died on 21 November 2004 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
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Feifan He was born on 1 January 1919 in Dongwan County, Guangdong Province, Hong Kong. He was an actor and producer, known for Qing seng tou dao Xiaoxing guan (1956), Xiao yuan jia (1956) and A Murder Case (1961). He was married to Yanqing Luo. He died in 1980 in Hong Kong.- Writer
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Ottavio Alessi was born on 1 January 1919 in Cammarata, Sicily, Italy. He was a writer and assistant director, known for Che fine ha fatto Totò baby? (1964), Top Sensation (1969) and Dick Smart 2.007 (1967). He died on 26 April 1978.- Actor
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German Lupekin was born on 1 January 1919. He was an actor and director, known for Honeymoon (1956), Zdravstvuy i proshchay (1973) and Krug (1972). He died on 16 January 2016.- Writer
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Peter Kien was born on 1 January 1919 in Varnsdorf, Czechoslovakia. Peter is a writer, known for Theresienstadt 1942 (1942) and The Emperor of Atlantis (1977). Peter was previously married to Ilse Stranska.- Actor
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Yoshio Tabata was born on 1 January 1919 in Matsusaka, Mie, Japan. He was an actor, known for Memoirs of a Geisha (2005), Daitokai no gozen 3-ji (1958) and Nikutai no mon (1948). He died on 25 April 2013 in Tokyo, Japan.- Gina Berriault was born on 1 January 1919 in Long Beach, California, USA. She was a writer, known for Shooting Schedule, The Stone Boy (1984) and The Robert Herridge Theater (1960). She was married to John Berriault. She died on 15 July 1999 in Greenbrae, California, USA.
- Béla Kövecses was born on 1 January 1919 in Budapest, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Erkel (1952) and Zenés fejtörö (1958). He died on 30 July 2000.
- George L. Smith was born on 1 January 1919 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for The Doctors (1963), Route 66 (1960) and Suspense (1949). He died on 3 March 1993 in Jupiter, Florida, USA.
- Lalla Rolfe was born on 1 January 1919 in Boone, North Carolina, USA. She was an actress, known for The Henderson Monster (1980). She died on 2 December 2004 in Hingham, Massachusetts, USA.
- Nabawiyya Mostafa was born on 1 January 1919 in Cairo, Egypt. She was an actress, known for Bawab el amara (1936), Qalbi Dalili (1947) and Maarouf el Badawi (1936). She died on 31 August 2001 in Cairo, Egypt.
- Jan Krzywdziak was born on 1 January 1919. He was an actor, known for Pigulki dla Aurelii (1958), Wysokie loty (1980) and Podhale w ogniu (1956). He died on 17 February 2016 in Kraków, Poland.
- Mamie Gee was born on 1 January 1919 in Frederiksberg, Denmark. She was an actress, known for Champagnegaloppen (1938). She died on 30 March 2015.
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- Actor
Daniil Granin was born on 1 January 1919 in Volyn, Kursk Governorate, RSFSR [now Russia]. He was a writer and actor, known for Idu na grozu (1965), Posle svadby (1963) and Iskateli (1957). He died on 4 July 2017 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.- Charles Willeford was a remarkably fine, talented, and prolific writer who wrote everything from poetry to crime fiction to literary criticism throughout the course of his impressively long and diverse career. His crime novels are distinguished by a mean'n'lean sense of narrative economy and an admirable dearth of sentimentality. He was born as Charles Ray Willeford III on January 2, 1919 in Little Rock, Arkansas. Willeford's parents both died of tuberculosis when he was a little boy and he subsequently lived either with his grandmother or at boarding schools. Charles became a hobo in his early teens. He enlisted in the Army Air Corps at age sixteen and was stationed in the Philippines. Willeford served as a tank commander with the 10th Armored Division in Europe during World War II. He won several medals for his military service: The Silver Star, the Bronze Star, two Purple Hearts, and the Luxembourg Croix de Guerre. Charles retired from the army as a Master Sergeant.
Willeford's first novel "High Priest of California" was published in 1953. This solid debut was followed by such equally excellent novels as "Pick-Up" (this book won a Beacon Fiction Award), "Wild Wives," "The Woman Chaser," "Cockfighter" (this particular book won the Mark Twain Award), and "The Burnt Orange Heresy." Charles achieved his greatest commercial and critical success with four outstanding novels about hapless Florida homicide detective Hoke Moseley: "Miami Blues," "New Hope for the Dead," "Sideswipe," and "The Way We Die Now." Outside of his novels, he also wrote the short story anthology "The Machine in Ward Eleven," the poetry collections "The Outcast Poets" and "Proletarian Laughter," and the nonfiction book "Something About a Soldier."
Willeford attended both Palm Beach Junior College and the University of Miami. He taught a course in humanities at the University of Miami and was an associate professor who taught classes in both philosophy and English at Miami Dade Junior College. Charles was married three times and was an associate editor for "Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine." Three of Willeford's novels have been adapted into movies: Monte Hellman delivered a bleakly fascinating character study with "Cockfighter" (Charles wrote the script and has a sizable supporting role as the referee of a cockfighting tournament which climaxes the picture), George Armitage hit one out of the ballpark with the wonderfully quirky "Miami Blues," and Robinson Devor scored a bull's eye with the offbeat "The Woman Chaser." Charles popped up in a small part as a bartender in the fun redneck car chase romp "Thunder and Lightning." Charles Willeford died of a heart attack at age 69 on March 27, 1988. - Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
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Alfonso Corona Blake was born on 2 January 1919 in Autlan, Jalisco, Mexico. He was an assistant director and director, known for El camino de la vida (1956), Verano violento (1960) and Felicidad (1957). He died on 21 January 1999 in Mexico, D.F., Mexico.- Joe Certa was born on 2 January 1919 in the USA. Joe was a writer, known for Young Justice (2010), Reign of the Supermen (2019) and The Death of Superman (2018). Joe died on 15 February 1986 in Bronx, New York City, New York, USA.
- William Needles was born on 2 January 1919 in Yonkers, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Spasms (1983), Folio (1955) and The Taming of the Shrew (1988). He was married to Dorothy. He died on 12 January 2016 in Alliston, Ontario, Canada.
- Lahja Wilén was born on 2 January 1919 in Helsinki, Finland. She was an actress, known for Tapahtui kaukana (1950), Tytön huivi (1951) and Palveleva puhelin (1970). She was married to Leo Nestor Wilén. She died on 3 November 2006 in Helsinki, Finland.
- Dorothy Morrison was born on 3 January 1919 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Hearts in Dixie (1929), Sleepless Hollow (1936) and The Champeen (1923). She died on 18 October 2017 in the USA.
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David Middlemas was born on 3 January 1919 in Hampstead, London, England, UK. He was a production manager and assistant director, known for Thunderball (1965), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Sleuth (1972). He died in March 2001 in Chiltern, Buckinghamshire, England, UK.- Ziuta Kryniczanka was born on 3 January 1919 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland. She was an actress, known for Jasne Lany (1947). She died on 4 May 1948 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland.
- Morgan Windbiel was born on 3 January 1919 in Appleton, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor, known for Live a Little, Love a Little (1968), Too Soon to Love (1960) and Target (1958). He died on 2 March 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Neysa Nourse was born on 3 January 1919 in Forest Glen, Maryland, USA. She was an actress, known for Beloved (1934). She died on 27 December 2003 in San Francisco, California, USA.
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John Horton was born on 3 January 1919 in Davenport, Iowa, USA. He is known for Top Gun (1986), The Hunt for Red October (1990) and Gardens of Stone (1987). He was married to Drucie Snyder. He died on 4 June 2006 in Seabrook Island, South Carolina, USA.- John E. Horton was born on 3 January 1919 in Davenport, Iowa, USA. John E. was a producer, known for Wild Heritage (1958). John E. died on 4 June 2006 in Seabrook Island, South Carolina, USA.
- Kveta Legátová was born on 3 January 1919 in Podolí u Brna, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. She was a writer, known for Zelary (2003). She died on 22 December 2012 in Prague, Czech Republic.
- Al 'Jazzbeaux' Collins was born on 4 January 1919 in Rochester, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for X Minus One (1955), The Tonight Show (1953) and America After Dark (1957). He died on 30 September 1997 in Mill Valley, California, USA.
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Roger Fellous was born on 4 January 1919 in Paris, France. He was a cinematographer and actor, known for Trois filles vers le soleil (1968), The Panther Squad (1984) and Code Name: Jaguar (1965). He died on 4 February 2006.- Actress
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Ludmila Roubíková was born on 4 January 1919 in Vrchlabí, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Zizkovská romance (1958), Romance za korunu (1975) and Trhák (1981). She died on 11 August 1991 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic].- Rudolf Golebiowski was born on 4 January 1919 in Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland. He was an actor, known for Spotkanie w 'Bajce' (1962), ... gdziekolwiek jestes, panie prezydencie... (1978) and Szkice weglem (1957). He died on 26 August 2000 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
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Nina Klimova was born on 4 January 1919 in Moscow, RSFSR [now Russia]. Nina is a cinematographer, known for The Snow Queen (1957), Murzilka on the Satellite (1960) and Well, Just You Wait! (1969).- Writer
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Jacques Laurent was born on 5 January 1919 in Paris, Île-de-France, France. He was a writer and director, known for 48 Hours of Love (1969), Frou-Frou (1955) and Lucrèce Borgia (1953). He was married to Elisabeth Anna Nilsson, Claude Martine and Michèle Perrein. He died on 29 December 2000 in Paris, France.- Peter Prouse was born on 5 January 1919 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), Nightwing (1979) and Destination Big House (1950). He died on 25 November 1986 in Sedona, Arizona, USA.
- Elaine Lange was born on 5 January 1919 in Marion, Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for Federal Operator 99 (1945), The Undercover Woman (1946) and The Fatal Witness (1945). She was married to John Robert Springer. She died on 26 December 1963 in Glendale, California, USA.
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Frank Cucksey was born on 5 January 1919 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor. He died on 16 September 1984 in Sarasota, Florida, USA.- Music Department
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Woolf Phillips was born on 5 January 1919 in London, England, UK. He was a composer, known for Diamond Safari (1958), Vera Lynn Sings (1955) and A Night with the Stars (1950). He was married to Sylvia Brower. He died on 11 July 2003 in Reseda, California, USA.- Script and Continuity Department
Kimi Honda was born on 5 January 1919 in Tokyo Japan. She is known for The Man Who Came to Port (1952), Saraba Rabauru (1954) and Taiheiyô no washi (1953).- Writer
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Peter Seeger was born on 5 January 1919 in Berlin, Germany. He was a writer and composer, known for Kinderstunde (1951). He died on 7 July 2008 in Germany.- Herb Peterson was born on 5 January 1919 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He died on 25 March 2008 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.