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- Carmine's stage credits included productions at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and The Henry Street Settlement and La Mama ETC theaters, but he was best known for his work in Reinaldo Povad's "La Puta" and "Cuba and His Teddy Bear," the last successful New York Shakespeare Festival production whose cast included Robert Deniro and Ralph Macchio. Carmine also performed in episodes of TV's "Hill Street Blues", "MASH", "Miami Vice", and "Crime Story", as well as in some feature films. His films include: Scarface (1983); Invasion U.S.A.;, Turk 182! (1985); Band of The Hand (1986); Batteries Not Included (1987); Leviathan (1989); Longtime Companion (1990). He died tragically of heart failure. He was only thirty-years old.
- Actress
- Producer
Ilona (Ilonka) Kovacs began her youthful film career in her native Hungary, barely out of her teens. That career was initially guided by the veteran Hungarian director, Mihaly Kertesz (Michael Curtiz), who became her first husband. Given that "Kovacs" in Hungarian is about as ordinary as "Smith" in English, she soon replaced that commonplace surname with the one-of-a-kind, exotic-sounding screen name "Lucy Doraine". And off-screen she became "Mrs Mihaly Kertesz", the director's wife. Doraine and Kertesz-Curtiz worked closely together for about 5 years, beginning while they were still in Budapest and continuing after they left for Vienna (summer 1919), to escape the political and military turmoil swirling around in Hungary. That turmoil included a Socialist revolution, followed by a Communist revolution and, finally, a Fascist revolution (all in 1918-1919)! Doraine's years of European film stardom continued up to 1927, both while she was still directed by Curtiz during their marriage (1918-23, at least 10 films together), and another few years after their divorce, when she was guided by German and Austrian directors like Basch and Eichberg. Her starring vehicles, post-Curtiz, bore spicy romantic titles like "Her Husband's Wife", "The Prince and the Ballerina" and "Matrimonial Scandal". Doraine in a sense followed Curtiz's footsteps to Hollywood (although he had re-married twice), but her acting career in the US never caught fire, and she found herself playing supporting roles (directed by Frank Lloyd and William K. Howard) when she was only 30. Her last documented film acting was in the "parallel" German-language version (shot in the US) of "Trial of Mary Dugan" (1931), and even speaking German (in which she was more fluent than English), she was cast in a supporting role. After that, Doraine evidently left the screen at age 33, but lived on in the US for many decades, until her death at the ripe old age of 91.- Alan Hay was born on 1 June 1916 in Brighton, Sussex, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Great Performances (1971), Double Exposure (1977) and The Taming of the Shrew (1980). He was married to Elizabeth Barrington-Ward. He died on 14 October 1989 in Liskeard, Cornwall, England, UK.
- Actress
- Writer
A delicate flower, Ms. Brams, soon gained fame and success on stage after training at the Royal Theatre (1939-1941) in Copenhagen. Alas, she only appeared in 11 films, but they all show sides of her great talent. She was fascinated by the stage, but as time went on, she became increasingly difficult for directors. Suffering from a tremendous nervous disposition, managers were afraid to sign her and she caused a scandal in 1959, when she had to back out of the enormous production of "My Fair Lady" only a few days before the opening (she was cast as Eliza). At the end of her career she was frequently committed to medical treatment but managed to appear on radio and rare appearances on stage where she would delight audiences with her truly poetic voice - always speaking with that timbre that was a trademark of hers.- Robert Blot was born on 14 May 1907 in Seurre, Côte d'Or, France. He died on 14 October 1989 in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
- Sound Department
Born Wayland C. Emerson in Rockford Illinois on July 23, 1907, died Clarence Emerson at 82 on October 14, 1989, in Whittier, California, and interred in Rose Hills Cemetery, Whittier California. Left Home at 13 years old and traveled by hopping freight trains to California. After working as a telegraph operator for Western Union in San Francisco, he entered Vaudeville as a singer in 1920, signed with the Western Vaudeville Managers Association, and played the Orpheum Circuit during the era of mixed vaudeville and film. After 1928 he signed with Radio-Kieth-Orphium (RKO)and continued in vaudeville until it's final demise in the 1930's. Following his early Western Union experience, he became a Licensed Radio Station operator and served in the Merchant Marines WWII. In 1952 he began working in the Motion Picture Industry as a Sound Department Engineering Radio Operator during the age before walkie-talkies, when film radio communication equipment required a licensed operator on the set. He finished his career as a production Sound Mixer where he had friends dating back to his vaudeville days.- Producer
- Director
Songwriter, composer, director, producer and author; he was educated in high school and thereafter was a vocalist in an orchestra (1938-1941), then was a USAF fighter pilot and test pilot during World War II. He wrote radio shows and musical commercials between 1945 and 1949, then entered television work. He was also president of the production company Cine-Dyne, and a freelance director and producer. Joining ASCAP in 1956, his popular-song compositions include "Midnight Breeze" and "Angelique".- Robert Eiming was born on 9 December 1909 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was an actor, known for Rekrut 67, Petersen (1952). He died on 14 October 1989.