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- Charlotte Hughes was born on 1 August 1877 in Hartlepool, County Durham, England, UK. She was married to Noel Hughes. She died on 17 March 1993 in Redcar, Cleveland, England, UK.
- Ben Elliott was born on 17 February 1889 in North Platte, Nebraska, USA. He died on 24 February 1993 in Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
- Ruth Langdon was born on 8 January 1892 in California, USA. She was an actress, known for Daredevil Jack (1920), Thru the Flames (1923) and Todd of the Times (1919). She died on 20 December 1993 in San Joaquin, California, USA.
- Writer
- Script and Continuity Department
Gladys Lehman was born on 24 January 1892 in Gates, Oregon, USA. She was a writer, known for Meet Joe Black (1998), Luxury Liner (1948) and Two Girls and a Sailor (1944). She was married to Benjamin H. Lehman Jr.. She died on 7 April 1993 in Newport Beach, California, USA.- Dora Menichelli was born on 13 February 1892 in Monteleone Calabro, Calabria, Italy. She was an actress, known for Il complice azzurro (1914), Cura di baci (1916) and I fioretti di San Francisco (1917). She was married to Armando Migliari. She died on 25 August 1993 in Milan, Italy.
- Harmon Baker was born on 2 April 1892 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. He died on 15 August 1993 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Mieczyslaw Horszowski was born on 23 June 1892 in Lviv, Ukraine. Mieczyslaw was a composer, known for Moses Bernstein's Bike Adventure (2005) and The Power of Silence (2017). Mieczyslaw died on 22 May 1993 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.- Actress
- Additional Crew
- Soundtrack
Lovely brown-eyed, brunette Claire Du Brey enjoyed a rich, four-decade film career in all. Born Clara Violet Dubrey on August 31, 1892, in Bonner's Ferry Idaho, her family traveled the rugged Sierra Madre terrain by covered wagon in their move to California when she was 13.
Educated in a convent setting and once trained to be a nurse, Claire responded to an newspaper ad and found employment working part time in motion pictures. From there, she found herself in front of the camera, making her movie debut as star Billie Burke's friend in the Triangle release Peggy (1916). Universal saw a leading lady vamp in her, however, and from 1917 she enjoyed star billing in such silent short and feature-length vehicles as Princess Dione in the Rex Ingram-directed The Reward of the Faithless (1917); The Fighting Gringo (1917), opposite Harry Carey; Anything Once (1917) and The Winged Mystery (1917) both co-starring Franklyn Farnum; Brace Up (1918) with Herbert Rawlinson; the family drama The Magic Eye (1918); and A Man in the Open (1919) with Dustin Farnum. She also appeared in a number of Lon Chaney's early Universal vehicles such as The Rescue (1917) Pay Me! (1917) and Triumph (1917).
A versatile player whether asked to portray royalty, servants, temptresses or prairie flowers, Claire turned to Los Angeles stage plays during an early 1920s lull in film offers and graced such vehicles as "Madame X," "Spring Cleaning" and "The Youngest". Later "jazz age" film roles included The Sea Hawk (1924), Drusilla with a Million (1925) Exquisite Sinner (1926), and The Devil Dancer (1927).
During the declining period of her career (1928), Claire met actress Marie Dressler and they became close friends. Claire wound up serving as Dressler's secretary, fan mail handler and travel companion. In reward, Dressler arranged for Claire to get small roles a few of her talking films Politics (1931) and Prosperity (1932). She also served as Dressler's nurse in 1933 when the elder woman was dying of cancer.
As a character actress, Claire became much in demand throughout the late 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, appearing in general purpose roles as secretaries, nurses, salesladies, housekeepers, matrons, spinsters, relatives, etc. On a rare occasion she managed to stand out, none more so than in her mad scene as Bertha Rochester in a "B"-level version of Jane Eyre (1934) starring Colin Clive and Virginia Bruce. Seen sporadically on TV into the 1950s, she retired by the end of the decade. Her last film roles were in Girls Town (1959) and The Miracle (1959), both unbilled.
An early marriage to a doctor, Mark Gorman, ended in divorce. She lived another four decades after leaving the limelight. In her final years she grew deaf and her health quite fragile, dying at the age of 100 on August 1, 1993.- Production Designer
- Costume Designer
Ove Christian Pedersen was born on 3 January 1893 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was a production designer and costume designer, known for The Girl and the Viscount (1966), Der var engang (1966) and Elverhøj (1978). He died on 24 December 1993.- Actress
- Writer
- Director
Lillian Diana Gish was born on October 14, 1893, in Springfield, Ohio. Her father, James Lee Gish, was an alcoholic who caroused, was rarely at home, and left the family to, more or less, fend for themselves. To help make ends meet, Lillian, her sister Dorothy Gish, and their mother, Mary Gish, a.k.a. Mary Robinson McConnell, tried their hand at acting in local productions. Lillian was six years old when she first appeared in front of an audience. For the next 13 years, she and Dorothy appeared before stage audiences with great success. Had she not made her way into films, Lillian quite possibly could have been one of the great stage actresses of all time; however, she found her way onto the big screen when, in 1912, she met famed director D.W. Griffith. Impressed with what he saw, he immediately cast her in her first film, An Unseen Enemy (1912), followed by The One She Loved (1912) and My Baby (1912). She would make 12 films for Griffith in 1912. With 25 films in the next two years, Lillian's exposure to the public was so great that she fast became one of the top stars in the industry, right alongside Mary Pickford, "America's Sweetheart".
In 1915, Lillian starred as Elsie Stoneman in Griffith's most ambitious project to date, The Birth of a Nation (1915). She was not making the large number of films that she had been in the beginning because she was successful and popular enough to be able to pick and choose the right films to appear in. The following year, she appeared in another Griffith classic, Intolerance (1916). By the early 1920s, her career was on its way down. As with anything else, be it sports or politics, new faces appeared on the scene to replace the "old", and Lillian was no different. In fact, she did not appear at all on the screen in 1922, 1925 or 1929. However, 1926 was her busiest year of the decade with roles in La Bohème (1926) and The Scarlet Letter (1926). As the decade wound to a close, "talkies" were replacing silent films. However, Lillian was not idle during her time away from the screen. She appeared in stage productions, to the acclaim of the public and critics alike. In 1933, she filmed His Double Life (1933), but did not make another film for nine years.
When she returned in 1943, she appeared in two big-budget pictures, Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942) and Top Man (1943). Although these roles did not bring her the attention she had had in her early career, Lillian still proved she could hold her own with the best of them. She earned an Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress for her role of Laura Belle McCanles in Duel in the Sun (1946), but lost to Anne Baxter in The Razor's Edge (1946).
One of the most critically acclaimed roles of her career came in the thriller The Night of the Hunter (1955), also notable as the only film directed by actor Charles Laughton. In 1969, she published her autobiography, "The Movies, Mr. Griffith, and Me". In 1987, she made what was to be her last motion picture, The Whales of August (1987), a box-office success that exposed her to a new generation of fans. Her 75-year career is almost unbeatable in any field, let alone the film industry. On February 27, 1993, at age 99, Lillian Gish died peacefully in her sleep at her Manhattan apartment in New York City. She never married.- From 1923 when she played the lead in Louis Verneuil's "Ma cousine de Varsovie" to 1978 when she played again (and for the last time) "La Mamma", written specially for her by André Roussin, Elvire Popesco (born near Bucharest in 1894) was the undisputed queen of "Théâtre de Boulevard" (light comedies). For 55 years in a row, la Popesco was that ebullient and charming thick-accented foreigner who graced with her cheerful energy dozens of plays by such witty playwrights such as Louis Verneuil, Jacques Deval, Sacha Guitry, Henri Bernstein, André Roussin, Marcel Achard and many others. She seldom ventured into "serious" territory but Jean Cocteau's "La machine infernale" and Frédéric Dard's "La dame de Chicago" are exceptions that help to back up Tristan Bernard's own definition of her personality: "Elvire Popesco is a glass of champagne with tears at the bottom". On the big screen she played the same type of characters as on stage, Burel's incendiary cousin in Carmine Gallone's Ma cousine de Varsovie (1931), the filmed adaptation of her first triumph in Paris; the fiery duchess of Maulévrier in Roger Richebé's hilarious L'habit vert (1937); the boisterous actress Verotchka in Fernand Rivers's La présidente (1938); the cosmopolitan adventuress in Le club des aristocrates (1937)... Even when she appeared in a famous thriller like René Clément's Purple Noon (1960), she was her usual eccentric foreigner self. Though when she was still a young Romananian thespian her dream was to become a great tragedian, she soon realized that if she wanted to succeed in France her accent was a terrible handicap. She made people laugh and she proved wise enough to accept it for a fact. She was wonderful as a result instead of... ridiculous.
- Leila Smith was born on 4 July 1894 in Oregon, USA. She was an actress, known for Citizens Band (1977). She was married to William Allenbaugh. She died on 24 June 1993 in Yuba City, California, USA.
- Actress
- Additional Crew
Virginia-born Mary Duncan went to Hollywood after critics praised her acting in the lead in "The Shanghai Gesture" on Broadway. While making Five and Ten (1931), she became friends with the film's lead, Marion Davies. The two women attended a polo match, where Davies introduced Duncan to Stephen "Laddie" Sanford, an international polo star and director of the Bigelow-Sanford Carpet Company. She and Sanford married in 1933, after which she retired from films and moved with him to Palm Beach, Florida. They also maintained three homes in the New York area.
In retirement, she devoted herself to philanthropic works, doing in major fund-raising for several charities. In addition, the Sanfords were socially very prominent, and for many years the former Mary Duncan reigned as the grande dame of Palm Beach society. A neighbor who became a close friend was Rose Kennedy, mother of President John F. Kennedy. Those whom the Sanfords entertained at their mansion included the King and Queen of Jordan and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. She continued her charity work until very late in life, and died quietly in her sleep, aged 98.- Helene Warne was born on 11 November 1894 in Claygate, England, UK. She was an editor, known for Ranson's Folly (1926), The Great Lover (1931) and The Spanish Dancer (1923). She died on 25 March 1993 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Henry Hazlitt was born on 28 November 1894 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was married to Frances S. Kanes. He died on 9 July 1993 in Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.
- Plennie Wingo was born on 24 January 1895 in Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962). He died on 2 October 1993 in Texas, USA.
- Matthew B. Ridgway was born on 3 March 1895 in Fort Monroe, Virginia, USA. He was married to Marjory Anthony Long, Margaret Wilson and Caroline Blount. He died on 26 July 1993 in Fox Chapel, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Harry Thomashefsky was born on 21 March 1895 in New York, USA. He was a director, known for The Yiddish King Lear (1935). He died on 28 January 1993 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Zeinat Sedky was born on 15 April 1895. She was an actress, known for Too Young for Love (1966), Mawed fe Elborg (1962) and Sitt el beit (1949). She died on 23 May 1993.
- Berenice Melford was born on 19 April 1895 in Holborn, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Lady Audley's Secret (1920). She died on 22 May 1993 in East Horsley, Surrey, England, UK.
- Director
- Writer
- Producer
One of the more prolific American directors, Charles Lamont entered films as an actor in 1919 and became a director in 1922. He churned out numerous one- and two-reel comedies for various producers, including Mack Sennett and Al Christie, and began directing features in the mid-'30s. Lamont was a staple of such independent studios as Chesterfield and Republic, for whom he turned out many action, western and comedy films, but he found his niche at Universal in the late 1930s, and directed several comedies for Universal's top comedy team of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, including one of their best, Hit the Ice (1943). Lamont also handled a number of Universal's Yvonne De Carlo Technicolor adventure extravaganzas, and helmed many entries in the studio's successful "Ma and Pa Kettle" series.- Actress
- Producer
Mary Ann Bennett was born on 10 July 1895. She was an actress and producer, known for Sucker (2011). She was married to Louis Charles Ganzel. She died on 17 March 1993 in Norfolk, Virginia, USA.- Writer
- Producer
- Actress
Despite her wholesome appearance, Hildegarde Stadie led a colorful, bizarre and unpredictable life. She was the niece of a patent-medicine peddler, and as a little girl she traveled with him all over the United States, selling their cure-all, Tiger Fat. Part of the presentation involved the preteen Hildegarde appearing fully nude with a python draped around her shoulders. Though she did not draw upon this particular anecdote, her experience with her uncle greatly influenced her script for Narcotic (1933). In 1920 she married Dwain Esper, who would later become a notorious exploitation film producer. When Dwain assumed ownership of a small studio facility in Los Angeles, California in 1930, they began producing films from scripts she wrote. The couple cranked out several low-budget pictures. Some of them, such as "Maniac" (1934) and "Marihuana" (1936) remain so bizarre and prurient that it is had to imagine a husband and wife with two children producing them. Besides making films for the exploitation market, Hildegarde and Dwain imported and reissued older films, such as Tom Browning's cult-classic "Freaks" (1932) and the Danish film "Man's Way With Women" (1934). Hildegarde usually managed relations with state censorship boards when their films came under criticism from the local morality squad, something she undoubtedly regarded as a necessary irritation. Suriving regional censorship documents are sometimes addressed to "Mr. Hildegarde Esper"!- Actress
Regina Bookasta was born on 11 December 1895 in Middletown, New York, USA. She was an actress. She died on 21 October 1993 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Paavo Susitaival was born on 9 February 1896 in Helsinki, Finland. He was married to Elna Aurora Zitting. He died on 27 December 1993 in Lappeenranta, Finland.
- Moses Polakoff was a New York attorney who represented Salvatore Lucania, better known as Charles "Lucky" Luciano, the man who formed the modern Mafia. Polakoff was his attorney during Luciano's 1935 trial for running the prostitution racket in NYC. Luciano was convicted and sentenced to 35-50 years in prison. At the start of WWII, the Navy wanted to place agents on the mob-controlled New York docks and, through Meyer Lansky and Polakoff, they turned to Luciano for help which he gave. Following the war, Polakoff represented him when Luciano had to appeal to Governor Dewey-the man who had prosecuted him-to have his sentence commuted for his war help, the Navy turning their back on him to avoid having to admit using the mob to assist them in the war effort. Dewey had the matter investigated and Luciano was released and deported.
- Marietta Rares was born on 31 March 1896. She was an actress, known for Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts (1973), Cianura si picatura de ploaie (1978) and Ecaterina Teodoroiu (1921). She died on 4 February 1993 in Bucharest, Romania.
- Józef Czapski was born on 3 April 1896 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He died on 12 January 1993 in Maisons-Laffitte, Yvelines, France.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Milton Bronson met Lou Costello while performing vaudeville. They formed a friendship which lasted until Lou's death in 1959. He then worked as the entertainment manager at the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas until his retirement in the '70s. He then became a manager for Cyd Charisse and Tony Martin in 1975.- Adelaide Phillpotts was born on 23 April 1896 in Ealing, London, England, UK. She was a writer, known for Yellow Sands (1938), BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950) and Yellow Sands (1948). She was married to Nicholas Ross. She died on 4 June 1993 in Bude, Cornwall, England, UK.
- Grace Newbeck was born on 28 May 1896 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for A Queen for an Hour (1915) and Fair, Fat and Saucy (1915). She was married to George F. Zeller. She died on 26 February 1993 in Dallas, Texas, USA.
- Composer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Henri Poussigue was born on 19 June 1896 in Montpellier, Hérault, France. He was a composer, known for Pas de femmes (1932), C'est la vie! (2017) and Angela's Ashes (1999). He died on 19 November 1993 in Mougins, Alpes-Maritimes, France.- Leon Theremin was born on 15 August 1896 in St. Petersburg, Russia. He was married to Maria, Katia Constantina and Lavinia Williams. He died on 3 November 1993 in Moscow, Russia.
- Script and Continuity Department
Anita Speer was born on 7 September 1896 in Oklahoma, USA. She is known for The Littlest Hobo (1958), The Hot Angel (1958) and Crossroads (1955). She died on 27 January 1993 in Fresno, California, USA.- James Doolittle was born on 14 December 1896 in Alameda, California, USA. He was married to Josephine E. Daniels. He died on 27 September 1993 in Pebble Beach, California, USA.
- Actor
- Additional Crew
Fernand Ledoux was born on 24 January 1897 in Tirlemont, Belgium. He was an actor, known for The Longest Day (1962), It Happened at the Inn (1943) and Monseigneur (1949). He was married to Fernande Thabuy. He died on 21 September 1993 in Villerville, Calvados, France.- Marian Anderson was born on February 27, 1897, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was the first of three sisters in the family. Her father, named John Anderson, was a salesman at a railroad station. Her mother, named Anna Anderson, was a schoolteacher. From the age of six, Anderson sang in the choir of the United Methodist Church, where she became known as the "baby contralto." She taught herself piano and violin until the age of sixteen.
She was sponsored by her neighbors, who raised money for her to study under Giuseppe Boghetti. Their teacher-student relationship blossomed into a friendship that lasted for several decades. Boghetti broadened her range from traditional spirituals to classical opera repertoire. With the help of Joseph Pasternack, Anderson became the first African-American singer to perform with the Philharmonic Society of Philadelphia. Pasternack also introduced her to the Victor recording company, where Anderson made recordings of spirituals in 1923-1924. In 1925, Boghetti secretly entered Anderson in a New York Philharmonic contest, which she won and gave a successful performance with the New York Philharmonic on August 26, 1925, before a crowd of seven thousand.
Anderson went to Europe in 1927, because she saw Europe as a place of real freedom and culture, where she could perfect her craft. She spent most of her time in Germany and Scandinavia making successful tours with the Finnish pianist Kosti Vehanen. Vehanen introduced her to the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius who added a number of songs to her repertoire. In May of 1934, in Paris Anderson met Sol Hurok, who offered her a guarantee: 15 concerts with a fee of $500 per concert. No other impresario could match Hurok's offer, which Anderson signed. Under the direction of Sol Hurok, Anderson became the third highest box office draw. Her 1935 concert tour of the Soviet Union was another sensation. Anderson managed to overcome the communist censorship by changing the titles of spirituals and religious songs; Shubert's "Ave Maria" was translated by her Russian interpreter as "an aria by Schubert." She was also invited to the Moscow Art Theatre and performed for legendary directors Konstantin Stanislavski and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko.
She brought her Finnish accompanist Kosti Vehanen to America. In 1936 Sol Hurok arranged for her to perform at Constitution Hall, which was owned by the "Daughters of the American Revolution" (DAR). Anderson was rejected because of the "white performers only" policy of the DAR. Hurok quickly turned to a black school in Washington D.C. and the concert was a success. Anderson was invited by the First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to perform for President Roosevelt at the White House, and the two women developed friendship. However in 1939, DAR again turned Anderson away from the Constitution Hall. Eleanor Roosevelt resigned from DAR in protest of their discrimination of non-white artists. Sol Hurok brilliantly resolved the situation; he organized an open-air concert at the Lincoln Memorial, which was, ironically, near the Constitution Hall. 75,000 people of all races attended that historic concert of Anderson; it was broadcast nationwide and made her a celebrity.
During the 1940's Anderson's best accompanist Kosti Vahanen left for Finland, and her teacher Boghetti passed away. She was diagnosed with a cyst in her throat and had to stop her singing career. Her comeback after a throat surgery in 1948, was another sensation. Her voice sounded as beautiful as ever and the emotional depth in her song interpretations was impressive. However, some critics mentioned her troubles with technique, pitch, and breath in her later years. Anderson's career spanned over forty years. She made over two thousand performances worldwide, including concerts for inaugurations of American Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and John Kennedy, King Gustav of Sweden, and the King and Queen of England. Anderson became the first African-American vocalist in Japan's history to perform for the Imperial Court in 1953. In 1955, Anderson made her Metropolitan Opera debut, becoming the first African-American singer to perform there. In 1955, she sang in Hebrew with the Israel Philharmonic. In 1958, Anderson was appointed a delegate to the UN and made several diplomatic trips as a "goodwill ambassador" to Africa and Asia.
In 1964 Sol Hurok was asked by Anderson to organize her farewell concert tour. She began her last tour in October of 1964 with a concert in Washington D.C.'s Constitution Hall. After six months and 50 concerts in the USA and Canada Anderson gave her final performance on April 18, 1965, at Carnegie Hall. She spent her retirement years on her 155-acre farm in Connecticut, and extended her continuous support of such talents as Kathleen Battle, Jessye Norman, Leontyne Price and others. In 1990, Anderson made a documentary on her life and career, in addition to the documentary of her 1939 Lincoln Memorial Concert. She died of heart failure on April 8, 1993, in Portland, Oregon, and was laid to rest in Eden Cemetery in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. - Writer
- Music Department
- Composer
Kay Swift is better known for her decade-long involvement with George Gershwin than she is for her own musical contributions to the American Songbook. After George's death, she was sought after far more as an expert on his work than for her own original musical compositions. Though many people believe that she made this choice, she had a great deal of regret that her career was always second to his, and much as she wished for work, she never had few of the kind of opportunities that would have resulted in a bigger catalog bearing her name. Gershwin dedicated his "Songbook" to her. He suggested that her maiden name, Swift, with the nickname "Kay," which originated with him, would be the perfect name for her as a songwriter. Trained as a classical musician, with a great deal of talent both as a performer and as a composer, she only began to write popular show tunes with his encouragement.
In 1930, Kay and her husband James Paul Warburg (of the banking Warburgs) wrote the first successful musical show of the 1930s, Fine and Dandy (with a book by Donald Ogden Stewart) starring Joe Cook. (Warburg wrote under the name "Paul James" so that his father's banking associates wouldn't become alarmed.) This song was preceded by many revue songs, including "Can't We Be Friends?" from the 1929 Schwartz-Dietz revue The Little Show. Her musical and personal relationship with George Gershwin was so significant that her handwritten comments and notation can be found on pages of the original manuscript to Porgy and Bess. For ten years she and George were intimate, and it is certain, after some frustrations in Hollywood, he was about to return to her in New York before his untimely death in 1937. After George's death, she completed many of George's works (from memory) and wrote down complete works that otherwise would have been lost. Her second Broadway score (words and music) was for Cornelia Otis Skinner's one-woman show Paris '90. Even into her 90s, Swift was the last knowledgeable living person who could play Gershwin music the way George played it. Her apartment in Manhattan was the ultimate destination for Gershwin scholars. She was a consultant for the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Let 'Em Eat Cake production in 1983 and also for the recordings of conductor and Gershwin scholar Michael Tilson Thomas.- Nerina Montagnani was born on 20 April 1897 in Maranello, Modena, Italy. She was an actress, known for Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972), The Pizza Triangle (1970) and The Killer Nun (1979). She died on 4 November 1993 in Maranello, Modena, Italy.
- Ben Koenig was born on 4 May 1897 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He was a producer, known for Radio Patrol (1937), Ace Drummond (1936) and Jungle Jim (1937). He died on 2 January 1993 in Riverside County, California, USA.
- Writer
- Additional Crew
Aben Kandel was born on 15 August 1897 in Romania. Aben was a writer, known for She Gets Her Man (1935), Konga (1961) and Berserk (1967). Aben died on 28 January 1993 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Composer
- Music Department
Salvatore Allegra was born on 17 August 1897 in Palermo, Italy. He was a composer, known for I Live as I Please (1942), Nobody's Children (1951) and Chi è senza peccato.... (1952). He died on 9 December 1993 in Florence, Italy.- Writer
- Director
Ronald Gow was born on 1 November 1897 in Heaton Moor, Stockport, England, UK. He was a writer and director, known for The Glittering Sword (1929), Lancashire Luck (1937) and Love on the Dole (1941). He was married to Wendy Hiller. He died on 27 April 1993 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, UK.- Production Manager
- Producer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
After service in World War I, Lonnie D'Orsa began his long film career as an assistant to Mack Sennett, writing and directing two-reel silent films. He later became a production executive, working on more than 185 major motion pictures, usually uncredited.
He returned to directing in television, making 75 episodes of TV's first medical series, "Medic," and 60 episodes of "Court of Last Resort," as well as many TV pilots.- Tom Gallery was born on 27 November 1897 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Limited Mail (1925), One-Round Hogan (1927) and Dinty (1920). He was married to Lillian Anna Fette and Zasu Pitts. He died on 25 August 1993 in Encino, California, USA.
- Josefina Silva was born on 10 January 1898 in Lisbon, Portugal. She was an actress, known for Diaper Trouble (1967), O Herói e o Soldado (1961) and Quanto Importa Ser Leal (1959). She was married to António Silva. She died on 18 February 1993.
- Masuji Ibuse was born on 15 February 1898 in Fukuyama, Hiroshima, Japan. Masuji was a writer, known for Ornamental Hairpin (1941), Hideko, the Bus Conductor (1941) and A Room for Rent (1959). Masuji died on 10 July 1993.
- Genteel London-born actress Joyce Carey came from a distinguished theatrical family. Her own lengthy career on the stage began in 1916 when she played Princess Katherine in an all-female ensemble of "Henry V". She made her debut on the legitimate stage in a small part in the West End production of the exotic melodrama "Mr.Wu". During the 1920's, Joyce became a well-known interpreter of Shakespearean roles in Stratford-upon-Avon (including Miranda in "The Tempest" and Perdita in "The Winter's Tale"), as well as acting in several fashionable drawing room comedies in London. She came to be best known, however, for her long association with Noël Coward whom she met (and befriended) during a rehearsal for his play "The Vortex" in 1924. Coward liked her so much, that he cast her in the leading role of Sarah Hurst in "Easy Virtue" the following year. The play went from London to Broadway, opening at the Empire Theatre and enjoying a successful run of 147 performances. Joyce's career was now made and she regularly featured in Coward plays for the remainder of her life on stage.
In 1934, Joyce added another string to her bow as the author of the comedy "Sweet Aloes", written under the pseudonym 'Jay Mallory'. She also took on the key role of Lady Farrington. The play did better on the West End than on Broadway. Warner Brothers, nonetheless, bought the rights and filmed it as a teary melodrama entitled Give Me Your Heart (1936), starring Kay Francis and George Brent. Following wartime tours with the Entertainments National Service Association (ENSA) in Coward plays, she later repeated her stage successes in the filmed versions of the same, notably in Johnny in the Clouds (1945), Blithe Spirit (1945) and The Astonished Heart (1950). Her best remembered role was that of the train station buffet manageress Myrtle Bagot in David Lean's Brief Encounter (1945).
During Joyce's later career, her air of quiet authority and ladylike manner were perfectly suited to a gallery of aristocratic dowagers, doting or confused aunts or mothers. A true professional, she still performed at the age of 90 - on stage, unsurprisingly, in a minor Coward play, "Semi-Monde". On the screen she achieved critical acclaim for her role as an elderly lady facing eviction, in Michael Palin's BBC play Number 27 (1988). In 1982, Joyce was awarded the Order of the British Empire. - Edith Meiser was an actress, playwright and author. She was born in Detroit and attended Vassar College. Her stage career started in 1923 with "The New Way"; her final show was the 1960 production of "The Unsinkable Molly Brown". Along the way she was in 20 Broadway shows. Her film and television career was sporadic, including two appearances on "I Love Lucy".
As a writer, she wrote scripts for Helen Hayes's first radio serial, "The New Penny". She and husband Tom McKnight created "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes", a series for radio in 1930, starring Richard Gillette. Later, the success of the Basil Rathbone/Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes film series caused Meiser to adapt and write "The New Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes", starring Rathbone and Bruce. She wrote all of the episodes from 1939 through 1943.
In later life Meiser authored mystery novels and a play, "The Wooden O". She was a member of the Actors Equity Board and the chairwoman of the Equity Library Theater. - Actress
- Writer
- Music Department
Desanka Maksimovic was born on 16 May 1898 in Rabrovica, Serbia, Yugoslavia [now Serbia]. She was an actress and writer, known for Jedan covek - jedna pesma (1970), Operacija 30 slova (1969) and Trazim pomilovanje (1981). She died on 11 February 1993 in Belgrade, Serbia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia [now Serbia].