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- Sarah L. Delany was born on 19 September 1889 in Lynch's Station, Virginia, USA. Sarah L. was a writer, known for Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years (1999). Sarah L. died on 25 January 1999 in Mount Vernon, New York, USA.
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She became one of the longest living actresses in the world, she died at the formidable age of 107 1/2 years in January 1999.
Stage debut back in 1911, in a play written by her mother, the famous writer Barbra Ring. (1870-1955)
She was also the very first woman in Norway who got a driving license, and while filming in Denmark she was badly injured in a car fire. After that accident she did not want to go in front of a camera any more. She therefore concentrated her work to the stage, both as an actress, and from 1930 on, as a very gifted director.
During the war she and six other actors refused to work in a radio-play, because the Norwegian broadcasting were under the total control by the Nazi authority. All of them immediately lost their right to work, and the day after all actors organized in the actors union went on striking in solidarity. The strike lasted for five weeks, and was the first organized action against the Nazi-regime in Norway!
Still under pressure, she and her husband Halfdan Christensen, who also was a famous actor, had to escape to Sweden, where they established a free Norwegian theater group called Fri norsk scene.
After the war she continued her work as stage director until old age.- Tania was born on 13 October 1893 in Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. She was an actress, known for Caprichosa y millonaria (1940), Poor Perez (1937) and Cuatro corazones (1939). She died on 17 February 1999 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Dick Barron was born on 19 October 1895. He died on 14 February 1999.
- Lillian (Roberts) Culver was born in Loveland, Colorado, the daughter of William Porter Roberts and Clara Ellen Lackey. Her ancestors included Brigadier General Isaac Roberts of the War of 1812 and Anne (Robertson)(Johnston) Cockrill, heroine of the Revolutionary War and sister of James Robertson, "the father of Tennessee." She was an aspiring actress in silent movies when she met Harry H. Culver in 1915; they were married a short while later. She gave up her acting career until her husband's death August 17, 1946, whereupon she played small speaking roles in movies and guested on several television shows.
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The Spanish born ventriloquist Senor Wences was one of the highest paid vaudeville acts in the world. Hugely popular with American TV audiences Wences was also a top nightclub favorite.
Born Wenceslao Moreno in Peñaranda de Bracamonte, Salamanca (Spain), Wences began performing ventriloquism as a child An early career in bullfighting proved unsuccessful so he took up ventriloquism and juggling professionally. Wences toured Europe in the 1920s before coming to America in 1935 where he made his New York debut at the Club Chico.
He became an overnight sensation on "The Milton Berle Show" and later made appearances on "The Ed Sullivan Show" and TV specials with Jack Benny and Perry Como. In 1947 he had stand-out cameo in the film comedy Mother Wore Tights (1947), starring Dan Dailey and Betty Grable.
Among his famous vent characters were 'Johnny', ingeniously formed by one of Wences's hands and 'Pedro', a torso-less head in a box. In the middle of a routine Wences would lift the lid of the box and say "Are you alright?" to which Pedro would reply "S'alright". "S'alright" - which became a classic catchphrase.
In 1986 Wences toured America with Mickey Rooney and Ann Miller in the musical Sugar Babies. He also received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Comedy Hall of Fame which was inscribed "For his devotion to entertaining generations of audiences and bringing countless hours of joy and happiness to millions throughout the world."- Naomi Mitchison was born on 1 November 1897 in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. She was a writer, known for Guilty Together (1959), Spindrift (1959) and Word for Word (1978). She was married to Gilbert Mitchison. She died on 11 January 1999 in Carradale, Argyll, Scotland, UK.
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Irving Rapper was one of the last surviving directors from the "Golden Age of Hollywood," passing away on Dec. 20, 1999, at the age of 101, four weeks shy of his 102nd birthday. Rapper is best remembered for the films he made with Bette Davis, including the classics Now, Voyager (1942) and The Corn Is Green (1945). He also directed the first film adaptation of a Tennessee Williams play, The Glass Menagerie (1950), and the Rapper-helmed The Brave One (1956) won screenwriter Robert Rich an Oscar (Rich actually was blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo, one of The Hollywood Ten, who did not receive his Oscar for almost 20 years). Rapper continued directing well into the 1970s.
Born in London on January 16, 1898, he emigrated to the United States and became an actor and stage director on Broadway while studying at New York University. In the mid-'30s, he journeyed westward to Hollywood, hired as an assistant director and dialog coach at Warner Bros., where he proved invaluable translating--and mediating--for non-native-English-speaking directors; by the early 1940s, he had metamorphosed into the hottest director on the Warner Bros. lot.
Hired as a "dialog director" (a position created by the film studios in the late 1920s with the advent of sound) by Warners in 1935, he practiced that craft until 1941, when he was promoted to director. While the position of dialog director no longer exists, in the first decades of the talkies dialog directors worked with the actors on their line readings and interpretation of individual scenes. The position was particularly critical when the director was a foreigner who didn't understand English very well.
Rapper initially worked with Gernan émigré William Dieterle on The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936), The Life of Emile Zola (1937) and Juarez (1939). While Dieterle was focused on the technical aspects of filmmaking, such as the lighting of the sets and the camera angles, Rapper concentrated on the actors' performances. He also served as a dialog director for Hungarian émigré Michael Curtiz, for whom he translated (and who, according to Rapper, spoke English more poorly the longer he was in Hollywood) and French-born Anatole Litvak. In that position, Rapper forged strong bonds with certain actors, who came to depend on him.
Bette Davis and Rapper formed a bond that included the free solicitation of advice. He counseled Davis to ask to have William Keighley, who was originally assigned to direct her in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939), replaced by Curtiz. Davis was to be in heavy makeup, and Rapper knew that Curtiz, a perfectionist, would be the right man to capture the visuals in the costume drama. Ironically, Rapper did not get to be the dialog director on the film, as he was assigned to a troubled picture helmed by Litvak. Without him on the set of "Elizabeth and Essex" to run interference, Davis and Curtiz--both strong-willed perfectionists---fought furiously.
Rapper resisted being assigned as a director of "B" films because he knew that once you were assigned to that unit you were stuck there and would never get a chance to graduate to "A" pictures. Rapper bided his time until he was offered a "programmer," Shining Victory (1941), by studio head Jack L. Warner. Shot without stars, the inspirational movie was a modest success and Warners assigned him to another "inspirational" picture, about a minister, One Foot in Heaven (1941). The minister was played by Oscar-winner Fredric March, then widely considered the best American actor since John Barrymore (who had by now turned into a parody of himself). March's talent was matched only by Paul Muni and the Great Profile's brother Lionel Barrymore. March was enthusiastic about the character and has long considered it one of his favorite roles. The film's success solidified Rapper's filmmaking career, which was further bolstered by his next picture The Gay Sisters (1942), starring the great Barbara Stanwyck, who lobbied for the role.
The next picture he directed was destined to become a classic. "Now, Voyager" (1942) was "the picture that made me," Rapper said in a 1981 interview. Politics played a role in his nabbing the choice assignment with only three directorial credits under his belt. Hal B. Wallis, a Warners producer with his own unit, intended to cast Irene Dunne in the picture, but Rapper leaked Wallis' plans to his close friend Bette Davis, who demanded the part from Jack L. Warner. The front office gave in to her demands, and she reciprocated Rapper's favor by asking for him as her director.
Rapper knew that casting Davis' co-stars was important if the picture was to work. He defied Wallis' choice of May Whitty as the mother of Davis' character, stumping for Gladys Cooper, whom Wallis claimed he had never heard of. Cooper received an Oscar nomination in the role. Paul Henreid got his first big break from Rapper, who tested him and then got approval to cast him (although the role made Henreid's career, he later humiliated Rapper at Davis' gala American Film Institute tribute in 1977, where he mocked the director and took credit for the famous scene where he lights two cigarettes at once and hands one to Davis. According to Rapper, Henreid had always wanted to be a successful director, and this engendered a personal enmity in him towards the director who "discovered him").
In addition to Davis and Henreid, Rapper attributed the film's success to lighting cameraman Sol Polito and versatile character actor Claude Rains, who played the psychoanalyst and thus the third side of the love triangle anchored by Davis and Henreid. Rapper felt that after the picture ends, Davis' character eventually will marry her psychoanalyst.
Rapper reteamed with Davis for the highly successful "The Corn Is Green" (1945), a story set in Wales but shot entirely--even the outdoor scenes--on Warners' sound stages. Rapper said that for her role as the Welsh schoolteacher, Davis tried very hard to not use the mannerisms that had made her famous. Rapper believes that John Dall, who played the schoolboy and whom he discovered, did not have a major career and became typecast as a villain because he was androgynous, and the public mood and cinema censorship of the time would not allow such an actor to be a star.
Rapper reportedly broke with Warners over Rhapsody in Blue (1945), a biography of George Gershwin. He felt that the script, which was approved by the Gershwin family which initially controlled the project, was wrong in that it made Gerswhin a character infatuated with two fictional women, while the real Gershwin was likely only really enthused about his music. Jack Warner, whose studio had never employed Gershwin and thus was an odd choice for the Gershwin family to entrust with his life story, fought the director over his choice of John Garfield to play the composer. Rapper believed that the casting of the film was all-important and its success ultimately was compromised by the casting of the bland Robert Alda at Warner's insistence. Jack Warner would not cast Garfield, as he was seeking leverage in the actor's upcoming contract negotiations. He also vetoed Rapper's second choice of Cary Grant on the grounds that no one would accept Grant as a composer (Warner subsequently took Rapper's insight to heart and cast Grant as Cole Porter in Night and Day (1946)). Although he looked like Gershwin, Alda "had a blah personality," Rapper told an interviewer in 1981. The film was showcased at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, but ultimately it was a failure. Some movie historians believe that Rapper's disenchantment over the failure of the film caused him to eventually break with Warner Bros.
He made Deception (1946) with Davis, which reunited her with "Now, Voyager" co-stars Rains and Henreid. Rapper claims that the movie was compromised when Davis--who was convinced that Rains' performance was stealing the picture from her--went behind Rapper's back and got Jack Warner to change the script so that she could shoot Rains' character in the finale. Rapper believed that the new ending weakened the picture. He also felt that his next picture The Voice of the Turtle (1947), an adaptation of the huge Broadway hit, was compromised by the casting of Ronald Reagan as the leading man. Despite Reagan's trying to beef his part up by inventing bits of business, Rapper believes that Eve Arden stole the film from him and his co-star, Eleanor Parker.
Rapper claimed in 1981 that he left Warners and became a freelancer due to the bad advice of his agent, who told him " . . . the movie business was booming and I could have my pick of assignments." Unfortunately, neither Rapper nor his agent forecast the downturn in the industry caused by the advent of television and the US Justice Department's order that the film studios divest themselves of their theater chains. The industry went into an economic tailspin, and Rapper's career suffered.
His first post-Warners gig was at Columbia Pictures, directing Anna Lucasta (1949). Originally a story of an African-American girl looking for acceptance from society, studio boss Harry Cohn had the girl and her family's ethnic identity changed to Polish, with narrative results that were, in Rapper's words, "pretty bizarre." Rapper wanted future Oscar-winner Susan Hayward for the girl, but Columbia cast Paulette Goddard in order to fulfill a one-picture commitment she had to the studio. Goddard got the role because she had threatened to sue Columbia if the studio didn't fulfill her contract. Rapper said that Goddard was "hopeless in drama. She couldn't match any bits of business and her reading of lines was wooden." Cast in the role of a teenager, Goddard "claimed she was 34 but the records showed it was more like 44." Thus are debacles made.
Rapper returned to Warner Bros. to helm The Glass Menagerie (1950), the first movie adaptation of a Tennessee Williams play, because producer Charles Feldman requested him. Just off her Oscar win for Johnny Belinda (1948), the 36-year-old Jane Wyman was cast as the 20-something Laura to boost box-office returns. Tallulah Bankhead was hired to play Amanda Wingfield, but her drunkenness on the set on the second day of shooting led Jack Warner to fire her. Refusing to cast Miriam Hopkins "because of past differences," Warner "positively screamed when I mentioned Bette Davis." Ruth Chatterton was considered, and Ethel Barrymore, who wanted the part, was rejected as being too old. Finally, said Rapper, "that left Gertrude Lawrence, who had little camera experience and was so very jittery she'd cry every time a take was spoiled."
Commenting on the film three decades later, Rapper said, "I still like Kirk Douglas as the gentleman caller and Arthur Kennedy as Tom." The movie, considered one of the least successful adaptations of Williams' work, is barely remembered today and suffers from a bowdlerization of the original play. Williams hated the film as, against his wishes, the script implies a totally different, more upbeat ending than his play.
Of his later films, Rapper felt that they suffered, as he "missed the studio set-up." He claimed "The Brave One" (1956) as his best movie. Marjorie Morningstar (1958) was his last success at the box office, and his career tailed off in the 1960s, although he continued to direct until the end of the 1970s.
He attributed the failure of The Christine Jorgensen Story (1970) to "casting a beautiful boy [John Hansen] rather than a girl" to play Jorgensen, who rocketed to fame in the 1950s after a sex change. "That, after all, was Christine's story. She always believed she was a woman trapped inside a man's body." Born Again (1978), based on a memoir of a convicted Watergate co-conspirator who was on President Richard Nixon's staff, was a failure, as Rapper "was prevented from dramatizing the crimes of Charles Colson, only the redemption--and that made for boredom."
"Born Again" turned out to be Rapper's last film, as he reneged on his commitment to direct Sextette (1977), an exploitation film based on the joke of the elderly Mae West taking a (far younger) husband, her sixth. Rapper backed out, as he didn't have the heart for it: "Mae West was too frail-looking. She'd put her hands on her hips but there were no hips; she had faded away. However, I helped her with her line readings. So, you see, I was back to where I started--as a dialog director!"
Irving Rapper's goal late in life was to live in three separate centuries. He died on Dec. 20, 1999, aged 101, a little less than two weeks shy of fulfilling that wish.- Ivy Sawyer was born on 13 February 1898 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Booklovers (1929) and Hearst-International News Pictorial, No. 85 (1916). She was married to Joseph Santley. She died on 16 November 1999 in California, USA.
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Walter Ledgerwood was born on 21 February 1898 in Arkansas, USA. Walter died on 6 January 1999 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Jesse De Vorska was born on 13 July 1898 in Kovno, Russian Empire [now Kaunas, Lithuania]. He was an actor, known for The Spider (1931), Around the Corner (1930) and The Last Parade (1931). He died on 27 December 1999 in Westwood, California, USA.
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Osmond Borradaile was born on 17 July 1898 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He was a cinematographer and director, known for The Four Feathers (1939), After the Fog (1930) and The Thief of Bagdad (1940). He was married to Christiane Lippens. He died on 23 March 1999 in Canada.- Maria Ley was born on 1 August 1898 in Vienna, Austria. She was an actress, known for Gefesselt (1920), Prinz und Tänzerin (1920) and Herzen im Sturm (1921). She was married to Erwin Piscator, Frank Gerhard Deutsch and Robert Bauer. She died on 14 October 1999 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Bud Ralston was born on 13 October 1898 in Chorlton, Manchester, England, UK. He was an actor, known for ITV Play of the Week (1955), Coronation Street (1960) and The Liars (1966). He was married to Edith and Minnie. He died on 22 April 1999 in Stockport, Greater Manchester, England, UK.
- Leon Stukelji was born on 12 November 1898 in Novo mesto, Austria-Hungary [now Slovenia]. He died on 8 November 1999 in Maribor, Slovenia.
- Georges Hourdin was born on 3 January 1899 in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France. He was a producer, known for Un certain regard (1964), Ouvrez les guillemets (1973) and Apostrophes (1975). He died on 29 June 1999 in Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
- Alfred Denning was born on 23 January 1899 in Whitchurch, Hampshire, England, UK. He died on 6 March 1999 in Hampshire, England, UK.
- Maria Ley Piscator was born on 1 August 1899 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. She was married to Erwin Piscator. She died on 14 October 1999 in New York, USA.
- Nikolai Annenkov, one of Russian theatre's most eloquent voices who was a descendant of liberated peasants, was a leading actor of Maly Theatre and teacher of many film stars.
He was born Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kokin on September 21, 1899, in the village of Inzhaviono, Tambov province, Russian Empire. His grandfather was a liberated Russian peasant who started his own farming business. His father, named Aleksandr Ivanovich Kokin, became a prosperous farmer and trader. His mother, named Anna Ivanovna Kokina (nee Kazakina), was a homemaker and raised six children. From 1910-1917 he studied at Tambov Gymnasium, then at Moscow Institute of Communications. From 1919-1922 he served in Cavalry of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War. From 1922-1924 he studied at Shchepkin School of Acting at Maly Theatre in Moscow.
From 1922-1999 Annenkov was a permanent member of the legendary troupe at Maly Academic Theatre in Moscow. There he played over 200 roles on stage. He began his acting career as a stage partner of Maria Ermolova. He worked on stage with such actors as Yelena Gogoleva, A. Yablochkina, Varvara Massalitinova, Vsevolod Aksyonov, Yevdokiya Turchaninova, Vera Pashennaya, Olga Sadovskaya, Elina Bystritskaya, Rufina Nifontova, Boris Babochkin, Mikhail Zharov, Igor Ilyinsky, Yuriy Solomin, and many other notable Russian actors.
Nikolai Annenkov was famous for his special voice and an authentic, eloquent Russian speech. His voice was loved by millions of radio listeners for his radio-readings from classic literature. His eloquent narration for the 24-hour-long documentary about the art collection and history of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg won him numerous awards. Annenkov's stage performances were admired by such directors as Vsevolod Meyerhold, Konstantin Stanislavsky, Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, and Aleksandr Tairov, as well as by critics and public across Russia.
Annenkov celebrated his 100th birthday on stage of Maly Theatre in Moscow. His birthday party was attended by many celebrities, political and cultural figures of Russia. He was awarded three State Prizes of the USSR and Russia, and was designated People's Artist of the USSR (1960). From 1946-1999 he taught at Shchepkin School of Maly Theatre. There his students were such actors as Oleg Dal, Viktor Pavlov, Georgi Obolensky, Mikhail Kononov, Vitali Solomin, and many other notable Russian actors.
Nikolai Annenkov passed away on September 30, 1999, at the age of 100, and was laid to rest in Novodevichi Convent Cemetery in Moscow, Russia.
"Russian is one of the best languages to convey the most subtle motions of soul", said Nikolai Annenkov. - Art Department
Ralph Sallon was born on 9 December 1899 in Poland. He is known for They Who Dare (1954). He was married to Anna Phoebe Simon. He died on 29 October 1999 in Barnet, Hertfordshire, England, UK.- Art Director
Pietro Maria Bardi was born on 20 February 1900 in La Spezia, Liguria, Italy. He was an art director, known for Green Magic (1953), Lina Bo Bardi (1993) and Roda Viva (1986). He was married to Lina Bo Bardi. He died on 1 October 1999 in São Paulo, SP, Brazil.- Actress
Stella Francis was born on 9 March 1900 in London, England, UK. She was an actress. She was married to George Zucco. She died on 11 May 1999 in Woodland Hills, California, USA.- Sound Department
Lambert E. Day was born on 16 June 1900 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is known for Gilda (1946), The Caine Mutiny (1954) and The Silencers (1966). He died on 12 February 1999 in Santa Monica, California, USA.- Writer
- Music Department
- Director
Enrique Cadícamo was born on 15 July 1900 in General Rodríguez, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a writer and director, known for La virgencita de Pompeya (1935), Noites Cariocas (1936) and Gardel. He died on 3 December 1999 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.- Nathalie Sarraute was born on 18 July 1900 in Ivanovo-Voznesensk, Vladimir Governorate, Russian Empire [now Ivanovo, Ivanovo Oblast, Russia]. She was a writer, known for Pour un oui ou pour un non (1990), C'est beau (1980) and Per un sí o per un no (1988). She was married to Raymond Sarraute. She died on 20 October 1999 in Paris, France.
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Paul Flato was born on 1 September 1900 in Shiner, Texas, USA. He is known for Holiday (1938), Blood and Sand (1941) and Hired Wife (1940). He died on 17 July 1999 in Dallas, Texas, USA.- Roger Moore was born on 21 September 1900 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Shadow (1940), Mutiny Ahead (1935) and The Girl from Everywhere (1927). He died on 24 March 1999.
- Dorothy Blackburn was born on 25 November 1900 in Buffalo, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Doctors (1963), Lux Video Theatre (1950) and The Boston Strangler (1968). She was married to Edward May Jr.. She died on 29 September 1999 in New York, New York, USA.
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Léon Barzin was born on 27 November 1900 in Brussels, Belgium. He is known for Salzburger Geschichten (1957), Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq (2013) and Albert Schweitzer (1957). He was married to Eleanor Post Close, Wilhelmina Quevli, Jane Goodwin and Marie Sherman Vandeputte. He died on 29 April 1999 in Naples, Florida, USA.- Germán Arciniegas was born on 6 December 1900 in Bogota, Colombia. He was married to Gabriela Vieira. He died on 30 November 1999 in Bogota, Colombia.
- Lucille Lortel was born on 16 December 1900 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Grounds for Murder (1930), Everything Happens to Me (1930) and Sessue Hayakawa in 'the Man Who Laughed Last' (1929). She was married to Louis Schweitzer. She died on 4 April 1999 in New York City, New York, USA.
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- Producer
Phil Berle was born on 21 January 1901 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for The Hollywood Knights (1980), Jerks of All Trades (1949) and This Is Your Life (1950). He died on 2 January 1999 in Tampa, Florida, USA.- Gene Sarazen was born on 27 February 1901 in Harrison, New York, USA. He died on 13 May 1999 in Florida, USA.
- Eden Gray was born on 9 June 1901 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Lovers in Quarantine (1925), A Kiss in the Dark (1925) and The Man Who Lost Himself (1941). She was married to Lester Cohen. She died on 14 January 1999 in Vero Beach, Florida, USA.
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- Producer
Joy N. Houck was born on 10 July 1901 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Joy N. was a producer, known for Mesa of Lost Women (1953), Jail Bait (1954) and King of the Bullwhip (1950). Joy N. died on 8 July 1999 in Bowie, Texas, USA.- Actor
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Paul Bradley found his way into films after leaving the cavalry. Unfortunately for Bradley, his real name was distinctively Italian and it required him to adopt his stage name. This turned out to be a good career move for Bradley because he would find his niche as one of the most popular dress extras in the 1930s.
It was during this time that Bradley became connected with George Sanders and served as his stand-in and as his personal assistant. Whenever Sanders was working in the United States, he usually had Bradley as his stand-in. Sanders and Bradley developed such a good friendship that Bradley served as the best man at one of Sanders' weddings.
As Sanders' regularly obtained work in Europe, Bradley's distinctive white hair and pencil thin mustache made him a natural for socialite scenes in countless dramas and in some television westerns. He even obtained a lot of work as a mature male clothing model because of his dashing good looks.
While most people's careers came to a close, Bradley's career spanned through the early 1990s until he decided to bring a close to a career that spanned over 60 years.- Gaby Casadesus was born on 9 August 1901 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. She was an actress, known for Omnibus (1952) and The Bell Telephone Hour (1959). She was married to Robert Casadesus. She died on 12 November 1999 in Paris, France.
- Jean Guitton was born on 18 August 1901 in Saint-Étienne, Loire, France. He was married to Marie-Louise Bonnet. He died on 21 March 1999 in Paris, France.
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- Composer
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James Blades was born on 9 September 1901 in Peterborough, Northamptonshire, England, UK. He was a composer, known for The Pen of My Aunt (1960), The Little Sweep (1962) and Shapes and Forms (1950). He died on 19 May 1999 in Cheam, Surrey, England, UK.- Director
- Producer
Maurice Van Gijsel was born on 16 September 1901 in Mechelen, Flanders, Belgium. He was a director and producer, known for Goed gelapt, Lowieke (1930). He died on 10 October 1999 in Sint-Jans-Woluwe, Belgium.- Writer
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Robert Bresson trained as a painter before moving into films as a screenwriter, making a short film (atypically a comedy), Public Affairs (1934) in 1934. After spending more than a year as a German POW during World War II, he made his debut with Angels of Sin (1943) in 1943. His next film, The Ladies of the Bois de Boulogne (1945) would be the last time he would work with professional actors. From Journal d'un cure de campagne (1951) (aka "Diary of a Country Priest") onwards, he created a unique minimalist style in which all but the barest essentials are omitted from the film (often, crucial details are only given in the soundtrack), with the actors (he calls them "models") giving deliberately flat, expressionless performances. It's a demanding and difficult, intensely personal style, which means that his films never achieved great popularity (it was rare for him to make more than one film every five years), but he has a fanatical following among critics, who rate him as one of the greatest artists in the history of the cinema. He retired in the 1980s, after failing to raise the money for a long-planned adaptation of the Book of Genesis.- Actress
Joan Carr was born on 5 October 1901 in the USA. She was an actress, known for Devotion (1931), Good Sport (1931) and Stolen Heaven (1931). She died on 17 December 1999 in Shelbyville, Indiana, USA.- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Charles F. Calhoun was born on 16 November 1901 in Atchison, Kansas, USA. Charles F. was a composer, known for Clue (1985), Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) and 21 Grams (2003). Charles F. died on 1 April 1999 in Altamonte Springs, Florida, USA.- Gillian Hume was born on 20 November 1901 in Dorking, Surrey, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Suspense (1962), First Night (1963) and Armchair Theatre (1956). She died on 14 January 1999 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, UK.
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- Soundtrack
Joaquin Rodrigo was born on November 22, 1901, in Sagunto, Valencia, Spain. He was blinded by complications from diphtheria when he was three years old. His condition did not improve after a surgery and then glaucoma blinded him completely. Rodrigo confessed without regret, that his blindness predisposed him to music. Young Rodrigo studied piano and violin at a school for blind from the age of eight. By the age of 20 Rodrigo became an accomplished pianist. His first compositions for piano were written in 1923 and premiered a year later. In 1927 Rodrigo moved to Paris. There he studied with Paul Dukas and also became a friend of Manuel de Falla.
Joaquin Rodrigo was responsible for establishing the guitar as a classical concert instrument. He is best known for his three-part 'Concierto de Aranjuez' (1939), the first concert work composed specifically for guitar and symphony orchestra. This innovative concert work was created for Spanish guitarist Regino Sainz de la Maza, who premiered 'Concierto de Aranjuez' in 1940 with the Barcelona Philharmonic Orchestra. The work has become among the most well-known pieces of Spanish music. The main theme was borrowed from the Toccata in D minor by Johann Sebastian Bach and was tastefully altered and developed by Rodrigo into a beautiful haunting melody. It has been recorded by many classical and jazz performers and was used in film soundtracks. Recordings of 'Concierto de Aranjuez' were made by such guitarists as 'Paco de Lucia', Pepe Romero, and many others, as well as trumpeter Miles Davis, violinist Ikuko Kawai, and harpist Isabelle Moretti. Rodrigo himself did not play the guitar. He composed on piano, which may be a reason why the theme form 'Concierto de Aranjues' is suitable for playing on various instruments. His other works include ballets, film scores, operettas, vocal pieces, and over 25 pieces for guitar.
Rodrigo received several awards and decorations for his music. He also taught music for many years. He was using a special Braille machine and was active in 'Arte y Propaganda de la ONCE (National Spanish Organization for the Blind). In 1933 Rodrigo married a young Turkish musician Victoria Kamhi. She became his life-long collaborator and contributor to his creativity until her death in 1997. Joaquin Rodrigo died on July 6, 1999, in Madrid, Spain, and was laid to rest next to his wife Victoria in the cemetery at Aranjuez, Spain.- Director
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Raymond K. Johnson was born on 24 November 1901 in Leeds Township, North Dakota, USA. He was a director and writer, known for The Reckless Way (1936), All Faces West (1929) and Special Agent K-7 (1936). He died on 23 March 1999 in Rancho Mirage, California, USA.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Josyane was born on 24 December 1901 in Granville, Manche, Basse-Normandie, France. She was an actress, known for Le secret du cargo (1929), Le costaud des PTT (1931) and Il carnevale di Venezia (1928). She died on 17 July 1999 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France.- Elisabeth Bertram was born on 3 March 1902 in Vienna, Austria. She was an actress, known for Group Portrait with a Lady (1977), Morgen in Alabama (1984) and Tatort (1970). She was married to Herr Todoroff. She died on 26 April 1999 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
- Roberto Talice was born on 15 March 1902 in Montevideo, Uruguay. He was a writer, known for Centauros del pasado (1944), El paraíso (1953) and La gata (1947). He died on 20 May 1999 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Costume Designer
Josette De Lima was born on 21 April 1902 in Montbeliard, France. She was a costume designer. She was married to ? Walker and Edward De Lima. She died on 23 December 1999 in Palm Beach, Florida, USA.