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Beautiful, smoky-voiced platinum blonde Mady Rahl was the 'Sportsmädel' of the German cinema in the 1930's and 40's. During the war years, she was touted in Nazi propaganda as an ideal of Germanic femininity. Her association with members of the regime, including the ever roving-eyed Joseph Goebbels, damaged her career in the aftermath of World War II. Nonetheless, she would reemerge in the 1950's as a more versatile actress, if not a bigger star.
Mady Rahl was strong-willed and had a commanding, almost aristocratic air about her. Most of all, she possessed that quality called pizzazz. From her early teens, Mady was determined to seek a career in the performing arts. In the process, she financed her expensive acting (at the Ilka Grüning School) and dance classes by doing secretarial work (being an adept typist and stenographer). Rumour has it, that she got her start on the stage (in Leipzig) without having to sit for an audition. Her looks and comportment seemed entirely sufficient. Film work came in due course, after she met a young director named Detlef Sierck (who later found fame and fortune in Hollywood as Douglas Sirk). He starred her in his first film (a short comedy) as, perhaps unsurprisingly, a secretary. Having signed a four-year contract with Ufa, she found herself in yet another clerical role for The Mysterious Mister X (1936). Her first critical acclaim arrived courtesy of a role in the lavish circus drama Truxa (1937), in which she co-starred alongside the dancer La Jana. Then followed a succession of small roles in big Ufa productions like To New Shores (1937) and Hallo Janine (1939) and leads in lightweight romantic comedies (notably Fräulein (1939) and Die lustigen Vagabunden (1940), opposite Johannes Heesters). By the mid-1940's, Mady had become one of the most celebrated stars of German films.
After a post-war hiatus, her screen career was reinvigorated with a handful of dramatic character roles as mysterious or genteel women in prestige pictures like Die Dame in Schwarz (1951), Haie und kleine Fische (1957) and Der Greifer (1958). In the early 1960's, Mady returned to the theatre, going on tour with the Munich-based 'Kleine Komödie'. She also became a popular TV guest star, seemingly omnipresent in prime time cop shows. She was also busily doing voice-overs for diverse American actresses, from Gillian Anderson to Arlene Francis. By the mid-1990's, the thrice-married actress had wound down her performing career to concentrate on her other vocation as a successful painter and exhibitor of water colours. Almost blind and afflicted by dementia, Mady Rahl died in August 2009 at the respectable age of 94.- Yolanda Varela was born in Mexico on March, 30, 1930. She started in the business at a very young age. She studied ballet in the National Institute of the Performing Arts. She starred in many Mexican films and some Spanish/Mexican co-productions. She co-starred with: Pedro Infante, Jorge Negrete, Daniel Gelin, Arturo de Cordova, Jorge Mistral, Resortes, Clavillazo, German Valdez Tintan, Manolo Fabregas, Ernesto Alonso, Pedro Vargas, Mauricio Garcez, Miguel Acevez Mejia, Joaquin Cordero, and many more Mexican celebrities. She met her husband while working for him on the movie "Lo que le Paso a Sanson", the film producer Fernando de Fuentes R.
- Simon Dee was born on 28 July 1935 in Manchester, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Italian Job (1969), Doctor in Trouble (1970) and Dee Time (1967). He was married to Judith Wilson, Sarah Terry and Berry 'Bunny' Cooper. He died on 29 August 2009 in Winchester, Hampshire, England, UK.
- Darlene Enlow was born on 20 October 1939 in Independence, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for It Takes a Thief (1968), Diary of a Bachelor (1964) and Perry Mason (1957). She died on 29 August 2009 in Moran, Kansas, USA.
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Moki Cherry was born on 8 February 1943 in Norrbotten, Sweden. Moki is known for Strangers with Candy (1999). Moki was married to Don Cherry. Moki died on 29 August 2009 in Tågarp, Skåne County, Sweden.- Robert Schindler was born on 23 October 1937 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He died on 29 August 2009 in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.
- Frank Gardner was born on 1 October 1930 in Sydney, Australia. He was married to Gloria. He died on 29 August 2009 in Mermaid Waters, Queensland, Australia.
- Jazz vocalist Chris Connor (nee Mary Loutsenhizer) was born in Kansas City, MO, on November 8, 1927. She studied clarinet as a child and began singing professionally in her late teens, often with a college band at the University of Missouri. In 1949 she moved to New York City to concentrate full-time on a singing career, and soon landed a gig with the Claude Thornhill Orchestra. She also performed with renowned jazz bandleader Stan Kenton, in addition to working with such orchestra leaders as Herbie Fields and Jerry Wald. She recorded several albums during the mid-1950s--the period of her greatest popularity--which did well both critically and financially. She was known for her habit of altering rhythms on ballads, using very little vibrato. She went into semi-retirement in the 1960s, but came back in the mid-'70s with several well-received albums with Kenton and Maynard Ferguson and a series of successful concert tours.
She died of cancer in Toms River, NJ, on August 29, 2009. - Editor
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Jack Michon was born on 30 June 1934 in Hackensack, New Jersey, USA. He was an editor and producer, known for Taxi (1978), North Dallas Forty (1979) and Best of the West (1981). He died on 29 August 2009 in Torrance, California, USA.- Gennaro Angiulo was born on 20 March 1919 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He died on 29 August 2009 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- Edwin Johnsson was born on 14 November 1928. He died on 29 August 2009.
- Judit Matatek was born on 25 February 1976 in Sümeg, Hungary. She was an actress, known for Vakvagányok (2001). She died on 29 August 2009 in Budapest, Hungary.