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- Composer
- Music Department
A prodigy, Rosa Rio began playing the piano at age four, taking lessons at eight, & at nine was invited to play the piano at a silent movie theatre. Her music education included stints at Oberlin College, & a course of study in film accompaniment at the Eastman School of Music. Her career as a theatre organist proceeded through posts at theaters in Syracuse, Loew's houses around NYC, tours through the Saenger chain of southeastern theatres, the Scranton Paramount, Brooklyn Fox Theatre, RKO Albee, & the Brooklyn Paramount.
Moving into radio, she became a staff organist at NBC radio, accompanying performances during the "golden age" of radio. During this time, she was heard playing on such shows ast "The Shadow", "Lorenzo Jones", "My True Story" and "Deadline Drama".
Television became an important new medium, & she played the organ for many network series, including "The Today Show", "The Guiding Light", & an early Saturday morning series which encouraged children to draw, "Cartoon TeleTales".
In the 1980s, she scored & accompanied on the Hammond organ around 375 silent films released on video by the Video Yesteryear label. Besides these "regular gigs", she continued to perform as a concert artist, had arrangements of popular music published, taught music, & released record albums. She is frequently found as a guest at "golden age of radio" conventions & as an instructor at theatre organ seminars. Rosa Rio continues to compose & play, most notably accompanying silent films on the Wurlitzer at the Tampa Theatre in Tampa, Florida.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Hugues Cuénod was born on 26 June 1902 in Corseaux, Vaud, Switzerland. He was an actor, known for Turandot (1987), Love Reinvented (1996) and On Such a Night (1956). He died on 6 December 2010 in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland.- Emiko Azuma was born on 15 March 1903 in Ushigome, Tokyo, Japan. She was an actress, known for Hi no tori (1956), Abare kishidô (1965) and Fighting Delinquents (1960). She died on 8 January 2010.
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Doris Eaton was born in Norfolk, Virginia, into a show business family. The young Doris began appearing on stage with her brothers Charles and Joseph and her sisters Mary and Pearl when she was five years old. She made her Broadway debut aside her brother Charles in "Mother Carey's Chickens" in 1917. The following year, the 14-year-old Doris became a Ziegfeld Girl, performing in the "Ziegfeld Follies" of 1918 and 1920 and the "Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic" in 1919. After having served her dance apprenticeship in legendary theatrical impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.'s chorus for three years, she decamped for the movies. She made her screen debut in "At the Stage Door" (1921) in support of Billie Dove.
She moved to England to appear as the lead in three films, Tell Your Children (1922), The Call of the East (1922), and The Call of the East (1922). Back in America, she made The Broadway Peacock (1922) with Pearl White and High Kickers (1923) with Jack Cooper and the Gorham Follies Girls.
Doris returned to Broadway in 1924, appearing in the musical "No Other Girl" and the plays "The Sap" and "Excess Baggage." In 1925, she co-starred with Al Jolson in the musical comedy "Big Boy." She then appeared in the comedy "Excess Baggage" in 1927, and the musical comedy "Cross My Heart" the next year. Moving to Hollywood in 1929, she began a career as a featured dancer at the Music Box Review Theater on Sunset Boulevard. It was there that she introduced the song "Singin' in the Rain." Her last appearance on Broadway in a legitimate production was in the comedy "Page Pygmalion" in 1932.
Her career as a dancer began to peter out during the Great Depression, and she became an Arthur Murray dance instructor in 1936. Relocating to the state of Michigan, she eventually became the operator of 18 Arthur Murray dance schools. Eventually, Doris retired to Oklahoma with her husband Paul Tavis, where they operated a quarter horse ranch. When they built their house in Norman, Oklahoma, Doris demanded that the house have a foyer large enough for dancing. Doris still dances in the foyer at night.
"I have my little Victrola there and I play the records and I dance the foxtrot and the waltz and the rumba, though swaying by myself."
Doris has become a regular performer at Broadway's annual AIDS benefit. People express surprise that she was a Ziegfeld Girl.
"It seems that when people find out about it, they're astonished; and possibly because I'm still walking around."
Since her husband passed away in the year 2000, Doris lets people use the ranch to board their horses. Doris jokes, "I call it the Travis Ranch Nursing Home for Horses."
She had dropped out of school to pursue her dance career, but in the 1980s, Travis went back to college and graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1992. She was named a member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society while at the university.
At 101 years old, Doris was quoted as saying that dance was the primary reason for her longevity. In fact, her last stage appearance was one month short of her death at age 106.- Yvonne Howell was born on 31 July 1905 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for Take Me Home (1928), Fashions for Women (1927) and The Great Mail Robbery (1927). She was married to George Stevens. She died on 27 May 2010 in Hollywood, California, USA.
- Ivy Bean was born on 8 September 1905 in Thornton, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK. She was married to Harold Gibson Bean. She died on 28 July 2010 in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK.
- Elizabeth Jenkins was born on 31 October 1905 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, UK. She was a writer, known for ITV Play of the Week (1955), Best Sellers (1968) and Review (1969). She died on 5 September 2010 in Hampstead, London, England, UK.
- Emil Klein was born on 3 December 1905 in Oldenburg, Germany. He died on 22 February 2010 in München, Germany.
- Julia Clements was born on 10 April 1906 in Belvedere, Kent, England, UK. She was married to Sir Alexander Hay Seton and William George Sharp. She died on 1 November 2010 in Battersea, London, England, UK.
- Alf Howard was born on 30 April 1906. He died on 6 July 2010.
- Kazuo Ohno was born in Hakodate City, Hokkaido, on October 27 in 1906. His father, the head of a fishermen's cooperative, spoke Russian and went to fish all over to Kamchatka. His mother was good at cooking European cuisine and playing Japanese zither with thirteen strings. She also played organ and her children often sang to her organ.
When Kazuo was at junior high school, he was sent to one of his relatives, Shiraishi, in Akita prefecture to live with them. Shiraishi family didn't have any children. At Odate junior high school Kazuo belonged to a track-and-field events club and established a new record in the prefecture. In 1926 Kazuo entered the Japan Athletic College. A poor student as he was, a superintendent of a dormitory took him to the Imperial Theater to see a performance by the Spanish dancer Antonia Merce, known as "La Argentina," .La Argentina was also known as "the Queen of the Castanets" and she innovated 20th century Spanish dance. Spanish poet Garcia Lorca highly praised her. Kazuo was so impressed by her dance.
After graduating the college, Kazuo began working as a physical education teacher at Kanto Gakuin High School, a private Christian school in Yokohama. He began to dance upon moving to Soshin Girls school, another Christian school, since he needed to teach dance to the girls students.He began training with two of Japan's modern dance pioneers, Baku Ishii and Takaya Eguchi, the latter a choreographer who had studied Neue Tanz with Mary Wigman in Germany. In 1938 Kazuo was drafted and went with the army to the front in China and New Guinea for 9 years
Kazuo held the first recital in 1949 at Kanda Kyoritsu Hall in Tokyo when he was 43 years old. As soon as returning from New Guinea, where he was a prisoner of war for a year, Kazuo resumed dancing. The experience of the war made him dance "Jellyfish dance" in one of his recitals in 1950s. On returning from New Guinea, he saw jellyfishes in the sea where those who died on board by hunger and diseases were buried. In the 1950s, Kazuo Ohno met Tatsumi Hijikata, who inspired him to begin cultivating Butoh (originally called Ankoku Butoh, the "Dance of Utter Darkness"). Butoh was evolving in the turmoil of Japan's postwar landscape. Hijikata, who rejected the Western dance forms so popular at the time, developed with a collective group the vocabulary of movements and ideas that later, in 1961, he named the Ankoku Butoh-ha movement. In 1959, Hijikata created one of the earliest Butoh works, Kinjiki(Forbidden Colors), based on the novel by Yukio Mishima. In 1977, Ohno premiered his solo Butoh work directed by Hijikata, "La Argentina Sho" (Admiring La Argentina), which was awarded the Dance Critic's Circle Award. In 1980, "Admiring La Argentina" is Kazuo's masterpiece as well as Butoh's.
Kazuo Ohno was invited to the 14th International Festival in Nancy, France, in 1980 and toured to Strasbourg, London, Stuttgart, Paris and Stockholm. He danced "Admiring La Argentina" in the festival and had a great impact on the audience by his unique work. With Hijikata directing, he created two more major works, "My Mother" and "Dead Sea", performed with Yoshito Ohno. Other works of Ohno's include "Water Lilies", "Ka Cho Fu Getsu"(Flowers-Birds-Wind-Moon)and "The Road in Heaven, The Road in Earth". As one of the most significant Butoh performers, Ohno has toured throughout Europe, North and South America, Australia and Asia. He has performed in Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia, France, Spain, Denmark, Poland, Canada and the United States. Many students have come to study under him from all over the world.
After his 90th birthday, he was still active as a Butoh dancer. The last overseas performance was "Requiem for the 20th Century" which was held in New York on December 1999. But in the same year he had eye trouble and his physical strength gradually started waning.Yet Kazuo Ohno has continued dancing as if he was nourished by his age. When he could not walk by himself, he danced with the supports by others.When he could not stand even with the supports, he danced as he seated himself. When his legs didn't move as he wanted, he danced with his hands. When he lost himself, he crawled on his knees and audience were so moved by watching his back.
When he dances, he vitalizes himself. An ordinary old man becomes a somebody who gives power to others. People love to encounter Kazuo because of that. He lives long, he moves people deeply. Kazuo Ohno is an artist who has enlarged human potential.
Awards: He was awarded a cultural award from Kanagawa Prefecture in 1993, a cultural award from Yokohama city in 1998 and the Michelagelo Antonioni Award for the Arts in 1999.
Films: Kazuo Ohno starred in the films, "The Potrait of Mr.O" (1969), "Mandala of Mr.O" (1971) and "Mr.0's Book of the Dead" (1973), directed by Chiaki Nagano; in "The Scene of the Soul" (1991) by Katsumi Hirano; and "Kazuo Ohno" (1995), directed by Daniel Schmid. Books: He has written three books on Butoh, "The Palace Soars through the Sky", a collection of essays and photographs, "Dessin" with drawings and notes on his Butoh creations and "Words of Workshop", a collection of lectures given in his workshop. Also "Food for the Soul", a book of his selected pictures from 1930's through 1999, has been published. "Words of Workshop" and "Food for the Soul" has been translated into English as "kazuo ohno's world : from without & within" published by Wesleyan University Press. - Editorial Department
- Editor
Ilse Pohl was born on 7 May 1907 in Berlin, Germany. She was an editor, known for Blaulicht (1959), Komm mit mir nach Montevideo (1963) and Sonntags - TV fürs Leben (2003). She died on 13 May 2010 in Dreieich-Götzenhain, Hesse, Germany.- Gudrun Lendrop was born on 24 May 1907. She was an actress, known for Kloka gubben (1938), Der var engang en Vicevært (1937) and Møllen (1943). She was married to Anker Larsen. She died on 13 September 2010 in San Luis Obispo, California, USA.
- Raimundo de Oliveira was born on 2 July 1907 in Caririaçu, Ceará, Brazil. Raimundo was a writer, known for Piranha de Véu E Grinalda (1982). Raimundo died on 27 January 2010 in Crato, Ceará, Brazil.
- Vivian Gaye was born on 13 December 1907 in Highgate, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Frog (1937) and Gone to the Dogs (1928). She was married to Ernst Lubitsch. She died on 18 July 2010 in Southampton, New York, USA.
- Rina Franchetti was born on 23 December 1907 in Naples, Campania, Italy. She was an actress, known for Le avventure di Nicola Nickleby (1958), David Copperfield (1965) and The Mean Machine (1973). She died on 18 August 2010 in Formello, Lazio, Italy.
- Teruko Nagaoka was born on 5 January 1908 in Morioka, Iwate, Japan. She was an actress, known for Tokyo Story (1953), Sound of the Mountain (1954) and The First Kiss (1955). She died on 18 October 2010 in Tokyo, Japan.
- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Bernard Mayers was born on 6 January 1908 in Lakewood, New Jersey, USA. He was a composer, known for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), The King and I (1956) and Way of a Gaucho (1952). He died on 17 August 2010 in Marina del Rey, California, USA.- Writer
- Producer
Aleen Leslie was born on 5 February 1908 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. She was a writer and producer, known for Affectionately Yours (1941), It Comes Up Love (1943) and Rosie the Riveter (1944). She was married to Jacques Leslie. She died on 2 February 2010 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.- Gitta von Cetto was born on 6 February 1908 in Landsberg am Lech, Bavaria, Germany. She was a writer, known for Stephanie in Rio (1960), Alle Hunde lieben Theobald (1969) and Stefanie (1958). She died on 26 April 2010.
- Director
- Actor
- Writer
Levon Isahakyan was born on 15 April 1908 in Alexandropol, Erivan Governorate, Russian Empire [now Gyumri, Armenia]. He was a director and actor, known for Native Land (1945), Khndutyan yerkir (1940) and Tchanaparh depi krkes (1963). He died on 3 March 2010.- Music Department
- Actor
Max Salpeter was born on 16 April 1908 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Gala Performance (1963), Music for You (1951) and The Merry Widow (1968). He was married to Mollie. He died on 1 January 2010 in the UK.- Marina Semyonova was born on 12 June 1908 in St. Petersburg, Russia. She was an actress, known for The Grand Concert (1951), Nastenka Ustinova (1934) and When the Spirit Soars in Flight (1959). She was married to Lev Karakhan. She died on 9 June 2010 in Moscow, Russia.
- Additional Crew
Jane Sherman Lehac was born on 14 June 1908 in Beloit, Wisconsin, USA. She is known for Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu (1998). She was married to Ned Lehac. She died on 16 March 2010 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.- Milan Herzog was born on 23 August 1908 in Vrbovec, Croatia. Milan was a producer, known for Getting Along with Parents (1954), Don't Get Angry (1953) and Beginning to Date (1953). Milan was married to Shanta Gidwani and Roni. Milan died on 20 April 2010 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Jean Séfert was born on 17 September 1908 in Paris, France. Jean was a producer, known for Four Flights to Love (1939), The Phantom Baron (1943) and La femme perdue (1942). Jean died on 17 March 2010 in Perray-en-Yvelines, Yvelines, France.
- Slim Bryant was born on 7 December 1908 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He was married to Mary Jane. He died on 28 May 2010 in Dormont, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Sally Palmblad was born on 23 December 1908 in Kärråkra, Västra Götalands län, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Odygdens belöning (1937), Svensson ordnar allt! (1938) and Unga hjärtan (1934). She was married to Kurt Bendix. She died on 8 August 2010 in Sweden.
- Animation Department
- Art Department
- Writer
Raymond Jacobs was born on 25 January 1909. He was a writer, known for Popeye the Sailor (1960), Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1971) and Super Friends (1973). He died on 3 May 2010.- Writer
- Additional Crew
Miep Gies was born on 15 February 1909 in Vienna, Austria. She was a writer, known for Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001), The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank (1988) and Anne Frank Remembered (1995). She was married to Jan Gies. She died on 11 January 2010 in Abbekerk, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.- Antonina Pirojkova was born on 1 July 1909 in Krasny Yar, Siberia, Russian Empire. She died on 12 September 2010 in Sarasota, Florida, USA.
- John Finn was born on 23 July 1909 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. He was married to Ruby Alice Dilts. He died on 27 May 2010 in Chula Vista, California, USA.
- Angela Clarke was born on 14 August 1909 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Great Caruso (1951), Houdini (1953) and The Harlem Globetrotters (1951). She died on 16 December 2010 in Moorpark, California, USA.
- Georgie Stone was born on 3 September 1909 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Just Pals (1920), Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1918) and Gretchen the Greenhorn (1916). He died on 25 April 2010 in Denver, Colorado, USA.
- Art Director
- Production Designer
- Art Department
Robert F. Boyle was born on 10 October 1909 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an art director and production designer, known for North by Northwest (1959), Fiddler on the Roof (1971) and The Shootist (1976). He was married to Bess Boyle. He died on 1 August 2010 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Richard J. Bing was born on 12 October 1909 in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany. He was married to Mary Whipple. He died on 8 November 2010 in La Cañada Flintridge, California, USA.
- Annette Eick was born on 13 October 1909 in Berlin, Germany. She died on 25 February 2010 in Devon, England, UK.
- Floyd Dominy was born on 24 December 1909 in Nebraska, USA. He was married to Alice Criswell Dominy. He died on 20 April 2010 in Boyce, Virginia, USA.
- Doris Haddock was born on 24 January 1910 in Laconia, New Hampshire, USA. She was married to James Haddock. She died on 9 March 2010 in Dublin, New Hampshire, USA.
- Maria Amélia Buarque de Hollanda was born on 25 January 1910 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She was married to Sérgio Buarque de Holanda. She died on 6 May 2010 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Betty Cardno was born on 27 January 1910 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. She was an actress, known for Probation Officer (1959), The Saint (1962) and Doomwatch (1970). She died on 10 March 2010 in Polegate, East Sussex, England, UK.
- Francisco Varallo was born on 5 February 1910 in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina. He died on 30 August 2010 in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Producer
- Writer
Werner Michel was born on 5 March 1910 in Detmold, Germany. He was a producer and writer, known for Love Story (1954), The Edge of Night (1956) and The Ford Theatre Hour (1948). He died on 27 August 2010 in New York City, New York, USA.- Frederick Warner was born on 31 March 1910 in Greenwich, London, England, UK. He was married to Barbara Ivy Reynolds and Margaret Anderson McCrea. He died on 3 July 2010.
- Sylvia Davis was born on 10 April 1910 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She was an actress, known for Stardust Memories (1980), Alice's Restaurant (1969) and The Edge of Night (1956). She died on 3 November 2010 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.
- Cinematographer
Valentin Zakharov was born on 13 April 1910. He was a cinematographer, known for Na podmostkakh stseny (1956), Ruslan i Lyudmila (1972) and The Safety Match (1954). He died on 27 June 2010 in Moscow, Russia.- Jenny Alpha was born on 22 April 1910 in Fort de France, Martinique. She was an actress, known for Une femme, une époque (1978), La vieille quimboiseuse et le majordome (1987) and Noir comme le souvenir (1995). She died on 8 September 2010 in Paris, France.
- Actress
- Music Department
- Additional Crew
Giulietta Simionato was born on 12 May 1910 in Forlì, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She was an actress, known for House of Ricordi (1954), Barber of Seville (1961) and Aida (1963). She was married to Cesare Frugoni and Renato Carenzio. She died on 5 May 2010 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Gloria Stuart was born on a dining room table on 4th Street in Santa Monica, California on July 4, 1910. Her early roles as a performing artist were in plays she produced in her home as a young girl. She was the star of her senior class play at Santa Monica High School in 1927. Attending the University of California, at Berkeley, she continued to perform on the stage. Stuart married and move to Carmel, where she performed in a production of "The Seagull" which was transferred to the Pasadena Playhouse in 1932. It was there that talent scouts for both Paramount and Universal saw her. In a famous dispute, the heads of the two studios flipped a coin and Universal won. She played lead roles for director James Whale, including (The Old Dark House (1932), The Invisible Man (1933) and The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933)). The hard work at the studio estranged her from her first husband (Stuart helped create the Screen Actors Guild). She played the leading lady in Roman Scandals (1933), on the set of which she met her husband Arthur Sheekman. She was dissatisfied with the roles in which she was cast at Universal and played roles in films for other studios. Ultimately, a few years after having her daughter Sylvia (named after the role she was playing when she met Sheekman), she left the cinema and sought roles on the stage in New York. In the 1940s, she opened an art furniture shop where she created decoupage lamps, tables and trays, many of which sold to stars like Judy Garland and others. Later, Stuart took up oil painting and was very prolific, showing and selling her work in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere. Her landscapes of The Watts Towers are on permanent collection at The Los Angeles County Museum. She also took up and mastered the art of bonsai and some of her trees are on permanent collection in the Huntington Library Japanese Garden. When her husband fell ill in the 1970s (he died in 1978), she returned to acting doing a range of television series. In 1982, she returned to the screen appearing in a brief dance scene with Peter O'Toole in My Favorite Year (1982).
About this time a friend, she knew half a century earlier in Carmel, who was a master printer, re-entered her life and from him, Stuart learned the craft of fine printing. She established a printing press in her home studio called Imprenta Glorias. where she created a body of fine artist's books. Her greatest book, "Flight of Butterfly Kites" is in permanent collection at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Gloria Stuart won a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Oscar-nomination for her performance as the Old Rose in Titanic (1997). In July 2010, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences honored Gloria Stuart with a Centennial Celebration. She was the first such honoree to be living for a centennial. At 100 years of age, she had completed her greatest artist's book with her great-granddaughter working as her apprentice and also her final appearance on film in her grandson's documentary about her, entitled Secret Life of Old Rose: The Art of Gloria Stuart (2012) when she died at home at the age of 100 on September 26, 2010.- In the quest to discover "another Garbo" M.G.M. production chief Irving Thalberg and his actress wife, Norma Shearer saw a picture in a newspaper of a dancing instructor by the name of Eva Plentzner von Sharneck while on a belated honeymoon to Europe, specifically Vienna in late 1927 - early 1928. The 17 year old Miss Plentzner was signed to a contract and arrived in New York in July of 1928. She spoke only a couple of words of English, but was the beneficiary of extra publicity by the studio's press department who feared a repeat of their overlooking a potential star in the way they had done with Garbo. She was renamed Eva von Berne.
Unfortunately, the completely untrained Miss von Berne was not prepared for the requirements and pressures of movie stardom. Her greatest fault was being 20 pounds overweight, causing her debut movie opposite M.G.M.'s top male star, John Gilbert, to be delayed while considering whether to replace the 17 year old actress or not. The cast and crew liked Miss von Berne and vowed to help her during a forced recess in the filming, and have her underweight and skilled enough to resume her ingénue role. She completed "Masks of the Devil" but the damage had already been done, and while the movie was opening in theatres in the fall of 1928, by December Miss von Berne was back in Europe, ostensibly to "learn English" as stated in the studio releases.
Her reviews for "Masks of the Devil" were respectable, but, in the US no more than six months, she was sent back to Europe, where she was at least, an American movie star and was cast in a number of German films before her reputed death in 1930.
Hubert Voight, a publicist with M.G.M. erroneously released news of Miss Von Berne's death in 1930, a notice which was picked up in a number of American newspapers. In a 1980's article in the magazine "Sight and Sound" he repeated his belief that she had passed, when in fact, she was very much alive.
After 1930, Eva worked as an executive in window display for a Vienna department store. During World War II, Eva fled to Salzburg to be with her family. Eva married Helmut Krauss, a former major in the Austrian army. She had a successful career as an artist with numerous exhibitions in Austria.
In a telephone interview with German film journalist Toni Schieck in 2006, Miss von Berne said she believe it was fortunate that the world thought she was dead because she didn't have to deal with autograph hunters.
It is impossible to determine the quality of Miss von Berne's acting skills as "Masks of the Devil" is a lost film. Tragedy was no stranger to its cast though, as it included John Gilbert who was (one way or another) a casualty of sound and Alma Rubens, an actress reputed to have health issues emanating from a drug dependency.