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Leonardo Favio was born on 28 May 1938 in Luján de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina. He was an actor and director, known for Aniceto (2008), Gatica, the Monkey (1993) and Chronicle of a Boy Alone (1965). He was married to María Vaner. He died on 5 November 2012 in Buenos Aires, Federal District, Argentina.- Brunette leading lady of Czech, Austrian and German ancestry. Signed by Paramount in 1936. She was introduced with a famous publicity campaign, which instructed prospective American audiences to pronounce her first name 'O-lamp'. She was born on a Parisian backstage, in between a matinée and evening performance to vaudevillians Joseph and Jeanne Bradna. Their dog act headlined at the Olympia Theatre -- hence her first name. The Bradnas had been in show business for generations. Her father had been a circus rider and former ringmaster for Ringling Brothers. Likewise, her uncle Fred had been ringmaster for Barnum & Bailey. Her mother was a former operatic singer. Trained by her dad, Olympe soon joined the family business as a singer and dancer. Even before reaching her teens, she performed as an acrobatic dancer (costumed as a sailor) in a Parisian production of the Broadway musical "Hit the Deck", billed as the "tiniest sailor in France". Olympe became noted for her poise and for her ballet taps, later joining an American company of the Folies Bergere as an acrobatic dancer for Chicago's World Fair. She then performed for eight months at the French Casino in New York, where she was 'discovered' by Paramount talent scouts and discreetly signed under contract.
For three months, Olympe was tutored in English, tap dancing and horse riding. She was then launched in a minor musical, Three Cheers for Love (1936). In the same year, she also made College Holiday (1936), but her tiny role was totally submerged by the antics of star comedians Jack Benny, George Burns, Gracie Allen and Martha Raye. Her first leading role was opposite Gene Raymond in Stolen Heaven (1938), a forgettable second-string programmer about a couple of jewel thieves on the run. This was followed by the Ray Milland comedy Say It in French (1938) and a sentimental theatrical drama, The Night of Nights (1939), which flopped, despite a script by Donald Ogden Stewart and direction by Lewis Milestone.
On loan to Warners, Olympe made three more films, the last being International Squadron (1941), an aviation drama about a cocky American pilot in the RAF, starring Ronald Reagan. In the majority of her films as the perfunctory love interest to sporting champs or war heroes, she had little else to do but be ornamental. Unsurprisingly, Olympe gave it all up in 1941 upon her marriage to Santa Barbara socialite Douglass Wood Wilhoit Sr., devoting the rest of her life to family and to various charities. - Dennis Avner was born on 27 August 1958 in Whidbey Island, Washington, USA. He died on 5 November 2012 in Tonopah, Nevada, USA.
- Animation Department
- Director
Margaret Nichols was a director, known for The Transformers: The Movie (1986), The Little Mermaid (1989) and Oliver & Company (1988). She died on 5 November 2012.- Composer
- Music Department
Elliott Cook Carter Jr. was a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning American Western-classical-music composer who was born in and lived in New York City. He studied with Nadia Boulanger in Paris in the 1930s and then returned to the United States. After a neoclassical phase, he went on to write atonal, rhythmically complex music. His compositions, which were performed all over the world, included orchestral, chamber, solo, and vocal works.
He was extremely productive in his latter years, during which he wrote more than 40 works between the ages of 90 and 100, and even more since he turned 100. He died at the remarkable age of 103 from natural causes.- Writer
- Producer
Julia Britton was born on 27 June 1914 in Romiley, Cheshire, England, UK. She was a writer and producer, known for The Dream Children (2015) and Fearless (2007). She was married to Philip Britton. She died on 5 November 2012 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.- Jane Holtz Kay was born on 7 July 1938 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She died on 5 November 2012 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- Jim Flick was born on 17 November 1929 in Bedford, Indiana, USA. He died on 5 November 2012 in Carlsbad, California, USA.
- Hetty Clews was born on 18 July 1929 in Halesowen, Birmingham, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Visitor (1973). She was married to Alan Clews. She died on 5 November 2012 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
- Bertram Wyatt-Brown was born on 19 March 1932 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA. He was married to Anne Jewett Marbury. He died on 5 November 2012 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
- Make-Up Department
Bret Mardock is known for The Muppets (2011), Charmed (1998) and Prison Break (2005). Bret died on 5 November 2012 in Valencia, California, USA.- Glen McCloskey was born on 25 August 1953 in Merchantville, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Waitress! (1982). He died on 5 November 2012 in Staten Island, New York City, New York, USA.
- Born on July 5, 1941. Theater and pop actress. Producer. Master of artistic word. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (1995). Her repertoire includes more than twenty solo literary programs and solo performances ("Catherine the Great. Beginning", "The Sun Shot Through! Duel and Death of Pushkin", "Poets of the Silver Age", "The Brothers Karamazov", "Tales of the World's Nations" and others). In the "Golden Fund" of the State Radio and Television there are many performances in which the leading roles are played (Natalia Nikolaevna - "Humiliated and offended"; Jenny Marx - "I am a person"; Elena - "On the eve"). Artistic director of the MediaKniga studio. Has sounded books: L.N. Tolstoy "Anna Karenina", S. Nork "Inquisitor", E. Gibbon "History of the decline and destruction of the Roman Empire", S. Sheldon "Intrigue", V. Golovachev "Black Man", N. Chernyshevsky "What to do?" And others . Father - People's Artist of the RSFSR Nikolai Vladimirovich Litvinov (the creator of "Radio-nurses"). She passed away on November 5, 2012.