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- Virginia McLaurin was born on 12 March 1909 in Cheraw, South Carolina, USA. She died on 14 November 2022 in Olney, Maryland, USA.
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John Scott-Maitland was born on 16 June 1911 in London, England. John is known for Windows of Heaven (1963), Summer of Decision (1962) and Of Heaven and Home (1963). John died on 28 June 2022 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Dagny Carlsson was born on 8 May 1912 in Kristianstad, Skåne län, Sweden. She was an actress, known for The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared (2016), Det är inte så dumt att bli gammal (2015) and BingoLotto (1989). She was married to Harry Carlsson and Ragnar Norling. She died on 24 March 2022 in Solna, Stockholms län, Sweden.
- Boris Pahor was born on 26 August 1913 in Trieste, Austria-Hungary [now Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy]. He was a writer, known for Per soli uomini (2014), Zdravica (2017) and Un livre un jour (1991). He was married to Radoslava Premrl. He died on 30 May 2022 in Trieste, Friuli, Italy.
- Tsuneko Sasamoto was born on 1 September 1914 in Tokyo, Japan. She died on 15 August 2022 in Kamakura, Japan.
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Carmen Herrera was born on 31 May 1915 in Havana, Cuba. She is known for Upgraded (2024), Titel, Thesen, Temperamente (1967) and Carmen Herrera: 5 Degrees of Freedom (2005). She was married to Jesse Lowenthal. She died on 12 February 2022 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.- Madame Wu was born on 24 October 1915 in Jiujiang, China. She died on 29 September 2022 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
- Frances Hesselbein was born on 1 November 1915 in South Fork, Pennsylvania, USA. He was married to John Hesselbein. He died on 11 December 2022 in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Burlesque dancer and stripper Betty Jane Rowland was born on January 23, 1916 in Columbus, Ohio. Her father was an accountant who lost his job during the Great Depression. Betty and her sisters Dian and Roz Elle all started out as dancers in vaudeville before making the transition into burlesque. Rowland performed at the famous club Minsky's in New York City, where she earned the nickname "Ball of Fire" from both her flaming red hair and hot and fast style of dancing. After New York shut down its burlesque houses in 1938, Betty moved to Los Angeles, California to continue her career in burlesque. Rowland had several run-ins with the law throughout her burlesque career: In 1952 two police officers closed her show at a downtown burlesque theater after the manager refused to let them in for free and she spent three weeks in a Lincoln Heights jail before going on to embark on a nationwide burlesque tour. In the wake of retiring from the burlesque circuit in the mid-1960's, Betty helped run various bars, worked as a hostess at the French restaurant Anisette in Santa Monica, California; and settled down to live in a one bedroom apartment in Brentwood, California
- Ernie Walker was born on 22 April 1916 in Forest Lodge, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He was an actor, known for The End of 'Sluggers' (2011). He was married to Beverly. He died on 22 November 2022 in Penrose, New South Wales, Australia.
- Everett Astor Lee (August 31, 1916 - January 12, 2022) was an American conductor and violinist. He was the first African American to conduct a Broadway musical, the first to conduct an established symphony orchestra below the Mason-Dixon line, and the first to conduct a performance by a major American opera company.
- Shyam Sharan Negi was born on 1 July 1917 in Chini, Bashahr, Punjab, British India [now Kalpa, Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh, India]. He died on 5 November 2022 in Kalpa, Kinnaur, Himachal Pradesh, India.
- Esther Cooper Jackson was born on 21 August 1917 in Arlington, Virginia, USA. She was married to James E. Jackson. She died on 23 August 2022 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
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Arthur Rupe was born on 5 September 1917 in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a producer, known for Cocktail (1988), The Runaway (1961) and Missing McKeesport (2017). He was married to Dorothy and Lee Apostoleris. He died on 15 April 2022 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.- Francis Jackson was born on 2 October 1917 in Malton, Yorkshire, England, UK. He died on 10 January 2022 in the UK.
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Stardom somehow eluded this vastly gifted actress. Had it not perhaps been for her low-level profile compounded by her McCarthy-era blacklisting in the early 1950s, there is no telling what higher tier Marsha Hunt might have attained. Perhaps her work was not flashy enough, or too subdued, or perhaps her intelligence too often disguised a genuine sex appeal to stand out among the other lovelies. Two studios, Paramount in the late 1930s and MGM in the early 1940s, failed to complete her star. Nevertheless, her talent and versatility cannot be denied. This glamorous, slimly handsome leading lady offered herself to well over 50 pictures during the 1930s and 1940s alone.
Christened Marcia Virginia Hunt, the Chicago-born actress was the younger of two girls born to an attorney and voice teacher/accompanist. The family relocated to New York when she was quite young and she attended such schools as PS #9 and Horace Mann School for Girls. She developed an interest in acting at an early age (3), performing around and about in school plays and at church functions. Following her high school graduation the young beauty found work as a John Powers model and as a singer on radio, a gift obviously inherited from her mother. Marcia (she later changed the spelling of her first name to Marsha) studied drama at the Theodora Irvine Drama School (one of her fellow students was Cornel Wilde).
Encouraged to try Hollywood by various New York people in the business, the young photogenic hopeful moved there in 1934. She was only 17 but was accompanied by her older sister. It didn't take long for the studios to take an interest in her and she was signed up by Paramount not long after. Marsha's very first movie was in a featured role opposite Robert Cummings and Johnny Downs in the old-fashioned The Virginia Judge (1935). Displaying an innate, fresh-faced sensitivity, she moved directly into her second film, playing the title role in Gentle Julia (1936), this time with Tom Brown as her romantic interest.
Marsha continued to show promise but these well-acted roles were, more often than not, overlooked in mild "B"-level offerings. Appearing in co-starring roles in everything from westerns (Desert Gold (1936) and Thunder Trail (1937)) to folksy or flyweight comedy (Easy to Take (1936) and Murder Goes to College (1937)), she could not find decent enough scripts at Paramount. Though she was once deemed one of the studio's promising starlets, one of her last films there was another prairie flower role--[error]--with cowboys John Wayne and Johnny Mack Brown vying for her attention. At about this time (1938) she married Jerry Hopper, a Paramount film editor who turned to directing in the 1950s. This marriage lasted but a few years.
Freelancing for a time for many studios, Marsha's more noticeable war-era work in sentimental comedy and staunch war dramas came from MGM, and she finally signed with the studio in 1939. The roles offered, which included a featured part as one of the sisters in Pride and Prejudice (1940) starring Greer Garson, and again as a sister to Garson in Blossoms in the Dust (1941), which showed much more promise. Some of her better war-era roles came in the films Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941), Kid Glove Killer (1942) and The Affairs of Martha (1942). During this time she also sang on extended USO tours and stayed busy on radio. Her best known film is arguably The Human Comedy (1943) but she wasn't the star. Other film roles had her in support of others, such as Margaret Sullavan in Cry 'Havoc' (1943), little Margaret O'Brien in Lost Angel (1943) and Garson again in The Valley of Decision (1945). Leading roles did not come in "A" pictures.
Her MGM contract was allowed to lapse in 1945 and a second marriage in 1946, to screenwriter Robert Presnell Jr., became a higher priority. The marriage was long and happy (exactly 40 years) and lasted until his passing in June of 1986. The few pictures she made were, again, uneventful or in support of the star, although she did have a catchy, unsympathetic role in the Susan Hayward starrer Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947) as a scheming secretary. In Raw Deal (1948), starring Dennis O'Keefe, she got the "raw deal" being overshadowed as a "good girl" by the "bad girl" posturings of Claire Trevor. At this point of her career she decided to try the stage and made her Broadway debut in "Joy to the World" (1948). Other plays down the road would include "The Devil's Disciple" with Maurice Evans, "The Lady's Not for Burning" with Vincent Price and "The Little Hut" with Leon Ames. She even had a chance to return to her beloved singing as Anna in a production of "The King and I" and (much later) in productions of "State Fair" and "Meet Me in St. Louis". TV also yielded some new work opportunities, including a presentation of "Twelfth Night" in which she portrayed Viola.
The seams of her film career fell apart in the early 1950s. During the late 1930s and into the 1940s she signed a number of petitions promoting liberal ideals, and was a member of the Committee for the First Amendment. A strong supporter of freedom of speech, these associations led to her name appearing in the pamphlet "Red Channels", a McCarthy-era publication that "exposed" alleged Communists and "subversives". Although she and her husband were never called before the House Un-American Activities Commission, their names were nevertheless smeared all over Hollywood as "Reds". While she still found film work on occasion, it was rare. Although she had worked steadily from 1935 until 1949, appearing in over 50 films, she made only three films in the next eight years. Her screenwriter husband would be credited for only one film from 1948 to 1955.
Semi-retired by the early 1960s, stage and TV became Marsha's focal points. She also devoted herself to civil rights causes and such humanitarian efforts as UNICEF, The March of Dimes and The Red Cross. She became actively involved with the United Nations. On the acting front she appeared only in smaller roles in five films but in numerous TV programs and made-for-TV movies, playing everything from judges to grandmas. She became the Honorary Mayor of Sherman Oaks, California, in 1983, and published a book on fashion entitled "The Way We Wore" in 1993. Widowed in 1986, the ever-vibrant Marsha, in her 90s, continues to serve on the Advisory Board of Directors for the San Fernando Valley Community Mental Health Center, a large non-profit that advocates for adults and children affected by homelessness and mental illness. As recently as 2006, she appeared to good advantage in the movie Chloe's Prayer (2006) and, at age 91, was seen in Empire State Building Murders (2008).- Lygia was born in São Paulo, Brazil, daughter of Durval de Azevedo Fagundes and Maria do Rosário de Azevedo Fagundes. She is one of the best Brazilian writers, and is member of Academia Brasileira de Letras since 1987. Her first book, "Praia Viva", was published in 1944. In 1949 got the Afonso Arinos award for her short stories book "O Cacto Vermelho". Among her most successful books are "Ciranda de Pedra" (1954), "Verão no Aquário" (1963), "Antes do Baile Verde" (1970), "Seminário dos Ratos" (1977) and "As Horas Nuas", (1989), among others. The book "Antes do Baile Verde" won the Best Foreign Women Writers Grand Prix in Cannes (France) in 1969.
- Dame Frances Campbell-Preston was born on 2 September 1918 in the UK. She was married to Patrick Campbell-Preston. She died on 22 November 2022 in the UK.
- Jean Landis was born on 28 September 1918 in El Cajon, California, USA. She died on 13 December 2022 in Santee, California, USA.
- Edna Stewart was born on 9 October 1918 in South Carolina, USA. She was a writer, known for Carnival Island (1970). She was married to Nick Stewart. She died on 6 March 2022 in Culver City, California, USA.
- René de Obaldia was born on 22 October 1918 in Hong Kong, China. He was a writer and actor, known for La difficulté d'être infidèle... (1964), Cinéma 16 (1975) and Le petit théâtre d'Antenne 2 (1977). He was married to Diane. He died on 27 January 2022 in Paris, France.
- Mario Fiorentini was born on 7 November 1918 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was married to Lucia Ottobrin. He died on 9 August 2022 in Rome, Italy.
- Arlena Bashnett was born on 4 February 1919 in West Virginia, USA. She died on 28 September 2022 in West Virginia, USA.
- Henry Danton was born on 30 March 1919 in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England, UK. He died on 10 February 2022 in London, England, UK.
- Zsuzsa Pongrácz was born on 6 April 1919 in Budapest, Hungary. She was a writer, known for Esös vasárnap (1962), Bözsi és a többiek (1968) and Közbejött apróság (1966). She died on 15 October 2022.
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George Gale who died June26.2022 at 103, is known for Jean Renoir's The River (1951), Rambo (2008), The Expendables 2 (2012), Lovelace (2013), and The Code (2009). He was married to Helene D. Gale, known as Hank Gale (IMDB) who passed away in 2018. George's father was Ernö Gál (IMDB ), a Producer and Production Manager in Hungary, who helped revitalize and organize the Hungarian Film Industry after WW2.- Astrid Söderbaum was born on 30 June 1919 in Demmin, Germany. She was an actress, known for Lille Fridolf blir morfar (1957). She died on 28 November 2022 in Sweden.
- James Lovelock was born on 26 July 1919 in Letchworth, Hertfordshire, England, UK. He was married to Helen Hyslop and Sandra Orchard. He died on 26 July 2022 in Dorset, England, UK.
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Born in 1919 in Jerusalem, Nehemiah Persoff emigrated with his family to America in 1929.
Following schooling at the Hebrew Technical Institute of New York, he found a job as a subway electrician doing signal maintenance until an interest in the theater altered the direction of his life.
He joined amateur groups and subsequently won a scholarship to the Dramatic Workshop in New York. This led to what would have been his Broadway debut in a production of "Eve of St. Mark", but he was fired before the show opened. He made his official New York debut in a production of "The Emperor's New Clothes" in 1940.
WWII interrupted his young career in 1942, when he was inducted into the United Sates Army, returning to the stage after his hitch was over in 1945, three years later. He sought work in stock plays and became an intern of Stella Adler and, as a result, a strong exponent of the Actor's Studio. Discovered by Charles Laughton and cast in his production of "Galileo" in 1947, Persoff made his film debut a year later with an uncredited bit in The Naked City (1948).
Short, dark, chunky-framed and with a distinct talent for dialects, Persoff became known primarily for his ethnic villainy, usually playing authoritative Eastern Europeans.
In a formidable career which had him portraying everything from cab drivers to Joseph Stalin, standout film roles would include Leo in The Harder They Fall (1956) with Humphrey Bogart, Gene Conforti in Alfred Hitchcock's The Wrong Man (1956), Albert in This Angry Age (1958) and gangster Johnny Torrio in Al Capone (1959). That same year he played another gangster, the small role of Little Bonaparte, in Some Like It Hot (1959).
He was a durable performer during TV's "Golden Age" (Gunsmoke (1955), The Twilight Zone (1959)) and well beyond (Chicago Hope (1994), Law & Order (1990)), playing hundreds of intense, volatile and dominating characters.
In later years, his characters grew a bit softer as Barbra Streisand's Jewish father in Yentl (1983) and the voice of Papa Mousekewitz in the An American Tail (1986) will attest. Later stage work included well-received productions of "I'm Not Rappaport" and his biographical one-man show "Sholem Aleichem".
After declining health and high blood pressure forced him to slow down, Persoff took up painting in 1985, studying sketching in Los Angeles. Specializing in watercolor, he created more than 100 works of art, many of which have been exhibited up and down the coast of California. He celebrated his 100th birthday in 2019.- Meda Mládková was born on 8 September 1919 in Zákupy, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. She died on 3 May 2022 in the Czech Republic.
- Vanilla Beane was born on 13 September 1919 in Wilson, North Carolina, USA. She was married to Willie Beane Sr. . She died on 23 October 2022 in Washington, D.C., USA.
- Jeanne Tyler Hoyt was born September 24, 1919. She grew up in Sherman Oaks and attended North Hollywood High School. While going to dance classes in Hollywood, she met her dance partner, Gower Champion. They won a major dance competition at the Coconut Grove nightclub, competing against 150 professional dancers. Gower and Jeanne, billed as America's youngest dance team, toured the country along with Big Bands and appeared on Broadway. While volunteering at a hospital in New York during World War II, she met and married Dr. Ned Estridge. They settled down to life in Redlands and raised 3 children but subsequently divorced in 1972. She still had a young daughter at home and spent time traveling and learning to ski with her. Later in life, Jeanne married William Hoyt. They had a very active life together, skiing, kayaking and traveling. Their honeymoon was spent dog sledding in Alaska. Jeanne and Bill were involved in the Redlands Citizen's Patrol, logging more than 11,000 hours of service and winning awards such as The President's Volunteer Service Award and Redland's Senior Citizens of Distinction. In Al and Tipper Gore's book Joined at the Heart, Chapter 6, Jeanne and Bill were the examples of the importance of play in life. Jeanne was predeceased by her husband, William Hoyt, her son, Ty Estridge and her daughter, Vicky Estridge. She was survived by her brother, Edwin Tyler, her daughter, Sharon Estridge, 5 grandchildren, 9 great grandchildren and 5 great great grandchildren. Buried at Hillside Memorial Park, CA
- Lia Origoni was born on 20 October 1919 in La Maddalena, Sardinia, Italy. She died on 26 September 2022 in La Maddalena, Sardinia, Italy.
- Jeremiah Stamler was born on 27 October 1919 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Gloria Beckerman and Rose Steinberg . He died on 26 January 2022 in Sag Harbor, New York, USA.
- Elena Tanasco was born on 25 November 1919 in Praha, Czechoslovakia. She was an actress, known for Pereje (1941), Hrátky s certem (1957) and Polka jede do sveta (1965). She died on 13 October 2022 in Germany.
- Johnnie Jones was born on 30 November 1919 in Laurel Hill, Louisiana, USA. He died on 23 April 2022 in Jackson, Louisiana, USA.
- Charles McGee was born on 7 December 1919 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was married to Frances Nelson . He died on 16 January 2022 in the USA.
- Pierre Soulages was born on 24 December 1919 in Rodez, Aveyron, France. He was married to Colette Llaurens . He died on 26 October 2022 in Nîmes, Gard, France.
- Ingrid Bothner was born on 28 December 1919 in Strinda, Norway. She was an actress, known for Gategutter (1949). She was married to Kåre Langvik Johannessen and Jens Bolling. She died on 12 October 2022 in Luzern, Switzerland.
- Géo Beuf was born on 13 January 1920 in Toulon, Var, France. He was an actor, known for Aux frontières du possible (1971), Savage Triangle (1951) and Passion for Life (1949). He died on 2 February 2022 in France.
- Yuriko was born on 2 February 1920 in San Jose, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Appalachian Spring (1958), Martha Graham: An American Original in Performance (1957) and 13 Stars for Channel 13 (1965). She was married to Charles Kikuchi. She died on 8 March 2022 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.
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Bill Pitman was born on 12 February 1920 in Belleville, New Jersey, USA. He is known for The Wrecking Crew! (2008). He was married to Janet Valentine, Mildred Hurty. and Debbie Yajacovic. He died on 11 August 2022 in La Quinta, California, USA.- Franca Cancogni was born on 13 February 1920 in Rome, Italy. She was a writer, known for Lungo il fiume e sull'acqua (1973), Jane Eyre (1957) and La sciarpa (1963). She died on 10 February 2022 in Rome, Italy.
- Celina Seghi was born on 6 March 1920 in Abetone Cutigliano, Tuscany, Italy. She died on 27 July 2022 in Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy.
- Eleonore Schönborn was born on 14 April 1920 in Brno, Moravia, Czechoslovakia. She was married to Hugo-Damian Schönborn. She died on 25 February 2022 in Schruns, Vorarlberg, Austria.
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Joan Bayley was born on 23 May 1920 in Kamsack, Saskatchewan, Canada. She was an actress, known for White Christmas (1954), Shady Lady (1945) and Hello Frisco, Hello (1943). She was married to Ray Weamer. She died on 5 January 2022 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Vicki Askew was born on 11 July 1920 in Florence, South Carolina, USA. She was married to Harold Askew, Louis Patacca, Leo Lupton and Vincent McMahon. She died on 20 January 2022 in Montgomery, Texas, USA.
- Lucienne Legrand was born on 18 July 1920 in Douai, Nord, France. She was an actress, known for A Slightly Pregnant Man (1973), Shock Treatment (1973) and Au théâtre ce soir (1966). She was married to André Legrand. She died on 19 October 2022 in Nogent-le-Rotrou, Eure-et-Loir, France.
- Dominique Marcas was born on 8 August 1920 in Dozule, Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France. She was an actress, known for The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999), The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak (1984) and Love Me Strangely (1971). She died on 15 February 2022 in Illiers-l'Évêque, Eure, France.
- Henriette Hanotte was born on 10 August 1920 in Sépeaux, Yonne, France,. She was married to Jules Thomé. She died on 19 February 2022 in Nivelles, Brabant wallon, Belgium.