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Ivy Nicholson was born Ivy Martha Nicholson in New York City to working class Irish Catholic parents. She started modeling at the age of 16, and became very successful, gracing the covers of Vogue and Elle. In those days there was not much in the way of work for older models, so when she turned 30, Ivy sought out acting roles, eventually landing in Andy Warhol's Factory. There she appeared in minor roles in a handful of Warhol films, and met and married Ciao Manhattan (1972) director John Palmer, who was working as a camera man at the Factory. In 1970, Ivy moved to Paris, where she painted and guided her children's careers. Ivy has four children. Her oldest son, Darius DePoleon, is a viscount, and is a musician in Paris. He is in a band called "Eurotrash" with other European royals. Her second son, Sean Bolger, is a fashion photographer in Los Angeles. Her daughter with John Palmer, Penelope Palmer, was a child actress and starred in Le Femme Enfant alongside Klaus Kinski. Penelope's twin brother, Gunther Palmer, was a child model in Paris and is a drummer and vocalist in the band Stagefright.- Art Director
- Art Department
- Special Effects
James Basevi saw military service with the 2nd Canadian Division during the First World War and fought at the Battle of Amiens as a machine gunner. He attained the rank of major and was decorated and mentioned in dispatches . After being demobilized, he first returned to Canada, then settled in the United States. In 1924, he joined the fledgling MGM company, first to design sets, then as a special effects director, often in collaboration with Cedric Gibbons and A. Arnold Gillespie. Basevi was under contract at MGM from 1925 to 1929 and, again, in the mid-30's, his earthquake scenes from San Francisco (1936) earning him a well-deserved reputation as one of the top craftsmen in the field. He was at United Artists from 1936 to 1940, doing more sterling special effects work (with Alexander Golitzen and Richard Day) on the storm sequences of The Hurricane (1937). For this, he built a 600-foot set of a tropical island to be drowned by thousands of carefully manipulated gallons of water. Reviewer Frank S. Nugent of the New York Times was so impressed that he referred to it as the 'Basevi Hurricane' blasting an audience "from the orchestra pit to the first mezzanine"(November 10,1937).
Basevi received his first full credit as art director for Raffles (1939). In 1941, he moved to 20th Century Fox, first as supervising art director, becoming head of the art department by 1945. His crowning achievement was winning the Academy Award for art direction for The Song of Bernadette (1943) (sharing the honours with William S. Darling. On loan to David O. Selznick, he also famously worked with Salvador Dalí on Hitchcock's thriller Spellbound (1945), transferring Dali's paintings for the dream sequence onto film and creating an 'artistically compelling' atmosphere. He also excelled at conveying strikingly convincing images of the Old West, as in My Darling Clementine (1946) and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949).
After departing Fox in 1947, Basevi did freelance work, in addition to brief spells with RKO (1948-50) and Warner Brothers (1953-54).- Artye Folz was born on 4 August 1920 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for Tomato Omelette (1929), Big Pie Raid (1927) and Circus Time (1929). She died on 18 November 1969 in Bellflower, California, USA.
- Jane Swofford was born on 5 March 1922. She was an actress, known for Last Resort (1994). She died on 12 February 2004 in Bellflower, California, USA.
- Editor
- Actor
Fred Burnworth was born on 23 May 1895 in Ohio, USA. He was an editor and actor, known for The Silent Avenger (1927), Hay que casar al príncipe (1931) and Battling Bunyan (1924). He died on 12 April 1951 in Bellflower, California, USA.