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- Petite and amiable blonde 50s B-movie starlet June Kenney was groomed for a performing career from early childhood. By the age of four she was proficient as a singer and dancer. Her mother enrolled her in the 'Meglin Kiddies' dancing troupe (Judy Garland was a former alumnus) to learn ballet and tap. Hoping to break into films, teenaged June attended the Hollywood Professional School and made ends meet as an usherette at Grauman's Chinese. While acting in a local play she was spotted by the brother of talent agent and producer Paul Kohner and signed up with the agency. Her first appearance on screen was in 1952. She made little headway for the first five years, though her face and voice garnered some exposure through TV ads for Vaseline, Coppertone and Austin-Healy.
In 1957, June headlined as a juvenile delinquent in her first feature: Roger Corman's Teenage Doll (1957). Corman liked her performance and this paved the way to further leads in teen exploitation flics like Sorority Girl (1957), Hot Car Girl (1958) and the interminable titled The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent (1957). Her stock-in-trade characters were usually naive girls caught up in bad company or unjustly accused. June attracted some scream queen notice in Bert I. Gordon's sub-zero budget Dr. Cyclops (1940) pastiche Attack of the Puppet People (1958) and in the even sillier The Spider (1958). With this resume, it was somehow inevitable that she would end up being typecast as a B-movie actress. Unable to break out of the mould and obtain better roles, June's career took a turn for the worse after her final starring fling (in Bloodlust! (1961), an inferior reworking of Richard Connell's The Most Dangerous Game (1932) ) was universally panned by critics and audiences alike. By 1962, she seems to have lost heart, abandoned acting and segued into voicing commercials for a Los Angeles sports radio station. Her work in that medium continued after she married and settled down on a horse ranch in Nevada as June C. Sebastian. - Actor
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Art Bell was born on 17 June 1945 in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, USA. He was an actor, known for The Day After Tomorrow (2004), Dark Skies (1996) and I Know Who Killed Me (2007). He was married to Airyn Ruiz and Ramona Bell. He died on 13 April 2018 in Pahrump, Nevada, USA.- Animation Department
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Linda Praamsma was born on 15 September 1949 in Utrecht, Netherlands. Linda is known for Hercules (1997), Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) and Lilo & Stitch (2002). Linda died on 7 March 2014 in Pahrump, Nevada, USA.- Allen Fife was born on 5 September 1935 in Houston, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Pajama Party (1964), Beach Blanket Bingo (1965) and The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini (1966). He died on 30 December 2020 in Pahrump, Nevada, USA.
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Sue Thompson was born on 19 July 1925 in Nevada, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for Wildlife (2018), Webb Pierce and His Wonderin' Boys (1955) and Hollywood a Go Go (1964). She was married to Hank Penny, Steve Martin and ???. She died on 23 September 2021 in Pahrump, Nevada, USA.- After Howard Hughes died, an intensive search began for his Last Will and Testament. Speculation became rampant that Hughes may have written a holographic will, which was recognized in the states in which he had holdings. Two weeks after his death, an envelope containing 3 handwritten pages dated March 19, 1968 and signed "Howard R. Hughes" was discovered on the desk of an official at the headquarters of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City. Along with The Church, Rice University, the University of California, the University of Texas, the University of Nevada, and the Boy Scouts of America, the "Mormon Will" granted gas station owner Melvin Dummar a 1/16th share of Hughes's $2 billion fortune. Dummar recounted to reporters that in December 1967, he found a man wandering along U.S. Highway 95. The man asked for a ride to Las Vegas. When Dummar dropped him off at the Sands Hotel, the man told him that he was Howard Hughes, but Dummar didn't believe him.
Rife with misspellings, the "Mormon Will" contained many discrepancies: it referred to the H-4 - the massive military transport plane Hughes flew in Long Beach Harbor on November 2, 1947 - as "The Spruce Goose", a moniker Hughes was known to detest; it named ex-wives Ella Rice and Jean Peters beneficiaries, even though their divorce settlements barred them from laying claim to his estate; it named Hughes's cousin, William Lummis, a beneficiary, even though Hughes was known to have nothing to do with his relatives; it named Noah Dietrich, whom he had fired in 1957, executor. Lastly, written on the envelope was a request that David O. McKay, President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, deliver the "Will" to the Clark County (Nevada) District Court upon Hughes's death; McKay died in 1970. Despite the errors, The Church filed the "Will" for probate with the Clark County District Court on April 29, 1976.
After the FBI found his thumb print on the envelope containing the "Will", Dummar, who initially denied any prior knowledge of the "Will", said that a "mysterious man" had dropped the envelope off at Dummar's gas station after badgering Dummar with questions about Hughes. Although he said the encounter had left him "scared to death", Dummar steam-opened the envelope, read the "Will", then delivered it to The Church. The "mysterious man" - identified by Dummar's attorney Roger Dutson as LeVane Forsythe - claimed in a deposition to have been Hughes's "secret courier" for years. On June 8, 1978, after deliberating for just 11 hours, a jury found the "Will" to be a forgery.
In 2004, Guido Deiro, son of Guido Deiro, said that he flew Hughes to the Cottontail Ranch brothel, 150 miles north of Las Vegas, on December 29, 1967. He said he napped while Hughes enjoyed himself. After Deiro awoke, he said the madam, Beverly Harrell, told him that Hughes had left; Dummar said he found Hughes 7 miles south of the Ranch. Inexplicably, Deiro did not search for Hughes, but flew back to Las Vegas. Upon his return, he said that a subordinate of Hughes executive Frank Gay ordered Deiro to surrender his flight log to erase any evidence of the trip.
Bolstered by Deiro's story and a book by Gary Magnesen, Dummar sued Lummis, and Gay's estate for fraud and conspiracy to conceal evidence which proved that the "Mormon Will" was genuine. On January 9, 2007, the United States District Court for the District of Utah dismissed the suit.
Dummar's tale was the basis for Melvin and Howard (1980). He died on December 9, 2018 at a hospice in Pahrump, Nevada. - Additional Crew
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Chris Karamanos is known for The Cannonball Run (1981), Cherry 2000 (1987) and Stroker Ace (1983). Chris died in 1987 in Pahrump, Nevada, USA.- Don Hildreth was born in 1927 in Framingham, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for The Donna Reed Show (1958). He died on 29 January 2014 in Pahrump, Nevada, USA.
- Carlton McCaslin was born on 6 September 1942 in Ventura, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Don't Call Me a Hero (2010), I Feel Like a Hero (2012) and Pitching Hope (2013). He was married to Gayle. He died on 15 February 2021 in Pahrump, Nevada, USA.
- Frankie Maiolo was born on 22 October 1925 in Hoboken, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Delusion (1991). He died on 4 April 2001 in Pahrump, Nevada, USA.
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Ralph Coffman was born on 6 January 1928 in Adel, Iowa, USA. He is known for Captain America (1966), The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie (1972) and Jetsons: The Movie (1990). He died on 16 July 2000 in Pahrump, Nevada, USA.