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This Hollywood High graduate began her career as a secretary and script girl, working for Josef von Sternberg and Charles Chaplin. A sexy and bubbly player, she was repeatedly miscast as a singer-dancer. She toured the vaudeville circuit after her career spluttered, returning to Hollywood only to get involved in a sex scandal in 1933 with her boyfriend, actor Jack Warburton, and future husband Sy Bartlett. She continued working on the stage and screen for the next two decades, but a series of divorces, further sex scandals, and a 1957 accident effectively ended her career.- Jardel Filho was born on 24 July 1927 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was an actor, known for Assim na Terra Como no Céu (1970), Macunaima (1969) and Coração Alado (1980). He was married to Beth, Myriam Pérsia, Glauce Rocha and Márcia de Windsor. He died on 19 February 1983 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Hubert Julian was born into a wealthy family -- his father was a plantation owner -- in Trinidad, West Indies, in 1897. His parents packed him off to boarding school in England, but at the outbreak of World War I he was sent to Canada, and entered the US in 1918. Having always been interested in aviation, he had developed a device that resembled a cross between a helicopter and a parachute and wanted to get a US patent for it. The patent was granted, but the device was never developed any further. While promoting this invention he was given flying lessons. In 1922 he entered the Long Island Air Show, and became the first African-American to parachute from a plane over New York City. In 1924 he announced his intention to fly from New York to Africa. He didn't get any farther than Flushing Bay, into which his plane crashed, but the attempt made him world-famous and resulted in his being dubbed "The Black Eagle".
For the next several years he made a living putting on airborne stunt shows. He made the acquaintance of a string of world leaders and celebrities, including Marcus Garvey and Ethiopian ruler Haile Selassie. He was even the personal pilot for the black religious leader Father Divine in 1932. He maintained his relationship with Selassie, to the extent that he was made a colonel in the Ethiopian Air Force and Military Governor of Ethiopia when that country was invaded by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's forces in 1939. In 1940, when Finland was attacked by the Soviet Union, Julian flew to that country and was soon appointed a captain in the Finnish Air Force and placed in charge of a squadron of fighter planes that fought the Russians.
When the US entered World War II Julian joined the Army Air Corps and asked to be posted to a fighter unit, but the army considered him too old for combat duty and released him to take a job at the Ford Motor Co. aircraft plant in Willow Run, Michigan. When the war ended he was given a job by his old friend Haile Sealassie as president of Ethiopian Airlines. In the 1948 elections Julian worked for Democrat Harry S. Truman to get out the black vote, and was later sent by Truman to Berlin to investigate reports of discrimination against black US troops during the Berlin Airlift. He moved back to the US in 1951, buying an apartment building in New York City and becoming a registered arms dealer. In 1962 during the civil strife in the Congo, he was arrested by UN troops in Elisabethville on suspicion of trying to smuggle arms to his old friend, Katangan leader Moise Tshombe.
He dabbled briefly in the film business, producing two movies in conjunction with pioneer black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux: The Notorious Elinor Lee (1940) and Lying Lips (1939). He also got into the gold business, as a broker for foreign interests wanting to purchase US gold.
He died in New York City in 1983. - João Guedes was born on 3 July 1921 in Matosinhos, Portugal. He was an actor, known for Fado Corrido (1964), As Ilhas Encantadas (1965) and Change of Life (1966). He was married to Maria Estela de Azevedo da Silva. He died on 19 February 1983.
- Jenny Van Santvoort was born on 8 November 1899 in Mechelen, Belgium. She was an actress, known for Arsenicum en oude kant (1971), Uit hetzelfde nest (1952) and The Legend of Doom House (1971). She died on 19 February 1983 in Brasschaat, Belgium.
- Harold G. Robert was born on 16 March 1907 in Marylebone, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for A Mask for Alexis (1959), Duty Bound (1958) and Ivanhoe (1958). He died on 19 February 1983 in Clapham, London, England, UK.
- Howieson Culff was born on 14 August 1899 in Thanet, Kent, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Caesar's Friend (1947), Nom-de-Plume (1956) and The Infamous John Friend (1959). He died on 19 February 1983 in Sudbury, Suffolk, England, UK.
- Ants Jõgi was born on 6 August 1892 in Viljandi, Livonian Governorate, Russian Empire [now Estonia]. He was an actor, known for Hullumeelsus (1969), Diamonds for the Dictatorship of the Proletariat (1975) and Vallatud kurvid (1959). He died on 19 February 1983 in Tallinn, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia].