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One of America's most loved actresses was born Doris Mary Kappelhoff on April 3, 1922, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Alma Sophia (Welz), a housewife, and William Joseph Kappelhoff, a music teacher and choir master. Her grandparents were all German immigrants. She had two brothers, Richard, who died before she was born and Paul, a few years older.
Her parents divorced while she was still a child, and she lived with her mother. Like most little girls, Doris liked to dance. At fourteen, she formed a dance act with a boy, Jerry Doherty, and they won $500 in a local talent contest. She and Jerry took a brief trip to Hollywood to test the waters. They felt they could succeed, so she and Jerry returned to Cincinnati with the intention of packing and making a permanent move to Hollywood. Tragically, the night before she was to move to Hollywood, she was injured riding in a car hit by a train, ending the possibility of a dancing career.
It was a terrible setback, but after taking singing lessons she found a new vocation, and at age 17, she began touring with the Les Brown Band. She met trombonist Al Jorden, whom she married in 1941. Jorden was prone to violence and they divorced after two years, not long after the birth of their son Terry. In 1946, Doris married George Weidler, but this union lasted less than a year. Day's agent talked her into taking a screen test at Warner Bros. The executives there liked what they saw and signed her to a contract (her early credits are often confused with those of another actress named Doris Day, who appeared mainly in B westerns in the 1930s and 1940s).
Her first starring movie role was in Romance on the High Seas (1948). The next year, she made two more films, My Dream Is Yours (1949) and It's a Great Feeling (1949). Audiences took to her beauty, terrific singing voice and bubbly personality, and she turned in fine performances in the movies she made (in addition to several hit records). She made three films for Warner Bros. in 1950 and five more in 1951. In that year, she met and married Martin Melcher, who adopted her young son Terry, who later grew up to become Terry Melcher, a successful record producer.
In 1953, Doris starred in Calamity Jane (1953), which was a major hit, and several more followed: Lucky Me (1954), Love Me or Leave Me (1955), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) and what is probably her best-known film, Pillow Talk (1959). She began to slow down her filmmaking pace in the 1960s, even though she started out the decade with a hit, Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1960).
In 1958, her brother Paul died. Around this time, her husband, who had also taken charge of her career, had made deals for her to star in films she didn't really care about, which led to a bout with exhaustion. The 1960s weren't to be a repeat of the previous busy decade. She didn't make as many films as she had in that decade, but the ones she did make were successful: Do Not Disturb (1965), The Glass Bottom Boat (1966), Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968) and With Six You Get Eggroll (1968). Martin Melcher died in 1968, and Doris never made another film, but she had been signed by Melcher to do her own TV series, The Doris Day Show (1968). That show, like her movies, was successful, lasting until 1973. After her series went off the air, she made only occasional TV appearances.
By the time Martin Melcher died, Doris discovered she was millions of dollars in debt. She learned that Melcher had squandered virtually all of her considerable earnings, but she was eventually awarded $22 million by the courts in a case against a man that Melcher had unwisely let invest her money. She married for the fourth time in 1976 and since her divorce in 1980 has devoted her life to animals.
Doris was a passionate animal rights activist. She ran Doris Day Animal League in Carmel, California, which advocates homes and proper care of household pets.
Doris died on May 13, 2019, in Carmel Valley Village, California. She was 97.- Actress
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Born Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland on October 22, 1917, in Tokyo, Japan, in what was known as the International Settlement, to British parents, Lilian Augusta (Ruse), a former actress, and Walter Augustus de Havilland, an English professor and patent attorney. Her paternal grandfather's family was from Guernsey in the Channel Islands. Her father had a lucrative practice in Japan, but due to Joan and older sister Olivia de Havilland's recurring ailments the family moved to California in the hopes of improving their health. Mrs. de Havilland and the two girls settled in Saratoga while their father went back to his practice in Japan. Joan's parents did not get along well and divorced soon afterward. Mrs. de Havilland had a desire to be an actress but her dreams were curtailed when she married, but now she hoped to pass on her dream to Olivia and Joan. While Olivia pursued a stage career, Joan went back to Tokyo, where she attended the American School. In 1934 she came back to California, where her sister was already making a name for herself on the stage. Joan likewise joined a theater group in San Jose and then Los Angeles to try her luck there. After moving to L.A., Joan adopted the name of Joan Burfield because she didn't want to infringe upon Olivia, who was using the family surname.
She tested at MGM and gained a small role in No More Ladies (1935), but she was scarcely noticed and Joan was idle for a year and a half. During this time she roomed with Olivia, who was having much more success in films. In 1937, this time calling herself Joan Fontaine, she landed a better role as Trudy Olson in You Can't Beat Love (1937) and then an uncredited part in Quality Street (1937). Although the next two years saw her in better roles, she still yearned for something better. In 1940 she garnered her first Academy Award nomination for Rebecca (1940). Although she thought she should have won, (she lost out to Ginger Rogers in Kitty Foyle (1940)), she was now an established member of the Hollywood set. She would again be Oscar-nominated for her role as Lina McLaidlaw Aysgarth in Suspicion (1941), and this time she won. Joan was making one film a year but choosing her roles well. In 1942 she starred in the well-received This Above All (1942).
The following year she appeared in The Constant Nymph (1943). Once again she was nominated for the Oscar, she lost out to Jennifer Jones in The Song of Bernadette (1943). By now it was safe to say she was more famous than her older sister and more fine films followed. In 1948, she accepted second billing to Bing Crosby in The Emperor Waltz (1948). Joan took the year of 1949 off before coming back in 1950 with September Affair (1950) and Born to Be Bad (1950). In 1951 she starred in Paramount's Darling, How Could You! (1951), which turned out badly for both her and the studio and more weak productions followed.
Absent from the big screen for a while, she took parts in television and dinner theaters. She also starred in many well-produced Broadway plays such as Forty Carats and The Lion in Winter. Her last appearance on the big screen was The Witches (1966) and her final appearance before the cameras was Good King Wenceslas (1994). She is, without a doubt, a lasting movie icon.- Actress
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This marvelous screen comedienne's best asset was only muffled during her seven years' stint in silent films. That asset? It was, of course, her squeaky, frog-like voice, which silent-era cinema audiences had simply no way of perceiving, much less appreciating. Jean Arthur, born Gladys Georgianna Greene in upstate New York, 20 miles south of the Canadian border, has had her year of birth cited variously as 1900, 1905 and 1908. Her place of birth has often been cited as New York City! (Herein we shall rely for those particulars on Miss Arthur's obituary as given in the authoritative and reliable New York Times. The date and place indicated above shall be deemed correct.) Following her screen debut in a bit part in John Ford's Cameo Kirby (1923), she spent several years playing unremarkable roles as ingénue or leading lady in comedy shorts and cheapie westerns. With the arrival of sound she was able to appear in films whose quality was but slightly improved over that of her past silents. She had to contend, for example, with the consummately evil likes of Dr. Fu Manchu (played by future "Charlie Chan" Warner Oland). Her career bloomed with her appearance in Ford's The Whole Town's Talking (1935), in which she played opposite Edward G. Robinson, the latter in a dual role as a notorious gangster and his lookalike, a befuddled, well-meaning clerk. Here is where her wholesomeness and flair for farcical comedy began making themselves plain. The turning point in her career came when she was chosen by Frank Capra to star with Gary Cooper in the classic social comedy Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936). Here she rescues the hero - thus herself becoming heroine! - from rapacious human vultures who are scheming to separate him from his wealth. In Capra's masterpiece Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), she again rescues a besieged hero (James Stewart), protecting him from a band of manipulative and cynical politicians and their cronies and again she ends up as a heroine of sorts. For her performance in George Stevens' The More the Merrier (1943), in which she starred with Joel McCrea and Charles Coburn, she received a Best Actress Academy Award nomination, but the award went to Jennifer Jones in The Song of Bernadette (1943) (Coburn, incidentally, won for Best Supporting Actor). Her career began waning toward the end of the 1940s. She starred with Marlene Dietrich and John Lund in Billy Wilder's fluff about post-World War II Berlin, A Foreign Affair (1948). Thereafter, the actress would return to the screen but once, again for George Stevens but not in comedy. She starred with Alan Ladd and Van Heflin in Stevens' western Shane (1953), playing the wife of a besieged settler (Heflin) who accepts help from a nomadic gunman (Ladd) in the settler's effort to protect his farm. It was her silver-screen swansong. She would provide one more opportunity for a mass audience to appreciate her craft. In 1966 she starred as a witty and sophisticated lawyer, Patricia Marshall, a widow, in the TV series The Jean Arthur Show (1966). Her time was apparently past, however; the show ran for only 11 weeks.- Actor
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American character actor specializing in tough guys and heavies. A native of Yonkers, New York. He worked on the Broadway stage and then became an increasingly familiar figure in Westerns and crime dramas, after World War II. Although almost as familiar a presence in films as his contemporaries Warren Oates, Robert J. Wilke, and Leo Gordon, for some reason Lambert never became as well-known, despite having appeared in a great number of similar roles and films. His credits are often confused with those of the Scottish actor of the same name, Jack Lambert.- Actor
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Singer, composer, heartthrob, pioneer--all are accurate descriptions of Robert Michael Nesmith. Most easily identified by his trademark blue wool hat with pompom, Nesmith fashioned a diversified career within music and also in film. Born in Saint Joseph's Hospital in downtown Houston, Texas, Nesmith was a self-described "failure" growing up. "I just didn't do anything," he said in his famous 1965 screen test for _The Monkees (1966)_ ; he expanded on this in a 1968 Australian radio interview by noting, "I was just starving and writing music." He got work as a session guitarist up and down the East Coast before moving to Los Angeles with his wife Phyllis Barbour in 1965. He managed to get a record contract with Colpix Records and released several 45s as well as appearing on 'Lloyd Thaxton's' syndicated teen-dance show. When Nesmith won the role for The Monkees (1966) he was the first of all involved to see where the show and the music would go. Nesmith produced tracks for The Monkees even before TV series filming began; he has said "about a hundred" tracks were made by himself, Micky, Peter, and Davy in the first half of 1966, and among the songs recorded was his composition "The Girl I Knew Somewhere." The hiring of Don Kirshner quashed this group gestation, but Nesmith continued to produce tracks for the group, usually with Micky Dolenz providing co-lead or harmony vocals; the trademark of Nesmith's 1966-produced tracks was the stellar deep bass work of Robert West. The leader of the group by having the strongest musical vision and polish, Nesmith challenged the controlling powers, culminating in the famous "That could have been your head!" near-brawl with Columbia executives in late 1966-early 1967 that left a wall torn open and ultimately 86ed Don Kirshner from the project. Nesmith took a controlling involvement in the group's albums, but given the strong egos of each member, breakage was inevitable. Nesmith finally left after 1969. He joined longtime bassist friend John London and pedal-steel ace 'Orville "Red" Rhodes' for The First National Band, a group that pioneered the mixture of country music with rock'n'roll. The song "Joanne" off their first album, "Magnetic South", became a big hit. Though the FNB broke up after three albums, Nesmith and Rhodes kept going with the Second National Band. Their records were critical successes, but unfortunately were not big hits. Nesmith then invented and sold the concept of 24-hour-music-television to Time-Warner. He produced a proof of concept called "Pop Clips," which Time-Warner aired on the Nickelodeon Channel as a test. It was an instant success, and the MTV Network was developed from it. He also branched into TV and film production, with such works as 'Elephant Parts' (1981), 'Timerider' (1983), 'Repo Man' (1984), 'Square Dance,' and 'Tapeheads,' as well as several TV specials. Nesmith also continued to make records on a sporadic basis--13 solo albums in total. He reunited with Red Rhodes in 1992 and a Latin-flavored masterpiece called "Tropical Campfires". He was nominated for a Grammy for his 1994 album "The Garden". He reunited with the Monkees in 1996 for the "Justus" album. In 1997 he wrote and directed an ABC television Monkees special. In 1998 St. Martins Press published his first novel, "The Long Sandy Hair of Neftoon Zamora". In 2005 he finished his second novel, "The America Gene". He also started a small video game development company called Zoomo Productions, based in Monterey, California.- Jacqueline Carlin was born on 20 November 1942 in Essex Fells, New Jersey, USA. She was an actress, known for Thank God It's Friday (1978), Bronk (1975) and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962). She was married to Chevy Chase, Peter Byam Cannon and Terry Melcher. She died on 1 July 2021 in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, USA.
- Ruth Wood was born on 18 January 1909 in Oakland, California, USA. She was married to John Belden Wood and Clinton Eastwood. She died on 4 February 2006 in Carmel Valley, California, USA.
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At the age of 17, Heinlein graduated from Central High School in Kansas City, Missouri. He spent one year at the University of Missouri before he entered the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, from which he graduated as the 20th best among the 243 cadets. He spent five years in the Pacific Ocean until he had to retire because of tuberculosis in 1934. After his retirement he had different kinds of jobs: silver mining in Colorado, land-agent, political speech-writer and a failed attempt to become an elected politician. He also married his first wife, Leslyn McDonald.
His first story "Lifeline" was written as an entry for a magazine contest offering $50 for the best sf story by a new writer, but he sold it instead for $70 to the magazine "Astounding Stories" where it was published in August 1939. During WWII he worked as a research engineer for the navy in Philadelphia but he also wrote 25 novels and short stories. He also met his second wife Virginia Gerstenfeld whom he married in 1948. Not much is known about his personal life. He once said that he wrote seven days a week, six months a year. The other six months he traveled or was lazy. At the end of the 1960s his health became weaker and he had to undergo several treatments. His health improved after a major operation in 1982 but his novel, "To Sail Beyond the Sunset," published in 1987, became his last.- Cinematographer
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Bruce Surtees was born on 3 August 1937 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for Beverly Hills Cop (1984), Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) and Escape from Alcatraz (1979). He was married to Carol Buby and Judy Rucker. He died on 23 February 2012 in Carmel, California, USA.- Actor
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Alfred Shelly was born Alfred Irwin Shapiro in Brooklyn on June 6, 1929. He attended high school in Venice (CA), before he moved to Studio City (CA).
In 1978, Al and his wife Lori moved to Big Sur (CA) and continued to work as an actor in film and television. He was a regular on Dragnet (1951), and his credits include Adam-12 (1968), Mannix (1967), 77 Sunset Strip (1958), and many, many more. He made his last film, The Gumball Rally (1976) in 1976.
Alfred Shelly was a seasoned combat veteran with the 7th Cavalry in Korea, and was awarded many medals for his service.
Al spent his last years living in Carmel, CA and died in April 2013 (aged 83), surrounded by friends.- Stunts
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He first came to the USA as a boy member of the famed acrobats, the Mazetti Troupe, that had been engaged by Barnum & Bailey Circus. Richard began in films, supposedly, as a stunt double for Doug Fairbanks, Sr., then graduated to films under his own name.- Helen Ware was born on 15 October 1877 in San Francisco, California, USA. She was an actress, known for The Virginian (1929), Flaming Gold (1932) and The Garden of Allah (1916). She was married to Frederick Burt. She died on 25 January 1939 in Carmel, California, USA.
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Ed Garner was born on 15 October 1944 in Cheyenne, Wyoming , USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Pajama Party (1964), Beach Blanket Bingo (1965) and How to Stuff a Wild Bikini (1965). He was married to Dany Saval. He died on 5 March 2022 in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, USA.- Actor
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- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Born in France during a World War I air raid in which his mother was killed, Philippe was adopted by Mrs. Edith DeLacy, who was associated with the Women's Overseas Hospital. After the war ended, Mrs. Lacy brought Philippe to America where his stunning looks soon made him a sought after model for advertisements and eventually brought him to the screen.- Beverly Cleary was born on 12 April 1916 in McMinnville, Oregon, USA. She was a writer, known for Ramona and Beezus (2010), Ramona (1988) and ABC Weekend Specials (1977). She was married to Clarence Thomas Cleary. She died on 25 March 2021 in Carmel, California, USA.
- Carol Veazie was born on 27 July 1895 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. She was an actress, known for Auntie Mame (1958), The Detectives (1959) and Producers' Showcase (1954). She died on 19 July 1984 in Carmel, California, USA.
- Visual Effects
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Pete Kozachik was born on 28 March 1951 in Michigan, USA. He was a cinematographer, known for Starship Troopers (1997), Innerspace (1987) and Howard the Duck (1986). He was married to Katy Moore-Kozachik. He died on 12 September 2023 in Carmel, California, USA.- Actress
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Voluptuous Beryl Wallace was born in Brooklyn, New York, the eldest of nine children of working class Austrian-Jewish émigrés. With her knockout looks and obvious shapeliness, the "Big Apple" beauty naturally gravitated toward an entertainment career and first turned to dancing. She was only a teenager when, acting on a casting call ad, earned a role in the "Earl Carroll Vanities" of 1928. Carroll changed her marquee name to "Beryl Wallace" and off she went to appear in other provocative shows that featured flesh and fantasy themes, some even requiring frontal nudity. Outside of Carroll's Vanities of 1930, 1931, 1932, 1935 and 1940, Beryl also appeared on Broadway in the musical comedy "Treasure Girl" (1928), Carroll's "Murder at the Vanities" (1932) and "The Women" (1936), in which she had a small part as a model.
The pencil-browed brunet and producer/mogul Earl Carroll, who was at least 16 years her senior, began to engage in a personal relationship as well as professional. In Hollywood he had her headlining his shows at the Earl Carroll Theatre and Restaurant on Sunset Boulevard. From there she made her movie debut in a film adaptation of Carroll's Broadway play Murder at the Vanities (1934), and then went on to appear in a number of small roles until co-starring with western star Tom Keene in the Monogram programmer Romance of the Rockies (1937). She went on to perform in nearly two dozen "B" films, mostly action adventures or westerns, opposite a number of good-looking leading men including Kermit Maynard in Rough Riding Rhythm (1937), Larry J. Blake and Dick Purcell, who fought over her in Air Devils (1938), Roy Rogers in Sunset on the Desert (1942), and Richard Dix in The Kansan (1943). Her last films, in which she was again reduced to secondary femmes, were in The Woman of the Town (1943) and Enemy of Women (1944). Most of her other films, to her detriment, had the gorgeous gal serving as mere set decoration and in unbilled parts.
Throughout her minor film reign, she remained a star attraction at Earl Carroll's spectacular musical reviews. During World War II, sexy Beryl did her part by singing and hosting on radio shows. She also entertained soldiers at the Masquers Club and danced at the Hollywood Canteen. The fact that her film career did not amount to too much did not have her overly concerned. She WAS a star -- in Earl Carroll's extravaganzas.
In 1948, Carroll was in the final planning stages of opening a larger theater just one block from his current location. The new one would rival New York's Radio City Music Hall and cost upwards of $15,000,000. On June 17, 1948, while en route from Los Angeles to New York City, both Beryl and Earl perished in the crash of United Airlines Flight 624 at Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania. Forced to make an emergency landing, the plane crashed into a 66,000 volt transformer on its quick descent and exploded. According to Carroll's wishes in his will, their ashes were interred together in the Garden of Memory at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. On top of their crypt lies a huge facsimile of Carroll's own hands holding a life-sized figure symbolizing the impossibly beautiful Beryl.- Director
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James Algar studied at Stanford where he developed his skills as a cartoonist by drawing for the university's satirical magazine, The Chaparral. He joined the Disney Organisation in 1934, initially as animator. He directed the classic "Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment of Fantasia (1940), as well as several sequences of Bambi (1942). Algar was one of several key personnel to whom Walt Disney delegated higher executive functions. During the 1950's, he assumed the mantle of chief writer/director for Disney's True Life Adventure series, turning out such Oscar-winning documentaries as The Living Desert (1953) and The Vanishing Prairie (1954).
Algar was named a Disney Legend in 1998 and has been recipient of the Look Magazine Movie Award for outstanding achievement in production.- Actor
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John Nesbitt was born on 23 August 1910 in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He was an actor and producer, known for Telephone Time (1956), Souvenirs of Death (1948) and Clues to Adventure (1949). He died on 10 August 1960 in Carmel, California, USA.- Actor
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George F. Marion was born on 16 July 1860 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Anna Christie (1930), Death from a Distance (1935) and Robinson Crusoe (1916). He was married to Agnes E. Daly and Lillian E. Swain (actress). He died on 30 November 1945 in Carmel, California, USA.- Producer
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Amadee J. Van Beuren was born in 1879. Amadee J. was a producer, known for Circus Time (1929), Stung (1931) and Too Good to Be True (1919). Amadee J. died on 12 November 1938 in Carmel, New York, USA.- Art Department
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- Special Effects
Wah Chang was born on 2 August 1917 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. He is known for The Time Machine (1960), Big Daddy (1969) and Land of the Lost (1974). He was married to Glennella Taylor Chang. He died on 22 December 2003 in Carmel, California, USA.- Producer
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- Actor
Producer, director, composer, songwriter and composer; Earl Carroll was part Billy Rose, a little Busby Berkeley and part Mike Todd. He was a staff writer for a New York publishing company between 1912 and 1917, then served in the US Army Air Force during World War I. He produced and directed the Broadway musicals "Earl Carroll Vanities" (11 editions), "Earl Carroll Sketch Book" (two editions), "Murder at the Vanities" (for which he was co-librettist), and the infamous $350,000 flop, "Fioretta" (for which he was the librettist). He built two Earl Carroll Theatres in New York, in 1923 and 1931, and also the lavish Earl Carroll Restaurant in Hollywood in 1939. He produced films, and wrote he Broadway stage scores for "So Long, Letty", "Canary Cottage", "The Love Mill" (also librettist), and "Earl Carroll Vanities" in 1923 and 1924. He was a charter member of ASCAP in 1914, and composed the popular songs "Isle d'Amour", "So Long, Letty", "One Look at You", "Dreams of Long Ago", "Give Me All of You", "While We Dance", "Just The Way You Are", "I Never Knew" and "Dreaming".- Vera Sisson was born on July 31, 1891 in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was educated at the Brownlee Collegiate school for girls in Denver, Colorado. When she was twenty-one she applied to Universal Studios for extra work. She made her film debut in the 1913 drama The Helping Hand. Vera costarred with J. Warren Kerrigan's in seven hit westerns including and The Sandhill Lovers and The Oyster Dredger. In an interview she said her greatest ambition was to have her own studio. She lived with her mother in a small home in Los Angeles. Vera was offered a contract at Biograph studios in 1915. The following year she married director Richard Rosson. She continued to make movies but she was mostly cast in supporting roles.
Vera costarred with Rudoph Valentino in The Married Virgin and with Constance Talmadge in Experimental Marriage. She decided to retire from acting to be a full-time wife. Her final role was in the 1926 comedy Love 'Em and Leave 'Em. In 1939 she and her husband Richard were arrested in Germany and charged with photographing military secrets. They were released after thirty-four days in solitary confinement. The couple bought a home on Amalfi Drive in Pacific Palisades. They never had children. Tragically Richard took his own life on May 31, 1953. Vera became very depressed after his death. On August 6, 1954 she committed suicide by overdosing on barbiturates. She was sixty-three years old. Vera was buried at Hollywood Forever cemetery in Los Angeles. - Dorothy Mengering was born on 18 July 1921 in Linton, Indiana, USA. She was married to Hans Mengering and Harry Joseph (Joe) Letterman. She died on 11 April 2017 in Carmel, Indiana, USA.
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Lucile Barnes was born on 21 March 1922 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was an actress. She was married to Henry Edwards Huntington II and Tommy Noonan. She died on 3 April 2008 in Carmel, California, USA.- Animation Department
- Art Director
- Art Department
He painted backgrounds for Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" and "Lady and the Tramp" plus others. Walt Disney noticed Earle's work after Earle created the avant-garde 'look' for the Oscar/Cannes-award-winning short "Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom". Earle was already an established artist at 13, when he held his first exhibition in France. At 23, Earle sold his first watercolor to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. In the 1940s he painted over 800 landscapes for Christmas cards.- Saul Alinsky was born on 30 January 1909 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was married to Irene McGinnis, Jean Graham and Helene Simon. He died on 12 June 1972 in Carmel, California, USA.
- The daughter of silent-screen star Alma Hanlon and Broadway writer/press agent Walter Kingsley, Dorothy Kingsley began her career as an uncredited gag writer for the Bob Hope Radio Show and, later, the Edgar Bergen Radio Show. Producer Arthur Freed put her under contract to MGM; her first assignment was polishing the Garland-Rooney musical Girl Crazy (1943). She later wrote a number of scripts for Debbie Reynolds and 'Esther Williams (I)'. After leaving Hollywood for Carmel, California, she and her husband William Durney started the Durney Vineyard brand winery.
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Claire Delmar was born on 30 December 1898 in Bellevue, Kentucky, USA. She was an actress. She was married to Hal Mohr. She died on 10 January 1959 in Carmel, California, USA.- Animation Department
Tony Creazzo was born on 27 September 1920 in New York City, New York, USA. Tony is known for The Mad Magazine TV Special (1974). Tony was married to Shirley D. Ditchelmiller. Tony died in July 1982 in Carmel, New York, USA.- Composer
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A composer, conductor, pianist and entertainer, Richard W. "Dick" LaSalle was educated at the University of Colorado. He wrote for radio in Denver, Colorado, and performed in area hotels as a pianist and orchestra leader between 1940 and 1955. He joined the American Society of Composers and Publishers (ASCAP) in 1958.- Music Department
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Songwriter ("Fly Me To the Moon" [In Other Words], "The Man in the Looking Glass"), composer, author and pianist, educated at Juilliard and in private music study. He left home at 16 to tour the US as a dance-band pianist with the conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton, then joined the US Army in World War II. He was an accompanist to Mabel Mercer, and between 1951 and 1959 an MC, intermission pianist and director of shows at the Blue Angel in New York, where he introduced Eartha Kitt, Johnny Mathis, Dorothy Loudon and others. A member of the Authors League, he joined ASCAP in 1952, and his other popular-song compositions include "My Love Is a Wanderer", "On the First Warm Day", "Let Me Love You", "Would You Believe It", "Perfect Stranger", "Sell Me", "Be My All", "Walk-Up", "Year After Year", "Everybody Wants to Be Loved", "It Was Worth It", "You Are Not My First Love", "Don't Dream of Anybody But Me", "You Are In Love", "Upstairs at the Downstairs Waltz", "Miracles", "I'll Be Easy to Find", "Forget Me Not", "Tomorrow Song", "Welcome Home, Angelina", "Beautiful Women", "To Be in Love", "Gather Your Dreams", and "Sky Full of Rainbows".- Actress
Venita Varden was born on 25 October 1910 in Locust Grove, Georgia, USA. She was an actress. She was married to Jack Oakie. She died on 17 June 1948 in Mount Carmel, Pennsylvania, USA.- Playwright Martin Flavin was born in San Francisco and moved with his mother to Chicago at an early age when his father died. He attended college there and took an interest in dramatics. Upon graduation he got a job on a newspaper and supplemented his income by writing short stories for magazines. He met with a degree of success in that endeavor but couldn't make enough money to devote his full time to a writing career. His mother's family had a manufacturing business in the Midwest and Flavin decided to go into the family business, but always with an eye toward going back to writing. After 12 years as an executive in the family company he began writing again, but this time as a playwright instead of a short-story writer.
In 1923 one of his plays, "Children of the Moon", was produced on Broadway, and three years later Flavin left the family business to become a full-time playwright. His most famous play, "The Criminal Code" (1929), was inspired by a visit he made to San Quentin Prison in California and the conditions he saw there (it was later made into a classic gangster film, The Criminal Code (1930)). - Gloria Szymanski was born in October 1933 in the USA. He died in September 1979 in Carmel, California, USA.
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Ted Nash was born on 31 October 1922 in Somerville, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010), Peter Gunn (1958) and Faces (1968). He died on 12 May 2011 in Carmel, California, USA.- Actor
Edwin Layton was born on 7 April 1903 in Nauvoo, Illinois, USA. He was an actor. He died on 12 April 1984 in Carmel, California, USA.- Actor
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Everett Marshall was born on 31 December 1901 in Lawrence, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Dixiana (1930) and I Live for Love (1935). He died on 3 April 1965 in Carmel, California, USA.- Sara Gregory was born on 16 May 1919 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. She was an actress, known for Pinwright's Progress (1946), The Eric Barker Half-Hour (1951) and BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950). She was married to Richard Stone. She died on 11 April 2014 in Carmel, California, USA.
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- Producer
- Additional Crew
Irve Tunick was born on 27 July 1912 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for The Witness (1960), Murder, Inc. (1960) and Combat! (1962). He died on 5 September 1987 in Carmel, New York, USA.- Visual Effects
Paul Lewis was born on 3 October 1966. He is known for Beauty and the Beast (1991), Fantasia 2000 (1999) and The Pagemaster (1994). He died on 24 December 2019 in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, USA.- Production Manager
- Actor
Harry Murray was born in New York City in 1903, the third of nine children, to Christopher Murray and Mary Casserly, Irish immigrants who arrived separately, met in New York City and married in 1898. After one year of college, Harry set out for Hollywood with his older brother James, hitch-hiking, hopping freight trains. By the time they got to Chicago, Harry decided to give up and go back home. But James continued on, reaching Hollywood and finding work as an extra before landing the starring role in King Vidor's cinematic masterpiece, The Crowd (MGM, 1928) as well as a leading role in Rose-Marie (MGM, 1927) opposite Joan Crawford. Harry finally did make his way to Hollywood by working on a freighter headed for Los Angeles via the Panama Canal, which was just 10 years old at the time. Besides working as an extra, Harry landed a speaking role in The House Of Scandal (MGM, 1928). There was much celebrating in the Bronx in 1928 as two locals boys made good. In fact, several theaters in the Bronx ran both House Of Scandal and The Crowd as a double bill.
Unfortunately for Harry, at least career-wise, he and James looked very much alike. This being a disadvantage for Harry in silent films, he went on to double for John Gilbert in movies in which he co-starred with Greta Garbo and Mary Pickford. From there, he performed on Broadway in musicals by Irving Berlin, Moss Hart, and Jerome Kern. He also enjoyed a career in vaudeville theaters and nightclubs with his dance team, The Debonaires.
Professionally, Murray achieved his greatest success in his career with CBS-TV in New York where he produced the long running game show To Tell The Truth. He retired from CBS in 1968. During his retirement he logged over 15,500 hours as a volunteer at the Putnam Hospital Center in Carmel, New York. Although Harry's brother James died tragically in 1936, Harry lived to the ripe age of 98, beloved by his family and thousands of patients, staff, visitors, and other volunteers who came to know him during his 28 years of service to the hospital.- Writer
Winslow Mortimer was born on 1 May 1919 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Winslow was a writer. Winslow died on 11 January 1998 in Carmel, New York, USA.- Clark Williams was born on 14 May 1906 in Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada. He was an actor, known for Tailspin Tommy in the Great Air Mystery (1935), Werewolf of London (1935) and Transient Lady (1935). He died on 13 February 1989 in Carmel, California, USA.
- Art Department
- Art Director
- Soundtrack
Ansel Adams is widely regarded as one of the most famous photographers of all time, particularly in reference to his striking images of the American wilderness. Adams placed great value upon technical mastery of his craft, carefully evaluating gradations of light in the image, manipulating degree of exposure, and constantly experimenting with new techniques. Along with contemporaries Imogen Cunningham and Edward Weston, Adams founded the group f/64, devoted to what they termed "straight photography," as opposed to staged or embellished images. Adams was also pivotal in the establishment of the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art.
Ansel Adams (1902-1984) was born in San Francisco four years before the great earthquake of 1906. An aftershock of the earthquake threw him to the ground, breaking his nose and marking him for life. Adams first visited Yosemite in 1916 -- only two years after John Muir's death and three months before the founding of the National Park Service -- and was transfixed by the beautiful valley. In 1919, at age 17, he had his first contact with the Sierra Club when he took a job as custodian of the Club's LeConte Memorial Lodge, the Club headquarters in Yosemite National Park.
Adams's interest in photography grew and often brought him up to the mountains accompanied by a mule laden with photographic gear and supplies. He became known as both an artist and defender of Yosemite. In 1934, Adams was elected as a member of the Board of Directors of the Sierra Club, a role he maintained for 37 years
In 1968 Adams was awarded the Conservation Service Award, the Interior Department's highest civilian honor, "in recognition of your many years of distinguished work as a photographer, artist, interpreter and conservationist, a role in which your efforts have been of profound importance in the conservation of our great natural resources." In 1980 Adams received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, for "his efforts to preserve this country's wild and scenic areas, both on film and on earth. Drawn to the beauty of nature's monuments, he is regarded by environmentalists as a national institution."- David Oliver was born on 15 May 1898 in California, USA. He was an actor, known for Nurse from Brooklyn (1938), Girl Overboard (1937) and Armored Car (1937). He died in November 1978 in Carmel, California, USA.
- Animation Department
- Writer
- Director
Gus Arriola was born on 17 July 1917 in Florence, Arizona, USA. He was a writer and director, known for Rats in Spats (1941). He was married to Mary Frances. He died on 2 February 2008 in Carmel, California, USA.- Joseph McNamara was born on 16 December 1934 in New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Laurie. He died on 19 September 2014 in Carmel, California, USA.