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Pat Conroy was born on 26 October 1945 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. He was a writer, known for The Prince of Tides (1991), Conrack (1974) and The Lords of Discipline (1983). He was married to Cassandra King, Lenore Fleischer and Barbara Jones. He died on 4 March 2016 in Beaufort, South Carolina, USA.- Actress
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On stage from the age of seven, Martha Sleeper began on screen in her early teens as a comic actress for Hal Roach. After her successful debut in the independently produced farce The Mailman (1923), she found herself cast in a series of child comedies with Buddy Messinger and a brace of one- and two-reel shorts opposite Charley Chase with titles like All Wet (1924) and Crazy Like a Fox (1926). Being voted a WAMPAS Baby Star in 1927 was a further boon to her popularity. An attempt was made to turn her into an eccentric knockabout comedienne in the vein of Gale Henry, but this failed to come off. She was subsequently used in rather more subtle domestic farce, such as in Pass the Gravy (1928) , as Max Davidson's daughter, frenetically trying to communicate with him by mime. Her last role of note in silent comedy was as a rather perfunctory leading lady in Stan Laurel's last solo effort, Should Tall Men Marry? (1928).
Her contract with Roach was not renewed due to a fiscal downsizing of the company in 1928, so Martha moved over to FBO. This was a Poverty Row outfit that specialized in low-budget features--often westerns--for the Midwest market. No prints of the six films Martha made for FBO are believed to have survived. After 1930, she bounced around among the studios, appearing in supporting roles--often as the "other woman"--in melodramas for MGM, Paramount and RKO. At the same time, growing ever more restless in Hollywood, she sought work on the stage. In an interview, she asserted that she had been given "permission to take jobs in the theater in downtown Los Angeles. That's unheard of, a contract player wanting to have time for stage work" (NY Times, April 7,1983).
In 1936, Martha and her actor-husband Hardie Albright left the West Coast for New York to begin a ten-year run on- and off-Broadway. At the same time she developed a lucrative sideline of designing idiosyncratic costume jewelry, mostly made from bakelite, wood and metal. This blossomed into a respectable $300,000-a-year business and earned Martha the sobriquet of "The Gadget Girl". Her varied creations--including tarantula brooches, necklaces of sun-drenched strawberries and collars of champagne bubbles and swizzle sticks--were hugely popular with the general public, the jet set and film stars like Dolores Del Río and Fay Wray.
In 1949, Martha settled on the island of Puerto Rico, sold her possessions in New York and reinvented herself yet again, as proprietor of a boutique in San Juan, designing and manufacturing fashionable women's clothes. She remained on the island until her retirement in 1969, spending her remaining years on her second husband's plantation near Charleston in South Carolina.- Lois Battle was born on 6 October 1939 in New York, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Rat Patrol (1966), The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1965) and Ransom for a Dead Man (1971). She died on 17 June 2014 in Beaufort, South Carolina, USA.
- Ione M. Telech was born on 10 April 1922 in Beaufort, South Carolina, USA. She was an actress, known for Forrest Gump (1994). She was married to Michael Hanville Sr. She died on 23 October 2015 in Beaufort, South Carolina, USA.
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Tom Schuster was born on 9 May 1955 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. He was an actor, known for Office Space (1999), Rosewood (1997) and Psycho IV: The Beginning (1990). He died on 15 December 2012 in Beaufort, South Carolina, USA.- Mallory Beach was born on 18 April 1999 in Walterboro, South Carolina, USA. She died on 24 February 2019 in Beaufort County, South Carolina, USA.
- Tonia Bryan was born on 3 June 1932 in Goldsboro, North Carolina, USA. She was an actress, known for Hot Summer in Barefoot County (1974). She died on 8 February 2009 in Beaufort, North Carolina, USA.
- Journalist, author, biographer and historian Samuel Hopkins Adams was born along the banks of Lake Erie at Dunkirk, NY, on 26 January 1871. His parents were Myron, a ministe3r, and Hester Rose Hopkins Adams, the daughter of a theologian. Adams attended Hamilton College in Clinton, NY, and upon graduation began working as a newspaper reporter and later editor.
In the early years of the 20th century Adams became one of the pioneers in "muckraking journalism" with his exposes on the patent-medicine industry published in Collier's Magazine. He would later write a number of informational articles on health and medicine and become an associate member of the American Medical Association, even though he lacked a background in medicine. Adams was probably the first journalist to write articles on health that could be understood by the average reader
Adams' first novel, "The Clarion", was published in 1914 and told the story of an idealistic editor trying to run an honest newspaper amid unscrupulous advertisers and corrupt politicians. A reoccurring theme throughout Adams' novels was the triumph of idealism over corruption. He wrote biographies on writer Alexander Woollcott, American politician Daniel Webster and President Warren G. Harding. Earlier supporters of Harding tried to suppress Adams' novel "Revelry" (1926) for its portrayal of the various scandals that had plagued the Harding administration. Adams wrote a number of "detective Average Jones" mystery stories that would later be adapted to radio. Under the pseudonym Warner Fabian he wrote several novels about the "Lost Generation" in the years following World War I, of which "Flaming Youth" (1923) was probably his best known.
An expert on the history of New York state, Adams wrote a series of articles for "The New Yorker" on the Erie Canal that were gathered together in 1955 and published under the title "Godfather Stories". He also authored "Canal Town" (1944) that told the story of the canal's construction, "Banner by the Wayside" about a 19th-century troupe of traveling New York actors and "Sunrise to Sunset", which chronicled the rise of the union movement in New York's garment district.
Adams married Elizabeth R. Noyes (1877-1957) of Charleston, WV, in 1898. The couple had two daughters before their divorce in 1915. Later that year he married former stage actress Jane Peyton Van Norman (1880-1946).
Adams died on 15 November 1958, while at his winter residence in Beaufort, SC. He was survived by his daughters, Hester and Katherine. - Marva Collins was born on 31 August 1936 in Monroeville, Alabama, USA. She was married to Clarence Collins. She died on 24 June 2015 in Beaufort, South Carolina, USA.
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Jack Thompson was born on 10 September 1931 in Fox Lake, Illinois, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Behind the Badge (2002), Record City (1977) and 50 Years of Country Music (1978). He died on 28 October 2008 in Beaufort, South Carolina, USA.- Additional Crew
Denny Breese was born on 7 September 1935 in Manhattan, Kansas, USA. Denny is known for The Abyss (1989) and The Deep (1977). Denny was married to Willa , Sun Daniel and Patricia Reynolds. Denny died on 26 November 2023 in Beaufort, North Carolina, USA.