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- Actress
- Soundtrack
Stickney, who was born in Dickinson, North Dakota, studied acting in Minneapolis, after which she spent several years in summer stock and vaudeville. Her father, Victor Hugo Stickney, was a doctor who made house calls on horseback; he was among the first 10 elected to the National Cowboy Hall of Fame.
She attended the North Western Dramatic School in Minneapolis, and was one of the four singer/dancer "Southern Belles" in vaudeville. Her initial failure to obtain acting roles in New York in the 1920s led her to write a poem, "You're Not the Type", published in Liberty magazine. Her 1926 Broadway debut was a bit part in "The Squall", after which she often played character roles as an eccentric.
She created the role of Mollie Molloy (who jumps out of the window) in "The Front Page." Other plays included "Chicago," "Another Language," and "On Borrowed Time." "Life With Father," written by her husband Howard Lindsay, was turned down by everyone (including Lunt and Fontanne), so she and Lindsay played the parts in summer stock, bringing it finally to Broadway's Empire Theater on November 8, 1939. It closed seven years and 3,224 performances later, still the longest running non-musical on Broadway. When the Empire was demolished, she and Lindsay put two salvaged orchestra seats in their East Side townhouse; she died there, aged 101.- Actor
- Soundtrack
The man who would eventually become known as the Junk Yard Dog was born on December 13, 1953, in Wadesboro, North Carolina. He played football & wrestled in high school and was drafted by the Houston Oilers in 1975 after graduating from Fayetville State University, but was cut after blowing out his knee. He tried out of the Packers and held a few odd jobs until he began his wrestling career in the IWA in 1977. After stints in Memphis & Germany, he began working in Calgary for Stu Hart and spent much of 1978 working against Bret Hart, Jake Roberts, and Tommy Billington. After awhile he & Roberts traveled to Louisiana to work for Bill Watts. It was Watts who came up with the name Junk Yard Dog for Ritter. There he did a still famous angle with Michael Hayes (Michael Seitz) when it was alleged that Hayes blinded him, and the audience believed it, to the point where one fan actually pulled a gun on Hayes mid-match. He also worked with Paul Orndorff and Ted DiBiase. In his personal life, the Dog was known to be a giving, kind man, but his divorce led him into heavy cocaine use. His drawing power was fading in New Orleans, but the WWF, led by Vince McMahon soon scooped him up. He was popular, and had a match with Harley Race at WrestleMania III (1987) that drew well, but he was gaining too much weight and was eventually released. He turned up in WCW and ECW in the early 90s briefly, but was considered a has-been. He died in a car accident on June 2nd, 1998. He was 45.- Frank Miller was born in 1944 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Innerspace (1987), Ricochet (1991) and MacGyver (1985). He died on 2 June 1998 in Zeeland, Michigan, USA.
- Folke Lind was born on 20 April 1921 in Lund, Skåne län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for The Apple War (1971), False as Water (1985) and Kvartetten som sprängdes (1973). He died on 2 June 1998.
- Director
- Producer
- Cinematographer
He went to Moscow in 1960, where he studied philology, Russian language and literature in the Friendship of the Nations University, as well as acting and cinema and TV direction in the State Cinematographic Institute of the ex USSR. He also assisted Russian director Igor Talankin, in the soviet-american co-production Tchaikovsky (1970). He returned to Mexico in 1968. In collaboration with Guillermo Murray he adapted and assisted direction in the film Siempre hay una primera vez (1971), followed by the documentary Homenaje a Leopoldo Méndez (1970), and co-wrote, with Carlos Ancira a TV series based on the life of Dostoievsky. His debut as a director came in the film Tú, yo, nosotros (1972), which he co-directed with Juan Manuel Torres and Jorge Fons in 1970. One year later he directed El principio (1973), as well as wrote the script, which won the first place in the competition of the General Society of Writers of Mexico (SOGEM). The movie won four Diosas de Plata, eight Arieles and two Heraldos, in all of them for best film and best director, as well as the ACE award as best film of the year in Spanish in New York. In 1975 he filmed Longitud de guerra (1976), part of a trilogy that would have included "La guerra sin gloria" and "Pascual Orozco 1910". With this film he won the Heraldo for best film and best director and was nominated for the Diosas de Plata and the Arieles. In 1977 he filmed El jardín de los cerezos (1978) based on the play "The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Chejov. That year he also founded with the support of the Instituto Nacional Indigenista (National Indigenist Institue) the program "Ollin Yoliztli, or audiovisual memory of indigenous cultures of Mexico", in which he worked photographing, recording and filming more than 20 native groups across the country. Some of these documentaries can be seen in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Later he went into TV where he directed and produced (some) El padre Gallo (1986), La gloria y el infierno (1986), La fuerza del amor (1990), and the historical series El vuelo del águila (1994), based on the life of mexican president Porfirio Díaz, and La antorcha encendida (1996).- Soundtrack
Helen Carter was born on 12 September 1927 in Maces Springs, Scott County, Virginia, USA. She died on 2 June 1998 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.- Vasiliy Tumanskiy was born on 1 May 1932. He was an actor, known for Tsygan (1967), A spat' s chuzhoy zhenoy khorosho!? (1992) and Moy ostrov siniy... (1972). He died on 2 June 1998.
- Music Department
- Composer
Ricky Hyslop was born on 26 April 1915 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Ricky was a composer, known for Why Shoot the Teacher? (1977), The Serial (1963) and Pacific 13 (1956). Ricky died on 2 June 1998 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.