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Milos Forman was born Jan Tomas Forman in Caslav, Czechoslovakia, to Anna (Svabova), who ran a summer hotel, and Rudolf Forman, a professor. During World War II, his parents were taken away by the Nazis, after being accused of participating in the underground resistance. His father died in Mittelbau-Dora, a sub camp of Buchenwald, and his mother died in Auschwitz, at which Milos became an orphan very early on. He studied screen-writing at the Prague Film Academy (F.A.M.U.). In his Czechoslovakian films, Black Peter (1964), Loves of a Blonde (1965), and The Firemen's Ball (1967), he created his own style of comedy. During the invasion of his country by the troops of the Warsaw pact in the summer of 1968, to stop the Prague spring, he left Europe for the United States. In spite of difficulties, he filmed Taking Off (1971) there and achieved his fame later with One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) adapted from the novel of Ken Kesey, which won five Oscars, including one for best direction. Other important films of Milos Forman were the musical Hair (1979) and his biography of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Amadeus (1984), which won eight Oscars.- Actress
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Betsy Palmer was probably best known for playing Jason Voorhees' mother in the horror film Friday the 13th (1980), but her career as an actress began many years before.
Palmer was born Patricia Betsy Hrunek in East Chicago, Indiana, to Marie (née Love), who launched the Chicago Business College, and Rudolph Vincent Hrunek, a Czech-born industrial chemist. Palmer played a young female officer opposite Jack Lemmon in Mister Roberts (1955), and appeared in another war film the same year, The Long Gray Line (1955). Throughout the late 1950s, Palmer was recognized as a news reporter on Today (1952) on NBC, then became largely involved in television. She remained in made-for-TV films and notable guest appearances, before playing the murderous avenging mother, Mrs. Voorhees, in the horror film Friday the 13th (1980). She also continued working in television, and appearing in low-budget films like The Fear: Resurrection (1999). Palmer spent her later years between her home in New York City and Sedona, Arizona.
Betsy Palmer died of natural causes on a Friday, May 29, 2015, at a hospice care center in Danbury, Connecticut.- Jessie Royce Landis was called "an international star" in her New York Times obituary. She was 20 when she made her stage debut at the Playhouse in Chicago as the young countess in "The Highwayman". Soon she was on Broadway. In 1950 she went to London for "Larger Than Life", a dramatization of W. Somerset Maugham's novel, "Theatre". There she received an award for the best performance of the year. The following year in London she had the prima donna role (a singing part) in "And So To Bed". In 1954, she published her autobiography, "You Won't Be So Pretty". Then in the mid-1950s her film career took off after she was Grace Kelly's mother in To Catch a Thief (1955) and Cary Grant's mother in North by Northwest (1959). Although she claimed to have been born the same year as Grant, she was actually more than seven years older.
- Renowned and highly respected actress Sada Thompson has earned critical acclaim both on stage and TV for her noble, strong-minded matrons, but her more challenging and compelling work has come when her characters have displayed darker, more neurotic tones.
Born in Des Moines, Iowa, she was the eldest of three children of magazine editor Hugh Woodruff Thompson and his wife Corlyss Gibson. After a family move to New Jersey, Sada developed an interest in acting, performing in school plays. She subsequently studied drama at the Carnegie Institute of Technology.
Upon graduating in 1949, she began to build up her resume in regional stock and with repertory companies appearing in such productions as "Hay Fever", "The Little Foxes", "Born Yesterday", "The Clandestine Marriage" and "The Cocktail Party". Making her off-Broadway debut in 1955 with the first concert reading of Dylan Thomas' "Under Milk Wood", Sada won a 1957 Drama Desk award for her work in both The Misanthrope" and "The River Line" and, thereafter, started leaning heavily toward the classics -- "Much Ado About Nothing," "Othello," "The Merry Wives of Windsor," "Twelfth Night," "The Tempest" and "Richard II" to name a few. The 1970s began exceptionally well, hitting her zenith with complex, transcending performances in both "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the Moon Marigolds" (earning both Drama Desk and Obie awards) and "Twigs," in which she captured the Tony (as well as Drama Desk, Obie and Sarah Siddons awards) in which she played four roles--three sisters and their elderly mother.
This renewed attention for Sada finally lent itself to film and TV work. The dark-haired, somewhat plump-figured woman with classy but slightly offbeat features was not deemed marketable for film. So, despite adding distinctive support to the dramas Desperate Characters (1971) and The Pursuit of Happiness (1971), it was television that would garner her the attention she longed for and deserved. She won her first Emmy nomination playing Mary Todd Lincoln in Lincoln (1974) opposite Hal Holbrook's Honest Abe. The following year, she earned another nomination as Jack Lemmon's put-upon wife in The Entertainer (1975), a TV remake of the 1960 British film. The Emmy would finally come to her for her sensible mother role in the touching dramatic series Family (1976). As the proper, intelligent, slightly remote Kate Lawrence," mother of three, Sada became a TV symbol of strength, courage and integrity during the show's four seasons. She went on to receive two more Emmy nominations as Rhea Perlman's mother on Cheers (1982) and as accused California schoolteacher Virginia McMartin, on trial for sexual abuse, in the mini-movie Indictment: The McMartin Trial (1995). The quality of her performance along with those of fellow actors James Woods, Shirley Knight and Henry Thomas (of E.T. fame), lent an air of distinction to the obvious tabloid-driven material.
In addition to other socially-relevant mini-movies, Sada occasionally returned to her beloved theater roots. She won a second Sarah Siddons award for the title role in "Driving Miss Daisy" (1989), and enjoyed a return to Broadway after nearly 20 years with "Any Given Day" in 1993. Elsewhere, her warm, soothing voice has been used frequently in documentary narratives and books-on-tape. Ms. Thompson, who lived in Connecticut with long-time husband (since 1949) Donald Stewart, had one daughter, Liza Stewart, a costume designer. She died in a Danbury hospital of lung disease on May 4, 2011, at age 83. - Character actor Wesley Addy began his prolific career as a prime player on the classical stage before coming to occasional films and TV in the early 1950s. Known for his intelligent, white-collar demeanor and lean, icy, cultivated menace, the silver-haired performer, who was actually born in Omaha, Nebraska, was often mistaken as British.
Majoring in economics at the University of California in Los Angeles, Wesley switched gears and trained in summer theater on Martha's Vineyard before trekking to New York City to pursue a professional career. In 1935, the actor made his Broadway stage debut with Orson Welles in Archibald Macleish's "Panic". He continued with roles as both "Marcellus" and "Fortinbras" in Leslie Howard's production of "Hamlet". Other Shakespearean roles during this early period included "Hotspur" in "Henry IV, Part I", "Benvolio" in "Romeo and Juliet" and "Orsino" in "Twelfth Night". He often performed the Bard in the company of such legendary interpreters as Orson Welles, Laurence Olivier and, more frequently, Maurice Evans.
World War II interrupted Addy's early momentum but he eventually returned to the theatre following his tour of duty and played opposite Katharine Cornell in "Antigone" and "Candida". A continued presence on Broadway, he had strong stage roles in "The Traitor", "Another Part of the Forest", "King Lear" and "The Leading Lady".
In 1951, the 38-year-old Addy made his film debut in the drama, The First Legion (1951), and would be seen from time to time throughout the decade in such dramatic fare as Scandal Sheet (1952), My Six Convicts (1952) and Time Table (1956). Some of his chillier roles came in films directed by Robert Aldrich, who utilized the actor quite often -- Kiss Me Deadly (1955), The Big Knife (1955), The Garment Jungle (1957), Ten Seconds to Hell (1959) and the Grand Guignol classics, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) and Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964).
Never acquiring a strong footing in the movies, Wesley changed his on-camera focus in the 1960s to TV and also sought out theatre roles, as well. In 1961, Wesley married actress Celeste Holm. Together, they proved a strong stage coupling in both comedies and dramas -- "Invitation to a March", "A Month in the Country", "Mame", "Candida", "Light Up the Sky", "Mama" and "With Love and Laughter".
A reliable, durable performer, Wesley played suave gents and villains on TV. A major portion of his work came from daytime soaps -- including The Edge of Night (1956), Days of Our Lives (1965), Ryan's Hope (1975) and Loving (1983). Later films included Seconds (1966), Network (1976), The Europeans (1979) and The Verdict (1982). He continued to act close to the end. His last film role was as a judge in Before and After (1996) starring Meryl Streep and Liam Neeson, which was released in the year of his death. He was 83. - Actress
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Ronnie Spector is an American singer. Spector was the lead singer of the rock/pop vocal girl group The Ronettes, who had a string of hits during the early to mid-1960s such as "Be My Baby", "Baby, I Love You", and "The Best Part of Breakin' Up". Subsequently, Ronnie Spector launched her solo career and has since released five studio albums (Siren in 1980, Unfinished Business in 1987, Something's Gonna Happen in 2003, Last of the Rock Stars in 2006, English Heart in 2016) and one extended play (She Talks to Rainbows in 1999).
In 1986, Ronnie Spector experienced a career resurgence when she was featured on Eddie Money's Grammy nominated pop rock song "Take Me Home Tonight" which reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100. She has sung and collaborated with multiple other acts. In 2007, Ronnie and the Ronettes were inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
In 2018, Spector appeared in the music documentary; Amy Winehouse: Back to Black (2018), which is based on the late singer Amy Winehouse and her final studio album Back to Black (2006). The album was inspired by 60's girl groups Winehouse gathered inspiration from listening to, such as The Ronettes.- Music Department
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Jim Steinman was born on 1 November 1947 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a composer and producer, known for Footloose (1984), The Mask of Zorro (1998) and Anastasia (1997). He died on 19 April 2021 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.- Writer
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Maurice Sendak was born on 10 June 1928 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for Where the Wild Things Are (2009), Little Bear (1995) and Where the Wild Things Are (1975). He died on 8 May 2012 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.- Actress
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Leela Chitnis was born on 9 September 1909 in Dharwad, Bombay Presidency, British India. She was an actress and director, known for Kangan (1939), Sadhna (1958) and Chhaya (1936). She was married to Dr. Gajanan Yeshwant Chitnis. She died on 14 July 2003 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.- House Jameson was born on 17 December 1902 in Austin, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Swimmer (1968), The Aldrich Family (1949) and The Doctors (1963). He was married to Edith Taliaferro and Liz Mears. He died on 23 April 1971 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.
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Mary Allin Travers was born on 7 November 1936 in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. She was a writer, known for Mary: Rhymes and Reasons (1972), Great Performances (1971) and Isn't This a Time! A Tribute Concert for Harold Leventhal (2004). She was married to Ethan Robbins, Gerald L. Taylor, Barry Feinstein and John Filler. She died on 16 September 2009 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.- Production Manager
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Laura Nyro was born on 18 October 1947 in The Bronx, New York, USA. She was a production manager, known for Final Destination (2000), My Girl (1991) and A Home at the End of the World (2004). She was married to David Bianchini. She died on 8 April 1997 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.- George Nassar was born on 23 November 1936 in Yonkers, New York, USA. He was married to Helen Schneider and Wilma Berniece Vermillion. He died on 12 October 2010 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.
- Rex Stout was an American writer from Indiana, primarily remembered for his detective fiction works. His best known characters were the Montenegrin armchair detective Nero Wolfe and his witty live-in assistant Archie Goodwin. Nero was depicted as a middle-aged war veteran, who rarely left his luxurious New York City brownstone house. So he relied on Archie for investigative work, and for personal assessments on some of the characters involved in their cases. The book series featuring the two characters lasted from 1934 to 1975. In 1985, Stout's final novella collection was published posthumously. Stout served as president of the Authors Guild for several years, and briefly served as the president of the Mystery Writers of America (MWA). He won the MWA's prestigious Grand Master Award in 1959.
In 1886, Stout was born to a Quaker family in Noblesville, Indiana. The city was one of the suburbs of Indianapolis. It underwent growth in the late 1880s, following the discovery of natural gas resources within the city's areas. Stout's parents were the teacher John Wallace Stout and his wife Lucetta Elizabeth Todhunter. Stout's sister was the horticulturist Ruth Stout (1884-1980), who wrote several books about gardening techniques.
Though born in Indiana, Stout was primarily raised in Kansas. His family had moved there during his childhood. Stout was encouraged to read by his father, and he reportedly had considerable reading skills before entering grade school. He managed to read the entire Biblical canon at an early age. In 1899, Stout won a state spelling bee championship.
Stout received his secondary education at the Topeka High School (1871-), a public high school located in Topeka, Kansas. The school had a large population of students for much of its early history, and attendance had repeatedly outgrown the capacity of the school facilities. Stout received his college education at the University of Kansas, a public research university located in Lawrence, Kansas.
In 1906, Stout joined the United States Navy. He served for some time as as a yeoman on the presidential yacht of then-president Theodore Roosevelt (term 1901-1909). Stout left the Navy in 1908. He was then drifting from job to job for the next few years. In 1910, Stout published one of his poems in the literary magazine "The Smart Set". He published a few more poems in this magazine, before starting work on prose fiction.
Between 1912 and 1918, Stout published about 40 short stories and novellas in various magazines. He was among the early writers of the pulp magazine "The All-Story Magazine" (1905-1920), which merged with its sister publication "Argosy" in 1920. His stories belonged to various genres, including adventure fiction, detective fiction, fantasy, romance, and science fiction. Two of these early works were murder mystery novellas, indicating his early interest in the genre.
Stout's literary career was not particularly lucrative in the 1910s, so he had to find other ways to earn money. In c. 1916, Stout invented a new school banking system. His system allowed schools to keep track of the money that school children saved in accounts at their school. About 400 schools adopted his system within a few years, and he was paid royalties for its use. Stout earned a small fortune, which allowed him to travel extensively. He gave up writing professionally for a while, though he intended to return to writing once he was wealthy enough to write whatever he pleased.
In 1926, Stout became one of the co-founders of the publishing house Vanguard Press (1926-1988). He served as the company's president from 1926 to 1928. Vanguard's early works focused on radical political publications. It later had a considerable catalog of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and children's literature, though it never became a major publisher. In 1929, Stout lost much of his savings at the start of the Great Depression. By that time, he had already resumed his literary career.
In the second phase of his literary career, Stout wrote the psychological story "How Like a God" (1929) and the political thriller novel "The President Vanishes" (1934). The novel depicted a President of the United States who staged his own disappearance in order to counter a planned military coup by an alliance of fascists and business oligarchs. It generated considerable publicity, and received its own film adaptation.
Stout introduced his popular characters Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin in the hit novel "Fer-de-Lance" (1934). The novel also introduced several of their recurring supporting characters. Stout started to increasingly focus on detective fiction, and had abandoned his work on all other genres by 1938. In 1937, he introduced the female detective Theodolinda "Dol" Bonner as a story protagonist. She would later join the recurring cast of the Nero Wolfe series. Stout also introduced the detective protagonists Tecumseh Fox and Alphabet Hicks, but soon lost interest in them.
Between 1940 and 1966, Stout published one new Nero Wolfe novel per year. He rarely published any other works in this period, as the Nero Wolfe series was by far his most lucrative work. His literary output declined considerably in quantity between 1968 and 1975. He published only four new novels in this period. His final Nero Wolfe novel was "A Family Affair" (1975), where Nero learns about the shady activities of one of his closest associates.
Stout died in October 1975, at the age of 88. His work has remained popular and influential among writers. In 2000, he was nominated by Bouchercon XXXI (an annual convention of creators and devotees of mystery and detective fiction) for its writer of the century award. He lost the award to Agatha Christie, but was listed as a runner-up, alongside Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Dorothy L. Sayers. In 2014, Stout was inducted posthumously to the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. - Music Department
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Jack Lawrence was born on 7 April 1912 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a composer, known for Sea of Love (1989), Black Rain (1989) and Goodfellas (1990). He died on 15 March 2009 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.- Mabel Moore was born on 15 November 1879. She was an actress, known for A False Suspicion (1911). She was married to Walter Hampden. She died on 14 July 1978 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.
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Frank Delaney was born on 24 October 1942 in Thomastown, Tipperary, Ireland. He was a writer and actor, known for Telling the Pictures, Goodbye, Mr. Chips (2002) and Frank Delaney (1982). He was married to Diane Meier, Salley Vickers, Susan Collier and Eilish Kelliher. He died on 21 February 2017 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.- Music Department
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Dave Dudley reigns supreme as the one and only king of trucker's country music. The tremendous success of his hit single "Six Days on the Road" in turn beget a whole new genre of country music. Other trucker's country songs Dave did are "Truck Drivin' Son of a Gun," "Trucker's Prayer," "Anything Leaving Town Today," "There Ain't No Easy Road," and "Two Six Packs Away." Moreover, "Six Days on the Road" has been covered by such artists as Steve Earle, Sawyer Brown, Red Sovine and George Thorogood & The Destroyers.
Born David Darwin Pedruska on May 3, 1928, in Spencer, Wisconsin, he grew up in Stevens Point. He received a guitar as a present from his father at age 11, but originally wanted to be a baseball pitcher. He played for the minor-league baseball team the Gainesville Owls. His budding baseball career was unfortunately cut short by an injury to his arm. Dave then decided to pursue a career as a country music singer. He worked briefly as a disc jockey at a Texas radio station and first began recording music for the National Recording Corporation. He had a few minor hit singles in the early 1960s prior to striking it big with his breakthrough smash "Six Days on the Road," which peaked at #2 on the country charts and cracked the Top 40 pop charts at #32.
Dave enjoyed a steady stream of hits throughout the 1960s and 1970s. He recorded more than 70 albums throughout his career. Although his songs failed to chart in the 1980s, he still remained a popular concert performer in that period. He received an honorary solid gold membership card from the Teamsters Union local in Nashville (the Teamsters Union is composed mainly of truck drivers). His songs are featured on the soundtracks to the films Four Friends (1981) and Dominick and Eugene (1988). In addition, Dudley--along with fellow country music singer/songwriter Tom T. Hall--composed the score for the road movie comedy Deadhead Miles (1972) (Dudley and Hall also sang a duet on the song "Day Drinking").
Dave Dudley died from a heart attack at age 75 on December 22, 2003. Although he's sadly no longer with us, Dave Dudley's deep, rich, booming baritone voice and excellent and exciting trucker's country songs shall forever live on as long as there are 18-wheelers hauling freight all over the world.- Rose Wilder Lane (1886-1968), was a prolific fiction writer, biographer and political theorist, as well as the daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the Little House series of children's books. Lane's skillful editing and publishing connections assisted her mother in making the transition from rural Ozark journalist to world-renowned children's author. Lane had left her parent's impoverished Missouri farm at the age of 17 and soon began to make her mark on the world. After a stint as a Western Union telegrapher, she sold real estate in California and later began a successful career as a reporter for the San Francisco Bulletin. Her 1918 divorce from Gillette Lane, after several years of separation, officially ended an relationship that had never recovered from the death of an infant son, around 1910. She never remarried. After her divorce, Lane continued to carve out a successful career as a writer of novels, short stories, biographies and tales of her extensive world travels. Her work as a war correspondent dated from post-WWI Europe to a tour of Vietnam in 1965 (when she was nearly 80 years old). She was a well-known literary figure of her day. Later in life, Lane's writing focused on her increasing political conservatism, her distaste of Communism, Socialism and any other form of government that denied the freedom of the individual. She is widely regarded as one of the leading figures behind what has grown into the American Libertarian Party.
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Don Morrow was born on 29 January 1927 in Stamford, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor, known for X2 - Wolverine's Revenge (2003), Fox Hunt (1996) and X-Men: Next Dimension (2002). He died on 27 October 2020 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.- Rachel Crothers (December 12, 1878 - July 5, 1958) was an American playwright and theater director known for her well-crafted plays that often dealt with feminist themes. Among theater historians, she is generally recognized as "the most successful and prolific woman dramatist writing in the first part of the twentieth century."
- Merle Miller was born on 17 May 1919 in Montour, Iowa, USA. He was a writer, known for The Rains of Ranchipur (1955), Kings Go Forth (1958) and Playhouse 90 (1956). He died on 10 June 1986 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.
- Jimmy Greaves was born on 20 February 1940 in Poplar, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for After Hours (1958), Mike Bassett: Manager (2005) and World Cup Extra (2002). He was married to Irene Barden. He died on 19 September 2021 in Danbury, Essex, England, UK.
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Thomas Francis Morgan Walsh was an author of mystery and suspense stories, with some brilliant crime novels to his credit, contemporaneous with Cornell Woolrich, but unduly neglected and much less remembered.
He was born in New York City on September 19, 1908, the son of Thomas Walsh and Margaret Hefferine, Walsh started writing for his high school paper and continued writing while he attended Columbia University, he would later leave Columbia mid term of his sophomore year and move to Baltimore, where he took a job as a journalist for the Baltimore Sun working as a police beat reporter, and also working for the U.S. Army Historical Branch, but by 1933 he retired from journalism and turned to writing short stories.
His writing career began with writing crime stories under the editorial tutelage of Joseph Shaw, the legendary chief of Black Mask Magazine, Walsh wrote and sold crime and suspense stories to several magazines, including Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Dime Detective, Good Housekeeping, Woman's Home Companion, and other periodicals.
As a self-employed writer, Walsh published more than fifty short stories and eleven novels, many of them featuring hard-shelled, tender-hearted Irish-American cops largely working alone, but in their ordinary tours of duty, and each of them set in the streets of New York City and depicting various elements of the city's vital population.
By 1950, he had published his first novel "Nightmare in Manhattan" for which he won the Edgar Allen Poe award for best first mystery. The novel was made into a movie called "Union Station" starring William Holden, Barry Fitzgerald and Nancy Olsen. Walsh wrote another 11 crime novels and continued to write short fiction long after the last of the pulps had folded, his other novels include, "Dark Window", "Dangerous Passenger", "The Action of the Tiger", and "The Eye of the Needle", and "Night Watch", which was made into the 1954 movie, "Pushover," starring Fred MacMurray and Kim Novak.
Walsh died October 21, 1984, in Danbury, Connecticut at the age of 76.- Producer
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Al Brodax was born on 14 February 1926 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Yellow Submarine (1968), Beetle Bailey (1963) and Cool McCool (1966). He was married to Joan Greenberg. He died on 24 November 2016 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.- Actor
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From the time he fronted his first orchestra in the late 1920s, Spanish-born violin prodigy Enric Madriguera did much to popularise Latin-American music in America. After completing studies at the Barcelona Conservatory he performed with several bands while still in his teens. He briefly worked in South America as musical director for Columbia Records. Following a spell at the Havana Casino, he moved on to the United States and formed a society-style dance orchestra in New York. Madriguera specialised in Latin or Afro-Cuban music, including standards by well-known composer/songwriters like Noro Morales as well as such original compositions as the band's theme song "Adios", "Flowers of Spain" or "Minute Samba". Madriguera was later honoured with the sobriquet "Ambassador of Music to all the Americas", bestowed upon him by the U.S. State Department and by the resident ambassadors of the South American republics.
After opening on the roof of the famed Hotel Biltmore, Madriguera secured engagements at other swank New York Hotels and managed to finagle a lucrative recording contract with Columbia, which helped to further cement his popularity. In addition to a good reed section, the band employed a number of capable vocalists: Adelaide Moffett (who was heiress to a newspaper empire), Helen Ward (who subsequently came to fame with Benny Goodman) and Patricia Gilmore (who joined from NBC and later became Mrs. Madriguera). For most of the forties, the band toured major hotels and theatres in the U.S.. When the Big Band era came to its end in the early fifties, Madriguera and wife left public life and retired to their country estate in Connecticut.- Jane-Howard Hammerstein was born on 16 December 1934 in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA. Jane-Howard was a writer, known for Wait Until Dark (1967), Summer of My German Soldier (1978) and Long Road Home (1991). Jane-Howard was married to William Hammerstein and Robert Carrington. Jane-Howard died on 15 January 2022 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.
- Edwin Cooper was born on 15 September 1894 in Genoa, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Defenders (1961), Tales of Tomorrow (1951) and Lights Out (1946). He died on 2 February 1984 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.
- Edmund Morris was born on 27 May 1940 in Nairobi, Kenya. He was a writer, known for The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, All the Presidents' Movies: The Movie (2009) and 60 Minutes (1968). He was married to Sylvia Jukes Morris. He died on 24 May 2019 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.
- John E. Sarno was born on 23 June 1923 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Martha Lamarque and Penny Patt. He died on 22 June 2017 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.
- Henry Wallace was born on 7 October 1888 in Adair County, Iowa, USA. He was married to Ilo Elsie Browne. He died on 18 November 1965 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.
- John Toland was born on 29 June 1912 in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA. He died on 4 January 2004 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.
- Izzy Singer was born on 10 March 1913 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor, known for Rachel, Rachel (1968), Looking Up (1977) and The Bride (1973). He died on 22 November 1982 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.
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Jefferson Jowdy was born on 21 September 1961 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA. Jefferson was a production manager, known for Farm Girl in New York (2007). Jefferson died on 15 October 2023 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.- Jeb Magruder was born on 5 November 1934 in New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Patricia Newton and Gail Barnes Nicholas. He died on 11 May 2014 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.
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Richard Kapp was born on 9 October 1936 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Lorenzo's Oil (1992). He was married to Barbara Borders Kapp. He died on 4 June 2006 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.- Casting Director
Liz Mears was born on 23 February 1900 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was a casting director, known for Captain Video and His Video Rangers (1949) and Deadline (1959). She was married to House Jameson. She died on 18 April 1988 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.- Director
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Karl Ulrich Schnabel was born on 6 August 1909 in Berlin, Germany. Karl Ulrich was a director and writer, known for Das Kalte Herz (2016). Karl Ulrich died on 27 August 2001 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.- Writer
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Peter Wyden was born on 2 October 1923 in Berlin, Germany. He was a writer, known for Day One (1989), The Mike Douglas Show (1961) and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962). He died on 15 June 1998 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.- Actor
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Howard Layton was born on 18 November 1918 in Coventry, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Time Is My Enemy (1954) and The Stateless Man (1955). He died on 14 July 2019 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.- Music Department
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Chris Griffin was born on 31 October 1915 in Binghampton, New York, USA. He is known for The Benny Goodman Story (1956) and Monsanto Night Presents Benny Goodman (1974). He died on 18 June 2005 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.- Actress
Pamela was born on 2 August 1937. She was an actress, known for Ramu Dada (1961) and Suhag Sindoor (1961). She was married to Frank Alphonso. She died on 9 January 2014 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.- Producer
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Hank O'Karma was born on 10 September 1949 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a producer and director, known for What Every Baby Knows (1983), Quint-essential (2007) and Yearbook (1991). He died on 24 February 2018 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.- Michael Seidenberg was born on 22 July 1954 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Impossibilities (2015) and The New Yorker Presents (2015). He was married to Nicky Roe and Thelma Woozley,. He died on 8 July 2019 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.
- Howard Barlow was born on 1 May 1892 in Plain City, Ohio, USA. He was married to Jeannette Thomas. He died on 31 January 1972 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.
- Bill Mazer was born on 2 November 1920 in Izyaslav, Volhynian Governorate [now Iziaslav, Khmelnytskyi Oblast], Ukraine. He was an actor, known for Eyewitness (1981), Dragonfly (1976) and NHL on CBS (1957). He was married to Dora "Dutch" Sudarsk. He died on 23 October 2013 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.
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Bill Eppridge was born on 20 March 1938 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is known for CBS News Special Report: The Shooting of Robert F. Kennedy (1968), An Unlikely Weapon (2008) and Tomorrow Coast to Coast (1973). He was married to Adrienne Aurichio. He died on 3 October 2013 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.- Music Department
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Julius Baker was born on 23 September 1915 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He is known for New York Stories (1989), Lovesick (1983) and Great Performances (1971). He was married to Ruth. He died on 6 August 2003 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.- Music Department
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Hershy Kay was born on 17 November 1919 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Hershy was a composer, known for The King and Four Queens (1956), Bite the Bullet (1975) and Center Stage (2000). Hershy died on 2 December 1981 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.- Anne Parrish was born on 12 November 1888 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA. She was a writer, known for Born to Be Bad (1950). She died on 5 September 1957 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.