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An athlete turned actor, Strode was a top-notch decathlete and a football star at UCLA. He became part of Hollywood lore after meeting director John Ford and becoming a part of the Ford "family," appearing in four Ford motion pictures. Strode also played the powerful gladiator who does battle with Kirk Douglas in Spartacus (1960)."- Actor
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Victor Izay was born on 23 December 1923 in Watertown, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Wild Hogs (2007), Young Guns (1988) and Employee of the Month (2006). He was married to Jo Roybal Izay and Connie Izay. He died on 20 January 2014 in Glendora, California, USA.- Actress
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She's considered an American icon in the world of entertainment although most contemporaries have no idea who she is until her legendary risqué "fan dance" is brought up. Then they put two and two together. Burlesque star Sally Rand was born in the Ozark region (Missouri) in 1904, her father a corporal in the Spanish-American War and her mother a Pennsylvania Dutch Quaker.
Inspired by the legendary ballerina Anna Pavlova, Sally became interested in dance at a young age and left home to join a carnival as a teen. She invariably became a cigarette girl, chorine, café dancer, artist's model and circus performer (Ringling) through a series of introductions. She subsequently joined a repertory theater company and took acting seriously for the first time. During the 20s she appeared in a number of stage shows. Films came her way as she was able to score work (due to her agile background in the circus) from Mack Sennett and Hal Roach in a few of their daredevil slapstick shorts. A Wampas Baby Star of 1927, she joined mentor Cecil B. DeMille's stock company and entered feature films with a new name that DeMille gave her -"Sally Rand."
She decorated a number of silents, including westerns with Hoot Gibson and others, but a pronounced lisp hurt her career come the advent of sound. It was at this juncture that the shapely dame decided to work on incorporating her talent for dancing back into her career. With the right mixture of enticement, imagination and intricate feathery placement, Sally Rand came upon her secret formula to success. As an exotic burlesque performer, she not only winningly ignited male libidos but found a steady gig for the rest of her days. A long-standing job at the Paramount Club in 1932 is where the idea of her "fan dance" was created. Her "Lady Godiva" stunt at the Chicago's World's Fair had her arrested on lewd charges but she was eventually released. All the brouhaha just increased her notoriety. She later created the "bubble dance" in which she did a taunting dance with a huge five foot specially constructed translucent bubble to the delight of male audiences.
In the 1930s she also appeared in legit plays including a stint as Sadie Thompson in "Rain" in 1935 opposite Humphrey Bogart. She would appear in later years at various revues, expositions and fairs still teasing and playing "hide and peek" with the guys, her act seldom straying from its original concept. She was arrested a few more times than she was married (at least three husbands can be credited to her marriage account). She continued to appear on stage doing her fan dance past age 60 and once replaced an ailing burlesque star Ann Corio in the stage show "This Was Burlesque" in the 1960s. She also shared the stage with burlesque topliners Tempest Storm and Blaze Starr. Sally's final appearance took place in Kansas City in 1978 and she died the following year.- Transportation Department
Duane L. Sirna is known for Murder by Numbers (2002) and The Story of Us (1999). Duane L. died on 16 March 2009 in Glendora, California, USA.- Pattee Chapman was born on 21 April 1926 in Holly Hill, Florida, USA. She was an actress, known for The Bob Cummings Show (1955), A Modern Marriage (1950) and Playhouse 90 (1956). She died on 18 April 2011 in Glendora, California, USA.
- Emmett Louis Till was born on July 25, 1941 in Chicago, Illinois to Louis and Mamie Till. When Emmett was four, he and his mother got word that his father, a soldier stationed in Italy during World War II, had been executed by the government (it wasn't revealed until many years later that his father was convicted by a court martial of the rape and murder of three Italian women, sentenced to death and subsequently hanged). Emmett was raised by his mother and grandmother and, in his early years, was said to have been a happy, normal young man who excelled at science and art in school and was known to love jokes.
In 1955, his great-uncle Mose Wright came up from Mississippi for a funeral and, at that time, invited young Emmett back to Mississippi with him for a vacation. Unaware of the strict rules of segregation enforced in Mississippi, Emmett made the fatal mistake of paying improper attention to Carolyn Bryant, the wife of a white store owner. Though accounts vary, history has agreed that while visiting the store, Emmett directed a wolf whistle at Mrs. Bryant. After several days, her husband Roy and his half-brother J.W. Milam tracked down young Till at his great-uncle's house in the middle of the night and took him away to a plantation, where they tortured him, then murdered him and threw the body in the Tallahatchie River. It was discovered days later and shipped back home to Chicago, where his mother decided to put her son's grossly bloated and disfigured corpse on display at an open-casket funeral so that all Chicago could see the full horror of her son's death.
The case made headlines worldwide, especially when Bryant and Milam were acquitted by an all-white jury back in Mississippi, and then began giving interviews bragging about how they had gotten away with murder and describing how they had tortured and murdered Emmett. After failing to get President Dwight D. Eisenhower to reopen the case, Mrs. Till had the photos of her son's corpse published in Jet magazine. The response to such a horrible act would remain in the minds of a generation of black people, and was said to have been the spark that put the Civil Rights Movement into motion. - Animation Department
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Denise Blakely Fuller was born on 21 April 1967 in Schenectady, New York, USA. Denise Blakely was an art director, known for Brave (2012), Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) and Elf (2003). Denise Blakely died on 5 January 2020 in Glendora, California, USA.- Actor
- Stunts
- Soundtrack
Jack Jones' career was cut short by a severe leg injury while engaged in stunt work on a John Wayne film in 1935. For a time Jack was a boxer and was named "Jack Jones" by a fight promoter in Amarillo, Texas, who thought that he could not promote a fight with someone named Ferris John Jones. Jack's son, Jack Lawrence Jones, made his one and only movie appearance as the baby in the 1934 film A Blasted Event (1934).- Actor
- Stunts
Brass Adams was born on 13 December 1921 in Ludlow City, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for The In-Laws (1979), Into the Night (1985) and Dolly Dearest (1991). He died on 11 February 2021 in Glendora, California, USA.- Carol Porter was born on 17 November 1958 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for Vendetta (1986), A Little Off Mark (1991) and Deathly Realities (1985). She died on 1 April 2012 in Glendora, California, USA.
- Kirk Kirkham was born on 6 July 1926 in Battle Creek, Michigan, USA. He was an actor, known for Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958), December Bride (1954) and The Hollywood Palace (1964). He was married to Phyllis Lines. He died on 3 December 2001 in Glendora, California, USA.
- Actress
Sheila O'Malley was born on 24 July 1922 in California, USA. She was an actress. She died on 20 February 1986 in Glendora, California, USA.- Cindy Hernandez was born on 7 June 1958. She died on 27 August 1976 in Glendora, California, USA.
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Additional Crew
- Script and Continuity Department
Denetia Arellanes was born on 14 August 1948 in California, USA. Denetia is known for The Lost Empire (1984) and Chopping Mall (1986). Denetia died on 19 December 2016 in Glendora, California, USA.