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Anne Bancroft was born on September 17, 1931 in The Bronx, NY, the middle daughter of Michael Italiano (1905-2001), a dress pattern maker, and Mildred DiNapoli (1907-2010), a telephone operator. She made her cinema debut in Don't Bother to Knock (1952) in 1952, and over the next five years appeared in a lot of undistinguished movies such as Gorilla at Large (1954), Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954), New York Confidential (1955), Nightfall (1956) and The Girl in Black Stockings (1957). By 1957 she grew dissatisfied with the scripts she was getting, left the film business and spent the next five years doing plays on Broadway. She returned to screens in 1962 with her portrayal of Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker (1962), for which she won an Oscar. Bancroft went on to give acclaimed performances in The Pumpkin Eater (1964), The Slender Thread (1965), Young Winston (1972), The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975), The Elephant Man (1980), To Be or Not to Be (1983), 84 Charing Cross Road (1987) and other movies, but her most famous role would be as Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate (1967). Her status as the "older woman" in the film is iconic, although in real life she was only eight years older than Katharine Ross and just six years older than Dustin Hoffman. Bancroft would later express her frustration over the fact that the film overshadowed her other work. Selective for much of her intermittent career, she appeared onscreen more frequently in the '90s and early '00s, playing a range of characters in such films as Love Potion No. 9 (1992), Point of No Return (1993), Home for the Holidays (1995), G.I. Jane (1997), Great Expectations (1998), Keeping the Faith (2000) and Up at the Villa (2000). She also started to make some TV films, including Deep in My Heart (1999) for which she won an Emmy. Sadly, on June 6, 2005, Bancroft passed away at the age of 73 from uterine cancer. Her death surprised many, as she had not disclosed her illness to the public. Among her survivors was her husband of 41 years, Mel Brooks, and their son Max Brooks, who was born in 1972. Her final film, the animated feature Delgo (2008), was released posthumously in 2008 and dedicated to her memory.Plot: Section 180, Lot 6- Mary Adams was born on 27 June 1910 in Ogden, Utah, USA. She was an actress, known for Executive Suite (1954), Blood of Dracula (1957) and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1962). She died on 30 November 1973 in Los Angeles, California, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund
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Making his stage debut at age 16, John Alexander joined a Shakespearean repertory company and in 1917 appeared on Broadway in "The Merchant of Venice." Although he played many parts on both stage and in films, his best known role was that of the crazed Teddy Brewster--the son who thinks he's Theodore Roosevelt - in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), a part he played both on stage and in the movie.- Glenn Anders was born September 1, 1889 in Los Angeles, California. He attended the Wallace dramatic school in California and began a career as a performer in vaudeville on the Orpheum circuit. He arrived in New York in 1919 and attended Columbia University from 1919 until 1921. He made his Broadway debut in 1919 in a play entitled Just Around the Corner. Mr. Anders had a very long and distinguished career on Broadway and during his career appeared in three Pulitzer Prize winning plays. Those plays were: Hell Bent for Heaven (1924) written by Hatcher Hughes; They Knew What They Wanted (1924) written by Sidney Howard and Strange Interlude (1928) written by Eugene O'Neill. Most of his career was spent on stage but he also had some noteworthy film appearances. He made approximately eight movies from 1925 to 1951. His most memorable film role was that of Grisby the lawyer in Lady from Shanghai, The (1948) starring Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth. After retiring from the stage he resided for several years in Mexico. He returned to the United States to reside at the Actor's Fund Home in Englewood, New Jersey. He resided at the Actor's Fund Home until his death in 1981 at the age of 92.Plot: Actors Fund Plot, Lot 448
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Peter Arno was born on 8 January 1904 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Artist and Models (1937). He was married to Mary Livingston Lansing and Lois Long: NK Lipstick. He died on 22 February 1968 in Port Chester, New York, USA.- Richard Abbott is known for Intimate Obsession (1992) and Fairly Legal (2011).
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Mel Brooks was born Melvin Kaminsky on June 28, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York. He served in WWII, and afterwards got a job playing the drums at nightclubs in the Catskills. Brooks eventually started a comedy act and also worked in radio and as Master Entertainer at Grossinger's Resort before going to television.
He was a writer for, Your Show of Shows (1950) Caesar's Hour (1954) and wrote the Broadway show Shinbone Alley. He also worked in the creation of The 2000 Year Old Man (1975) and Get Smart (1965) before embarking on a highly successful film career in writing, acting, producing and directing.
Brooks is famous for the spoofs of different film genres that he made such as Blazing Saddles (1974), History of the World: Part I (1981), Silent Movie (1976), Young Frankenstein (1974), Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), High Anxiety (1977), Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995), and Spaceballs (1987).Future burial site. Plot: Section 180, Lot 6- Actress
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Wendy Barrie was born in Hong Kong to an English-Irish father and a Russian Jewish mother. Her dad was the distinguished King's Counsel F.C. Jenkins which ensured that the family was well off. Wendy received her education at a convent school in England and a finishing school in Switzerland. After working in beauty parlors for a brief period she set her sights on the stage and made her first foray into acting at the London Savoy Theatre in "Wonder Bar" (1930). Two years later, she was "discovered" by producer Alexander Korda while lunching at the Savoy Grill. Having successfully auditioned for the part she was famously cast as Jane Seymour, the third of the six wives at the center of The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), starring Charles Laughton. Hollywood soon beckoned and Wendy left England for America in 1934. During the next decade and a bit, she found regular employment at Paramount (1935), Universal (1936-38) and RKO (1938-42). A blonde, vivacious lass with a certain innocent charm and an instinctive acting ability, she tended to play mostly ingenue roles in minor films and often rose above her material. This led to her being given a grittier role in the social drama Dead End (1937) and Wendy's career henceforth alternated between supporting roles in bigger pictures and leads in B-movies.
From the late 1930s her parts became more varied, ranging from a gangster's moll in the crime melodrama I Am the Law (1938) to a plane crash victim in Five Came Back (1939) and Richard Greene's love interest in The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939), with Basil Rathbone as "Sherlock Holmes". By the 1940s, Wendy's star began to fade. This was in no small part due to the bad publicity generated by her real-life role as mistress of notorious underworld figure Bugsy Siegel. As her pickings became ever slimmer she found herself relegated to perfunctory leads in various entries of "The Saint" and "Falcon" series at RKO. After appearing in a string of other decidedly mediocre productions she decided to embark on what turned out to be a successful new career as television host of her own pioneering talk show, Picture This (1948) (1948-50). Her relaxed, informal style brought her great popularity and plaudits from television critics like Jack Gould of the New York Times. Wendy's other claim to fame was as one of the first celebrities to make television commercials, famously with Revlon on 'The $64,000 Question'. During the 1960s, she also broadcast her own radio interview show from the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. She was actively involved in various charities and was known to attend as guest speaker at philanthropic functions, freely giving of her time without remuneration. In the mid '70s, Wendy suffered a stroke which affected her mental state and she spent the last years of her life at a nursing home in Englewood, New Jersey, where she died in February 1978, aged 65.Plot: Actors Fund Plot- Additional Crew
Ed Barrow was born on 10 May 1868 in Springfield, Illinois, USA. He is known for The Pride of the Yankees (1942). He died on 15 December 1953 in Port Chester, New York, USA.Plot: Section 79, Lot 10501, Grave 6 (In The Family Mausoleum)- Aubrey Beattie was born on 8 October 1865 in Nova Scotia, Canada. He was an actor, known for Hedda Gabler (1917), The Greater Woman (1917) and Mrs. Balfame (1917). He died on 22 December 1944 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund
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Lee Beggs was born on 3 December 1870 in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Ten Nights in a Barroom (1913), Janice Meredith (1924) and Phantom Paradise (1912). He was married to Doris Singleton. He died on 18 November 1943 in New York City, New York, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund- Film and stage actor and producer who once operated a stock company in East Orange, New Jersey. He made his acting debut at age five in a play about Davy Crockett and his final stage appearance was in "The Vamp" in 1955.
While in Chicago with a touring company of "No Time For Sergeants" he was beaten to death in his sixteenth-floor hotel suite. Police arrested Robert Mitchell, 19, and Haskell Ray Kellems, 18, of Evansville, Indiana who authorities said tried to rob him in his hotel apartment. Beggs put up a struggle when they attempted to bind and gag him, and the pair overpowered Beggs and beat him with bottles.Plot: Actors' Fund - Frank Behrens was born on 15 February 1919 in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor, known for The Twilight Zone (1959), One Step Beyond (1959) and Peter Gunn (1958). He was married to Amzie Strickland. He died on 15 December 1986 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund Lot 427
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Henri Bendel was born on 22 January 1868 in Lafayette, Louisiana, USA. He was a costume designer, known for Gloria's Romance (1916). He died on 22 March 1936 in New York City, New York, USA.- Actress
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Ms. Blaine is most noted for having portrayed Miss Adelaide, the long-suffering, perpetually engaged chorus girl, in the Broadway and film versions of Guys and Dolls (1955). She originated the role in 1950 on Broadway and stopped the show each night with her rendition of "Adelaide's Lament," in which she complains about having a bad cold because of her long engagement to gambler Nathan Detroit. Ms. Blaine also originated roles on Broadway in "Say Darling" and "Enter Laughing." She also starred on Broadway in "Hatful of Rain," "Company," and, briefly, in "Zorba." She starred in many national tours, including "A Streetcar Named Desire," "Don't Drink the Water," "Hello Dolly," and "Gypsy." Before going to Broadway, Ms. Blaine was a starlet at 20th Century-Fox, appearing in many musical comedy films, including Jitterbugs (1943), Greenwich Village (1944), and State Fair (1945). In the mid 1950s, Ms. Blaine reprised her role as Adelaide in the film version of Guys and Dolls (1955) with Frank Sinatra and Marlon Brando. After her Broadway appearance in "Company" in 1972, she appeared on national television at the 25th Tony anniversary special. This led to a revival of her TV career, and she continued to appear in guest roles on TV and in independent films and theater until her retirement in 1984.- William Blaisdell was born in April 1865 in California, USA. He was an actor, known for Racing Luck (1924), The Yankee Clipper (1927) and His Angel Child (1929). He was married to Clara Lavine (stage actress). He died on 1 January 1931 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund
- Jerri Blanchard is known for Follies Girl (1943) and Hotel Broadway (1949).Plot: Actors' Fund Lot 405
- Evangeline Booth was born on 25 December 1865 in Hackney, London, England, UK. She died on 17 July 1950 in Hartsdale, New York, USA.
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Herbert Booth was born on 26 August 1862 in Penzance, Cornwall, England, UK. He was a director and writer, known for Social Salvation (1898), Alias Nick Beal (1949) and Soldiers of the Cross (1900). He was married to Anna Ethel Lane and Cornelie Schoch. He died on 25 September 1926 in Yonkers, New York, USA.- Sully Boyar was born on 14 December 1923 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Dog Day Afternoon (1975), In the Soup (1992) and Car Wash (1976). He was married to Josephine Pizzo. He died on 23 March 2001 in Queens, New York City, New York, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund Lot 327
- Thomas W. Broadhurst was a writer, known for Damaged Love (1931). He died on 1 May 1936.Plot: Actors' Fund
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Russ Brown was born on 30 May 1892 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Anatomy of a Murder (1959), South Pacific (1958) and Damn Yankees (1958). He was married to Cornelia Rogers, Loretta Daye and Gertrude Jean Whitaker. He died on 19 October 1964 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund- Actress
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Billie Burke was born Mary William Ethelbert Appleton Burke on August 7, 1885 in Washington, D.C. Her father was a circus clown, and as a child she toured the United States and Europe with the circus (before motion pictures and after the stage, circuses were the biggest form of entertainment in the world). One could say that Billie was bred for show business. Her family ultimately settled in London, where she was fortunate to see plays in the city's historic West End, and decided she wanted to be a stage actress. At age 18, she made her stage debut and her career was off and running. Her performances were very well received and she became one of the most popular actresses to grace the stage. Broadway beckoned, and since New York City was now recognized as the stage capital of the world, it was there she would try her luck. Billie came to New York when she was 22 and her momentum did not stop. She appeared in numerous plays and it was only a matter of time before Hollywood came calling, which is exactly what happened. She made her film debut in the lead role in Peggy (1916). The film was a hit, but then again most films were, as the novelty of motion pictures had not worn off since The Great Train Robbery (1903) at the turn of the century. Later that year, she appeared in Gloria's Romance (1916). In between cinema work, she would take her place on the stage because not only was it her first love, but she had speaking parts. Billie considered herself more than an actress--she felt she was an artist, too. She believed that the stage was a way to personally reach out to an audience, something that could not be done in pictures. In 1921, she appeared as Elizabeth Banks in The Education of Elizabeth (1921), then she retired. She had wed impresario Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. of the famed Ziegfeld Follies and, with investments in the stock market, there was no need to work.
What the Ziegfelds did not plan on was "Black October" in 1929. Their stock investments were wiped out in the crash, which precipitated the Great Depression, and Billie had no choice but to return to the screen. Movies had become even bigger than ten years earlier, especially since the introduction of sound. Her first role of substance was as Margaret Fairlfield in A Bill of Divorcement (1932). As an artist, she loved the fact that she had dialog, but she had to work even harder because her husband had died the same year as her speaking debut - and work she did. One of her career highlights came as Mrs. Millicent Jordan in David O. Selznick's Dinner at Eight (1933), co-starring Lionel Barrymore, Wallace Beery, John Barrymore and Jean Harlow - heady company to be sure, but Billie turned in an outstanding performance as Mrs. Jordan, the scatterbrained wife of a man whose shipping company is in financial trouble and who was trying to get someone to loan his company money to help stave off disaster. Her character loved to give dinner parties because a dinner affair at the Jordans had a reputation among New York blue-blood society as the highlight of the season. With all the drama and intrigue going on around her, her main concern is that she is one man short of having a full seating arrangement. The film was a hit and once again Billie was back on top. In 1937, she had one of her most fondly remembered roles in Topper (1937), a film that would ultimately spin off two sequels, and all three were box-office hits. In 1938, Billie received her first and only Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of Emily Kilbourne in Merrily We Live (1938). This was probably the best performance of her screen career, but she was destined to be immortalized forever in the classic The Wizard of Oz (1939). At 54 years of age - and not looking anywhere near it - she played Glinda, the Good Witch of the North. The 1940s saw Billie busier than ever--she made 25 films between 1940 and 1949. She made only six in the 1950s, as her aging became noticeable. She was 75 when she made her final screen appearance as Cordelia Fosgate in John Ford's Western Sergeant Rutledge (1960). Billie retired for good and lived in Los Angeles, California, where she died at age 85 of natural causes on May 14, 1970.- Georgia Burke was born on 27 February 1878 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. She was an actress, known for Anna Lucasta (1958), Play of the Week (1959) and If You Give a Dance, You Gotta Pay the Band (1972). She died on 28 November 1985 in New York City, New York, USA.Plot: Actors Fund Lot 456
- William J. Butler was born in 1860 in Ireland. He was an actor and writer, known for The Girl Who Didn't Think (1917), The Price She Paid (1917) and A Summer Idyll (1910). He died on 27 January 1927 in New York City, New York, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund
- John Call was born on 3 November 1908 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964), The Anderson Tapes (1971) and Young Man with Ideas (1952). He was married to Helen Churchill Dalby. He died on 3 April 1973 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Romaine Callender was born on 17 February 1883 in Sheffield, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Alibi for Murder (1936), Captain Caution (1940) and Sharpshooters (1938). He died on 5 February 1976 in New York City, New York, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund
- Hope Cameron was born on 21 February 1920 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. She was an actress, known for The Chapman Report (1962), Shannon (1961) and In the Spirit (1990). She was married to Billy Friedberg. She died on 20 November 1998 in New York City, New York, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund Lot 1110
- Ralph W. Chambers was born on 1 March 1892 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for The Pajama Game (1957), Another Scandal (1924) and Trail Dust (1924). He died on 10 March 1968 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Andy Clark was born on 12 March 1903 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Hit the Deck (1929), The Shamrock Handicap (1926) and The Great Bradley Mystery (1917). He died on 16 November 1960 in New Rochelle, New York, USA.
- Dudley Clements was born on 31 March 1889 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for New Faces of 1937 (1937), Hideaway (1937) and Yes or No (1920). He died on 4 November 1947 in New York City, New York, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund
- Frank Conroy was born on 14 October 1890 in Derby, Derbyshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Ox-Bow Incident (1942), The Snake Pit (1948) and The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942). He was married to Helen Robbins. He died on 24 February 1964 in Paramus, New Jersey, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund , lot 481
- Bigelow Cooper was born in 1878 in Springfield, Ohio, USA. He was an actor, known for Vanity Fair (1915), The Treasure of Captain Kidd (1913) and Caste (1913). He was married to Anne L. ?. He died in 1953 in Westchester County, New York, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund
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'Lighthorse' Harry Cooper was born on 4 August 1904 in Leatherhead, Surrey, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Caddy (1953). He died on 17 October 2000 in White Plains, New York, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund- Additional Crew
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Cheryl Crawford was born on 24 September 1902 in Akron, Ohio, USA. She was a producer, known for Paint Your Wagon (1969), One Touch of Venus (1948) and Sweet Bird of Youth (1962). She died on 7 October 1986 in New York City, New York, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund Lot 330- Milton Cross was born on 16 April 1897 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Fifty Years Before Your Eyes (1950), All Star Revue (1950) and Gaslight Follies (1945). He was married to Lillian Cross. He died on 3 January 1975 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Charles Dalton was born on 29 August 1864 in Rochester, Kent, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Eternal Magdalene (1919), Fighting Odds (1917) and The Wakefield Case (1921). He was married to Rita Walton. He died on 11 June 1942 in Stamford, Connecticut, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund
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Character fame on film came quite late for long-time stage actor Harry Davenport at age 70, but he made up for lost time in very quick fashion with well over a hundred film roles registered from the advent of sound to the time of his death in 1949. Beloved for his twinkle-eyed avuncular and/or grandfatherly types in both comedy and drama, Davenport also represented a commanding yet comforting wisdom in his more authoritative roles as judge, doctor, minister, senator, etc.
The scion of an acting dynasty, he was born Harold George Bryant Davenport on January 19, 1866, in New York City to actors Edward Loomis Davenport (1815-1877) and Fanny (Elizabeth) Vining (1829-1891). One of nine children, two of his siblings died young while the seven surviving children went on to share their parents' love of the arts, including actress Fanny (1850-1898) and opera singer Lillie Davenport (1851-1927). Harry took his first stage bow in an 1871 production of "Damon and Pythias" in Philadelphia, and by his teen years was playing Shakespeare in stock companies.
Re-settling in New York, Harry began assertively building up his theater credits. In 1893, at age 27, he married actress Alice Shepard (aka Alice Davenport). Their brief marriage of three years produced daughter Dorothy Davenport, who would continue the acting dynasty into a new generation. She earned further recognition as the wife of tragic silent screen star Wallace Reid. Shortly after his divorce from Alice was final in early 1896, Harry married musical comedy star Phyllis Rankin (1875-1934). Their children Kate Davenport, Edward Davenport and Fanny Davenport became actors as well.
Making his Broadway debut with the musical comedy "The Voyage of Suzette" in 1894, Harry continued in the musical vein with Broadway productions of "The Belle of New York" (1897) (with wife Phyllis) (1895), "In Gay Paree" (1899) and "The Rounders" (1899) (again with Phyllis). The new century ushered in more musicals with "The Girl from Up There" (1901), "The Defender" (1901), "The Girl from Kay's" (1903), "It Happened in Nordland" (1904), "My Best Girl" (1912), "Sari" (1914) and "The Dancing Duchess" (1914). On the legit side he played expertly in "A Country Mouse" (opposite Ethel Barrymore), and in "The Next of Kin" (1909) and "Children of Destiny" (1910).
Co-founding the Actor's Equity Association along with vaudeville legend Eddie Foy as a means to confront the deplorable exploitation of actors, Harry was held in high regard as the acting community subsequently came together and executed strikes to protect and guarantee their rights. This dire situation also prompted Harry to seek work elsewhere -- in films. He joined up with Vitragraph in 1914 and made his silent screen debut with the film Too Many Husbands (1914). In the next year he starred in and directed a series of "Jarr Family" shorts, and made his last silent feature with an unbilled part in Among Those Present (1921) before refocusing completely on his first love -- the stage.
He and his actress/wife Phyllis joined forces once again with the Broadway hit comedies "Lightnin'" and "Three Wise Fools", both in 1918. Throughout the 1920s decade he continued to find employment on the stage with "Thank You," Cock O' the Roost, "Hay Fever" and "Julius Caesar". The untimely death of wife Phyllis in 1934 prompted Harry to abandon his stage pursuits and travel to California, at age 69, to again check out the film industry. It proved to be a very smart move.
Harry graced a number of Oscar-caliber films during his character reign: The Life of Emile Zola (1937), You Can't Take It with You (1938), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), Gone with the Wind (1939), All This, and Heaven Too (1940), Foreign Correspondent (1940), One Foot in Heaven (1941), Kings Row (1942) and The Ox-Bow Incident (1942). Several of his films also featured family or extended family members. His brother-in-law Lionel Barrymore appeared in a number of Harry's films and Gone with the Wind (1939) also had a son and grandson in the cast.
Harry maintained his film career right up until his death at age 83 of a heart attack on August 9, 1949, and was buried back in New York (Valhalla).- Actress
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Composer, songwriter ("Keep Dreaming"), author, conductor and singer who, after high school, sang with orchestras on radio, in theatres and night clubs throughout the USA. She eventually led her own group, Dolly Dawn and her Dawn Patrol, and has made many records. Joining ASCAP in 1962, her chief musical collaborators included John Guarnieri. Her other popular-song compositions included "The Little Birdies".Plot: Actors Fund Lot 321- Olive Deering was born on 11 October 1918 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Ten Commandments (1956), Samson and Delilah (1949) and Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958). She was married to Leo Penn. She died on 22 March 1986 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund
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W.W. Denslow was born on 5 May 1856 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a writer, known for Billy Bounce (1963), Number 13 (1962) and The Legends of Oz (1993). He was married to Mrs. Frances G. Doolittle, Ann Waters Holden and Annie McCartney. He died on 29 March 1915 in New York City, New York, USA.- Music Department
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Prolific songwriter ("Deep Purple", "Have You Ever Been Lonely?", "Wagon Wheels", "A Marshmallow World"), composer, pianist and author, educated at DeWitt Clinton High School; his first music study was with his sister. He joined the staff of the G. Ricordi Company, and was an early radio performer on radio ("Sweethearts of the Air" [1923-1929] with his wife May Singhi Breen, over NBC). He wrote songs for the Broadway musicals "Yes Yes Yvette", "Earl Carroll's Vanities of 1928", and "Ziegfeld Follies of 1934". Joining ASCAP in 1922, he collaborated musically with his wife and with Jo Trent, Harry Richman, Charles Tobias, Billy Hill, Mitchell Parish, Bert Shefter, Benny Davis, Al Stillman, Sammy Gallop, Sam Lewis, Stanley Adams, and Carl Sigman. His other popular-song and instrumental compositions include "When Your Hair Has Turned to Silver", "When You're Gone I Won't Forget", "Muddy Water", "I Just Roll Along", "One More Kiss Then Goodnight", "Somebody Loves You", "There's a Home in Wyoming", "Rain", "Just Say Aloha", "That's Life I Guess", "In a Mission by the Sea", "Royal Blue", "Maytime in Vienna", "Starlit Hour", "The Lamp is Low", "Lilacs in the Rain", "On a Little Street in Singapore", "All I Need is You", "Moonlight Mood", "Evening Star", "American Waltz", "Autumn Serenade", "That's Where I Came In", "As Years Go By", "In the Market Place in Old Monterey", "Who Do You Know in Heaven?", "Twenty-Four Hours of Sunshine", "God of Battles" (poem by General George Patton), "I Hear America Singing", "I Hear a Forest Praying", "God Is Ever Beside Me", "Buona Sera", and "Love Ya".- Elliott Dexter was born on 21 December 1879 in Galveston, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for The Witching Hour (1921), Woman and Wife (1918) and Daphne and the Pirate (1916). He was married to Mrs. Nina Chisholm Untermyer (socialite) and Marie Doro. He died on 23 June 1941 in Amityville, New York, USA.
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Charles Dickson was born in April 1855 in New York, New York, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Good Night, Paul (1918), Movie Money (1916) and Dear Percy (1916). He was married to Lillian Burkhardt. He died on 11 December 1927 in New York City, New York, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund- Actor
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Tommy Dorsey was born on November 19, 1905 in Mahanoy Plane, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a musician and a bandleader, whose music appeared in such films as Annie Hall (1977), Ship Ahoy (1942) and The Human Stain (2003). He also occasionally appeared as himself, frequently with his band, in a variety of films. He was previously married to Jane Karl New, Patricia Dane and Mildred Ann Kraft. He died on November 26, 1956 in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA.Plot: Uncas Sec. 41- Actor
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J. Malcolm Dunn was born on 25 May 1867 in London, England, UK. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Peter Stuyvesant (1924), The Magic Cup (1921) and Dawn of the East (1921). He was married to Violette Kimball (actress and writer). He died on 10 October 1946 in Beechurst, New York, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund- Music Department
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Composer and songwriter ("Wonderful, Wonderful", "Dungaree Doll", "See You in September"), he joined ASCAP in 1953 and collaborated musically with Hal David. His other popular-song compositions include "Broken-Hearted Melody", "Wind, Sand and Stars", "Johnny Get Angry" and "I Am".Plot: Section 176, Lot 275, Grave 2- Angna Enters was born on 28 April 1907 in New York City, New York, USA. She was a writer, known for Lost Angel (1943), Tenth Avenue Angel (1948) and Camera Three (1955). She was married to Louis Kalonyme. She died on 25 February 1989 in Tenafly, New Jersey, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund
- Charles Esdale was born in 1873. He was an actor, known for Yorktown (1924), Summer Bachelors (1926) and Soul-Fire (1925). He died on 10 July 1937 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Judith Evelyn was born on 20 March 1909 in Seneca, South Dakota, USA. She was an actress, known for Rear Window (1954), Giant (1956) and Thriller (1960). She was married to Andrew Allan. She died on 7 May 1967 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Famed singer and author Geraldine Farrar was educated in public schools and then became a music student of Mrs. J.H. Long, Trabadello, Emma Thursby, Lilli Lehman and Graziani. Her 1901 debut was at the Royal Opera House in Berlin, in the role of Marguerite in "Faust". From 1906-22 she was a member of the Metropolitan Opera in New York. During World War II she was active in the Red Cross and the AWVS, and also made many lecture tours. She wrote two autobiographies. Joining ASCAP in 1936, her songwriting credits include "Ecstasy of Spring", "Here Beauty Dwells", "The Tryst", "The Alder Tree", "The Mirage", "Oh, Thou Field of Waving Corn", "Morning", "The Fountain", "The Dream", and "Love Comes and Goes" (all based on the music of Sergei Rachmaninoff), "The Whole World Knows", "Dear Homeland", "Fair Rosemarin" (all based on Fritz Kreisler themes") and "Tears" (based on a theme by Modest Mussorgsky).Plot: Section 167, Lot 1B1, behind the big Cobb Mausoleum- Emanuel Feuermann was born on 22 November 1902 in Kolomyja, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Kolomyia, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Ukraine]. He died on 25 May 1942 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Ezio Flagello was born on 28 January 1931 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Godfather Part II (1974), How Much Do You Love Me? (2005) and Camera Three (1955). He was married to Myra Bianco and Anna Mione. He died on 19 March 2009 in Palm Bay, Florida, USA.Plot: Section 10, Lot 87, Grave 2- Viola A. Fortescue was born on 5 February 1875 in Columbus, Georgia, USA. She was an actress, known for The White Raven (1917). She died on 16 September 1953 in New York City, New York, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund
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Gloria Foster will always be best known for her performance as The Oracle in The Matrix (1999) and The Matrix Reloaded (2003), but the actress's career spanned four decades on the stage and screen.
Born on November 15, 1933 in Chicago, Illinois, Foster was put in the custody of her grandparents and raised on a farm. She returned to Chicago to attend the University of Illinois. Acting was not a focus until she was accepted at the city's distinguished Goodman Theatre. She performed on stages around the city before heading to New York City in the early 1960s.
In New York, her first stage role was in "A Raisin in the Sun". She won an Obie Award for her next performance in the play "In White America", where she portrayed 27 different characters. Life Magazine dedicated a two-page article on Foster. More roles followed as her fans grew in number; quite often, roles were being written expressly for her. By the end of her career, she would win 2 more Obies, for a later performance of "A Raisin in the Sun" and the Broadway production of "Having Our Say" in 1995.
Foster's first film role was in The Cool World (1963); during production set met actor-director Clarence Williams III, and the couple soon married. (They later divorced, and Foster never remarried.)
Her film work was limited, with roles in Nothing But a Man (1964), The Comedians (1967), The Angel Levine (1970), Man and Boy (1971), Leonard Part 6 (1987), City of Hope (1991), and the aforementioned Matrix appearances. She worked a bit more on television, with appearances throughout the years on I Spy (1965), Mod Squad (1968), The Bill Cosby Show (1969), The White Shadow (1978), The Cosby Show (1984), Law & Order (1990) (her character here was based on Betty Shabazz, Malcolm X's widow), and Soul Food (2000). She appeared in the TV movies The House of Dies Drear (1984) and the Golden Globe-nominated Separate But Equal (1991).
She returned to the stage in 1995 in "Having Our Say", co-starring with Mary Alice, who would take her place as The Oracle in The Matrix Revolutions (2003).
On September 29, 2001, she died of complications from diabetes. She was 67.Plot: Actor's Fund Plot- Director
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Alexander F. Frank was born in 1866 in England, UK. He was a director and writer, known for A Suspicious Wife (1914), The Tattooed Man (1915) and In Raw Color (1915). He died on 14 December 1939 in Long Island City, New York, USA.- Theatrical producer Harry Frazee has gone down in history as the man who sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees while he was owner of Boston Red Sox. Frazee's other claim to fame besides peddling Ruth was producing the Broadway musical "No, No, Nanette" in 1925. The smash hit musical "No, No, Nanette" was based on the farce Frazee produced on the Great White Way in late 1919, "My Lady Friends".
- Truman Gaige was born on 19 June 1906 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Musical Comedy Time (1950), Grace Quigley (1984) and 3-2-1 Contact (1980). He died on 17 April 2002 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund
- Albert Gaston is known for Courage for Two (1919).Plot: Actors' Fund
- Echlin Gayer was born on 11 September 1877 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Her Love Story (1924), The Mad Dancer (1925) and Sandy Burke of the U-Bar-U (1919). He was married to Margaret Dubois, Kathleen Clifford (first) and Madeline Elizabeth (third). He died on 15 February 1926 in New York City, New York, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund
- Eleanor Gehrig was born on 6 March 1904 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. She was a writer, known for A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story (1978) and The Ed Sullivan Show (1948). She was married to Lou Gehrig. She died on 6 March 1984 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Lou Gehrig is remembered as baseball's "Iron Horse" and used to own the major league record for the 2,130 consecutive games that he played for the New York Yankees between 1925 and 1939, where he had a .340 career batting average, making him one of the greatest hitters of all time. Henry Louis Gehrig was born in the Yorkville section of Manhattan, New York City on June 19, 1903. His parents, Heinrich and Christina Gehrig, were German immigrants. Of their four children, Lou was the only one who survived to adulthood. Growing up as a mama's boy, Lou lived with his parents until he married at the age of 30. Lou attended New York public schools, including the High School of Commerce, where he excelled in baseball, football and swimming. In his senior year, Lou's school won New York's public school baseball championship. They played Chicago's best high school team at Wrigley Field in 1920. The game was a portrait of what was to come: with the bases loaded and two outs in the 9th inning, Lou crushed a 3-2 pitch over the right field to win the game. To fulfill his parents' dream, Lou enrolled at New York's Columbia University in 1922. Because he had briefly played for a professional baseball club the preceding summer, Lou was barred from athletic competitions at Columbia for a year. After sitting out the year, Lou started on the college's baseball and football squads, earning him the nickname "Columbia Lou." When his father lost his job and his mother fell ill, Lou decided to leave college for a professional baseball career. In June 1923, the New York Yankees signed him to a minor league contract. He was assigned to the team's Hartford, Connecticut, farm club where he played for two seasons. Lou was then inserted into the Yankee lineup on June 1, 1925 substituting for their regular first baseman, Wally Pipp. For the next 14 years, Lou did not miss a single game. Even though Lou made an immediate impression in the majors, leading the American League with 20 triples in his second season, it was in 1927 that this six-foot, 210-pound left-hander blossomed as a slugger. He challenged teammate Babe Ruth for the league's home run title. By the end of the season, Lou had hit 47 home runs to Babe Ruth's 60, earning second place. That year, Lou hit .373 and set a major league record by racking up 175 RBIs. Not surprisingly, Lou was voted the league's Most Valuable Player. He also helped the Yankees to win the 1927 World Series against the Pittsburgh Pirates. True to his form, Lou had almost decided to sit out the entire series to stay by his ill mother's side. For the next 13 consecutive seasons, Lou knocked more than 100 home runs, and slugged 46 home runs with 184 RBIs in 1931. On June 3, 1932, Lou hit four home runs in one game against the Philadelphia Athletics, setting another major league record. In 1933, Lou married Eleanor Twitchell, who helped him withstand the rigors of professional baseball. On the eve of his 2,000th consecutive game in 1938, Eleanor suggested that Lou was getting compulsive about the streak and advised him to end his career at 1,999 games. Despite his wife's good intentions, Lou would not be deterred and appeared there and at 130 more games. During 1939 spring training Lou began to experience weakness and problems with coordination. On May 2, 1939, Lou's consecutive game streak finally ended when he removed himself from the team. Suspecting something more than his training was making him feel worn out, Lou entered the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota for health tests and on June 19, 1939, his 36th birthday, Lou was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a rare incurable muscular disorder which causes the muscular motor functions to degenerate, resulting in atrophying muscles, which in turn can lead to paralysis and ultimately death. New York mayor Fiorello LaGuardia named Lou the city's parole commissioner upon his retirement from baseball in 1939, a job he held until his declining health confided him to his bed in early 1941. Lou Gehrig finally passed away from ALS on June 2, 1941 at the age of 37. His universal renown was so great that amyotrophic lateral sclerosis later became known as Lou Gehrig's Disease.Plot: Section 93, Lot 12686, ashes placed in the center of the headstone
- Julian Greer was born in 1870 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for Passion Flower (1921) and Sunshine Harbor (1922). He died on 15 April 1928 in New York City, New York, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund
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Born in Belgium, Ulu Grosbard was educated at the University of Chicago, then attended the Yale Drama School. Becoming a stage director in 1957, Grosbard directed many successful Broadway shows. In the early '60s Grosbard journeyed to Hollywood, where he was hired as an assistant director on several productions, and several years later directed his first film - appropriately enough, an adaptation of a hit Broadway play (The Subject Was Roses (1968)). Grosbard's film career has been sporadic, however, and he has found much more success staging Broadway shows.- Leonard Grover was born on 28 April 1858 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Rainy, the Lion Killer (1914), Romeo and Juliet (1916) and The Coming Power (1914). He was married to Ida May Oliver (aka Kitty O'Neil, actress). He died on 24 March 1947 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund
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Marion Harris was a vaudeville and revue headliner, famed for her renditions of jazz songs. She began her recording career in 1916 performing such standards as "Look for the Silver Lining", "I Ain't Got Nobody Much", "After You've Gone" and "The Man I Love". In 1929 she turned down an offer from Universal to substitute her voice for a film player. Instead she made her picture debut in MGM's _Devil May Care (1929)_. She died from burns in bed caused by a cigarette fire.Plot: Actors' Fund- Actress
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A slim, stunning, stylish-looking actress, British Jill Haworth (born Valerie Jill Haworth on August 15, 1945 in Sussex) was a free-spirited product of the 1960s. Her father was a textile magnate and sometime race car driver and mother an aspiring ballerina. Trained in dance herself, she attended the Corona Stage School and appeared, unbilled, as a schoolgirl in a couple of movies, before fame came knocking at her door.
The diminutive (5'2") Jill was discovered by ever-formidable director Otto Preminger after he happened upon her photo from her acting school. Looking for a new face to play the refugee role of Karen in his monumental Oscar-winning film Exodus (1960), Jill made a touching impression as Sal Mineo's ill-fated Jewish girlfriend. An impressed Preminger went on to cast the actress in two other of his other important epics that same decade -- The Cardinal (1963) and In Harm's Way (1965). Both, however, were received with much less fanfare.
At this juncture, Jill had gained a sympathy vote in Hollywood as many of her ingénues seemed to meet untimely ends. Despite a dusky, untrained singing voice, the lovely blonde went to Broadway in 1966 and fashioned the role of the capricious Britisher Sally Bowles (played with a dark wig) in the musical "Cabaret," which co-starred Bert Convy as her naive American boyfriend and the irrepressible Joel Grey as the seedy Master of Ceremonies. The Kander/Ebb musical, which took place in decadent pre-Nazi Berlin, was based on Christopher Isherwood's popular "Berlin Stories". A huge hit, it won numerous Tony awards, including best musical of the 1966-67 season. Although Jill received mixed reviews, she played the role for two years.
Interestingly, it was veterans Lotte Lenya and Jack Gilford who received Tony nominations for their elderly roles in the production and not the young leads Haworth and Convy. Later on, while Grey was asked to recreate his magnetic Tony-winning part for the 1972 film Cabaret (1972), Jill and Bert were snubbed again when the leads went to others. It should be noted that by the time Bob Fosse's screen version was ready to go, Jill's star had dimmed considerably. The movie was now geared as a showcase for the fast-rising Liza Minnelli. As such, the Bowles character was Americanized and her boyfriend, played now by Michael York, served as her British counterpart. Both Minnelli and Grey won well-deserved Oscars for their dazzling performances.
After the "Cabaret" success, things died down and Jill returned to England, relegated to a few horror films here and there, including It! (1967), Horror House (1969) and Tower of Evil (1972). She also appeared on several American TV series from time to time, including Mission: Impossible (1966), The F.B.I. (1965), Baretta (1975) and Vega$ (1978). By the 1980s, however, Jill was pretty much out of sight.
In 2001 she appeared out of nowhere in a support role for the America film Mergers & Acquisitions (2001). She was living in New York and reportedly had just finished working on a voiceover YMCA spot in 2011 when she died suddenly in her Manhattan home of "natural causes" at age 65.Plot: Actors Plot- Actress
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Grace Henderson was born in January 1860 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for A Corner in Wheat (1909), A Midnight Cupid (1910) and Tragedy of the Dress Suit (1912). She was married to David Henderson. She died on 30 October 1944 in New York City, New York, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund- Ralph Hertz was born in 1890. He was an actor, known for Alice in Wonderland (1931), The Plainclothesman (1949) and Robert Montgomery Presents (1950). He died in 1957 in New York, USA.
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Hodge starred on radio as "The Green Hornet" in the 1940s. In the 1950s he was popular to TV fans as Captain Video. By the time of his death however, he had become an alcoholic and was living on $63 a week social security checks. He died alone and forgotten.- Gertrude Thanhouser was born on 23 April 1880 in Beauvoir, Mississippi, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for The Price of Her Silence (1915), Their One Love (1915) and St. Elmo (1910). She was married to Edwin Thanhouser. She died on 29 May 1951 in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, USA.
- Julia Hurley was born in 1848 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Il trovatore (1914), The Jungle (1914) and Little Women (1918). She died on 4 June 1927 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Danny Kaye left school at the age of 13 to work in the so-called Borscht Belt of Jewish resorts in the Catskill Mountains. It was there he learned the basics of show biz. From there he went through a series of jobs in and out of the business. In 1939, he made his Broadway debut in "Straw Hat Revue," but it was the stage production of the musical "Lady in the Dark" in 1940 that brought him acclaim and notice from agents. Also in 1940, he married Sylvia Fine, who went on to manage his career. She helped create the routines and gags, and wrote most of the songs that he performed. Danny could sing and dance like many others, but his specialty was reciting those tongue-twisting songs and monologues.
Samuel Goldwyn had been trying to sign Kaye to a movie contract for two years before he eventually agreed. Goldwyn put him in a series of Technicolor musicals, starting with Up in Arms (1944). His debut was successful, and he continued to make hit movies such as The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947) and The Inspector General (1949). In 1954, he appeared with Bing Crosby in White Christmas (1954), which was based on the Irving Berlin song of the same name. In 1955, he made what many consider his best comedy, The Court Jester (1955), with the brilliant Pellet with the Poison routine. Like all things, however, the lifespan of a comedian is limited and his movie career waned. In 1960, he began doing specials on television and this led to his own TV series, The Danny Kaye Show (1963), which ran from 1963 to 1967.
Some of his last roles were also his most memorable, such as an intense Holocaust survivor in Skokie (1981) and as a kind but goofy dentist in an episode of The Cosby Show (1984). He also worked tirelessly for UNICEF.- Producer
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Sylvia Fine was born on 29 August 1913 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She was a producer and writer, known for The Five Pennies (1959), The Moon Is Blue (1953) and Vegas Vacation (1997). She was married to Danny Kaye. She died on 28 October 1991 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.- Stuart Neilson-Kemp is known for The Eternity Man (2008) and Carols in the Domain (2005).
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Beginning his show business career at age 13 as an entertainer on Mississippi riverboats, Guy Kibbee graduated to the legitimate stage and spent many years in the theater. In the 1930s he was signed by Warner Brothers, and became part of what was known as "the Warner Brothers Stock Company", a cadre of seasoned character actors and actresses who enlivened many a Warners musical or gangster film. Kibbee specialized in playing jovial, but not particularly bright, businessmen and government officials. He was memorable as the stuffy lawyer with a secret weakness for showgirls in Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933).Plot: Actors Fund plot- Joseph Kilgour was born on 11 July 1863 in Ayr, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for My Lady's Slipper (1916), The House of Mirth (1918) and The Dawn of Freedom (1916). He was married to Angela L Kilgour (c1881 - 1929). He died on 21 April 1933 in Bay Shore, Long Island, New York, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund
- John Koch Newman was born in 1864 in Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for The Greatest Love of All (1924). He died on 2 March 1927 in New York City, New York, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund
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Ruth Laredo was born on 20 November 1937 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She was an actress, known for Small Time Crooks (2000). She was married to Jaime Laredo. She died on 25 May 2005 in New York City, New York, USA.- Herbert Lehman was born on 28 March 1878 in New York City, New York, USA. He was married to Edith Louise Altschul. He died on 5 December 1963 in New York City, New York, USA.
- Harry Leighton was born on 14 June 1866 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Dragon (1916). He was married to Fannie [Grubbs] Bernard (actress). He died on 20 May 1926 in Bay Shore, Long Island, New York, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund
- Jeffreys Lewis was born on 25 October 1857 in London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for A Regular Girl (1919) and Peacock Alley (1922). She was married to Harry Mainhall Sr. and A. J. Maitland. She died on 28 April 1926 in New York City, New York, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund
- Lonney Lewis is known for All Woman (1967), The Robert Herridge Theater (1960) and Ann-Margret: From Hollywood with Love (1969).Plot: Actors' Fund
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A former stage actor and a respected director of many hit Broadway musicals - among them "The Ziegfeld Follies" - Edward Lilley came to Hollywood to make musicals. He directed almost a dozen of them for Universal; unfortunately, none of them approached the quality of his Broadway productions, being mostly low-budget, somewhat slapdash affairs featuring the likes of The Ritz Brothers, Bob Crosby and others on Universal's "B" list.- Writer
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Edward Locke was born on 18 October 1869 in Stourbridge, Worcestershire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for The Climax (1930), The Case of Becky (1915) and The Case of Becky (1921). He was married to Martha Edna Christian. He died on 1 April 1945 in East Islip, New York, USA.- Actress
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Birth registration reads as follows (in part):
1876 LOFTUS, MARIE CECILIA B (Statutory registers Births 644/11 1971):
1876 BIRTHS in the District of Hutchesontown in the County of Lanark, No. (#) 1971
Name and Surname: Marie Cecilia Brown LOFTUS, Illegitimate.
When and where born: 1876, October Twenty second 10 h. 30m a.m., 40 Rose Street, Hutchesontown, Glasgow.
Name, Surname & Rank or Profession of Father (none listed).
Name and Maiden Surname of Mother: Mary Loftus, Vocalist.
Date and Place of Marriage (no listing).Plot: Actors' Fund- Lester Lonergan was born on 10 October 1893 in Paterson, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Guilty Bystander (1950), The Growing Paynes (1948) and Robert Montgomery Presents (1950). He died on 23 December 1959 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Kinetic blonde comedienne and delightful mugger Dorothy Loudon had the confidence and talent to make anything or anyone around her funny. The veteran singer/entertainer earned the respect of theatergoers long ago with her hilarious, fully played-out characters on the nightclub and cabaret scene as well as the award-winning musical stage and in revues.
The beloved entertainer was born in Boston on September 17, 1925 and grew up in both Indianapolis and Claremont, New Hampshire. Her mother, Dorothy Helen Shaw, was a department store piano player who taught Dorothy how to sing as well as tickle the ivories while making certain she attended dance classes regularly. Dorothy earned a drama scholarship to Syracuse University, which led to her transferring to the Emerson College and then the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City.
Starting out as a nightclub chanteuse in 1954, a club owner happened to see her potential for satire and farce and encouraged her to parody her torchy vocal style. She proved a tremendous hit caricaturing everyone from Ella Fitzgerald to Shirley Temple in her act and headlined all the best clubs and cabarets, from the Ruban Bleu and Persian Room to the Blue Angel. Over the years the boisterous blonde developed a strong cult audience in New York and in revues.
Despite a regular role on the short-lived TV sitcom It's a Business (1952) and guest appearances on such shows as "Stump the Stars," "Dupont Show of the Month," "The Dinah Shore Chevy Show," The Tonight Show" and "The Ed Sullivan Show," it was Garry Moore and his making her a Golden Globe-winning regular on his variety series in 1962 that opened major doors and gave Dorothy her highest TV profile yet. In addition to gracing a number of talk/variety shows such as "The Mike Douglas Show," "The Merv Griffin Show," "The Dean Martin Show," "The Milton Berle Show," "The Jonathan Winters Show," and others, she became a frequent game show panelist ("Password," "The Match Game").
Back in 1962, Loudon made her stage debut in "The World of Jules Feiffer," directed by Mike Nichols. That same year Dorothy went on to win a Theatre World Award for her Broadway debut in the musical "Nowhere to Go But Up." An absolute master at the slow take, her comic wackiness somehow never managed to jell in films or series TV the way it should have -- perhaps her delightfully saucy eccentricities maybe a bit too big or too much to take. She starred in the short-lived sitcom Dorothy (1979) and made only two movies during the course of her career. She was a hit when she toured for six months in the hit show "Luv" in 1965-66. This was followed by front-and-center roles in "The Fig Leaves Are Falling" (Drama Desk Award, Tony nomination, 1969), "Three Men on a Horse" (1969), "Lolita, My Love" (1971), "Plaza Suite" (1971), "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1971), "The Women" (1973) and "Winning Is Better" (1974).
It only got better for Dorothy. She reached her absolute theatre glory with the irreverent role of Miss Hannigan in the colossal 1977 Broadway musical hit "Annie." Winning the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards for her campy, no-holds-barred performance and songs "Little Girls" and "Easy Street," she would suffer a huge disappointment when Carol Burnett, whom she replaced on The Garry Moore Show (1958), was signed to play the role on film. Other major theater highlights included playing the role of widow Bea Asher in the Broadway musical "Ballroom" (Drama Desk Award, Tony nomination, 1979); replacing Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Lovett in "Sweeney Todd" in 1980; co-starring opposite Katharine Hepburn in "West Side Waltz" in 1981; received comedy acclaim for her 1983 portrayal of middle age TV star Dotty Otley in "Noises Off" on Broadway (losing again to Burnet for the film role); and appeared in the 1985 Jerry Herman revue "Jerry's Girls."
Like the legendary Carol Channing and Ethel Merman, the eccentric Dorothy was a larger-than-life personality that TV and film found difficult to restrain. She starred in the sitcom Dorothy (1979) in which she portrayed a former showgirl teaching music and drama at a boarding school for girls, but the show was canceled after one season. She also appeared briefly (1993) on the daytime soap All My Children (1970). She would only be featured in only two films, that of an agent in the film Garbo Talks (1984) and an off-the-wall eccentric in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997).
The theatre remained Dorothy's refuge. An attempt to cash in on her Miss Hannigan character and the "Annie" phenomenon with "Annie 2: Miss Hannigan's Revenge (1990) failed when it closed in Washington, D.C. before making it to Broadway. She also graced the shows "Comedy Tonight" (1994), "Show Boat" (as Parthy Hawkes) (1996), "Sweet Adeline" (1997) and "Over and Over" (1999).
Diagnosed with uterine cancer in 2002, Dorothy was forced to leave the Broadway production of "Dinner at Eight" that November. She died of complications on November 15, 2003 at age 78.Plot: Section 71, Lot 12
GPS coordinates: 41.0736198, -73.7881470 (hddd.dddd)- Music Department
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Norman Paris was born on 21 October 1925 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a composer, known for David and Lisa (1962), ABC Stage 67 (1966) and The Corner Bar (1972). He was married to Dorothy Loudon and Eileen Ellis. He died on 10 July 1977 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.Plot: Section 71, Lot 12
GPS coordinates: 41.0736198, -73.7881470 (hddd.dddd)- J. Frank Lucas is known for A Little Sex (1982), Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1963) and Law and Disorder (1974).Plot: Actors' Fund Lot 1108
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Harry Mainhall was born on 24 December 1886 in Oakland, California, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Way of His Father (1914), Stopping the Limited (1914) and Bill's Boy (1914). He died on 14 October 1931 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund- John McGowan is known for Rain (2001).
- Claudia McNeil was born on 13 August 1917 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She was an actress, known for A Raisin in the Sun (1961), Black Girl (1972) and The DuPont Show of the Month (1957). She was married to Herman McCoy and Henry Smith. She died on 25 November 1993 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA.
- Harry Mehaffey was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is known for Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951), Tales of Tomorrow (1951) and Rocky King, Detective (1950).Plot: Actors' Fund
- Fuller Mellish was born on 3 January 1865 in London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Eternal City (1915), Four Feathers (1915) and The Single Track (1921). He was married to Eliza A. Buckley. He died on 7 December 1936 in New York City, New York, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund
- Vera Fuller Mellish was born on 1 May 1901 in Eye, Suffolk, England, UK. She was an actress, known for The Beautiful Adventure (1917), The Bondwoman (1915) and Studio One (1948). She died in May 1968 in Oneida, New York, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund Lot 403
- Richard Midgley was born on 5 June 1910 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. He was an actor, known for Shadow of the Cloak (1951), The Plainclothesman (1949) and Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951). He died on 30 November 1956 in New York City, New York, USA.Plot: Actors' Fund
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The dark and smoldering American soprano Anna Moffo was born in Wayne Pennsylvania, on June 27, 1932, and, following graduation at Radnor High School, studied at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music and in Rome, Italy on a Fulbright scholarship at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia. At one time she was actually considering joining a nunnery but her love for music won out. Her successful combination of glamorous beauty and exciting singing style made her one of opera's most popular draws in the late 1950s and 1960s.
Moffo took her first professional bow in 1955 as Norine in Donizetti's "Don Pasquale" in Spoleto, and later that year scored highly as Cio-Cio-San in Puccini's "Madama Butterfly" in an Italian TV production directed by Mario Lanfranchi, whom she married in 1957. Strenthening her reputation in Saltzburg and Vienna, Moffo made her U.S. debut at the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 1957 as Mimi in Puccini's "La Boheme." Her first time on the Metropolitan stage came with the role of Violetta in Verdi's "La Traviata." Over the years her bel canto repertoire would include Micaela in "Carmen," Gilda in "Rigoletto" and Liu in "Turandot." Arguably, the zenith of her Met career coincided with her appearance in the title role of Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" opposite Carlo Bergonzi's Edgardo in January of 1965. In the 1960s, Moffo also began appearing occasionally in Italian films, including feisty roles in the Napoleonic war epic The Battle of Austerlitz (1960) with Rossano Brazzi; the comedy La serva padrona (1964), directed by husband Lanfranchi; Menage all'italiana (1965) [Menage, Italian Style] co-starring Ugo Tognazzi; and the comedy Il divorzio (1970) [The Divorce]. She also filmed her Violette in La Traviata (1967) and Lucia di Lammermoor (1971), both directed by Lanfranchi.
The multiple Grammy-nominated Moffo's singing career was finished when just in her 40s. Taking on too much too soon (she in one year took on 12 new roles), her voice burnt out quickly. Her last regular performance at the Met was received poorly as Violetta in 1976, her voice having fallen into a serious state of disrepair. She did return briefly for a one-time duet with baritone Robert Merrill in the company's centennial gala. Her marriage to Lanfranchi ended in divorce in 1972, but her second marriage to NBC broadcast executive/RCA chairman Robert Sarnoff in 1974 proved more durable and lasted until his death in 1997. Her later years were dogged by illness. Battling breast cancer for almost a decade, Moffo died of a stroke at age 73 on March 10, 2006, in New York City. She had no children of her own but was survived by three stepchildren.