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Robert Montgomery was born Henry Montgomery Jr., the elder son of New York businessman Henry Montgomery and his wife, Mary Weed (Barney), a native of Brooklyn, Kings County, New York. Montgomery had a younger brother, Donald. He was not related to Belinda Montgomery.
As a child, he enjoyed a privileged life. His father, Henry Montgomery, was the president of the New York Rubber Co. When Henry Montgomery died and owing to the Depression, the family fortune was gone. Henry Jr. and his younger brother, Donald, worked at a number of jobs. He later went to New York to be a writer, and on the advice of a friend, tried acting. He worked with George Cukor on the stage and his first film, at MGM, was So This Is College (1929), changing his forename.
When Norma Shearer picked him to be her leading man in Private Lives (1931), he was set. He ran the gamut of different characters over the years. He served as President of the Screen Actors Guild from 1935-38 and 1946-47.. His stay with MGM lasted 16 years, and was only interrupted by WWII when he joined the navy. He saw action in both Europe and the Pacific.
He returned to MGM in 1945 and co-starred with John Wayne in the John Ford-directed They Were Expendable (1945) and then made his directorial debut with Lady in the Lake (1946) (although he had directed a few scenes, uncredited, in They Were Expendable (1945) when John Ford took ill). He left MGM to become an independent director, preferring work behind the camera instead of in front.
A staunch Republican, he was a friendly witness before the House Un-American Activities in 1947 during the McCarthy era and then spent most of his time on television and stage. His popular show, Robert Montgomery Presents (1950), was where his daughter, Elizabeth Montgomery (who later gained lasting fame as beautiful witch Samantha Stevens on Bewitched (1964)), got her first acting job.
Robert Montgomery died of cancer on September 27, 1981, aged 77, at Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, New York City. His body was cremated and the ashes were given to the family.- Actress
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Andrea Rivette was born on 15 April 1968 in Fishkill, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Jekyll & Hyde: The Musical (2001).- Writer
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Ms. Rogoff is at the forefront of original television production, multimedia content, producing and writing for theatre, television Podcasts, VR, Mobile, and PC games. She founded the Amerikids USA Company developing, Amerikids ® as a pilot television series for ABC Network Television. Most recently, Bird Woman is the magical realism story of the shape-shifting Shoshone Indian guide who led the Lewis & Clark, Voyage of Discovery, across the dangerous Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. She has been working with Native Americans producers and pod-casters across the USA on this multi-episode podcast series entitled, Bird Woman.
She won a Nomination for Outstanding Writing Achievement from the Writers Guild of America. The first in the Amerikids series, Pony Express Rider was published and released by McGraw-Hill Home Interactive for Christmas 1996 to critical acclaim. It won a Crystal Award, a Bessie Award, National Parenting Center Seal of Approval and a Family Channel Seal of Quality.
She was a WGA, East Foundation Fellow for dramatizing these two early twentieth-century American icons. This passionate love story Love, Ben Love, Emma is based on correspondence between Emma Goldman and Dr. Ben Reitman. Love, Ben Love, Emma was originally produced to critical acclaim by Lucille Lortel (White Barn Theatre) on the East Coast in 1983, in 1993, in Los Angeles at the Tiffany Theatre starring J.T. Walsh. .She was honored to sit as a Judge for the National Endowment for the Humanities.
She has worked as writer, producer, and director on numerous award winning series: ABC Weekend Specials, Sesame Street, Big Blue Marble, and Watch Your Mouth here in the US and Rehov Sum Sum in Israel (Israeli Sesame St.)
Rogoff received her MFA from NYU, School of the Arts, in Directing. Among her numerous directing credits is: A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee William's, The Labyrinth by Arrabal, Attempted Rescue by Megan Terry, the award-winning ballet Journey and The In Crowd, a rock opera by J.E. Franklin