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- Actress
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Although this lovely, light brown-haired leading lady would wind up better known as one of Loretta Young's two elder acting sisters, Sally Blane nevertheless enjoyed a lively albeit modest "B" film career during the late 1920s and 1930s. The resemblance to her "A"-level sister was very strong -- the same graceful, elongated face and fawn-like, wide-set eyes. Unlike her younger sister, however, Sally lacked strong determination and ambition. Although she remained on the second or third Hollywood tier throughout her career, her film output was considerable if mostly routine.
Sally was born Elizabeth Jane Young in Salida, Colorado in 1910 while her mother was en route by train to the family home in Salt Lake City, Utah (the train actually had to make an unscheduled stop so that her mother could give birth). Her parents, Gladys and John, separated when she was five years old and her mother moved her four children to Hollywood where one of Gladys's sisters lived, later running a boarding house. All the children pitched in financially by becoming movie extras. Sally and her younger brother John R. Young (better known as Jack) both appeared uncredited in the silent film Sirens of the Sea (1917) starring Jack Mulhall, in which Sally played a sea nymph. Sally also had an unbilled part in Rudolph Valentino's smoldering classic The Sheik (1921).
Her beauty only heightened as she grew up. Director Wesley Ruggles noticed the teen dancing at the Café Montmartre (now known as Montmartre Lounge) and tested her for his "Collegian" film series. She was cast and soon signed by Paramount, which insisted on the new marquee name of Sally Blane. Around the same time, younger (by three years) sister Loretta (born Gretchen Young) signed with First National Pictures. During their early build-up both Sally and Loretta were dubbed "Wampas Baby Stars of 1929". Throughout this time their mother maintained a firm hand in the girls' personal and professional lives.
One of Sally's first leading roles was in the western Shootin' Irons (1927) and she went on to play a number of prairie flowers opposite Hollywood's top cowboys. She starred opposite Tom Mix in three pictures: Horseman of the Plains (1928), King Cowboy (1928), and Outlawed (1929). Her career peaked early, however, and Sally seemed content to freelance for such Poverty Row studios as Monogram, Excelsior, Chesterfield and Artclass in a variety of genres--crime thrillers, light comedies, mysteries, action adventures. She eventually developed a "nice girl" image.
A two-year lull occurred following the filming of Fox's This Is the Life (1935), and Sally never tried very hard to regain her momentum. Much of this had to do with her meeting of (in 1935) and marriage to (in 1937) director and one-time actor Norman Foster, who had once dated Loretta. Although Sally returned to films in 1937, she was already focused on her marriage and having a family. She and sisters Polly Ann Young and Georgiana Young, however, did make it a family affair at Loretta's insistence when they were given featured roles in Loretta's The Story of Alexander Graham Bell (1939). They all played, of course, Loretta's sisters and this was to be the only time all four girls ever appeared together. One of Sally's last pictures was in the whodunit Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939), directed by her husband. During WWII, the family, which now included a son and daughter, lived in Mexico where Foster was directing Spanish-language pictures. She appeared in one of them (La fuga (1944), with Ricardo Montalban). Later the family relocated to Beverly Hills and Sally officially ended her cinematic career with a small part in A Bullet for Joey (1955).
Comfortably retired for many decades, Foster died of cancer in 1976. Sally herself succumbed to the disease more than two decades later, on August 27, 1997. Cancer had claimed sister Polly just months earlier that same year. John R. Young also died in 1997, of undisclosed causes. Loretta would die of ovarian cancer in 2000. Sally was survived by her two children, Robert and Gretchen.- Writer
- Producer
- Actor
Brandon Tartikoff was a graduate of Yale University, and started his career out at WLS-TV in Chicago. He switched jobs to ABC in New York in the mid-1970s, and moved to NBC in 1977 where he became a programming executive hired by Dick Ebersol. Tartikoff took over programming duties from Fred Silverman in 1980. In 1982, Tartikoff had a second recurrence of Hodgkin's disease, which he was first diagnosed with and beat in the 1970s. Tartikoff was responsible for many programming hits during his years at the helm of NBC. In 1985, he finally got NBC back up to number one. He left NBC in 1991, and moved over to Paramount Pictures and became its chairman. Tartikoff left Paramount eighteen months later to help care for his daughter, injured in a 1991 car accident. He formed his own production company in 1995, and died of a third recurrance of Hodgkin's disease in 1997.- Writer
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Sam Peeples began his writing career with Western novels but later became a television script writer and series creator. His western novels include The Hanging Hills 1953); Johnny Sundance 1953); Desert Showdown (1954); The Marshal Of Medicine Bend (1954); The Lobo Horseman (1955); The Call of the Gun (1955); The Man from Andersonville (1956); Terror At Tres Alamos (1956); and Doc Colt (1957). He later wrote The Man Who Died Twice (1976). In science fiction circles, he is best remembered as the originator of the now famous "Star Trek" phrase, 'Where No Man Has Gone Before' as the title of the series' second pilot.- Animation Department
- Visual Effects
- Writer
Dick Lucas was born on 20 July 1920 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Dick was a writer, known for The Jungle Book (1967), The Aristocats (1970) and The Sword in the Stone (1963). Dick died on 27 August 1997 in Burbank, California, USA.- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Yukio Noda was born on 2 February 1935 in Gobô, Wakayama, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Gangster Cop (1970), Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs (1974) and Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon (1977). He died on 27 August 1997 in Japan.- Additional Crew
Leslie Frewin was born on 8 August 1917 in Westminster, Greater London, England, UK. He is known for Salute to Show Business (1957). He died on 27 August 1997 in Exeter, Devon, England, UK.- Actress
Joan Ogden was born on 18 July 1913 in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, England, UK. She was an actress, known for Menace (1970), Special Branch (1969) and The Rats Are Coming! The Werewolves Are Here! (1972). She died on 27 August 1997 in Westminster, London, England, UK.- Markéta Rauschgoldová was born on 7 July 1914 in Ostrava, Cechy, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republik]. She was an actress, known for Automat na prání (1968), Zlodej (1971) and Strýckuv sen (1972). She died on 27 August 1997 in Brno, Czech Republic.
- Actress
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Sotiria Bellou was born on 22 August 1921 in Halia, Halkida, Greece. She was an actress, known for I storgi (1965), Gia to psomi kai ton erota (1959) and In the Nick of Time (2005). She died on 27 August 1997.- Kirill Stirbu was born on 2 March 1915 in Broshtyany, Russian Empire. He was an actor, known for Melodii moldovenesti (1955), Moldavian Fairy Tale (1951) and Andriesh (1954). He died on 27 August 1997 in Chisinau, Moldova.
- Jana Mikulová was born on 8 June 1924 in Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]. She was an actress, known for Parohy (1947), Dravci (1948) and Laokoon (1970). She died on 27 August 1997 in Prague, Czech Republic.
- Actor
- Writer
Sergei Dobrotvorsky was born on 22 January 1959 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR. He was an actor and writer, known for Nikotin (1993), Upyr (1997) and Spirit (1999). He died on 27 August 1997 in St. Petersburg, Russia.