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- A curvaceous and comely lead and second lead actress of the 1950s and 1960s, Dianne Foster was born Olga Helen Laruska on October 31, 1928 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Of Ukrainian parentage, she began her stage career performing in high school plays and in local community theater productions. Her school drama teacher saw extreme promise in her and encouraged her to continue her studies. Dianne then enrolled at the University of Alberta and majored in drama.
She eventually found work in Toronto as a model and as both a radio and stage actress. Encouraged again by her high school teacher, she saved up enough money to go to England for further training and to find work. She won a stage role in the play "The Hollow" starring Jeanne De Casalis that later toured. Following a radio job with Orson Welles, he offered her the part of Cassio's whore in a West End production of "Othello" while Laurence Olivier was holding court at the St James Theater. Welles and Peter Finch starred as Othello and Iago, respectively, with Olivier in the director's seat.
After establishing herself as a bad girl second lead in such "B" level British films as The Quiet Woman (1951), in which she played a scheming ex-girlfriend of Derek Bond and The Big Frame (1952) as a temptress opposite Mark Stevens, Dianne was encouraged to come to Hollywood in the early 1950's. Her first role in Hollywood was as a British character in a TV episode of "Four Star Playhouse" opposite David Niven. As a result of her fine performance, Harry Cohn placed her under a Columbia Pictures contract even though she had not yet secured an agent. Most of her subsequent films were standard adventures in which she provided a pleasant diversion from the rugged action going on around her. She was, on occasion, cast in more substantial roles.
Dianne made a sturdy US cinematic debut in the film noir favorite Bad for Each Other (1953) as a dedicated nurse and love interest to Dr. Tom Owen Charlton Heston. It was Lizabeth Scott who played the bad girl here. Dianne would make a strong stand in westerns notably opposite Dana Andrews in Three Hours to Kill (1954), Glenn Ford and Edward G. Robinson in The Violent Men (1955) and James Stewart and Audie Murphy in Night Passage (1957). She was also quite good, if not better, as Richard Conte's wife in The Brothers Rico (1957) as they struggle together to distance him from his mob ties. Dianne returned to England, where she appeared in Uncle Willie's Bicycle Shop (1953), as a snooty American heiress out to impress Robert Urquhart, and, briefly, in Gideon of Scotland Yard (1958) as Ronald Howard's wife who threatens Jack Hawkins' title character. Her last two films of the 1950s were opposite Alan Ladd in The Deep Six (1958) and Spencer Tracy in The Last Hurrah (1958).
In the 1960s Dianne moved into episodic TV with guest parts in dramas (Perry Mason (1957), Route 66 (1960), Peter Gunn (1958), Ben Casey (1961), Hawaiian Eye (1959), The Detectives (1959), Honey West (1965)), comedies (Petticoat Junction (1963), My Three Sons (1960), "Green Acres") and, of course, westerns (Bonanza (1959), The Deputy (1959), "Have Gun--Will Travel", Laramie (1959), Wagon Train (1957), Gunsmoke (1955), The Big Valley (1965)). She appeared in only two more films before retiring in 1967 -- co-starring with David Janssen in King of the Roaring 20's: The Story of Arnold Rothstein (1961) and with Dean Martin and Elizabeth Montgomery in the light comedy Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? (1963).
Married twice, Dianne had one child from her first marriage and twins from her second. She retired in order to focus on marriage and family, as well as painting.
She lived in the Los Angeles area for the remainder of her life, dying on July 27, 2019, at the age of 90. - Producer
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Edward Lewis was born on 16 December 1919 in Camden, New Jersey, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Spartacus (1960), Missing (1982) and Seconds (1966). He was married to Mildred Lewis. He died on 27 July 2019 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- French director, actor, and sculptor Jean-Marie Binoche was born in 1933 in Paris, France. He had one eighth Portuguese-Brazilian ancestry and was raised partly in Morocco by his French-born parents. He was married to Polish actress, teacher, and director, Monique Yvette Stalens, until 1968, when they divorced. Their children, renowned French actress Juliette Binoche and her sister, actress Marie Stalens, were sent away to boarding school, where Juliette Binoche later expressed feeling lonely. During their teens, the Binoche sisters spent their school holidays with their maternal grandmother, not seeing their parents for months at a time. Binoche has stated that this perceived parental abandonment had a profound effect on her.
Jean-Marie Binoche passed away in late July 2019 at the age of 86. His death was announced by his daughter, Juliette, on her official Instagram account with the simple words, "Il est parti". ("He has left") - Yalçin Gülhan was born on 27 December 1944 in Istanbul, Turkey. He was an actor. He died on 27 July 2019 in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Andrew Golden and Mitchell Johnson stole nine weapons and 2,000 rounds of ammunition from their parents and grandparents homes, taking Johnson's stepfather's minivan and the next morning headed to Westside School, Jonesboro, Ark. on March 24,1998. After lunch the two middle school students lured the classes out. Golden ran inside and pulled the fire alarm and then ran back to the edge of a field where Johnson was hiding. As the children and teachers spilled out, the two boys began to shoot, using deer rifles, from 100 yards away, killing four students, all girls, and a teacher, wounding 10 others.
Golden and Johnson were tried as juveniles and were expected to remain in custody until the age of 21, in accordance with Arkansas law at the time. Johnson was released in 2005, and Golden was released in 2007. Because they were tried as juveniles, their records were sealed.
Drew Grant, at age 33, who had legally changed his name from Andrew Golden and had been living in Jackson, Missouri, died July 27,2019 when the vehicle he was driving crashed head-on into another vehicle on Highway 167 near Cave City, which is about 100 miles north of Little Rock. The other driver had crossed the divided road was killed in the crash. - Carmen Victoria Perez was born on 7 April 1941 in Caracas, Venezuela. She was an actress, known for Raquel (1973), El derecho de nacer (1965) and Por estas calles (1992). She died on 27 July 2019 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Russell Perreault was born on 12 March 1967 in the USA. He was married to Reed Maroc. He died on 27 July 2019 in New Milford, Connecticut, USA.
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Karl Haskel bornin Stockholm, was a Swedish TV-producer, director, author and journalist. He began his career in 1957 at the newly started Swedish television company Radiotjänst where he quickly became involved in entertainment and drama. Haskel produced the new talents such as Povel Ramel, Hans Alfredson & Tage Danielsson, and the famous and talked about TV series "Skäggen" (1963). Much later, in the early 70's he produced Jacques Tati's last film, "Parade" (1974). Haskel's interest in art, graphics and culture led to portraits of Axel Fridell and Lennart Jirlow.- Art Department
Carlos Cruz-Diez was born on 17 August 1923 in Caracas, Venezuela. He is known for Your Secret (2016), Carlos Cruz Diez (1970) and Ángel Hurtado: Artesano Visual (2013). He died on 27 July 2019 in Paris, France.- Ewa Nawrocka was born on 17 May 1931. She was an actress, known for Television Theater (1953), Antyterapia (2014) and Nie ma takiego numeru (2007). She died on 27 July 2019 in Koszalin, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland.
- Keith Lincoln was born on 8 May 1939 in Reading, Michigan, USA. He was married to Bonnie Jo McKarcher. He died on 27 July 2019 in Pullman, Washington, USA.
- Ed Spivia was born on 6 June 1941 in Murphy, North Carolina, USA. He was an actor, known for B.L. Stryker (1989) and Southern Voices, American Dreams (1985). He died on 27 July 2019 in Gainesville, Georgia, USA.