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Laurie Bird was a cute and charming actress who appeared in only three pictures during her regrettably short-lived career. Bird was born on September 26, 1953 in Long Island, New York. Laurie was working as a model when she was chosen by director Monte Hellman, from nearly 500 women, to portray "The Girl" in Two-Lane Blacktop (1971). Bird gave a fine and impressively natural performance in her film debut as the chatty and rootless hippie wanderer, "The Girl", in Hellman's extraordinary road movie masterpiece. She was likewise excellent as Harry Dean Stanton's snippy young wife, "Dody Burke White", in Hellman's bleakly fascinating character study Cockfighter (1974). Following her small role as Paul Simon's L.A. girlfriend in Woody Allen's Annie Hall (1977), Laurie quit acting, altogether, and became a photographer. Bird committed suicide in boyfriend Art Garfunkel's Manhattan penthouse, at the tragically young age of 25, on June 15, 1979. Garfunkel dedicated his album, "Scissors Cut", to Laurie. The album features a partial photograph of Laurie Bird on its back cover.- Nandu Hinds is known for Chinatown (1974).
- Sharon Gans was born on 29 July 1942 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for Slaughterhouse-Five (1972), Viet Rock (1966) and N.Y.P.D. (1967).
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- Merrie Spaeth has a unique background in media, government, politics, and business. In 1987, she founded Spaeth Communications, Inc., a Dallas-based firm providing communication training and consulting for a wide range of companies and institutions. The firm specializes in teaching executives how to use communication as a strategic business tool. Ms. Spaeth frequently writes and lectures to business groups on communication. She began her government experience as a White House Fellow, serving as Special Assistant to William Webster, Director of the F.B.I., and in 1984 she was appointed Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan and Director of Media Relations at the White House where she pioneered the use of satellite communications and started the electronic White House News Service. She has worked in every area of the media and is currently a commentator on business communication for "Marketplace" on public radio stations across the country. She wrote "Your Finances," a weekly column on personal finance and investing for USA Today Sunday Magazine. During the last two decades, she has worked for the Philadelphia Inquirer, the New York Daily News, Family Weekly, and many other magazines and papers, and she is the author of Marketplace Communication (MasterMedia). Merrie is a former talk show host and a reporter in both radio and television as well as a producer for ABC's "20/20." As a noted speech writer, Merrie has written opinion articles and speeches for many business leaders including the late William S. Paley, the founder and chairman of CBS, Inc. A cum laude graduate of Smith College, she holds a masters degree from Columbia Business School and was awarded the school's Overall Achievement Award. She is an instructor for the Business Leadership Center in the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. Honors include Glamour Magazine's 10 Outstanding Working Women of America, the National Council of Women's Citation of Accomplishment, as well as the Young Poet of New York and "Filmdom's Famous Five" which dates to the 1960s when Ms. Spaeth was an actress in television and film beginning with The World of Henry Orient (1964) with Peter Sellers and Angela Lansbury. Merrie is the founder and president of the Institute for Strategic Communications, a not-for-profit foundation devoted to studying and reporting on business communication issues. She is active in many local and national civic and charitable organizations, and her firm has been recognized for its extensive pro bono contributions to nonprofit institutions.
- Sophia Goth is known for The Fifth Element (1997).
- Larissa Kokernot was born on 19 March 1970 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. She is an actress, known for Fargo (1996). She has been married to Karl Gajdusek since 10 August 2002. They have one child.
- Jo Ann Brody is known for The Long Goodbye (1973).
- Very little is known about this lovely actress, who had a wonderful debut in Neil Jordan's The Company of Wolves (1984) which was thought to have led to a solid career. However, for one reason or another, she opted only to appear in one more film, Cannon Movie Tales Snow White (1987), which was shot on location in Israel. The dark-haired, pale-skinned Patterson was the perfect choice for the lead role, and in both of the fairy-tale themed films she displayed a great talent for both serious and comedic acting. Since neither of these films were huge commercial successes, Sarah Patterson retired from the big screen and settled down. Sources say she is now married and happy. She finally returned to acting for two small roles in films released in 2002 and 2007.
- Renée Jeanne or Maria Falconetti, born in Pantin (not in Sermano, Corsica, as many film dictionaries wrongly attest) on July 21, 1892 and died in Buenos Aires on December 12, 1946, is a French actress of theater and cinema. Joining the troupe of the Odeon theater in 1916, she made her debut in "l'Arlésienne", and played the heroines of Saint-Georges de Bouhélier "The Life of a Woman", 1919. She made a short passage at the Comédie Française (1924-1925), where she plays Rosine among others in "La Dame aux camélias" and "Lorenzaccio". His last role before a long stay in South America will be that of Andromache in "The Trojan War will not happen", Jean Giraudoux. She remains world famous for having embodied in the cinema the main role of "The Passion of Joan of Arc" by Carl Theodor Dreyer.
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Lan Fendors is known for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) and Jwlwi - The Seed (2019).- Jane Dornacker was a U.S. Postal worker turned comedienne and musician. She was a member of the bands The Tubes and Leila and the Snakes. In the 1980s she turned from comedy and music to playing music and doing traffic reports on radio stations in San Francisco and New York City. She also had a featured role in the motion picture The Right Stuff (1983) as Nurse Murch.
On October 22, 1986 Jane Dornacker was killed while doing a traffic report on WNBC-AM in New York City. Much to the horror and dismay of radio host Joey Reynolds and the millions of WNBC-AM listeners who heard the terrified voice of Jane Dornacker screaming "Hit the water! Hit the water! Hit the water!" as the helicopter from which she and pilot Bill Pate were reporting, fell from the sky and crashed into the Hudson River. A very shaken Joey Reynolds searched for the right words to say in the tense moments after the transmission breaks off. She died on arrival to Saint Vincent's Hospital. Jane Dornacker was 39 years old. - Composer
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Sam Phillips began her entertainment career as a Contemporary Christian Music singer, where she made a number of albums under the name "Leslie Phillips." She began to be disillusioned with the Christian music business due (mostly) to its intolerance of her brutally honest approach to her faith, and around the same time she met and married T-Bone Burnett (who became her producer as well as her husband) and switched from the Christian record label Word Records to Virgin Records. Since then, she has released the albums "The Undescribable Wow," "Cruel Inventions," and "Martinis and Bikinis" (as well as a few songs that have appeared on movie soundtracks) all under the name Sam Phillips. Her role in Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995) movie is her first appearance as an actress; she was reportedly chosen for the part after someone in a position of influence was struck by her picture on the cover of "Martinis and Bikinis."
In 2000, Sam was asked by Amy Sherman-Palladino to compose for her new series _Gilmore Girls_. She accepted and would score the show throughout its entire run, ending in 2007. Marking a reunion for herself and Amy Sherman-Palladino, it was announced in 2012 that Sam would compose the music to the television series Bunheads (2012).- Cates' acting career ignited after she appeared on an episode of Sally Jessy Raphael (1983), titled "Too Heavy to Leave Their House". Shortly after, author and screenwriter Peter Hedges proposed to her that she play Johnny Depp and Leonardo DiCaprio's morbidly obese and housebound mother in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)--Cates accepted. Her performance earned stellar reviews; Roger Ebert said about the actress, "Darlene Cates, making her movie debut, has an extraordinary presence on the screen. We see that she is fat but we see many other things, too, including the losses and disappointments in her life, and the ability she finds to take a grip and make a new start." The actress went on to appear in a handful of film and television projects before succumbing to natural causes, she was 69. When the The Guardian released a statement on the actress's death, Leonard DiCaprio paid tribute to the actress identifying her as "the best acting mom I ever had".
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Erzsebet Foldi was born in 1966 in Queens, New York, USA. She is an actress, known for All That Jazz (1979) and All That Jazz: Reinking and Foldi (2014).- Marie Silva-Alexander is known for Columbo (1971).
- Anna Kashfi has appeared in a number of films including The Mountain (1956) (with Spencer Tracy) and Battle Hymn (1957) (with Rock Hudson) but is best known for being Marlon Brando's first wife. Kashfi is often thought of as being Indian but several newspapers have said that she is, in fact, the daughter of a Welsh factory worker, William Callaghan, and simply reinvented herself to increase her screen appeal. In her 1979 memoir, Kashfi still held onto the claim that she is Indian by insisting that she is the product of an "unregistered alliance" between Selma Ghose and an Indian architect named Devi Kashfi, and that William Callaghan is her stepfather. She met Brando in 1955 in the Paramount commissary and after an on-off relationship (mainly due to Brando's relentless womanizing) married him in 1957. (Brando claimed that he married her only because she had become pregnant.) She gave birth in May 1958 to their son, Christian, who became notorious in 1990 for shooting dead Dag Drollet, a crime that earned him a ten-year jail sentence. Kashfi divorced Brando in 1959. She remarried a Los Angeles businessman named James Hannaford in 1974, but he died in 1987. She also outlived her first husband Marlon Brando (who died in 2004) and their son Christian (who died in 2008). She died on August 16, 2015 of natural causes at the age of 80 in Washington State, USA.
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Yella Rottländer was born in 1964. She is an actress and costume designer, known for Alice in the Cities (1974), Faraway, So Close! (1993) and The Scarlet Letter (1973).- Irene Kane was born on 12 January 1924 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Killer's Kiss (1955), All That Jazz (1979) and The Doctors (1963). She was married to Michael Chase. She died on 31 October 2013 in New York City, New York, USA.
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- Susan Oakes was born on 31 May 1944 in the USA. She is an actress, known for West Side Story (1961), Kraft Mystery Theater (1961) and The Lieutenant (1963).