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A former "Miss Detroit" and WAMPAS Baby Star of 1956, pouty chemist's daughter Roxanne Arlen (born Roxanne Giles) popped up on 1950's and 60's screens as sexy second leads in B-movies and TV episodes. She began her acting training in her teens, taking nightly drama classes at Wayne University. Roxanne was dubbed "The Wiggle" for a trademark walk she claimed to have developed at grade school, and, curiously, found herself unable to 'get rid of' (!). That 'wiggle' certainly got her noticed during her first auditions in Hollywood in 1953. Inevitably, most of her early roles were bit parts. There is not much to say about those, except that Roxanne was decorative enough as assorted unnamed 'girls', 'models' or 'blondes'. She made a breakthrough of sorts on the stage, as the star of the comedy "Who Was That Lady I Saw You With?", written by Norman Krasna. The play first aired in Philadelphia and then opened on Broadway in March 1958, eventually notching up a respectable 208 performances.
Alas, for the remainder of her screen career, Roxanne remained firmly typecast as dumb blondes with easy ways and names like Flo, Dixie or Bootsie. She retired from the screen in 1967 and was last glimpsed recreating her screen role as burlesque house stripper Electra in Gypsy (1962), for a Miami stage production in May 1970.- Actress
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Tall, provocative actress Joan Woodbury (aka Nana Martinez) was born Joanne Elmer Woodbury in Los Angeles, California, on December 17, 1915. Of Danish, English and Indian heritage, she was educated for seven years in a convent school. Trained in dance, she was already performing in her mid-teens by the time she graduated from Hollywood High School. A solo dancer at one point with the Agua Caliente dance company, she broke into films at age 19, her exotic beauty being her "in" to the picture business.
For many years Joan was relegated to atmospheric bit parts as assorted dancing girls, barmaids, secretaries and the like. Once she progressed to co-starring roles, her characters often provided a foreign allure (Hispanic, French, Asian) playing femmes with such desirous names as Lolita, Dolores and Toto. She managed to churn out a feisty score of ladies and girlfriends for about a decade and a half (1934-49).
Woodbury was featured in a number of "Charlie Chan" entries of the 1930s, particularly Charlie Chan on Broadway (1937) wherein she turned heads performing a very sultry dance routine. A resilient western player as well, she appeared opposite a number of cowboy heroes including William Boyd when she played her memorable role as Dolores in The Eagle's Brood (1935). Her first co-starring role, in fact, came opposite sagebrush star Tim McCoy (in a dual role) in Bulldog Courage (1935). One of her finest moments in the limelight has to be her titular role in the Columbia serial Brenda Starr, Reporter (1945), in which she gave a fine, spirited performance as the intrepid heroine.
After retiring from films in the 1960s, Woodbury became a producer/director of grand and light operas for the Redlands (California) Bowl. Married twice -- to actor/producer Henry Wilcoxon and then actor Ray Mitchell -- Joan and her second husband subsequently co-founded the Palm Springs-based Valley Players Guild, staging plays that featured other veteran performers.
She died of a respiratory ailment in 1989, aged 73, and was survived by her three children by her first marriage to Wilcoxon.- Sándor Márai was born in Kassa, Hungary in 1900. His writing skills made him a famous writer in Hungary in the 1930s. Though he was a strong anti-fascist he survived the Second World War, but communist persecution drove him to Italy in 1948. From there he moved to San Diego in the United States. Slowly his fame faded into oblivion. Márai married Lola Matzner, a Jew, in 1923. Just few weeks after his birth in 1939, their son, Kristof, died from an internal haemorrhage. The couple didn't have any other children, but adopted János. Lola died in 1986. Her death broke Márai. Janós, 46 years old, died the next year, due to heart failure. Márai, desperate, alone and completely forgotten, shot himself through the head on February 22nd 1989. Nine years later his work was rediscovered by Italian writer Roberto Calasso. Quickly the news spread and his books, including Embers and Eszter's Legacy, got high sales numbers in Italy and Germany. Soon other countries followed. Suddenly Márai's work and his name were known again. Director Ádám Horváth was the first to turn two stories (Szerep (1993) and Alibi (1993)) into films, even before Márai regained popularity.
- Actress
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Barbara Ames was born on 30 April 1922 in Tarrant County, Texas. She was an actress, known for Shadow of the Cloak (1951), I Love a Bandleader (1945) and Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951). She died on 22 February 1989 in Lake Worth, Palm Beach County, Florida, USA.- Additional Crew
- Writer
- Production Manager
Harry Brand was born on 20 October 1895 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and production manager, known for Making the Grade (1929), The Farmer's Daughter (1928) and Masked Emotions (1929). He was married to Sybil Susan Morris Leavy. He died on 22 February 1989 in Beverly Hills, California, USA.- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Writer
Nadezhda Kosheverova was born on 23 September 1902 in St Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]. She was a director and assistant director, known for Vesna v Moskve (1953), Slippers (1945) and Kain XVIII (1963). She died on 22 February 1989.- Otar Taqtaqishvili was born on 27 July 1924 in Tiflis, Georgian SSR, TSFSR, USSR [now Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia]. He was a composer, known for Me vitkvi simartles (1957), Maradisobis kanoni (1982) and Orshabati - chveulebrivi dge (1984). He died on 22 February 1989 in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, USSR [now Republic of Georgia].
- Vasili Petrenko was born on 4 August 1955 in Shpola, Cherkassy oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Delo dlya nastoyashchikh muzhchin (1984), ...I vsya lyubov (1989) and Pravda leytenanta Klimova (1982). He died on 22 February 1989 in Khmelnitskiy, Khmelnitskiy oblast, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].