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Mylène Demongeot, one of the blond sex symbols of French cinema during the 1950s and 1960s, managed to overcome typecasting and survived a long hiatus before a stellar comeback in her 70s. She appeared in more than 70 films, including such classics as the Fantomas trilogy.
She was born Marie-Helene Demongeot on September 29, 1935, in Nice, France, into a family of actors. Her parents met in Shanghai, China, and moved to Nice, where she grew up. Her mother, Klaudia Trubnikova, was a Russian-Ukrainian émigré from Kharkiv, who escaped from the horrors of the Russian Civil War. Her father, Alfred Demongeot, was of French-Italian heritage. The family was bilingual and young Mylène was able to speak Russian and French, but eventually switched to French.
As a young girl she was an outcast: she suffered from ruthless kids making vicious comments about her eyes (she was cross-eyed until she had surgery in her teens). She was fond of music and movies, a perfect escape from the horrors of WWII that devastated Europe during her childhood. At the age of 13, she went to Paris and continued her education. She studied piano under the tutelage of Marguerite Long and Yves Nat. She then studied dramatic art with Maria Ventura at Le Cours Simon in Paris. At 15 she became a model in the atelier of Pierre Cardin.
At 17, Mylène made her film debut in the supporting role of Nicole in Children of Love (1953). Appearing in three or four feature films every year, she rose to international fame in the late 1950s. She was together with Gary Cooper for the opening of the first escalator to be installed in a cinema (at the Rex Theatre in Paris) on June 7, 1957. She had a memorable seduction scene opposite Yves Montand in The Crucible (1957). Her first notable leading role was in Be Beautiful But Shut Up (1958) (aka "Blonde for Danger") in which she played a 17-year-old jewel smuggler.
Mylène further developed her screen image of a manipulative blond mistress in her brilliant performance opposite David Niven in Bonjour Tristesse (1958), and became permanently locked in the cliché image of a humorous seductress after co-starring with Alain Delon in the 1959 comedy Three Murderesses (1959). Her chance to update her film image came in period films. She played manipulative and coquettish Andromeda opposite Steve Reeves in The Giant of Marathon (1959) and the leading role of Rea opposite Roger Moore in Romulus and the Sabines (1961). Among her best known roles are the manipulative Milady de Winter in The Three Musketeers: Part I - The Queen's Diamonds (1961) and Helen in all three of the Fantomas films.
Mylène Demongeot became one of the blond sex symbols in 1950s, 60s and 70s French cinema. She co-starred with the major French actors of the time, including Jean Marais and Louis de Funès, in the Fantomas (1964) trilogy. Although she gradually phased out of the stereotypical image of a beautiful coquette, she still looked pretty convincing as a middle-aged Madame, which she developed in the 1980s and 1990s. At that time her acting career came to a pause, as she had been aging gracefully in the South of France. She was also a producer during that time and was the co-owner of Kangarou Films, a production company that she founded with her late husband Marc Simenon. After a lengthy hiatus, she made a comeback in 36th Precinct (2004). She has also appeared in Camping (2006) and La Californie (2006) by director/writer Jacques Fieschi, based on a short story by Georges Simenon.
In addition to her film work, Mylène has also written several books, the best-known of which would be "Tiroirs Secrets" and "Animalement vôtre". In the 2000s, she made a pilgrimage to the birthplace of her mother in Kharkiv, Ukraine. There she planted a commemorative tree and presented her autobiographical book, "Les Lilas de Kharkov" (The Lilacs of Kharkiv). In 2006, she was named Commander in the Order of Arts and Letters for her achievements in acting. She resides in her French hometown of Nice.- Producer
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Julia Reichert has been called a godmother of the US independent film movement and is a three time Oscar-nominee. Her film Growing Up Female was the first feature documentary of the modern Women's Movement. It was recently chosen for inclusion on the National Film Registry.
Her films Union Maids and Seeing Red (with Jim Klein) were both nominated for Academy Awards for Best Feature Documentary, as was The Last Truck, as a short. Her film A Lion in the House (with Steven Bognar) premiered at Sundance, screened nationally on PBS, was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award, and won the Primetime Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Nonfiction Filmmaking. She co-wrote and directed the feature film Emma and Elvis, produced the feature The Dream Catcher directed by Ed Radtke.
Her film Sparkle (with Steven Bognar) won the Audience Award for Best Short at Silverdocs 2012, and was broadcast nationally on PBS.
She delved into the world of web-based interactive projects, co-creating an interactive non-fiction site, Reinvention Stories, about how citizens of Dayton, Ohio, are recovering from the economic downturn.
Raises Not Roses: The Story of the 9to5 Movement is a film about 9to5, an organization that brought rights, respect and raises to white collar workers. 9to5 is a little known intersection of the women's movement and the labor movement. It brought awareness of ideas such as the glass ceiling, sexual harassment, equal pay for equal work and the Family Medical Leave Act.
Julia is co-founder of New Day Films, the social issue film distribution co-op, which is now 42 years old. She is author of "Doing It Yourself," the first book on self-distribution in independent film, and articles for The Independent, a publication of AIVF. Reichert is Professor Emeritus of Motion Pictures at Wright State University in Ohio, a graduate of Antioch College, a mother, and a grandma.
She is a voting member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences and of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and a member of the advisory board of the Independent Feature Project.
Julia is the 2018 recipient of International Documentary Associations Career Achievement Award.- Audrey Leybourne was born on 10 February 1927 in Cardiff, Wales, UK. She was an actress, known for Chaplin (1992), Churchill's People (1974) and Carters Get Rich (2017). She died on 1 December 2022 in the UK.
- Five-time All-Star and two-time Cy Young Award winner Gaylord Perry was a right-handed baseball pitcher who won 314 games in his 22-year-long career, earning him election to the Hall of Fame. Perry became notorious, and quite popular, as an unabashed proponent of the spitball, which had been outlawed by major league baseball back in the 1920s. Perry is the first pitcher to win the Cy Young Memorial Award for best pitcher in both the American League (1972 as a Cleveland Indian) and National League (1978 as a San Diego Padre).
Perry retired in 1983 after pitching for eight teams (the San Francisco Giants, Cleveland Indians, Texas Rangers, San Diego Padres, New York Yankees, Atlanta Braves, Seattle Mariners and Kansas City Royals). He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1991 and was nominated as a finalist for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team. In 1999 The Sporting News ranked him 97th on their list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players. The San Francisco Giants retired his uniform number 36 in 2005. - Actress
- Soundtrack
Sylvia La Torre was born on 4 June 1933 in Manila, Philippines. She was an actress, known for Ulila ng Bataan (1952), Buhay Pilipino (1952) and Tang-tarang-tang (1962). She was married to Celso Perez de Tagle. She died on 1 December 2022 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Producer
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Mort Zarcoff was born on 23 August 1927 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for It Takes a Thief (1968), Assignment: Underwater (1960) and Tales of Tomorrow (1951). He was married to Marilyn Arbetter. He died on 1 December 2022 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Quentin Oliver Lee was an actor born in San Bernardino, California on the 28th of January 1988. He is renowned for his wonderful portrayal of the Phantom in 'The Phantom of the Opera', a role which he received in 2017. A man who should be remembered for his ebullient voice and acting, but also for his kind demeanor. Unfortunately, Quentin died on December 1st 2022, of stage 4 colon cancer. Forever will he be remembered.
- Zhuguo Lu was born on 12 October 1928 in Yiyang County, Henan, China. Zhuguo was a writer, known for Tai Hang shan shang (2005), The Great Military March Forward: Engulf the Southwest (1998) and Axis of War: My Long March (2006). Zhuguo died on 1 December 2022 in Beijing, China.
- Diana Ayoub was born on 13 March 1939 in Ottawa, Canada. She was married to Pierre Tremblay . She died on 1 December 2022 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
- Herminia Sánchez was born on 25 December 1923 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She was an actress, known for La anunciacion (2008), ...en fin, el mar (2004) and Hello Hemingway (1990). She died on 1 December 2022 in Havana, Cuba.
- Hannes Keller was born on 20 September 1934 in Winterthur, Switzerland. He was married to Tzuara Keller-Takahashi and Esther Frei. He died on 1 December 2022 in Wallisellen, Switzerland.
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Visual Effects
Ted Shinneman was born on 5 August 1943 in Howe, Indiana, USA. He is known for Red Dragon (2002), I Am Sam (2001) and Addams Family Values (1993). He was married to Dianna. He died on 1 December 2022 in Billings, Montana, USA.- Haralds Simanis was a composer, known for Rudais terorists (1980). Haralds died on 1 December 2022 in Latvia.
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- Production Manager
Yves Peyrot was born in 1939 in Geneva, Switzerland. She was a producer and production manager, known for The Middle of the World (1974), L'escapade (1974) and Bye Bye Monkey (1978). She died on 1 December 2022.- Gerardo Bianco was born on 12 September 1931 in Guardia Lombardi, Campania, Italy. He died on 1 December 2022 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
- Dorothy Pittman Hughes was born on 2 October 1938 in Lumpkin, Georgia, USA. She was married to Bill Pitman and Clarence Hughes . She died on 1 December 2022 in Tampa, Florida, USA.