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The delightful twinkle in her eye and that elderly mischievous look coming from the tiniest of frames were unmistakable traits in 1970s and 1980s lightweight films. One of a slew of popular elderly ladies getting their "fifteen minutes" at the time, character actress Paula Trueman was born in 1897 in New York City. She was the daughter of Joseph and Eva (Cohn) Trueman and was educated at Hunter College before preparing for the stage on a fellowship at the Neighborhood Playhouse.
Long trained in dance, Paula made her first stage appearance as a musical performer at the Hippodrome in a production of "The Thunderbird" in 1922. From there she appeared in revues, particularly the Grand Street Follies of 1924--staying with that annual show until 1929. Dramatic roles were not beyond her as she made her straight-acting debut in "The Little Clay Cart" in December of 1924. For the next four decades she was a theater presence to be reckoned with. Over the years she delighted audiences in such plays as "The Dybbuk (1927), "A Midsummer Night's Dream (as Puck) (1932), "The Merchant of Venice" (1932), "You Can't Take It With You" (1936), "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" (1949), "The Solid Gold Cadillac" (1954), "Wonderful Town" (1963), "The Music Man" (1965) and "Catsplay (1977).
She had an uncredited role in the Ben Hecht/Charles MacArthur crime feature Crime Without Passion (1934), but it did not lead to any other offers. Other than an unbilled part in One Foot in Heaven (1941), she did not appear again until the musical film version of Paint Your Wagon (1969) with Clint Eastwood. She then got on a roll and appeared as a number of feisty, dotty, careworn grannies. She co-starred in the cult movie Homebodies (1974) and Eastwood handed her a prime featured part in his western The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976). For the next decade she continued to spring up in a number of comedies, albeit bit parts, including Woody Allen's Annie Hall (1977) and Zelig (1983). This adorable little bundle of joy made her last film appearances with Sweet Lorraine (1987) and Moonstruck (1987). She died of natural causes in her beloved New York in 1994, aged 96.- Actress
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Born in San Giorgio di Piano, Giulietta Masina spent part of her teenage years living with a widowed aunt in Rome, where she cultivated a passion for the theater and studied for a degree in Philosophy. She began her career on the radio with the program "Terzoglio" (1942), about the adventures of newlyweds Cico and Pallina from scripts written by Federico Fellini. The series brought her great success. The following year she married Fellini and became the inspirational muse for many of his films.
She made her cinema debut in Without Pity (1948), directed by Alberto Lattuada, but really established her reputation with her next few films: Behind Closed Shutters (1951), directed by Luigi Comencini, Variety Lights (1950), which also marked Fellini's debut as director (the film credits both Fellini and Lattuada); and Europe '51 (1952), directed by Roberto Rossellini. Her artistic partnership with her husband really took off with the Oscar-winning The Road (1954), followed by The Swindle (1955) and the widely acclaimed Nights of Cabiria (1957), which again won an Oscar and brought her the award for Best Female Performance at the Cannes Film Festival. Over the following years she played many memorable roles in such films as Fortunella (1958), directed by Eduardo De Filippo; ...and the Wild Wild Women (1959), directed by Renato Castellani; and later in Juliet of the Spirits (1965) and Ginger & Fred (1986), both directed by Fellini.
From 1966 to 1969 she hosted the immensely popular radio show "Lettere aperte a Giulietta Masina" and starred in the television series Eleonora (1973), by Tullio Pinelli, directed by Silverio Blasi, and Camilla (1976), directed by Sandro Bolchi, based on the novel by Fausta Cialente, "Un inverno freddissimo" (1966).
She died in Rome in 1994, just a few months after the death of her husband.- Jack Bernardi was born on 18 February 1909 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964), Foxy Brown (1974) and It's a Bikini World (1967). He was married to Sophie Cantor. He died on 23 March 1994 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Jim Moloney was born on 8 October 1929 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Sunburst (1975), The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980) and Mister Roberts (1955). He died on 23 March 1994 in Malibu, California, USA.- Luis Donaldo Colosio was born on 10 January 1950 in Magdalena de Kino, Sonora, Mexico. He was married to Diana Laura Riojas. He died on 23 March 1994 in Tijuana, Baja California, Mexico.
- Valentina Vladimirova was a popular Russian character actress best known for White Bim Black Ear (1977).
She was born Valentina Kharlampievna Vladimirova on 22 November 1927, in Vasilevka village near Odessa, Ukraine, USSR. After the war, she became a student at Kharkov Institute of Engineering and Economics and studied Economics and Accounting for two years. While a student, she caught the acting bug and dropped out from college. Pursueing an acting career, Vladimirova came to Moscow. There she studied acting at Soviet State Institute for Cinema (VGIK) graduating in 1955 as actress, from the class of Boris Bibikov and Olga Pyzhova.
She made her film debut in Pervyy eshelon (1956) by director Mikhail Kalatozov, who also cast Vladimirova in The Cranes Are Flying (1957). After such a successful start, Vladimirova went on to work with the best Russian film directors, such as, Mikhail Shvejtser, Boris Barnet, Nikolay Dostal, Aleksei Saltykov, Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Vladimir Fetin, Nikolai Rozantsev, Vladimir Krasnopolsky, Eldar Ryazanov, Leonid Menaker, Iosif Kheifits, Yevgeni Matveyev, Ilya Averbakh, Stanislav Rostotskiy, and other notable directors. Her best known role was opposite Vyacheslav Tikhonov in White Bim Black Ear (1977) by director Stanislav Rostotskiy.
Valentina Vladimirova was designated Honored Actress of Russian Federation (1969). She was living with her husband in a suburb of Moscow. She died of a heart failure on 23 March 1994, in Moscow, and was laid to rest in Vagankovskoe cemetery in Moscow, Russia. - Writer
- Composer
- Music Department
Donald Ibrahím Swann (30 September 1923 - 23 March 1994) was a Welsh-born composer, musician and entertainer. He was one half of Flanders and Swann, writing and performing comic songs with Michael Flanders.
Donald Swann was born in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, Wales. His father, Herbert Alfredovich Swann, was a Russian doctor of English descent, from the expatriate community that started out as the Muscovy Company. His mother, Naguimé Sultán Swann (born Piszóva), was a Turkmen-Russian nurse from Ashgabat, now part of Turkmenistan. They were refugees from the Russian Revolution. Swann's great-grandfather, Alfred Trout Swan, a draper from Lincolnshire, emigrated to Russia in 1840 and married the daughter of the horologer to the Tsars. Some time later the family acquired a second 'n' to their surname. His uncle Alfred wrote the first biography of Alexander Scriabin in English.
The family moved to London, where Swann attended Dulwich College Preparatory School and Westminster School (where he first met Michael Flanders).
In 1941 Swann was awarded an exhibition to Christ Church, Oxford, to read modern languages. In 1942 he registered as a conscientious objector and served with the Friends' Ambulance Unit (a Quaker relief organisation) in Egypt, Palestine and Greece. After the war, Swann returned to Oxford to read Russian and Modern Greek.
A chance meeting between Swann and Flanders in 1948 led to the start of their professional partnership. They began writing songs and light opera, Swann writing the music and Flanders writing the words. Their songs were performed by artists such as Ian Wallace and Joyce Grenfell. They subsequently wrote two two-man revues, At the Drop of a Hat and At the Drop of Another Hat, which they performed all over the world until their partnership ended in 1967.
At the same time, Swann was maintaining a prolific musical output, writing the music for several operas and operettas, including a full-length version of C. S. Lewis's Perelandra, and a setting of J. R. R. Tolkien's poems from The Lord of the Rings to music in The Road Goes Ever On collection. In 1953-59 Swann provided music for seven plays by Henry Reed on the BBC Third Programme, generally known as the Hilda Tablet plays for one of the fictional characters, a lady composer of avant-garde "musique concrete". Besides incidental music, Swann composed for this character an opera, "Emily Butter" and several other complete works.
A lifelong friendship with Sydney Carter resulted in scores of songs, the best known being "The Youth of the Heart" which reappeared in At the Drop of A Hat, and a musical Lucy & the Hunter. After his partnership with Flanders ended, Swann continued to give solo concerts and to write for other singers. He also formed the Swann Singers and toured with them in the 1970s. Throughout the 1980s and early '90s he continued performing in various combinations with singers and colleagues and as a solo artist. In the later years of his life he 'discovered' Victorian poetry and composed some of his most profound and moving music to the words of William Blake, Emily Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Oscar Wilde and others. He wrote a number of hymn tunes which appear in modern standard hymn books.
Donald Swann was married twice; he married Janet Oxborrow in 1955 and they were divorced in 1983; his second wife was the art historian Alison Smith. In 1992 he was diagnosed with cancer. He died at in South London on 23 March 1994, survived by both wives and two children from his first marriage: Rachel and Natasha.
It is estimated that Swann wrote or set to music nearly 2,000 songs during his career.- Frank Riggi was born on 17 December 1914 in Brooks, Oregon, USA. He was an actor, known for They Made Me a Criminal (1939). He was married to Evelyn Audrey Nichols. He died on 23 March 1994 in Oxnard, California, USA.
- Mats Bahr was born on 6 September 1929 in Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden. He was an actor, known for Danssalongen (1955), Drra på - Kul grej på väg till Götet (1967) and Kik ind! (1965). He died on 23 March 1994 in Spånga, Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden.
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- Writer
Nancy Cárdenas was born on 29 May 1934 in Parras de la Fuente, Coahuila, Mexico. She was a director and writer, known for México de mis amores (1979). She died on 23 March 1994 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.- Director
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- Cinematographer
Igor Aleynikov was born on 15 March 1962 in Grozny, Chechen-Ingush ASSR, RSFSR, USSR [now Chechen Republic, Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for Ameriga (2000), Akvariumnye ryby etogo mira (1990) and Verhnyaya tochka (1982). He died on 23 March 1994 in near Kemerovo, Russia.- Álvaro del Portillo was born on 11 March 1914 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. He died on 23 March 1994 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.