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America's preeminent military historian, Stephen E. Ambrose is the author of numerous bestselling books about World War II, including D-Day, Citizen Soldiers and The Victors, plus biographies of Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard Nixon. He is the founder of the Eisenhower Center and President of the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans.- Actor
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For over 30 years Lev Mailer has been a veteran actor, director, coach, and teacher in Hollywood in both film and television on and off camera beginning with the original Star Trek series. During that period he worked on stage productions both in Los Angeles and New York as an actor and director. He has been associated with producers and directors: Clint Eastwood, Robert Wise, Sydney Pollack, Alex Rose, James Goldstone, Tom Schulman, Bill Shatner, and Leonard Nimoy, as well as numerous casting directors and agents. As National Chair of the Screen Actors Guild Conservatory, he has participated in seminars with many other producers, directors, casting directors, and agents. He was on the faculty of the American Film Institute, as well as 5 other leading Los Angeles area colleges. Of his private teaching, the definitive "Film Actor's Complete Career Guide," listed Lev among the best "in the teaching of acting techniques for beginning, intermediate, and professional actors." He was honored to be on the same list as his own teacher, Sanford Meisner.- Charity Grace was born on 27 April 1884 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for Peter Gunn (1958), 77 Sunset Strip (1958) and Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955). She died on 28 November 1965 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
- Tom Neal Jr. was born on 14 March 1957 in Palm Springs, Riverside County, USA. He was an actor, known for Detour (1992). He died on 24 August 2015 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
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Lynn Kellogg was born on 2 April 1943 in Appleton, Wisconsin, USA. She was an actress, known for Charro! (1969), Mission: Impossible (1966) and The Edge of Night (1956). She was married to John Lowell Simpers. She died on 12 November 2020 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.- Will B. Able was born on 21 November 1923 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He was an actor, known for Jack and the Beanstalk (1965), Aladdin (1967) and Play of the Week (1959). He was married to Graziella Able. He died on 18 November 1981 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA(undisclosed).
- Daniel Wright was born on 20 May 1989 in the USA. He was married to Rebecca Mayer. He died on 26 May 2019 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
- Don Garner was born on 24 October 1923 in Greeley, Colorado, USA. He was an actor, known for I Love Lucy (1951), Danger Zone (1951) and F.B.I. Girl (1951). He died on 12 May 2012 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
- Sheila began to discover her passion and talents for writing, acting, directing and producing in high school. She was given the highest honors in Nevada's Junior Miss Contest mostly because of her monologue from Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill.
One of her first breaks was being selected to play Jane with James Caan as Tarzan in Don Adams' Screen Test (1975). This pilot brought her to the attention of the famous Francis Ford Coppola, Howard Koch, Art Carney, Jack Lemmon, and agent Jack Fields. With Fields as her agent, she attended many activist events with Ed Asner, Martin Sheen, Charles Durning, Meredith Baxter Burney, Dennis Weaver, and many others in the entertainment field to raise funds to help the less fortunate in society. Her friendship with Ed Asner has continued as she recently interviewed him for the pilot Fascinating People, she is producing and directing. She directed and produced To The Moon and Back I and II and The View From Space in a CD set and in DVD with her son, Adam Mitchell. (1984-2010). Sheila is currently creating The Adam Mitchell Foundation for his legacy to educate. She is developing The View From Space, a film project her son began before he tragically died. Both projects are in development as major motion pictures. John and Celia Milius have recently given this project high praise.
Happy Days, Baretta, The Cheap Detective, Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood, brought Sheilah to the attention of Eddie Foy III because the famous Art Carney recommended her as a "New and very talented young actress". Although they never met, Art Carney was clearly the kindest and generous actor.
Sheilah is dedicated to the arts, sciences, and communications. She has interviewed Jack Canfield, Raymond Francis and many others for the pilot Fascinating People she is producing, directing and hosting. - Actress
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Sharon Vaughn was born on 28 July 1938 in La Grange, Missouri, USA. She was an actress, known for Funny Girl (1968), Get Smart (1965) and Bewitched (1964). She was married to Byron Lapin . She died on 2 December 2023 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.- Max Palmer was born on 2 November 1927 in Randolph, Mississippi, USA. He was an actor, known for Stone (1974) and Killer Ape (1953). He was married to Betty Ingram. He died on 7 May 1984 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
- 1976 Rose Bowl star and All-American Defensive Tackle at UCLA, Frazier played one year in the NFL for the Kansas City Chiefs before becoming an actor.
Cliff Frazier was born in St. Louis, Missouri on November 23, 1952. He moved to Ballwin, Missouri for high school, and after becoming a defensive prep football star, he went on to play nose tackle at Fort Scott Community College. There, Frazier's outstanding play earned him accolades as a junior college All-American defensive lineman in 1972 and 1973. As a result, Frazier was recruited by new UCLA coach Dick Vermeil, and Frazier played defensive nose guard for the Bruins in the 1974-75 college seasons. Frazier was named to the first-team defense for the All-Pacific 8 and NCAA All-American teams in 1975.
Frazier was a Tri-Captain of UCLA's Rose Bowl team in 1975 college season. The underdog Bruins team (8-2-1) defeated the previously unbeaten and top-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes (11-0) in the Jan. 1, 1976 Rose Bowl, 23-10. Ohio State, coached by the legendary Woody Hayes, had the best-ranked defense in the NCAA, and the Buckeyes also had the Heisman Trophy winner in running back Archie Griffin. But Frazier and defensive teammates Manu Tuiasosopo and Dale Curry kept Griffin, fullback Pete Johnson and the rest of the Ohio State offense in check. Frazier led all defensive players with 13 solo tackles and one assist; no other Rose Bowl player participated in more than 9 tackles in the game.
Frazier's teammates at UCLA also included future NFL players Randy Cross, and running backs Wendell Tyler and Theotis Brown. Frazier was a second-round round pick of Kansas City Chiefs in the 1976 NFL Draft, the 41st player picked over all. Frazier did not appear in the 1976 NFL season, but played all 14 games for the Chiefs in 1977. After Dick Vermeil became the Philadelphia Eagles head coach, Vermeil arranged for a trade to acquire Frazier from Kansas City for the Eagles 5th round draft pick in the 1978 NFL draft. However, Frazier did not make the Eagles' roster, and went back to southern California to start an acting career. Soon thereafter Frazier made his screen debut as "Monroe," one of the linemen in the football classic, "North Dallas Forty."
Frazier was inducted into Fort Scott Community College's "Athletic Hall of Fame" in 1990.
On June 9, 2006 Frazier participated in UCLA's "Flashback Camp" in which over 100 former UCLA players and coaches, many of whom were associated with the 1976 Rose Bowl team, coached UCLA Bruin fans on the finer points of football. - Actress
Jazan Winona Wallace was an actress. She was married to Gary Eugene Wallace Sr.. She died on 24 April 1980 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.- Geraldine Liston was born on 25 January 1925 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. She is known for The American Angels: Baptism of Blood (1990), Unsolved Mysteries (1987) and ESPN SportsCentury (1999). She was married to Sonny Liston. She died on 8 April 2005 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
- Phyllis Schlafly is best known as a leader of the American fundamentalist conservative movement. A bitter opponent of the ideas espoused by modern feminism, she led the fight, which was ultimately successful, against the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment in 1982. She founded the Eagle Forum, an organization for conservative women, and is a published author and commentator.
She was born into a poor family in Missouri, but was able to enter college earlier than most students, graduating from Washington University in St. Louis at age 19. She later received an M.A. in government from Harvard. She joined the Republican party and ran, unsuccessfully, for a Congressional seat in Illinois in 1952. She continued her work in conservative political circles, however, and attracted attention there in 1964 with her book "A Choice, Not An Echo", in which she put forth conservative presidential candidate Barry Goldwater as an alternative to what she called the "corruption and liberalism" of mainstream Republicans. In 1970 she made a second try at running for an Illinois Congressional seat, but was again unsuccessful. She came to national attention as the leader in the fight against the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, and is generally given credit for its eventual failure to become ratified by the required number of states. Although she was often accused of spreading false and misleading information about what the ERA would entail (she claimed it would mandate unisex bathrooms, require women to be drafted into the military and legalize same-sex marriages--none of which were correct), her arguments apparently were effective in persuading many women to vote against it, and it was ratified by only 30 states, five short of the number necessary. With this victory Schlafly declared herself a sworn enemy of feminism, and although she was derided by many of her opponents as divorced from reality (she once gave a speech at Swarthmore College where she stated that American women were "the most privileged race of creatures on the earth because they have the best kitchens and the nicest men"), she has remained a major force in the ultra-conservative movement and especially in the right wing of the Republican party and continues to speak and write books on such issues as judicial "activism" and to call for the reintroduction of the Strategic Defense Initiative (the much-ridiculed and dormant Reagan-era "Star Wars" space weaponization plan). - Producer
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Academy Award winning producer, Mark L Rosen, has been developing, producing and distributing feature films as well as television shows worldwide for over 40 years. Mark's career, began in Los Angeles as a theatrical film buyer for Mann Theaters, overseeing the booking of the World's most famous theater Grauman's Chinese Theater. Mark ventured on to executive positions with American International Pictures, Bryanston Films, Group One International, Cannon Films, Powerhouse Films and many others, where he was responsible for the worldwide production or distribution of films being produced by those companies he worked for which were located in Hollywood, California, New York City, New York, London, England, Florence, Italy, Cannes, France or Tokyo, Japan. Mark, also known as "Travelin' Rose" to his entertainment associates and friends around the world still is involved in the development, packaging, production and/or distribution of feature films, documentaries, television shows, music concerts & specials and DVD programming and most recently digital programming for Internet streaming. Mark in 1997 was the second person in film history worldwide to release a film on DVD, the new frontier for mass consumption. Mark was asked once what he enjoyed the most during his 40 years in the entertainment industry, Mark said that he was extremely proud of Wall That Heals, The (1997) a television special on which he was the executive producer. It is about the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, our country's most treasured and visited monument in Washington, DC. The documentary tells the amazing story of how "The Wall" has helped to heal millions of Americans.- Dorothy Alita Dorr (sometimes spelled Dore) was born on October 12, 1897 in Kansas City, Missouri. She was the only child of Mary and Charles Dorr, a contractor. When she was nineteen she married Charles Judge Wilkinson and had a son named Walter. Soon after the family moved to Los Angeles, California. Dorothy made her film debut in the 1921 drama The Three Musketeers. Then she was chosen to be a "bathing girl" at Hal Roach's studio. She costarred with Harold Lloyd in Girl Shy and with Zasu Pitts in Legend Of Hollywood. Dorothy became one of Mack Sennett bathing beauties and had bit parts in the films Picking Peaches and His New Mamma.
Her final movie role as in the 1925 short Hollywouldn't. Meanwhile her son, Walter Wilkinson, became a successful child actor. He appeared in more than two dozen films including The Magic Garden and Honor Among Men. In 1929 Dorothy danced in the musical revue Broadway in Los Angeles. She spent the next several years performing in vaudeville. By 1940 she was divorced and retired from show business. She worked as a laundry supervisor and lived with her mother in Los Angeles. Dorothy died on February 1, 1962 at the age of sixty-four. - Elizabeth Shaw was born on 29 April 1927 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for American Playhouse (1980), Gunsmoke (1955) and Wendy and Me (1964). She died on 9 April 1991 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
- Lynne graduated in 1967 from Horton Watkins High School in Ladue, Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, where she starred as Emily in "Our Town" and was a gifted pianist.
She trained as an actor at the Neighborhood Playhouse in New York City. Her classmates included Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton. She adopted Deerfield as her name because Hirschfeld, when translated from German to English, is Deerfield.
She married three times. Her first husband was Paul Mates, a Wall Street lawyer. In 1975, she married Bill Beutel, the late ABC news anchor. After they divorced, she married Michael Kelly who preceded her in death.
She returned to St. Louis in the mid-1980s. - Malik Sealy was born on 1 February 1970 in The Bronx, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Eddie (1996), Diagnosis Murder (1993) and The Sentinel (1996). He was married to Lisa Sealy. He died on 20 May 2000 in St. Louis Park, Minnesota, USA.
- Rodney Winfield was born on 1 March 1939 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Talkin' Dirty After Dark (1991), Dead Presidents (1995) and Disco 9000 (1977). He died on 9 February 2009 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
- Stuart M. Kaminsky is a prolific author, born in Chicago in 1934 to Leo and Dorothy Kaminsky. He earned a BS in Journalism, and an MA in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and a PhD in Speech from Northwestern where he taught from 1973 until 1989. He was a professor and head of the film division for ten years until he moved to Florida State University in Sarasota in 1989 where he was founding director of the Graduate Conservatory in Film and Television Production. He left acadamia in 1994 to focus full-time on writing. Besides numerous mystery/suspense novels, he has written several film biographies, including those on Clint Eastwood, Gary Cooper, John Huston, and Don Siegel. He has also written textbooks on film and television writing. He has several screenwriting credits, including added dialoge for "Once Upon a Time in America." He was president of the Mystery Writers of America and has been nominated for six Edgar Allen Poe Awards. He won an Edgar in 1989 for his novel, "A Cold Red Sunrise."
- Burlesque dancer and stripper Kitty West was born Abbie Jewel Slawson on June 8, 1930 in Uniontown, Alabama. The second in a family of six children, West moved with her family to Shuqualak, Mississippi when she was a child. Since Kitty's family was poor, they had to travel throughout the area to pick cotton in order to keep themselves afloat. West left home at age sixteen and went to New Orleans, Louisiana, where she began dancing so she could make money to send back home to her family. Kitty established herself as a popular attraction at Bourbon Street's Casino Royale club with her alluring alter ego Evangeline the Oyster Girl, who emerged from an oyster shell wearing just a few strategically placed pearls like Venus rising forth from the sea while "Ebb Tide" played in the background. West remained a major headliner at Casino Royale for almost two decades before eventually retiring from burlesque in the mid-1960's and going on to become an active and generous mentor to New Orleans performers in the 1990's and 2000's. Kitty was married to former amateur boxer turned jockey Jerry West. Moreover, West also worked as a sales clerk at two hotels in eastern New Orleans as well as was a hair stylist who owned two beauty salons. Kitty died at age 89 on August 18, 2019 from cancer at her home in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. She was survived by her sons Gary and Robert, her brother Johnny Slawson, and two grandsons.
- Chuck Conners was born on 25 August 1939. He died on 1 March 2011 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
- Bill Grivna was born on 10 April 1943 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor, known for Ride with the Devil (1999). He was married to Linda Kelsey. He died on 12 July 2022 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.