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Antonio Orlando was born on 15 March 1960 in Napoli, Italy. He was an actor, known for Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975), La piovra (1984) and The Rose King (1986). He died on 28 September 1988 in Napoli, Italy.- Attractive Sybil Lewis was one of the best, most convincing actresses of Black Cinema. Her sophisticated, sometimes snooty presence was one of many but her more popular approach to acting always worked whether in drama, straight, romance or comedy roles and always remained likable. Sybil's acting would remind one of a Rosalind Russell or even Bette Davis. She was able to adapt to any role and make a film worth watching even if she was the only one acting. Her training and natural touch to acting, gave those films substantiality. "Mystery In Swing," "Broken Strings," "Am I Guilty?," "Midnight Menace," "Lucky Gamblers," "Boy! What a Girl!," and "Miracle in Harlem," are Black Cinema films where Sybil and others got to be a real actress, not a "Black" actress but actress without a label or stereotype and she got to play roles of people from all walks of life unlike Blacks in Hollywood. Even in Hollywood movies, "Revenge of the Zombies," "Going My Way," and "The Very Thought of You," Sybil had a chance to use her acting skills and not be stereotyped too much because of her race.
- Margerie or Marjorie Bonner was a minor film actress, but achieved greater and less ephemeral fame as a result of her marriage to English novelist Malcolm Lowry in 1940, after the close of her film career.
Their marriage was close and, to say the least, unconventional. Lowry was a tormented, alcoholic, often cruel genius, who found "ordinary" life extremely hard. Margerie Bonner Lowry was an important axis of stability for her husband, and indeed played an important part in his writing. Together they would take notes compulsively about their travels and travails, which Lowry would work up into semi-autobiographical stories and novels.
She was born Marjorie Bonner on 18th July, 1905, and led a conventional American girlhood - until her sister Priscilla Bonner left home to try to get into pictures. This fired Margorie's own dreams, and at the age of 14 she persuaded her family to allow her to quit school and join Priscilla in Hollywood. She married a wealthy playboy, Jerome B. Chaffee, but soon left him thanks to his violent alcoholism. Meanwhile her career foundered. Her horsemanship got her a few roles in Westerns, but the parts petered out, and she became an artist at the Disney studios, then a radio scriptwriter and editor, before becoming PA to Penny Singleton. By now she had changed her name to 'Margerie' Bonner.
She met Lowry as he passed through Los Angeles following the breakup of his first marriage in 1938 (it was love at first sight - they fell directly into an embrace upon meeting, and were soon lovers), and when he settled in Vancouver, she soon joined him. Eventually, in 1940, they became squatters in a fishing shack in the little community of Dollarton, near Vancouver; they married after Lowry's divorce was finalised later that year. During this time, Lowry was working on his great novel Under the Volcano, and Margerie was often credited by him with saving the only manuscript when fire destroyed their shack in 1944. They rebuilt the shack together, after finishing the novel - which was eventually published in 1947.
The novel was a sensation, but thanks to Lowry's inner demons, and impressive intake of alcohol, it was the last serious work he ever completed. The Lowrys spent the next couple of years travelling in Europe, returning to Dollarton in 1949 to begin writing a series of novels simultaneously. More restless travelling followed, until Malcolm's return to England in 1955, after which he was quickly hospitalised for psychiatric treatment. In 1956, they moved to the little village of Ripe, in Sussex, South of London. In June 1957, after a blazing row, Margerie stormed out to spend the night with a friend. When she returned next morning, she found Lowry's body. He had died of an overdose of sleeping pills; it was not clear whether he had intended suicide, or whether his death was an accident.
After his death, she managed his literary legacy, completing and editing half-finished works. She edited or co-edited Lowry's Selected Letters, Selected Poems, and short stories and poems (under the title Psalms and Songs), and his posthumous novels Lunar Caustic, Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend Is Laid, and October Ferry to Gabriola. She also co-wrote with Lowry a screenplay of Tender is the Night with Lowry, and the last of his novels to be published (La Mordida) is very unfinished, but clearly the work of two people. She also wrote novels of her own in the 1940s, including The Last Twist of the Knife, Horse in the Sky and The Shapes That Creep.
Further details of Margerie's life, especially her time with Malcolm, can be found in the two important lives of Lowry. Malcolm Lowry, by Douglas Day, is a sympathetic portrait of their marriage - Day was a close friend and colleague of Margerie, and they collaborated in editing a number of the posthumous works. Pursued by Furies, by Gordon Bowker, published after Margerie's own death, contains a much less friendly description of Margerie, and even hints that Margerie could have had a hand in Malcolm's death. Bowker is also critical of Margerie's editing of Lowry's posthumous work. See also Bowker's edited collection Malcolm Lowry Remembered. - Cinematographer
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Born in Yugoslavia, Leo came to Canada in the early 1950s. He grew up and went to school in Ottawa, Ontario - Canada. Leo was married in 1967 and had 2 children. His work took him all over the world including India, China (he did a series for CBC called "The Chinese" in 1981), Germany, Egypt, Peru, etc.. He was the first to mount an IMAX camera on the front of a Helicopter (done for On The Wing).- Ethel Grandin was born on 3 March 1894 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for The Crimson Stain Mystery (1916), Garments of Truth (1921) and A Tailor-Made Man (1922). She was married to Ray C. Smallwood. She died on 28 September 1988 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Kantilal Rathod was born in 1925 in Raipur, India. He was a director and writer, known for Kanku (1969), Espousal (1974) and Ramnagri (1982). He died on 28 September 1988 in Bombay, Maharashtra, India.- Director
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Born in 1932 in Amay, a Belgian municipality located in the Walloon province of Liège, Armand Rocour was a radio-TV repairman who developed two passions, aviation and filmmaking. He made his first film, an amateur documentary short, while on an African tour at the controls of his plane. Others followed, in Thailand and in Egypt. He directed his first fiction film, a short, in the mid-seventies, Nous les femmes (1974), adapted from a play by José Brouwers, a playwright of Liège. Two years later, Rocour managed to produce, write and direct his first feature film Les arpents dorés (1976), but it was little seen outside the province of Liège. A second feature, Les dédales d'Icare (1981) was also his last before he died of cancer in 1988.