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- Actress
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Kelly Preston was born on October 13, 1962 in Honolulu, Hawaii. A talented and captivating performer, she first garnered international attention with her role as "Marnie Mason" in Ivan Reitman's Twins (1988), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito. With her diverse character portrayals in films, such as director Cameron Crowe's Jerry Maguire (1996); Citizen Ruth (1996) for Alexander Payne; and For Love of the Game (1999), directed by Sam Raimi, she continued to capture audience attention.
In the early part of her career, Kelly worked with notable director John Frankenheimer in the Elmore Leonard film, 52 Pick-Up (1986), alongside Roy Scheider and Ann-Margret. Her career saw her cast her beside some of Hollywood's most notable names, including Kevin Spacey in Casino Jack (2010); Quentin Tarantino, George Clooney, and Harvey Keitel in Robert Rodriguez's From Dusk Till Dawn (1996); Kevin Bacon in Death Sentence (2007); Meg Ryan and Matthew Broderick in Addicted to Love (1997); Debra Winger, Zooey Deschanel, and Hank Azaria in Eulogy (2004); Mike Myers in The Cat in the Hat (2003); and Rod Steiger and Julie Harris in the Academy Award-nominated short, Little Surprises (1996).
Kelly was actively involved in education, drug reform and many charitable organizations. She was acknowledged with numerous awards as a result of her work. She married John Travolta on September 12, 1991, and they had three children.
Kelly died on July 12, 2020, in Ocala, Florida, after a two-year battle with breast cancer. She was 57.- Actor
- Stunts
Evel Knievel was born on 17 October 1938 in Butte, Montana, USA. He was an actor, known for The Bionic Woman (1976), Viva Knievel! (1977) and The Last of the Gladiators (1988). He was married to Krystal Kennedy-Knievel and Linda Knievel. He died on 30 November 2007 in Clearwater, Florida, USA.- Writer
- Actor
- Stunts
Richard Piana was an American bodybuilder who won the Mr. California title along with competitions in Los Angeles in 2003 and Sacramento in 2009. His admission in 2016 that he used steroids as part of his regimen was controversial. Piana often appeared in commercials and television series such as Scrubs and Ripley's Believe It or Not. He was a stuntman in the film Planet of the Apes and was the owner of 5% Nutrition. In 1998 he was named Mr California having won the Mr Teen California aged 18, nine years earlier. He was a controversial figure having openly admitted using steroids for more than 30 years and was thrust into the spotlight in 2016 when he openly admitted he uses the drug to gain muscle mass. Rich no longer took part in bodybuilding competitions in his final years, spending his time catering to his massive online following and promoting his business. In a YouTube video he posted in 2016, Piana said he took steroids on-and-off over the course of 27 years, and advised his followers against the same unhealthy routine, while ultimately backing up his decision. Adding 'If you have the choice to do steroids or stay natural, stay natural. There's no reason to do steroids, you're only hurting your body and hurting yourself'. He died at August 25 morning after spending more than two weeks in an induced coma.- Burtis Harwood Rumsey was born in Butte, Montana on 15 Oct 1892 to Burtis Harwood Rumsey and Hannah Cummins who both died between 1904 and 1910. Burtis married Dona Grace (Douglas) Benneche. He preceded her in death on 6 July 1968 at the Motion Picture Home, Woodland Hills, California and was buried in the Cherokee Memorial Park Cemetery, Lodi, California.
Burtis had a brother, Roscoe William and a sister, Doris Margaret. - David Early was born on 30 May 1938 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Creepshow (1982), Dawn of the Dead (1978) and Double Dragon (1994). He died on 23 March 2013 in Clearwater, Florida, USA.
- Additional Crew
- Actor
Angelo Dundee was born on 30 August 1921 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for Cinderella Man (2005), Ali (2001) and Training for a Fight (2012). He was married to Helen Bolton. He died on 1 February 2012 in Clearwater, Florida, USA.- Jimmy Roberts was born on 6 April 1924 in Madisonville, Kentucky, USA. He was married to Viola Hammonds. He died on 6 February 1999 in Clearwater, Florida, USA.
- Actress
Winter is a bottle nose dolphin who was caught in a crab trap in 2005 and lost her tail, because ropes cut off the blood supply to it. She now lives at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium in Clearwater Florida USA. She gained exposure by her story being published in a book, and the Warner Bros. movie, "Dolphin Tale".- Actress
- Soundtrack
Popular dark-haired "Big Band" singer Connie Haines may have been petite in size (less than 5' tall) but she possessed a sturdy set of pipes to compensate and was adored by her large fan base during the swinging war years. Performing alongside Frank Sinatra in both the Harry James and Tommy Dorsey bands way back when, she was known for her cool, doll-like vocals, quivery vibrato, and zesty, rhythmic stylings -- 25 of her more than 200 recordings, including "Let's Get Away From It All" and "Friendship", sold more than 50,000 copies. Other classic singles from Connie ranged from the torchy stylings of "Stormy Weather" and "My Man" to the cooing innocence of "Snooty Little Cutie" and "Shoo Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy" to the hep and swinging "Let's Choo Choo Choo to Idaho".
She was born Yvonne Marie Antoinette JaMais on January 20, 1921 in Savannah, Georgia, but changed her name to the peppier-sounding Connie Haines to take up less space on the theater marquee at the time she joined Harry James' band. She grew up in Jacksonville, Florida (from age 5) and started to perform at the encouragement of her mother, who was a music and dance teacher. Winning a dance contest, she went on to perform for various Rotary and Kiwanis clubs and, by age 9, was known on radio as "Baby Yvonne Marie, the Little Princess of the Air" while being backed by her own 30-piece orchestra. Around that time, she also fought a near-fatal bout with rheumatic fever.
Winning more talent contests along the way she evolved into a teen sensation and performed on Fred Allen's radio show. At age 18, she hooked up with Harry James before joining Tommy Dorsey's outfit in 1940. During that period, she and Sinatra duoed famously on such songs as "Oh, Look at Me Now" and "You Might Have Belonged to Another". By 1942, Connie had landed a regular singing gig with the Abbott and Costello radio show. She was such a hit that her 13-week contract was extended to 4 years. She found herself in demand on all the popular radio shows of the day -- Kay Kyser, Hoagy Carmichael and Skitch Henderson, to name but a few.
It was wartime and Connie, along with many of the other popular vocalists of her day, treated film audiences to specialty numbers in a number of fun, frivolous musicals that were primarily designed as escapist fare or patriotic morale-boosters. In both Moon Over Las Vegas (1944) and Twilight on the Prairie (1944), she sang songs alongside prolific singer/songwriter (and later popular adult "Mousketeer") Jimmie Dodd. In the latter, a musical western, she was even given a co-starring role. In A Wave, a WAC and a Marine (1944), she sang "Time Will Tell" and "Gee, I Love My G.I. Joe" and in the Van Johnson/Esther Williams starrer Duchess of Idaho (1950), in which she again had an acting role, she contributed a fine version of "Of All Things".
Connie's last film appearance was in the romantic musical short Birth of a Band (1954) in which she warbled the classic standards "I Can't Give You Anything But Love" and "I've Got the World on a String". A highly religious woman, she teamed with singer Beryl Davis and Hollywood icons Jane Russell and Rhonda Fleming during the 1950s in a gospel quartet. They scored a hit with the 1954 song "Do Lord".
Connie continued performing for decades in nightclubs, cabarets and revivals despite a number of life-threatening illnesses/injuries which included a bout with cancer (for which she had a double mastectomy in 1984) and a 2002 car accident that left her with two broken vertebrae in her neck. She finally retired in 2006 at age 85. During her career, she performed for Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Ronald Reagan and George Bush.
The "Nightingale from Savannah" was married and divorced twice. Her first was to WWII flying ace Robert De Haven in 1945. That marriage produced a son (Robert Jr.) and a daughter (Kimberly). Her subsequent marriage to popular bandleader Del Courtney (1910-2006) lasted from 1966 to 1972. Connie died in Clearwater, Florida, at age 87 of myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune neruomuscular disease. She was survived by her children and the one woman who influenced her the most -- her mother and manager, Mildred, who was 109 at the time of Connie's death on September 22, 2008.- Actor
- Producer
Chi-Chi Rodríguez was born on 23 October 1935 in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico. He was an actor and producer, known for Welcome to Mooseport (2004), Bullfighter on the Green and Roar of the Crowd (1969). He was married to Iwalani Lum-King. He died on 8 August 2024 in Clearwater, Florida, USA.- Fanne Foxe was born on 14 February 1936 in Nueve de Julio, Argentina. She was an actress, known for Hay que parar la delantera (1977), Posse from Heaven (1975) and This Is America (1977). She was married to Daniel Montgomery and Eduardo Batistella. She died on 10 February 2021 in Clearwater, Florida, USA.
- Matt Crowley was born on 20 June 1905 in New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He was an actor, known for The Mob (1951), The Philco Television Playhouse (1948) and The Front Page (1945). He died on 7 March 1983 in Clearwater, Florida, USA.
- Casey Viator died on 4 September 2013 in Clearwater, Florida, USA.
- Winter The Dolphin was born on 10 October 2005 in Clearwater, Florida, USA. She died on 11 November 2021 in Clearwater, Florida, USA.
- Ted Osborne appeared in scores of programs from radio's "Golden Age", such as "X Minus One", "Inner Sanctum Mysteries", the "Shadow", the "Mysterious Traveler", the "Whistler", and "Suspense". In addition to appearing in many episodes of the latter series, Mr. Osborne also played its host/narrator, "The Man in Black", early in the run, in 1942-1943.
- Bill Kinnamon was born on 13 May 1919 in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. He died on 16 April 2011 in Clearwater, Florida, USA.
- Illinois-born Helen Ferguson is thought to have made her film debut at age 13 in 1914, although her first recorded credits are in 1917. She played opposite such action stars as Hoot Gibson and Harry Carey, and when she went to Fox in the early 1920s to star opposite Buck Jones, her career really took off. She went to Pathe in 1925 and was featured in several serials, westerns and comedies. She had married actor William Russell in 1925 but he died in 1929. The next year she married a wealthy banker, and left films to concentrate on stage work. Though she achieved some success in that medium, she gave up acting altogether in 1933 to concentrate on publicity work, and it was here where she achieved her greatest success. She soon became a major power in Hollywood, representing the top stars of the day, such as Henry Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Taylor and Jeanette MacDonald, to name a few. She remained in that business until 1967, when she retired.
- Darren Daulton was born on 3 January 1962 in Arkansas City, Kansas, USA. He was an actor, known for Santa Barbara (1984), Home Run Showdown (2012) and 1997 National League Championship Series (1997). He was married to Amanda Dick, Nicole Garcia and Lynne Austin. He died on 6 August 2017 in Clearwater, Florida, USA.
- Actress
- Writer
- Producer
British born Olga Petrova was born Muriel Harding on 10th May 1884 in England. She first made her film debut in Russia playing the role of Sofja Andreevna in Yakov Protazanov's 'Departure of a Grand Old Man' in 1912, she arrived in America around 1913 to appear on vaudeville and in the dramatic Broadway theatres. She starred in her first US film as Stella in Alice Guy's drama 'The Tigress' in 1914. Olga became a highly popular diva through the 1910s starring in move than two dozen movies until her last starring role as Patience Sparhawk in Ralph Ince's 'The Panther Woman' co-starring Rockliffe Fellows in 1918, she also wrote several scripts. After Petrova left the movie business in 1918 she continued to star on Broadway during the 1920s. She wrote three plays and toured the country with a theatre troupe. She published her autobiograph in 1942 and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She died in 1977 age 93. She had no children.- Actress
- Casting Director
- Additional Crew
Noel Maree was born on 8 December 1931 in Michigan, USA. She was an actress and casting director, known for Real Premonition (2007), Joel D. Wynkoop's the Other Side (2011) and Contact from Beyond (2005). She died on 11 November 2006 in Clearwater, Florida, USA.- Jack Drumier was born on 19 October 1867 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was an actor, known for The Dancer's Peril (1917), The Power and the Glory (1918) and The Beautiful Mrs. Reynolds (1918). He died on 2 April 1929 in Clearwater, Florida, USA.
- Adrianne Robert was born on 4 January 1983 in Brunswick, Maine, USA. She died on 14 July 2012 in Clearwater Beach, Florida, USA.
- Music Department
- Composer
- Soundtrack
Composer, conductor, music director for CBS-TV, educated at the Royal Conservatory in Milan. He came to the USA in 1929, and became an American citizen in 1938. He was an accompanist for Ferrari Fontana. He conducted the orchestra for WOR, New York, and was the music director for the Tampa (Florida) Philharmonic since 1957. Also, he was guest conductor for the New York (NY) Philharmonic, and the symphony orchestras of Chicago, Illinois and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, also in Norway, Italy, Chile, and Canada. He served as chairman of the St. John's University music department. In 1955 he conducted the Oslo Philharmonic in the first of a series of American Exchange Programs. He joined ASCAP in 1948, and his compositions include: "The Great City"; "Sarabande"; "Sicilian Rhapsody"; "Suite for Cello, Orchestra"; "Preludes for Organ"; "Suite for Strings"; "The United States of America, Circa 1790", and "Mambo Tropical".- Editor
- Editorial Department
Walter Balderson was born on 19 September 1926 in Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA. He was an editor, known for NBC: The First Fifty Years (1976) and The Huntley-Brinkley Report (1956). He died on 29 July 2023 in Clearwater, Florida, USA.- Ashley C. McKinley was born on 23 June 1896 in Marshall, Texas, USA. He died on 11 February 1970 in Clearwater, Florida, USA.