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- An American lead actor and supporting actor, rugged and commanding Glenn Corbett's background didn't seem like it would lead to Hollywood stardom. The son of a garage mechanic, Corbett served a hitch in the navy and later met Judy, the woman who would become his wife, while she was working at a college. With her encouragement, Corbett began to get parts in campus theatricals, and it was while he was in one of these that he came to the attention of the powers-that-be at Columbia Pictures, which signed him to a contract.
His film debut was in The Crimson Kimono (1959). That was followed by supporting roles in The Mountain Road (1960) and Man on a String (1960). He eventually got the lead role in William Castle's suspense thriller Homicidal (1961) and appeared in the TV series Route 66 (1960). His work in "Route 66" got him attention and he was cast in a new series, The Road West (1966), but that was short-lived.
Corbett was also busy making major theatrical films in the 1970s. He snagged substantial supporting parts in two of John Wayne's westerns, playing good guy Pat Garrett in Chisum (1970) and one of the gang who kidnaps Wayne's son in Big Jake (1971), but he took the lead role in Nashville Girl (1976) and Universal's war epic Midway (1976). Throughout the '80s Corbett stayed busy with a regular part in the cast of the long-running television series Dallas (1978) up until his death in 1993 from lung cancer. - Actress
- Soundtrack
Ann B. Davis made her debut in show business at age 6 earning $2.00 in a puppet show. At the University of Michigan, Ann planned to study medicine but got the acting bug from her brother who was the lead dancer in the national company of "Oklahoma" for over a year. Ann then spent six years in little theaters, stock companies, touring musicals, and such until she got her break as "Schultzie", the secretary on "The Bob Cummings Show." Before Hollywood, Ann spent a summer at the Cain Park Theater and, during a year at the Erie Playhouse in Erie, Pennsylvania, she studied everything about show production and played dozens of roles ranging from teenagers to characters over 60. In 1949, she arrived at Porterville, California and spent three years at the Barn theater.
She then moved down the coast to Monterey, where she appeared at the Wharf theater. From there she decided to try Hollywood. Anne has also played many parts on stage including "The Women", "Twelfth Night", "Dark Of The Moon", and others. Her mother, Marguerite Scott Davis, appeared with professional stock companies for over thirty years.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Pola Negri was born in Lipno, Poland, and moved to Warsaw as a child. Living in poverty with her mother, a teenage Pola auditioned and was accepted to the Imperial Ballet. Due to an illness that ended her dancing career, she soon switched to the Warsaw Imperial Academy of Dramatic Arts and became an actress. By 17 she was a star on the Warsaw stage, but World War I would soon change the theater scene. Without the theater, Pola turned to films. With her new career in pictures and her stage success in "Sumurun", she went to Berlin and was teamed with German director Ernst Lubitsch. The Lubitsch-Negri combination was very successful and the roles that Pola played were earthy, exotic, strong women. One of her films, Passion (1919), was optioned and retitled "Passion" for exhibition in America. The film was such a success that by 1922 she and Lubitsch were both given contracts to work in Hollywood. While her first few films showed some success, they were overshadowed by her reported romances with such stars as Charles Chaplin and Rudolph Valentino. Forbidden Paradise (1924), made with Lubitsch, and Hotel Imperial (1927) were two of her more successful films. However, three things conspired to end her career in Hollywood: (1) The perception that her mourning for Rudolph Valentino was insincere, though Negri did describe him as the love of her life; (2) The Hays Office codes that would not allow her to show the very traits that made her a sex-siren in Europe; (3) Her thick Polish accent would not play in the sound pictures that were coming into vogue.
Pola Negri returned to Europe and eventually made films for UFA, which was under Nazi management. In 1941 she returned to America penniless. She made Hi Diddle Diddle (1943) and became an American citizen in 1951. Her next and last movie was The Moon-Spinners (1964).
She died of pneumonia in San Antonio, TX, in 1987.- Actress
- Writer
Christopher Templeton was born on 26 February 1952 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Hunter (1984), Ready, Willing & Able (1999) and Simon & Simon (1981). She died on 15 February 2011 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.- Terry Mross was born in Harrisburg, Arkansas, a rural farming community, in 1951. He is the youngest of four children and graduated from T.A. Futrall High School in Marianna, Arkansas. Mross' first role was in Merhcant/Ivory's The Ballad of the Sad Cafe (1991) starring 'Vanessa Redgrave'_. It was Ms. Redgrave who encouraged him to pursue acting as a career. Cast by Don Phillips as "Coach Conrad" in Dazed and Confused (1993)_ (directed by Richard Linklater) is the role for which he is best known. His most fun role was that of "Sheriff Cooper" in the Phil Cruz directed indie entitled Andre the Butcher. Mross is also a Country and Western and R&B singer, plays electric guitar and owns a Fender Telecastor.
In 1973 Terry worked as a DJ at KFFA Radio in Helena, Arkansas. At various times he guest hosted the King Biscuit Time Radio Show, sitting in for "Sunshine" Sonny Payne. Mross was a guest on the show in September of 2016 and was interviewed by Payne. Sonny begins each show with "Pass the biscuits 'cause it's King Biscuit Time". A play on this line was in the movie "O' Brother, Where Art Thou? The show originally featured Sonny Boy Williamson playing live every day at noon. It is the longest running show in history having been broadcast more than 17,000 times. B.B. King, Levon Helm and others credit this program as a big influence on their musical style while growing up in the Delta. Levon said when he was a child he'd go to town at noon and buy some donuts and a coke then go to the radio station to watch the show live. - Actor
- Location Management
Big John Hamilton was born on 29 October 1916 in Asheville, North Carolina, USA. He was an actor, known for Tough Enough (1983), Bandolero! (1968) and Hellfighters (1968). He died on 5 December 1984 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.- Actor
- Producer
David Mooney was born on 26 August 1941 in Center, Texas, USA. He was an actor and producer, known for Chaplin (1992), Esoteric (2004) and Limited Edition (2003). He died on 1 April 2019 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Polly Lou Livingston was born on 6 May 1929 in Santa Rosa Hospital, San Antonio, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for Bravest Warriors (2009), Lego Dimensions (2015) and Adventure Time (2010). She was married to Robert Goldwin Livingston. She died on 24 January 2021 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.- Buddy Strait was born on 27 May 1950 in Poteet, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Palo Pinto Gold (2009). He died on 10 April 2009 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
- Wally Taylor was born on 14 July 1930 in Maywood, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Night of the Creeps (1986), Escape from New York (1981) and Rocky III (1982). He died on 7 October 2012 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
- Actor
- Composer
- Writer
Federico Arturo Guízar Tolentino was born on April 8, 1908, in Guadalajara, Mexico. Over the objections of his father, he trained early as a singer and, as such, was sent to New York in 1929 to record the songs of Agustín Lara. While there he had a radio show, "Tito Guízar y su Guitar", and studied opera. In 1932 he married another Mexican singer, Carmen Noriega. He performed both operatic and Mexican cowboy songs at Carnegie Hall. His 1936 movie Out on the Big Ranch (1936) launched the singing cowboy film in Mexico and succeeded as well in the United States. From there he went to Hollywood, playing with such stars as Roy Rogers, Dorothy Lamour and Mae West. He continued playing series parts in Mexican television well into the 1990s. Tito Guízar died at age 91, survived by a son, two daughters and five grandchildren.- Stunning silent screen actress Martha Mansfield was a musical comedy star in New York City by the time she entered films in 1916 for Max Linder. Before long she advanced to second leads in features, including the role of Millicent Carew in the John Barrymore starrer Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), which to this day remains her best known. The promising beauty was signed by Fox Studios in 1923 and began work on a new picture The Warrens of Virginia (1924). Nearing the completion of the film, Martha had just finished a scene and was returning to her automobile when her dress caught fire from a carelessly strewn match. Engulfed in flames, co-star Wilfred Lytell managed to throw his coat around her and extinguish the fire, but it was too late. She died the next day of severe burns at age 24.
- Kathleen Collins was born on 22 September 1903 in San Antonio, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for Daniel Boone Thru the Wilderness (1926), Black Cyclone (1925) and Border Devils (1932). She was married to Richmond A. Edwards, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams and Ralph W. Osborne. She died on 24 September 1994 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
- Jonathan M. Wainwright was born on 23 August 1883 in Walla Walla, Washington, USA. He died on 2 September 1953 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
- Mary Moore was born on 30 June 1921 in Phenix City, Alabama, USA. She was an actress, known for Return of the Lash (1947) and The Purple Monster Strikes (1945). She was married to Clayton Moore. She died on 13 January 1997 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
- Stanley Wray was born on 15 September 1907 in Muncie, Indiana, USA. He was married to Esther Johnson Hines. He died on 13 September 1986 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
- Additional Crew
- Camera and Electrical Department
- Director
Richard Avedon was born on 15 May 1923 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a director, known for Funny Face (1957), Chanel No. 5: Tomorrow's Woman (1966) and Gilda Live (1980). He was married to Evelyn Franklin and Doe Avedon. He died on 1 October 2004 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.- Myra Davis Hemmings was a schoolteacher in the San Antonio public school system for over fifty years; she was also active in the African-American community, particularly in amateur theatrics. She and her husband John formed the Hemmings Players, a group of amateur actors who put on plays and other performances in and about San Antonio. Mrs. Hemmings, a 1913 graduate of Howard University in Washington, D.C., also earned a master's degree in speech from Northwestern in 1947. She is best known in some circles as one of the founders of the Delta Sigma Theta sorority; her personal papers are on deposit in the archives of the library of University of Texas - San Antonio.
- Cosmé McMoon (born Cosmé McMunn; February 22, 1901 - August 22, 1980) was a Mexican-American musician, pianist and composer, best known as the accompanist to notably tone-deaf soprano Florence Foster Jenkins.
McMoon was born as Cosmé McMunn in 1901 in Mapimí, Mexico, the son of Maria (Valadez) and Cosme McMunn. His paternal grandparents were Irish.
He moved with his family to San Antonio, Texas around 1911. He moved to New York City around 1920 to further his musical studies, and likely adopted the McMoon surname around that time.
Foster Jenkins met McMoon in the late 1920s, and knowing McMoon was a concert pianist, eventually asked him to help her prepare for her performances and accompany her.
McMoon never ended up making a career in music after Jenkins' death in 1944, and instead took an interest in bodybuilding and judging bodybuilding contests. He resided in New York City until shortly before his death in August 1980. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and moved back to San Antonio, where he was buried.
McMoon was portrayed by actor Donald Corren in Souvenir, a play about Florence Foster Jenkins' career, which ran on Broadway in 2004 and has since been staged in many regional theaters.
He was portrayed by Simon Helberg in the 2016 feature-film about the life of Jenkins titled Florence Foster Jenkins. - Actor
- Soundtrack
Charlie Robison was born on 1 September 1964 in Houston, Texas, USA. He was an actor, known for Grand Champion (2002), ExTerminators (2009) and The Big Day (1999). He was married to Kristen Jensen and Emily Strayer. He died on 10 September 2023 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.- Madalyn Murray O'Hair (née Mays) born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She was a militant feminist activist, well known as the American atheist activist, founder of American Atheists, and the organization's president from 1963 to 1986. Madalyn Murray O'Hair become famous for the Murray v. Curlett lawsuit, which led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling ending official Bible-reading in American public schools in 1963. Madalyn Mays was born in the Beechview neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Lena Christina (Scholle) and John Irwin Mays. She had an older brother, John Irwin Jr. As an infant, she was baptized into the church as a Presbyterian. In 1936, she graduated from Rossford High School in Rossford, Ohio. In 1941, she married John Henry Roths. They separated when they both enlisted for World War II service, he in the United States Marine Corps, she in the Women's Army Corps. In April 1945, while posted to a cryptography position in Italy, she began a relationship with an officer, William J. Murray, Jr., a married Roman Catholic who refused to divorce his wife. Mays divorced Roths, adopted the name Madalyn Murray, and gave birth to a boy whom she named William "Bill" J. Murray III. In 1949, Murray completed a bachelor's degree from Ashland University. In 1952, she received an LL.B. degree from the then unaccredited South Texas College of Law; however, she failed the bar exam and never practiced law. On November 16, 1954, she gave birth to her second son, Jon Garth Murray, fathered by her boyfriend Michael Fiorillo. Madalyn and her two sons traveled by ship to Europe, planning on defecting to the Soviet embassy in Paris and residing in the Soviet Union, due to that nation's promotion of state atheism. However, the USSR denied them entry. They all returned to the Loch Raven section of Baltimore, Maryland in 1960 to live with her mother and brother. On August 27, 1995, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, her son Jon Garth, and granddaughter Robin suddenly disappeared. All three of them was murdered on September 29, 1995, San Antonio, Texas, by David Roland Waters, a convicted felon out on parole, and his fellow career criminal Gary Karr. Waters was an employee of the American Atheists.
- Tandi Andrews was born on 22 December 1964 in San Antonio, Texas, USA. She died on 15 February 1995 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
- Zeke Mills was born on 22 August 1918 in Mobile, Alabama, USA. He was an actor, known for JFK (1991), Dazed and Confused (1993) and Scary Movie (1991). He was married to Edith Mills. He died on 20 January 2005 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
- Kenneth Piest was born on 17 January 1954 in Laurium, Michigan, USA. He died on 5 October 2007 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
- Isabel del Puerto was born on 7 August 1921 in Vienna, Austria. She was an actress, known for Trampa fatal (1961), Confidencias de un ruletero (1949) and Captain Scarlett (1952). She was married to Joe Oldham Lanett, Héctor Mendoza Orozco and Juan Hevia del Puerto. She died on 13 March 2014 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.