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Her career may have only lasted a dozen years, and the number of films slightly more than twenty, but Barbara appeared in some interesting productions. As a young girl, she was a model. While completing her studies at UCLA, she co-starred in half a dozen movies for 20th Century Fox. Lawrence appeared in the critically acclaimed A Letter to Three Wives (1949).
In 1952, she was cast in Here Come the Nelsons (1952), which was the film version of their popular radio programme. Rock Hudson was also in the cast. The following year, Lawrence was cast with Gig Young in Arena (1953), which was a 3-D feature film from MGM. As originally shown, special 3-D glasses were required to view the picture to bring all the action of the Rodeo to your seat. In 1954, she was cast in Her Twelve Men (1954), which was the last film that Greer Garson made at MGM. In 1955, she was cast as Gertie Cummings in Oklahoma! (1955), which was filmed in TODD-AO wide-screen. After making a few movies in 1957, she retired.- Mike Ditka is an American former football player, coach, and television commentator. A member of both the College Football (1986) and Pro Football Hall of Fame (1988), he was the 1961 UPI NFL Rookie of Year, a five-time Pro Bowl selection and five-time All-Pro tight end with the Chicago Bears, Philadelphia Eagles, and Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL).
He was an NFL champion with the 1963 Bears, and is a three-time Super Bowl champion, playing on the Cowboys Super Bowl VI team as well as winning as an assistant coach for the Cowboys in Super Bowl XII, and coaching the Bears to victory in Super Bowl XX. He was named to the NFL's 50th, 75th and 100th Anniversary All-Time Teams.
As a coach for the Bears for 11 years he was twice both the AP and UPI NFL Coach of Year (1985 and 1988). He also coached the New Orleans Saints for three years.
Ditka and Tom Flores are the only people to win an NFL title as a player, an assistant coach, and a head coach. Ditka, Flores, Gary Kubiak, and Doug Pederson are also the only people in modern NFL history to win a championship as head coach of a team he played for previously. Ditka is the only person to participate in both of the last two Chicago Bears' league championships, as a player in 1963 and as head coach in 1985.
Mike Ditka is known by the nickname 'Iron Mike', which he has said comes from his being born and raised in a steel town in Pennsylvania. - Maggie Gill was born on 4 March 1908 in Carnegie, Oklahoma, USA. She was married to James Elmo Gill. She died on 13 August 1993 in Amarillo, Texas, USA.
- Mary Thelma Lange was born in 1912 in Carnegie, Pennsylvania. Her family was wealthy and she attended the Divine Providence academy in Pittsburgh. At the age of nineteen Mary moved to New York city and joined the chorus of the Ziegfeld Follies. In 1931 she appeared in the Broadway show Music In The Air. During this time she also pose semi-nude for photographer Alfred Cheney Johnston. A talent scout saw her on stage and offered her a film contract. Mary made her film debut in the 1932 short Poor Little Rich Boy. Soon after she was chosen to be one Sam Goldwyn's dancing Goldwyn Girls. The lovely brunette had bit parts in more than a dozen films including Kid Millions, Dames, and Roman Scandals.
She got to play a Ziegfeld Girl in the 1936 musical The Great Ziegfeld. Mary married Frank Kolb, a marketing executive for Standard Oil, on November 5, 1938. Then she decided to give up her show business career to be a housewife. In an interview she said "I'm not sorry I'm giving up my career. I'm looking forward to making a happy home." She and Frank had one son named Daniel. The family lived in Florida for many years and later moved to Ohio. On April 13, 1973 she died suddenly at the age of sixty. Her cause of death was not revealed to the public. Mary was buried at All Saints Cemetery in Northfield, Ohio. - Director
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Charles Nedwin "Ned" Hochman began his motion picture career as a combat cameraman during World War II with the U.S. Army Air Corps Motion Picture Production Unit. Housed in the old Hal Roach Studios, Hochman helped to photograph hundreds of training films under the supervision of unit commander Ronald Reagan. Later, Hochman would go afield to photograph the hellish fighting conditions in the Burma-China Theater of Operations, rubbing elbows with Stillwell's Raiders and photographing the first instance of medical evacuation via helicopter, deep in the Burmese jungle. Upon return to civilian life, Hochman helped to establish film production studies at the University of Oklahoma; became a charter member of the University Film and Video Association; directed Stark Fear (1962), his first and only feature-length motion picture, and became a leading proponent of luring "runaway" film productions to Oklahoma. Many working motion picture professionals (around the world, as well in Oklahoma) can trace their roots back to this man and acknowledge him as a great teacher and true friend.- Casting Director
Fred A. Datig was born on 23 October 1891 in Carnegie, Pennsylvania, USA. Fred A. was a casting director, known for The Cheerful Fraud (1926), Why Bring That Up? (1929) and Rolling Home (1926). Fred A. was married to Celia Villa. Fred A. died on 11 December 1951 in Culver City, Los Angeles, California, USA.- John Allen was born on 6 May 1929 in Carnegie, Oklahoma, USA.