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Irving Berlin was born Israel Isidor Baline on May 11, 1888 in Mogilev, Belarus, Russian Empire. Towering composer, songwriter, ("God Bless America", "Always", "Blue Skies", "White Christmas") author and publisher, he came to the United States at age 5 and was educated in New York's public schools. His earliest musical education was from his father, a cantor. He earned Honorary degrees from Bucknell University and Temple University. Beginning his career as a song-plugger for publisher Harry von Tilzer, Berlin worked as a singing waiter in Chinatown. In 1909, he was hired as a staff lyricist by the Ted Snyder Company, and became a partner to that firm four years later.
In 1910, he began doing vaudeville appearances in the United States and abroad, and also appeared with Snyder in the Broadway musical "Up and Down Broadway", that ran for 72 performances. He joined ASCAP as a charter member in 1914, and served on its first board of directors between 1914-1918. Berlin enlisted the United States Army infantry in World War I, and was a sergeant at Camp Upton, New York. After the war, he established his own public-relations firm, and in 1921, he built the 1025-seat Music Box Theatre (at 239 W. 45th Street, New York) with Sam H. Harris. After Harris' death in 1941, Berlin assumed full ownership and the theatre remains a Broadway institution to this day.
Among his many awards was the Medal for Merit for his 1942 all-soldier show "This Is the Army", which toured the United States, Europe and South Pacific battle zones; all proceeds were assigned to Army Emergency Relief and other service agencies. Berlin was also a member of the French Legion of Honor and held the Congressional Medal of Honor for "God Bless America", the proceeds from which went to the God Bless America Fund. His songs were sung by Fred Astaire, Al Jolson, Judy Garland, Bing Crosby, Dick Powell, Alice Faye and many others. Irving Berlin died at the age of 101 of natural causes on September 22, 1989 in New York City.- Actor
- Additional Crew
Michael Mark was born on 15 March 1886 in Mogilev, Russian Empire [now Belarus]. He was an actor, known for Son of Frankenstein (1939), The Wasp Woman (1959) and The Great Flamarion (1945). He died on 3 February 1975 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Pyotr Aleynikov was born on 12 July 1914 in village Krivel, Mogilev uyezd, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Shklow Raion, Mahilyow Region, Belarus]. He was an actor, known for The Great Glinka (1946), Seven Brave Men (1936) and Shumi, gorodok (1940). He died on 9 June 1965 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Actor
- Writer
- Manager
Gary Vaynerchuk was born on 14 November 1975 in Bobruisk, Mogilev Oblast, BSSR, USSR [now Babruysk, Belarus]. He is an actor and writer, known for The Adventures of Lil' Vee (2019), Dirt! The Movie (2009) and Fate of a Sport (2022).- Irina Medvedeva was born on 14 August 1982 in Bobruisk, Mogilev Oblast, BSSR, USSR [now Babruysk, Belarus]. She is an actress, known for Chelovek niotkuda (2023), Tarif Novogodniy (2008) and The Jungle (2012). She has been married to Guillaume Boucher since 5 July 2018. They have two children. She was previously married to Ruslan Alekhno.
- Actor
- Writer
Andrey Sviridov was born on 27 March 1975 in Mogilev, Mogilevskaya oblast, BSSR, USSR [now Belarus]. He is an actor and writer, known for Dark Planet (2008), Chinese Zodiac (2012) and I'm Staying (2007).- Nina Zorskaya was born on 26 February 1918 in village Malyushino, Western Oblast, RSFSR [now Krasnapolle Raion, Mogilev Region, Belarus]. She was an actress, known for Wait for Me (1943), Delo Artamonovykh (1941) and Obyknovennoe chudo (1965). She died on 6 September 1989 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].
- Additional Crew
Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko (8 July 1909 - 2 July 1989) was a Soviet Belarusian communist politician and diplomat during the Cold War. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs (1957-1985) and as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (1985-1988). Gromyko was responsible for many top decisions on Soviet foreign policy until he retired in 1988. In the 1940s Western pundits called him Mr Nyet ("Mr No") or "Grim Grom", because of his frequent use of the Soviet veto in the United Nations Security Council.- Actress
- Soundtrack
Polish stage and film actress, singer, cabaret performer and creative director, theatre director and costume designer, editorialist. Successfully debuted on film in 1935 (the song she performed was available on soundtrack album released by Syrena Record in 1936) while she was still studying acting under Aleksander Zelwerowicz (who was very reluctant to allow his students to start their acting career before they finish school). Graduated Panstwowy Instytut Sztuki Teatralnej (State Institute of Theatrical Arts, Warsaw) in 1936. Debuted on stage in Polish Theatre in Warsaw in 1936 (with Dickens' "The Pickwick Papers", as Mary), where she performed until the war (see: other works). Her roles were a proof of her versatility, as she would find herself both in drama and comedy.
The production of her 9th movie, "Szczescie przychodzi kiedy chce" (directed by Mieczyslaw Krawicz ) was canceled by the outbreak of World War 2.
As most of the actors who boycotted German-controlled theaters during the war, she had to find another way to make a living: she worked as waitress in "Na Antresoli" café, this also meant giving performances alongside other artists. That place was also a contact point for Polish resistance. She was taken hostage by Gestapo and held in the Pawiak prison (her husband Zbigniew Sawan ended up in Auschwitz camp) as a result of German retaliatory action for the Polish resistance assassination of the Nazi spy Igo Sym, her co-star from Zlota maska (1940) (she also rejected his offers to start working for German UFA, at that time dealing mostly with pro-Nazi propaganda movies).
After the war she started performing in Teatr Maly in Warsaw alongside her husband, later also in Miniatura Theatre in Warsaw and Teatr Nowy. They moved next (1947-1949) to Polish Theatre in Szczecin, where Sawan would take the manager seat. The couple returned to Warsaw in 1949 and started working in Ludowy Theatre: Sawan again as manager, while she started directing plays. She had spent the years 1951-1953 in Buffo revue theatre, what launched her career as cabaret star.
In 1956 she created the "Wagabunda" cabaret, which gathered such actors and satirists as Edward Dziewonski, Jacek Fedorowicz, Bogumil Kobiela, Maria Koterbska, Wieslaw Michnikowski, Stanislaw Tym, Jeremi Przybora, Mieczyslaw Wojnicki, Zbigniew Cybulski, Marian Zalucki. Popular in Poland, it also toured USA (1957), Canada, Great Britain, Israel and Czechoslovakia. She was its art director and also performed sung poetry or versions of popular songs with Polish lyrics. During that time (1961) she made a guest appearance in Regnier's play "Les Petites Tetes" in Comedy Theatre, Warsaw. After "Wagabunda" dissolved in 1968 she had problem finding work in Warsaw theaters despite her experience and fame. Finally she found her way to the stage of Syrena Theatre in Warsaw, where she played in revues in 1974 through 1981. After W obronie wlasnej (1982) she was to star in another movie, but it was stuck in a pre-production limbo.
During her career she also worked with Polish public broadcaster Polskie Radio, taking part in concertos and other broadcasts. She appeared in radio dramas already in late 1930s; listeners of Program 1 station could still catch her in 1980s & 1990s reading her own editorials on cultural news, displaying literary and satirical talent.
People she worked with describe her as a hard-working and demanding professional, elegant and well mannered, brilliant and with a great sense of humor.- Writer
- Music Department
- Additional Crew
Mikhail Volpin is a Soviet playwright, artist, poet and screenwriter. He was born in the family of David Samuilovich Volpin, a lawyer and music teacher Anna Borisovna Volpina. He spent his childhood in Moscow, was fond of art, took drawing lessons from the artist Vasiliy Surikov. The young man took part in the Civil War on the side of Soviet power. In 1920-1921, as an artist and author of satirical texts came to work in the 'Okna ROSTA' under the leadership of Vladimir Mayakovsky. In 1921-1927 he studied at Higher artistic and technical workshop, wrote satirical verses, and comic plays, including co-authorship with Viktor Ardov, Ilya Ilf, Yevgeni Petrov, Valentin Kataev, Vladimir Mass and Nikolay Erdman. As a poet collaborated in satirical magazines, in the early 1930s - a staff member of the magazine "Crocodile". In the postwar years, Volpin came to the film studio Soyuzmultfilm, where in 1948 the first film was shot according to his script - Fedya Zaitsev (1948), and in the 1950s and early 1960s - a number of works, including the 1955 film The Bewitched Boy (1955) based on the fairy tale of Selma Lagerlöf "A wonderful journey of Nils with wild geese". From the beginning of the 1960s, according to Volpin's scripts (including those written together with Erdman), a number of feature films of fairy tales based on works belonging to the category of world classics of the genre were shot, the best of which is the film Frosty (1965). The last film of the screenwriter was filmed in 1987, Skazka pro vlyublyonnogo malyara (1987).- Producer
- Production Manager
- Writer
Marek M. Libkow was born on 15 March 1890 in Mogilev Region, Belarus. Marek M. is known for Sportowiec mimo woli (1940), Pani minister tanczy (1937) and Mocny czlowiek (1929).- Vladimir Gubarev was born on 26 August 1938 in Mogilev, Byelorussian SSR, USSR. He was a writer, known for Korabl prisheltsev (1986), Sarkofagen (1988) and Szarkofág (1987). He was married to Svetlana Olegovna Gubareva. He died on 25 January 2022 in Russia.
- Eugenia John was born on 30 September 1922 in Mogilev, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic [now Mogilev, Mogilev Region, Belarus]. She was married to Mieczyslaw Czechowicz and Jerzy Sliwinski. She died on 2 February 1995 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.
- Cinematographer
- Director
- Writer
Aleksandr Gintsburg graduated from the camera department of the Leningrad Photographic Film School (1927), Electrotechnical Institute (1934). From 1927, he was the operator of the Sovkino film studio (Lenfilm), from 1941-1943, the TsOKS in Tashkent, where Lenfilm was evacuated, from 1943, the operator of the Soyuzzdetfilm film studio (later named after Maksim Gorkiy), in 1951-1957 - cameraman and director of the Belarusfilm film studio (combining with the work of Sovinformburo operator).- Veronika Borisenko was born on 16 January 1918 in Stolbun, Mogilev Governorate, Russia [now Gomel Oblast, Belarus]. She was an actress, known for The Snow Maiden (1952) and Anna Snegina (1969). She died on 7 September 1995 in Moscow, Russia.
- Writer
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Boris Laskin was born on 22 July 1914 in Orsha, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Vitebsk Voblast, Belarus]. He was a writer, known for Carnival Night (1956), Rodnye berega (1943) and Devushka s gitaroy (1958). He died on 22 August 1983 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Director
- Writer
- Art Department
Viktor Turov was born on 25 October 1936 in Mogilev, Byelorussian SSR, USSR [now Belarus]. Viktor was a director and writer, known for Lyudi na bolote (1982), Vremya ee synovey (1974) and Dykhanie grozy (1983). Viktor died on 31 October 1996 in Minsk, Belarus.- Director
- Writer
Nikolai Sadkovich was born on 21 January 1907 in Orsha, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Vitebsk Voblast, Belarus]. She was a director and writer, known for Schastlivyye koltsa (1929), Pesn o pervoy devushke (1930) and Mayskaya noch (1938). She died on 16 August 1968.- Valentin Yantsat was born on 21 November 1905 in Gomel, Gomel uyezd, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Gomel Region, Belarus]. He was an actor, known for Young Pushkin (1937), Na odnoy planete (1966) and Shestdesyat dney (1943). He died on 20 August 1967 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].
- Chechik-Efrati was born in 1898 in Gomel Uyezd, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Gomel Oblast, Belarus]. He was an actor, known for Mabul (1927). He died in 1927 in Germany.
- Production Designer
- Writer
- Art Department
Mordecai Gorelik, who was brought to the United States from Russia at the age of five, deserted his father's lumberyard, becoming, eventually, an internationally-known stage and film designer, instructor, and theatre historian. He is the author of a classic textbook, "New Theatres for Old," and of innumerable other writings, including a contribution to the Encyclopedia Britannica. His work as a designer of professional plays for The Group Theatre on Broadway, for the Actors Laboratory Theatre, Hollywood, and for other stage managements, has been varied by jobs as production designer of American and foreign films, and by official stage research abroad. He has represented the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the Fulbright Grant in theatre studies throughout Europe (Eastern as well as Western) and as far abroad as Japan, India, Israel, and Australia. At the end of the War, in 1945-46, he served as designer and director for the Biarritz American University, France, under U.S. Army auspices; and in 1949 he was an Expert Consultant in theatre for the American Military Government in Germany. From 1960 to 1972, as Research Professor in Theatre, he carried on class work and staged plays at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. As an Emeritus Professor on theater research, his work was anthologized in Best Short Plays of the World Theater' (1976).- Writer
- Actor
Nathan Zarkhi was born in 1900 in Orsha, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Vitebsk Voblast, Belarus]. He was a writer and actor, known for Pobeda zhenshchiny (1927), Konets Sankt-Peterburga (1927) and Osobnyak Golubinykh (1924). He died on 17 July 1935 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Composer
- Music Department
Isaak Lyuban was born on 23 March 1906 in Cherikov, Cherikov uyezd, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Cherykaw, Cherykaw Raion, Mogilev Region, Belarus]. Isaak was a composer, known for Poleskaya legenda (1957), Schastye nado berech (1958) and Novyy dom (1947). Isaak died on 7 November 1975 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Helena Zarembina was born on 6 May 1895 in Mogilev, Russian Empire [now Belarus]. She was an actress, known for Pani minister tanczy (1937), Straszny dwór (1936) and Zabawka (1933). She died on 9 January 1960 in Czestochowa, Slaskie, Poland.
- Director
- Editor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Vladimir Sukhobokov was born on 23 July 1910 in Rogachyov, Rogachyov uyezd, Mogilev Governorate, Russian Empire [now Rahachow, Gomel Region, Belarus]. He was a director and editor, known for Vsyo dlya vas (1965), Volki i ovtsy (1953) and Nochnoy patrul (1957). He died on 12 June 1973 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].