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Michael Fox first "trod the boards" in grade school plays in his hometown of Yonkers, New York. After toying with the idea of becoming a history teacher, Fox did "something as foreign to my nature as one could think of", becoming a "boomer" (a migratory railroad worker) and taking jobs as a brakeman with various lines. His interest in acting was rekindled in the mid-'40s and he appeared in several "little theater" plays in Los Angeles. An acting-directing stint in a Players Ring production of "Home of the Brave" caught the eye of Harry Sauber, an associate of exploitation mogul "Jungle Sam" Sam Katzman, and Fox landed his first film role (A Yank in Indo-China (1952)). He appeared in dozens of movies (and innumerable TV episodes) in the decades since; one of his regular TV roles was as the coroner in the courtroom drama Perry Mason (1957).- Actress
- Soundtrack
Peg LaCentra, born in 1910, grew up in Boston. She very briefly attended the New England Conservatory of Music, studying piano. She also attended the Katharine Gibbs Finishing School and the Fenway Academy of Dramatic Art, as her early goal was to become an actress. Before moving to New York in 1931, she was an announcer at Boston radio station WNAC. Once she hit New York, she soon joined NBC as a singer and actress.
While singing with Dick McDonough's Orchestra on "The Mell-O-Roll Ice Cream Show," in 1936, Peg met Artie Shaw, then a sideman with McDonough. Shaw told her he was organizing his own orchestra and needed a singer. She joined Shaw in the summer of 1936, performing at the Lexington Hotel, the Paramount Theater in New York and on recordings. After Shaw's band broke up about a year later, she sang on radio with Benny Goodman. She and Goodman did not get along, and she quickly rejoined Artie Shaw when he formed another orchestra.
Although a good singer, Peg recorded very little; her recording output is confined to the 1930s. She recorded under her own name and, in addition to Shaw, with the orchestras of Victor Young and Johnny Green. In 1939, she was given her own program on NBC, "The Peg LaCentra Show."
She later appeared in a number of films and episodic TV, particularly dubbing non-singing actresses. The most famous of these are Susan Hayward in Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947) and Ida Lupino in The Man I Love (1946) and Escape Me Never (1947). She appeared (as herself) singing in the background of Joan Crawford's Humoresque (1946).
In 1939, Peg married radio actor Paul Stewart, an original member of Orson Welles' "Mercury Theater of the Air." They remained married until his death in 1986. She passed away of a heart attack on June 1, 1996, at her home in Los Angeles. She was 86.- Actress
- Writer
Vera Cook was born on 19 June 1912 in Lewisham, London, England, UK. She was an actress and writer, known for ITV Play of the Week (1955), Never Take Candy from A Stranger (1960) and Secret Agent (1964). She died on 1 June 1996 in Bromley, Kent, England, UK.- Production Manager
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Danilo Sabatini was born on 12 August 1914. He was a production manager and producer, known for Lady Liberty (1971), Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson (1980) and It Takes a Thief (1968). He died on 1 June 1996 in Rome, Italy.- Actor
- Stunts
Larry Harris was born on 17 February 1928 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Hawaii Calls (1938), Glad Rags to Riches (1933) and Public Enemies (1941). He died on 1 June 1996 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Jesse Hill Ford was a product of the South he was born in, and his death a product of the honesty of his literary picture of race relations in that South. He was best known for his second novel, for which he also wrote the screenplay, The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970). This story of the murder of a black undertaker by the white policeman with whom his wife had an affair made Ford's reputation and made him wealthy, but the people of his home town, Humboldt, Tennessee, felt betrayed as they recognized details of an actual event in that town. His next novel also dealt with racial conflict, and following its publication he received numerous death threats. Against this background, one night in 1970 he saw a strange car park on the shoulder of his driveway; Ford shot twice, killing a young black soldier who had picked this spot for a romantic stop with his girlfriend. Ford was tried for murder. He was found not guilty, but did not fully recover from the event; he finished the novel he was working on but never wrote again. He underwent open heart surgery in March and on June 1 1996 he took his own life.
- Jamie Stewart was born on 27 August 1975 in Searcy, Arkansas, USA. He was an actor, known for Sling Blade (1996). He died on 1 June 1996 in Searcy, Arkansas, USA.
- Music Department
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Don Grolnick was born on 23 September 1947 in New York, USA. He was an actor, known for A League of Their Own (1992), FM (1978) and Pumping Iron (1977). He died on 1 June 1996 in New York, USA.- William Heimlich was born on 28 September 1911 in Ohio, USA. He was married to Christina Heimlich. He died on 1 June 1996 in Falls Church, Virginia, USA.