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- Joe Molina was born on 23 May 1899 in Sonora, Mexico. He was an actor, known for Zorro's Fighting Legion (1939). He died on 16 December 1977 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Hideo Sekigawa was born on 1 December 1908 in Sado, Niigata, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Hyoryû shitaî (1959), Shonen tanteidan: Kabutomushi no yoki (1957) and Atarashii Pekin (1957). He died on 16 December 1977.- Director
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Risto Jarva was one of the main characters in the so called "Finnish New Wave cinema" along with Mikko Niskanen, Jaakko Pakkasvirta and Erkko Kivikoski. As a boy he was interested in photography and later on a pastor in a local parish introduced him to cine-camera-filming.
In his early twenties Jarva started to study chemistry in Helsinki Polytecnic. At the same time he made his first short films. In the beginning of the sixties Jarva founded his Production Company Filminor together with Jaakko Pakkasvirta. They directed their first film together. Yö vai päivä (1962) was a comedy about Finnish tradition and it was meant to be distributed to abroad. But that attempt, however, failed.
Jarva's second film Onnenpeli (1965) was also a comedy. But in the late of the sixties Jarva began to make films about social issues. Films like Työmiehen päiväkirja (1967), Ruusujen aika (1969), Bensaa suonissa (1970) and Kun taivas putoaa...(1972) dealt with themes such as working-class, traffic-culture, politics, private enterprise and future conditions in Finland.
After his social movies Jarva started to make comedies. One of the reasons for this was the bad financial situation of Filminor. They though that comedies would make their situation better. Which they did. Mies, joka ei osannut sanoa EI (1975) and Loma (1976) were both huge successes. Jarva's next film was Jäniksen vuosi (1977), which was a combination of comedy and social issues. The film got good reviews and did a fine job at the box office. Many critics have often considered Jäniksen vuosi (1977) Jarva's most important film. Unfortunately Jarva died in a car crash when he was returning home from his film's VIP-screening.- Georgia Wixted was born on 22 December 1949 in Troy, New York, USA. She died on 16 December 1977 in Malibu, California, USA.
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Charming, brilliant with a magnetic intensity, Tom Schippers was born in Portage, Michigan to an upper middle class family. His father owned Schippers Appliance in Kalamazoo and recognizing his musical ability, enrolled Tom into a piano class by age four. Excelling in school, he graduated high school at thirteen, attending both The Curtis Institute and the Juilliard School, where he expressed an interest in conducting. Schippers made his conducting debut at the New York Opera at twenty-one and in 1955 began a long stint at The Metropolitan Opera, considered to be the most prestigious position within his rarefied career field. He ventured in Broadway on two productions in the hit 1950 operatic drama, "The Consul" (269 performances at The Ethel Barrymore Theatre) and "The Saint of Bleecker Street" (92 performances at The Broadway Theatre), beginning in late 1954. Homosexual, Schippers maintained lengthy relationships with composer/director/lyricist Gian Carlo Menotti (whom he'd met during "The Consul") and Leonard Bernstein. Schippers made limited TV appearances during the late 1950s on "What's My Line?" (then considered relatively erudite entertainment; as a contestant referred to as "Mr. X") and "The Ed Sullivan Show." During the 1960s and 70s he toured extensively, becoming a regular conductor with the New York Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and made recordings with them as well, but in 1970 he finally took a full time orchestral position with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, succeeding his predecessor at the Metropolitan Opera, Max Rudolf. After making several recordings with them and building the orchestra's international reputation. He never actively pursued a career in Hollywood, remaining devoted to recording largely operatic works which have occasionally found their way on screen. Despite his sexuality, Schippers married Elaine Lane "Nonie" Phipps (1939-1973), an heiress to the Grace shipping fortune and daughter of the noted American polo player Michael Grace Phipps in 1965. Sadly, she died of cancer in 1973 at just 34 years old. A heavy smoker, Schippers died of lung cancer himself at only 47 in 1977.- Director
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Guillermo Prieto Yeme, a Mexican journalist, writer, poet, translator and activist was born in August 9, 1889 in Tacubaya, Mexico City into a 17 brothers and sisters family. His formation years were plenty on cultural roots, trips, academic studies and political issues. In his 20s, during Mexican Revolution, it's been said that he took part as a propaganda writer for the government of Venustiano Carranza.
During his productive life he was also known as Alvaro Jimeno, Armando Monteverde and presumably other pseudonyms for some writings. Amongst his outstanding translations it is probably the most known the one he made for The Mexican War by William Jay (1849), called "Causas y Consecuencias de la Guerra del 47", a registered and published work for the centennial (1948) under his name. He was also one of Rabindranath Tagore's translators to Spanish.
Owner of a fine stock of books, which goes from novels and poetry to political and historical matters, he had friendship with a lot of well known authors and artists of his time, which dedicated a lot of works to him, such as Jaime Torres Bodet, Ruben Dario and Ramon Lopez Velarde.
After the revolutionary period he traveled to the United States and met Magdalena Prince Cordero, a 16 years younger Mexican pianist. They married around 1928 and had three children: Ana Maria (b. 1929, San Antonio, Tx. d. 2001), Armando Guillermo (b. 1932, Los Angeles, Ca., architect and father of biographer who passed away in 1998) and Magdalena (b. 1940, Mexico City) who lives in Mexico's capital.
It was in Hollywood where he made his contributions to the "Talkies" in early 1930s, rendering very nice adaptation pieces into Spanish language for the Latinamerican versions of some movies, including The Sacred Flame (La Llama Sagrada) and La Dama Atrevida, both from 1931 or 1932.
As an activist he was head of the Union Civica Internacional and other civic organizations. He was well known as an anti communist for all of his life. Also a founder of the Mex-American Publishing Co. which had offices at the well known Colonia Condesa at Mexico City for several years.
Many poems from Guillermo Prieto Yeme were published, for example "Estados de Anima"(1919) and some times he was quoted in literature reviews such as "Historia de la Literatura Mexicana: Desde los origenes hasta nuestros dias" (History of Mexican Literature: From its origins to our days), a 1940 edition by Carlos Gonzalez Pena. In last chapter he is identified within La Generacion Nueva (The New Generation) amongst people like Alfonso Reyes, Jose Vasconcelos and Antonio Caso.
Guillermo's second last name 'Yeme' is a curious invention itself, that he managed to turn out official. It was really Marmolejo. As a result of his sense of humor, and in order to do a shorter signature, he came out with an ingenious way to say the initial "M" which in Spanish is spelled "Eme". So he was actually Prieto y Marmolejo, and later on Prieto Yeme.
He was baptism godson of poet, politician and historian Guillermo Prieto Pradillo, his great uncle. Guillermo Prieto Yeme died on December 1977 at age 88 in Mexico City. Eleven of the grandchildren to Guillermo and Magdalena are alive.
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Matti Sokka was born on 31 December 1946 in Helsinki, Finland. He was an actor and director, known for Musta Lumikki (1971) and Minna (1977). He died on 16 December 1977 in Helsinki, Finland.- Grant Holcomb was born on 20 April 1917 in San Bernardino, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Studio One (1948), Channel 2 Action News (1960) and CBS News Extra: Project Mercury flight of Frienship 7 (1962). He died on 16 December 1977 in Los Angeles, California, USA.