Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
Only includes names with the selected topics
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
1-10 of 10
- Actress
- Soundtrack
Anne Baxter was born in Michigan City, Indiana, on May 7, 1923. She was the daughter of a salesman, Kenneth Stuart Baxter, and his wife, Catherine Dorothy (Wright), who herself was the daughter of Frank Lloyd Wright, the world-renowned architect. Anne was a young girl of 11 when her parents moved to New York City, which at that time was still the hub of the entertainment industry even though the film colony was moving west. The move there encouraged her to consider acting as a vocation. By the time she was 13 she had already appeared in a stage production of 'Seen but Not Heard'", and had garnered rave reviews from the tough Broadway critics. The play helped her gain entrance to an exclusive acting school.
In 1937, Anne made her first foray into Hollywood to test the waters there in the film industry. As she was thought to be too young for a film career, she packed her bags and returned to the New York stage with her mother, where she continued to act on Broadway and summer stock up and down the East Coast. Undaunted by the failure of her previous effort to crack Hollywood, Anne returned to California two years later to try again. This time her luck was somewhat better. She took a screen test which was ultimately seen by the moguls of Twentieth Century-Fox, and she was signed to a seven-year contract. However, before she could make a movie with Fox, Anne was loaned out to MGM to make 20 Mule Team (1940). At only 17 years of age, she was already in the kind of pictures that other starlets would have had to slave for years as an extra before landing a meaty role. Back at Fox, that same year, Anne played Mary Maxwell in The Great Profile (1940), which was a box-office dud. The following year she played Amy Spettigue in the remake of Charley's Aunt (1941). It still wasn't a great role, but it was better than a bit part. The only other film job Anne appeared in that year was in Swamp Water (1941). It was the first role that was really worth anything, but critics weren't that impressed with Anne, her role nor the movie. In 1942 Anne played Joseph Cotten's daughter, Lucy Morgan, in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942). The following year she appeared in The North Star (1943), the first film where she received top billing. The film was a critical and financial success and Anne came in for her share of critical plaudits. Guest in the House (1944) the next year was a dismal failure, but Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944) was received much better by the public, though it was ripped apart by the critics. Anne starred with John Hodiak, who would become her first husband in 1947 (Anne was to divorce Hodiak in 1954. Her other two husbands were Randolph Galt and David Klee).
In 1946 Anne portrayed Sophie MacDonald in The Razor's Edge (1946), a film that would land her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She had come a long way in so short a time, but for her next two films she was just the narrator: Mother Wore Tights (1947) and Blaze of Noon (1947). It would be 1950 before she landed another decent role--the part of Eve Harrington in All About Eve (1950). This film garnered Anne her second nomination, but she lost the Oscar to Judy Holliday for Born Yesterday (1950). After several films through the 1950s, Anne landed what many considered a plum role--Queen Nefretiri in Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments (1956). Never in her Hollywood career did Anne look as beautiful as she did as the Egyptian queen, opposite Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner. After that epic, job offers got fewer because she wasn't tied to a studio, instead opting to freelance her talents. After no appearances in 1958, she made one film in 1959 Season of Passion (1959) and one in 1960 Cimarron (1960).
After Walk on the Wild Side (1962), she took a hiatus from filming for the next four years. She was hardly idle, though. She appeared often on stage and on television. She wasn't particularly concerned with being a celebrity or a personality; she was more concerned with being just an actress and trying hard to produce the best performance she was capable of. After several notable TV appearances, Anne became a staple of two television series, East of Eden (1981) and Hotel (1983). Her final moment before the public eye was as Irene Adler in the TV film Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death (1984). On December 12, 1985, Anne died of a stroke in New York. She was 62.- Director
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Writer
Phil Karlson entered the film industry while a law student at Loyola Marymount University in California. He got a job at Universal Pictures as a prop man, then worked pretty much any job they threw at him, from being an assistant director on several Bud Abbott and Lou Costello films to directing short subjects. He finally got a shot at features in 1944. Although he initially worked for low-budget studios like Monogram (where he shot several Bowery Boys and Charlie Chan entries) and Eagle-Lion, his films even then were marked by his penchant for short, tight scenes and sudden bursts of action. He made his mark in the 1950s with a series of tough, realistic, violent crime films noted for their gritty location shooting and Karlson's almost fanatic attention to detail. As good as those films were, though, Karlson was never able to capitalize on them and raise himself out of the B-picture mire, and he was stuck making things like The Young Doctors (1961), Kid Galahad (1962) and a pair of the repugnant Matt Helm films with Dean Martin, until he hit it big with Walking Tall (1973), his biggest commercial success (and which, since he owned a large part of the picture, made him rich).- Actor
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Barry MacKay was born on 8 January 1906 in London, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for A Christmas Carol (1938), Wicked Wife (1953) and The Pickwick Papers (1952). He was married to Natalie Hall. He died on 12 December 1985 in Chelsea, England, UK.- Lou Ellen "Lulu" Couch was born in 1963. Couch grew up in the projects of South Seattle, Washington with her siblings who included her youngest biracial brother Frankie. A tough and butch, yet still caring and tender tomboy lesbian, Lou Ellen served as a mentor and protector to many teenage runaways living on the hard streets of Seattle. Couch was prominently featured in the acclaimed documentary Streetwise as well as in the book Street Child: A Memoir by Justin Reed Early, who knew Lou Ellen when he was a homeless youth. (Couch was also the inspiration for the character of Bullet in the TV series The Killing.) Lou Ellen died on December 12, 1985 after she was fatally stabbed in the heart during a fight with a homeless man in an arcade in downtown Seattle. She was only twenty-two years old.
- James Waters was born on 29 December 1925 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Science Fiction Theatre (1955) and Peter Gunn (1958). He died on 12 December 1985 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Actor
- Music Department
- Soundtrack
Ian Stewart was born on 18 July 1938 in Pittenweem, Fife, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for Cilla at the Savoy (1966), Banda sonora (2007) and Garnock Way (1976). He died on 12 December 1985 in London, England, UK.- Margaret Johnson Goldwater was born on 8 July 1909 in Muncie, Indiana, USA. She was married to Barry Goldwater. She died on 12 December 1985 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
- Art Director
- Additional Crew
John Datu was born on 30 November 1896 in Sandakan, Borneo. He was an art director, known for Red River (1948), The Monster and the Ape (1945) and Singapore (1947). He died on 12 December 1985 in Orange County, California, USA.- Yevgeniya Opalova was born on 10 October 1900 in Belyy, Tver Governorate, Russian Empire [now Tver oblast, Russia]. She was an actress, known for Koroleva benzokolonki (1963), Zigmund Kolosovskiy (1946) and Eto bylo vesnoy (1960). She died on 12 December 1985 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine].
- Producer
- Additional Crew
James Waters was born on 29 December 1925 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a producer, known for A Man Called Adam (1966) and Salt and Pepper (1968). He died on 12 December 1985 in Los Angeles, California, USA.