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- Actress
- Soundtrack
The beautiful Ann Corio appeared in a less than a handful of poverty row exotic films, but her real stardom was on the stage, over a period of twenty years. She was a hugely popular striptease artist, best known for her work at Minsky's Burlesk Theater in New York. In 1940, she was making around $1,000 a week for her work, plus a contractual 25% intake of house receipts. Corio suggested once that the art of the striptease should be rechristened "deciduous kinesthetics."- Harriette Haddon was born on 13 October 1915 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She was an actress, known for The Pied Piper (1933), Old King Cole (1933) and Three Orphan Kittens (1935). She died on 1 March 1999 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Production Manager
- Producer
- Director
Charles Henri David, writer, producer and director, was born on May 4, 1906 in the Lorraine region, in the city of Metz.
He entered the movie industry in the early 1930s, working for Pathé studios in France; he would become director of Pathé-Natan, and later in mid-1930s Head Producer (Directeur de production). There he met and worked with some of the would-be famous French directors, screenwriters and movie people of the time : Jean Renoir, Marc Allegret, Marcel Carné and the brothers Pierre and Jacques Prévert, often in his position as production manager of a series of films : Baby's Laxative (1931), La Chienne (1931) and Mam'zelle Nitouche (1931), It's in the Bag (1932) or Bizarre, Bizarre (1937).
He then started a collaboration with Zoltan and Alexander Korda, working as assistant producer in Sudan for The Four Feathers (1939) and assistant director in the British version of The Thief of Bagdad (1940).
He married his first wife Terese in 1928. They had a son and a daughter. They would later divorce.
During World War 2 Charles took the French Army uniform and served as interpreter with the RAF. The family emigrated to America in 1940 in time to escape the Nazi dominion of France. Like many other European emigrés Charles natural destiny was Hollywood. He worked as assistant producer for the Kordas in The Jungle Book (1942), he sold a story ("Fairy Tale Murder") to Universal and was offered to direct it, resulting in River Gang (1945), starring Gloria Jean. Then he became the director of Lady on a Train (1945), starring Deanna Durbin. They would wed in December 21, 1950 in France, and would stay married until his death, which took place in Paris on March 1, 1999, at the age of 92.- Richard Bauer was born on 14 March 1939 in Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for The Pelican Brief (1993), Pushing Tin (1999) and The Sicilian (1987). He died on 1 March 1999 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
- Billy John was born on 30 March 1907 in Pontypridd, Wales, UK. He was an actor, known for The Meaning of Life (1983), Adam Adamant Lives! (1966) and Wodehouse Playhouse (1974). He died on 1 March 1999 in Kensington, London, England, UK.
- Producer
- Additional Crew
- Writer
Richard Beynon was born on 28 March 1925 in Carlton, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. He was a producer and writer, known for Madame Bovary (1975), Rebecca (1979) and Z Cars (1962). He died on 1 March 1999 in the UK.- Carl Crawford was born on 6 September 1935 in Georgetown, British Guyana. He died on 1 March 1999 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
- Alexandru Racoviceanu was born on 1 September 1937 in Bucuresti, Romania. He was an actor, known for Marea sfidare (1990), Comoara (1983) and Anotimpul iubirii (1987). He died on 1 March 1999 in Bucuresti, Romania.
- Vachel Blair was married to Tonia Rotkopf Blair. He died on 1 March 1999 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.