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Wonderfully talented, heavyset character actor (from New York, but regularly playing Southerners) M. Emmet Walsh has made a solid career of playing corrupt cops, deadly crooks, and zany comedic roles since the early 1970s.
Michael Emmet Walsh was born in Ogdensburg, to Agnes Katharine (Sullivan) and Harry Maurice Walsh, a customs agent. He is of Irish descent. Walsh first appeared in a few fairly forgettable roles both on TV and onscreen before cropping up in several well remembered films, including a courtroom police officer in What's Up, Doc? (1972), as the weird Dickie Dunn in Slap Shot (1977), and as a loony sniper hunting Steve Martin in The Jerk (1979). On-screen demand heated up for him in the early 1980s with attention-grabbing work in key hits, including Brubaker (1980), Reds (1981), and as Harrison Ford's police chief in the futuristic thriller Blade Runner (1982). Walsh then turned in a stellar performance as the sleazy, double-crossing private detective in the Joel Coen and Ethan Coen film noir Blood Simple (1984), and showed up again for the Coens as a loud-mouthed sheet-metal worker bugging Nicolas Cage in the hilarious Raising Arizona (1987). As Walsh moved into his fifties and beyond, Hollywood continued to offer him plenty of work, and he has appeared in over 50 movies since passing the half-century mark. His consistent ability to turn out highly entertaining portrayals led film critic Roger Ebert to coin the "Stanton-Walsh Rule," which states that any film starring Walsh or Harry Dean Stanton has to have some merit. And the "M" stands for Michael!- Actress
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Veronica Lake was born as Constance Frances Marie Ockleman on November 14, 1922, in Brooklyn, New York. She was the daughter of Constance Charlotta (Trimble) and Harry Eugene Ockelman, who worked for an oil company as a ship employee. Her father was of half German and half Irish descent, and her mother was of Irish ancestry. While still a child, Veronica's parents moved to Florida when she was not quite a year old. By the time she was five, the family had returned to Brooklyn. When Connie was only twelve, tragedy struck when her father died in an explosion on an oil ship. One year later her mother married Anthony Keane and Connie took his last name as her own. In 1934, when her stepfather was diagnosed with tuberculosis, the family moved to Saranac Lake, where Connie Keane enjoyed the outdoor life and flourished in the activities of boating on the lakes, skating, skiing, swimming, biking around Moody Pond and hiking up Mt Baker. The family made their home in 1935 at 1 Watson Place, (now 27 Seneca Street) then they moved to 1 Riverside Drive,(now Lake Kiwassa Road). Both Connie and Anthony benefited from the Adirondack experience and in 1936 the family left the Adirondacks and moved to Miami, FL., however, the memories of those carefree Saranac Lake days would always remain deeply rooted in her mind.
Two years later, Connie graduated from high school in Miami. Her natural beauty and charm and a definite talent for acting prompted her mother and step-father to move to Beverly Hills, California, where they enrolled her in the well known Bliss Hayden School of Acting in Hollywood. Connie had previously been diagnosed as a classic schizophrenic and her parents saw acting as a form of treatment for her condition. She showed remarkable abilities and did not have to wait long for a part to come her way.
Her first movie was as one of the many coeds in the RKO film, Sorority House (1939). It was a minor part, to be sure, but it was a start. Veronica quickly followed up that project with two other films. All Women Have Secrets (1939) and Dancing Co-Ed (1939), were again bit roles for the pretty young woman from the East Coast, but she did not complain. After all, other would-be starlets took a while before they ever received a bit part. Veronica continued her schooling, while taking a bit roles in two more films, Young as You Feel (1940) and Forty Little Mothers (1940). Prior to this time, she was still under her natural name of Constance Keane. Now, with a better role in I Wanted Wings (1941), she was asked to change her name, and Veronica Lake was born. Now, instead of playing coeds, she had a decent, speaking part. Veronica felt like an actress. The film was a success and the public loved this bright newcomer.
Paramount, the studio she was under contract with, then assigned her to two more films that year, Hold Back the Dawn (1941) and Sullivan's Travels (1941). The latter received good reviews from the always tough film critics. As Ellen Graham, in This Gun for Hire (1942) the following year, Veronica now had top billing. She had paid her dues and was on a roll. The public was enamored with her. In 1943, Veronica starred in only one film. She portrayed Lieutenant Olivia D'Arcy in So Proudly We Hail! (1943) with Claudette Colbert. The film was a box-office smash. It seemed that any film Veronica starred in would be an unquestionable hit. However, her only outing for 1944, The Hour Before the Dawn (1944) would not be well-received by either the public or the critics. As Nazi sympathizer Dora Bruckmann, Veronica's role was dismal at best. Critics disliked her accent immensely because it wasn't true to life. Her acting itself suffered because of the accent. Mediocre films trailed her for all of 1945. It seemed that Veronica was dumped in just about any film to see if it could be salvaged. Hold That Blonde! (1945), Out of This World (1945), and Miss Susie Slagle's (1946) were just a waste of talent for the beautiful blonde. The latter film was a shade better than the previous two. In 1946, Veronica bounced back in The Blue Dahlia (1946) with Alan Ladd and Howard Da Silva. The film was a hit, but it was the last decent film for Veronica. Paramount continued to put her in pathetic movies. After 1948, Paramount discharged the once prized star, and she was out on her own. In 1949, she starred in the Twentieth Century film Slattery's Hurricane (1949), which, unfortunately, was another weak film. She was not on the big screen again until 1952 when she appeared in Stronghold (1951). By Veronica's own admission, the film "was a dog". From 1952 to 1966, Veronica made television appearances and even tried her hand on the stage. Not a lot of success for her at all. By now alcohol was the order of the day. She was down on her luck and drank heavily. In 1962, Veronica was found living in an old hotel and working as a bartender. She finally returned to the big screen in Footsteps in the Snow (1966). Another drought ensued and she appeared on the silver screen for the last time in Flesh Feast (1970) - a very low budget film.
On July 7, 1973, Veronica died of hepatitis in Burlington, Vermont. The beautiful actress with the long blonde hair was dead at the age of 50.- Actress
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Gwen Verdon was born to the theater. Her mother, Gertrude, was a vaudevillian and dancer. Her father, Joseph, was an MGM studio electrician. She had to wear corrective boots as a child to straighten out her legs, which were misshapen by childhood illness. Nonetheless, she first appeared as a tapper on stage at age 6. She got her break in Bob Fosse's "Damn Yankees" in 1955. She married Fosse in 1960 and separated from him, although never divorcing him, in the mid-'70s. More stage and screen work quickly followed with highlights in "New Girl In Town", "Redhead", "Sweet Charity", and "Chicago". She and her daughter, Nicole Fosse, created the current stage musical "Fosse". Upon her death, Broadway dimmed all of its marquee lights in tribute.- Actor
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Television producer and host Robert James Keeshan was born in Lynbrook, Long Island, New York. As a young man he served in the US Marine Corps Reserve. Starting as a page at the National Broadcasting Company, Keeshan later began his on-air career as the original "Clarabell, the Clown" for the NBC The Howdy Doody Show (1947) (aka "The Howdy Doody Show"). He was then the first host/performer of WJZ/WABC TV Ch. 7 NYC's "Time For Fun" / "The Johnny Jellybean Show". Keeshan emceed the show as "Corny The Clown" weekdays at noon from Monday, September 21st, 1953, to Friday, July 29th, 1955. He co-created, co-produced and hosted "Tinker's Workshop" with Jack Miller on WJZ/WABC TV Ch. 7 in New York City weekday mornings from Monday, November 15, 1954 to Friday, September 9, 1955. The show continued without Robert until Friday August 22, 1958. The later hosts of the show were Henry Burbig, Gene London & Dom DeLuise.
When asked to put together a show for children, he leaped at the chance. On Monday, October 3rd, 1955, Captain Kangaroo (1955) began its near 30-year run on CBS, until it was moved to Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the 1980s. There was a lot of fun in the "Treasure House", with Bunny Rabbit swindling carrots before lunch from The Captain or Mister Moose finding yet another way to get the Captain to stand still long enough to drop dozens of ping-pong balls down on the ever-unsuspecting Captain's head. Dennis (Cosmo Allegretti) asking so many questions that Mister Bainter would almost always lose his cool. All the while during this, Captain Kangaroo taught us values and gave those with busy or absent fathers a gentle and caring male role model to learn good behavior and manners from. A love of reading was encouraged and the animals that Mister Green Jeans (Hugh Brannum) showed allowed children who had never seen a particular animal to experience it though his fascination with it. During its run in 1964, Keeshan also took on a Saturday morning persona as "Mister Mayor" for a year, but remained the Captain until the end of its run on PBS in 1993. Over the years he and the show won six Emmy's and three Peabody Awards, totaling nine awards, altogether, and he was also elected to the Clown Hall of Fame.
In 1989 he published "Growing Up Happy" and then in October of 1996 he published "Good Morning Captain: 50 Wonderful Years with Bob Keeshan, TV's Captain Kangaroo". Keeshan is also the author of the "Itty Bitty Kitty" children's book series. Widowed in the 1990s, he died in Vermont in 2004.- Born and raised in upstate Vermont, Warren Frost left home at age 17 to enlist in the United States Navy during World War II, serving aboard the destroyer escort USS Borum (DE-790) in Europe during the Normandy landings. After his service, he worked mainly in theater. He had a doctorate in theater arts from the University of Minnesota and was a published playwright with four plays to his credit and also wrote a novel.
- Beverley Owen was born Beverley Ogg in Ottumwa, Iowa, on Thursday, May 13th, 1937. In high school and college, she was always doing television, theatre, and radio programs. She then moved to New York to pursue an acting career after graduating from the University of Michigan. She was fired many a time for her lack of typing skills while working at CBS, and for Ed Sullivan. She later became senior typist for the children's program, Captain Kangaroo (1955) show. She did many small parts in shows until she got the role of "Marilyn Munster" on The Munsters (1964). But after just thirteen episodes, were filmed, she left the show to get married. She is now divorced, but has two daughters, Polly and Kate. She is not always recognized as "Marilyn" because, on the show, she wore a blonde wig. In 1989, she got her master's degree in Early American History.
- Attractive, willowy brunette Tisa Farrow was born Theresa Magdalena Farrow on July 22, 1951, in Los Angeles, California. She is the daughter of writer/director John Farrow and Maureen O'Sullivan and the sister of Mia Farrow. Tisa made her film debut in the obscure hippie counterculture drama Homer (1970). She gave an especially charming performance as sweet innocent "Jennifer" in the marvelously offbeat Some Call It Loving (1973). Farrow was impressive as the timid "Mouse" in the fun made-for-TV Carrie (1976) clone The Initiation of Sarah (1978) and solid as the spaced-out "Carol" in James Toback's fabulously gritty Fingers (1978). Tisa had small parts in both Manhattan (1979) and Winter Kills (1979). She ended her acting career with starring roles in three entertainingly trashy Italian exploitation features: feisty heroine "Anne Bowles" in Lucio Fulci's excellent horror classic Zombie (1979), spunky photojournalist "Jane Foster" in Antonio Margheriti's Vietnam action / adventure The Last Hunter (1980) and a standard woman-in-peril part in The Grim Reaper (1980).
Tisa Farrow called it a day as an actress after 1980, and went on to a successful career as a nurse in Vermont. - Wayne Maunder was born in Four Falls, New Brunswick, Canada, on December 19, 1937, and raised in Bangor, Maine. Major league baseball attracted his early interest, and even though he had several tryouts, he didn't succeed. He then switched to psychiatry while at Compton Junior College in California, but decided on another change, this time to drama. A part in an amateur play fired his desire to further his acting, and he headed off to New York and hopefully Broadway. Wayne studied at Stella Adler's Drama Group during the day, and at night, Grand Central Station saw him waiting on tables, which is an occupation most theater actors seem to rely on in the lean times. For the next two years, he studied and acted, when he could, in stock companies. Some of his work included roles in Hamlet, Othello and a stint in Much Ado About Nothing with the American Shakespeare Company on Long Island. He headed back to LA when a theatrical agent signed him up after watching him perform in The Knack. Wayne was 29 years old when he landed the lead role of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer in the 20th Century Fox television production about Custer, which was later titled The Legend of Custer (1968) for USA theatrical release. He grew a mustache and his blonde hair long for the character. The 1967-produced series was full of stunts, action and believable stories, which captured the viewer, but unfortunately not enough of them because its run lasted only 17 episodes. Scott Lancer, the Boston-educated oldest son of Murdoch Lancer was a role the Lancer producers thought ideal for him, and Wayne was signed up in 1968. This series was also made by 20th Century Fox, and Wayne was required for action scenes as well as horse riding. Gone were the long hair and mustache, but that didn't stop him from receiving generous amounts of fan mail and appearing in television and teen magazines at the time. In 1971, he appeared in The Seven Minutes (1971) and on television in Kung Fu (1972) and Chase (1973). In 1981, Porky's (1981) was his only reported role. He now spends his time behind the camera, producing independent films.
- Shirley Jackson was a horror and mystery writer born in San Francisco, California in 1916. She is best remembered for her unsettling novel of paranoia and the supernatural, 'The Haunting of Hill House' (1959) and her terrifying short story 'The Lottery' (1948), a horror tale rife with symbolism that is still puzzled over by critics and academics to this day. 'The Lottery' is regarded as an American Classic and as one of the best pieces of short fiction in the history of American Literature.
Jackson was publishing around the same time as fellow genre writers Ray Bradbury, Jack Finney, and Richard Matheson and is regarded by many - including Stephen King - as being one of the most influential writers of mystery, the occult, and Gothic horror.
Her books have been adapted to film and include The Haunting (1963), The Lottery (1996), and The Haunting (1999) by Jan de Bont.
Shirley Jackson sadly passed away in her sleep (1965) aged 48 following heart failure thought to be caused by neuroses and prescription drugs used to treat the condition.
She is fondly remembered by all in the fiction world. - Addison Powell was born on 23 February 1921 in Belmont, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Three Days of the Condor (1975), The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) and Dark Shadows (1966). He was married to Bernice (Bunnie) Rowley. He died on 8 November 2010 in Shelburne, Vermont, USA.
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Robert J. Flaherty was born on 16 February 1884 in Iron Mountain, Michigan, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Louisiana Story (1948), Man of Aran (1934) and Elephant Boy (1937). He was married to Frances H. Flaherty. He died on 23 July 1951 in Brattleboro, Vermont, USA.- Director
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James Goldstone was born on 8 June 1931 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Kent State (1981), The Court of Last Resort (1957) and Iron Horse (1966). He was married to Ruth Goldstone. He died on 5 November 1999 in Shaftsbury, Vermont, USA.- Music Department
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British composer, primarily of film scores. From a military family and the son of a Royal Field Artillery colonel, John Mervyn Addison was born March 16, 1920, in Chobham, Surrey, and attended Wellington College, Berkshire, with plans for a military career. His interest and talent for music intervened, and he left Wellington for the Royal College of Music. With the opening of the Second World War, however, he was diverted back to the military and spent the war in a tank unit of the 22nd Hussars, being wounded in Normandy and rising to the rank of captain. After the war, he returned to the Royal College of Music, specializing in composition, clarinet, and oboe. By age 30, he had been made a professor of composition. He had previously won the RCM's Sullivan Award for Composition and was soon deluged with commissions for new compositions. He produced a wide variety of concerti, chamber pieces, and ballets. Although his first music for a film came in 1942 for Roy Boulting's Thunder Rock, his score was not used, and it was 1950 before he truly entered his principal profession, that of film composer. He scored numerous prominent films, among them Seven Days to Noon, Look Back in Anger, The Entertainer, and Tom Jones, for which he won an Academy Award. He received another Oscar nomination for his score to Sleuth, and a BAFTA nomination for his music for A Bridge Too Far, coincidentally the story of a World War II battle in which he himself had participated. In the late 1970s, Addison moved to the United States and focused a good deal of his work on television productions, most famously creating the popular theme music to the TV series Murder She Wrote. He died following a stroke, on December 7, 1998, in Bennington, Vermont. He was survived by his wife Pamela, 2 stepchildren, and 3 of his four biological children.- Sam Lloyd Sr. was born on 8 September 1925 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Where the Rivers Flow North (1993), The Spitfire Grill (1996) and Bereft (2004). He was married to Barbara Lee, Marianne Taylor McGuffin and Shirley Dawn Johnson. He died on 24 March 2017 in Weston, Vermont, USA.
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Daughter of Christian missionaries, Pearl Buck was reared and educated in China. She received her university education in America but returned to China in the mid-1910s. She became a university instructor and writer, eventually authoring novels about China, some of which were turned into Hollywood films, including The Good Earth (1937) and Dragon Seed (1944). She also wrote novels using the pen-name 'John Sedges', and she won the 'Nobel Prize' for Literature in 1938.- Actor
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Roger Payne was born on 29 January 1935 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Whales: An Unforgettable Journey (1997), Blue Water, White Death (1971) and Drama 61-67 (1961). He was married to Lisa Harrow and Katharine Boynton. He died on 10 June 2023 in South Woodstock, Vermont, USA.- Writer
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Singer Maria Trapp was born on January 26, 1905, aboard a train, as her mother hurried from their village in the Tyrol to the hospital in Vienna, Austria. Her mother, Augusta (nee Rainer), died shortly after Maria was born, and her father, Karl Kutschera, died when she was 6 years old. As a guardian to Maria, the court appointed a man whom she has described as a passionate socialist and a violent anti-Catholic. Although she had been baptized, she grew up outside the Church until she was 18. She was, at that time, in her final year at the State Teachers College for Progressive Education in Vienna. To atone for her earlier life, Maria Kutschera decided to enter a convent. She was accepted as a candidate for the novitiate at the Nonnberg Benedictine Convent at Salzburg, where she considered herself a black sheep because of her tomboyish ways, her willful and independent nature, and her lack of religious training. She was teaching fifth graders at the convent when she was sent by the Mother Abbess as a governess to the children of Baron Georg von Trapp. The Baron, a much-decorated World War I submarine commander, had retired with his 7 children to a villa in Aigen, near Salzburg, after the death of his wife. Maria quickly won the affection of the lonely family with her lively, outgoing disposition and the songs, games, and customs of her Tyrolean girlhood. At the end of nine months, she expected to return to the convent and take the veil. When the Baron proposed marriage, she was torn between her religious devotion and her attachment to the family. With the blessing of the Mother Abbess at Nonnberg, however, she married the Baron on November 26, 1927. After the marriage, the family often sang together, especially during their traditional observance of religious festivals. As a result of the economic disorders that plagued Europe in the early 1930s, the Baron lost his fortune, and to earn a living, the family turned their large home into a guest house for students and clergymen. A special dispensation from the Archbishop of Salzburg permitted them to have a chapel where Mass could be celebrated in their own home. At Easter 1935, the Reverend Franz Wasner (now Monsignor Wasner) came to the Trapp home as a guest and officiating priest. An accomplished musician, he listened critically to the family's informal singing and then immediately took charge of their musical education, becoming their conductor as well as their personal chaplain. He remained with them during their entire career as entertainers. In August 1936, when they happened to be heard by Lotte Lehmann, who insisted that they enter a choral competition at the Salzburg Festival. After winning the contest, they received invitations to give concerts and broadcasts. They began their first European tour at the end of 1937, as the Trapp Family Choir. In March 1938, Austria was taken over by the Nazis. With only a few possessions, they fled across the mountains to St. Georgen, Italy. There they made arrangements with an American concert manager, who advanced them enough money for their passage to New York. The first American concert of the Trapp Family Choir took place at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania, in October 1938. Over the next few years, they did several traveling shows. In 1942, they spent their summer vacation in Stowe, Vermont. They found the Green Mountain countryside a peaceful retreat that resembled their native Austria, and before the summer ended, they had purchased a 660-acre farm on a hillside offering an expansive view. During a European tour in the summer of 1950, they appeared at the Salzburg Festival. There they were greeted and feted royally and paid a visit to their former home, which had been turned over to missionaries of the Society of Precious Blood after having been used as a Nazi headquarters during World War II. In 1955, the group disbanded permanently after a farewell tour climaxed by three Christmas concerts at Town Hall. Since then, Maria wrote about her life, which became fictionalized in plays (1959) and the popular movie The Sound of Music (1965). She spent the last days of her life as a resort owner with her children and grandchildren in Vermont.- Robert W. Castle was born on 29 August 1929 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Sleepers (1996), Philadelphia (1993) and The Manchurian Candidate (2004). He was married to Kate Castle and Nancy Castle. He died on 27 October 2012 in Holland, Vermont, USA.
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Peter Tewksbury was born on 21 March 1923 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Father Knows Best (1954), It's a Man's World (1962) and My Three Sons (1960). He was married to Ann Schuyler and Kathleen Jean Willoughby. He died on 20 February 2003 in Brattleboro, Vermont, USA.- Writer
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Henrik Galeen was born on 7 January 1881 in Stryj, Galicia, Austria-Hungary. He was a writer and director, known for Nosferatu (1922), The Golem (1914) and A Daughter of Destiny (1928). He was married to Comptess Ilse von Schenk and Elvira Adler. He died on 30 July 1949 in Randolph, Orange County, Vermont, USA.- Patrick Farrow was born on 27 November 1942 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was an actor, known for The Loretta Young Show (1953). He was married to Susan Hartwell-Erb. He died on 15 June 2009 in Castleton, Vermont, USA.
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Robert Penn Warren was born on 24 April 1905 in Guthrie, Kentucky, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for All the King's Men (2006), All the King's Men (1949) and Band of Angels (1957). He was married to Eleanor Clark and Emma Brescia. He died on 15 September 1989 in Stratton, Vermont, USA.- Writer
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Ernest Kinoy was born on 1 April 1925 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for The Defenders (1961), Naked City (1958) and Roots (1977). He was married to Barbara Powers. He died on 10 November 2014 in Townshend, Vermont, USA.- Stunts
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Gary Littlejohn was born in 1946 in Vermont, USA. He was an actor, known for Badlands (1973), Howard the Duck (1986) and Near Dark (1987). He died on 15 May 2021 in Vermont, USA.- Peter Conrad was born on 8 July 1939 in Niles, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Porky's (1981), Hot Stuff (1979) and The Six Thousand Dollar Nigger (1978). He died on 21 February 1994 in Manchester Center, Vermont, USA.
- Victor Kilian Jr. was born on 24 October 1916 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Gold Rush Maisie (1940). He was married to Pauline Sopkin and Veronika Debney. He died on 27 February 1981 in Peacham, Vermont, USA.
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Sidney Glazier was born on 29 May 1916 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Sidney was a producer, known for Take the Money and Run (1969), The Producers (1967) and The Eleanor Roosevelt Story (1965). Sidney died on 14 December 2002 in Bennington, Vermont, USA.- Jeanne Austin was born on 17 February 1940 in Waukegan, Illinois, USA. She was an actress, known for The Funhouse (1981) and Stuckey's Last Stand (1980). She died on 1 February 2017 in Brattleboro, Vermont, USA.
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Herbert Oscar Anderson was born on 30 May 1928 in South Beloit, Winnebago County, Illinois, USA. He was an actor, known for Haunted (1977), Naked City (1958) and The Mike Douglas Show (1961). He was married to Theresa Marie Kirchoff. He died on 29 January 2017 in Bennington, Bennington County, Vermont, USA.- Beverly Lorraine Smith was born on 8 March 1933 in Washington, Vermont, USA. She was an actress, known for Hearts Are Thumps (1937). She was married to Frank Frederick Goulette. She died on 16 March 2002 in Washington, Vermont, USA.
- Alexis Wassel was born on 3 May 1948 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Blonde on a Bum Trip (1968). She was married to Glenn Walken. She died on 31 October 1997 in Bennington, Vermont, USA.
- Vern Reed was born on 9 September 1918 in the USA. He was an actor, known for The Music Man (1962). He died on 25 January 1992 in Burlington, Vermont, USA.
- Ivan Le Lorraine Albright was born on 20 February 1897 in North Harvey, Illinois, USA. He is known for The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945). He was married to Veda Partridge. He died on 18 November 1983 in Woodstock, Vermont, USA.
- Patricia Carmichael was born on 22 April 1926 in Tonawanda, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Dear Dead Delilah (1972) and Petticoat Junction (1963). She was married to Fred Carmichael. She died on 21 October 2011 in Manchester, Vermont, USA.
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Peter Orlovsky was born on 8 July 1933 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Renaldo and Clara (1978), Chappaqua (1966) and Me and My Brother (1968). He died on 30 May 2010 in Williston, Vermont, USA.- Location Management
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Amanda Foley was born on 10 August 1971 in Pound Ridge, New York, USA. Amanda was a producer, known for Hanna (2011), We Own the Night (2007) and The Bourne Ultimatum (2007). Amanda was married to Mark Burbank. Amanda died on 18 March 2024 in Stowe, Vermont, USA.- Ann Schuyler was born on 9 February 1938 in San Francisco, California, USA. She was an actress, known for It's a Man's World (1962). She was married to Peter Tewksbury. She died on 3 January 2014 in Brattleboro, Vermont, USA.
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Steven Bach was born on 29 April 1938 in Pocatello, Idaho, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Mr. Billion (1977), Butch and Sundance: The Early Days (1979) and Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate (2004). He was married to Werner Rohr. He died on 25 March 2009 in Arlington, Vermont, USA.- Actress
Shelby Payne was born on 9 November 1917 in Portland, Oregon, USA. She was an actress. She was married to William Friml and Douglas Fowley. She died on 20 March 2000 in Bradford, Vermont, USA.- Anne Morrow Lindbergh was born on 22 June 1906 in Englewood, New Jersey, USA. She was married to Charles A. Lindbergh. She died on 7 February 2001 in Passumpsic, Vermont, USA.
- Robert Lincoln was born on 1 August 1843 in Springfield, Illinois, USA. He was married to Mary Harlan. He died on 25 July 1926 in Manchester, Vermont, USA.
- Grace Paley was born on 11 December 1922 in Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. She was a writer, known for Milestones (1975), Enormous Changes at the Last Minute (1983) and Smesne i druge price (2004). She was married to Robert (Bob) Brayton Nichols and Jesse Paley. She died on 21 August 2007 in Thetford Hill, Vermont, USA.
- Irving Fineman (aka Jonathan Joseph) was born in New York City on April 9, 1893, the son of a businessman. He graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1917 and did advanced work at Harvard University. For a few years he was an engineering instructor at the University of Illinois-Urbana, but left in 1928 to become a freelance writer. He has written novels, plays, short stories, poems, and has contributed to literary and critical publications. His 1932 novel "Lovers Must Learn" was filmed in 1962 as Rome Adventure (1962).
- Georg von Trapp was born on 4 April 1880 in Zara, Dalmatia, Austria. He was married to Maria von Trapp and Agathe Whitehead. He died on 30 May 1947 in Stowe, Vermont, USA.
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Composer, conductor and arranger, educated at Juilliard. He taught at the Little Red Schoolhouse for six years, and conducted and arranged for Harry Belafonte, later founding the Robert De Cormier Singers, and making many records. He joined ASCAP in 1958, and arranged for the Broadway musicals "110 In the Shade" and "The Happiest Girl In the World". His popular-song compositions include "Walking Together Children".- Actor
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Unflappable announcer and program host who began his career on Boston radio in 1937. He was the 'voice' for the Reynolds Aluminum Company for twenty-five years, and he also announced for Esso gasoline, Auto-Lite spark plugs and Maxwell House coffee. In his final decades, his rich voice hosted one of the classiest of local radio shows on a station covering Dartmouth's tony hometown, Hanover, New Hampshire, where Rex hosted "Breakfast at the Hanover Inn," with interviews in the morning "coffee time." It was a great privilege for broadcasters to work for this always sharply dressed, superbly well spoken, tall, elegant gentleman.
Rex was involved in the start-up of New York television station WPIX (Channel 11) in 1948, and he covered the Republican National Convention for the station that year; by 1949 he left to work freelance, then returned in late 1967 to anchor its 10 P.M. newscast, staying in that position until mid-1968. He was a resident of Woodstock, New York.
In 1956 he purchased what became WNHV AM 910 in White River Junction, Vermont. While at his desk there on Tuesday, March 8th, 1983 he suffered a heart attack and collapsed. The next day he died at Veteran's Hospital in White River Junction. A memorial service was held in Hanover, New Hampshire on Friday, March 11th, 1983.- Director
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Carson Davidson was born on 24 June 1924 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Brake Free (1970), Help! My Snowman's Burning Down (1965) and 3rd Ave. El (1955). He died on 29 September 2016 in Vermont, USA.- What many people do not know about Ellen Demming, is that besides her work on the Guiding Light, she held membership in SAG and Actors Equity. In addition to playing Meta, she did Summer Stock, regional theatre, commercial work, and she starred off-Broadway in "Family Portrait", in 1959, at the Seven Arts Center. Brooks Atkinson, of the New York Times, said this of her performance as Mary, Mother of Jesus: "Her characterization has pride, modesty, and great delicacy of feeling."
- George Henry Seldes was a native of Alliance, New Jersey, and the older brother of writer Gilbert Seldes. He was probably one of the more controversial American journalists and authors of the first half of the 20th century. Drew Pearson would often pass on news stories to Seldes that Pearson deemed too hot to print in his own syndicated column. Between 1940 and 1950 Seldes and his wife Helen, published "In Fact", a weekly newspaper that covered stories that other papers either ignored or downplayed. At its height "In Fact" had a circulation of 750,000 readers. Among those readers who credited "In Fact" as an influence in their life, were consumer activist Ralph Nader and columnist Jack Anderson.
Seldes began his career at age 18 as cub reporter for the Pittsburgh Leader after attending Harvard for one year. After the First World War broke out he decided become a war correspondent and soon began reporting from the European theater. At war's end, Seldes and several other reporters were court marshaled for entering Germany without military permission to interview Hindenburg. They got their interview but were later forbidden to print it. Seldes decided to stay in Europe working as foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune. There his reporting on Bolshevik purges and murders would eventually get him expelled from Soviet Russia. Later, similar reporting in Mussolini's Italy would earn him persona non grata status there as well. Seldes would later write a rather unflattering book about Il Duce entitled "Sawdust Caesar" (1936).
On 2 May, 1931, Seldes married 25 year old Countess Dursilla Ladine Young de Martino in Toulon, France. The Countess, who was born in Moody, Texas, was said to have been married to a Spanish Count, at one time held captive in a Moroccan harem, starred in Russian movies and a cast member in the Broadway play "Street Singer" (1929/30). Apparently the union did not last long for the following year he married Cincinnati, Ohio native, Helen Larkin Wiesman, whom he had met several years earlier in Paris when she was a graduate student studying chemistry at the Sorbonne.
While in Madrid covering the Spanish Civil War for the New York Post, the hotel Seldes and his wife were staying at came under artillery fire. This was particularly irksome to Helen Seldes who was bathing at the time of the attack. Years later, whenever the couple visited Madrid, they would try to book the same hotel room their friend Ernest Hemingway lived in when he was reporting on the conflict. Seldes and his wife were close friends of several other 20th century literary greats, Sinclair Lewis, John Dos Passos, Dorothy Thompson], and Vincent Sheean, to name a few.
Seldes was the author of numerous controversial books about the press, politics and religion. Starting with, "You Can't Print That!" (1929) and "Can These Things Be!" (1931) and later "The Vatican: Yesterday-Today-Tomorrow," (1934), "Iron, Blood and Profits," (1934), "Freedom of the Press" (1935), "Lords of the Press" (1938), "You Can't Do That! " (1938), "The Catholic Crisis" (1940), "Witch Hunt," (1940), "Facts and Fascism" (1943) and others. As a journalist, he exposed corrupt politicians and corporate lobbyist and was one of the first to report on the results of product testing by consumer unions. "In Fact" once printed a report linking tobacco and longevity that no other publication would touch at that time. In the early 1950s Seldes fell victim to McCarthyism and was blacklisted for a number of years. During this time he was able to publish at least one work, "Tell the Truth and Run" (1953).
Seldes went on to author several more books before passing away at the remarkable age of 104, "The Great Quotations" (1961), "Never Tire of Protesting" (1968), "Even the Gods Can't Change History " (1976), "The Great Thoughts" (1985) and "Witness to a Century" (1987. His wife and assistant, Helen Seldes, passed away in 1979, at the age of 73. - Edgar was born to Olivia Deborah Davis and Edgar Leon Davis, Sr. in St. Louis. Missouri. He attended University City Senior High school (1976-80). He received a B.F.A. in Painting from the Kansas City Art Institute in K.C., Mo. (1980-84) He also received an M.F.A. in Acting from the University of Minnesota's Dept. of Theater Arts and Dance (1990-93). He now resides with his wife, Shari Cornish in Harwick, Vermont.