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- Vilma Bánky appeared in Hungarian, Austrian and French movies between 1920 and 1925, the year in which Samuel Goldwyn signed her, in Budapest, to a Hollywood contract. In Hollywood she was billed as the "The Hungarian Rhapsody". In the mid and late 1920s she was Goldwyn's biggest money maker, especially playing with Ronald Colman. Her best-known works were with Rudolph Valentino: daughter of a Russian aristocrat in The Eagle (1925) and an Arab dancer in The Son of the Sheik (1926). Her first talking movie was This Is Heaven (1929). She toured the U.S. in "Cherries Are Ripe" with her husband Rod La Rocque in 1930-1 and, the next year, went with him to Germany to make her last film.
- Born in 1931, Narda became friends with Robert I. McCarthy when she was an eleven-year-old laundress for McCarthy's anti-aircraft battalion in Bonn.
In 1944, she was a child actress in Estonia. To escape the Russians, she, her grandparents, her mother and 2-year-old brother took to the sea bound for Sweden. Picked up as Germans, they were taken to Danzig. Amidst much confusion, because they spoke fluent German they were able to meld into the daily life there. The Onyx family later made their way to the American occupied forces at Bonn and sought refuge with the Swedish Red Cross. Later the family moved to Sweden; Narda resumed her acting career. Traveling to England where she worked for the Old Vic Company.
She then went to Canada to perform on stage and television. After appearing in some 70 television shows over the past six years, on October 20, 1961, she became an American citizen. While in Canada she met and married George Virand, also an Estonian refuge, where they moved to Hollywood. - Writer
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John D. Voelker was born on 29 June 1903 in Ishpeming, Michigan, USA. He was a writer, known for Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Anatomy of a Murder and The Amorous Dentist (1983). He died on 18 March 1991 in Marquette, Michigan, USA.- Composer
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Dezider Kardos (23.12.1914 - 18.3.1991), was Slovak composer, one of the main representatives of modern Slovak classical music. He was awarded the title National Artist in 1975, in 2006 was matriculated into the Gold Book of the Slovak Performing and Mechanical Rights Society (SOZA). After finishing the high school (1933), he studied at the Music and Drama Academy where he attended courses of composition of Alexander Moyzes and at the same time attended the lectures in musicology, aesthetics and arts history at the Faculty of Arts of the Comenius University. Kardos graduated in 1937 and resumed his studies Master's School of the Prague Conservatory up to 1939, where he was a student of Vitezslav Novak. From 1939 to 1945 he was head of the Slovak Radio Music Department in Presov, from 1945 to 1951 head of the Czechoslovak Radio Music Department in Kosice and since 1951 in Bratislava. In 1952 he became the first director of the Slovak Philharmonic. In the years 1955 - 1963 he was the president of the Slovak Composers Union. Kardos was also a successful tutor of composition, from 1961 to 1984 he taught at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (since 1968 as professor of composition). He was the founder of modern symphonic. He was one of the most important composers of the 20th century, forming the foundation of the Slovak music culture. It has its place in the forefront of modern Slovak symphonic. The original production, which encompass almost all music genres, based on two sources of inspiration - from the Slovak national music and modern world. For his work, he was in 1975 awarded the title of National Artist.- Ernie Tomasso was born on 18 September 1912 in Leeds, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was an actor, known for All Creatures Great and Small (1978) and Crown Court (1972). He was married to Jeanne Tomasso. He died on 18 March 1991 in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, UK.