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American dancer and choreographer Martha Graham was a revolutionary artist of modern dance in the early 20th century. Born in Allegheny, a suburb of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in May 1894, her family moved to California when she was 10. She was inspired at that early age to become a dancer when she saw Ruth St. Denis perform her exotic "Epytia" modern dance in 1914. After much study, Graham brought a different dynamics and interpretation to modern dance, one of sharp angles and natural motion. Graham's father was an "alienist," a term used at the turn of the century describe a physician who specialized in human psychology. Dr. Graham was interested in the way people used their bodies, and that interest was passed on to his eldest daughter. Martha frequently repeated her father's maxim of "Movement never lies." Her abstract approach to dance and her minimal use of costumes and set decorations was disconcerting to audiences accustomed to the lovely fluid movements of modern dance introduced earlier by the likes of Isadora Duncan (many critics accused Graham of making dance "ugly"). What Graham wanted to evoke with her style of dance was a heightened awareness of life. She eventually developed a strong following and won over the critics. Her dance themes were inspired by America's past, biblical stories, historical figures, classical mythology, primitive rituals, and surprisingly, psychoanalyst Carl Jung's writings, Emily Dickinson's poems, Georgia O'Keeffe's paintings, and Zen Buddhism. She danced with such a passion that her presence on stage was electrifying. Graham founded the Dance Repertory Theater in New York in 1930. She was the first dancer to receive a Guggenheim fellowship in 1932. From 1931 to 1935, Graham toured the United States in the production "Electra." She was fascinated by different cultures, and her interest in Native Americans of the southwest United States was first embodied in the production "Primitive Mysteries." In 1937, she danced for President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House. Her most famous dance, "Appalachian Spring," was first performed in 1944. Graham gave her last stage performance in 1968, at age 74. In all, she produced 181 original ballets. A year before her death in 1990, she choreographed, at age 95, Scott Joplin's "Maple Leaf Rag"; the show featured costumes by Calvin Klein.- Rina Zelyonaya is a Soviet pop, theater and film actress, master of imitation of children's speech, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
She was born in Tashkent in a family of Vasiliy Zelyonyy. After her father was transferred to work in Moscow, Rina began to study at the von Derviz gymnasium in Gorokhovskiy Lane. She became an actress quite by accident: she was walking around Moscow and saw an ad: "Recruitment to a theater school." Of the 80 applicants, only 22 people were admitted to the school, including Ekaterina. In 1919 she graduated from the Moscow Theater School at the Free Theatre. She started on the stage as a professional singer, but natural comedy, her desire for parody prevailed. Her teachers were Illarion Pevtsov, Nikolai Radin, Mariya Blyumental-Tamarina.
With the outbreak of the Civil War, the Zelenyy family moved to Odessa, where the young actress got a job at the local theater - the Confreria of the Knights of the Sharp Theatre. It was then that Ekaterina became Rina - her name did not fit on the theater poster.
And some time later, Rina Zelenaya returned to Moscow. She worked in the Moscow theater "Do not cry", then - in the Petrograd "Balaganchik". In 1924-1928 - actress of the Moscow Theater of Satire. Since 1928 she was an actress of the Review Theater at the Press House (later - the Theater of Variety and Miniatures).
In the cinema - since 1931, the first role - a girl from Zhigan's gang in the film by Nikolai Ekk Road to Life (1931). Eight years later, she, along with Agniya Barto, wrote the script for the film The Foundling (1940). She took part in the dubbing of cartoons.
The last role that the actress played in the movie was Mrs. Hudson, the owner of the apartment on Baker Street, where the legendary Sherlock Holmes lived. The work on the image lasted for seven whole years, five films about the detective's adventures were shot, the last one in 1986. - Actor
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Miller already played clarinet in street bands while in his teens, as well as performing gigs in New Orleans at the Silver Slipper and Halfway House. By the age of seventeen, he moved to New York to record with a band led by Julie Wintz. By 1930, he had taken up tenor saxophone and got his first big break, when he was hired to perform with the orchestra of Ben Pollack. After that group disbanded in 1934, Miller went on to become one of the co-founders of the Bobcats co-operative, led by Bob Crosby. His authoritative solos, equally effective on ballads as on up-tempo numbers (plus occasional compositions, such as the hit song "Slow Mood") contributed enormously to the commercial and critical success of this band.
Upon the break-up of the Bobcats in 1942, Miller briefly led his own orchestra on the West Coast, followed by a stint in the U.S. Army (until August 1944). He then fronted another band, which featured ex-Bobcat alumni Nick Fatool on drums and Nappy Lamare on guitar, with arrangements provided by former Pollack sideman Matty Malneck. Though short-lived (until 1946), the band made some excellent recordings, including one of Jerome Kern's "Yesterdays" (Miller performing the lead solo) and the group's theme song "Love's Got Me in a Lazy Mood". Afterwards, Miller spent ten years as a Hollywood studio musician, appearing in Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) and performing as a soloist on the soundtracks of You Were Meant for Me (1948), No Way Out (1950) and Panic in the Streets (1950).
From the 1960's, Eddie Miller appeared in jazz festivals and Bob Crosby-reunions, toured Japan (1964) and the U.K. (1967) and worked with orchestras led by former Bobcats Yank Lawson and Bob Haggart. A stroke in 1988 forced him to retire from the music scene and he died three years later in Van Nuys, California, at the age of 79.- Jaime Guzmán died on 1 April 1991 in Santiago de Chile, Metropolitan Region, Chile.
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Esteban Madruga was born on 8 December 1922 in Salamanca, Castilla y León, Spain. He was an assistant director and writer, known for Cupido contrabandista (1962), Nada menos que un arkángel (1960) and El pescador de coplas (1954). He died on 1 April 1991 in Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.