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- Actress
- Soundtrack
Elisabeth Fraser was born on 8 January 1920 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for A Patch of Blue (1965), The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941) and All My Sons (1948). She was married to Charles K. Peck Jr. and Ray McDonald. She died on 5 May 2005 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Fred Vincent was born on 13 May 1931 in Albany, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Who? (1974), 77 Sunset Strip (1958) and Days of Our Lives (1965). He was married to Catana Cayetano. He died on 5 May 2005 in Sedona, Arizona, USA.- Actress
- Soundtrack
June Mary MacCloy was born in Sturgis, Michigan on June 2, 1909. When she was a child her family moved to Toledo, Ohio. With her radiant smile, her tall, blonde, good looks and unusual voice, she brightened many a film and stage with her talent. After 1940 she became an obscure part of Hollywood and Broadway history. When she was a deep-voiced, 5' 71/2" teenage girl, she was chosen by song writer Lew Brown (of the prolific team DeSylva, Brown & Henderson) to do an impersonation of Broadway star Harry Richman, singing "I'm On The Crest of a Wave" in the ninth edition of George White's Scandals (Apollo Theater, July 2, 1928; 230 performances), starring Richman, Frances Williams, Willie & Eugene Howard and Ann Pennington. She and her mother moved to New York, and before embarking on a film career she was featured in the Parkington unit vaudeville shows, designed by Vincente Minnelli. In 1930 she was signed by Paramount Pictures to make film shorts in Astoria, L.I. Before making any features for Paramount, she was loaned out to United Artists to make her first feature, "Reaching for the Moon" with Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., and Bebe Daniels. She's the memorable, tall, pretty blond with the deep voice, singing 16 measures of "When the Folks High Up Do The Mean Low Down!" by Irving Berlin. That same year, Paramount co-starred her with Frances Dee and Jack Oakie in "June Moon" (based on the Lardner-Kaufman play). Next came "The Big Gamble" (R-K-O Pathe) starring Bill Boyd, with Dorothy Sebastian, Warner Oland and ZaSu Pitts. In the early 1930s MacCloy made at least nine film shorts, including a series of short comedies called "The Gay Girls" with Marion Schilling and Gertrude Short. Three of her shorts were directed by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, using the name "William Goodrich." In 1932 she appeared with Lupe Velez, Bert Lahr, Buddy Rogers and June Knight in Hot-Cha, Florenz Ziegfeld's last production (Ziegfeld Theater, March 8, 1932; 119 performances). Her featured song was "Little Old New York" (unpublished) by Lew Brown and Ray Henderson. When Hot-Cha closed, June sang on the cruise ship, "S.S. Transylvania, " and spent the rest of the decade performing in Chicago, New York and San Francisco clubs and theaters, with the orchestras of Johnny Hamp, Henry King, Ben Pollock and Griff Williams (with whom she recorded for Decca). Some of these spots included New York's Paramount Theater, Chicago's Chez Paree, and San Francisco's Hotel Mark Hopkins. For Warner Bros./Vitaphone, she made a Technicolor two-reeler with Leon Erroll called "Good Morning, Eve, " directed by Roy Mack (September, 1934). Because of her contralto voice, she felt she was overlooked by radio producers. She suspected, many years later, that film producers may have thought she was a Lesbian. At Columbia Studios, she made "Glamour for Sale" in 1940, with Anita Louise and Roger Pryor. Her last real role was in "Go West" (MGM, 1940) in which she tried to seduce Groucho Marx, and sang a song, "You Can't Argue With Love" (unpublished) in the beer hall. She retired from performing when she married California architect Neal Wendell Butler, with whom she raised two children in Southern California. She met her husband through their mutual love of jazz music. She was widowed in 1985.- Edgar Ponce was born December 27, 1974, a native of Mexico. He died an unfortunate, untimely, and tragic death at age 30 on May, 5, 2005, while filming a promotional video for the male dancer production of "Solo Para Mujeres" (For Women Only), in Mexico City's "Periferico" (outer concentric expressway) on a sports motorcycle with other fellow performers, as speeding automobile slammed him an another rider from behind, hurtling Edgar together with his motorcycle. None of the riders were wearing safety equipment, including helmets. Edgar died the morning after the accident.
He had appeared on various Telenovelas produced by Mexican TV Media Giant Televisa. It appears he had a bright future and rising star in show business.
His ashes were deposited at the Panteon Espanol in Mexico, D.F. - Skip Manisi was born on 18 September 1926 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He died on 5 May 2005 in Paoli, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Producer
- Writer
- Director
Laura Netscher was born on 17 March 1970 in South Africa. She was a producer and writer, known for Entrapment (1999), Vacation Challenge (2004) and Impact: Stories of Survival (2002). She died on 5 May 2005 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Ruth Byers was born on 30 March 1932 in Americus, Georgia, USA. Ruth was a writer, known for Jot (1967). Ruth died on 5 May 2005 in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
- Ted Atkinson was born on 17 June 1916 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for King of the Jockeys (1950), The George Jessel Show (1953) and What's My Line? (1950). He was married to Martha Atkinson. He died on 5 May 2005 in Beaverdam, Virginia, USA.
- Phllip Campanella was born on 24 May 1948 in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for Harold Rome: Pins and Needles (1978) and Camera Three (1955). He died on 5 May 2005 in the USA.