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- Versatile character actress Florence Eldridge seemed often better served by the stage than by her roles in motion pictures. On the boards from the age of seventeen as a chorine in "Rock-a-Bye Baby" in 1918, she acted with touring companies and on Broadway and soon found herself playing leading parts. The Brooklyn-born actress was bitten by the acting bug at an early age and joined the Theatre Guild immediately after graduating from high school.
She first came to note in the play "Ambush"in 1921 and quickly rose to stardom as the heroine Annabelle West in "The Cat and the Canary" (1922), and as the stepdaughter in "Six Characters in Search of an Author" (1922). She also portrayed the fickle Daisy Fay Buchanan in "The Great Gatsby" (1926). While on tour, Florence met the actor Fredric March whom she married after appearing with him on stage in "The Swan"(1927). Thereafter, the couple were no longer permitted to appear together on stage, their repertory company deeming it 'unromantic' for married people to portray lovers. To overcome this problem Florence and Fredric went to Hollywood in 1928, where actors with theatrical training were much in demand since the arrival of talking pictures. From here on, however, Florence would largely subordinate her career to that of her husband.
Florence had been on screen as early as 1923, her first credit being Six Cylinder Love (1923), shot in New York - a role she had previously enacted on stage. In 1929, she appeared in three films, first co-starring with her husband in The Studio Murder Mystery (1929). In the similarly titled The Greene Murder Case (1929), she bested Jean Arthur in a fight to the death on rooftops above the Hudson River. While most of her subsequent roles were small, there were two notable exceptions: Les Misérables (1935), as Fantine (again with March) , and Mary of Scotland (1936) as an implacable Queen Elizabeth I vis-à-vis Katharine Hepburn's Mary Stuart.
The inseparable Marches traveled extensively during World War II, entertaining American troops overseas. In 1942, they also made headlines on Broadway during performances of "Skin of Our Teeth", conducting a much-publicized on-stage feud with co-star Tallulah Bankhead. For the remainder of the decade, Florence alternated between stage and films. At the end of the decade, she was given one of her best screen roles, that of Lavinia Hubbard in Lillian Hellman's Another Part of the Forest (1948), with Fredric March playing husband Marcus. She played his screen wife again for the excellent filming of the Scopes Trial, Inherit the Wind (1960).
Florence's most celebrated performance came late in her career, on Broadway, as drug-addicted Mary, half of the battling Tyrones, in Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey into Night" (1956). For this, she won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award as Best Actress. - Actor
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Bit player and casting director Tony Regan was born Douglas Francis Anthony Regan on August 11, 1908 in Sparks, Nevada. He first began appearing in films and TV shows in often uncredited minor roles in the late 1950s. A burly man with wavy silver gray hair and a friendly round face, Tony was frequently cast as reporters, tourists, party guests, spectators, and patrons in bars, clubs, casinos, or restaurants. Moreover, Regan was also a casting director who held offices in the Screen Extras Guild. He died on August 1, 1988 in Los Angeles, California, ten days before his 80th birthday.- Actress
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Hélène Vallier was born on 2 February 1932 in Paris, France. She was an actress, known for Love and Death (1975), La maison des bories (1970) and La dame aux camélias (1962). She was married to Michel Lesnoff and Alain Quercy. She died on 1 August 1988 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.- Red Coffey was nightclub comic throughout the 1950's, often performing with singer Jerry Wallace. He is best known for playing Little Quacker in the "Tom and Jerry" animated shorts. He also performed at revues with his wife, who went under the name "Karen DeLuce," and had been doing so from the early 1960's to the 1970's. He used the stage name Red Coffey until 1960.
- Gertrude Welcker was born on 16 July 1896 in Dresden, Saxony, Germany. She was an actress, known for Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922), Die Dame in Schwarz (1920) and Dämon Zirkus (1923). She died on 1 August 1988 in Danderyd, Stockholms län, Sweden.
- Nikolai Sologubov was born on 8 August 1924 in Moscow, USSR. He was an actor, known for Tayna zheleznoy dveri (1970). He died on 1 August 1988 in Moscow, USSR.
- Lala Gil Bustamante was born on 13 January 1921 in Naguanagua, Carabobo, Venezuela. She was an actress, known for El nieto del Zorro (1948), Barlovento (1945) and El ladrón (1947). She died on 1 August 1988 in Caracas, Venezuela.
- Zbigniew Oksza was born on 18 August 1902 in Brody, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Brody, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine]. He was an actor, known for Gangsterzy i filantropi (1963), Knights of the Teutonic Order (1960) and Zamach (1959). He died on 1 August 1988 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.