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George Montgomery was boxing champion at the University of Montana where he majored in architecture and interior design. Dropping out a year later he decided to take up boxing more seriously. He moved to California where he was coached by ex-heavyweight world champion James J. Jeffries. While in Hollywood, he came to the attention of the studios (not least, because he was an expert rider) and was hired as a stuntman in 1935. After doing this for four years, George was offered a contract at 20th Century Fox in 1939, but found himself largely confined to leads in B-westerns. He did not secure a part in anything even remotely like a prestige picture until his co-starring role in Roxie Hart (1942), opposite Ginger Rogers. Next, in Orchestra Wives (1942), he played the perfunctory love interest for Ann Rutherford, though both, inevitably, ended up playing second trombone to Glenn Miller and His Orchestra.
In 1947, George got his first serious break, being cast as Raymond Chandler's private eye Philip Marlowe in The Brasher Doubloon (1947). Reviewers, however, compared his performance unfavorably with that of Humphrey Bogart and found the film "pallid" overall. So it was back in the saddle for George. Unable to shake his image as a cowboy actor he starred in scores of films with titles like Belle Starr's Daughter (1948), Dakota Lil (1950), Jack McCall, Desperado (1953), and Masterson of Kansas (1954) at Columbia, and for producer Edward Small at United Artists. When not cleaning up the Wild West with his six-shooter, he branched out into adventure films set in exotic locales (notably as Harry Quartermain in Watusi (1959)). During the 60s, he also wrote, directed and starred in several long-forgotten, low-budget wartime potboilers made in the Philippines.
At the height of his popularity, George attracted as much publicity for his acting as for his liaisons with glamorous stars, like Ginger Rogers, Hedy Lamarr (to whom he was briefly engaged) and singer Dinah Shore (whom he married in 1943). After his retirement from the film business, he devoted himself to his love of painting, furniture-making and sculpting bronze busts, including one of his close friend Ronald Reagan.- Actress
- Writer
- Soundtrack
Libertad Lamarque was born November 24, 1908 in Rosario, Argentina, the youngest of ten children of Gaudencio Lamarque, an Uruguayan tinsmith who was worked as a contortionist in her youth, and Josefa Bouza, a Spanish immigrant. Since her childhood, Libertad Lamarque demonstrated a great talent for the performance and also for the song. Her debut as actress was at 7 years old and at 12 she was pro. In 1922 the family Lamarque emigrated to Buenos Aires and she began to work in the theater. At 18, she recorded her first LP of tangos (popular music of Argentina), obtaining an immediate success and she married with Emilio Romero (the father of Mirtha, her only daughter), then she played the silent movie "Adios, Argentina" (1930) and "Tango" (1933), which was, by the way, the first sound movie filmed in Argentina, and during the next 65 years all her works were starring with her name. In 1945 Libertad Lamarque was already known as an excellent dramatic actress and singer of tangos, boleros and folkloric songs of Latin America and she was received the nickname of "La Novia de América" (The Bride of the Americas) and also she even stood out as writer (she wrote the script of "Ayúdame a vivir"). However, not everything was happiness: her first husband died after their divorce and she lived an unpleasant incident with the (in this time) actress Eva Duarte (known after as Eva Perón, the famous Argentinean First Lady know nowadays simply as Evita) while they filmed "La cabalgata del circo." So, Libertad Lamarque (like other Argentinean artists of the time), suffered a non-official veto to her movies and while she was in tour for Latin America, she and her second (and last) husband, Alfredo Malerba settled in Mexico and there continued her very successful career, although in 1960 she returned to Argentina to make a movie. During her very extensive career, Libertad Lamarque filmed 65 movies (21 in Argentina, 43 in Mexico and 1 in Spain) and 6 soap operas, recorded more than 800 songs and many musicals and made many theatrical pieces; however, she says: "I am very lazy". When she is not acting or in shows, Lamarque lives between Miami, Florida (where she resides since 1996 with her personal assistant, Irene López) and Buenos Aires, Argentina where she visits her family (daughter, son-in-law, 5 grandsons and 10 great-grandchildren). Libertad Lamarque assures that doesn't have intentions of retiring of the show business: "I will continue working while I have a good pulse to makeup myself" she said.- Actor
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
Jerado Decordovier was born on 3 June 1910 in Pago Pago, Tutila, American Samoa. He was an actor, known for Alligator (1980), Knight Rider (1982) and Munchies (1987). He was married to Willa B.. He died on 12 December 2000 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Herman Rudin was born on 26 December 1912 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for The Outer Limits (1963), The Rifleman (1958) and Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958). He died on 12 December 2000 in Ventura, California, USA.
- Additional Crew
- Director
- Writer
Götz Friedrich was born on 4 August 1930 in Naumburg, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Falstaff (1979), Elektra (1981) and Tosca (1965). He was married to Karan Armstrong, Ruth-Maria Kubitschek and Sighilt Pahl. He died on 12 December 2000 in Berlin, Germany.- Alyce Webb was born on 1 June 1929 in Greensboro, North Carolina, USA. She was an actress, known for Boomerang (1992), Forever Young, Forever Free (1975) and Claudine (1974). She died on 12 December 2000 in New York City, New York, USA.
- László Halász was born on 1 May 1932 in Józsa, Hungary. He was an actor, known for Angi Vera (1978), Merry-Go-Round (1956) and Kiskrajcár (1953). He died on 12 December 2000 in Józsa, Hungary.
- Cinematographer
- Camera and Electrical Department
Dmitri Rymarev was born on 29 July 1907 in Russia. He was a cinematographer, known for Chernomortsy (1942), Premer-ministr Neru v Sovetskoy strane (1956) and Soviet Gymnasts (1953). He died on 12 December 2000.- Hugh Palmerston was an actor, known for Midnight Caller (1988). He died on 12 December 2000 in San Francisco, California, USA.