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- Gail Hillson was born on 24 December 1905. She was an actress, known for Highway Patrol (1955) and Wagon Train (1957). She died on 1 June 1986 in Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA.
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- Soundtrack
Nita Martan was born on 4 July 1898 in Colorado, USA. She was an actress, known for Chasing Rainbows (1930), The Third Alarm (1930) and Anybody's Blonde (1931). She died on 1 June 1986 in Riverside, California, USA.- Mason Hoffenberg was an American writer whose major claim to fame is having written the famous "dirty book" Candy (1968) in collaboration with Terry Southern. In December 1922, Hoffenberg was born in New York City into a wealthy Jewish family headed by patriarch Isidore Hoffenberg, a successful, self-made businessman. He was attending Olivet College in 1944 when he was drafted and became a member of the U.S. Army Air Force.
Hoffenberg was stationed in England and later in Belgium, France and Germany as part of the post-war Allied occupation army. He returned to New York and studied on the G.I. Bill, though he continued to return to Paris, where he used his G.I. benefits to study at The Sorbonne. In New York, he lived in Greenwich Village during the rise of the beatniks and shared an apartment with the African American novelist James Baldwin.
He became part of the Village literary scene of the 1950s, where he knew Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. Back in Paris, he married a Frenchwoman in 1953, with whom he had children. Working for Agence France Presse, he became friends with other American expatriates, including Kerouac and Ginsberg's close friend William S. Burroughs.
He was one of the writers who wrote "dirty books" for the Olympia Press, which brought him into collaboration with Southern, which became a best-seller when it was published in the U.S. in the 1960s. Hoffenberg never had another writing success after Candy, unlike Southern, who became famous. He became a heroin addict and then kicked the habit with the help of methadone. He eventually became an alcoholic.
Mason Hoffenberg died of cancer on June 1, 1986 in New York City. He was 63 years old. - Jo Gartner was born on 24 January 1954 in Vienna, Austria. He died on 1 June 1986 in Le Mans, France.
- Producer
Aladár Roboz was born on 9 January 1895 in Budapest, Hungary. Aladár was a producer, known for Masamód (1920), Az aranyszemü hölgy (1920) and A szerelem mindent legyöz (1921). Aladár died on 1 June 1986 in San Francisco, California, USA.