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Playwright/lyricist Alan Jay Lerner was born into a wealthy New York City retailing family. His professional association with Frederick Loewe started in 1942 when they teamed up to write "Life of the Party". Their first Broadway success was the 1947 musical fantasy "Brigadoon." Lerner adapted work for the screen (Brigadoon (1954)) and earned two Oscars as the screenplay writer for An American in Paris (1951) and Gigi (1958), and a Grammy for On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970). Lerner and Loewe parted company in 1962 following the success of Camelot (1967). Lerner's last musical, "Dance a Little Closer", was written with Charles Strouse in 1983. It closed after one performance.- Camera and Electrical Department
- Additional Crew
Marlin Perkins was born on 28 March 1905 in Carthage, Missouri, USA. He is known for The Legend of Koo-Tan (1973), Wild Journey (1972) and Zoo Parade (1950). He was married to Carolmay Morse Cotsworth and Katherine Elise More. He died on 14 June 1986 in Clayton, Missouri, USA.- Tony Spilotro was born on 19 May 1938 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was married to Nancy Stuart. He died on 14 June 1986 in Indiana, USA.
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- Director
Robert Presnell Jr. was born on 21 July 1914 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a writer and director, known for McCloud (1970), The Twilight Zone (1959) and Norman Corwin Presents (1971). He was married to Marsha Hunt and Kathryn (Kay) Elaine Brown. He died on 14 June 1986 in Sherman Oaks, California, USA.- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Stunts
Mushy Callahan was born on 4 November 1904 in New York City, New York, USA. He was an actor, known for Kid Galahad (1962), The Great White Hope (1970) and Champion (1949). He was married to Leonora Summers. He died on 14 June 1986 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Writer
- Actor
- Soundtrack
Borges was born into an upper class family, and received his education in Buenos Aires, Cambridge, and Geneva. He began writing as a student, and when in 1918 he settled in Spain, it was as a member of an experimental literary group. He returned to Argentina in 1921, and had his first poems published in 1923. He loved Buenos Aires. He lost his eyesight during the 1950's, but continued to write prolifically. His works have been translated into many languages. Brilliant, courtly, and thoughtful, Borges was director of the National Library of Argentina for many years. A month before his death he married Maria Kodama, with whom he had collaborated on his last book.- Michael Peter Spilotro was born in Chicago on September 12, 1944 to parents Pasquale and Antoinette. He had five brothers, Vincent, Victor, Pasquale Jr, Tony, and John. Michael was the youngest of the six sons. His father owned a restaurant in Chicago where all the brothers were required to help out. However, most of the brothers preferred to hang with the wrong crowd, the petty thieves and hoodlums. In the following years Michael's brother Tony became involved in gambling, collecting and other criminal activity with people affiliated with organized crime. In later years his brother Tony became a "made" member of the Chicago La Cosa Nostra otherwise known as The Outfit and was sent to Las Vegas to oversee and control the mobs business there within the casinos. Michael was brought into the mob's activities by his brother as well as activities of Tony's that were forbidden by the Chicago Outfit. On June 13, 1986, Tony was called back to Chicago from Las Vegas to attend a "meeting" with some of the top brass of the mob. Michael who shuttled to and from Las Vegas but kept his main residence in Chicago, was also required to attend this supposed meeting.
On June 14, 1986, Michael and his brother Tony met with some of their people and were driven to what they originally thought was another members home in Indiana but instead were driven to an Indiana cornfield and beaten to a pulp with "bats, fists and feet" as the news reports stated when their bodies were found on June 23, 1986 in a shallow grave in the cornfield.
Michael had been introduced to acting by his friend Robert Conrad whom he had met while managing a bar on the West side of Chicago. The movie Casino is the true story, with the real names changed, of his brother Tonys (portrayed by Joe Pesci as Nicky Santoro) and everyone around him including Michael (portrayed by Philip Suriano as Dominick Santoro) and basically the entire Chicago Outfits rise and fall from power and control in Las Vegas. The final scene is a reenactment of the two brothers' final moments here on earth. - Natives of San Bernardino, California, Fay Kelly and her older sister Fawn took the surname of Adler after their parents divorced and their mother remarried to a hotel owner. Fay and Fawn learned the art of dancing at Ernest Belcher's dancing school in Los Angeles; by her late teens, Fay was, with her dance partner and fellow Belcher School graduate Ted Bradford, dancing in the George M. Cohan Broadway production "The Merry Malones." Known as acrobatic, or "stunt" dancers, the diminutive Adler and the tall, "brawny" Bradford had a spirited specialty act called "The Butterfly and the Spider." Both she and Bradford appeared in the 1928 Earl Carroll's Vanities, where she met W.C. Fields. In 1947, when Fields' widow sued Magda Michael, the executor of his estate concerning bequests that diminished Hattie Fields' portion of the estate that would have gone to her as her share of the community property, Fay Adler was to receive a bequest of $1,300. Carlotta Monti, in contrast, was to get $100,000.
- Erika Müller-Fürstenau was born on 5 July 1924 in Leobschütz, Silesia, Germany. She was an actress, known for Besondere Kennzeichen: keine (1956), Kapitäne bleiben an Bord (1959) and Hotel du Commerce (1964). She was married to Gerhard Fürstenau and Hans Maikowski. She died on 14 June 1986 in East Berlin, East Germany.