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- Beverly Michaels was born on 28 December 1928 in New York City, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Wicked Woman (1953), East Side, West Side (1949) and Blonde Bait (1956). She was married to Russell Rouse and Voldemar Vetluguin. She died on 9 June 2007 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
- Writer
- Director
- Actor
The first film director from an African country to achieve international recognition, Ousmane Sembene remains the major figure in the rise of an independent post-colonial African cinema. Sembene's roots were not, as might be expected, in the educated élite. After working as a mechanic and bricklayer, he joined the Free French forces in 1942, serving in Africa and France. In 1946, he returned to Dakar, where he participated in the great railway strike of 1947. The next year he returned to France, where he worked in a Citröen factory in Paris, and then, for ten years, on the dock in Marseilles. During this time Sembene became very active in trade union struggles and began an extraordinarily successful writing career. His first novel, "Le Docker Noir", was published in 1956 to critical acclaim. Since then, he has produced a number of works which have placed him in the foreground of the international literary scene. Long an avid filmgoer, Sembene became aware that to reach a mass audience of workers and preliterate Africans outside urban centers, cinema was a more effective vehicle than the written word. In 1961, he traveled to Moscow to study film at VGIK and then to work at the Gorky Studios. Upon his return to Senegal, Sembene turned his attention to filmmaking and, after two short films, he wrote and directed his first feature, Black Girl (1966)(english title: Black Girl). Received with great enthusiasm at a number of international film festivals, it also won the prestigious Jean Vigo Prize for its director. Shot in a simple, quasi-documentary style probably influenced by the French New Wave, BLACK GIRL tells the tragic story of a young Senegalese woman working as a maid for an affluent French family on the Riviera, focusing on her sense of isolation and growing despair. Her country may have been "decolonized," but she is still a colonial -- a non-person in the colonizers' world. Sembene's next film, Mandabi (1968) (english title: The Money Order), marked a sharp departure. Based on his novel of the same name and shot in color in two language versions--French and Wolof, the main dialect of Senegal--THE MONEY ORDER is a trenchant and often delightfully witty satire of the new bourgeoisie, torn between outmoded patriarchal traditions and an uncaring, rapacious and inefficient bureaucracy. Emitai (1971) records the struggle of the Diola people of the Casamance region of Senegal (where Sembene grew up) against the French authorities during WWII. Shot in Diola dialect and French from an original script, EMITAI offers a respectful but unromanticized depiction of an ancient tribal culture, while highlighting the role of women in the struggle against colonialist oppression. In Xala (1975), Sembene again takes on the native bourgeoisie, this time in the person of a rich, partially Westernized Moslem businessman afflicted by "xala" (impotence) on the night of his wedding to a much younger third wife. Outsiders (1977), considered by many to be Sembene's masterpiece, departs from the director's customary realist approach, documenting the struggle over the last centuries of an unspecified African society against the incursions of Islam and European colonialism. Featuring a strong female central character, CEDDO is a powerful evocation of the African experience.- Actress
- Additional Crew
Beltran started her film career in Hollywood in the uncredited role of Miss Guatemala in the film Pan-Americana (1945) (1945). From 1945 to 2002, in addition to her film roles, Beltran played over 80 roles in film and television, often in smaller roles, always as Mexican women, and then later in her career, as family matriarch types or senoritas. These included guest roles in such popular TV series as The F.B.I. (1965), Bonanza (1959), Lou Grant (1977), Knight Rider (1982), The A-Team (1983) and The Jeffersons (1975). On the big screen, in film, she appeared in such films as Jubilee Trail, Marathon Man (1976), Oh, God! Book II (1980), and most recently in Ghost (1990) which co-starred Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze and Whoopi Goldberg, and the 2002 comedy film Buying the Cow (2002). She died in Northridge, California in 2007.- Christina Kokubo was born on 27 July 1950 in Detroit, Michigan, USA. She was an actress, known for Midway (1976), St. Elsewhere (1982) and The Yakuza (1974). She died on 9 June 2007.
- Frankie Jo Abernathy was born in Blue Springs, Missouri, on December 21, 1981. She has lived there her entire life, and returned to live with her parents, Abbie Hunter and stepfather, Perry Hunter, and 13-year-old sister, Mamie.
Frankie's claim to fame is being the "outcast" on MTV's 14th season of The Real World (1992), shot in San Diego. While viewers perceived Frankie as an angry, depressed, self-mutilating person, Frankie is actually a very happy person, when she's on her own terms.
The main problem with Frankie's stint on the The Real World (1992) is that Frankie, who suffered from Cystic Fibrosis, has a very short life span expectation, and she felt that the experience was dragging her down and, in a sense, wasting her time, which is very precious for someone who will probably only live to 30, tops.
She left on Halloween of 2003, returning to Blue Springs where she dated her boyfriend, tattoo artist, Dave Duly. She enjoyed body mods, hanging out with friends and family, going to shows, and trying to live each day to the fullest.
Frankie died June 9, 2007, in Shorewood, Wisconsin, from complications due to her disease, Cystic Fibrosis, at the age of 26. - Fidel De Castro was born on 24 April 1911 in San Fernando, Pampanga, Philippines. He was an actor and writer, known for Laman ng Aking Laman (1966), Alaala kita (1946) and Fort Santiago (1946). He died on 9 June 2007 in Florida, USA.
- Producer
- Additional Crew
- Production Manager
Allen Grossman was born on 2 May 1963 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and production manager, known for Sunset Beach (1997), The Quest for Nutrition (2004) and Santa Barbara (1984). He died on 9 June 2007 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Rudolf Arnheim was born on 15 July 1904 in Berlin, Germany. He was a writer, known for Arnheim in Anaheim (2021), Omnibus (1952) and Screening Room (1972). He was married to Mary Elizabeth Frame and Annette Siecke. He died on 9 June 2007 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
- Zaga Marjanovic was born on 16 December 1932 in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Zaga was a writer, known for Vojnikova ljubav (1976). Zaga died on 9 June 2007 in Belgrade, Serbia.
- Júlia Babo was an actress, known for A Bela Doroteia (1966), TV Clube (1961) and Yô-Yô (1970). She died on 9 June 2007 in Lisbon, Portugal.
- Joyce Bumpus was born on 26 January 1956 in Rochester, New York, USA. She was an actress, known for Fear No Evil (1981). She was married to Michael Parker. She died on 9 June 2007 in Rochester, New York, USA.