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Arbroath Abbey
Arbroath Abbey, in the Scottish town of Arbroath, was founded in 1178 by King William the Lion for a group of Tironensian Benedictine monks from Kelso Abbey. It was consecrated in 1197 with a dedication to the deceased Saint Thomas Becket, whom the king had met at the English court. It was William's only personal foundation — he was buried before the high altar of the church in 1214.
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Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic (, ), is the second largest country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires. It is the eighth-largest country in the world by land area and the largest among Spanish-speaking nations, though Mexico, Colombia and Spain are more populous.
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Austria
Austria or (), officially the Republic of Austria (German: ), is a landlocked country of roughly 8.3 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers and has a temperate and alpine climate. Austria's terrain is highly mountainous due to the presence of the Alps; only 32% of the country is below , and its highest point is . The majority of the population speaks German, which is also the country's official language. Other local official languages are Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene.
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Belgium
Belgium (, ), officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, as well as those of several other major international organizations such as NATO. Belgium covers an area of , and it has a population of about 10.8 million people.
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Bolivia (), officially known as the Plurinational State of Bolivia, (, ) is a landlocked country in central South America. It is bordered by Brazil to the north and east, Paraguay and Argentina to the south, and Chile and Peru to the west.
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British Columbia
British Columbia (B.C.) (, C.-B.) is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu ("Splendour without Diminishment"). Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858. In 1871, it became the sixth province of Canada.
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Broadway theatre
Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, refers to theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 large professional theatres with 500 seats or more located in the Theatre District, New York and in Lincoln Center, in Manhattan, New York City.Although theater is the preferred spelling in the U.S.A. (see further at American and British English Spelling Differences), the majority of venues, performers, and trade groups for live dramatic presentations use the spelling theatre. Along with London's West End theatre, Broadway theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.
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California
California (pronounced ) is the most populous state in the United States and the third-largest by land area, after Alaska and Texas. California is also the most populous sub-national entity in North America. It's on the U.S. West Coast, bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west and by the states of Oregon to the north, Nevada to the east, Arizona to the southeast, Baja California, Mexico, to the south. Its 5 largest cities are Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, and Long Beach, with Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Jose each having at least 1 million residents. Like many populous states, California's capital, Sacramento is smaller than the state's largest city, Los Angeles. The state is home to the nation's 2nd- and 6th-largest census statistical areas and 8 of the nation's 50 most populous cities. California has a varied climate and geography and a multi-cultural population.
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Canada
Canada () is a country in North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area. Canada's common border with the United States to the south and northwest is the longest in the world.
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Chicago
Chicago ( or ) is the largest city in the state of Illinois. With over 2.8 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous city in the country. Its metropolitan area, commonly named "Chicagoland," is the 26th most populous in the world, home to an estimated 9.7 million people spread across the U.S. states of Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County.
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China
China is seen variously as an ancient civilization extending over a large area in East Asia, a nation and/or a multinational entity.
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England
England () is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental Europe. Most of England comprises the central and southern part of the island of Great Britain in the North Atlantic. The country also includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.
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Federation of Malaya
The Federation of Malaya (), is the name given to a federation of 11 states that existed from 31 January 1948 until 16 September 1963. Comprising the nine Malay states and the British settlements of Penang and Malacca, it was eventually superseded by Malaysia.
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India
India (), officially the Republic of India ( ; see also official names of India), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.18 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world. Mainland India is bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal on the east; and it is bordered by Pakistan to the west; Bhutan, the People's Republic of China and Nepal to the north; and Bangladesh and Burma to the east. In the Indian Ocean, mainland India and the Lakshadweep Islands are in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, while India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share maritime border with Thailand and the Indonesian island of Sumatra in the Andaman Sea. India has a coastline of .
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Iran
Iran ( ), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran is a country in Central Eurasia and Western Asia. The name Iran has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was also known to the western world as Persia. Both Persia and Iran are used interchangeably in cultural contexts; however, Iran is the name used officially in political contexts.
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Ireland
Ireland (,; , ; Ulster Scots: Airlann) is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the northwest of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islets. To the east of Ireland is Great Britain, separated from it by the Irish Sea. The island is divided between the Republic of Ireland, which covers just under five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom, which covers the remainder and is located in the northeast of the island. The population of Ireland is approximately 6.2 million people. Just under 4.5 million live in the Republic of Ireland and just under 1.8 million live in Northern Ireland.
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Jerusalem
Jerusalem ( , ; Arabic: , al-Quds Sharif, "The Holy Sanctuary") is the capital of Israel, though not internationally recognized as such. If the area and population of East Jerusalem is included, it is Israel's largest city in both population and area, with a population of 763,800 residents over an area of . Located in the Judean Mountains, between the Mediterranean Sea and the northern edge of the Dead Sea, modern Jerusalem has grown far beyond the boundaries of the Old City.
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Joplin, Missouri
Joplin is a city in southern Jasper County and northern Newton County in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Missouri. Joplin is the largest city in Jasper County, though it is not the county seat. In 2009, the population was estimated at 50,208 and the surrounding Metropolitan Statistical Area had an estimated population of 174,300 in 2009. Although often believed to be named for ragtime composer Scott Joplin who lived in Sedalia, Missouri, Joplin is actually named for the Reverend Harris Joplin, the founder of the area's first Methodist congregation. Joplin was established in 1873 and expanded significantly from the wealth created by the mining of zinc, its growth faltering after World War II when the price of the mineral collapsed. The city gained additional renown as one of the stops on the historic Route 66.
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Las Vegas, Nevada
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Lebanese University
The Lebanese University (, ) is the only public institution for higher learning in Lebanon. Founded in 1951, it has 17 faculties as of 2006 and serves various cultural, religious, and social groups of students and teachers.
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Lebanon
Lebanon ( or ; ; ), officially the Republic of Lebanon (Arabic: ; French: ), is a country on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It is bordered by Syria to the north and east, and Israel to the south. Lebanon's location at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian hinterland has dictated its rich history, and shaped a cultural identity of religious and ethnic diversity.
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Libya
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London
London () is the capital of England and the United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its founding by the Romans, who called it Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, largely retains its square-mile mediaeval boundaries. Since at least the 19th century, the name London has also referred to the metropolis developed around this core. The bulk of this conurbation forms the London region and the Greater London administrative area, governed by the elected Mayor of London and the London Assembly.
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Marshall Islands
The Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) , is a Micronesian nation of atolls and islands in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, just west of the International Date Line and just north of the Equator. The population is about 62,000. In 1986 independence was attained under a Compact of Free Association with the United States.
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NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO ( ; ), also called the "(North) Atlantic Alliance", is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The NATO headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium, and the organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defence in response to an attack by any external party.
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Nevada
Nevada is a state located in the western and southwestern region of the United States. Nevada is also part of the Mountain States. The capital is Carson City and the largest city is Las Vegas. The state's nickname is Silver State, due to the large number of silver deposits that were discovered and mined there. "Sagebrush State" and "Battle Born State" are its alternative nicknames. In 1864, Nevada became the 36th state to enter the union, and the phrase "Battle Born" on the state flag reflects the state's entry on the Union side during the American Civil War. Its first nonnative settlement was called Mormon Station.
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New Mexico
New Mexico() is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also part of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth- most sparsely inhabited U.S. state.
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New York
New York (; locally or ) is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east. The state has a maritime border with Rhode Island east of Long Island, as well as an international border with the Canadian provinces of Ontario to the north and west, and Quebec to the north. New York is often referred to as New York State to distinguish it from New York City.
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New Zealand
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Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Norwegian: Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes bequeathed by the Swedish industrialist and inventor Alfred Nobel.
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North Korea
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Oklahoma
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Ontario
Ontario is a Province of Canada located in the east-central part of Canada, the largest by population and second largest, after Quebec, in total area, (Nunavut and the Northwest Territories are larger in area, but they are not provinces.) The province's largest metropolitan area and Canada's most populous city, Toronto, is the capital city of Ontario. The national capital of Canada, Ottawa, is located in Ontario as well.
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Opera
Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text (called a libretto) and musical score. Opera is part of the Western classical music tradition. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance. The performance is typically given in an opera house, accompanied by an orchestra or smaller musical ensemble.
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Oregon
Oregon ( ) is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located on the Pacific coast, with Washington to the north, California to the south, Nevada on the southeast and Idaho to the east. The Columbia and Snake rivers delineate much of Oregon's northern and eastern boundaries, respectively. The area was inhabited by many indigenous tribes before the arrival of traders, explorers, and settlers who formed an autonomous government in Oregon Country in 1843; the Oregon Territory was created in 1848, and Oregon became the 33rd state on February 14, 1859. Salem is the state's capital and third-most-populous city; Portland is the most populous. Portland is the 30th-largest U.S. city, with a population of 582,130 (2009 estimate) and a metro population of 2,241,841 (2009 estimate), the 23rd-largest U.S. metro area.
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Pakistan
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Panama
Panama (), officially the Republic of Panama (; ), is the southernmost country of Central America. Situated on the isthmus connecting North and South America, it is bordered by Costa Rica to the northwest, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north and the Pacific Ocean to the south. The capital is Panama City.
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Republic of China
The Republic of China (ROC), commonly known as Taiwan, is a state in East Asia located off the east coast of mainland China. Subject to an ongoing dispute with the People's Republic of China (PRC) that has left it with limited formal diplomatic relations, the government of the Republic of China currently governs the islands of Taiwan, Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu and other minor islands. Neighbouring states include the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the northeast, and the Philippines to the south.
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Royal Festival Hall
The Royal Festival Hall is a 2,900 seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London. It is situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, not far from Hungerford Bridge. It is a Grade I listed building - the first post-war building to become so protected (in April 1988). The London Philharmonic Orchestra performs the majority of its London concerts in the hall.
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Salar Jung Museum
The Salar Jung Museum () is an art museum at Dar-Ul-Shifa, on the southern bank of the Musi river in the city of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India has an exquisite collection of priceless articles like Ivory, Marble sculptures etc.
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Selangor
Selangor (also known by its Arabic honorific, Darul Ehsan, or "Abode of Sincerity") is one of the 13 states of Malaysia. It is on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and is bordered by Perak to the north, Pahang to the east, Negeri Sembilan to the south and the Strait of Malacca to the west. It completely surrounds the federal territories of Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya, both of which were once under Selangor's sovereignty.
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Seoul
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Stillwater, Oklahoma
Stillwater is a city in and the county seat of Payne County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 39,065 at the 2000 census. Founded December 12, 1884 it was the first settlement in the Unassigned Lands.
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Sudan
Sudan (), officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in northeastern Africa. It is the largest country in Africa and the Arab world, and tenth largest in the world by area. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the northeast, Eritrea and Ethiopia to the east,Kenya and Uganda to the southeast, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west and Libya to the northwest. The world's longest river, the Nile, divides the country between east and west sides.
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Switzerland
Switzerland (, , , ), officially the Swiss Confederation (Confoederatio Helvetica in Latin, hence its ISO country codes CH and CHE), is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe where it is bordered by Germany to the north, France to the west, Italy to the south, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east.
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The Carlu
The Carlu is an historic event space in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Known for many years as the "Eaton's Seventh Floor", the Carlu is one of Toronto's best examples of Art Moderne architecture.
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Turkey
Turkey (), known officially as the Republic of Turkey (), is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in western Asia and Thrace in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe. Turkey is one of the six independent Turkic states. Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest; Greece to the west; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan (the exclave of Nakhchivan) and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the southeast. The Mediterranean Sea and Cyprus are to the south; the Aegean Sea to the west; and the Black Sea is to the north. The Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles (which together form the Turkish Straits) demarcate the boundary between Eastern Thrace and Anatolia; they also separate Europe and Asia.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a country and sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island nation, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of the island of Ireland, and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK with a land border with another sovereign state, sharing it with the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea. Great Britain is linked to continental Europe by the Channel Tunnel.
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United States
The United States of America (also referred to as the United States, the U.S., the USA, or America) is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its forty-eight contiguous states and Washington, D.C., the capital district, lie between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, bordered by Canada to the north and Mexico to the south. The state of Alaska is in the northwest of the continent, with Canada to the east and Russia to the west across the Bering Strait. The state of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific. The country also possesses several territories in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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University of Texas
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Wales
Wales ( ; pronounced ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has an estimated population of three million and is officially bilingual with the Welsh and English languages having equal status. The Welsh language is an important element of Welsh culture. Its decline has reversed over recent years, with Welsh speakers estimated to be around 20% of the population of Wales.
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West Germany
West Germany () is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG () in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990. This period, during which Germany and Berlin were divided, ended when communist East Germany was dissolved and its five states joined the eleven states of the Federal Republic of Germany. The enlarged Federal Republic of Germany with sixteen states (known simply as "Germany") is thus the continuation of the pre-1990 Federal Republic of Germany, and not its successor.
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Yokohama
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Ace Frehley
Paul David "Ace" Frehley (; born April 27, 1951) is an American musician best known as an original member of the rock band Kiss. He took on the persona of the "Spaceman" or "Space Ace" when the band adopted costumes and theatrics. Frehley played with the group from its inception in 1973 until his departure in 1982.
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Adrian Devine
Paul Adrian Devine (born December 2, 1951 in Galveston, Texas) was a Major League Baseball pitcher from 1973 to 1980 for the Atlanta Braves and Texas Rangers. Devine primarily pitched in relief and had has best season in 1977 with the Rangers when he posted a win-loss record of 11-6 with 15 saves. He and his wife breed Cavalier King Charles Spaniels. He is currently a gym teacher at Creekland Middle School in Lawerenceville, Georgia.
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Adriana Monti
Adriana Monti (born 1951) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. She is known for making feminist films. Her films include Sculoa senza fine (1983), Fino a catena (1986) and Gentili signore (1989).
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African American
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, and formerly as American Negroes) are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the black populations of Africa. In the United States, the terms are generally used for Americans with at least partial Sub-Saharan African ancestry.
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Akhmad Kadyrov
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Al Franken
Alan Stuart "Al" Franken (born May 21, 1951) is the junior United States Senator from Minnesota. He is a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, which affiliates with the national Democratic Party.
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Alamgir Hashmi
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Alastair Sim
Alastair Sim, CBE (9 October 1900 – 19 August 1976) was a Scottish character actor who appeared in a string of classic British films. He is best remembered in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1951 film Scrooge, and for his portrayal of Miss Fritton, the headmistress in two St. Trinian's films. He was famously described by comedian Ronnie Corbett as a "sad-faced actor, with the voice of a fastidious ghoul", in Corbett's autobiography High Hopes.
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Albert Guay
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Albert Salvadó
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Alec Guinness
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Allison Krause
Allison B. Krause (April 23, 1951 - May 4, 1970) was an honors student at Kent State University, Ohio, when she was shot and killed by the Ohio National Guard in the Kent State shootings, while protesting the invasion of Cambodia and the presence of the National Guard on the Kent State campus. The Guardsmen opened fire on a group of unarmed students, killing four of them, at an average distance of about 106 meters (345 ft). Krause was shot in the left side of her body at about 105 meters (330 ft) fatally wounding her. A subsequent autopsy found that a single rifle bullet entered and exited her upper left arm, and entered her left lateral chest fragmenting on impact causing massive internal injuries. She died from her injuries later that same day.
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Amy Carmichael
Amy Wilson Carmichael (16 December 1867 - 18 January 1951) was a Protestant Christian missionary in India, who opened an orphanage and founded a mission in Dohnavur. She served in India for 55 years without furlough and wrote many books about the missionary work there.
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Anatoly Karpov
Anatoly Yevgenyevich Karpov (; born May 23, 1951) is a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster and former World Champion. He was official world champion from 1975 to 1985, played three more matches for the title from 1986 to 1990, then was FIDE World Champion from 1993 to 1999. For his decades-long standing among the world's elite, Karpov is considered one of the greatest players of all time.
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Andranik Margaryan
Andranik Margaryan (, alternative spelling: Andranik Margarian) (12 June 1951 – 25 March 2007) served as the Prime Minister of Armenia from 12 May 2000, when the President appointed him, until his death on 25 March 2007 . He was a member of the Republican Party of Armenia. He succeeded the Sargsyan brothers: Vazgen Sargsyan, who was murdered during the Armenian parliament shooting on 27 October 1999 and Aram Sargsyan, whom the President appointed a week later, but fired on 2 May 2000.
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André Gide
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André Gobert
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Andrés Caicedo
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Anjelica Huston
Anjelica Huston (; born July 8, 1951) is an American actress. Huston became the third generation of her family to win an Academy Award, for her performance in 1985's ''Prizzi's Honor, joining her father, director John Huston, and grandfather, actor Walter Huston. She later was nominated in 1989 and 1990 for her acting in Enemies, a Love Story and The Grifters respectively. Among her roles, she starred as Morticia Addams in The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values'' (1993), receiving Golden Globe nominations for both. More recently, she is known for her frequent collaborations with director Wes Anderson.
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Anne de Vries
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Anne Feeney
Anne Feeney (born July 1, 1951) is a political activist, folk musician and singer-songwriter.
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Arnold Schoenberg
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Artur Schnabel
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Ashfaq Hussain
Ashfaq Hussain (January 1, 1951, Karachi, Pakistan - ), full name is Ashfaq Hussain Zaidi. He is a leading modern Urdu poet and an author of more than 10 books of poetry and literary criticism. He is considered by many as the foremost expert on the life and works of great Urdu poets Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Ahmad Faraz and also on Progressive Writers Movement.
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Aslan Maskhadov
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Audrey Hepburn
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Austria
Austria or (), officially the Republic of Austria (German: ), is a landlocked country of roughly 8.3 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers and has a temperate and alpine climate. Austria's terrain is highly mountainous due to the presence of the Alps; only 32% of the country is below , and its highest point is . The majority of the population speaks German, which is also the country's official language. Other local official languages are Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene.
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Ava Gardner
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Barry Marshall
Barry James Marshall, AC, FRS, FAA (born 30 September 1951) is an Australian physician, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine, and Professor of Clinical Microbiology at the University of Western Australia. Marshall is well-known for proving that the bacterium Helicobacter pylori is the cause of most peptic ulcers, reversing decades of medical doctrine which held that ulcers were caused by stress, spicy foods, and too much acid.
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Barton Yarborough
William Barton Yarborough (October 2, 1900–December 19, 1951) was an American actor who worked extensively in radio drama.
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Baudouin of Belgium
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Bee Ho Gray
Bee Ho Gray (born Emberry Cannon Gray on April 7, 1885 in Leon, Chickasaw Nation, Indian Territory - August 3, 1951 in Pueblo, Colorado) was a Western performer who spent fifty years displaying his skills in Wild West Shows, vaudeville, circus, silent films and radio. While he was primarily known as an expert at trick roping, he was also skilled with knife throwing, bullwhips (specifically the Australian black snake whip), trick riding and the banjo. He wove all of these skills together in a homely comic routine. Throughout his long career he was constantly compared to Will Rogers, which was befitting, considering the two performers worked together several times and developed their acts together in the early 1900s.
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Ben Chifley
Joseph Benedict Chifley (; 22 September 1885 – 13 June 1951), Australian politician and the 16th Prime Minister of Australia. Among his government's accomplishments were the post-war immigration scheme under Arthur Calwell, the establishment of Australian citizenship in 1949, the Snowy Mountains Scheme, over-viewing the foundation of airlines Qantas and TAA, improvements in social services, the creation of the Commonwealth Employment Service, the introduction of federal funds to the States for public housing construction, the establishment of a Universities Commission for the expansion of university education, the introduction of free hospital ward treatment, reorganising and enlarging the CSIRO, and the founding of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO). One of the few successful referendums to modify the Australian Constitution took place during his term.
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Bernard Cooper
Bernard Cooper is an American novelist and short story writer. He was born on October 3, 1951 in Hollywood, California.
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Bert Blyleven
Bert Blyleven (born Rik Aalbert Blijleven, April 6, 1951 in Zeist, Netherlands) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher who played from to , and was best known for his outstanding curveball. He currently resides in Ft. Myers, Florida.
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Bertie Ahern
Patrick Bartholomew "Bertie" Ahern (born 12 September 1951) is an Irish politician who served as Taoiseach (prime minister) of Ireland from 26 June 1997 to 7 May 2008.
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Bill Bryson
William McGuire "Bill" Bryson, OBE, (born December 8, 1951) is a best-selling American author of humorous books on travel, as well as books on the English language and on science. Born an American, he was a resident of North Yorkshire, UK, for most of his professional life before moving back to the US in 1995. In 2003 Bryson moved back to the UK, living in Norfolk, and was appointed Chancellor of Durham University.
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Björgvin Halldórsson
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Blaise Compaore
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Bonnie Tyler
Bonnie Tyler (born Gaynor Hopkins on 8 June 1951) is a Welsh singer, most notable for her worldwide hits in the 1970s and 1980s including "It's a Heartache", "Holding Out for a Hero" and "Total Eclipse of the Heart" & also selling over 80 million records worldwide.
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Bootsy Collins
William Earl "Bootsy" Collins (born October 26, 1951, Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American funk bassist, singer, and songwriter.
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Carl Lumbly
Carl Winston Lumbly (born August 14, 1951) is an American film, stage, and television actor. He is most known for the role of Marcus Dixon in the television drama Alias, and for the role of Martian Manhunter in the animated series Justice League and Justice League Unlimited.
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Carl Wieman
Carl Edwin Wieman (born March 26, 1951) is an American physicist at the University of British Columbia and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his production, in 1995 with Eric Allin Cornell, of the first true Bose–Einstein condensate.
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Cassandra Peterson
Cassandra Peterson (born September 17, 1951) is an American actress best known for her on-screen horror hostess character Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. She gained fame on Los Angeles television station KHJ wearing a black, gothic, cleavage-enhancing gown as host of Movie Macabre, a weekly horror movie presentation. Her wickedly vampish appearance is offset by her comical character, quirky/quick-witted personality, and valley girl-type speech.
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Catherine Hicks
Catherine Mary Hicks (born August 6, 1951) is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her role as Annie Camden on the long-running television series 7th Heaven.
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Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was the most popular British novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters.
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Charles G. Dawes
Charles Gates Dawes (August 27, 1865 – April 23, 1951) was an American banker and politician who was the 30th Vice President of the United States. For his work on the Dawes Plan for World War I reparations he was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served in the First World War, was U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, the first director of the Bureau of the Budget, and, in later life, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
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Charly Garcia
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Cheryl Ladd
Cheryl Ladd (born Cheryl Jean Stoppelmoor; July 12, 1951) is an American actress, singer and author. Ladd is best known for her role as Kris Munroe in the television series ''Charlie's Angels'', hired amid a swirl of publicity prior to its second season in 1977 to replace the departing Farrah Fawcett-Majors. Ladd remained with the show for the rest of its run, until its cancellation in 1981.
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Cheryl Wheeler
Cheryl Wheeler (born July 10, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter of contemporary folk music, based in New England. To date, she has recorded several folk albums, and has toured extensively throughout the United States.
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Chet Edwards
Thomas Chester "Chet" Edwards (born November 24, 1951) is a Democratic Party member of the United States House of Representatives from the 17th District of Texas based in Waco. Edwards represented Texas's 11th District from 1991 to 2005 and was subsequently elected in the 17th District. The district includes the town of Crawford, the home of former U.S. President George W. Bush's Prairie Chapel Ranch.
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China
China is seen variously as an ancient civilization extending over a large area in East Asia, a nation and/or a multinational entity.
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Choudhary Rahmat Ali
Choudhry Rahmat Ali (Lang-ur|) (November 16, 1897 - February 3, 1951) was a Pakistani Muslim nationalist who was one of the earliest proponents of the creation of the state of Pakistan. He is credited with creating the name "Pakistan" for a separate Muslim homeland in South Asia. He propagated the Scheme of Pakistan with a missionary zeal since its inception in 1933. He also founded Pakistan National Movement to propagate his ideas. Being as a political thinker and an idealist, he condemned Muhammad Ali Jinnah for accepting a smaller Pakistan in 1947. He wanted to save every Indian Muslim from Hindu domination. In 1933, he wrote his ideas in the famous pamphlet entitled "Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever" also known as Pakistan Declaration. The pamphlet started with this famous sentence:
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Chris Rea
Chris Rea (, ) (born Christopher Anton Rea, 4 March 1951, Middlesbrough) is an English singer-songwriter, recognisable for his distinctive, husky voice and slide guitar playing. The British Hit Singles & Albums stated that Rea was "one of the most popular UK singer-songwriters of the late 1980s. He was already a major European star by the time he finally cracked the UK Top 10 with his 18th chart entry; "The Road to Hell (Part 2)".
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Chrissie Hynde
Christine Ellen "Chrissie" Hynde (born 7 September 1951, Akron, Ohio) is an American rock musician, best known as the leader of the rock/new wave band The Pretenders. She is a singer, songwriter, and guitarist, and has been the only constant member of the band throughout its history.
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Christian Bernard
Christian Bernard (born 30 November 1951), F.R.C., is the current () Imperator of AMORC, a mystical Rosicrucian order. He became Imperator on 12 April 1990.
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Christopher Dewdney
Christopher Dewdney (born May 9, 1951) is a Canadian writer and poet.
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Cicciolina
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Clement Attlee
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Constant Lambert
Leonard Constant Lambert (23 August 190521 August 1951) was a British composer and conductor.
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Dale Earnhardt
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Dan Fogelberg
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Darryl Stingley
Darryl Floyd Stingley (September 18, 1951April 5, 2007) was an American professional football wide receiver whose career was cut short by an injury. He played his entire career with the New England Patriots of the National Football League. He died from heart disease and pneumonia complicated by quadriplegia.
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Daryl Somers
Daryl Paul Somers OAM (born Daryl Schultz 6 August 1951 in Geelong, Victoria, Australia), is an Australian television personality. The son of a dairy farmer and a cabaret singer, Somers rose to national fame as the host of the long-running comedy-variety program ''Hey Hey It's Saturday''.
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Dave Winfield
David Mark Winfield (born October 3, 1951) is an American former Major League Baseball player. He is currently Executive Vice President/Senior Advisor of the San Diego Padres and an analyst for the ESPN program Baseball Tonight. Over his 22-year career, he played for six teams: the San Diego Padres, New York Yankees, California Angels, Toronto Blue Jays, Minnesota Twins, and Cleveland Indians. In 2004, ESPN named him the third-best all-around athlete of all time in any sport. He is a member of both the Baseball Hall of Fame and the College Baseball Hall of Fame.
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David Coverdale
David Coverdale (born 22 September 1951, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, North Yorkshire) is an English rock singer, most famous for his work with the English hard rock band Deep Purple, and his later band Whitesnake, of which he is the only original member to remain with the band.
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David Helvarg
David Helvarg (born April 10, 1951) is an American journalist and environmental activist. He is the founder and president of the marine conservation lobbying organization Blue Frontier Campaign, a part of the Seaweed rebellion, which arose from his second book Blue Frontier. His first book, The War against the Greens, puts a case that violent organized resistance is being orchestrated against the environmental movement.
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David Lean
Sir David Lean CBE (25 March 190816 April 1991) was a British filmmaker, producer, screenwriter and editor, best remembered for big-screen epics such as The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia,
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David Rodigan
David Rodigan, born 24 June 1951 on a military base in Hanover, Germany, is a British radio DJ who also performs as a selector for his sound system. Known for his selections of reggae and dancehall music, he has played on stations including Radio London, Capital 95.8, Kiss 100 and BFBS Radio 1.
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David Warfield
David Warfield (November 28, 1866 – June 27, 1951) was an American stage actor, born in San Francisco, California. His first connection with the theatre was as an usher. He made his first stage appearance in 1888 in The Ticket-of-Leave Man. Two years later he went to New York City, where he appeared at the Casino Theatre and at Weber and Field's Music Hall. In 1901 he was discovered and promoted by David Belasco who starred him in The Auctioneer, in which he played 1,400 times, including a revival that extended over several seasons. He remained under the Belasco management. One of his best-known roles was that of Anton von Barwig in The Music Master, which he played from 1904 to 1907, appearing in the part more than 1000 times. He created the title role in The Return of Peter Grimm in 1911. Warfield's position as a leading American actor in comedy was established by the masterly style in which he portrayed, in each of these plays, a kindly old gentleman who is pathetic in misfortune and amusingly eccentric. In 1916 he appeared in Van der Decken, a play by Belasco, based on the legend of The Flying Dutchman.
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Dean Goss
Dean Goss (born September 22, 1951 in San Francisco, California) is an American disc jockey who has also had several announcer roles on television game shows. As a disc jockey, he has been employed by several radio stations in California, including KFRC 99.7 in San Francisco. His first announcing role was in 1985, on the second season of ''The All-New Let's Make a Deal'', where he succeeded voice actor Brian Cummings as the show's second announcer. Other game shows for which he has announced include Bargain Hunters and the Wink Martindale-hosted version of High Rollers both from 1987, as well as NBC's ''I'm Telling!, and the syndicated Slime Time. He was also a substitute announcer on the syndicated version of The $100,000 Pyramid in 1988 and 1991 and Win, Lose or Draw'' on NBC.
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Dean Kamen
Dean L. Kamen (born April 5, 1951) is an American entrepreneur and inventor from New Hampshire.
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Debra Jo Rupp
Debra Jo Rupp (born February 24, 1951) is an American film and television actress, perhaps best known for her role as Kitty Forman on the long-running Fox sitcom, ''That '70s Show''.
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Dee Dee Ramone
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Dick Slater
Richard Van Slater (born May 19, 1951), better known by his ring name "Dirty" Dick Slater, was an American professional wrestler who wrestled in the 1970s, 1980s, and mid 1990s for various promotions including Mid-Atlantic Championship Wrestling and World Championship Wrestling (WCW).
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Don Quarrie
'''Donald O'Riley Quarrie C.D''' (born 25 February 1951) is a former Jamaican athlete, one of the world's top sprinters during the 1970s.
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Doug Allder
Douglas Stewart Allder (born 30 December 1951 in Hammersmith, London) is an English former professional footballer. He played as a left winger, making 332 appearances in his career. He was capped for England at youth level.
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Doug Collins
MedalCountry |
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Douglas MacArthur
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Dutch people
The Dutch people (Dutch: ) are the dominant ethnic group of the Netherlands. They share a common culture and speak the Dutch language.
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Ed Murawinski
Edward Murawinski was born on November 3, 1951 in Jersey City, New Jersey. He is currently employed by the New York Daily News in New York City as a cartoonist[http://www.hudsonreporter.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17355395&BRD;=1291&PAG;=461&dept;_id=523589&rfi;=6] and a member of the National Cartoonist Society. He attended the Manhattan School of Visual Arts [http://www.hudsonreporter.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17355395&BRD;=1291&PAG;=461&dept;_id=523589&rfi;=6] and has been employed by the Daily News since he was seventeen.[http://www.hudsonreporter.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17355395&BRD;=1291&PAG;=461&dept;_id=523589&rfi;=6]
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Eddie Collins
Edward Trowbridge Collins, Sr. (May 2, 1887 – March 25, 1951), nicknamed "Cocky", was an American second baseman, manager and executive in Major League Baseball who played from to for the Philadelphia Athletics and Chicago White Sox.
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Eddy Duchin
Eddy Duchin (April 1, 1909 or April 10, 1910February 9, 1951) was an American popular pianist and bandleader of the 1930s and 1940s, famous for his engaging onstage personality, his elegant piano style, and his courageous fight against leukemia.
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Edelgard Bulmahn
Edelgard Bulmahn (born March 4, 1951 in Minden, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German politician from the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). Bulmahn entered the German Bundestag after the 1987 elections. She was Federal Minister of Education and Research from 1998 to 2005. Since 2005 she is chairwoman of the Bundestag committee for economy and technology.
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Edward Albert
:For his father, See Eddie Albert.
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Edward Witten
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Edwin McMillan
Edwin Mattison McMillan (September 18, 1907 – September 7, 1991) was an American physicist and Nobel laureate credited with being the first ever to produce a transuranium element. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Glenn Seaborg in 1951.
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Elio Di Rupo
Elio Di Rupo (born 18 July 1951 in Morlanwelz) is a Belgian social-democratic politician and the President of the francophone Socialist Party.
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Emperor Taisho
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Empress Teimei
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Epeli Ganilau
Brigadier-General Ratu Epeli Ganilau, MC, MSD, (born 10 October 1951) is a Fijian soldier and statesman, who currently heads the National Alliance Party of Fiji. His career has previously encompassed such roles as Commander of the Fiji Military Forces and Chairman of the Bose Levu Vakaturaga (Great Council of Chiefs). On 15 January 2007 he was sworn in as Minister for Fijian Affairs in the interim Cabinet formed in the wake of the military coup which deposed the Qarase government on 5 December 2006. [http://www.fijivillage.com/artman/publish/article_35128.shtml] [http://www.fijilive.com/news/show/news/2007/01/15/Fijilive11.html]
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Eric Goles
Eric Antonio Goles Chacc (born August 21, 1951) is a Chilean mathematician and computer scientist of Croatian descent. He studied civil engineering at the University of Chile before taking two doctorates at the University of Grenoble in France. A professor at the University of Chile, he is known for his work on cellular automata.
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Erich Hallhuber
Erich Hallhuber (July 14, 1951 – September 17, 2003) was a Bavarian actor. He was born in Munich and worked in Theatre, Opera, television and film.
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Ernest Bevin
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Ernest Walton
Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton (6 October 1903 – 25 June 1995) was an Irish physicist and Nobel laureate for his work with John Cockcroft with "atom-smashing" experiments done at Cambridge University in the early 1930s. Walton is the only Irishman to have won a Nobel Prize in science.
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Eugenijus Riabovas
Eugenijus Riabovas (born 3 February 1951) is a Lithuanian football manager.
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Fanny Brice
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Farouk of Egypt
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Felipe Munoz
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Ferdinand Porsche
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Financial advisor
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Frank Moulaert
Frank Moulaert is Professor of Spatial Planning at the Department of Architecture, Urban Design and Regional Planning at Catholic University of Leuven. He is also attached with Institute for Urban and Regional Planning.
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Frank Tarrant
Frank Tarrant (in full Francis Alfred Tarrant (Melbourne, Australia, 11 December 1880 – 29 January 1951 in Melbourne) was an Australian all-rounder who played with great success for Middlesex in the County Championship in the years before World War I.
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Frank Wilczek
Frank Anthony Wilczek (born May 15, 1951) is a theoretical physicist from the United States and a Nobel laureate. He is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Fred Berry
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Garrett Hongo
Garrett Hongo (born 1951, Volcano, Hawai'i) is a Japanese American poet. He has attended Pomona College and the University of Michigan, and received a Master of Fine Arts degree in English from the University of California at Irvine. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of Oregon, and directed the Program in Creative Writing from 1989 to 1993.
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Geir Haarde
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George Pal
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Georges Thurston
George Thurston (December 29, 1951-June 18, 2007) was a Quebec singer, author and composer and radio show host. He was known as Boule Noire since 1975 and worked in the music industry as a solo artist for nearly 30 years and as part of musical groups for 5 years.
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Gerrie Knetemann
Gerrie Knetemann (6 March 1951 in Amsterdam, North Holland – 2 November 2004 in Bergen) was a Dutch road bicycle racer who won the 1978 World Championship.
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Gian-Carlo Menotti
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Gibson Gowland
Gibson Gowland (4 January 1877 Spennymoor, Durham, England, UK – 9 September 1951 London, England, UK) was an English film actor.
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Glenn T. Seaborg
Glenn Theodore Seaborg (; April 19, 1912 – February 25, 1999) was an American scientist who won the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements", contributed to the discovery and isolation of ten elements, and developed the actinide concept, which led to the current arrangement of the actinoid series in the periodic table of the elements. He spent most of his career as an educator and research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley where he became the second Chancellor in its history and served as a University Professor. Seaborg advised ten presidents from Truman to Clinton on nuclear policy and was the chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission from 1961 to 1971 where he pushed for commercial nuclear energy and peaceful applications of nuclear science. Throughout his career, Seaborg worked for arms control. He was signator to the Franck Report and contributed to the achievement of the Limited Test Ban Treaty, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. Seaborg was a well-known advocate of science education and federal funding for pure research. He was a key contributor to the report "A Nation at Risk" as a member of President Reagan's National Commission on Excellence in Education and was the principal author of the Seaborg Report on academic science issued in the closing days of the Eisenhower administration.
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Gordon Brown
James Gordon Brown (born 20 February 1951) is a British Labour Party politician, who has been a Member of Parliament (MP) since 1983, currently for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath. He served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Labour Party from 2007 until 2010. Brown became Prime Minister in June 2007, after the resignation of Tony Blair and three days after becoming leader of the governing Labour Party. Immediately before this, he had served as Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Labour Government from 1997 to 2007. His tenure ended in May 2010, when he resigned as Prime Minister and Leader of the Labour Party.
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Greg Bear
Gregory Dale Bear (born August 20, 1951) is an American science fiction and mainstream author. His work has covered themes of galactic conflict (Forge of God books), artificial universes (The Way series), consciousness and cultural practices (Queen of Angels), and accelerated evolution (Blood Music, ''Darwin's Radio, and Darwin's Children'').
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Harold Ross
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Harry Hamlin
Harry Robinson Hamlin (born October 30, 1951) is an American film and television actor, known for his role as Perseus in the 1981 fantasy film Clash of the Titans, and as Michael Kuzak in the legal drama series L.A. Law.
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Harry Heilmann
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Harry S Truman
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Harry Wayne Casey
Harry Wayne "K.C." Casey (born January 31, 1951) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and producer. He is most famous for his group, KC and the Sunshine Band and as a producer of several hits for other artists.
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Henrietta Lacks
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Henrik Visnapuu
Henrik Visnapuu (January 2, 1890 - April 3, 1951) was a well known Estonian poet and dramatist.
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Henry Jones Sr.
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Henry W. Armstrong
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Hermann Broch
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Horace Donisthorpe
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Horst Hrubesch
Horst Hrubesch (born 17 April 1951 in Hamm) is a retired German football player employed as a youth trainer at the German Football Association. His nickname was Das Kopfball-Ungeheuer (the Header Beast) for his heading skills.
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Howard Hawks
Howard Winchester Hawks (May 30, 1896 – December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. He is popular for his films from a wide range of genres such as Scarface (1932), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), Sergeant York (1941), The Big Sleep (1946), Red River (1948), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), Rio Bravo (1959), and El Dorado (1967).
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Howard Keel
Howard Keel (April 13, 1919November 7, 2004) was an American actor and singer. He starred in many film musicals of the 1950s.
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Humphrey Bogart
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I Love Lucy
I Love Lucy is an American television sitcom, starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance and William Frawley. The black-and-white series originally ran from October 15, 1951 to May 6, 1957 on CBS. When the original series ended, the show continued on for three more seasons with 13 one-hour specials, running from 1957 to 1960, known first as The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show and later in reruns as The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour.
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Ian Hill
Ian Hill (born Ian Frank Hill, 20 January 1951, in Yew Tree Estate, West Bromwich, England) is a founding member and Grammy Award winning bassist for the Birmingham-based heavy metal band, Judas Priest.
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Ilse Koch
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Indiana Jones
Dr. Henry Walton "Indiana" Jones, Jr. Ph.D. is a fictional American adventurer, OSS operative, professor of archaeology, and the central protagonist of the Indiana Jones franchise. George Lucas created the character in homage to the action heroes of 1930s film serials. The character first appeared in the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark, to be followed by Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in 1984, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in 1989, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles from 1992 to 1996, and Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in 2008. Alongside the more widely known films and television programs, novels, comics, video games, and other media also feature the character, Jones is also featured in the theme park attraction Indiana Jones Adventure, which exists in similar forms at Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea.
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Ivor Novello
David Ivor Davies (15 January 1893 – 6 March 1951), better known as Ivor Novello, was a Welsh composer, singer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the early 20th century.
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J. Edward Bromberg
Joseph Edward Bromberg (December 25, 1903 – December 6, 1951) was a Hungarian-born American character actor in motion picture and stage productions dating mostly from the 1930s and 1940s.
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J.D. Salinger
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Jack Holt (actor)
Jack Holt (May 31, 1888 – January 18, 1951) was an American motion picture actor. He was a leading man of silent and sound films, and was known for his many roles in Westerns.
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Jackie Jackson
Sigmund Esco "Jackie" Jackson (born May 4, 1951) is an American singer and musician, a member of The Jackson 5, and the second child in the Jackson family.
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Jaco Pastorius
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Jan Timman
Jan Timman (born 14 December 1951) is a Dutch chess Grandmaster who was one of the world's leading players from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. At the peak of his career he was considered to be the best non-Soviet player and was known as "The Best of the West". He has won the Dutch Chess Championship nine times and has been a Candidate for the World Championship several times.
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Janis Ian
Janis Ian (born Janis Eddy Fink, April 7, 1951) is an American songwriter, singer, musician, columnist, and science fiction author. She had a career singing in the 1960s and 1970s, and has continued recording into the 21st century. In 1975, Ian won a Grammy Award for her song, "At Seventeen".
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Jawaharlal Nehru
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Jean-Jacques Goldman
Jean-Jacques Goldman (born October 11, 1951) is a Grammy Awards-winning French singer-songwriter. He is hugely popular in the French-speaking world, and since 2003 was the second-highest-grossing French living pop singer, after Johnny Hallyday.
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Jean-Luc Mongrain
Jean-Luc Mongrain (born July 16, 1951 in Sherbrooke, Quebec) is a Quebec journalist and news anchor.
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Joe Bowen
Joe Bowen (born April 5, 1951 in Sudbury, Ontario), is a Canadian sportscaster. He is known as "The Voice of the Toronto Maple Leafs", having broadcast over 2,100 Leaf Games. He started calling games for the Leafs in 1982, after calling games for the Nova Scotia Voyageurs
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Joe Pantoliano
Joseph Peter "Joe" Pantoliano (born September 12, 1951) is an American film and television actor. He played the character of Ralph Cifaretto on The Sopranos, Bob Keane in La Bamba, Cypher in The Matrix, Teddy in Memento and Jennifer Tilly's violent mobster boyfriend Caesar in Bound. He is often referred to as "Joey Pants," due to the difficulty some have pronouncing his Italian surname.
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Joey Ramone
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John Bardeen
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John Cockcroft
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John Deacon
John Richard Deacon (born 19 August 1951) is a retired English multi-instrumentalist, best known as the bass guitarist for the rock band Queen. Of the four members of the band, he was the last to join and also the youngest, being only 19 years old when he was recruited by the other members of the band. Deacon wrote a number of Queen's hit singles, including "You're My Best Friend", "Spread Your Wings", "Back Chat", "I Want to Break Free" and the band's biggest selling single in the United States, "Another One Bites the Dust", as well as a number of album tracks. He also played rhythm and acoustic guitars on several albums as well as occasional keyboards, synthesiser and programming. He frequently provided backing vocals during live shows.
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John French Sloan
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John Huston
John Huston (August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered "classics": The Maltese Falcon (1941), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948), Key Largo (1948), The Asphalt Jungle (1950), The African Queen (1951), Moulin Rouge (1952), The Misfits (1960), and The Man Who Would Be King (1975). During his 46-year career, Huston received 15 Oscar nominations, winning twice, and directed both his father, Walter Huston, and daughter, Anjelica Huston to Oscar wins in different films.
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John Kindness
John Kindness (Born Belfast, Northern Ireland, 1951) is an Irish multi-media artist whose work often contrasts material, image and reference in an unusual and humorous way. He attended the Belfast College of Art and now lives and works in Dublin.
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Jon Miller
Jon Miller (born October 11, 1951) is an American sportscaster, known primarily for his broadcasts of Major League Baseball. He is currently employed as a play-by-play announcer by the San Francisco Giants and ESPN. He received the Ford C. Frick Award from the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2010.
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Jonathan Richman
Jonathan Richman (born May 16, 1951) is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. In 1970 he founded The Modern Lovers, an influential proto-punk band. Since the mid-1970s, Richman has worked either solo or with low-key, generally acoustic backing. He is known for his wide-eyed, unaffected and child-like outlook, and music that, while rooted in rock and roll, often draws on influences from around the world.
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Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo (born Tulsa, Oklahoma, May 9, 1951) is an American poet, musician, and author of Native American Canadian ancestry. Known primarily as a poet, Harjo has also taught at the college level, played alto saxophone with a band called Poetic Justice, edited literary journals, and written screenplays. She is a member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma and is of Cherokee descent. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa.
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Juan Peron
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Judy Garland
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Julia Duffy
Julia Duffy (born Julia Margaret Hinds; June 27, 1951) is an American actress from Minneapolis, Minnesota, specializing in character roles, best known as the spoiled rich girl and Dick Loudon's (played by Bob Newhart) inn maid, Stephanie Vanderkellen, on the 1980s sitcom, Newhart.
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Julian Lloyd Webber
Julian Lloyd Webber (born 14 April 1951) is a British solo cellist, described as 'the doyen of British Cellists'.
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Jumbo Tsuruta
, better known by his ring name Jumbo Tsuruta, was a professional wrestler who wrestled for All Japan Pro Wrestling for most of his career, and is well-known for being the first ever AJPW Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion, having won the PWF Heavyweight Championship, the NWA United National Championship, and the NWA International Heavyweight Championship, and unifying the three titles.
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Justin Raimondo
Justin Raimondo (born on November 18, 1951) is an American author and the editorial director of the website Antiwar.com. He describes himself as a "conservative-paleo-libertarian."
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Jóannes Eidesgaard
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Karen Kain
Karen Alexandria Kain, CC (born March 28, 1951 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a retired Canadian ballet dancer.
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Katharine Hepburn
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Kathryn Bigelow
Kathryn Ann Bigelow (born November 27, 1951) is an American film director. Her best-known films are the cult horror film Near Dark (1987), the surfer/bank robbery action picture Point Break (1991), the historical/mystery film The Weight of Water (2000) and the war drama The Hurt Locker (2009). The Hurt Locker won the 2009 Academy Award for Best Picture, won the BAFTA Award for Best Film, and was nominated for the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Drama.
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Kathryn Grayson
Kathryn Grayson (February 9, 1922 - February 17, 2010) was an American actress and operatic soprano singer.
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Kazakhs
The Kazakhs (also spelled Kazaks, Qazaqs; ; the English name is transliterated from Russian) are a Turkic people of the northern parts of Central Asia (largely Kazakhstan, but also found in parts of Uzbekistan, China, Russia, and Mongolia).
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Ken Le Breton
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Kenny Anthony
Kenny Davis Anthony (born January 8, 1951) was the fifth Prime Minister of Saint Lucia from 1997 to 2006. He is the leader of the Saint Lucia Labour Party (SLP) and the Leader of the Opposition.
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Kenny Dalglish
Kenneth Mathieson "Kenny" Dalglish MBE (born 4 March 1951 in Glasgow, Scotland), is a former Scottish footballer. Throughout his 20-year career, he played for just two teams, Scottish Premier League club Celtic for eight years and English Premier League side Liverpool for twelve years. Dalglish is known for his successes at both teams; most notably winning the UEFA Champions League with Liverpool on four occassions, in 1977, 1978, 1981 and 1984. In 2009, he was named by FourFourTwo football magazine as the greatest post-war British striker, and he was placed first in Liverpool's list of "100 Players Who Shook the Kop". Having made 102 appearances, Dalglish is both the most capped player in the history of the Scottish national team. He and Denis Law also share the record for most goals for Scotland, with 30 strikes each.
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Kevin Keegan
Joseph Kevin Keegan, OBE (born 14 February 1951) is a former international footballer, and former manager of several English clubs, most notably Newcastle United, as well as the England national football team.
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Kim Wilson
Kim Wilson (born 6 January 1951) is an American blues singer and harmonica player. He is best known as the lead vocalist and frontman for The Fabulous Thunderbirds on two hit songs of the 1980s; "Tuff Enuff" and "Wrap It Up."
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Kirstie Alley
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Korean War
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Kurt Russell
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Lalla Ward
Sarah Ward (born 28 June 1951) known as Lalla Ward, is an English actor, author and illustrator. As an actor, she is known for playing the part of Romana in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. She is married to evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins.
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Larry Robinson
Larry Clark Robinson (born June 2, 1951) is a former ice hockey player and coach in the National Hockey League. Robinson was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1995 and is currently the defencive coach for the New Jersey Devils. He has also served as head coach for the Devils on two separate occasions, as well as for the Los Angeles Kings.
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Leon Errol
Leon Errol (July 3, 1881 - October 12, 1951), was an Australian-born American comedian and actor, popular in the first half of the 20th century.
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Leon Jouhaux
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Liaquat Ali Khan
For other people with the same or similar name, see Liaqat Ali (disambiguation)
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Linda Yamamoto
is a Japanese singer and actress whose greatest hit song was in 1973.
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Lloyd C. Douglas
Lloyd Cassel Douglas (August 27, 1877 - February 13, 1951) was an American minister and author.
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Lloyd Maines
Lloyd Maines (born June 28, 1951) is an American Grammy Award-winning country music record producer, musician and songwriter and who was born and raised in Lubbock, Texas and is now based in Bulverde, Texas.
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Lou Ferrigno
Louis Jude "Lou" Ferrigno (born November 9, 1951) is an American actor, fitness trainer/consultant, and retired professional bodybuilder. Ferrigno won an IFBB Mr. America title and two consecutive IFBB Mr. Universe titles. He appeared in the television series The Incredible Hulk (playing David Banner's bulky alter ego, the Hulk), the bodybuilding documentary Pumping Iron, European-produced fantasy-adventures including Sinbad of the Seven Seas and Hercules, and most recently in the 2009 comedy I Love You, Man. He had a recurring role, as himself, in the sitcom The King of Queens.
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Louis Jouvet
Louis Jouvet (24 December 1887 - 16 August 1951) was a renowned French actor, director, and theatre director.
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Louis van Gaal
Aloysius Paulus Maria "Louis" van Gaal (; born 8 August 1951 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch football manager currently in charge of the German club Bayern Munich. Before his career as coach van Gaal played as a midfielder for Royal Antwerp and several clubs in the Dutch Eredivisie. He spent most of his playing career at Sparta Rotterdam. Van Gaal is also a fully qualified gymnastics teacher, and has worked as such at high-schools during various stages of his career as a semi-professional football-player.
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Louise Jameson
Louise Jameson (born 20 April 1951 in Wanstead, London) is an English actress, most famous for playing Leela, the leather-clad barbarian warrior companion of the fourth Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who. Jameson has also appeared on Emmerdale (as Sharon Crossthwaite), The Omega Factor (as Dr. Anne Reynolds), Tenko (as Blanche Simmons), Bergerac (as Susan Young) and EastEnders (as Rosa di Marco). She recently worked on BBC Scotland soap River City as Viv Roberts.
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Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Luis E. Miramontes
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Luther Vandross
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Lyman Gilmore
Lyman Wiswell Gilmore, Jr. (June 11, 1874 Beaver Creek, Thurston County, Washington- February 18, 1951) was an aviation pioneer. In Grass Valley, California, USA, he built a steam-powered airplane and claimed that he flew it on May 15, 1902. Due to the requirement of a heavy boiler and the dependency on coal as a power source, the flights would have only been short. Potential proofs of his claim were lost in a 1935 hangar fire.
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Lynda Carter
Lynda Carter (born July 24, 1951) is an American actress and singer, best known for being Miss USA and for her dual role as Wonder Woman and her alter ego, Diana Prince, on the 1970s television series The New Adventures of Wonder Woman (1975-79).
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Mady Christians
Marguerita Maria "Mady" Christians (January 19, 1892 – October 28, 1951), was an Austrian actress who achieved a successful acting career in theatre and film, in the United States until she was blacklisted during the McCarthy period.
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Mamoru Oshii
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Manfred Winkelhock
Manfred Winkelhock (6 October 1951 - 12 August 1985) was a German racing driver. Born in Waiblingen, he was the brother of Joachim Winkelhock and father of Markus Winkelhock, also both racing drivers.
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Mark Hamill
Mark Richard Hamill (born September 25, 1951) is an American actor, voice artist, producer, director, and writer. Hamill is best known for his role as Luke Skywalker in the original Star Wars trilogy. He is also well known for voice acting characters such as the Joker in the DC Animated Universe, (primarily in '), in ', the Hobgoblin in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, and Chanukah Zombie on Futurama.
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Mark Harmon
Mark Harmon (born September 2, 1951) is an American actor who has been starring in U.S. television programs and films since the mid-1970s, after a career as a collegiate football player with the UCLA Bruins. Since 2003, Harmon has starred as Leroy Jethro Gibbs in the CBS series NCIS.
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Mary McAleese
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Max Theiler
Max Theiler (January 30, 1899 – August 11, 1972) was a South African/American virologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1951 for developing a vaccine against yellow fever.
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Max Weinberg
Max Weinberg (born April 13, 1951) is an American drummer and television personality, most widely known as the longtime drummer for Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band and as the bandleader for Conan O'Brien on ''Late Night with Conan O'Brien and The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien''.
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Maxim Litvinov
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Mayo Methot
Mayo Methot (March 3, 1904June 9, 1951), also known as Mayo Methot Bogart, was an American film and theater actress.
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Melissa Manchester
Melissa Manchester (born February 15, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter and actress. Beginning in the 1970s, she has recorded generally in the adult contemporary genre. She has also appeared as an actress on television, in films, and on stage.
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Meredith Hunter
Meredith Hunter (October 24, 1951 – December 6, 1969) was a spectator at the Altamont Free Concert. During the performance by The Rolling Stones, Hunter pulled out a gun and was then stabbed to death by a Hells Angel serving as a security guard. The incident was caught on camera and became a central scene in the documentary Gimme Shelter.
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Michael Keaton
Michael John Douglas (born September 5, 1951), better known as Michael Keaton, is an American actor, well known for his early comedic roles in films such as Night Shift, Mr. Mom, Johnny Dangerously, Beetlejuice, and for his dramatic portrayal of Batman in Tim Burton's Batman and Batman Returns, as well as lead roles in other films including The Paper, Jackie Brown, Jack Frost and White Noise.
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Michael McConnohie
Michael D. McConnohie (born July 23, 1951 in Mansfield, Ohio) is a voice actor and is the President of the Nevada-based Voxworks voice-acting corporation. He is known for his recognizable deep booming voice and is generally known for playing more charismatic characters. He has appeared in over 170 English language dubs.
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Michelle Bachelet
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Miguel Sandoval
Miguel Sandoval (born November 16, 1951) is an American film and television actor.
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Mike Quarry
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Mike Read
Michael David Kenneth Read (born 1 March 1947) is an English radio disc jockey, writer, journalist and television presenter.
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Mordechai Ben David
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Mr. Butch
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Muhammad Reza Shah
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Natalis Chan
Natalis Chan Pak-Cheung, born 3 December 1951 in Hong Kong, is a Hong Kong television host, film actor and producer.
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Obba Babatundé
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Olivia Hussey
Olivia Hussey (born 17 April 1951) is a British actress best known for her role as Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film version of Romeo and Juliet.
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Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card (born August 24, 1951) is an American author, critic, public speaker and conservative political activist. He writes in several genres, but is primarily known for his science fiction. His novel ''Ender's Game (1985) and its sequel Speaker for the Dead'' (1986) both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win both of American science fiction's top prizes in consecutive years. He is also known as a political commentator and as an advocate for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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Oscar Carmona
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Oscar Micheaux
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Oswald Pohl
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Otto Fritz Meyerhof
Otto Fritz Meyerhof (April 12, 1884 – October 6, 1951) was a German-born physician and biochemist.
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Palestinian people
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Patricia Richardson
Patricia Castle Richardson (born February 23, 1951) is an American television and film actress best known for her portrayal of Jill Taylor on Home Improvement.
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Patricia Wettig
Patricia Wettig (born December 4, 1951) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress and playwright. She is best known for her roles in the television series Thirtysomething, Prison Break and Brothers & Sisters. In film, she is known for her role in City Slickers.
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Patti Page
Clara Ann Fowler (born November 8, 1927), known by her professional name Patti Page, is an American singer, one of the best-known female artists in traditional pop music. She was the best-selling female artist of the 1950s, and has sold over 100 million records. Her nickname is ''The Singin' Rage''.
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Paul Boateng
Paul Yaw Boateng, Baron Boateng (born 14 June 1951) is a British Labour Party politician, who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Brent South from 1987 to 2005, becoming the UK's first black Cabinet Minister in May 2002, when he was appointed as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Following his departure from the House of Commons, he served as the British High Commissioner to South Africa from March 2005 to May 2009. He was introduced as a member of the House of Lords on 1 July 2010.
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Paul Muldoon
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Pedro Almodóvar
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Peter Davison
Peter Davison (born Peter Moffett on 13 April 1951) is a British actor, best known for his roles as Tristan Farnon in the television version of James Herriot's All Creatures Great and Small and the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, which he played from 1982 to 1984.
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Peter May (writer)
Peter May (born December 20, 1951) is a Scottish television screenwriter, novelist and crime writer.
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Peter T. Daniels
Peter T. Daniels (born December 11, 1951, currently living in New Jersey) is a scholar of writing systems, specializing in typology. He was co-editor (with William Bright) of the book ''The World's Writing Systems (1996), and he introduced the terms abjad (an "alphabet" with no vowel letters) and abugida'' (a system partly alphabetic, partly syllabic) as modern linguistic terms for categories of scripts. (These terms had been used previously in a more restricted sense by specialists in the fields of the Arabic alphabet and Ge'ez script, from which languages they were borrowed respectively.)
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Phil Collins
Philip David Charles "Phil" Collins, LVO (born 30 January 1951) is an English singer-songwriter, drummer, keyboardist and actor best known as a drummer and vocalist for English progressive rock group Genesis and as a solo artist.
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Phil Manzanera
Phil Manzanera (born Philip Geoffrey Targett-Adams, 31 January 1951, in London, England) is a musician and record producer. He was the lead guitarist with Roxy Music. In 2006 Manzanera co-produced David Gilmour's album On An Island and played in Gilmour's band for tours in Europe and North America. He wrote and presented a series of 14 one-hour radio programmes for station Planet Rock entitled The A-Z of Great Guitarists and his new instrumental album, Firebird V11, was released in 2008.
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Philippe Pétain
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Prekmurians
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Pär Lagerkvist
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Queen Noor of Jordan
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Rafael Vaganian
Rafael Artemovich Vaganian, also transliterated Vahanyan (, ) is an Armenian chess grandmaster known for his sharp tactical style of play. Vaganian was born October 15, 1951 in Yerevan.
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Ralph Branca
Ralph Theodore Joseph Branca (born January 6, 1926) is a former starting pitcher in Major League Baseball. From 1944 through 1956, Branca played for the Brooklyn Dodgers (1944–53, 1956), Detroit Tigers (1953–54), and New York Yankees (1954). He batted and threw right-handed.
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Ralph Forbes
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Ramones
The Ramones were an American rock band that formed in Forest Hills, Queens, New York in 1974, often cited as the first punk rock group. Despite achieving only limited commercial success, the band was a major influence on the punk rock movement both in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Randy Shilts
Randy Shilts (August 8, 1951 February 17, 1994) was a pioneering gay American journalist and author. He worked as a freelance reporter for both The Advocate and the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as for San Francisco Bay Area television stations.
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Reggie Walker
Reginald( "Reggie") Edgar Walker (March 16, 1889 – November 5, 1951) was a South African athlete and the 1908 Olympic champion in the 100 metres.
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René Guénon
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Richard Hadlee
Sir Richard John Hadlee, MBE (born 3 July 1951) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played provincial cricket for Canterbury, Nottinghamshire and Tasmania. He is the son of Walter Hadlee, and the brother of Dayle and Barry Hadlee. His former wife Karen also played international cricket for New Zealand.
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Riki Chōshū
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Rob Halford
Robert John Arthur "Rob" Halford (born 25 August 1951) is an English singer-songwriter, who is best known as the lead vocalist for the Grammy Award-winning heavy metal band Judas Priest. He is nicknamed "Metal God" as a tribute to his influence on metal, and after the Judas Priest song of the same name from 1980's British Steel. He is considered one of the most consistently powerful singers in rock
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Robert Broom
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Robert Hudson Walker
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Robert J. Flaherty
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Robert Menzies
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Robert Zemeckis
Robert Lee Zemeckis (born May 14, 1951) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Zemeckis first came to public attention in the 1980s as the director of the comedic time-travel Back to the Future movie series, as well as the Oscar-winning live-action/cartoon epic Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), though in the 1990s he diversified into more dramatic fare, including 1994's Forrest Gump, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director.
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Roberto Duran
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Robin Williams
Robin McLaurim Williams (born July 21, 1951) is an American actor and comedian.
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Roger Troutman
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Rush Limbaugh
Rush Hudson Limbaugh III (; born January 12, 1951) is an American radio talk show host, conservative political commentator, and an opinion leader in conservative politics and conservatism in the United States. He hosts The Rush Limbaugh Show which is aired throughout the U.S. on Premiere Radio Networks and is the highest-rated talk-radio program in the United States. Limbaugh signed an 8 year, $400 million contract extension with Clear Channel in 2008 that pays him $50 million a year.
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Sally Ride
Dr. Sally Kristen Ride (born May 26, 1951) from Los Angeles, California, is an American physicist and a former NASA astronaut. She studied at Portola Middle School, Westlake School for Girls, Swarthmore College and Stanford University, and earned a master's degree and PhD. Ride joined NASA in 1978, and in 1983, became the first American woman, and then-youngest American, to enter space. In 1987 she left NASA to work at Stanford University Center for International Security and Arms Control.
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Samuel Doe
Samuel Kanyon Doe (May 6, 1951 – September 9, 1990) was the 21st President of Liberia, serving from 1986 until his assassination in 1990. He had previously served as Chairman of the People's Redemption Council from 1980 to 1986. He was the first indigenous head of state in Liberian history.
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Serge Koussevitzky
Sergei Aleksandrovich Koussevitzky () (June 4, 1951), was a Russian-born Jewish conductor, composer and double-bassist, known for his long tenure as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1924 to 1949.
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Sergei Kourdakov
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Shoeless Joe Jackson
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Sigmund Romberg
Sigmund Romberg (July 29, 1887 – November 9, 1951) was a Hungarian-born American composer, best-known for his operettas.
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Sinclair Lewis
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Slovenes
Slovenes (Slovene Slovenci, dual Slovenca, singular Slovenec, feminine Slovenke, dual Slovenki, singular Slovenka) are a South Slavic people primarily associated with Slovenia and the Slovene language.
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Stanley Clarke
Stanley Clarke (born June 30, 1951 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American jazz musician and composer known for his innovative and influential work on double bass and electric bass guitar as well as for his numerous film and television scores. He is best known for his work with the fusion band Return to Forever, and his role as a bandleader in several trios and ensembles.
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Stellan Skarsgård
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Steve Harley
Steve Harley (born Stephen Malcolm Ronald Nice, 27 February 1951, Deptford, London, England) is an English singer and songwriter, best known for his work with the 1970s rock group Cockney Rebel, with whom he still occasionally tours (albeit with many personnel changes through the years).
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Steve Prefontaine
Steve Roland "Pre" Prefontaine (b. January 25, 1951 Coos Bay, Oregon – May 30, 1975) was an American middle and long-distance runner. Prefontaine was primarily a long-distance runner, who once held the American record in the seven distance track events from the 2,000 meters to the 10,000 meters. Prefontaine died at the age of 24 in a drunk driving car accident.
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Sting (musician)
Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, CBE (born 2 October 1951), better known by his professional name Sting, is an English musician, singer-songwriter, activist, actor and philanthropist. Prior to starting his solo career, he was the principal songwriter, lead singer and bassist of the rock band The Police.
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Stuart Tosh
Stuart MacIntosh (born 26 September 1951, in Aberdeen, Scotland) is a drummer, songwriter and vocalist.
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Susan Musgrave
Susan Musgrave (born March 12, 1951) is a Canadian poet and children's writer. She was born in Santa Cruz, California to Canadian parents, and currently lives in British Columbia, dividing her time between Sidney and the Queen Charlotte Islands.
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Suze Orman
Susan "Suze" Lynn Orman (born June 5, 1951) is an American financial advisor, author, motivational speaker, and television host.
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Teri DeSario
Teri DeSario is a singer/songwriter from Miami, Florida. DeSario worked within several music genres out of high school. She was vocalist, played recorder and harp from 1970 - 1977 with a Medieval and Renaissance music group, the Early Music Consort, headed by scholar and Pro Musica member Arnold Grayson. She began her popular career as a singer/songwriter in the folk genre and later expanded her love of folk music with her passion for jazz. After marrying horn player, arranger, and composer Bill Purse, they founded a pop-folk-jazz collaborative called Abacus. One night a long- haired man walked into the club where she was performing, claiming to be the producer of the Bee Gees; it turned out he actually was. Barry Gibb heard her demo of original music and was so inspired by DeSario's vocals that he wrote a song for her called "Ain't Nothing Gonna Keep Me From You" and helped her obtain a recording contract.
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Terry McMillan
Terry McMillan (born October 18, 1951, in Port Huron, Michigan) is an American author. Her interest in books comes from working at a library when she was sixteen. She received her BA in journalism in 1986 at University of California, Berkeley. Her work is characterized by strong female protagonists.
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The Aldridge Sisters
The Aldridge Sisters, Sheila and Sherry Aldridge, are an American singing act that appeared on The Lawrence Welk Show from 1977 to 1982.
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The Boomtown Rats
The Boomtown Rats were an Irish punk rock band that had a series of UK hits between 1977 and 1980. They were led by vocalist Bob Geldof.
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The Times
The Times is a daily national newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785, when it was known as The Daily Universal Register.
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Thomas Blamey
Field Marshal Sir Thomas Albert Blamey GBE, KCB, CMG, DSO, ED (24 January 1884 – 27 May 1951) was an Australian General of the Second World War and the first, and to date only, Australian to attain the rank of Field Marshal.
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Thomas Mallon
Thomas Mallon (born November 2, 1951) is a novelist and critic. He was born in Glen Cove, New York. He attended Brown University as an undergraduate and earned a Master of Arts and a Ph.D. from Harvard. He received the Ingram Merrill Foundation Award in 1994 and won a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1987. Mallon taught English at Vassar College from 1979-1991.
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Tom Noonan
Tom Noonan (born April 12, 1951) is an American actor and film writer-director.
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Tommy Hilfiger
Thomas Jacob "Tommy" Hilfiger (born March 24, 1951) is an American fashion designer and founder of the brand Tommy Hilfiger.
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Tomson Highway
Tomson Highway, CM (born December 5, 1951) is a Cree playwright, novelist, and children's author from Brochet, Manitoba. He is the celebrated author of the plays The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, both of which won him the Dora Mavor Moore Award and the Floyd S. Chalmers Award. The Rez Sisters became a hit across Canada and went on to the Edinburgh International Festival in 1988. Both of these plays focus on the native community on a reserve on Manitoulin Island, with The Rez Sisters depicting (in a somewhat abstract style) the women of the community planning a trip to the biggest bingo game ever, in Toronto; while Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing depicts (in a more abstract style) the men's interest in hockey. Rose, written in 2000, is the third play in the trilogy.
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Tony Danza
Tony Danza (born April 21, 1951) is an American actor best known for starring on the TV series Taxi and ''Who's the Boss?'', for which Danza was nominated for an Emmy Award and four Golden Globe Awards. In 1998, Danza won the People's Choice Award for Favorite Male Performer in a New Television Series for his role on the sitcom The Tony Danza Show.
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Treat Williams
Richard Treat Williams (born December 1, 1951) is an Screen Actors Guild Award nominated American actor who has appeared on film, stage and television. From 2002 to 2006, he was the star of the television series Everwood.
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Tress MacNeille
Tress MacNeille (born June 20, 1951) is an American voice actress best known for providing various voices on the animated series The Simpsons, Futurama, Rugrats, All Grown Up!, Tiny Toon Adventures, ''SWAT Kats: The Radical
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Val Lewton
Val Lewton (May 7, 1904–March 14, 1951) was an American film producer and screenwriter, who is best known for a sequence of nine brooding horror films he produced for RKO Pictures in the 1940s.
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Valdir Peres
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Vjekoslav Šutej
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Walt Disney
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Walter Brattain
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Warner Baxter
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Wau Holland
Herwart Holland-Moritz, known as Wau Holland, (20 December 1951 - 29 July 2001) cofounded the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) in 1981, one of the world's oldest hacking clubs. The CCC became world famous when its members exposed security flaws in Germany's "Bildschirmtext" (Btx) online television service by getting a bank to send them DM 134,000 (approx. Euro 68.513) for accessing its Btx page many times. They returned the money the following day.
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Wayne Osmond
Melvin Wayne Osmond (born August 28, 1951) is the second oldest of the original Osmond Brothers singers and the fourth oldest of the nine Osmond children. He has been performing since he was six years old and made his national television debut on the Andy Williams Show with brothers, Alan, Merrill, and Jay. They appeared on the Andy Williams Show for seven years. Mostly a guitarist and singer, Wayne also can play the flute, clarinet, saxophone, violin, banjo, piano, drums, and bagpipe.
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Willem Mengelberg
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William Katt
William Theodore Katt (born February 16, 1951) is an American film and television actor, best known as the star of The Greatest American Hero. He is also known for playing Tommy Ross, the ill-fated prom date of Carrie White in the film version of Carrie.
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William Shockley
William Bradford Shockley Jr. (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was an American physicist and inventor. Along with John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain, Shockley co-invented the transistor, for which all three were awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics.
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William Warfield
William Caesar Warfield (22 January 1920 - 26 August 2002), was an American concert bass-baritone singer
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Willie Horton
William R. "Willie" Horton (born August 12, 1951) is an American convicted felon who, while serving a life sentence for murder, without the possibility of parole, was the beneficiary of a Massachusetts weekend furlough program. He did not return from his furlough, and ultimately he committed assault, armed robbery and rape. A political advertisement in support of the candidacy of George H.W. Bush during the 1988 U.S. Presidential race was critical of the Democratic nominee, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, for his support of the program.
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Willie P. Bennett
Willie P. Bennett (26 October 1951 - 15 February 2008) was a Canadian folk-music singer and song writer.
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Winston Churchill
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Yul Brynner
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Yuriko Miyamoto
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Yuriy Kovalchuk
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Éric Morena
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Strangers On a Train (1951)
"Strangers On a Train (1951)" Actors
- Farley Granger
- Ruth Roman
- Robert Walker
- Leo G. Carroll
- Patricia Hitchcock
- Kasey Rogers
- Marion Lorne
- Jonathan Hale
- Howard St. John
- John Brown
- Norma Varden
- Robert Gist
- Joel Allen
- Murray Alper
- Monya Andre
"Strangers On a Train (1951)" Director
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Hit Parade USA 1951 - Top 10 - DanntaS
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:23
- Published: 12 Oct 2009
- Updated: 01 Oct 2012
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THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD TRAILER 1951 HOWARD HAWKS
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:59
- Published: 04 Oct 2009
- Updated: 03 Oct 2012
Theatrical trailer for one of the screen's finest science-fiction films, Howard Hawks' THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (1951), starring Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan and Robert Cornwaithe. Former editor Christian Nyby received his first directorial credit for the film, although he readily admitted in interviews that Hawks -- for whom Nyby worked as editor on RED RIVER (1948) -- was the film's "guiding hand". Though James Arness played the title creature, it was stuntman Tom Steele who doubled for him in the film's memorable fire scene. Tobuy classic movies, serials, westerns and vintage television shows on DVD -- plus original movie posters, golden & silver age comics, celebrity autographs and collectibles, be sure to visit www.captainbijou.com.
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1951 TV show intros Part 1
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- Duration: 4:20
- Published: 24 Apr 2009
- Updated: 26 Sep 2012
1951 Show openings for Dragnet, Roy Rogers, I Love Lucy, Boston Blackie, and Amos 'N Andy
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"Premakes" Raiders of the Lost Ark (1951)
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- Duration: 2:44
- Published: 08 Sep 2009
- Updated: 06 Oct 2012
Subscribe to my channel for more premake trailer fun! What if... Raiders of the Lost Ark was a 50s film serial? Who would be best suited for the role of Indiana Jones? How would his villains translate to this era? What would the film's musical score sound like? Thankfully, since George Lucas and Steven Spielberg created Raiders as a homage to classic serials, these questions are easily answered. Both directors have acknowledged that specific films influenced key sequences across all four Indiana Jones films. I tried my best piece these films together and create a loose narrative. I hope you enjoy this homage to "Raiders" and the many great films that inspired it. This "pre-make" is a mash-up of old trailers and clips found all over Youtube. It is fake, independent, and not for profit. It is not endorsed or connected to Paramount or Lucasfilm. It was made as a purely technical exercise, and as a reflective deconstruction of elements in modern cinema. Here is the recipe: The 10 Commandments, Prince Valiant, Naked Jungle, Secret of the Incas, Jungle Queen, Zulu, Look to Lockheed for Leadership, Casablanca, The City of Brass, Mr. Moto takes a Vacation, Star in My Crown, A Pain in the Pullman, On Dangerous Ground, Patton, King Solomons Mines, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Greatest Show on Earth, David and Bathsheba, The Screaming Skull, When You Know, Mysterious Mr. Moto, Lawrence of Arabia, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, and Superman at <b>...</b>
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London, 1951
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- Duration: 9:23
- Published: 11 Jan 2009
- Updated: 04 Oct 2012
A tour of London, England in the early1950s. To purchase a clean DVD or digital download of this film for personal home use or educational use contact us at questions@archivefarms.com. To license footage from this film for commercial use visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com
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Atlantic City 1951
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- Duration: 8:35
- Published: 18 Jun 2009
- Updated: 16 Sep 2012
A film about Atlantic City, New Jersey in the1950s. To purchase a clean DVD or digital download of this film for personal home use or educational use contact us at questions@archivefarms.com. To license footage from this film for commercial use visit: www.travelfilmarchive.com
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(Original 1951) Alice In Wonderland Trailer
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- Duration: 2:02
- Published: 15 Apr 2007
- Updated: 06 Oct 2012
NEW Alice in Wonderland Novel alicenovel.olinbiz.hop.clickbank.net This is the original 1951 theatrical trailer for Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland".
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Duck And Cover (1951) Bert The Turtle Civil Defense Film
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- Duration: 9:15
- Published: 11 Jul 2009
- Updated: 06 Oct 2012
Duck and Cover 1951 Civil Defense Film with Bert the Turtle
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Scrooge (1951)
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- Duration: 83:01
- Published: 09 Jun 2011
- Updated: 06 Oct 2012
The 1951 British (black and white) version of Scrooge. Directed by Brian Desmond Hurst. Starring Hermione Baddeley, Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison. An old bitter miser is given a chance for redemption when he is haunted by ghosts on Christmas Eve. This is one of the best versions of Scrooge (A Christmas Carol).
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1951 Transportation in New York
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- Duration: 9:28
- Published: 26 Jun 2008
- Updated: 27 Aug 2012
romanoarchives.altervista.org Arteries of New York City (1951) Sponsor: N/A Producer: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Wrongly marked and universally quoted as a 1941 film, this movie is in fact from 1951. That's easily deductable from the model year of cars filmed at 06:06 and at 07:07 and definitely from the shots of the jet plane and the missile (courtesy of Werner von Braun...!) near the end of the movie.Editing by ROMANO-ARCHIVES. "SUBSCRIBING to this Channel is a MUST for researchers and RARE HISTORICAL FOOTAGE fans!!!" V. Romano A Hi-Res version of this film is available. Hi-Res videos from our Collections are available on DVD, CD or directly in your inbox. Clips and movies can also be downloaded from our servers using a PW or uploaded by us to your FTP.
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Betty Hutton - It's Oh So Quiet (1951)
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- Duration: 3:08
- Published: 31 Dec 2008
- Updated: 06 Oct 2012
Betty Hutton "It's Oh So Quiet" (1951) Written by Bert Reisfeld and Hans Lang Orchestra conducted by Pete Rugolo Released on RCA Victor 20-4179 For lyrics and more Betty Hutton, visit www.satinsandspurs.com
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Alice in Wonderland
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- Duration: 52:20
- Published: 29 Jul 2010
- Updated: 06 Oct 2012
Lewis Carroll's classic novel, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, directed and written by WW Young and starring Viola Savoy as Alice.
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Alice In Wonderland
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- Duration: 136:19
- Published: 16 Mar 2012
- Updated: 06 Oct 2012
Alice in Wonderland, a 2005 Malayalam movie, is based on Hollywood romantic- comedy, Benny & Joon. Alby lives with her mentally challenged sister, Alice. He loves her a lot and would go to any extent for her happiness. When Victor enters their life, Alby feels threatened as relationship between Alby and Alice become strained. Alice is attracted by Victor's loving nature. Sophia, a research student from Singapore enters Alby's life. They become good friends and Ably is attracted to her. But Sophia doesn't reciprocate the same feelings and they come to terms with each other's need for companionship in their life.
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Dragnet 1951
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- Duration: 1:07
- Published: 06 Oct 2008
- Updated: 01 Oct 2012
Taking the successful radio program to the new medium of television, Dragnet was famous for its use of actual Los Angeles Police Department case files. Jack Webb portrays Sgt. Joe Friday, who works the day shift with his partners on a variety of interesting cases. This program was reincarnated in 1967; eight years after its first television series had ended, with Jack Webb reprising his role of Sgt. Joe Friday.
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Rubber Making and Tire Building 1951
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- Duration: 1:46
- Published: 21 Aug 2009
- Updated: 19 Sep 2012
Rubber products such as automobile tires are an important part of modern life. However, production of these items involves subjecting heterogeneous mixtures of hundreds of chemicals to heat, pressure, and catalytic action during a variety of manufacturing processes. As a result, the work environment may be contaminated with dusts, gases, vapors, fumes, and chemical byproducts (such as nitrosamines). Workers may be exposed to these hazards through inhalation and skin absorption during rubber processing and product manufacturing. Physical hazards such as noise, repetitive motion, and lifting may also be present. Historically, cancer has been the chronic disease most frequently reported in cohort studies of rubber products workers. In the late 1940s, British rubber workers were reported to be at increased risk of bladder cancer. In the United States, early investigations revealed excess cancer deaths among a cohort of Ohio rubber products workers employed in 1938 and 1939. In 1970, the United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum, and Plastic Workers of America (URW) joined with six major American rubber companies to establish a joint occupational health program. A contract was negotiated with the Schools of Public Health at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina to conduct epidemiologic studies of rubber workers that emphasized cancer incidence and mortality. The principal adverse health effects reported were cancer and respiratory effects (eg, reductions in pulmonary <b>...</b>
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Greece 1951
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- Duration: 9:08
- Published: 17 May 2008
- Updated: 05 Oct 2012
A tour of Greece in 1951 featuring Athens and the Acropolis. Footage from this film is available for licensing from www.globalimageworks.com
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1951 GRAND NATIONAL,GREAT FOOTAGE,NICKLE COIN WINS
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- Duration: 7:13
- Published: 09 Aug 2008
- Updated: 02 May 2012
NICKLE COIN WINS THE 1951 AINTREE NATIONAL
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TINY BRADSHAW ~ THE TRAIN KEPT A-ROLLIN ~ 1951
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- Duration: 2:41
- Published: 28 Jun 2008
- Updated: 26 Sep 2012
TINY BRADSHAW ~ THE TRAIN KEPT A-ROLLIN ~ JULY 25, 1951
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Wandering through old Kowloon - Ho Man Tin Hill 1951
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- Duration: 2:44
- Published: 23 May 2008
- Updated: 07 Sep 2012
Nathan Rd, fairground, Ho Man Tin Hill Rd. # 7 where the Labrums of Ye Olde Printerie lived and squatters behind. DVD available: www.xs4all.nl/~wichm/Film_DVDlijst.html
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Boston Blackie 1951
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- Duration: 3:21
- Published: 06 Oct 2008
- Updated: 16 Aug 2012
Boston Blackie (Kent Taylor) was a reformed crook, now working on the right side of the law as a private investigator. www.millcreekent.com
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CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT OVALTINE COMMERCIAL 1951
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- Duration: 1:56
- Published: 16 Apr 2009
- Updated: 01 Oct 2012
1951 Ovaltine commercial from CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT'S ADVENTURE THEATER. Prior to Richard Webb essaying the role of Captain Midnight, announcer Vern Smith, bedecked in flight suit reminiscent of the Fawcett comic book version if the intrepid aviator, flew into homes in 1951 as the host of this half-hour series. Smith was featured in the opening, closing and commercials wrapped around episodes of Republic serials which and been edited to 26 minutes, by, essentially, combining two chapters and removing the extra titles and recaps. Tobuy classic movies, serials, westerns and vintage television shows on DVD -- plus original movie posters, golden & silver age comics, celebrity autographs and collectibles, be sure to visit www.captainbijou.com.
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BONANZA TOWN - 1951
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- Duration: 7:12
- Published: 27 Dec 2009
- Updated: 18 Aug 2012
A clip from the Durango Kid serial Western ('B') starring Charles Starrett as the Durango Kid. 57 Durango Kid movies were produced between 1940 and 1952.
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A Christmas Carol (1951) Movie Trailer with Alastair Sim as Scrooge
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- Duration: 3:27
- Published: 25 Nov 2009
- Updated: 26 Aug 2012
A Christmas Carol: Now on Blu-Ray/DVD ► amzn.to XmasFLIX.com ► Like XmasFLIX! ► http Xmas MP3 ► XmasTRAX.com ► Podcast ► http Original movie trailer. Scrooge (1951), released as A Christmas Carol in the US, is one of the best-known film adaptations of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. It starred Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge and was directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, with a screenplay by Noel Langley. The film also features Kathleen Harrison in an acclaimed turn as Mrs. Dilber, Scrooge's charwoman. Fans of British cinema will recognise George Cole as the younger version of Scrooge, Hermione Baddeley as Mrs. Cratchit, Mervyn Johns as Bob Cratchit, Clifford Mollison as Samuel Wilkins, a debtor, Jack Warner as Mr. Jorkin, a role created for the film, Ernest Thesiger as Marley's undertaker, and Patrick Macnee as a young Jacob Marley. Michael Hordern plays Marley's ghost, as well as old Marley. Peter Bull serves as narrator, by reading portions of Dickens' words at the beginning and end of the film, and also appears on-screen as one of the businessmen cynically discussing Scrooge's funeral. In the book, Mrs. Dilber is the name of the laundress whereas the charwoman was unnamed. The film also expands on the story by detailing Scrooge's rise as a prominent businessman who was corrupted by a greedy new mentor that had lured him away from the benevolent Mr. Fezziwig. When that new mentor, who does not appear at all in Dickens's original story, is discovered to be an <b>...</b>
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This undated image provided by the Potomack Company shows an apparently original painting by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir that was acquired by a woman from Virginia who stopped at a flea market in West Virginia and paid $7 for a box of trinkets that included the painting. An auction...(size: 5.4Kb)
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A decades-old theft report discovered by police in the United States on Friday could be the clue that links a piece of artwork purchased for $7 to a costly Pierre-Auguste Renoir painting that was stolen from the Baltimore Museum of Art in 1951. The report dated November 17, 1951 describes...(size: 2.3Kb)
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Sacramento Bee
BALTIMORE -- The single-page police report from 1951 on the theft of a landscape by Renoir from the Baltimore Museum of Art is as succinct as it is mysterious. The report for the Northern Police District, filed under a charge of larceny, notes that James N. Foster, Jr. then an executive assistant at...(size: 2.1Kb)
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28 Sep 2012
Sacramento Bee
WASHINGTON -- Police have located a 60-year-old theft report from the day a Renoir painting disappeared from the Baltimore Museum of Art that matches the description of an artwork that sold for $7 recently at a flea market. Now an art theft expert says the museum has a strong case to get it back....(size: 3.6Kb)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Police have located a 1951 theft report from the Baltimore Museum of Art of a Renoir painting...(size: 0.8Kb)
Renoir From Flea Market Stolen -- in 1951
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Remember the Renoir painting that was discovered at a Virginia flea market? Well, it looks like it was stolen... back in 1951. Pierre-Auguste Renoir's painting "Paysage Bords de Seine" was due to go to auction through the Potomack Company on Sept. 29. However, the auction house announced Thursday...(size: 2.7Kb)
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ETA News Release: [09/27/2012] Contact Name: Jason Kuruvilla or Dave Roberts Phone Number: (202) 693-6587 or x5945 Release Number: 12-1951-NAT US Department of Labor boosts Unemployment Insurance program integrity, performance and system improvement projects 30 states, District of Columbia, Puerto...(size: 16.3Kb)
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Star Tribune
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This article is about the year 1951.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 19th century – 20th century – 21st century |
| Decades: | 1920s 1930s 1940s – 1950s – 1960s 1970s 1980s |
| Years: | 1948 1949 1950 – 1951 – 1952 1953 1954 |
| 1951 by topic: |
| Subject |
| By country |
| Leaders |
| Birth and death categories |
| Establishments and disestablishments categories |
| Works and introductions categories |
| Gregorian calendar | 1951 MCMLI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2704 |
| Armenian calendar | 1400 ԹՎ ՌՆ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6701 |
| Bahá'í calendar | 107–108 |
| Bengali calendar | 1358 |
| Berber calendar | 2901 |
| British Regnal year | 15 Geo. 6 – 16 Geo. 6 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2495 |
| Burmese calendar | 1313 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7459–7460 |
| Chinese calendar | 庚寅年十一月廿四日 (4587/4647-11-24) — to —
辛卯年十二月初四日(4588/4648-12-4) |
| Coptic calendar | 1667–1668 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1943–1944 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5711–5712 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 2007–2008 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1873–1874 |
| - Kali Yuga | 5052–5053 |
| Holocene calendar | 11951 |
| Iranian calendar | 1329–1330 |
| Islamic calendar | 1370–1371 |
| Japanese calendar | Shōwa 26 (昭和26年) |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 13 days |
| Korean calendar | 4284 |
| Minguo calendar | ROC 40 民國40年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2494 |
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Year 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.
Events[link]
January[link]
- January 1 – First week as No. 1 single on Billboard and Cashbox charts of Patti Page hit song "Tennessee Waltz".
- January 9 – The Government of the United Kingdom announces abandonment of the Tanganyika groundnut scheme for the cultivation of peanuts in the Tanganyika Territory with the writing off of £36.5M debt.[1]
- January 15 – Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald", wife of the commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany.
- January 18 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul: Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time.
- January 20 – Avalanches in the Alps kill 240 and bury 45,000 for a time in Switzerland, Austria and Italy.
- January 25 – Dutch author Anne de Vries releases the first volume of her novel Journey Through the Night (Reis door de nacht) set during World War II.
- January 27 – Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a 1-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat, northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.
February[link]
- February – Convention People's Party wins national elections in Gold Coast (British colony).
- February 1 – The United Nations General Assembly declares that China is an aggressor in the Korean War in United Nations General Assembly Resolution 498.
- February 4–February 8 – Surgeons remove an ovarian cyst from Gertrude Levandowski in a 96-hour long operation in Chicago. She loses almost half of her weight and emerges weighing 140 kg.[2]
- February 6 – A Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train derails near Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, killing 85 people and injuring over 500, in one of the worst rail disasters in American history.
- February 12 – Muhammad Reza Shah marries Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari.
- February 15 – Start of the 1951 New Zealand waterfront dispute, which lasts for 151 days.
- February 19 – Jean Lee becomes the last woman hanged in Australia, when Lee and her 2 pimps are hanged for the murder and torture of a 73-year-old bookmaker.
- February 27 – The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.
March[link]
- March 2 – The first NBA All-Star game was played in the Boston Garden.
- March 6 – The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
- March 9 – United Artists releases sci-fi film The Man from Planet X.
- March 12 – Hank Ketcham's best-selling comic strip Dennis the Menace, appeared in newspapers across the U.S. for the first time.
- March 14
- Korean War: For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul during Operation Ripper.
- West Germany joins UNESCO.
- March 29
- Second Red Scare: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. On April 5 they are sentenced to receive the death penalty.
- Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I opens on Broadway and runs for 3 years. It's the first Rodgers & Hammerstein musical specifically written for an actress (Gertrude Lawrence). Lawrence is stricken with cancer during the run of the show and dies halfway through its run a year later. The show makes a star of Yul Brynner.
- The 23rd Academy Awards ceremony is held; All About Eve wins Best Picture and 4 others.
- March 31 – Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
April[link]
- April 1 – Female suffrage begins in Greece.
- April 11
- U.S. President Harry S Truman relieves General Douglas MacArthur of his Far Eastern commands.
- After its removal from Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day, 1950, the Stone of Scone resurfaces on the altar of Arbroath Abbey.
- April 18 – The Treaty of Paris (1951) is adopted, establishing the European Coal and Steel Community.
- April 21 – The National Olympic Committee of the Soviet Union is formed. The USSR first participates in the Olympic Games at Helsinki, Finland, in 1952.
- April 24 – In Yokohama, Japan a fire on a train kills more than 100.
- April 26 – Pantelis Papantoniou was born
- April 28 – Robert Menzies' Liberal Party government in Australia is re-elected for a second term.
- April 29 – RKO releases the Howard Hawks sci-fi film, "The Thing (From Another World)".
May[link]
- May 1 – The Opera house of Geneva, Switzerland is almost destroyed in a fire.
- May 3
- King George VI opens London's Royal Festival Hall as a patron.
- The Festival of Britain opens.
- The U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services and U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations begins its closed door hearings into the dismissal of General Douglas MacArthur by U.S. President Harry S Truman.
- May 9 – Operation Greenhouse: The first thermonuclear weapon is tested on Enewetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands, by the United States.
- May 14 – The first volunteer-run passenger trains run on Talyllyn Railway, Wales.
- May 15 – A military coup occurs in Bolivia.
- May 21 – The Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition, a gathering of a number of notable artists, marks the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively known as the New York School.
- May 23 – The Tibetan government signs the Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet with the People's Republic of China.
- May 25 – The first atomic bomb "boosted" by the inclusion of thermonuclear materials, is tested in the "Item" test on Enewetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands by the U.S.
June[link]
- June 14 – UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.[3]
- June 15 – July 1- In New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia, thousands of acres of forests are destroyed in fires.
July[link]
- July 1
- Colombo Plan operations commence.
- Judy Garland opens the first of 14 concerts in Dublin, Ireland at the Theatre Royal.
- July 5 – William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain announce the invention of the junction transistor.
- July 10 – Korean War: Armistice negotiations begin at Kaesong.
- July 13
- The Great Flood of 1951 reaches its highest point in Northeast Kansas, culminating in the greatest flood damage to date in the Midwestern United States.
- MGM's Technicolor film version of Show Boat, starring Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, and Howard Keel, premieres at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The musical brings overnight fame to bass-baritone William Warfield (who sings Ol' Man River in the film).
- July 14 – In Joplin, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument becomes the first United States National Monument to honor an African American.
- July 16 – King Léopold III of Belgium abdicates in favour of his son Baudouin.
- July 17 – King Baudouin takes the oath as king of Belgium.
- July 20 – King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.
- July 26 – Walt Disney's 13th animated film, Alice in Wonderland, premieres in London, United Kingdom.
- July 30 – David Lean's Oliver Twist is finally shown in the United States, after 10 minutes of supposedly anti-Semitic references and closeups of Alec Guinness as Fagin are cut. It will not be shown uncut in the U.S. until 1970.
August[link]
- August – Paramount Pictures releases George Pal science fiction film When Worlds Collide.
- August 11 – René Pleven becomes Prime Minister of France.
- August 12 – The Catcher in the Rye is first published by J.D. Salinger.
September[link]
- September 1 – The United States, Australia and New Zealand all sign a mutual defense pact, called the ANZUS Treaty.
- September 3 – The American soap opera Search for Tomorrow debuts on CBS. After over 30 years, the show switches to NBC on March 26, 1982. Search for Tomorrow airs its final episode on December 26, 1986.
- September 8
- Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan to formally end the Pacific War.
- Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, which allows United States Armed Forces being stationed in Japan after the occupation of Japan, is signed by Japan and the United States.
- September 9 – Chinese communist forces move into Lhasa, the capital of Tibet.
- September 10 – The United Kingdom begins an economic boycott of Iran.
- September 18 – Tennessee Williams's adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire premieres, becoming a critical and box-office smash.
- September 20 – NATO accepts Greece and Turkey as members.
- September 24 – MGM releases "Show Boat" musical movie.
- September 26–September 28 – A blue sun is seen over Europe: the effect is due to ash coming from the Canadian forest fires 4 months previously.
- September 28 – 20th Century Fox releases the Robert Wise science fiction film, "The Day the Earth Stood Still".
October[link]
- October 3 – "Shot Heard 'Round the World": One of the greatest moments in Major League Baseball history occurs when the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson hits a game winning home run in the bottom of the 9th inning off of Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca, to win the National League pennant after being down 14 games.
- October 4
- MGM's Technicolor musical film, An American in Paris, starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron, premieres in New York. It was directed by Vincente Minnelli. It would go on to win 6 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
- Shoppers World (one the first shopping malls in the U.S.) opens in Framingham, Massachusetts.
- October 6 – Malayan Emergency: Communist insurgents kill British commander Sir Henry Gurney.
- October 14 – Organization of Central American States (ODECA) (Organización de Estados Centroamericanos) formed.
- October 15
- Norethindrone, the progestin used in the oral contraceptive is synthesized by Luis E. Miramontes.
- I Love Lucy makes its television debut on CBS.
- October 16
- Judy Garland begins her legendary concerts in New York's Palace Theatre.
- Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan of Pakistan is assassinated.
- October 17 – CBS' Eye logo premieres on TV.
- October 20 – The Johnny Bright Incident occurs in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
- October 21 – A storm in southern Italy kills over 100.
- October 24 – U.S. President Harry Truman declares an official end to war with Germany.
- October 26 – Winston Churchill is re-elected Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in a general election which sees the defeat of Clement Attlee's Labour government after six years in power.[4]
- October 27 – Farouk of Egypt declares himself king of Sudan, with no support.
- October 31 – Scrooge, starring Alastair Sim, opens in England.
November[link]
- November 1 – The first military exercises for nuclear war, with infantry troops included, are held in the Nevada desert.
- November 10 – Direct dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.
- November 11
- Juan Peron is re-elected president of Argentina.
- Monogram Pictures releases sci-fi film Flight to Mars.
- November 12 – The National Ballet of Canada performs for the first time in Eaton Auditorium.
- November 20 – The Po River floods in northern Italy.
- November 24 – The Broadway play Gigi opens, starring little known actress Audrey Hepburn as the lead character.
- November 28 – Scrooge, starring Alastair Sim, premieres in the United States under the title of Charles Dickens's original novel, A Christmas Carol.
December[link]
- December 3 – The Lebanese University is founded in Lebanon.
- December 5 – Provisional Intergovernmental Committee for the Movement of Migrants from Europe.
- December 6 – A state of emergency is declared in Egypt due to increasing riots.
- December 13 – A water storage tank collapses in Tucumcari, New Mexico, resulting in 4 deaths, and 200 buildings destroyed.
- December 16 – Salar Jung Museum is opened to the public by Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru.
- December 20
- EBR-1, the world's first (experimental) nuclear power plant, opens.
- A chartered C46 Curtis Commando crash lands in Cobourg, Ontario Canada; all on board survived.
- WMO becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations.
- December 22 – The Selangor Labour Party is founded in Selangor, Malaya.
- December 23 – John Huston's drama film, The African Queen, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, premieres in Hollywood.
- December 24
- Libya becomes independent from Italy.
- Gian-Carlo Menotti's 45-minute opera, Amahl and the Night Visitors, premieres live on NBC, becoming the first opera written especially for television.
- December 31 – The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $13.3 billion USD in foreign aid to rebuild Europe.[5]
Births[link]
January–February[link]
- January 1 – Ashfaq Hussain, Urdu poet
- January 2 – Valdir Peres, Brazilian footballer
- January 5 – Steve Arnold, English footballer
- January 6 – Kim Wilson, American singer and harmonica player
- January 8
- Kenny Anthony, Prime Minister of Saint Lucia
- John McTiernan, American director, producer, and writer
- January 12
- Kirstie Alley, American actress
- Rush Limbaugh, American conservative radio personality
- January 20 – Ian Hill, English rock bassist (Judas Priest)
- January 25 – Steve Prefontaine, American runner (d. 1975)
- January 30 – Phil Collins, English rock musician and producer
- January 31 – Harry Wayne Casey, American musician, songwriter, and producer
- January 13 – Phil Manzanera, British rock musician
- February 1 – Albert Salvadó, Andorran writer
- February 3
- Eugenijus Riabovas, Lithuanian football manager
- Felipe Munoz, Mexican swimmer
- Blaise Compaore, President of Burkina Faso
- February 13 – David Naughton, American actor
- February 14 – Kevin Keegan, English footballer and football manager
- February 15
- Melissa Manchester, American pop singer
- Jane Seymour, English actress
- February 16
- Mike Flanagan, baseball pitcher
- William Katt, American actor
- February 19 – Shaykh-ul-Islam Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, Pakistani Islamic Sufi scholar and leader
- February 20
- Gordon Brown, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- Edward Albert, American actor (d. 2006)
- February 23 – Patricia Richardson, American actress
- February 24 – Debra Jo Rupp, American actress
- February 25 – Don Quarrie, Jamaican sprinter
- February 27 – Steve Harley, British rock musician
March–April[link]
- March 1
- Sergei Kourdakov, former KGB agent
- Mike Read, British television presenter and radio disc jockey
- March 3 – Heizō Takenaka, Japanese economist
- March 4
- Edelgard Bulmahn, German politician
- Kenny Dalglish, Scottish footballer and football manager
- Mike Quarry, American light heavyweight boxer (d. 2006)
- Chris Rea, British singer and musician
- Linda Yamamoto, Japanese pop star
- March 6 – Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (d. 2004)
- March 8 – Karen Kain, Canadian ballerina
- March 12 – Susan Musgrave Canadian poet and children's writer
- March 13
- Charo, Spanish-American singer and actress
- Fred Berry, American actor (d. 2003)
- March 14 – Jerry Greenfield, American co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream
- March 17 – Kurt Russell, American actor
- March 18 – Ben Cohen, American co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream
- March 24 – Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer
- March 26 – Carl Wieman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- April 5
- Joe Bowen, Canadian hockey broadcaster
- Dean Kamen, American inventor and entrepreneur
- Frank Moulaert, Flemish scholar
- Guy Vanderhaeghe, Canadian author
- April 6 – Bert Blyleven, Dutch Major League Baseball player
- April 7 – Janis Ian, American singer and songwriter
- April 8 – Geir Haarde, Prime Minister of Iceland (2006–2009)
- April 10 – David Helvarg, American journalist and activist
- April 11 – Doris McGowen Beck Angleton, American socialite and murder victim (d. 1997)
- April 12 – Tom Noonan, American actor
- April 13
- Peabo Bryson, American singer
- Peter Davison, British actor
- Max Weinberg, American drummer
- April 14 – Julian Lloyd Webber, English cellist
- April 16
- Ioan Mihai Cochinescu, Romanian writer
- Pierre Toutain-Dorbec, French photographer
- Björgvin Halldórsson, Icelandic singer
- Mordechai Ben David, American singer
- April 17
- Olivia Hussey, Argentine-born actress (Romeo and Juliet)
- Horst Hrubesch, German football player
- April 19 – Jóannes Eidesgaard, Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands
- April 20
- Luther Vandross, American R&B/soul musician (d. 2005)
- Louise Jameson, British actress
- April 21 – Tony Danza, American actor and comedian
- April 23 – Allison Krause, Kent State University shooting victim (d. 1970).
- April 27 – Ace Frehley, original guitarist of KISS
- April 29 – Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (d. 2001)
May–June[link]
- May 4 – Jackie Jackson, American singer
- May 6 – Samuel Doe, former President of Liberia (d. 1990)
- May 9
- Christopher Dewdney, Canadian poet
- Joy Harjo, Native American poet
- May 13
- Sharon Sayles Belton, Mayor of Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Jumbo Tsuruta, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 2000)
- May 14 – Robert Zemeckis, American film director
- May 15
- Yoshifumi Hibako, Japanese general
- Jonathan Richman, American musician
- Frank Wilczek, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- May 19
- Joey Ramone, American rock musician (Ramones) (d. 2001)
- Dick Slater, American professional wrestler
- Al Franken, United States Senator from Minnesota
- May 23 – Anatoly Karpov, Russian chess player
- May 26
- Madeleine Taylor-Quinn, Irish politician
- Sally Ride, American astronaut
- May 30 – Stephen Tobolowsky, American actor
- June 2 – Larry Robinson, Canadian hockey player
- June 5 – Suze Orman, American financial advisor, writer, and television personality
- June 8 – Bonnie Tyler, Welsh singer
- June 12
- Andranik Margaryan, 14th Prime Minister of Armenia (d. 2007)
- Brad Delp, American rock vocalist (Boston) (d. 2007)
- June 13
- Stellan Skarsgård, Swedish actor
- Richard Thomas, American actor (The Waltons)
- June 14 – Paul Boateng, British politician
- June 15 – Álvaro Colom Caballeros, Current President of Guatemala
- June 16 – Roberto Duran, Panamanian boxer
- June 20
- Tress MacNeille, American voice actress
- Paul Muldoon, Irish poet
- June 21 – Nils Lofgren, American musician
- June 24 – David Rodigan, British radio DJ/actor
- June 27
- Julia Duffy, American actress
- Mary McAleese, 8th President of Ireland
- June 28
- Lalla Ward, British actress
- Lloyd Maines, American musician and record producer
- June 29 – Keno Don Rosa, American comic book author
- June 30 – Stanley Clarke, American bassist
July–August[link]
- July 1
- Terrence Mann, American actor and dancer
- Anne Feeney, American folk singer
- July 2 – Elisabeth Brooks, Canadian actress (The Howling) (d. 1997)
- July 3 – Richard Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer
- July 5 – Rich "Goose" Gossage, American baseball player
- July 6 – Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor
- July 8 – Anjelica Huston, American actress
- July 9 – Chris Cooper, American actor
- July 10 – Cheryl Wheeler, American singer and songwriter
- July 12 – Cheryl Ladd, American actress and singer (Charlie's Angels)
- July 14 – Erich Hallhuber, German actor (d. 2003)
- July 16 – Jean-Luc Mongrain, Canadian news anchor and journalist
- July 18 – Elio Di Rupo, Belgian politician
- July 21 – Robin Williams, American actor (Mork and Mindy)
- July 23
- Edie McClurg, American actress
- Michael McConnohie, American actor
- July 24
- Lynda Carter, American actress and singer (Wonder Woman)
- Chris Smith, British politician
- July 25 – Yuriy Kovalchuk, Russian oligarch
- July 28
- Garrett Hongo, American poet
- Doug Collins, American basketball player, coach and analyst
- July 31
- Vjekoslav Šutej, Croatian orchestral conductor
- Evonne Goolagong Cawley, Australian tennis player
- August 3 – Marcel Dionne, Canadian hockey player
- August 6
- Daryl Somers, Australian television personality
- Catherine Hicks, American actress
- August 8
- Mamoru Oshii, Japanese film director
- Randy Shilts, American journalist and author (d. 1994)
- Louis van Gaal, Dutch football player and manager
- August 12 – Willie Horton, American criminal
- August 13 – Dan Fogelberg, American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist (Longer) (d. 2007)
- August 14 – Carl Lumbly, American actor
- August 15 – Jim Allen, West Indian cricketer
- August 16 – Richard Hunt, American puppeteer (d. 1992)
- August 19 – John Deacon, English rock bassist (Queen)
- August 20 – Greg Bear, American author
- August 21 – Eric Goles, Chilean mathematician and computer scientist
- August 22 – Chandra Prakash Mainali, Nepalese politician
- August 23
- Akhmad Kadyrov, President of Chechnya
- Queen Noor of Jordan
- Mark Hudson, American musician
- August 24 – Orson Scott Card, American writer
- August 25 – Rob Halford, English rock singer (Judas Priest)
- August 26 – Edward Witten, American mathematician and Fields medalist
- August 27 – Mack Brown, University of Texas football coach
- August 28 – Wayne Osmond, American pop singer
September–October[link]
- September 2
- Mark Harmon, American actor (NCIS)
- Jim DeMint, American politician
- September 5 – Michael Keaton, American actor
- September 7
- Chrissie Hynde, American rock singer (The Pretenders)
- Bert Jones, American football player
- September 12
- Joe Pantoliano, American actor
- Bertie Ahern, former Taoiseach of Ireland
- September 13 – Linda Wong, American porn star (d. 1987)
- September 17 – Cassandra Peterson, American actress (Elvira, Mistress of the Dark)
- September 18
- Dee Dee Ramone, American musician (d. 2002)
- Darryl Stingley, American football player for the NFL New England Patriots (d. 2007)
- September 21 – Aslan Maskhadov, President of Chechnya
- September 22
- David Coverdale, English singer
- Dean Goss, American game show announcer and disc jockey
- September 25
- Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish filmmaker
- Mark Hamill, American actor (Star Wars)
- September 26 – Stuart Tosh, Scottish musician
- September 27 – Paul Craig, English professor of law
- September 29
- Michelle Bachelet, former President of Chile
- Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (d. 1977)
- Maureen Caird, Australian hurdler
- September 30 – Barry Marshall, Australian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
- October 2 – Sting, British rock musician (The Police)
- October 3
- Bernard Cooper, American writer
- Dave Winfield, baseball player
- Keb Mo', American musician
- October 4 – Bakhytzhan Kanapyanov, Kazakh poet
- October 5 – Bob Geldof, Irish musician (The Boomtown Rats)
- October 6 – Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver
- October 7 – John Mellencamp, American musician and songwriter
- October 10 – Epeli Ganilau, Fijian soldier and statesman
- October 11
- Jean-Jacques Goldman, French singer and songwriter
- Jon Miller, American sports announcer
- October 15 – Rafael Vaganian, Armenian chess grandmaster
- October 18
- Mike Antonovich, American ice hockey player and executive
- Terry McMillan, American author
- October 22 – William David Sanders, American victim of the Columbine High School massacre
- October 23 – Charly Garcia, Argentine musician and songwriter
- October 24 – Meredith Hunter, American murder victim
- October 25 – Richard Lloyd, American rock guitarist (Television)
- October 26
- Bootsy Collins, American musician, singer, and songwriter (P-Funk)
- Willie P. Bennett, Canadian songwriter and singer (d. 2008)
- October 27 – Éric Morena, French singer
- October 30 – Harry Hamlin, American actor (L.A. Law)
November–December[link]
- November 2 – Thomas Mallon, American author and critic
- November 3 – Ed Murawinski, American cartoonist (New York Daily News)
- November 4 – Traian Basescu, President of Romania
- November 9 – Lou Ferrigno, American actor and bodybuilder (The Incredible Hulk)
- November 11 – Marc Summers, American television host
- November 15 – Alamgir Hashmi, English poet
- November 16
- Paula Vogel, American playwright
- Miguel Sandoval, American actor
- November 18 – Justin Raimondo, American author
- November 19 – Lord Falconer of Thoroton, British politician
- November 24 – Chet Edwards, American politician
- November 26 – Cicciolina, Italian actress and politician
- November 27 – Teri DeSario, American singer-songwriter
- November 29
- Kathryn Bigelow, American film director
- Roger Troutman, American funk musician (Roger and Zapp) (d. 1999)
- November 30 – Christian Bernard, French-born mystic
- December 1
- Sherry Aldridge, American singer (The Aldridge Sisters)
- Obba Babatundé, American actor
- Jaco Pastorius, American bassist
- Treat Williams, American actor
- December 2 – Adrian Devine, American baseball pitcher
- December 3
- Natalis Chan, Hong Kong actor and producer
- Riki Chōshū, Korean professional wrestler
- December 4
- Chang Fei, Taiwanese TV personality
- Patricia Wettig, American actress
- December 6 – Tomson Highway, Canadian writer
- December 8
- Bill Bryson, American-born British author
- Jan Eggum, Norwegian singer and songwriter
- December 10 – Doug Allder, English footballer
- December 11 – Peter T. Daniels, American scholar
- December 12 – Wau Holland, German hacker (d. 2001)
- December 14 – Jan Timman, Dutch chess player
- December 17 – Ken Hitchcock, Canadian hockey coach
- December 20 – Peter May, Scottish novelist and television dramatist
- December 29 – Georges Thurston, Canadian singer (d. 2007)
- December 31 – Tom Hamilton, American musician
Date unknown[link]
- John Kindness, Irish artist
- Adriana Monti, Italian film director
- Mr. Butch, American homeless person and icon (d. 2007)
Deaths[link]
January–March[link]
- January 5 – Ken Le Breton, Australian speedway rider (b. 1925)
- January 7 – René Guénon, French-born author (b. 1886)
- January 10 – Sinclair Lewis, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1885)
- January 12 – Albert Guay, Canadian murderer (executed) (b. 1917)
- January 18
- Amy Carmichael, Irish missionary to India (b. 1867)
- Jack Holt, American actor (b. 1888)
- January 21 – Yuriko Miyamoto, Japanese novelist (b. 1899)
- January 28 – Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, President of Finland (b. 1867)
- January 29 – Frank Tarrant, Australian cricketer (b. 1880)
- January 30 – Ferdinand Porsche, German auto engineer (b. 1875)
- February 9 – Eddy Duchin, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1909)
- February 13 – Lloyd C. Douglas, American author (b. 1877)
- February 18 – Lyman Gilmore, American aviation pioneer (b. 1874)
- February 19 – André Gide, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1869)
- February 12 – Choudhary Rahmat Ali, one of the founding fathers of Pakistan (b. 1895)
- February 28 – Henry W. Armstrong, American boxer and songwriter (b. 1879)
- March 6 – Ivor Novello, Welsh actor, musician, and composer (b. 1893)
- March 10 – Kijūrō Shidehara ("Shidehara Kijūrō"), Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1872)
- March 11 – János Zsupánek, Slovene (Prekmurian) poet and writer (b. 1861)
- March 14 – Val Lewton, American producer and screenwriter (b. 1904)
- March 21 – Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (b. 1871)
- March 25
- Eddie Collins, American baseball player (b. 1887)
- Oscar Micheaux, African-American filmmaker (b. 1884)
- March 31 – Ralph Forbes, American actor (b. 1896)
April–June[link]
- April 3 – Henrik Visnapuu, Estonian poet and dramatist (b. 1890)
- April 4
- Al Christie, Canadian-born film director and producer (b. 1881)
- George Albert Smith, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1870)
- April 6 – Robert Broom, Scottish paleontologist (b. 1866)
- April 14 – Ernest Bevin, British labour leader, politician, and statesman (b. 1881)
- April 19 – Frank Hopkins, American professional horseman,soldier and he was recognized by his contemporaries as supporting the preservation of the mustang (horse).
- April 18 – Oscar Carmona, former President of Portugal (b. 1869)
- April 21 – Lambertus Johannes Toxopeus, Dutch lepidopterist. (b. 1894)
- April 22 – Horace Donisthorpe, English myrmecologist (b. 1870)
- April 23 – Charles G. Dawes, Vice President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1865)
- April 29 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher (b. 1889)
- May 3 – Homero Manzi, Argentine Tango lyricist and author (b. 1907)
- May 7 – Warner Baxter, American actor (b. 1889)
- May 17 – Empress Teimei of Japan, Empress consort of Emperor Taisho (b. 1884)
- May 27 – Sir Thomas Albert Blamey, Australian soldier (b. 1884)
- May 29 – Fanny Brice, American entertainer (b. 1891)
- May 30 – Hermann Broch, Austrian author (b. 1886)
- June 4 – Serge Koussevitzky, Russian conductor (b. 1874)
- June 7 – Oswald Pohl, German S.S. officer (b. 1892)
- June 9 – Mayo Methot, American actress (b. 1904)
- June 13 – Ben Chifley, Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1885)
- June 21 – Charles Dillon Perrine, American-born astronomer (b. 1867)
- June 27 – David Warfield, stage actor (b. 1866)
July–September[link]
- July 9 – Harry Heilmann, American baseball player (b. 1894)
- July 13 – Arnold Schoenberg, Austrian composer (b. 1874)
- July 20
- King Abdullah I of Jordan (b. 1882)
- Crown Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (b. 1882)
- July 23
- Robert J. Flaherty, American filmmaker (b. 1884)
- Philippe Pétain, French World War I marshal, leader of Vichy France (b. 1856)
- July 26 – Maximilian Ritter von Pohl, German army and air force officer (b. 1893)
- August 3 – Bee Ho Gray, Native American Wild West star, silent film actor and vaudeville performer (b. 1885)
- August 14 – William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper publisher (b. 1863)
- August 15 – Artur Schnabel, Austrian-born Jewish classical pianist (b. 1882)
- August 16 – Louis Jouvet, French actor and director (b. 1887)
- August 21 – Constant Lambert, British composer (b. 1905)
- August 26 – Bill Barilko, Canadian hockey player (b. 1927)
- August 28 – Robert Walker, American actor (b. 1918)
- September 7
- Maria Montez, Dominican-born actress (b. 1912)
- John French Sloan, American artist (b. 1871)
- September 9 – Gibson Gowland, English actor (b. 1877)
- September 17 – Jimmy Yancey, American pianist and composer (b. 1898)
- September 29 – Thomas Cahill, American soccer coach (b. 1864)
October–December[link]
- October 4 – Henrietta Lacks, African American originator of the HeLa cell line (b. 1920)
- October 6 – Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-born physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1884)
- October 12 – Leon Errol, Australian-born actor and comedian (b. 1881)
- October 16 – Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan (b. 1896)
- October 24 – Clarence Stewart Williams, American admiral (b. 1863)
- October 28 – Mady Christians, Austrian actress (b. 1892)
- November 3 – Richard Wallace, American film director (b. 1894)
- November 5 – Reggie Walker, South African athlete (b. 1889)
- November 9 – Sigmund Romberg, Hungarian-born composer (b. 1887)
- November 13 – Nikolai Medtner, Russian pianist and composer (b. 1880)
- November 20 – Thomas Quinlan (impresario), English opera singer (b. 1881)
- December 5 – Shoeless Joe Jackson, American baseball player (Say It Ain't So, Joe) (b. 1889)
- December 6
- André Gobert, French tennis player (b. 1890)
- J. Edward Bromberg, Hungarian-born character actor (b. 1903)
- Harold Ross, American editor (b.1892)
- December 19 – Barton Yarborough, American actor (b. 1900)
- December 23 – Enrique Santos Discépolo, Argentine tango and milonga musician and composer (b. 1901)
- December 31 – Maxim Litvinov, Russian revolutionary and Soviet diplomat (b. 1876)
Unknown or Fictional Character[link]
- Henry Jones Sr. – fictional character of Indiana Jones franchise. (b. December 12, 1872)
Nobel Prizes[link]
- Physics – John Cockcroft, Ernest Walton
- Chemistry – Edwin McMillan, Glenn T. Seaborg
- Physiology or Medicine – Max Theiler
- Literature – Pär Lagerkvist
- Peace – Léon Jouhaux
References[link]
- ^ "Groundnuts Plan Modified". The Times (London) (51895): p. 6. 10 January 1951.
- ^ <http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/tag/gertrude-levandowski/ This Day in Tech History>, Wired, February 4, 2010.
- ^ "50th anniversary of the UNIVAC I". CNN. June 14, 2001. http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/industry/06/14/computing.anniversary/. Retrieved April 20, 2010.
- ^ "1951: Churchill wins general election". BBC News. October 26, 1951. Archived from the original on 29 October 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/26/newsid_3687000/3687425.stm. Retrieved 3 October 2010.
- ^ "Key Dates for the Marshall Plan". For European Recovery: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan. The Library of Congress. 2005-07-11. Archived from the original on 13 October 2009. http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/marshall/mars.html. Retrieved 2009-10-29.
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| Howard Hawks | |
|---|---|
| File:HowardHawks.jpg | |
| Born | Howard Winchester Hawks (1896-05-30)May 30, 1896 Goshen, Indiana, United States |
| Died | December 26, 1977(1977-12-26) (aged 81) Palm Springs, California, United States |
| Occupation | Film director, Film producer, Screenwriter |
| Years active | 1916–1970 |
| Spouse | Athole Shearer (1928–1940) Slim Keith (1941–1949) Dee Hartford (1953–1959) |
Howard Winchester Hawks (May 30, 1896–December 26, 1977) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era. He is popular for his films from a wide range of genres such as Scarface (1932), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), Sergeant York (1941), To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), Red River (1948), The Thing from Another World (1951), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), and Rio Bravo (1959).
In 1975, Hawks was awarded the Honorary Academy Award as "a master American filmmaker whose creative efforts hold a distinguished place in world cinema,"[1] and in 1942 he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for Sergeant York.
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Early life and education[link]
Howard Hawks was born in Goshen, Indiana on May 30, 1896. Hawks was the first-born child of Frank W. Hawks (1865–1950), a wealthy paper manufacturer, and the former Helen Howard (1872–1952), the daughter of a wealthy industrialist. Hawks's family on his father's side were American pioneers and his ancestor John Hawks had emigrated from England to Massachusetts in 1630.[2] The family eventually settled in Goshen and by the 1890s was one of the wealthiest families in the Mid-West, due mostly to the highly profitable Goshen Milling Company. Hawk's maternal grandfather C. W. Howard (1845–1916) had homesteaded in Neenah, Wisconsin in 1862 at age 17 and within 15 years had earned a fortune in the town's Paper mill and other industrial endeavors.[3] Frank Hawks and Helen Howard met in the early 1890s and married in 1895.[4] Hawks was the oldest of five children and his birth was followed by Kenneth Neil Hawks (August 12, 1899- January 2, 1930), William Bellinger Hawks (1902- January 10, 1969), Grace Louise Hawks (October 17, 1903- December 23, 1927) and Helen Bernice Hawks (1906- May 4, 1911). In 1898 the family moved to Neenah, Wisconsin where Franks Hawks began working for his father-in-law's Howard Paper Company.[5]
Between 1906 and 1909 the Hawks's family began to spend more time in Pasadena, California during the cold Wisconsin winters in order to improve Helen Hawks's ill health. Gradually they began to spend only their summers in Wisconsin before permanently moving to Pasadena in 1910.[6] The family settled in a house down the street from Throop Polytechnic Institute (which would eventually become California Institute of Technology), and the Hawks children began attending the school's Polytechnic Elementary School in 1907. Hawks was an average student at school and did not exceed in sports, but by 1910 had discovered coaster racing, an early form of soapbox racing.[7] In 1911, Hawks's youngest sibling Helen died suddenly of food poisoning.[8][9] From 1910 to 1912 Hawks attended Pasadena High School, where he was again an average student. But in 1912 the Hawks family moved to nearby Glendora, California, where Frank Hawks owned orange groves. Hawks finished his junior year of high school at Citrus Union High School in Glendora.,[8] and was then sent to Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire from 1913 to 1914. Again, he was an average student and his family's wealth may have influenced his acceptance to the elite private school. While in New England, Hawks often attended theatrical shows in nearby Boston.[10] In 1914 Hawks returned to Glendora and graduated from Pasadena High School in 1914. In 1914 Hawks was accepted to Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, where he majored in mechanical engineering and was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon. As always, Hawks was an average student and college friend Ray S. Ashbury remembered him as spending more of his time playing craps and drinking alcohol than studying, although Hawks was also known to be a voracious reader of popular American and English novels in college.[11]
In 1916, C.W. Howard bought his grandson Howard a Mercer race car and Hawks began both racing and working on his new car during summer vacation in California. It was at this time that Hawks first met Victor Fleming, allegedly when the two men raced on a dirt track and caused an accident.[12] Fleming had been an auto mechanic and early aviator when his old friend Marshall Neilan recommended him to film director Allan Dwan as a good mechanic. Fleming went on to impress Dwan by quickly fixing both his car and a faulty film camera and by 1916 had worked his way up to the position of cinematographer.[13] Meeting Fleming lead to Hawk's first job in the film industry as a prop boy on the Douglas Fairbanks film In Again, Out Again for Famous Players-Lasky, which Fleming was employed on as the cinematographer. According to Hawks, a new set was in need of quickly being built when the studios set designer was unavailable and Hawks volunteered to do the job himself, much to Fairbank's satisfaction. He was next employed as a prop boy and general assistant on an unspecified film directed by Cecil B. DeMille (Hawks never named the film in later interviews and DeMille made five films roughly in that time period). While breaking into the film industry in the summer of 1916, Hawks also unsuccessfully attempted to transfer to Stanford University, and then returned to Cornell in September 1916. Hawks left Cornell in April 1917 when the United States declared war on Germany and entered World War I. Like many college students who joined the Armed services during the war, he received a degree in absentia in 1918. Before Hawks was called for active duty, he took the opportunity to go back to Hollywood and by the end of April 1917 was working on Cecil B. DeMille's The Little American, where he met and befriended the then eighteen-year-old slate boy James Wong Howe.[14] Hawks next worked on the Mary Pickford film The Little Princess, directed by Marshall Neilan. According to Hawks, Neilan did not show up to work one day and the resourceful Hawks offered to direct a scene himself, which Pickford agreed to allow. Hawks then had his first experience as a film director at the age of twenty-one when he and cinematographer Charles Rosher spent the day filming a tricky double exposure dream sequence with Pickford. Hawks worked with Pickford and Neilan again on Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley before joining the United States Army Air Service.[15] Hawks's military records were destroyed in the 1973 Military Archive Fire, so the only account of his military service is his own. According to Hawks, he spent fifteen weeks in basic training at the University of California in Berkeley where he was trained to be a squadron commander. When Mary Pickford visited Hawks at basic training, his superior officers were so impressed that they promoted him to flight instructor and sent him to Texas to teach new recruits. Due to boredom, Hawks attempted to get a transfer during the first half of 1918 before finally being sent to Fort Monroe, Virginia. But the Armistice was signed in November of that year and Hawks was discharged as a Second Lieutenant without having seen active duty.[9][16]
Early film career[link]
After the War, Hawks was eager to return to Hollywood. After having also served in the Air Force, his brother Kenneth Hawks graduated from Yale University in 1919 and the brothers moved to Hollywood together to pursue their careers. They quickly made friends with Hollywood insider (and fellow Ivy Leaguer) Allan Dwan, but Hawks landed his first important job when he used his family's wealth to loan money to studio head Jack Warner. Warner quickly paid the loan back and hired Hawks as a producer to "oversee" the making of a new series of one-reel comedies starring the Italian comedian Monty Banks.[17] Hawks stated that he personally directed "three or four" of the shorts, however no documentation exists to confirm this.[18] The films were profitable, but Hawks soon left the series and proceeded to form his own production company using his family wealth and connections to secure financing. The company was named Associated Producers and was a joint venture between Hawks, Allan Dwan, Marshall Neilan and director Allen Holubar, with a distribution deal through First National.[19] The company made fourteen films between 1920 and 1923, with eight directed by Neilan, three by Dwan and three by Holubar.[20] More of a "boy's club" than a production company, the four men gradually drifted apart and went their separate ways by 1923, at which time Hawks decided that he wanted to direct instead of produce.[21]
Beginning in the early 1920, Hawks lived in rented houses in Hollywood with the group of friends he was accumulating. This rawdy group of mostly macho, risk-taking men included his brother Kenneth Hawks, Victor Fleming, Jack Conway, Harold Rosson, Richard Rosson, Arthur Rosson and Eddie Sutherland. During this time period Hawks first met Irving Thalberg, the frail and sickly vice-President in charge of production at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Eventually many of the young men in this group would become successful at MGM under Thalberg, and Hawks admired his intelligence and sense of story.[22] At the same time, Hawks was becoming friends with barn stormers and pioneer aviators at Rogers Airport in Los Angeles, getting to know men like Moye Stephens. In 1923, Famous Players-Lasky president Jesse Lasky was looking for a new Production Editor in the Story department of his studio, and Thalberg suggested the Ivy-League Hawks.[9] Hawks accepted and was immediately put in charge of over forty productions, including many literary acquisitions that included works by Joseph Conrad, Jack London and Zane Grey. Hawks worked on the scripts for all of the films produced, but had his first official screenplay credit in 1924 on Tiger Love.[23] Hawks was the Story Editor at Famous Players (later Paramount Pictures) almost two years, and occasionally edited such films as Heritage of the Desert. Although Hawks signed a new one-year contract with Famous-Players in the fall of 1924, he broke his contract to become a story editor for Thalberg at MGM with the promise that Thalberg would make him a director in a year. But in 1925 when Thalberg hesitated to follow through on his promise, Hawks broke his contract at MGM.[24]
Career as a film director[link]
Silent Films: 1925-1929[link]
In October 1925 Sol Wurtzel, William Fox's studio superintendent at the Fox Film Corporation, invited Hawks to join his company with the promise of letting Hawks direct.[25] Over the next three years, Hawks directed his first eight films (six silent, two "talkies").[9] A few months after joining Fox Kenneth Hawks was also hired and eventually became one of Fox's top production supervisors.[26] Hawks reworked the scripts of most of the films he directed without always taking official credit for his work. He also worked on the scripts for Honesty- The Best Policy in 1926[27] and Joseph von Sternberg's Underworld in 1927, famous for being one of the first gangster film.[28] In 1926 Hawks was introduced to Athole Shearer by his friend Victor Fleming, who was dating Athole's sister Norma Shearer at the time. Shearer's first marriage to writer John Ward was unhappy and she and Hawks began dating throughout 1927 until Shearer asked Ward for a divorce in 1928. Shearer had a young son with Ward named Peter.[29] At the same time, Kenneth Hawks began dating actress Mary Astor[30], and Hawks's youngest brother Bill began dating actress Bessie Love.[31] Kenneth Hawks and Mary Astor eventually married in February 1928,[32] while Bill Hawks and Bessie Love married in December 1929.[33] On December 23, 1927 Hawk's sister Grace died of tuberculosis after Hawk's mother refused to allow medical treatment because of her Christian Science beliefs.[34] Hawks and Athole Shearer finally married on May 28, 1928 and they honeymooned in Hawaii.[35] Hawk's contract with Fox ended in May 1929, and he never again signed a long-term contract with a major studio but managed to remain an independent producer-director for the rest of his long career.[9] In October 1929, Hawks and Shearer had their first child, David Hawks.[36]
The Road to Glory (1926)
Hawks's first film The Road to Glory was based on a thirty-five page treatment that Hawks wrote and is one of only two Hawks films that are lost films. The film stars May McAvoy as a young woman who is gradually going blind and tries to spare the two men in her life from the burden of her illness. The two men are her boyfriend Rockliffe Fellowes and her father Ford Serling, with Leslie Fenton playing the greedy rich man whom she agrees to live with in order to get away from her father and lover. The film contained religious iconography and messages that would never again be seen in a Hawks film. It was shot from December 1925 to January 1926 and premiered in April. It received good reviews from film critics.[37] In later interviews, Hawks said "It didn't have any fun in it. It was pretty bad. I don't think anybody enjoyed it except a few critics."[38] Hawks was dissatisfied with the film after being certain that dramatic films would establish his reputation, but realized what he had done wrong when Sol Wurtzel told Hawks "Look, you've shown you can make a picture, but for God's sake, go out and make entertainment."[38]
Fig Leaves (1926)
Immediately after completing The Road to Glory Hawks began writing his next film, Fig Leaves, his first (and only until 1935) comedy. The film portrays a married couple by juxtaposing them in the Garden of Eden and in modern New York City. The Garden of Eden humorously depicts Adam and Eve awoken by a Flintstones-like coconut alarm clock and Adam reading the morning paper off of giant stone tablets. Then in the modern day the biblical serpent is replaced by Eve's gossiping neighbor and Eve becomes a sexy flapper and fashion model when Adam is at work. The film starred George O'Brien as Adam and Olive Borden as Eve and received positive reviews, particularly for the art direction and costume designs. It was released in July 1926 and was a Hawk's first hit film as a director. Although he mainly dismissed his early work, Hawks praised the film in later interviews.[39]
Paid to Love (1927)
Paid to Love is notable in Hawks's filmography as being the only time that he made a highly stylized, experimental film. German film director F. W. Murnau had recently made The Last Laugh and Sunrise and was the most critically acclaimed director in Hollywood, and Hawks's attempted to imitate Murnau's style with this film. The film includes atypical tracking shots, expressionistic lighting and stylistic film editing that was inspired by German Expressionist films. In a later interview Hawks commented "It isn't my type of stuff, at least I got it over in a hurry. You know the idea of wanting the camera to do those things: Now the camera's somebody's eyes."[40] Hawks worked on the script with Seton I. Miller, with whom he would go on to collaborate with on seven more films. The film stars George O'Brien as the introverted Crown Prince Michael, William Powell as his happy-go-lucky brother and Virginia Valli as Michael's flapper love interest Dolores. Valli's character was an early yet incomplete example of the Hawkian woman archetype as the sexually aggressive showgirl, while O'Brien's Michael portrayal of a shy man not interested in sex is a character later elaborated upon by Cary Grant and Gary Cooper in later Hawks films. Paid to Love was completed by September 1926, but remained unreleased until July 1927, when it was unsuccessful financially.[41]
The Cradle Snatchers (1927)
The Cradle Snatchers was based on a 1925 hit stage play by Russell G. Medcraft and Norma Mitchell about three unhappy, middle-aged housewives who teach their adulterous husbands a lesson by starting affairs with college-aged young men during the jazz age. The film starred Louise Fazenda, Dorothy Phillips and Ethel Wales and was shot in early 1927. The film was released in May 1927 and was a minor hit. For many years it was believed to be a lost film until film director Peter Bogdanovich discovered a print in 20th Century Fox's film vaults, although the print was missing part of reel three and all of reel four.[42]
Frazil (1928)
In March 1927 Hawks signed a new one-year, three picture contract with Fox and was assigned to direct Frazil, based on the play L'Insoumise by Pierre Frondaie. Hawks again worked with Seton Miller on the script about a Middle Eastern prince who has an affair with a Parisienne showgirl and cast Charles Farrell as the prince and Greta Nissen as Fabienne. Hawks went both over schedule and over budget on the film, which began the rift between him and Sol Wurtzel that would eventually lead to Hawks leaving Fox. Although finished in August 1927, the film was not released until June 1928.[43]
A Girl in Every Port (1928)
A Girl in Every Port is considered by film scholars to be the most important film of Hawks's silent career because it is his first film to introduce many of the Hawksian themes and characters that would continue until his final films. It was his first "love story between two men" where two men bond over their duty, skills and careers while considering their friendship to be more important than any affection towards a female. Hawks wrote the original story and developed the screenplay with James Kevin McGuinness and Seton Miller. In the film Victor McLaglen and Robert Armstrong play two merchant seamen who are arch rivals when it comes to conquest women, with McLaglen constantly finding Armstrong's tattoo on the women that he is attempting to seduce. Eventually the two rivals become friends and develop a heterosexual mutual admiration for each other. Louise Brooks plays the cabaret singer that the two men fall in love with. The film was filmed from October to December 1927 and released in February 1928. It was successful in the US, and very successful in Europe where Louise Brooks was developing a cult following.[44] In France, Henri Langlois called Hawks "the Gropius of the cinema" and Swiss novelist and poet Blaise Cendrars said that the film "definitely marked the first appearance of contemporary cinema."[45] However Hawks once again went over budget with this film and his relationship with Sol Wurtzel became worse. After an advanced screening that received positive reviews, Wurtzel told Hawks "This is the worst picture Fox has made in years."[46]
The Air Circus (1928)
The Air Circus is Hawks's first film centered around aviation, one of his early loves. In 1928, Charles Lindbergh was the world's most famous person and Wings was one of the most popular films of the year. Wanting to capitalize on the countries aviation craze, Fox immediately bought Hawks's original story for The Air Circus, a variation of the male friendship plot of A Girl in Every Port about two young pilots. Officially, the original story is credited to Graham Baker and Andrew Bennison, while the screenplay was written by Seton Miller and Norman Z. McLeod. In the film, Arthur Lake and David Rollins play two eager young pilots at flight school who compete over their flight instructors aviatrix sister played by Sue Carol. The film was shot from April to June 1928, but Fox ordered an additional 15 minutes of dialogue footage to be shot so the film could compete with the new "talkies" being released. Hawks hated the new dialogue written by Hugh Herbert and he refused to participate in the re-shoots. The film was released in September 1928 and was a moderate hit. It is one of two filmed directed by Hawks's that is a lost film.[47]
Trent's Last Case (1929)
Trent's Last Case is an adaptation of British author E. C. Bentley's 1913 novel of the same name, and had already been adapted to film in England in 1920. Hawks considered the novel to be "one of the greatest detective stories of all time"[48] and was eager to make it his first sound film. He cast Raymond Griffith in the lead role of Phillip Trent. Griffith's throat had been damaged by poison gas during World War I and his voice was a horse whisper, prompting Hawks to later state "I thought he ought to be great in talking pictures because of that voice."[49] However, after shooting only a few scenes, Fox shut Hawks down and ordered him to make a silent film, both because of Griffith's voice and because they only owned the legal rights to make a silent film. The film did have a musical score and synchronized sound effects, but no dialogue. Due to the failing business of silent films, it was never released in the US and only briefly screened in England where film critics hated it. The film was believed lost until the mid-1970s and was screened for the first time in the US at a Hawks retrospective in 1974. Hawks was in attendance of the screening and attempted to have the only print of the film destroyed.[50]
Early Sound Films:1930-1934[link]
By 1930, Hollywood was in upheaval over the coming of "talkies" and many careers (both actors and directors) were ruined. Many Hollywood studios were recruiting stage actors and directors that they believed were better suited for sound films. After having worked in the industry for 14 years and directing many financially successful films, Hawks found himself having to re-prove himself as being an asset to the studios. Leaving Fox on sour terms didn't help his reputation, but Hawks was one of the few people in Hollywood who never backed down from fights with studio heads. After several months of unemployment, Hawks renewed his career with his first sound film in 1930.[51]
On January 2, 1930, Hawks's brother Kenneth Hawks died while shooting the film Such Men Are Dangerous.[52] Kenneth's career as a director was quickly rising after his debut film Big Time in 1929. This sound film starred Lee Tracy and Mae Clarke and was an early example of the "fast-talking" sound films that Howard Hawks would later make one of his signatures.[53] Such Men Are Dangerous was based on the life Alfred Lowenstein, a Belgian captain who either jumped or fell out of his plane in 1928. On January 2, Kenneth Hawks and his crew flew three planes (two with cameras, one with a stunt actor) over Santa Monica Bay when the two camera planes crashed into each other, killing ten men. The crash was the first major on-set accident in Hollywood history and made national news. Mary Astor kept her distance from the Hawks family after Kenneth's death.[54]
The Dawn Patrol (1930)
Hawks's first all sound film was The Dawn Patrol, based on an original story by John Monk Saunders and (unofficially) Hawks. Saunders was a flight instructor during World War I and had written Wings. He was considered one of the most talented writers in Hollywood and was often compared to F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Accounts vary on who first came up with the idea of the film, but Hawks and Saunders developed the story together and tried to sell it to several studios before First National agreed to produce the film.[55] Saunders received solo screen credit for the original story and won an Academy Award for Best Story in 1930. The screenplay was written by Hawks, Seton Miller and Dan Totheroh and starred Richard Barthelmess and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Shooting began in late February 1930, about the same time that Howard Hughes was finally finishing his epic World War I aviation epic Hell's Angel's after being in production since September 1927. Hawks schrewdly began to hire many of the aviation experts and cameramen that had been employed by Hughes, including Elmer Dyer, Harry Reynolds and Ira Reed. When Hughes found out about the rival film, he did everything he could to sabotage The Dawn Patrol by harassing Hawks and other studio personal, hiring a spy that was quickly caught and finally suing First National for copyright infringement. Hughes finally dropped the lawsuit in late 1930 and he and hawks became good friends during the legal battle. In the film, Barthelmess and Fairbanks play two Royal Flying Corps pilots during World War I who deal with the pressure of wartime combat and constant death by drinking and fighting with their commanding officer. Filming was finished in late May 1930 and premiered in July, setting a first week box office record at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York. The film became one of the biggest hits of 1930.[56]
The Criminal Code (1931)
Hawks didn't get along with Warner Brothers executive Hal B. Wallis and his contract allowed him to be loaned out to other studios. Hawks took the opportunity to accept a directing offer from Harry Cohn at Columbia Pictures: The Criminal Code, based on a successful play by Martin Flavin. Hawks and Seton Miller worked on the script with Flavin for a month and filming began in September 1930. The film starred Walter Huston, Phillips Holmes, Constance Cummings and Boris Karloff. Huston plays a prison warden who wants to reform the conditions of the inmates and Holmes plays a wrongly convicted prisoner who learns about the "code" of not ratting on other inmates.[57] Hawks called Huston "the greatest actor [he] ever worked with".[58] Hawks also worked with his old friend James Wong Howe for the first time as a cinematographer. The film opened in January 1931 and was a hit. Hawks encountered a minor amount of censorship when the film was banned in Chicago, which would deal with even further on his next film.[59]
Scarface (1932)
In 1930 Howard Hughes hired Hawks to direct Scarface, a gangster film loosely based on the life of Chicago mobster Al Capone. The film starred Paul Muni in the title role, with memorable supporting performances from George Raft, Boris Karloff, and Osgood Perkins. The film was completed in September 1931, but the censorship of the Hays Code prevented it from being released as Hawks and Hughes had originally intended, and the two men fought the Hays Office (and made compromises) for over a year until the film was released in 1932, after such other pivotal early gangster films as The Public Enemy and Little Caesar. Scarface was the first film in which Hawks worked with screenwriter Ben Hecht, who became a close friend and collaborator for twenty years.[9]
The Crowd Roars (1932)
After filming was complete on Scarface, Hawks left Hughes to fight the legal battles and returned to First National to fulfill his contract, this time with producer Darryl F. Zanuck. For his next film, Hawks wanted to make a film about his childhood passion: car racing. The Crowd Roars is loosely based on the play The Barker: A Play of Carnival Life by Kenyon Nicholson. Hawks developed the script with Seton Miller for their eighth and final collaboration and the script was by Miller, Kubec Glasmon, John Bright and Niven Busch. The film starred James Cagney, Eric Linden, Joan Blondell and Ann Dvorak. In the film, Cagney plays a race car driver who tries to "protect" his younger brother Linden, who is also a driver, from being distracted by his girlfriend, Blondell. At the same time, Cagney must hide his own neurotic girlfriend, played by Dvorak, from his younger brother. Blondell and Dvorak were initially cast in each others roles but swapped after a few days of shooting. Shooting began on December 7, 1931 at Ascot Motor Speedway and wrapped on February 1, 1932. Hawks used real race car drivers in the film, including the 1930 Indianapolis 500 winner Billy Arnold.[60] The film was released in March and became a hit.[61]
Tiger Shark (1932)
Later in 1932 he directed Tiger Shark starring Edward G. Robinson as a tuna fisherman. In these early films, Hawks established the prototypical "Hawksian Man", which film critic Andrew Sarris described as "upheld by an instinctive professionalism."[9]
Today We Live (1933)
In 1933 Hawks signed a three-picture deal at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and his first film was there Today We Live in 1933, starring Joan Crawford and Gary Cooper. The World War I film was based on a short story by author William Faulkner, who Hawks got to know personally during the shooting of the film and remained friends with for over twenty years.
Hawks's next two films at MGM were the boxing drama The Prizefighter and the Lady and the bio-pic Viva Villa!, starring Wallace Beery as Mexican Revolutionary leader Pancho Villa. But because of studio interference on both films, Hawks walked out on his MGM contract without completing either film himself.[9]
Later Sound Films[link]
In 1934 Hawks went to Columbia Pictures to make his first screwball comedy, Twentieth Century, starring John Barrymore and Hawks's distant cousin Carole Lombard. The film was based on a stage play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, and along with Frank Capra's It Happened One Night (released the same year) is considered to be the defining film of the screwball comedy genre.[9] In 1935 Hawks made Barbary Coast with Edward G. Robinson and Miriam Hopkins. In 1936 he made the aviation adventure Ceiling Zero with James Cagney and Pat O'Brien. Also in 1936, Hawks began filming Come and Get It, starring Edward Arnold, Joel McCrea, Frances Farmer and Walter Brennan. But he was fired by Samuel Goldwyn in the middle of shooting and the film was completed by William Wyler.[9]
In 1938 Hawks made the screwball comedy Bringing Up Baby for RKO Pictures. The film starred Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn and has been called "the screwiest of the screwball comedies" by film critic Andrew Sarris.[9] In the film, Grant plays a near-sighted paleontologist who suffers one humiliation after another due to the lovestruck socialite played by Hepburn. The film was unsuccessful when initially released but has gradually become regarded as Hawks's masterpiece. Hawks followed this with the aviation drama Only Angels Have Wings, again starring Cary Grant and made in 1939 for Columbia Pictures. The film also starred Jean Arthur, Thomas Mitchell, Rita Hayworth and Richard Barthelmess.[9]
In 1940 Hawks returned to the screwball comedy genre with His Girl Friday, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. The film was an adaptation of the hit Broadway play The Front Page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, which had already been made into a film in 1931. In 1941 Hawks made Sergeant York, starring Gary Cooper as a pacifist farmer who becomes a decorated World War I soldier. The film was the highest-grossing film of 1941 and won two Academy Awards (Best Actor and Best Editing), as well as earning Hawks his only nomination for Best Director. Later that year Hawks re-teamed with Cooper for Ball of Fire, also starring Barbara Stanwyck. The film was written by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett and is playfully based on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. In the film, Cooper plays a sheltered, intellectual linguist who is writing an encyclopedia with six other scientists, and hires street-wise Stanwyck to help them with modern slang terms. In 1941 Hawks began work on the Howard Hughes produced (and later directed) film The Outlaw, based on the life of Billy the Kid and starring Jane Russell. Hawks completed initial shooting of the film in early 1941, but due to perfectionism and battles with the Hollywood Production Code, Hughes continued to re-shoot and re-edit the film until it was finally released in 1943, with Hawks uncredited as director.[9]
After making the World War II film Air Force in 1943 starring John Garfield, Hawks made two films with Hollywood and real life lovers Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. To Have and Have Not, made in 1944, stars Bogart, Bacall and Walter Brennan and is based on a short story by Ernest Hemingway. Hawks was a close friend of Hemingway and made a bet with the author that he could make a good film out of Hemingway's "worst book".[9] Hawks, William Faulkner and Jules Furthman collaborated on the script about a French fishing boat captain and various situations of espionage during the Fall of France in 1940. Bogart and Bacall fell in love on the set of the film and married soon afterwards. Hawks re-teamed with the newlyweds in 1946 with The Big Sleep, based on the Philip Marlowe detective novel by Raymond Chandler.[9]
In 1948, Hawks made Red River, an epic western reminiscent of Mutiny on the Bounty starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift in his first film. Later that year, Hawks remade his earlier film Ball of Fire as A Song Is Born, this time starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo. This version of the film follows the same plot but pays more attention to popular jazz music and includes such jazz legends as Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, and Benny Carter playing themselves. In 1949 Hawks re-teamed with Cary Grant in the screwball comedy I Was a Male War Bride, also starring Ann Sheridan.[9]
In 1951, he produced - and some believe essentially directed - the science fiction film The Thing from Another World.[62][63] He followed this with the 1952 western film The Big Sky, starring Kirk Douglas. Later in 1952 Hawks re-teamed with Cary Grant for the fifth and final time in the screwball comedy Monkey Business, also starring Marilyn Monroe and Ginger Rogers. Grant plays a scientist reminiscent of his character in Bringing up Baby, who creates a formula that increases his vitality. Film critic John Belton called the film Hawks's "most organic comedy."[9] Hawks's third film of 1952 was a contribution to the omnibus film O. Henry's Full House, which includes short films based on the stories by the writer O. Henry made by various directors. Hawks's short film The Ransom of Red Chief starred Fred Allen, Oscar Levant and Lee Aaker.
In 1953, Hawks made Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, which featured Marilyn Monroe famously singing "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend." The film starred Monroe and Jane Russell as two gold digging, cabaret performer best friends that many critics point out is Hawks's only female version of his celebrated "buddy film" genre. In 1955 Hawks made an atypical Land of the Pharaohs, a Sword-and-sandal epic about ancient Egypt and starring Jack Hawkins and Joan Collins. The film was Hawks's final collaboration with longtime friend William Faulkner before the author's death. In 1959 Hawks re-teamed with John Wayne in Rio Bravo, also starring Dean Martin, Ricky Nelson and Walter Brennan as four marshal's "defending the fort" of their local jail where a local criminal is awaiting a trial and his family attempt to break him out. Film critic Robin Wood has said if he "were asked to choose a film that would justify the existence of Hollywood...it would be Rio Bravo."[9]
In 1962 Hawks made Hatari!, again with John Wayne as a big game hunter in Africa. In 1964 Hawks made his final comedy, Man's Favorite Sport?, which starred Rock Hudson (since Cary Grant felt he was too old for the role) and Paula Prentiss. Hawks then returned to his childhood passion for car races with Red Line 7000 in 1965. the film starred a young James Caan in his first leading role. Hawks's final two films were both Western remakes of Rio Bravo starring John Wayne. In 1967 Hawks made El Dorado, starring Wayne, Robert Mitchum and James Caan. In 1970 he made Rio Lobo, with Wayne, Jorge Rivero and Jack Elam.[9]
Personal life[link]
Hawks was married three times:
- to Athole Shearer (1928–1940), sister of movie actress Norma Shearer, mother of his daughter Barbara Hawks and son David Hawks;
- to Slim Keith (1941–1949), who was the mother of his daughter, Kitty Hawks, a noted interior designer; and
- to Dee Hartford (1953–1959), an actress whose real name was Donna Higgins.
His brothers were director/writer Kenneth Neil Hawks and film producer William Bettingger Hawks.
Hawks died on 26 December 1977 aged 81 from complications of a fall several weeks earlier.
Style[link]
Hawks was versatile as a director, filming comedies, dramas, gangster films, science fiction, film noir, and Westerns. Hawks's own functional definition of what constitutes a "good movie" is revealing of his no-nonsense style: "Three great scenes, no bad ones."[64][65] Hawks also defined a good director as "someone who doesn't annoy you".[65]
While Hawks was not sympathetic to feminism, he popularized the Hawksian woman archetype, which has been cited as a prototype of the post-feminist movement.[66]
Legacy[link]
His directorial style and the use of natural, conversational dialogue in his films were cited a major influence on many noted filmmakers, including Robert Altman, John Carpenter, and Quentin Tarantino.
Brian De Palma dedicated his version of Scarface to Hawks and Ben Hecht.
Although his work was not initially taken seriously by British critics of the Sight and Sound circle, he was venerated by French critics associated with Cahiers du cinéma, who intellectualized his work in a way Hawks himself was moderately amused by, and he was also admired by more independent British writers such as Robin Wood.
Critic Leonard Maltin labeled Hawks "the greatest American director who is not a household name," noting that, while his work may not be as well known as Ford, Welles, or DeMille, he is no less a talented filmmaker.[citation needed]
Hawks was nicknamed "The Gray Fox" by members of the Hollywood community.
Awards[link]
He was nominated for Academy Award for Best Director in 1942 for Sergeant York, but he received his only Oscar in 1975 as an Honorary Award from the Academy.
His films The Big Sleep, Bringing Up Baby, His Girl Friday, Red River, Scarface, Sergeant York, The Thing from Another World and Twentieth Century were rated "culturally significant" by the United States Library of Congress and inducted into the National Film Registry.
Bringing Up Baby (1938) was listed number 97 on the American Film Institute's AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies. His Girl Friday (1940) was listed #19 on the AFI's AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs.
For his contribution to the motion picture industry, Howard Hawks has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1708 Vine Street.
Filmography[link]
Main article: Howard Hawks filmography
References[link]
- ^ IMDB awards
- ^ McCarthy, Todd. Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood. Grove Press. 1997. p. 19.
- ^ McCarthy. p. 25.
- ^ McCarthy. pp. 27-28.
- ^ McCarthy. p. 29.
- ^ McCarthy. p. 31.
- ^ McCarthy. pp. 34-35.
- ^ a b McCarthy. p. 36.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Wakeman, John. World Film Directors, Volume 1. The H. W. Wilson Company. 1987. pp. 446-451.
- ^ McCarthy. pp. 37-38.
- ^ McCarthy. pp. 38-39.
- ^ McCarthy. pp. 39-40.
- ^ McCarthy. pp. 41-42.
- ^ McCarthy. pp. 42-44.
- ^ McCarthy. p. 45.
- ^ McCarthy. pp. 46-47.
- ^ McCarthy. pp. 49-50.
- ^ McCarthy. p. 50.
- ^ McCarthy. p. 51.
- ^ McCarthy. p. 52.
- ^ McCarthy. p. 56.
- ^ McCarthy. pp. 57-58.
- ^ McCarthy. pp. 59-60.
- ^ McCarthy. pp. 62-63.
- ^ McCarthy. p. 64.
- ^ McCarthy. p. 65.
- ^ McCarthy. pp. 73-74.
- ^ McCarthy. p. 76.
- ^ McCarthy. pp. 78-81.
- ^ McCarthy. p. 81.
- ^ McCarthy. p 82.
- ^ McCarthy. p. 83.
- ^ McCarthy. p. 106.
- ^ McCarthy. p. 82.
- ^ McCarthy. pp. 95-96.
- ^ McCarthy. p. 105.
- ^ McCarthy. pp. 65-68.
- ^ a b McCarthy. p. 68.
- ^ McCarthy. pp. 69-71.
- ^ McCarthy. pp 72-73.
- ^ McCarthy. pp. 73-75.
- ^ McCarthy. pp. 76-78.
- ^ McCarthy. pp. 84-86.
- ^ McCarthy. pp. 86-91.
- ^ McCarthy. p. 92.
- ^ McCarthy. p. 91.
- ^ McCarthy. pp. 92-94.
- ^ McCarthy. p. 97.
- ^ McCarthy. p. 98.
- ^ McCarthy. pp. 97-99.
- ^ McCarthy. p. 102.
- ^ McCarthy. p. 106.
- ^ McCarthy. pp. 100-101.
- ^ McCarthy. pp. 106-110.
- ^ McCarthy. pp. 102-105.
- ^ McCarthy. pp. 111-115.
- ^ McCarthy. pp. 118-119.
- ^ McCarthy. p. 119.
- ^ McCarthy. pp. 120-121.
- ^ McCarthy. pp. 156-162.
- ^ McCarthy. p. 172.
- ^ "And let's get the record straight. The movie was directed by Howard Hawks. Verifiably directed by Howard Hawks. He let his editor, Christian Nyby, take credit. But the kind of feeling between the male characters—the camaraderie, the group of men that has to fight off the evil—it's all pure Hawksian." Carpenter, John (speaker) (2001-09-04). Hidden Values: The Movies of the '50s (Television production). Turner Classic Movies. http://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article.jsp?cid=88193&mainArticleId=218757. Retrieved 2009-04-01.
- ^ Fuhrmann, Henry (25 May 1997). "A 'Thing' to His Credit". Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/print/1997-05-25/entertainment/ca-62224_1_howard-hawks. Retrieved 20 April 2012.
- ^ Chicago: item notes v.24 1975 July–December, WFMT (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.), 1975, http://books.google.com/books?ei=93-YSY29GIvCMrnv7KQJ&q=howard+hawks+three+good+scenes+and+no+bad+ones
- ^ a b Howard Hawks; Scott Breivold (2006), Howard Hawks, Univ. Press of Mississippi, p. 63, ISBN 978-1-57806-833-3, http://books.google.com/?id=LQ6cn-dhUzIC&pg=PA63&dq=%22great%20scene%22
- ^ Naomi Wise, "The Hawksian Woman" in Howard Hawks, American Artist. (British Film Institute, 1996).
Further reading[link]
- Clark Branson, Howard Hawks, A Jungian Study, Garland-Clarke Editions, 1987
- Jim Hillier, Howard Hawks: American Artist, Peter Wollen (British Film Institute, 1997)
- Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues, Red River, bfi Publishing, 2000
- Joseph McBride, Hawks on Hawks, (University of California Press, 1982)
- Joseph McBride (ed), Focus on Howard Hawks, Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1972
- Todd McCarthy, Howard Hawks: The Grey Fox of Hollywood, (Grove Press, 1997)
- Pippin, Robert B. Hollywood Westerns and American Myth: The Importance of Howard Hawks and John Ford for Political Philosophy (Yale University Press, 2010) 208 pp.
- Robin Wood, Howard Hawks, Secker & Warburg, 1968
- Robin Wood, Howard Hawks, British Film Institute, 1981, revised with addition of chapter "Retrospect".
- Robin Wood, Rio Bravo, (BFI Publishing, 2003)
- Robin Wood, Howard Hawks (New Edition), (Wayne State University Press, 2006)
External links[link]
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- Howard Hawks at the Internet Movie Database
- Howard Hawks at the TCM Movie Database
- Bibliography of books and articles about Hawks via UC Berkeley Media Resources Center
- Profile at Senses of Cinema
- [1] BBC interview
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| Short description | Film director |
| Date of birth | (1896-05-30)May 30, 1896 |
| Place of birth | Goshen, Indiana |
| Date of death | December 26, 1977(1977-12-26) |
| Place of death | Palm Springs, California |
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| Betty Hutton | |
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 Betty Hutton in Annie Get Your Gun (1950) |
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| Born | Elizabeth June Thornburg (1921-02-26)February 26, 1921 Battle Creek, Michigan, US |
| Died | March 11, 2007(2007-03-11) (aged 86) Palm Springs, California, US |
| Years active | 1938–2000 |
| Spouse |
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Betty Hutton (February 26, 1921 – March 11, 2007)[1] was an American stage, film, and television actress, comedienne and singer.
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Early life[link]
Hutton was born Elizabeth June Thornburg, daughter of a railroad foreman, Percy E. Thornburg (1896–1939) and his wife, Mabel Lum (1901–1967).[2] While she was very young, her father abandoned the family for another woman. They did not hear of him again until they received a telegram in 1939, informing them of his suicide. Along with her older sister Marion, Betty was raised by her mother, who took the surname Hutton and was later billed as the actress Sissy Jones.
The three started singing in the family's speakeasy when Betty was 3 years old. Troubles with the police kept the family on the move. They eventually landed in Detroit, Michigan. (On one occasion, when Betty, preceded by a police escort, arrived at the premiere of Let's Dance (1950), her mother, arriving with her, quipped, "At least this time the police are in front of us!") Hutton sang in several local bands as a teenager, and at one point visited New York City hoping to perform on Broadway, where she was rejected.
A few years later, she was scouted by orchestra leader Vincent Lopez, who gave Hutton her entry into the entertainment business. In 1939 she appeared in several musical shorts for Warner Bros., and appeared in a supporting role on Broadway in Panama Hattie[3] (starring Ethel Merman) and Two for the Show,[4] both produced by Buddy DeSylva.
Career[link]
When DeSylva became a producer at Paramount Pictures, Hutton was signed to a featured role in The Fleet's In (1942), starring Paramount's number one female star Dorothy Lamour. Hutton was an instant hit with the movie-going public. Paramount did not immediately promote her to major stardom, however, but did give her second leads in a Mary Martin film musical, Star Spangled Rhythm (1943), and another Lamour film. In 1943 she was given co-star billing with Bob Hope in Let's Face It and with the release of The Miracle of Morgan's Creek the following year, Hutton attained major stardom. By the time Incendiary Blonde was released in 1945, she had supplanted Lamour as Paramount's number one female box office attraction.
Hutton made 19 films from 1942 to 1952 including the hugely popular The Perils of Pauline in 1947. She was billed above Fred Astaire in the 1950 musical Let's Dance. Hutton's greatest screen triumph came in Annie Get Your Gun (1950) for MGM, which hired her to replace an exhausted Judy Garland in the role of Annie Oakley. The film, with the leading role retooled for Hutton, was a smash hit, with the biggest critical praise going to Hutton. (Her obituary in The New York Times described her as "a brassy, energetic performer with a voice that could sound like a fire alarm.")[5] Among her lesser known roles was an unbilled cameo in Sailor Beware (1952) with Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, in which she portrayed Dean's girlfriend, Hetty Button.
In 1944, she signed a recording contract with Capitol Records (she was one of the earliest artists to do so). Later she became disillusioned with Capitol's management and moved to RCA Victor.
Her career as a Hollywood star ended due to a contract dispute with Paramount following the Oscar-winning The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) and Somebody Loves Me (1952), a biography of singer Blossom Seeley. The New York Times reported that the dispute resulted from her insistence that her husband at the time, Charles O'Curran, direct her next film. When the studio declined, Hutton broke her contract. Hutton's last completed film was a small one, Spring Reunion, released in 1957, a drama in which she gave an understated, sensitive performance. Unfortunately, box office receipts indicated the public did not want to see a subdued Hutton.
Hutton got work in radio, appeared in Las Vegas and in nightclubs, then tried her luck in the new medium of television. In 1954, TV producer Max Liebman, of Your Show of Shows, fashioned his first "Color Spectacular" as an original musical written especially for Hutton, Satins and Spurs.[6] It was an enormous flop with the public and the critics, despite being one of the first programs televised nationally by NBC in compatible color. In 1957, she appeared on a Dinah Shore show on NBC that also featured Boris Karloff; the program has been preserved on a kinescope. Desilu Productions took a chance on Hutton in 1959, giving her a sitcom, The Betty Hutton Show, directed by Jerry Fielding.[7] It quickly faded.
Hutton began headlining in Las Vegas and touring across the country. She returned to Broadway briefly in 1964 when she temporarily replaced a hospitalized Carol Burnett in the show Fade Out – Fade In.[8] In 1967 she was signed to star in two low-budget westerns for Paramount, but was fired shortly after the projects began. In the 1970s she portrayed Miss Hannigan in the original Broadway production of Annie while Alice Ghostley was on vacation.
Marriages[link]
Hutton's first marriage was to camera manufacturer Ted Briskin on September 3, 1945. The marriage ended in divorce in 1950. Two daughters were born to the couple, Lindsay Diane Briskin (born 1946) and Candice Elizabeth Briskin (born 1948).
Hutton's second marriage in 1952 was to choreographer Charles O'Curran. They divorced in 1955. He died in 1984.
She married for the third time in 1955. Husband Alan W. Livingston, an executive with Capitol Records, was the creator of Bozo the Clown. They divorced five years later, although some accounts refer to the union as a nine-month marriage.
Her fourth and final marriage in 1960 was to jazz trumpeter Pete Candoli, a brother of Conte Candoli. Hutton and Candoli had one child, Carolyn Candoli (born 1962) and then divorced in 1967 (some accounts place the year as 1964).
Life after Hollywood[link]
After the 1967 death of her mother in a house fire and the collapse of her last marriage, Hutton's depression and pill addictions escalated. She divorced her fourth husband, jazz trumpeter Pete Candoli, and declared bankruptcy. Hutton had a nervous breakdown and later attempted suicide after losing her singing voice in 1970. After regaining control of her life through rehab, and the mentorship of a Roman Catholic priest, Father Peter Maguire, Hutton converted to Roman Catholicism and took a job as a cook at a rectory in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. She made national headlines when it was revealed she was working in a rectory.
In 1974, a well-publicized "Love-In for Betty Hutton" was held at New York City's Riverboat Restaurant, emceed by comedian Joey Adams, with several old Hollywood pals on hand. The event raised $10,000 (USD) for Hutton and gave her spirits a big boost. Steady work, unfortunately, still eluded her.
Hutton appeared in an interview with Mike Douglas and a brief guest appearance in 1975 on Baretta. In 1977, Hutton was featured on The Phil Donahue Show. Hutton was then happily employed as hostess at a Newport, Rhode Island jai alai arena.
She also appeared on Good Morning America, which led to a 1978 televised reunion with her two daughters. Hutton began living in a shared home with her divorced daughter and grandchildren in California, but returned to the East Coast for a three week return to the stage. She followed Dorothy Loudon as the evil Miss Hannigan in Annie on Broadway [9] in 1980. Hutton's rehearsal of the song "Little Girls" was featured on Good Morning America.
A ninth grade drop-out, Hutton went back to school and earned a Master's Degree in psychology from Salve Regina University. During her time at college, Hutton became friends with Kristin Hersh and attended several early Throwing Muses concerts.[10] Hersh would later write the song "Elizabeth June" as a tribute to her friend, and wrote about their relationship in further detail in her memoir, Rat Girl.[11]
Her last known performance, in any medium, was on Jukebox Saturday Night, which aired on PBS in 1983.[12] Hutton stayed in New England and began teaching comedic acting at Boston's Emerson College. She became estranged again from her daughters.
After the death of her ally, Father Maguire, Hutton returned to California, moving to Palm Springs in 1999, after decades in New England. Hutton hoped to grow closer with her daughters and grandchildren, as she told Robert Osborne on TCM's Private Screenings in April 2000, though her children remained distant. She told Osborne that she understood their hesitancy to accept a now elderly mother. The TCM interview first aired on July 18, 2000. The program was rerun as a memorial on the evening of her death in 2007, and again on July 11, 2008, April 14, 2009, and as recently as January 26, 2010.[13]
Death[link]
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Hutton lived in Palm Springs, California until her death, at 86, from colon cancer complications.[5][14] Hutton is buried at Desert Memorial Park[15] in Cathedral City, California.
For her contribution to the motion picture industry, Betty Hutton has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 6253 Hollywood Boulevard.
Hit songs[link]
| Year | Title | Chart peak | Catalog number | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | "Old Man Mose" | with Vincent Lopez Orchestra | ||
| "Igloo" | 15 | Bluebird 10300 | with Vincent Lopez Orchestra | |
| "The Jitterbug" | Bluebird 10367 | with Vincent Lopez Orchestra | ||
| 1942 | "Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing In A Hurry" | |||
| "I'm Doin' It For Defense" | ||||
| 1943 | "Murder, He Says" | |||
| "The Fuddy Duddy Watchmaker" | ||||
| 1944 | "Bluebirds In My Belfry" | |||
| "His Rocking Horse Ran Away" | 7 | Capitol 155 | with Paul Weston Orchestra | |
| "It Had To Be You" | 5 | Capitol 155 | with Paul Weston Orchestra | |
| 1945 | "Stuff Like That There" | 4 | Capitol 188 | with Paul Weston Orchestra |
| "What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For?" | 15 | Capitol 211 | with Paul Weston Orchestra | |
| "(Doin' It) The Hard Way" | Capitol 211 | with Paul Weston Orchestra | ||
| "Doctor, Lawyer, Indian Chief" | 1 | Capitol 220 | with Paul Weston Orchestra | |
| "A Square In The Social Circle" | Capitol 220 | with Paul Weston Orchestra | ||
| 1946 | "My Fickle Eye" | 21 | RCA Victor 20-1915 | with Joe Lilley Orchestra |
| 1947 | "Poppa, Don't Preach To Me" | Capitol 380 | with Joe Lilley Orchestra | |
| "I Wish I Didn't Love You So" | Capitol 409 | with Joe Lilley Orchestra | ||
| 1949 | "(Where Are You?) Now That I Need You" | Capitol 620 | with Joe Lilley Orchestra | |
| 1950 | "Orange Colored Sky" | 24 | RCA Victor 20-3908 | with Pete Rugolo Orchestra |
| "Can't Stop Talking" | RCA Victor 20-3908 | with Pete Rugolo Orchestra | ||
| "A Bushel and a Peck" (duet with Perry Como) | 3 | RCA Victor 20-3930 | with Mitchell Ayres Orchestra | |
| 1951 | "It's Oh So Quiet"[16] | RCA Victor 20-4179 | with Pete Rugolo Orchestra | |
| "The Musicians" (with Dinah Shore, Tony Martin and Phil Harris) | 24 | RCA Victor 20-4225 | with Henri René Orchestra | |
| 1953 | "Goin' Steady" | 21 | Capitol 2522 | with Nelson Riddle Orchestra |
| 1954 | "The Honeymoon's Over" (duet with Tennessee Ernie Ford) | 16 | Capitol 2809 | with Billy May Orchestra |
| 1956 | "Hit the Road to Dreamland" | Capitol 3383 | with Vic Schoen Orchestra |
Filmography[link]
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | Queens of the Air | Herself | film short |
| 1939 | Vincent Lopez and His Orchestra | Herself | film short |
| Three Kings and a Queen | Herself | film short | |
| Public Jitterbug No. 1 | Public Jitterbug No. 1 | film short | |
| 1940 | One for the Book | Cinderella | film short |
| 1942 | The Fleet's In | Bessie Day | |
| Star Spangled Rhythm | Polly Judson | ||
| 1943 | Happy Go Lucky | Bubbles Hennessy | |
| Let's Face It | Winnie Porter | ||
| Strictly G.I. | Herself | film short | |
| 1944 | The Miracle of Morgan's Creek | Trudy Kockenlocker | |
| And the Angels Sing | Bobby Angel | ||
| Skirmish on the Home Front | Emily Average | film short | |
| Here Come the Waves | Susan Allison / Rosemary Allison | ||
| 1945 | Incendiary Blonde | Texas Guinan | |
| Duffy's Tavern | Herself | cameo | |
| The Stork Club | Judy Peabody | ||
| Hollywood Victory Caravan | Herself | film short | |
| 1946 | Cross My Heart | Peggy Harper | |
| 1947 | The Perils of Pauline | Pearl White | |
| 1948 | Dream Girl | Georgina Allerton | |
| 1949 | Red, Hot and Blue | Eleanor "Yum-Yum" Collier | |
| 1950 | Annie Get Your Gun | Annie Oakley | |
| Let's Dance | Kitty McNeil | ||
| 1952 | The Greatest Show on Earth | Holly | |
| Sailor Beware | Hetty Button | uncredited cameo | |
| Somebody Loves Me | Blossom Seeley | ||
| 1957 | Spring Reunion | Margaret "Maggie" Brewster |
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | That's My Mom | 1 episode (unaired pilot) | |
| 1959–60 | The Betty Hutton Show | Goldie Appleby | 30 episodes |
| 1964 | The Greatest Show on Earth | Julia Dana | 1 episode |
| 1964–65 | Burke's Law | Carlene Glory Rena Zito |
2 episodes |
| 1965 | Gunsmoke | Molly McConnell | 1 episode |
| 1977 | Baretta | Velma | 1 episode |
Awards and nominations[link]
| Year | Award | Result | Category | Film |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | Golden Apple Awards | Won | Most Cooperative Actress |
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| 1951 | Golden Globe Award | Nominated | Best Motion Picture Actress – Musical/Comedy | Annie Get Your Gun |
| 1950 | Photoplay Awards | Won | Most Popular Female Star | Annie Get Your Gun |
References[link]
- ^ There is conflicting information about the date of Hutton's death.
- Her gravestone says March 12th, which is also reflected in a list provided by the cemetery.
- The New York Times obituary, published on March 14th (Wednesday), says she passed away "Sunday night", which was March 11th.
- The AP obituary doesn't have a clear death date: "The death was confirmed Monday by a friend of Hutton who spoke only on condition of anonymity, citing her wishes that her death be announced at a specified time by the executor of her estate, Carl Bruno. The source refused to provide further details including the time and cause of death."
- The Guardian obituary was first published with March 12th as the death date, which was then corrected to the 11th a week later, per the note at the bottom
- ^ [1]
- ^ Panama Hattie opening night cast at IBDB
- ^ Two For The Show opening night cast at IBDB
- ^ a b Severo, Richard (2007-03-14). "Betty Hutton, Film Star of ’40s and ’50s, Dies at 86". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/movies/14hutton.html. Retrieved 2009-06-30.
- ^ Satins and Spurs (TV) at IMDB
- ^ Billboard Oct. 26, 1959 p. 52
- ^ Fade Out – Fade In replacement cast members at IBDB
- ^ Annie replacement cast members at IBDB
- ^ Kristin Hersh: Beautiful Old Betty
- ^ New York Times Sunday Book Review: Punk Days
- ^ Jukebox Saturday Night at IMDB
- ^ Robert Osborne interview on TCM, video, 60 minutes
- ^ "Actress And Singer Betty Hutton Dead". CBS News. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/12/entertainment/main2561831.shtml.
- ^ Palm Springs Cemetery District "Internment Information"
- ^ "Advance Record Releases". The Billboard: 30. 7 July 1951. ISSN 0006-2510. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=m0UEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA30&dq=20%204179%20%22Betty%20Hutton%22&pg=PA30#v=onepage&q=20%204179%20%22Betty%20Hutton%22&f=false. Retrieved 6 September 2011.
Further reading[link]
- Gene Arceri Rocking Horse, a Personal Biography of Betty Hutton, 2009, BearManor Media
- Betty Hutton Backstage You Can Have: My Own Story, 2009 The Betty Hutton Estate
External links[link]
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- Betty Hutton at the Internet Broadway Database
- Betty Hutton at the Internet Movie Database
- Betty Hutton at the TCM Movie Database
- BettyHuttonEstate The Betty Hutton Estate
- satinsandspurs.com The Betty Hutton Website
- Betty Hutton at who2.com
- Time Magazine article, April 24, 1950
- Denny Jackson's Betty Hutton Page (fan site)
- Betty Hutton at BroadwayWorld.com
- Betty Hutton at Virtual History
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| Name | Hutton, Betty |
| Alternative names | Thornburg, Elizabeth June |
| Short description | Actor |
| Date of birth | February 26, 1921 |
| Place of birth | Battle Creek, Michigan, U.S. |
| Date of death | March 11, 2007 |
| Place of death | Palm Springs, California, U.S. |
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| Tiny Bradshaw | |
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 Tiny Bradshaw |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Myron C. Bradshaw |
| Born | (1907-09-23)September 23, 1907[1][2] Youngstown, Ohio, United States |
| Died | November 26, 1958(1958-11-26) (aged 53) Cincinnati, Ohio, United States |
| Genres | Jazz |
| Occupations | Pianist, rhythm and blues bandleader |
| Instruments | drums, piano |
| Years active | 1933–1958 |
Myron C. ("Tiny") Bradshaw (September 23, 1907 – November 26, 1958)[3] was an American jazz and rhythm and blues bandleader, singer, composer, pianist, and drummer from Youngstown, Ohio.[4]
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Early years[link]
Bradshaw was born to Cicero P. Bradshaw and his wife Lillian Boggess. Bradshaw graduated from high school in Youngstown.[5] After graduating from Wilberforce University with a degree in psychology, Bradshaw turned to music for a living.[6] In Ohio, he sang with Horace Henderson's campus oriented Collegians.[6] Then, in 1932, Bradshaw relocated to New York City, where he drummed for Marion Hardy, the Charleston Bearcats (later the Savoy Bearcats), and the Mills Blue Rhythm Band, and sang for Luis Russell.[4]
Bandleader[link]
In 1934, Bradshaw formed his own swing orchestra, which recorded eight sides in two separate sessions for Decca Records that year in New York City.[5] The band's next recording date was in 1944 for Manor Records,[5] at which point its music was closer to rhythm and blues. He recorded in 1947 for Savoy[5] The band recorded extensively for the rhythm and blues market with King Records between 1949 and early 1955.[4][5]
Bradshaw's best known recording was "Train Kept A-Rollin'" (1951), which passed from rhythm and blues into rock.[4] The song was recorded by Johnny Burnette in 1956 and The Yardbirds in 1965. It was covered again by Aerosmith in 1974 and by Motörhead in 1978.
Bradshaw's later career was hampered by severe health problems, including two strokes that left him partially paralyzed. His last session in 1958 resulted in two recordings, "Bushes" and "Short Shorts" (King 5114),[5] which proved an unsuccessful attempt to reach out to the emerging teenage market. Weakened by the successive strokes as well as the rigors of his profession, Bradshaw died in his adopted hometown of Cincinnati from another stroke in 1958.[3] He was 53 years old.[4]
Legacy[link]
Bradshaw is remembered for a string of rhythm and blues hits, including "Well Oh Well", "Breaking Up the House", and "Soft". As a bandleader, he was an invaluable mentor to important musicians and arrangers including Shad Collins, Gil Fuller, Gigi Gryce, Russell Procope, Red Prysock, Sonny Stitt, and Shadow Wilson.[4]
See also[link]
References[link]
- ^ Ohio, Death Index, 1908-1932, 1938-1944, 1968-2007. (www.familysearch.org) Certificate No. 78528 Myron Bradshaw entry. Vol. No. 15588
- ^ brother Norman Bradshaw was born 9 March 1905 in Youngstown, OH [Ohio, County Births, 1856-1909 (www.familysearch.org)entry for Norman Bradshaw, Vol. 8 page 168]. This makes it highly unlikely that Myron was born a mere five months later in September of 1905. Also, census data provides Myron's age in both the 1910 and 1920 census with an estimated birth year of 1907. Myron's birth record remains elusive. His death record, as cited earlier, indicates a birth year of 1907.
- ^ a b Thedeadrockstarsclub.com - accessed July 2010
- ^ a b c d e f "Tiny Bradshaw". Brad's Blues. http://home.earthlink.net/~jaymar41/TinyBrad.html. Retrieved 2007-03-07.
- ^ a b c d e f Mohr, Kurt. 1961. Discography of Tiny Bradshaw. Jazz-Publications. Reinach, Switzerland. 16pp.
- ^ a b "Bradshaw Biography". Oldies.com. http://www.oldies.com/artist-biography/Tiny-Bradshaw.html. Retrieved 2007-03-07.
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| Name | Bradshaw, Tiny |
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| Short description | |
| Date of birth | September 23, 1907 |
| Place of birth | Youngstown, Ohio, United States |
| Date of death | November 26, 1958 |
| Place of death | Cincinnati, Ohio, United States |
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| Alastair Sim | |
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| Born | Alastair George Bell Sim (1900-10-09)9 October 1900 Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Died | 19 August 1976(1976-08-19) (aged 75) London, England, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1930–1976 |
| Spouse | Naomi Plaskitt (m. 1932-1976; his death) |
Alastair George Bell Sim, CBE (9 October 1900 – 19 August 1976) was a Scottish character actor who appeared in a string of classic British films. He is best remembered in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1951 film Scrooge, and for his portrayal of Miss Fritton, the headmistress in two St. Trinian's films. He was memorably described by comedian Ronnie Corbett as a "sad-faced actor, with the voice of a fastidious ghoul", in Corbett's autobiography High Hopes.
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Early life[link]
Alastair Sim was born in Edinburgh in 1900. His mother had been born on the island of Eigg, and when she came to the mainland in her teens she could speak only Gaelic. His father, Alexander Sim, was a prosperous businessman with property in Braemar and Edinburgh. He designed and paid for the construction of the Earl Haig Gardens in Edinburgh for the use of returning servicemen to sit in during the day.
Alastair Sim was educated at the independent George Heriot's School in Edinburgh. He became an elocution and drama lecturer at the University of Edinburgh from 1925 until 1930, where he was later rector from 1948 until 1951. He once remarked to an interviewer, "As I passed imperceptibly from a beautiful child to a strong and handsome lad, I wanted more than anything else in the world to be, of all things, a hypnotist. I practised on gentle dogs."[1] His Biography also states that for a while early on in various casual labouring jobs he was a lumberjack. Colleagues found him lacking enthusiasm and after one weekend experience there on whisky he never touched the stuff again ever.
Acting career[link]
Preferring the stage, Sim made his London debut in Othello in 1930. He also appeared for a season at the Old Vic. He notably portrayed Captain Hook in six different stage productions of Peter Pan between 1941 and 1968.
He made his film debut in 1935 in The Case of Gabriel Perry, and spent the remainder of the decade playing supporting roles in films, often being credited with "stealing the scene" from the star. As a supporting actor, his most notable success was as Detective Sergeant Bingham, a light comedy role played opposite Gordon Harker, in the popular Inspector Hornleigh film series: Inspector Hornleigh (1939), Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday (1939), and Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It (1941). He outshone Harker to the extent that it was frequently unclear who was actually the star.
As a result, by the 1940s he had progressed to leading roles; and in 1950 he was voted the most popular film actor in Britain in a national cinema poll. His earliest successes as a leading man included the police detective in the thriller Green for Danger (1946); as the headmaster of Nutbourne College, co-starring with Margaret Rutherford, in the comedy The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950); and as a writer of lurid crime fiction in the comedy Laughter in Paradise (1951).
Also in 1951, he gave his most celebrated performance: playing the title role of Scrooge in a film adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
In 1971, he revisited the character, voicing an Academy Award-winning animated film version of Dickens's story.
He is perhaps best remembered for portraying the headmistress, Miss Fritton, in two of the St Trinian's film comedies, principally the first, The Belles of St Trinian's (1954), in which he also played her shady brother, Clarence Fritton. He later reprised the role (albeit in a cameo part) of Miss Fritton in Blue Murder at St Trinian's (1957). Though Scottish, he turned down the lead role in Whisky Galore! saying "I can't bear professional Scotsmen".[2]
Other notable film roles included Waterloo Road (1944), Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright (1950), Folly to be Wise (1953), and An Inspector Calls (1954). His performance as Mr Squales in London Belongs to Me (1948) impressed Alec Guinness so much that he based his own performance in The Ladykillers (1955) on it, and is often mistaken for Sim as a consequence.[citation needed]
Later film roles included The Ruling Class (1972) with Peter O'Toole, and a cameo in Richard Lester's Royal Flash (1975) with Malcolm McDowell.
On stage, he had particular success in the last decade of his life in two plays by Arthur Wing Pinero, playing Mr Posket in The Magistrate and Augustin Jedd in Dandy Dick both at the Chichester Festival Theatre and in the West End of London. In both productions Sim co-starred with Patricia Routledge.
On television, his best remembered performance was playing a Mr. Justice Swallow, in the 1967-1971 comedy series Misleading Cases, written by A. P. Herbert. It co-starred Roy Dotrice as the mischievous, bumbling Mr Albert Haddock, who always ended up in court over some comedic, petty misdemeanour.
Private life[link]
He was married to Naomi Plaskitt (1913–1999) from 1932 until his death in 1976. They had one child, a daughter named Merlith.
Sim was keen to promote and encourage young acting talent, and, having seen a young talent in the making, the Sims invited George Cole to live with them in 1940, when he was 15 years old. Cole lived with the couple for 14 years. They are credited with mentoring the young actor. Sim appeared with Cole in the films Cottage to Let (1941), The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950), Scrooge (1951), Laughter in Paradise (1951), The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954), An Inspector Calls (1954), The Green Man (1956) and Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1957).
He always remained ambivalent about fame, and never signed autographs. In a rare interview to the magazine Focus on Film he said, "I stand or fall in my profession by the public's judgment of my performances. No amount of publicity can dampen a good one or gloss over a bad one."[3] He was made a Commander of the British Empire in 1953, but (emulating his father) he later refused a knighthood.
In 1959, he successfully sued the makers of a televised baked beans commercial (which had a voiceover sounding uncannily like him), claiming he would not "prostitute his art" by advertising anything.
He died in 1976, aged 75, in London, England, from lung cancer.[4] An English Heritage blue plaque was unveiled at his former home at 8 Frognal Gardens, Hampstead, London on 23 July 2008.[5] There is also a plaque commemorating his birth outside the Filmhouse Cinema on Lothian Road in Edinburgh, which states "Born near here - Alastair Sim". The exact location had previously been unknown until a Filmhouse patron scoured the city's records to find not only his birthplace but also the site of his father's tailor shop.[6]
Filmography[link]
Box Office Ranking[link]
For a number of years, British film exhibitors voted him among the top ten British stars at the box office via an annual poll in the Motion Picture Herald.
- 1950 - equal 8th with Margaret Rutherford[7]
- 1951 - 6th[8]
- 1952 - 2nd[9]
- 1953 - 4th[10]
- 1955 - 4th (8th overall)[11]
References[link]
Notes[link]
- ^ Charles Hamblett, "Mr Sim has a secret", 'Picturegoer', December 2, 1950.
- ^ p.34 McArthur, Colin Whiskey Galore! and The Maggie 2003 I. B. Tauris Publishers
- ^ Focus on Film, Summer 1972, p. 10
- ^ http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Gloriously+ghoulish%3B+FROCKY+HORROR%3A+Sim+as+Miss+Fritton+in+The+Belles...-a0181271098
- ^ "BBC News website". 2008-07-23. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7521361.stm. Retrieved 2008-07-23.
- ^ "Filmhouse Cinema". 2009-08-04. http://www.filmhousecinema.com/news/view/92/alastair-sims-birthplace-located/?from=all/14.
- ^ Film Data for 1950
- ^ "Vivien Leigh Actress Of The Year.". Townsville Daily Bulletin (Qld. : 1885 - 1954) (Qld.: National Library of Australia): p. 1. 29 December 1951. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63397098. Retrieved 27 April 2012.
- ^ "COMEDIAN TOPS FILM POLL.". The Sunday Herald (Sydney, NSW : 1949 - 1953) (Sydney, NSW: National Library of Australia): p. 4. 28 December 1952. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18504988. Retrieved 27 April 2012.
- ^ Film Data for 1953
- ^ Film Data for 1955
Bibliography[link]
- Naomi Sim, Dance and Skylark: Fifty years with Alastair Sim, London: Bloomsbury, 1987.
- David Quinlan, Quinlan's Film Comedy Stars, 1992, ISBN 0-7134-6149-7
- Mark Simpson, Alastair Sim: The Star of Scrooge and The Real Belle of St Trinian's. Stroud, Glos: The History Press Ltd, 2008. ISBN 0-7509-4966-X
External links[link]
- Alastair Sim at the Internet Movie Database
- Alastair Sim at the TCM Movie Database
- Alastair Sim at the British Film Institute's Screenonline
- http://www.alastairsim.net
- Funny Peculiar - Sight & Sound profile of Alastair Sim by Michael Brooke
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| Preceded by Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope |
Rector of the University of Edinburgh 1948–1951 |
Succeeded by Alexander Fleming |
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| Name | Sim, Alastair |
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| Date of birth | 9 October 1900 |
| Place of birth | Edinburgh, Scotland, UK |
| Date of death | 19 August 1976 |
| Place of death | London, England, UK |
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