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- Actress
Brunette, delicately featured leading lady who briefly made an impact through memorable back-to-back appearances in the films Humoresque (1946) and Rope (1948). Joan grew up in Butler, Pennsylvania, where her family had a car dealership. Her mother was a musician. Joan studied dancing at the Bennington School of the Arts and was at one time an alumnus of the Martha Graham Dance Company. Very little is known of her private life but at least one of her two sisters was also on the musical scene. Joan decided on an acting career and made her bow on Broadway in 1944 as a juvenile in "The Late George Apley". Five years later, she had a singing and dancing part, starring opposite Ray Bolger in "Where's Charley?", replacing Allyn Ann McLerie. In between work on stage and screen she also featured in such episodic radio dramas as 'Theater Guild of the Air'. During the first half of the 1950's, Joan enjoyed a good run of critical plaudits for her performances in the comedy "My Three Angels" (with Walter Slezak), and as Miranda in the American Shakespeare Festival staging of "The Tempest" in Stratford, Connecticut.
Her last role of note came in 1959 (as replacement for the nominal star Rosemary Harris), with Joan as the female lead opposite Jason Robards in "The Disenchanted", a Budd Schulberg/ Harvey Breit play about the life of F. Scott Fitzgerald. It has been variously suggested that Joan's career may have suffered as a result of blacklisting by HUAC, or because of a physical similarity to another more established actress, Diana Lynn. The fact remains, that she managed to maintain a relatively busy schedule on the East Coast stage throughout the 1950's. However, by 1962, she seems to have lost heart and given up the profession. Apart from a few guest appearances in early anthology TV and a couple of forgettable teen movies, there was little else of note from this attractive and talented performer. She faded into relative obscurity, living out the sadly short remainder of her life in Manhattan.- Her maternal grandfather, Frank W. Woolworth, founded the department store chain of the same name in New York at the turn of the century, with which he soon made a considerable fortune all over the world. Barbara Hutton therefore grew up in sheltered and wealthy circumstances. Her father died when she was a child; In May 1917, as a four-year-old, she found the body of her mother, Edna (née Woolworth), who had committed suicide in her suite at the Plaza Hotel in New York. As the sole heir, she became a millionaire several times over when her parents died at the age of seven. She was considered the richest woman in the world. Hutton made several trips around the world and met the Georgian prince Alexis Mdivani, whom she married in Paris in 1933. The relationship did not have a happy outcome. They were separated again after their honeymoon and divorced in 1935.
Hutton achieved the same failure with her subsequent marriages. In 1935 she married Count Kurt von Haugwitz-Hardenberg-Reventlow, with whom she lived in London and had their only child. Son Lance was born in 1936 and later had a career in automobile racing. When Hutton separated from her second husband in 1938, the son remained with the Count. This marriage ended in divorce in 1941. The wealthy woman's third marriage was to actor Cary Grant in 1942, with whom she remained married until 1945. Because she felt neglected by Grant, who was only concentrating on his film career, she caused the separation. The fourth marriage to Igor Trubetzkoj, a French prince of Russian descent, lasted from 1948 to 1951. This was followed by Hutton's fifth marriage in 1953: the relationship with the Dominican diplomat Porfirio Rubirosa, whom she had met in Paris, only lasted a few months and was broken off in the spring of 1954.
In 1955, Hutton entered into her sixth marriage to a long-time friend, the German tennis player Gottfried Freiherr von Cramm. In the beginning, she actually seemed to have found the right partner in Cramm. However, this relationship did not develop as desired, so it was dissolved in 1961. After a brief affair with the musician Lloyd Franklin, Hutton married Prince Raymond Doan Vinh of Laos for his seventh marriage. This last marriage lasted from 1964 to 1969. After the last divorce, Hutton retreated to California, where she spent the last years of her life in complete isolation and suffered from severe anorexia. In 1972, her son had a fatal accident in a car race. She couldn't get over the loss. Marked by the illness, she lived in a hotel in Los Angeles. - Music Department
- Actor
- Composer
Lester Flatt was born on 19 June 1914 in Overton County, Tennessee, USA. He was an actor and composer, known for A Prairie Home Companion (2006), Dutch (1991) and Finding North (1998). He was married to Gladys Flatt. He died on 11 May 1979 in Nashville, Tennessee, USA.- Additional Crew
John Swope was born on 23 August 1908 in Highland Park, New Jersey, USA. He is known for Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), Jane Fonda in Five Acts (2018) and In Love with an Older Woman (1982). He was married to Dorothy McGuire. He died on 11 May 1979 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Annika Tretow was born on 31 January 1919 in Stockholm, Sweden. She was an actress, known for Sawdust and Tinsel (1953), Den långa julmiddagen (1956) and Vägen till Klockrike (1953). She died on 11 May 1979.
- Georg Kringelbach was born on 16 June 1927 in Frederiksberg, Denmark. He was an actor, known for Farlige kys (1972) and Mille, Marie og mig. Eller Giselle eller? (1965). He died on 11 May 1979 in Birkerød, Denmark.
- Actress
- Writer
Tamara Adelgeym was born on 26 April 1904 in Kiev, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]. She was an actress and writer, known for Aelita, the Queen of Mars (1924), Khromonozhka (1931) and The Golden Key (1939). She died on 11 May 1979 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR [now Russia].- Felix von Eckardt was born on 18 June 1903 in Berlin, Germany. He was a writer, known for Immer nur Du (1941), Under Sealed Orders (1938) and Ich liebe dich (1938). He died on 11 May 1979 in Capri, Italy.
- Music Department
- Script and Continuity Department
- Actor
Josef Petrak was born on 16 January 1908 in Vienna, Austria. He was an actor, known for 1. April 2000 (1952), Life's Mirror (1938) and Zwischen Strom und Steppe (1939). He died on 11 May 1979 in Vienna, Austria.- Camera and Electrical Department
- Actor
Lewis Elijah McAfee was born 1890 in Streator Illinois. He moved to California as a young man, riding his early Henderson motorcycle, and worked as an electrician for Standard Oil in San Francisco. He met is his wife, Ruby Stenmark, daughter of Capt John Stenmark of East Brother Light Station, in Richmond California. He would later be hired on as electrician for MGM and become chief electrician. Lewis was hand picked by director W. S. Van Dyke to be gaffer for his 3 expedition films; White Shadows in the South Seas 1928, Trader Horn 1931 and Eskimo 1933. Lewis retired from the electrical department of MGM and played a role on as gaffer for many MGM movies throughout his career.- Camera and Electrical Department
Chet Stafford was born on 10 August 1901 in California, USA. He is known for Union Station (1950), Boeing, Boeing (1965) and Stage to Thunder Rock (1964). He died on 11 May 1979 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Sound Department
Murray Jarvis was born on 17 December 1920 in New York, USA. He is known for Roadracers (1959), The Ruggles (1949) and Hilda Crane (1956). He died on 11 May 1979 in San Bernardino, California, USA.