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Julie Gibson was born on 6 September 1913 in Grant County, Washington, USA. She was an actress, known for Bowery Buckaroos (1947), The Contender (1944) and Chick Carter, Detective (1946). She was married to Charles Barton, Dean Dillman Jr. and Jimmie Grier. She died on 2 October 2019 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Editor
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Conrad Nervig had the distinction of being the first-ever recipient of an Academy Award for best editing. This was for Eskimo (1933), a drama shot in semi-documentary style by outdoor and action specialist W.S. Van Dyke in the northernmost inhabited settlement in Alaska. The entire dialogue was in an Inuit language and subtitles were used in translation. The South Dakota-born Nervig had started in the industry with Goldwyn Pictures in 1922 and remained after the merger with Metro, spending his entire career at MGM until his retirement in 1954. He worked on many classic films across diverse genres, including A Tale of Two Cities (1935), Maytime (1937), The Big Store (1941) and The Bad and the Beautiful (1952). He won a second Oscar for King Solomon's Mines (1950) in collaboration with Ralph E. Winters.
Here is an interesting footnote to Nervig's life: as a naval officer en route to Rio (where he was assigned as a replacement aboard the U.S.S. Glacier), Nervig was a passenger on the ill-fated collier U.S.S. Cyclops during her penultimate voyage. The ship disappeared without trace in March 1918 in the Bermuda Triangle, along with 306 crew and passengers. Fifty-one years after the event (in 1969), Nervig published his recollections -- entitled "The Cyclops Mystery" -- in "The Naval Institute Proceedings".- Sound Department
Homer G. Tasker was born on 19 February 1899 in Grant County, South Dakota, USA. He is known for My Man Godfrey (1936), Three Smart Girls (1936) and Flying Hostess (1936). He died on 9 January 1990 in Los Angeles, California, USA.- Camera and Electrical Department
Virgil Apger was born on 25 June 1903 in Grant County, Indiana, USA. He died on 19 May 1994 in San Diego, California, USA.- Marcella Pershing was featured in several silent-era two-reeler westerns, all released in 1921, eight opposite Hoot Gibson and two opposite Art Acord. The feature western 'Looped for Life (1924)_ was also made opposite Art Acord. While credited in 11 films, one writer on the silent era, 'George Katchmer', believes she was actually in more.
Born Florence Wilkinson, Marcella acquired her stage surname legitimately, as it was the maiden name of her paternal grandmother. Her third great-grandfather was Frederick Pershing, a Huguenot who emigrated from Alsace and settled a "tomahawk" possession in western Pennsylvania. She was a third cousin of Gen. John J. Pershing, who led the American Expeditionary Force in WWI. In 1922 she left moviemaking to marry and then move to Florida. At the time the Pershing genealogy was published, Marcella had one child, Helen, born March 31, 1924. - Clorinda Alderette was born on 16 May 1923 in Grant County, New Mexico, USA. She was an actress, known for Salt of the Earth (1954). She died on 25 February 1959 in Denver, Colorado, USA.
- Polly Luce was born on 29 March 1905 in Marion, Grant County, Indiana, USA. She was an actress, known for Maid Happy (1933) and Send 'em Back Half Dead (1933). She was married to Wendell Dekalb Levan and Wilfred Henry Troutbeck. She died on 23 November 1973 in Fort Pierce, Saint Lucie County, Florida, USA.
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Adolfo Barela was born on 28 May 1926 in Grant County, New Mexico, USA. He was an actor, known for Salt of the Earth (1954). He died on 11 March 1998 in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, USA.