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- Jean Phillips was born on 22 September 1914 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA. She was an actress, known for The Night of January 16th (1941), Among the Living (1941) and Dr. Broadway (1942). She died on 15 December 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Songwriter, composer, trumpeter, author and arranger, educated in high school and in private music study. He was a trumpeter and arranger for the Ted Weems orchestra for ten years, and then a staff arranger for ABC in Chicago and Los Angeles. He arranged for records and television, joined ASCAP in 1954, and his chief musical collaborators included his wife Marilyn Hooven, and 'By' Dunham and Jerry Winn. His popular-song compositions included "Any Way the Wind Blows", "Oh What a Beautiful Dream", "Baby, Baby, Wait For Me", "La-bou-laya", "Jesse James", "Little Nathan", "George Washington", "Ben Franklin", "Jim Bowie", "Billy Budd", and "Cannonball".- Stanislas-André Steeman was born on 23 January 1908 in Liège, Wallonia, Belgium. He was a writer and actor, known for The Murderer Lives at Number 21 (1942), La muerte camina en la lluvia (1948) and Brelan d'as (1952). He died on 15 December 1970 in Menton, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
- Elmer Schoebel was born on 7 September 1896 in East St. Louis, Illinois, USA. He died on 15 December 1970 in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.
- Zaidee Jackson in Augusta, Georgia, in 1898 to Alice and C.J. Jackson, both sharecroppers. In 1923, she first danced as a chorus girl with the Lafayette Players. She eventually made her way to Paris in 1927. She rose to significance, while touring England in 1928, where she sang on the BBC and performed at the Cafe Anglais. Despite a growing popularity in London, she returned to Paris, appearing at the Chez Zelli's, Sheherazade, Chez Florence and dancing nude at Chez Les Nudistes in 1933. In France, Egypt, Monte Carlo, England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, and all over Europe, she had sung in the finest cabarets, hotels and theaters and appeared in three motion pictures. She had been the favorite of the international set, such as Elsa Maxwell and Prince Henry, the Duke of Kent.
In 1937, while running a club in Monte Carlo, she met and married Romanian engineer and race car driver, Barbu Neamtu, and returned with him to Romania, where she became a popular attraction at the exclusive La Zissu Cabaret in Bucharest throughout the late '30s and '40s. In 1951, while performing in Romania during the Communist Era, she was accused of being a Communist and her American passport was revoked. She occasionally had difficulty in Romania, discrimination from the nightclub owners, her estate in the countryside was seized by the government as National Property and her husband was arrested by the Romanian secret police and thrown into a labor camp. With the help of her family and President Eisenhower, she gained American citizenship in 1956, when she returned to performing in the United States.
She died on December 15, 1970, is buried in Waterbury, Connecticut. - Stanley Broza was an actor, known for Story of Israel (1967). He died on 15 December 1970.